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For the first point touching reformation of religion thou must at once so purge and expel all dregs of papistry, superstition and Idolatry, that thou (ô England) must judge and hold execrable and accursed, what soever God hath not sanctified unto thee by his word, or by the action of our master Christ Jesus. The glistering beauty of vain ceremonies, ⟨p. 89⟩the heaping of things pertaining nothing to edification,¹ by whomsoever they were invented justified, or maintained, ought at once to be removed and so trodden under the obedience of Gods word, that continually this sentence of thy God be present in thy hart and ready in thy mouth, Not that which appeareth good in thy eyes shalt thou do to the Lord thy God, but what the Lord thy God hath commanded thee, that shalt thou do: add nothing to it, diminish nothing from it.

For the first point touchinge reformation of religion yu muste at once so purge and expel all dregs of papistrie, superstition and Idolatrie, that thou (ô England) must iudge and holde execrable and accursed, what soeuer God hath not sāctified vnto thee by his worde, or by the action of our maister Christ Iesus. The glisteringe beautie of vayne ceremonies, ⟨p. 89⟩the heaping of thinges perteyning nothinge to edificatiō,¹ by whomesoeuer they were inuēted iustified, or mainteyned, oght at once to be remoued and so trodden vnder the obedience of Gods worde, that continually this sentence of thy God be present in thy hart and readie in thy mouthe, Not that which appeareth good in thy eies shalt thou do to the Lorde thy God, but what the Lord thy God hath cō maūded thee, that shalt thou do: adde nothing to it, diminishe nothing from it.

1. 1Vain ceremonies, and such as serve not to edification, ought to be abolished.Vayne ceremonies, and such as serue not to edification, oght to be abolished.