ut necessitie / and
vnder an vntrue pretence of religion. Agayn we do dissalowe thos
which are kept againste the commaundement of Godd with playne
hurte of true religion / and open denyinge of the faithe. All
persons must bende themselues to peace and concorde so far as
they maye / with retayninge of sowndnes in religion: But when it
can not be retayned / let none thincke that to keape peace with
them he must committ Idolatrie.

[[1. Cor. 7.]]

And therfor the Apostle of Christ saith: If any brother haue a
wyfe / whiche beleauith not / if she be content to dwell with
hym / let hym not putt her awaye. &c. But if the vnbeleauinge do
departe let hym depart. A brother or a Syster is not in
subiection to such. But Godd hathe called vs in peace. Euen so
truly it is an vnnatural thinge not to norishe the children / or
to neglect the aged parentes / or to forsake frendes and
familiars. Godds worde doth euery wheare commaunde that we shuld
do reuerence and dutie to them to whom by the lawe of Godd / and
man / we owe it. In which sense we do willingly admitte that
sayinge of the Apostle. That he which doth not prouide for them
which be of his howshold / both denieth the faith / and is wors
then an infidele. We do acknowledg that they are deuels and not
men whosoeuer they be / which do wickedly disturbe wel ordered
policies / and howsholdes. But yet in all theis we do also
acknowledge this / and we se it taughte in the whole scripture as
for an vndoubted truithe / that the lord Godd is better then all
theise / that the couenant and bonde of religion doth excede all
other bondes in the world. And that the lord doth both so will
and commaunde / that we shuld esteame him aboue all thinges / and
loue hym aboue al thinges / and that when he speakith we all
shuld holde our peace / that there we shuld not thincke at all
of coloured expositions and excuses / but only of symple and
playne obedience / such / as we reade that Abraham shewed vnto
Godd / whom Godd

[[Gen. 12.]]
[[Heb. 11.]]
[[Gen. 22.]]
[[Heb. 11.]]

commaunding hym / did go out of his countrie into a straunge
lande / and when he did not refuse to sacrifice vnto the lorde
his only Sonne / withough suspicion of crueltie. Truly in the
hold gospell the lord dothe saye.

[[Luc. 14.]]

If a man come to me / and hate not his father / and mother / and
wyfe / and children / and brethern / and systers / yea and his
own lyfe also / he can not be my disciple. An