selues money, goodes and treasures, and haue gotten landes and dominions, for the whiche great dyuision was among them▪ And wheras the world should haue learned of them, faith, loue and knowledge, it was nothing but slandered, offended, deceyued, seduced and sore hyndered by them, bothe in faythe, and in godly lyuynge and behaueour: bothe whiche, were vtterly decayed in these par∣sons▪ to the great vndoyng and dystruccion bothe of bodye and of soule. And thus the swete hony of christen loue and concorde among these orders, is turned in to bytter wormewoode, by the which many soules are destroyed. The fourthe plage maye well be vnderstande, to be the breakyng in of the Turkes & Sara∣sens, whiche is, as it were a worthye and well deserued scourge or whyppe, whiche shoulde scourge and punyshe the christendome fallyng into synne and dyssolutenes. As it hath already happened in the .iii. partes of the earth, Asya, Europa and Africa. All these hath he gotten wholy into his handes. And hathe also dyuerse tymes attempted Italy and Spaine. And hath alreadye gotten Austry, Etschlande, and parte of Hungry. He y• thinketh not this a great losse, and a wonderfull destruccion, the same hath no vnderstandynge at all. Suche great myseries, perplexites and destruccions, dothe the scripture sygnifye in diuerse places by the darcknes of the Sunne, Moone and Starres. And where as he sayth, that onely the thirde parte was destroyed, he syngnifyeth thereby, that all this dyd not continue in dyuerse places. For men addressyng thēselues vnto repentaunce and amendement, haue dysappoynted suche enemyes, & dys∣charged them selues of them. But not euery where, nor at all tymes. For all these myseries and plages returned againe afterwarde, and were more dange∣rous, hurtful and intollerable, than they were before. And bothe these and other plages dyd increase, and get the ouerhande daylye more and more, & lykewyse also the synne against the worde of god, against true loue, againste peace and quietnes, and against all vertue and godlynes, dyd not cease but raged conty∣nually against the manyfest and clere gospel, euen by the spirituall sort, which haue their lyuynge of the gospel, wherunto they are the most extreme enemyes, bothe in worde and deade, a thousande partes more than the secular and laye sorte. And yet all vnder the pretence & coloure of a Christen & good zeale, wher∣as they seke nothing but their owne pryuate lucre, as it is euydent & manyfest.