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Useth Tyndale and his spyrytuall mayster thys manes of loue, this forberynge, and this maner of pacyēs to warde the pope and the clergye, and towarde prynces and other tēporall rulers? we se perde thorow all theyr bokes in what lowly louynge fashion they serue and suffer them, and how fayre they speke, and how plesauntly they flater all holy ca¦tholyque crysten people sauyng onely theyr own secte, with as venemouse wordes and as poysen speche as the dyuell can dyuyse them, wyth all the meanes they may to sow dy∣uysyon [ B] and dyssencyon and set the people in sedycyon / & vn∣der colour of true fayth to brynge them in heresyes and de∣stroye both bodye and soule.
But Tyndale wold now yt we shold for the whyle forget all that he and his mayster wryteth ellys where, and hym selfe in many placys after in this same boke / and that we sholde onely marke these holy louyng wordes that he wry∣teth here in his present prologe / in whych he sayth that they whych be spirytuall do neuer smyte theyr yonger brotherē, that ys to saye, suche as be not in fayth and vertue growen vp as they be, nor wyll not wyth them come forwarde ther∣in, but be euyll and wyll be no better / but the spyritualles as theyr elder brotherē doth flater them and promyse fayre and gyue them gay thynges, and so draweth them forward [ C] in grace / and fynally yf that wyll not helpe them, then the spirytuall elder brother referreth theyr punyshement to the father and the mother, that is as he meaneth to all myghty god, for yf he ment vnto theyr rulers so yt is all redy / for none other hath authoryte to correcte and punysse. And hys mynde he hath declared in that byhalfe in sundry placys / that non man shold in any wyse pursue and punysh any mā specyally for any heresye / for he that pursueth any man is no spyrytuall man. I let passe here that after this waye the worlde, all be yt that yt be badde ynough all redye, wold yet wax then mich worse / and I passe ouer also that as well all wyse men as all good men, and holy scripture also yt selfe, is open and playne to the contrarye.