whole Scriptures both of the Prophets, and of the Gos∣pells, are open and without ambiguitie, & may be heard of all mē alike. This speaketh Irenaeus not of euery text of Scripture, but of the whole doctrine of the Prophets and Apostles, which is so playne and easie to be founde in the Scriptures, that no man can misse thereof, that seeketh not of purpose to be deceyued, as he sayth cap. 67. of the same booke.But M. Sander is content for disputation sake to ad∣mit 1. Gods word for a marke of the true Church, and will proue that it is first with the Papistes.For if by Gods word we meane the written letter of the Bible, they are before vs, because we haue none as∣sured copies thereof, which we receyued not of them, for since that day in which S. Peter and S. Paule deliue∣red Gods word to the Romaines, the Church of Rome hath alwayes kept it without leesing or corrupting.I aunswer we meane not by Gods worde the written letter onely, but receyuing and obeying the true and playne sense thereof to be the marke of the Church. A∣gaine I deny, that we had any assured copies of the olde and new testament of the popish Church, but the one of the Iewes in Hebrue, the other of the Greeke Church in Greeke. And whereas he talketh of a certayne daye in which S. Peter and S. Paule deliuered the Scripture to the Romains, it sauoreth altogether of a popish fable, finally how the Romish Church in these last dayes hath kept the Scripture from corruption, although I coulde shew by an hundreth examples, yet this one shall suffice for all, the very first promise of the Gospell, that is in the Scripture. Gen. 3. that the seede of the woman shoulde breake the serpents heade, the popish Church hath ether willfully corrupted, or negligently suffered to be depraued, thus, ipsa conteret caput iuum, she shall breake thyne heade, referring that to the woman which God speaketh expressely to the seede of the woman.The second marke is, that the Papistes acknowledge more of the Bible then we doe, by the bookes of Toby, 2.0