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If they be dicers, swearers, drunkards, brawlers, pickers, flatterers, profaners of the sabbath, sleepers at Church, and such like, these are counted no sins, but rather recreations, for they count them no sinners, unless they be traitors, thieves, open and gross idolaters, and such like capital crimes, no nor these neither, were it not for fear of the law, for none but Publicans were counted sinners, all the rest were good fellows & just men. There is none that will be so impudent as to say that he hath no sin at all, or as the Pope, to say that he can not err, for he that advanceth him self shall be as the least in the kingdom of heaven, or as we call it, a ¹squire of low degree. The Papists say, that thoughts, words, & such like are but venial sins, for there be venial sins and mortal sins. Did you ever read of these venial sins in the Scripture? but you think they have nothing but the Scripture: yes, they have decrees, they have decretals, they have visions, & they have a Pope that cannot err: and thus they lessen the price of sins, and they can buy sins, sometimes for money, sometimes for Masses, and sometimes for other ⟨p. 165⟩rewards, & by holy water many sins are washed away, because they are venial: but if the devil turn good unto evil, God turneth evil unto good.

If they be dicers, swearers, drunkards, brawlers, pickers, flatterers, prophaners of the saboth, sleepers at Church, and such like, these are counted no sinnes, but rather recreatiōs, for they count them no sinners, vnlesse they be traitors, theeues, open and grosse idolaters, and such like capitall crimes, no nor these neither, were it not for feare of the law, for none but Publicanes were counted sinners, all the rest were good fellowes & iust men. There is none that will be so impudēt as to say that he hath no sinne at all, or as the Pope, to say that he can not erre, for he that aduaunceth him selfe shall be as the least in the kingdome of heauen, or as we call it, a ¹squire of low degree. The Papistes say, that thoughts, words, & such like are but venial sinnes, for there be veniall sinnes and mortal sinnes. Did you euer reade of these veniall sinnes in the Scripture? but you thinke they haue nothing but the Scripture: yes, they haue decrees, they haue decretals, they haue visiōs, & they haue a Pope that cannot erre: and thus they lessen the price of sinnes, and they can buy sinnes, sometimes for money, sometimes for Masses, and sometimes for other