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THE FIRST READING.
I HAVE chosen this parte of the holie scripture, wherein to trauail with you at this time bicause thorough goddes great wrath against sinne, and the most despiteful malice of Satan against the truth, the olde hainous heresie of the vn¦godlie Arrians, is renued in our coūtree, and as it were raised vp againe from hel. These cankerd old Arrians, that you maie undrestāde their heresie, spake blas¦phemously of the godhead of our Lorde Iesus. For the first autor of it Arrius vt∣tered erroniously, & vngodly in the sco∣les of Alexandria, in Aegypte, that there was a time, whā goddes sonne was not. By which wordes he ment, that he was not of the same beinge, and substāce that the father is of, nor of the fame aeternitie and so not the natural sonne of God, and verie God in dede, but an excellent crea¦ture of God, whereby God made al thin¦ges,