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Yf it be laufull for all to haue the handeling of scripture, then made not tholy ghost a iuste di∣uision of giftes appointing but som doctours and teachers and thother to be taught: Yea and Christ cald in vain the Apostles and theyr successours the salt of thearth, & the light of ye world, if euery one that wyll shal haue
that office, as no doubte they haue had this longe tyme, and wyll haue styl, if it shoulde con∣tinue in English, which GOD forbyde-