If it be said of some / that in certain there are found some of those things / that were reprehended in the Pharisees / what is that to prove / that they be Anabaptists y• speak it. Your self in one place of your book / call the authors of the Admonition and their favourers / Pharisees / who do all things to be seen of men / and therefore they sigh / and hold down their heads. &c. and this you speak / against them that preach the gospel. Therefore by your reason you give sentence of Anabaptism against your self. You promised you would not write one word / whereof you had not your author for it. First you have perverted the meaning of the Anabaptists / in that wherein they accused the godly ministers / that they were not according to that which is written in the third of the first Epistle to Timothy / and all because you would multiply the number of your likelihoods. For they charged the ministers / by that place / of dissoluteness and looseness of life / and corruption of manners / and we allege it to prove that they should be able to teach and instruct / against the dumb ministry that is abroad. But that which followeth / uttereth not only great untruth and falsification of the author / but showeth a mind desirous to slander / and sorry (as it seemeth) that those which you so grievously discredit / are no liker the Anabaptists / then they be. I will set down the words / as they are written in the. 102. leaf / that it may appear how faithfully you have dealt. Libere enim dicunt concionatores qui stipendium accipiunt, non esse veros Dei ministros, neque posse docere veritatem, sed esse ventris ministros, qui otiose accipiant ingentia stipendia, ex illis rebus, que simulachris immolate fuerunt, & ex divitiis splendide & luxuriose vivant, cum tamen Christus dixit, gratis accepistis, gratis date, & prohibuit duas tunicas, peram & pecuniam habere. Preterea Paulum aiunt manibus suis laborasse, & mandasse reliquis, ut idem faciant, itaque concludunt nulla debere stipendia habere sui officii, sed laborare & gratis ministrare, & quiahoc non faciunt, non posse ipsos veritatem docere.
If it be sayde of some / that in certaine there are found some of those things / that were reprehēded in the Phariseis / what is that to proue / that they be Anabaptistes y• speake it. Your selfe in one place of your booke / call the authors of the Admonition and their fauourers / Phariseis / who do all thyngs to be seene of men / and therefore they sighe / and holde downe their heades. &c. and thys you speake / against them that preache the gospell. Therefore by your reason you geue sentence of Anabaptisme against your selfe. You promised you would not wryte one worde / wherof you had not your author for it. First you haue peruerted the meaning of the Anabaptists / in that wherein they accused the godly ministers / that they were not according to that whych is wrytten in the third of the first Epistle to Timothe / and all because you would multiply the nōbre of your likelyhodes. For they charged the ministers / by that place / of dissolutenes and losenes of lyfe / and corruption of manners / and we alledge it to proue that they should be able to teache and instruct / against ye dumbe ministery that is abrode. But that which followeth / vttereth not only great vntruth and falsification of the author / but sheweth a minde desirous to slaunder / and sory (as it seemeth) that those whych you so greeuously discredite / are no liker the Anabaptists / then they be. I will sette downe the wordes / as they are wrytten in the. 102. leafe / that it may appeare howe faithfully you haue dealt. Libere enim dicunt concionatores qui stipendium accipiunt, non esse veros Dei ministros, neque posse docere veritatem, sed esse ventris ministros, qui otiose accipiant ingentia stipendia, ex illis rebus, que simulachris immolate fuerunt, & ex diuitiis splendide & luxuriose viuant, cum tamen Christus dixit, gratis accepistis, gratis date, & prohibuit duas tunicas, peram & pecuniam habere. Preterea Paulum aiunt manibus suis laborasse, & mandasse reliquis, vt idem faciant, itaque concludunt nulla debere stipendia habere sui officii, sed laborare & gratis ministrare, & quiahoc non faciunt, non posse ipsos veritatem docere.
