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we be well content that these thynges trye the myste of bothe partyes / so that Tyndale take wyth hym one thynge or twayne more, which I meruayle wherfore he now leueth oute, sauynge that he seeth well that they wyll clerely dyssy∣pate and dyscusse the myste that he fayne wolde walke in. For ellys why leueth he clene out the new testament now. we must praye hym that we may take in that to.
And for asmych as we do on bothe the sydes agre vppō the texte of scrypture, and that the questyō mych lyeth why∣ther Tyndale and hys felowes vnderstond it ryght or ellys the hole chyrche of all crysten nacyons: we shall praye hym to be content that we may laye forth in y• behalfe the mynde of the olde holy doctours and sayntes, whych wrote of these [ C] maters so many hūd••ed y••••es ere euer thys busynes began, and wrote not for the pleasure of eyther other partye. And them wyll we the rather allege, bycause Tyndale aswell in hys boke of obedyence, as in dyuers places of thys boke is not ashamed to say•• that we wyll not byleue the olde holy doctours, but that they ••o and be of ye bylefe that those holy fathers were / and as I say he is not ashamed to wryte this, ye and that very often, when he woteth well that amonge them all he can not fynde one that euer byleued other, but that it was a shamefull abomynable sy••e a monke to mary a 〈◊〉〈◊〉, whyche thynge hereafter in thys boke Tyndale so folyshly 〈◊〉〈◊〉, that sauynge for pytye to se any man so madde, one that ••••ye sore sycke coude not forbere to lawghe at it.