¶ The hye prelates so defended the ryght of holy church ād so feared the people with the curse of God & terreble paynes of hell/ that no man durst leaue the vilest herke in hys gardeyne vntythed. And the offerynge and thynges dedycat vn to God for the profitt of hys holy vycars where in soch estymacion and reuerēce/ that it was moch greater synne to sweare truly by them/ thē to forswere thy selfe by God: what vengeaunce then of God/ and how terreble and cruell damnacion thynke ye preached they to fall on thē that had stolen soch holy thīges? And yet sayth Christ/ that ryghtwesnesse ād faith in kepynge promise/ mercie and indyfferent iudgement were vtturly troden vnder fote and cleane dispysed of those blessed fathers/ whych so mightely mayntened Arons patrimony ād had mad it so prosperous ād enuironed it and walled it aboute on euery syde with [the] feare of god/ that noman durst twech it. ¶ It was greate holynesse to garnysh [the] sepulchres of [the] prophetes & to cōdemne their awne fathers for sleynge of them: and yet were they thē selues for blinde zele of their awne cōstituciōs/ as ready as their fathers to sle whosoeuer testified vn to them/ the same trueth which the prophetes testified vn to theyr fathers. So that Christ cōpareth all the rightwesnesse of those holy patriarkes vn to the outwarde bewtye of a paynted sepulchre full of stench and all vn clennesse wythyn. ¶ And finally to begyld a mans neyboure in sotle bargeninge and to wrappe and cōpase him in with cauteles of the law/ was then as it is now in the kingdome of [the] Pope. By the reason where of they excluded the law of loue out of theyr hertes/ ād cōsequētly all true repentaunce: for how coude they repēt of [that] they coude not se to be sinne? ¶ And on the other syde they had sett vpp a rightwesnesse of holy workes/ to clense theyr soules with all: as the Pope sanctifieth vs with holy oyle/ holy bred/ holy salt/ holy candels/ holy dome ceremonies ād holy dome blessynges/ and with what soever holynesse thou wilt saue with the holynes of Gods worde which only speaketh vn to the herte and sheweth the soule hir filthynesse and vnclennesse of synne/ and leadeth hir by [the] waye of repentaunce vn to [the] fountayne of Christes bloude to washe it awaye thorow faith. By the reason of which false rightwesnesse they were dysobedient vn to the rightwesnesse of God/ which is the forgeuenesse of synne in Christes bloude and coude not beleue it. And so thorow fleshly interpretynge the law ād false imagined rightwesnesse/ their hertes were hardened ād made as stony as clay in an hote furnace of fire/ that they coude receaue nether repentaunce ner faith or any moyster of grace at all.