Finally as you exhort vs to submitte ourselues to good order, whiche haue bin alwayes, and yet are ready to do: to leaue to be contentious, which neuer yet began: to ioyne with you in prea∣ching the word of God, which haue stopped our mouthes, and will not suffer vs to preache: so we exhort you in Gods behalfe, and as you will once answer it before the iust iudge, that you will not willingly shut your eyes against the truth, that if the Lord vouchsafe to open it vnto you, you kicke not against it? Wherefore we pray you to take heede, that neither the desire of keeping your wealth and honoure which you are in, nor the hope which you may haue of any further promotion, nor yet the care of keeping your estimation, by mainteining that whiche you haue once set downe, nor the sleighey suggestion of craftie and wyly Papists, do driue you to stumble against this truth of God, which toucheth the gouernment of his Church, and the purging of those corruptions whiche are amongst vs, knowing that you cannot stumble vpon the word of God, but foorthwith you runne yourselfe against Christ, which is the rocke. And you know that he will not giue back, but brea∣keth all to fitters, whatsoeuer that rusheth against him.
You do not submit your selues to the order of the Church, which is a good and de∣cent order: you haue filled the Churche with maruellous contentions, and haue strangely deuided, euen such as professe the Gospell: your mouthes are not stopped but through your owne procuring.
I do not withstand that which you vntruly call the truth, for any such cause as you surmise, (God who seeth my hart knoweth) but bycause I sée these your deuises to be set downe by you without any sufficient warrant in the word of God: agaynste the practise and order of the primitiue Churche, tending also to daungerous errours, and meere confusion both of the Church and of the common wealth.