The whole works of W. Tyndall, John Frith, and Doct. Barnes, three worthy martyrs,…The vvhole workes of W. Tyndall, Iohn Frith, and Doct. Barnes, three worthy martyrs,…

For as much now as thou partly seest the falsehood of our prelates, how all their study is to deceive us and to keep us in darkness, to sit as Gods in our consciences, & handle us at their pleasure, and to lead us whether they lust: therefore, I read thee, get thee to Gods word, and thereby try all doctrine and against that receive nothing. Neither any exposition contrary unto the open texts, neither contrary to the general articles of the faith: neither contrary to the living & practising of Christ and of his Apostles. And when they cry fathers fathers, remember that ¹it were the fathers that blinded & robbed the whole world and brought us into this captivity wherein these enforce to keep us still. Furthermore as ⟨p. 176⟩they of the old time are fathers to us, so shall these foul monsters be fathers to them that come after us, and the hypocrites that follow us will cry of these and of their doings fathers, fathers, as these cry fathers, fathers, of them that are past. And as we feel our fathers, so did they that are past feel their fathers: neither were there in the world any other fathers then such as we both see and feel this many hundred years, as their Decrees bear record and the stories and Chronicles well testify. If Gods word appeared any where they agreed all against it. When they had brought that a sleep, then strove they one with an other about their own traditions and one Pope condemned an others Decrees and were sometime ij. yea three Popes at once. And one Bishop went to law with an other and one cursed an other for their own fantasies, & such things as they had falsely gotten. And the greatest Saints are they that most defended the liberties of the church (as they call it) which they falsely got with blinding kings, neither had the world any rest this many hundred years for reforming of Friars and Monks and ceasing of schisms that were among our Clergy. And as for the holy Doctors as Augustine, Hierome, Cyprian, Chrisostomus and Bede, will they not hear. If they wrote any thing negligently (as they were men) that draw they clean contrary to their meaning and thereof triumph they. Those Doctors knew of none authority that one Bishop should have above another, neither thought or once dreamed that ever any such should be, or of any such whispering or of Pardons, or scouring of Purgatory, as they have feigned.

FOr as much now as thou partly seest the salshed of our prelates, how all their study is to disceaue vs and to keepe vs in darknes, to sit as Gods in our cōsciēces, & hādle vs at their pleasure, and to leade vs whether they lust: therfore, I read thee, get thee to Gods word, and therby trye all doctrine and agaynst that receaue nothyng. Neither any exposition contrary vnto the open textes, neither contrary to the generall articles of the fayth: neither contrary to the liuyng & practisyng of Christ and of his Apostles. And when they cry fathers fathers, remēber that