By these tradicions haue we the holy lenton faste / which [ A] these brotheles so boldely take vppon them to breke, and as lollardes to eate fleshe / and whyche holy faste these folys in theyr wrytynge call the folyshe faste.
By these haue we also the saterdaye chaūged into ye son∣daye, whyche they care not to turne into frydaye now.
By these haue we the halowyng of chalyces, vestymēts, pascall taper, and holy water, wyth dyuerse other thynges.
By these tradycyons of that holy spiryte / hath the chirch also the knowlege how to consecrate, how to say masse, and what thynge to pray for and to desyre therein.
By thys haue we also the knowlege to do reuerēce to the images of holy sayntes, and of oure sauyour / and to crepe to hys crosse / and to do dyuyne honour vnto the blessed sa∣crament of the auter, to whyche yet to saye the trouth neuer [ B] tradycyon neded. For syth the scrypture ys playne that yt is Crystes owne precy••use bodye, whyche ys not dede but quykke, wyth that blessed so••le and wyth them the godhed vnseparably ioyned: what frantyque fole coulde doute but yt sholde be wyth dyuyne honour wurshypped, though ney¦ther god nor man bysyde that knowledge, hadde geuen vs warnynge therof.
But yet is Tyndale so farre bysyde hym selfe / that he by¦leueth not the scrypture of god, nor the word spoken by god¦des owne mouth, when he sayde that yt is hys owne body / and is so blasphemouse agaynst god, that he calleth it great synne to do to that blessed bodye of Cryste in the sacrament any honour at all, bycause yt ys not commaunded he sayth in scrypture. [ C]
But thus may ye good crysten readers se, to what poynt at laste thys heresye bryngeth these folke. For when they fyrste fall to that poynt, that they regarde not goddes word but yf he geue yt them in wrytynge•• wythin a whyle after fall they downe so farre, yt they neyther regarde hys worde, nor his wrytynge, nor yet hym selfe neyther.
But nowe is yt a worlde to se what shyfte these folke be fayne to seke. Sometyme they come forth shamlesse, and boldely tell on theyre tale. And yet when they perceyue in the myddes thereof, that all that here theym wonder on them: then they caste on theyr hodes and keuer theyr faces for shame.
For somtyme they say they care but for scrypture alone,