es and
godlie men which wer them selues cleare from them / of a contrarie
mynde to them / in all thinges thinking according to Godds
worde / yea dyd also reproue and sharplie rebuke those thinges:
which thing Augustine dothe witnesse as he is allegded. 23. q.
4. ca. Recedite. and in many other places there. Let our
sacrificinge priestes do the same vnto vs at this daie. Let them
celebrate the lordes supper and vse other ceremonies / so as by
Godds worde they be apointed / then we will not draw backe at
all / but vse them / thoughe they them selues thincke corruptlie /
and liue more wickedlie / we shall bewaile / we shall
admonishe / we shall reproue / we shall accuse them / and they
shall beare their owne synne. Their synne shall not hurte vs /
nether will we absteyne frome the sacramentes for their
nowghtines / but vse them. In which doinge we shall not communicate
with their wickednes / for we shall vse the rite and ceremonie
as the lorde commaunded / and instituted. And this thing ment
Christ when he saide.

[[Matth. 23.]]

The scribes and pharisees do syt in Moses chaire / what they byd
yow do / that do / but as they do / see that ye do not. So
Christe commaunded the leper whom he hade clensed to go vnto the
priest.

[[Luc. 2.]]

The blessed virgin likwise she might well after the birthe of
our sauiour Christ offer the payre of Turtles or too yonge
pigeons / because it was so commaunded in the lawe. By this
example our men can not heare masse / because it is a thinge
contrary to godds worde: But let these papists giue vnto vs the
sacramentes / as Christe dyd institute them / and we shall vse
them / and yet neuerthelesse reproue their wickednes. Nowe our
men beinge thus at all pointes answered / and ouercommed / do
flye to this atlenghth. Thoughe saye they it be a synne to go to
Masse and suche popishe pelfe yet it is but a light synne / and
not se seuerely to be reproued. What (say they) we do many
thinges which we shuld not fo. but God forgyuithe them. &c. To
the last I aunswer: The goodnes of Godd which doth forgyue
synnes vnto them that be truly penitent / doth not diminishe at
all the gretnes of the synne. Wherfor I will aunswer only / to
that they saye / that it is but a light synne. Which thinge
whilest they do saye / they do not thincke this with
themselues / that all synnes haue their proper wieght and
burthen. For doinges and the nature of thinges done ar not to be
considered simplie of themse