5. But (to leave your parenthesis) what's all this to the most of the Christian world that do not acknowledge themselves that they know such points of faith to be propounded by the Church of Rome? There is not one of five hundred among us that ever read your Councils, nor knoweth one of many things propounded by you to be such. And are all these now absolved from heresy? How long will that be their security, if the burning and exterminating Religion should prevail? And is it my hard fate to become a Heretic more than all the rest of my neighbours, because I have read your Councils when they have not? Then I would counsel all that love not to be burned, to take heed of meddling with such Councils. I have oft read how dangerous a thing you judg it for unlicensed men to read Gods word, and of many that have been burned for it, and its consequents, and how you account it the way to Heresy: But I have not oft before read how dangerous it is to read your Decrees, or to know all that the Church of Rome propoundeth; for he that knoweth them all, must have a very ready commandable faith, such as can believe in despite of Sense, Reason, Scripture, and Tradition, to escape the guilt of Heresy. But I pray you (were you not inexorable executioners) when it cometh next to the burning of Dissenters, that you will spare all that confess not that they know what is propounded by your Church, yea though they take not their parish-priest that tells it them, to be infallible, especially if they know him to be a common liar, or one that holds that lying for mens good, is a venial sin, or none.
5. But (to leave your parenthesis) what's all this to the most of the Christian world that do not acknowledg themselves that they know such points of faith to be propounded by the Church of Rome? There is not one of five hundred among us that ever read your Councils, nor knoweth one of many things propounded by you to be such. And are all these now absolved from heresie? How long will that be their security, if the burning and exterminating Religion should prevail? And is it my hard fate to become a Heretick more than all the rest of my neighbours, because I have read your Councils when they have not? Then I would counsel all that love not to be burned, to take heed of medling with such Councils. I have oft read how dangerous a thing you judg it for unlicensed men to read Gods word, and of many that have been burned for it, and its consequents, and how you account it the way to Heresie: But I have not oft before read how dangerous it is to read your Decrees, or to know all that the Church of Rome propoundeth; for he that knoweth them all, must have a very ready commandable faith, such as can believe in despight of Sense, Reason, Scripture, and Tradition, to escape the guilt of Heresie. But I pray you (were you not inexorable executioners) when it cometh next to the burning of Dissenters, that you will spare all that confess not that they know what is propounded by your Church, yea though they take not their parish-priest that tells it them, to be infallible, especially if they know him to be a common lyar, or one that holds that lying for mens good, is a venial sin, or none.
