[ A] all, about grace to be gyuē to the spyrytuall sowle that god myghte aswell do wythout / and yf god lyste not to make Tyndale an answere and tell hym all thys gere: then wyll he lyke a spyrytuall man set all suche bodyly ceremonyes & sacramentes at nought / and say god what he wyll, Tindale wyll glose hys texte as it please hym, and then byleue as he lyste who shall let hym.
when our lorde in ye olde testamēt descrybed so seryously all the apparell of the preestes / dyd he tell the people ther∣wyth all the causes why. Of sume we se that he dyd, as why he wolde not haue Aaron ascēde vnto the awlter by degrees But of all hys apparell, and all the fasshyon of the taberna∣cle, and the awlter, and the arche of the testament, and the ceremonyes of the expiacyon or purgyng of the tabernacle, [ B] and sanctyfyeng of all the vessels, and consecratynge of the preestes wyth the rytys and ceremonyes of all theyr sacry∣fyce: dyd god I saye tell the people what all the outwarde ceremonyes fygnyfyed? nay, nor what sygnyfycacyon had the sacrament of cyrcūsycyon neyther, other then that who so obserued it not amonge them sholde fall in hys indygna¦cyon and therby perysshe•• and who so fulfylled it sholde be in hys fauour and ascrybed therby in to the nomber of hys electe and peculyer chosen peple. But why he rather wylled them to haue the marke and token of cyrcumsicyon then an other, or why that in the tabernacle, arche, and awlter, appa¦rell, sanctyfyeng, and sacryfyce, our lorde chose those out∣ward sygnes and fasshyons that are wryten in Exodo, Nu¦meri, and Leuitico before other, or what he sygnyfyed and [ C] ment by euery of the same: that I se not that god taughte ye people / and yet had they thanke for the kepynge, and sholde haue ben shent for the brekynge.
Now yf our spyrytuall father Tyndale had ben there, yt in euery commaundement wyll neuer cease serchynge tyll he come to the very botom and so iudgeth all thynge / when he sholde in all those thynges haue serched and sowght and cowlde fynde few thynges other then allegoryes, of whyche dyuerse men dyuersly diuyne, and all whyche he lyttell set∣teth by, and sayth they proue nothyng / and the very causes and sygnyfycacyons he cowlde not haue founden though he wolde haue mused out hys brayne: then wolde he not haue set a ry••••he by all that god had deuysed nor wolde ha∣ue kept it at all, lest he beynge so spyrytuall sholde haue ser¦ued