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Let no man make you shote at a wrong marke by the humblenes and holynes of Aun∣gels in the thynges, whiche he neuer saw, beyng causeles puft vp with his fleshly mynd, and holdeth not the head, whereof all the body by ioyntes and couples receyueth nou∣ryshement, and is knyt together, and encreaseth with the encrasyng, that commeth frō god.
Beware therfore, lest any man by callyng you backe agayn to earth∣ly thynges fas••y and sleyghtly deceyue you of that reward, which ye haue already begon to labour for, in stede of heauenly doctrine, teachyng you small matters, and in stede of Christes true religion, a supersticious wor∣shyppyng of Aungels, and so auaunce and exalte hymselfe among the simple people of certayne fayned visions, beyng desyrous of worldly glo∣rye,* 1.1 teachyng the people suche thynges as learned by aungels, whiche he hath of his owne head by hymselfe forged and imagened, withoute sure truste in him, in comparison of whom it besemeth euery christian to despise al thynges, be they neuer so hygh, in the meane season so trustyng vpō his aungels, that he falleth from Christe his heauenly head, of whome depen∣deth the whole bodye of the churche, whiche is from it with all spirituall giftes deriued into euery member through the ioyntes and couplynges nouryshed and encreased vnto the hyghest perfeccion spiritual, that can be, and vnto suche perfeccion, as besemeth god to haue, to whome we are through Christ ioyned and coupled.