we / as of holy assemblees / of sacramentes / and certayn
ecclesiasticall obseruacions / which are declared in the writinges
of the Apostles.

[[Humaine ceremonies.]]

Of ceremonies enuented by man ther is almost neither measure nor
end. For they wer enuented and established at dyuerse tymes / and
that by diuers and sundry autors / and they were so delyuered
and instituted of them / that they do not only not consent with
the holy scriptures but they be contrary to them / insomutch that
they do deface and corrupt the ordinaunces which Godd hath
instituted / and do put them out of place. Of this kinde is that
churche deckinge and dressinge / in which Images haue the cheif
place. Of the same sorte also is Massinge / straunge apparell /
synging / and feastes appointed to saintes which be in heauen /
and other innumerable of this sorte. All which truly the
papistes do adorne with the title of ceremonies / which when the
simple and such as haue litill knowledge do heare / they do
Imagine sum holy thinge as thoughe that all theis thinges were
sent down out of heauen from the lord Godd hymself to be kept.
But heere we do admonishe men that they must stey sumwhat / and
must sumwhat more diligently make difference betwene
ceremonies / and must more narowly loke / whether that theis
ceremonies (of which we do contend) be of Godd or of man. Euery
man knowith that none in defiled by such ceremonies as are of
Godd. And he which denieth that a man is defiled by humayn
ceremonies / he seith nothing at all. For though I do not again
vrge that which I saied euen nowe / that thos humayn ceremonies
are contrary to Goddes worde / and do defile Godds ordinaunces /
corrupt them and hyde them / can that be obscure or vnknown to
ony man which our lord Iesus Christe doth playnly with expressed
wordes bringe out of Esaye?

[[Mat. 15.]]

They do serue me in vaine / teachinge the doctrines and
preceptes of men.

[[Tit. 1.]]

Again that which Paule doth affirme that they be commaundements
of men that tourn awaye the truthe? And that the holy Martir of
Christe propownced?

[[Cypriani epist. lib. 1. epist. 8.]]

It is adulterus / it is wicked / it is sacrilegus / whatsoeuer
is instituted by mans furie to violate the ordinance of Godd.
And for this cause the godly will not call theis ordinances ony
longer / ceremonies / simply / but rather mans institutions / and
supersticions / which are reiected and forbidden of Godd.
Wherfor h