Conuersation vuith men excommunicate.]]

Here I thinke good to adde / as yt were by the waye of
admonicion / that kepinge these rules and conditions / yt ys
lawfull for the godlie to be conuersaunte with them which be
excommunicate / euen to call them in to the waye of godlynes /
and not to communicate with them in any euill or synne.

[[The secund proposition.]]

Nowe will I put forthe an other proposition or sentence / whiche
shalbe of those persons whych be of a priuate estate and are
subiectes / of that cohabitacion which ys fre wher no man is
compelled to communicate with wicked supersticions / and of suche
men as be vnlearned in the knowledge of gods truithe / weake in
faythe / and therfor vnable to make a christian confession of
truithe. Thys collection agreeth with that which I gathered
before / of which I made my former proposition / sauinge that
wheras there / with the priuate estate and free dwellinge

[[Ignoraunnce in men is intollerable.]]

/ I coupled men that were learned and stronge to confesse the
truithe / heare I do adde in the place of them / men vnlearned /
vnable / and to weake to confesse the truithe. But herin thincke
not that I do alowe suche ignoraunce and vnablenes in men. Suche
ignoraunce in men is sharply to be reproued / for ther is none
so veri an idiote / so simple and vnlearned amonge Christianes /
but he ys bounde in conscience to be able to rendre an accompte
of hys faythe / and also to be somwhat able to teache and
instructe others / yea and to saye somwhat for the truthe / in
all the principall poyntes of the christian faythe / which he
may do yf he be but meanlie instructed in the Catechisme. But
bicause / partlie throughe the peruersnes of the ministers which
do not their office to instructe men / partlie throughe the
negligence of men which do not their dutie in seekinge to be
instructed / suche ignoraunce there is / I admytt therfore into
this my collection those ignoraunte / vnable / and weake men.
And so I make this proposition. Those men which are of a priuate
estate and condition / dwellinge or beinge in a place where they
be not compelled to communicate with wicked supersticions. And
are them selues vnlearned and vnable to confesse and defende the
truithe / maye not vse famyliar conuersation with the
vnbeleuers.

These men ar not in that condition that the learned be / of whom
I dyd speake before / for they cannot teache the vnbeleuers /
yea they be not able