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I answere that this precepte, loue thy neyghbour as thy selfe, and god aboue all thynge / went wyth the apostles and compelled them to seke goddes honour in vs, and to seke all meanes to cōtinue the fayth vnto the worldes ende. Now the apostles knew byfore that heresyes sholde come / and therfore wrote that yt myght be a remedy agaynste heresyes as yt well appereth Iohn̄ .xxi. where
[ A] he sayth these are wrytē that ye byleue, and thorow bylyfe haue lyfe. And in the second of his first pistle he saith: these I write bycause of them that deceyue you. And Peter and Paule there to, warne vs ī many place. Wherfore it is ma¦nifeste that the same loue cōpelled them to leue nothyng vnwriten, that shold be necessarely requyred / and that yf yt were lefte out sholde hurte the soule.