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By the wordes, he meaneth that ye holy order is no sacra∣ment, nor is nothyng ellys but an elder to teache the yōger, and to mynystre the sacraments suche as Cryste ordeyned. And in this wyse he sayth we be all prestes both mē and wo¦men to. For he sayth in the same boke precysely and in this boke to, that women may consecrate the holy body of Crist. [ B] Agaynste whych folysh blasphemouse bablynge were very great foly to dyspute, syth of as many good holy vertuouse women as hathe bene in crystendone syth crystes deth vnto this daye / was there neuer none yet but that her harte wold haue abhorred, yf such an hygh p̄sumptuous thought shold ones haue fallen in her mynde.
And what wold yt auayle to dyspute wyth hym, syth he mokketh and skoffeth out the wordes of saynte Paule wryt¦ten vnto Tymothe / in whyche the sacrament of order ys so playnly proued, that all the worlde can not denye yt, but yf they make a mokke at saynt Paule as Tyndale doth.
Now in that he sayth the sacramentes that Cryste ordey¦ned / he meaneth nothynge ellys but his playne heresyes a∣gaynst all the sacramentes saue twayne / that is baptysme [ C] and the sacrament of the aute••, as yt haue all redy sene in all the remanaunt. And now syth he leueth but thē twayne / I pray you consyder how holyly he handeleth them twayne, and ye shall se that he myght allmost as well deny thē both as handle them after the fashyon. And fyrste here how he hā¦deleth the holy sacrament of baptysme.
Of the sacrament of baptysme, these be his wordes.