A godly inuectiue in the defence of the Gospell against such as murmure and woorke what thei can that the Bible shoulde not haue free passage, veray necessary to be red of euery faythfull Christian.

¶ To the reader

I Thought it requi∣site (most gentle reader) to admonishe the of two thynges: the one is, that in alledgyng S. Paule I folow the Paraphra∣sis of Erasmus that famus & renou∣med clarke, for he foloweth the iudge¦ment of the doctours & declareth thin¦ges at full, yet swarueth he not from the text. The other is, wher as I was once determined to haue inueighed very vehemently with diuerse quicke sentences and thonderyng places of holy scripture, I haue gone from my purpose in that behalfe as one some thyng abashed to write & put to light thinges that I might iustly haue stād vnto: yea, and very loth that any man should reporte, that either in this or that I haue dismeasured, my penne. Wherfore (good reader) I desyre the to take in good part this lame & base Inuectiue, I should rather haue sayd rude and simple exhortacion. And al∣though it be not framed accordyng to thyne expectacion, holde the content: My traueile in this, is only to wynne men. For I haue heard say, that sharp¦nes

in writyng hath been so noisome to some, that they haue straight cast al vnderfoote and looked no further, whiche neuer syns could byde anye handelyng ne yet cōfourme thē selfes to any kynd of truth or thinges iustly spoken, whose stubburne and wyl∣full intentes I trust wyll be re∣medied, that I shal not nede to set forthe the vehement Inue∣ctiue whiche I haue in a re∣dines to come forthe, if I perceiue hereafter iust occasion to bee giuen. Thus fare well.