dothe sufficyentlie declare / in which the lorde pronounceth.

[[3. Reg. 19.]]

I haue lefte me seuen thowsand in Israell / of which neuer man
bowed his knees vnto baal / nor kissed hym with his mouthe. He
sayeth not / which thinke well in their mynde / which do beleue
well / but he sheweth the signe of owtwarde worshippinge / that
is to bowe the knee / and kisse. which doth teache that ther is
required vnto the true worshipp of godd / not a pure mynde
only / but the owtwarde sygne / token / and doinge of
worshippe / and seruice. The lorde our god is not content with
halfes / he will not part stakes with the dyuel.

[[Esay. 45.]]

All knees (saith the lorde) shall bowe vnto me. God will not
parte so / that he shall haue the mynde / and the dyuell the
bodye. All is myne / saythe the lorde / and I will haue all or
none / I will haue bothe the obedience of the harte and the
bowinge of the knee: Which worship by these thy dissemblinges
thou takest from god / and so thou dost robbe him of his honor /
and bestowe it vpon Idolles / euen popishe masses. But thou
saiste / I despise the Masse / and all Idolatrous poperie in my
harte: why then doest thou prostitute thy body vnto yt? My mynde
ys pure thou saiest: yee / but god will haue mynde and bodye
pure. If this thy reason and excuse were of any force / then
mighte the Corinthians haue sayde to Paule / why doest thou so
reproue vs? we also by the grace of god do knowe that there is
no Idoll. A true opinion we kepe in our mynde of godd his
truithe / let god be content with that / and in the meane tyme
our bodies shall serue for our commodyties.

[[1. Cor. 10.]]

But paule telleth them plainlye that they do communicate with
deuills. The meates offered to Idolls of their owne nature were
pure / yet when the corinthians do eate them with the Idolatrors
in ther Idolatrie / then they become (saith paule) partakers of
the table of deuilles: when ye then be present at a Masse /
which is an Impure thinge / and do ther as the papistes do /
mutch more iustly is it sayed of you / that then ye ar partakers
of thos deulishe dragges which ar in the Masse. Again our men do
obiecte and saye: It is not we that haue corrupted theis
thinges / we wolde be gladde to haue them pure and incorrupte:
ther impuritie must not be adscribed vnto vs. I answer: An other
mans synne shall not indeede be imputed vnto the / for eche man
shall beare his owne synne: but yet this thinge I do reprou