of our religion / yetwe do so enwrapp it with such
darcke wordes and doutfull sentences / that vnto them which are
most subtill and conning in quidities / it shall not playnly
appeare what we do thincke. But the confession shuld be simple /
and playne.

[[Glorie is to be gyuen to Godd.]]

In making of it Godd / and not Man were to be considered. Man
maye be deceyued / but no man can deceyue Godd. And also we are
commaunde to render vnto God his glorie franckly before men. But
I do not see how thow haste glorified Godd before men / when
thow dost so temper thy confession that it sumwhat sauerith
indeede of the truithe of the gospell / and yet they which be
superstitius shall not see their supersticions vtterly
reiecrted / nor their errors condemned by thy confession / but
maye iudge that thou dost yet holde on their syde. Agayn many do
confes Christe in wordes and his gospell frely / and openly
inoughe / but euen they themselues do forthwith defile and
ouerthrow this Christian and gospellike confession with
vngospellike deedes. I do speake nothing heere of thos synnes
and wickednesses by which they do vnhallow the doctrine of our
Sauiour / but of thos supersticius ceremonies and wicked
congregacions with which they do communicate / by which communion
or partakinge indeede they do denye that which they did confes
before. For he which doth confes by mouthe that they which do
depart out of this lyfe in true faithe do not (throughe the
mediacion of Christe) comme into Iudgment / but do strayte waye
passe from the bodily deathe vnto lyfe euerlasting / euen as the
doctrine of the gospell doth enstruct vs / and we do playnly
confes in the articles of the apostles Crede / this namely that
we do beleaue the forgyuenes of synnes / the rising again of the
fleshe / and lyfe euerlasting: And yet so sone as ony of their
elders or familiars do depart out of this worlde / they go
strait to sacrificing prestes / and do demande of them churche
assemblees / supplicacions / dirges / weake myndes / trentalles /
to be short / yearemynds / and prayers and sacrifices expiatorie
for the deade / to whom he doth ioyne hymself / and doth obserue
thos rites / hath he not playnly denyed in deede that which he
hadd confessed in worde? He that doth confes that Christe was
ons only offered for the synnes of the whole world / and that he
is not therfore to be offerred any moore / And that the holy
Supper is a remembraunce of this only and euerlast