may do some outward functions of the law, and keepe some outward obseruaunces or traditions: so as touchyng thynges spirituall and perteynyng to saluation, the strength of man, beyng not regenerate by grace, is so infirme and impotēt, that he can performe nothyng, neither in doyng well nor willyng well. Who after he be regenerate by grace may worke and do well, but yet in such sort, that still remaineth notwithstādyng a great imperfection of flesh, and a perpetuall repugnance betwene the flesh and spirite. And thus was the originall Church of the auncient Romanes first instructed. MarginaliaErroneous doctrine of the Papistes concernyng free will.Frō whom see now how farre this later Church of Rome hath degenerated, which holdeth & affirmeth, that men without grace may performe the obedience of the law, and prepare thē selues to receaue grace by workyng, so that those workes may be meritorious, and of congrue obteyne grace. MarginaliaMeritum de cōgruo.Which grace once obteyned, then men may (say they) perfectly performe the ful obediēce of the law, and acomplish those spirituall actions and workes which God requireth, and so those workes, of condigne, deserue euerlastyng life. MarginaliaMeritum de condigno.As for the infirmitie which still remaineth in nature, that they nothyng regard nor once speake of.

MarginaliaFalse doctrine concernyng inuocation.OVer and besides these vncatholicke and almost vnchristian absurdities and defections from the Apostolicall fayth aboue specified, let vs consider the maner of their Inuocation, not to God alone, as they should, but to dead men, saying: MarginaliaMediator of intercession.that Saintes are to be called vpon tāquam mediatores intercessionis: as Mediatours of intercession: Christum vero tanquam mediatorem Salutis, MarginaliaMediator of saluatiō.and Christ as the Mediator of Saluation: And affirme moreouer, that Christ was a Mediator onely in tyme of hys Passion. MarginaliaChrist a continuall Mediator, by the doctrine of S. Paule.Which is repugnaunt to the wordes of S. Paul writyng to the old Romanes. cap. 8.MarginaliaRom. 8. where he speakyng of the intercession of Christ: Which is (sayth he) on the right hand of God, who also maketh interceßion for vs. &c.MarginaliaChrist onely beyng our Mediator of saluatiō, what nedeth any other Mediation of Saintes? And if Christ be a Mediator of saluation, what nedeth thē any other intercession of the Saintes for other sutes? for saluation beyng once had, what can we require more? or what lacketh he more to be obtayned of the Saints, which is sure to be saued onely by Christ? MarginaliaSaluation falsely attributed to the blessed virgine.And yet in their Catholicke deuotions why do they teach vs thus to pray to the blessed virgine: Salua omnes qui re glorificant. i. Saue all them, that glorifie thee. &c. if saluation onely belong to Christ? vnles they study of purpose to seme contrary to them selues.

MarginaliaIdolatrous adoration of Reliques, & Sacramentes.Hetherto also perteineth the worshyppyng of reliques, and the false adoration of Sacramentes, that is, the outward signes for the thynges signified, contrary to the 7. principle before. page. 34. MarginaliaProphanaciō of the Lordes Supper.Adde to this also the prophanation of the Lordes Supper, contrary to the vse for which it was ordeined, in reseruing it after þ^e Communion ministred, in settyng to sale for money, and falsely persuadyng both them selues and other, MarginaliaFalse merityng by Masses.that the Priest doth merite both to hym selfe that sayth, and to hym that heareth, Ex opere operato, sine bono motu vtentis. &c. that is, Onely by the mere doyng of the worke, though the partie that vseth the same, hath no good motion in hym. &c.

MarginaliaFalse doctrine touchyng Socramentes.AS touchyng Sacramētes, their doctrine lykewise is corrupt and erroneous.1. First, they erre falsely in the number. For where the institution of Christ ordeyneth but two, they (contrary to the fourth principle aboue prefixed) haue added to the prescription of the Lordes word, fiue other Sacramentes.

2. Secōdly, in the cause final they erre. For where the word hath ordayned those Sacramentes to excite our fayth, and to gyue vs admonitions of spirituall things: they contrarywise do teach that þ^e Sacraments do not onely styrre vp fayth, but also that they auayle and are MarginaliaThe number, Cause finall.effectuall without fayth, Ex opere operato, sine bono moto vtentis &c. as is to be found in Thom. Aquine, Scotus, Catharinus, and other moe.MarginaliaThe operatiō

3. Thirdly, in the operation and effect of the Sacramentes they fayle: where they contrary to the mynd of the Scriptures, do say, that they gyue grace, & not onely do signifie, but also conteine and exhibite that which they signifie, to wytte, grace and saluation.

