¶ And when thou art come vn to the repētaunce of the Niniuites/ there hast thou sure ernest/ that how soeuer angre god be/ yet he remembreth mercie vn to all that truly repent and beleue in mercie. Which ensample oure sauioure Christ also casteth in the teeth of the indurat Iewes sayenge: the Niniuites shall rise in iudgemēt with this nation and condemne them/ for they repented at the preachynge of Ionas/ and beholde a greater thē Ionas here/ meanynge of hym selfe. At whose preachinge yet/ though it were neuer so mightie to perce the herte/ & for all his miracles therto/ the hard herted Iewes coude not repent: when the heathen Niniuites repented at the bare preachynge of Ionas rebukinge theyr synnes with out any miracle at all. ¶ Why? for [the] Iewes had leuēded the spirituall law of God and with theyr gloses had made it all to gether erthie ād fleshly/ and so had sett a vayle or coueringe on Moses face/ to shodowe and darken [the] glorious brightnesse of his contenaunce. It was synne to stele: but to robbe wedowes howses vnder a coloure of longe prayēge/ & to polle in the name of offeringes/ and to snare [the] people with intollerable cōstitucions agēst all loue/ to ketch theyr money out of theyr purses/ was no synne at all. ¶ To smyte father ād mother was synn: But to withdraw helpe frō them at theyr nede/ for blynde zele of offeringe/ vn to the profytt of the holy phareses/ was then as meritorious as it is now to let all thy kynne chose wheter they will synke or sweme/ while thou byldest and makest goodly fundatiōs for holy people which thou hast chosen to be thy christe/ for to sowple thy soule with the oyle of theyr swete blessynges/ & to be thy Iesus for to saue thy soule from [the] purgatory of the bloud that only purgeth synne/ with theyr watchīge/ fastīge/ wolward goinge & rysynge at mydnyght etc. where wyth yet they purge not them selues from theyr couetousnesse/ pryde/ lechury or any vyce that thou seyst amonge the laye people. ¶ It was greate synne for Christ to heale the people on the sabboth daye vn to the glorie of God hys father/ but none at all for them to helpe theyr catell vnto theyr awne profett. ¶ It was synne to eate wyth vnwashen handes or on an vnwashen table/ or out of an vnwashen dish: but to eate out of that purifyed dysh that which came of brybery/ theft & extorsion/ was no synne at all. ¶ It was exceadynge meritorious to make many dyscyples: But to teach them to feare God in hys ordynaunces/ had they no care at all.