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XVII. (C) A DIALOGUE CONCERNING HERESIES. 18590 that shall delyte and encreace <strong>the</strong>ir deuocion, besydes this,that euerye preachinge shall be <strong>the</strong> more pleasant and fruitfullvn<strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong>w whan <strong>the</strong>y haue in <strong>the</strong>ir mind <strong>the</strong> place <strong>of</strong>scrypture that <strong>the</strong>y shall <strong>the</strong>re heare expowned.For thoughit bee, as it is in dede, great ^ wisedome for a ^ precher in95 preacher <strong>to</strong> vse discrecion in hys preachyng and ^us^'^^s^e^'"^<strong>to</strong> haue a respecte vn<strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> qualities and capaci- ^y^crecion.ties <strong>of</strong> his audience, yet letteth //lat nothinge, but that <strong>the</strong>whole audience maye without harme haue read & hauereadye <strong>the</strong> scrypture in mynde, that he shall, in hys preach-100 yng, declare and expowne. For no doute^ is <strong>the</strong>re, but thatgod & his holye spirite hath so prudentlye tempered <strong>the</strong>yrspeche thorowe <strong>the</strong> whole corps <strong>of</strong> scripture,that euery ma;?may take good <strong>the</strong>rby & no man harme, but he that wil in<strong>the</strong> study <strong>the</strong>r<strong>of</strong> leane proudly <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> foly <strong>of</strong> hys own wit.105 For albeit that Chryst did speake <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> people in parables,and expowned <strong>the</strong>m secretly <strong>to</strong> hys especiall disciples, &sometime forbare <strong>to</strong> tell some thynges <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong>m also, because<strong>the</strong>y were not as yet liable <strong>to</strong> beare <strong>the</strong>m :and <strong>the</strong> apostles,in lykewyse, didde sometyme spare <strong>to</strong> speake <strong>to</strong> some peopleno <strong>the</strong> thinges that <strong>the</strong>y dydde not let playnly <strong>to</strong> speake <strong>to</strong>some o<strong>the</strong>r, yet letteth all thys nothing <strong>the</strong> translacion <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>scripture in<strong>to</strong> our own <strong>to</strong>ng no more than in <strong>the</strong> latine.Norit is no cause <strong>to</strong> kepe <strong>the</strong> corps <strong>of</strong> scripture out <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> handes<strong>of</strong> anye christen people, so many yeres fastly confyrmed infi5 fayth, because Christ & hys apostles vsed suche prouision in<strong>the</strong>ir vtterance <strong>of</strong> so stra;zge and vnherd misteries, ei<strong>the</strong>r vn<strong>to</strong>lewes, Paynims, or newly christened folk ; except we wouldsay that all<strong>the</strong> exposicions which Chryst made himself vponhys owne parables vn<strong>to</strong> hys secret seruauntes and disciples120 withdrawen fro?n <strong>the</strong> people, shoulde nowe at thys day be^ Printed ' gteat.* ^ Printed ' noute.'

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