MarginaliaThe application of Sacramentes.5. Fourthly, they erre also in Application, applying their Sacramentes both to the quicke and the dead, to them also that be absent, to remission of sinnes, and releasing of payne. &c.

MarginaliaErrours and abuses in Baptisme.In the Sacrament of Baptisme they are to be reproued, not onely for addyng to the simple wordes of Christes institution diuers other newfound rites and phantasies of men: but also where the vse of the old Church of Rome was onely to Baptise mē, MarginaliaBaptising of belles.they Baptise also belles, and apply the wordes of Baptisme to water, fire, candels, stockes, and stones. &c.

MarginaliaFalse doctrine of the Popes church concernyng þ^e Lordes Supper.But especially in the Supper of the Lord their doctrine most filthely swarueth from the right mynde of þ^e Scripture, all order, reason, and fashiō, most worthy to be exployded out of all Christen Churches. Touchyng the which Sacrament, MarginaliaIdolatry committed to the Sacrament.their first errour is theyr idolatrous abuse by worshyppyng, adoryng, sensing, knockyng and kneelyng vnto it, in reseruyng also and cariyng the same about in pompe and procession in townes & fieldes. Secondly also in the substance therof their teachyng is monstruous, leauing there no substaūce of bread & wyne to remaine, but onely the reall body & bloud of Christ, puttyng no difference betwene callyng, and makyng. Because Christ called bread, hys body, therfore, say they, he made it hys body, MarginaliaThe Sacrament turned to an Idole.and so of a wholesome Sacrament, make a perilous Idole, and that which the old Church of Rome dyd euer take to be a mystery, MarginaliaChaungyng, Worshippyng, Offeryng, Eatyng, Bruning þ^e body of Christ in the Sacramēt of the altar.they turne into a blynd myste of mere accidences to bleare the peoples eyes, makyng them beleue they see that they see not: and not to see that which they see: and to worshyp a thyng made, for their maker, a creature for the creator: and that was threshed out of a whetten sheffe they set vp in the Church, and worshyp for a Sauiour: and when they haue worshypped hym, then they offer hym to his father: and when they haue offered hym, then they eate hym vp, or els close him fast in a pyxe. Where if he corrupt and putrifie before he be eaten, then they burne hym to pouder and ashes. And notwithstandyng they know well by the Scriptures, that the body of Christ can neuer corrupt and putrifie, yet for all this corruption, will they nedes make it the body of Christ, & burne all them which beleue not that which is agaynst ture Christian belefe.

MarginaliaAbsurdities & errours of the Popes church touching Matrimonie.WHat order & rule S. Paule hath set for mariage, in hys Epistle to the Corinthians it is manifest. Where as he preferreth single lyfe in such as haue the gyft of continence, before the maryed state: so agayn in such as haue not the gyft, he preferreth the coupled lyfe before þ^e other: willing euery such one to haue his wife because of fornication. Marginalia1. Cor. 7.Furthermore, how the sayd Apostle aloweth a Byshop to bee the husband of one wife, (so hee excede not to the maner of the Iewes, which were permitted to haue many) and how vehemently he reproueth them that restrayne Mariage, hys letters to Timothe, do recorde. Marginalia1. Timot. 3.
1. Timot. 4.Moreouer, what degrees be permitted by the law of God to mary, in the booke of Leuit. is to be sene, chap. 18. MarginaliaLeuit. 18.Also how children ought not to mary without consent of their parentes, by manifest examples of the Scriptures it is notorious.

Contrary to these ordinaunces of the Scripture, þ^e new Catholickes of the Popes Church, first do repute and call Mariage a state of imperfection, MarginaliaSingle lyfe be it neuer so impure preferred before Matrimony.and preferre single life, be it neuer so impure, before the same, pretēdyng that where the one replenished the earth, the other filleth heauē. MarginaliaThe iij. part of Christendome stopt by the Popes law to mary.Further, as good as the thyrd part of Christendome, (if it be not more) both men and wemē