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He that can read this book distinctly is fit enough with them to be priest / yea many that have ben Artificers / as Shoemakers / Tailors / Weavers / Porters / and c. and with out any gifts or knowledge at all / save only to read English / have been and are admitted and to this day maintained by the prelates in the ministry. To these Churches ministers and service must all the people there come every day / yea though they have in the next parish a preacher / and in their own a dumb unlearned priest / yet are they all tied to their own Church / and minister / and must at the least twice a year receive the Sacrament at his hands. If they refuse this / or do not ordinarily come to their parish Church then are they summoned / excommunicated / and imprisoned / till they become obedient. In this bond dage are our countrymen there held under their Priests and Prelates: and such as by the word of God witness against and condemn these abominations / they hate punish put to death / and persecute out of the land. Who now in whom any spark of true light is cannot plainly perceive this their ministry worship and Church to be false and adulterate? doth Christs eternal testament or deign and approve of such popish Lords and Prelates to reign over his Church? are these those Christian Bishops / that is ^oPastors / Teachers and Elders / which he hath set in his Church and over his own people unto the worlds end? Or can chose preachers which are thus created and deposed by / thus sworn and obedient unto / their spiritual lords / be deemed true teachers of the Gospel of Christ lawfully called and ordained to that ministry? Is that their English Mass the true and ^pspiritual worship of God according to his own will? we are taught in the scriptures ^qthat there can be no agreement made betwixt Christ and Antichrist / betwixt the Laws of God and mens traditions: that the servants of Jesus may not submit unto or receive the mark of that beast / neither drink of the cup of the whore of Babylons fornications / or buy any of her wares:

He that can read this booke distinctly is fit ynough with them to be priest / yea many that have ben Artificers / as Shoemakers / Taylers / Weavers / Porters / and c. and with out any giffes or knowledge at all / save only to read Englysh / have bene and are admytted and to this day maynteyned by the prelats in the ministery. To these Churches ministers and servyce must all the people there come every daye / yea though they have in the next parish a preacher / and in their owne a dumbe vnlearned priest / yet are they all tyed to their owne Church / and minister / and must at the least twise a yere receve the Sacrament at his handes. If they refuse this / or do not ordinaryly come to their parish Churche then are they summoned / excommunicated / and imprisoned / tyll they become obedient. In this bō dage are our countrymen there held vnder their Priests and Prelates: and such as by the word of God witnes against and condemne these abhominations / they hate punysh put to death / and persecute out of the land. Who now in whome any sparke of true light is cannot playnly perceive this their ministery worship and Churche to be false and adulterate? doth Christes eternall testament or deyne and approve of suche popish Lordes and Prelats to reigne over his Churche? are these those Christian Bishops / that is