MART. 5. It is written of Luther that he for the selfe* 1.1 same heresie, in his first translation into the Germane tongue, left out these wordes of S. Peter altogither, This is the worde which is euangelized or preached to you. Why so? because S. Peter doth here define what is the word of God: saying, that which is preached to you, and not that only which is written▪ which false dealing of Luther is no small presumptiō against the like hereticall meaning of our English Protestants, who (I am sure) in this point of controuersie of the worde written and vn∣written, will not denie that they agree with the Lutherans.
FVLK. 5. That any such sentence was vpō any pur∣pose leste out by Luther in his translation, for my part I beleeue it not, neither vpon your report, nor vpon your author Lindanus credite. If the Printer did omit a line, yet what reason were it to thinke that Luther did it, vpon such a cause? which were to no purpose for him ex∣cept he should haue left out all those textes of Scripture, where preaching of the Gospel, or word of God is men∣tioned. What you haue left out, I haue noted before, and yet I haue not pronounced the cause why, so confident∣ly as you do of that omission, which you know not whe∣ther it be so or no.