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Then he maketh no jeopardy to do and believe what soever an open multitude called Gods Church doth and believeth. For God will have an open Church that can not err. For saith he, when the Israelites fell to Idolatry, the true church remained in Hierusalē among the Jews. First I say, if a man had no better understanding then M. Mores doctrine, he could not know whether were that true Church, the Jews or the Israelites. For the Israelites were in number v. ¹times moe then the Jews and worshipped God, though as present in the Image of a Calf, as yt Jews for the most part, present in the Ark of testimony. And secondarily he saith false. For the Jews were fallen into open Idolatry a thousand times worse than the Israelites, even in their very temple, as it appeareth by open stories and by the Prophets: so that for their open Idolatry, which they would for no ²preaching of the Prophets amend, their Priests thereto resisting the Prophets and encouraging the people in their wickedness, God sent them captive out of the land. Yea and the people erred in following the Scribes and Pharisees & the open multitude called Gods Church, at yt coming of Christ, as it is to see in the Gospel, contrary unto M. Mores deceitful Poetry. And again, God reserved him a little flock ever in Israel and had ever Prophets ³there, some time openly and some time in persecution, that every man must hide him self and keep his faith secret: and even in the houses of the evil kings both of Jewry and also of Israel he had good people, and that among the high officers, but secretly, as Nicodemus among the Pharisees. So that the very Church was every where ofttimes in captivity and persecution under their brethren, as we be under ours in the kingdom of the Pope.

Then he maketh no ieopardy to do and beleue what soeuer an open multitude called Gods Church doth and beleueth. For God will haue an open Church that can not erre. For sayth he, when the Israelites fell to Idolatry, the true church remained in Hierusalē among the Iewes. First I say, if a man had no better vnderstandyng then M. Mores doctrine, he could not know whether were yt true Church, the Iewes or the Israelites. For the Israelites were in number v. ¹