e in
the / that thou dost communicate with wickednes: This is thy
synne / here thou art defyled. and for this shalt thou be
iudged. Paule sayde vnto the corinthians:

[[1. Cor. 10.]]

Ar not they which do eate of the sacrifice / partakers of the
temple? what saye I then? that the Image is any thinge? or that
it which is offered Images is any thinge? Naie. but this I
saie / that the thinges which the gentills do offer / they offer
to deuels and not to god. I wolde not that ye sholde haue
fellowshippe with the deuills: ye can not drincke of the cuppe
of the lorde / and of the cuppe of Deuels / ye can not be
partakers of the table of the lorde and of the table of deuels.
Thoughe corrupcion of meates offred vnto Idols is not to be
imputed to all them that be partakres of them / (which wer not
indeede corrupt of them selues (as I saide), but when they wer
offred vnto Idols that made them corrupte) yeat the veraye
communicating and eating of them with Idolatrors is a fault
iustly layed to their charge / from which they shuld haue keapte
themselues aswell for the honor that they do owe vnto godd / as
for the conscience which they ought to haue to edyfie other men.
If it wer not so / whi did paule thus rebuke the Corinthians?
Yea whi wolde not our holy martirs of the primitiue churche
communicat and be partakers in the Sacrifices of the heathen? The
martirs might haue saide / we knowe that an Idoll is nothing /
and to offer vp sence to them is but an owtward thing / we do it
but in bodie / our spret and harte is pure / and that we do /
against our will we do it &c. They veryly did know no suche
excuse / but they considered that godd required this / that they
shuld outwardly confes hym / and reproue / and fle from
Idolatrie: And therfor aswell for their duties sake towarde
godd / as bicause they wold not offend the brethern by their
example / they did gyue their lyfe in the quarell without making
ony such blinde excuses.

These men do saye further that the Masse is not to be lickened
iustly vnto the Idolatrie of the heathen / for that was directly
forbidden of godd / so is not the Masse / saye they: for thoughe
it hathe sumwhat swarued aside / yeat is it the Institucion of
christe. But to the contrarie I do saye / that the Masse is so
farr swarued from the ordinaunce of christe / that it hathe
nothing agreing with christis Institucion / yea and that it is
most directly repugnant vnto it / A very Idoll / wherin
massemun