A   Bvt thou (O o&highr; God) art swete, longe sufferinge and true, and in mercy ordrest thou all thinges. Though we synne, yet are we thine, for we knowe thy strength. Yf we synne not, then are we sure, that thou regardest vs. For to knowe the, is parfecte righteousnes: Yee to knowe þi; righteousnes and power, is the rote of immortalite. As for the thinge that men haue founde out thorow theyr euell science, it hath not disceaued vs: as the payntinge of the picture (an vnprofitable laboure) and carued ymage, with diuerse colours, whose sight entiseth the ignoraunt: so that he honoureth and loueth the picture of a deed ymage, that hath no soule.

B   Neuertheles, they that loue soche euell thinges, are worthy of death: they that trust in them, they that make them, they that loue them, and they that honoure them. The potter also taketh ∧ tempereth soft earth, laboureth it, and geueth it the fashion of a vessell, what so euer serueth for oure vse: and so of one pece of claye he maketh some cleane vessel for seruice, and some contrary. But where to euery vessell serueth, that knoweth þe; potter himself. So with his vayne laboure he maketh a god of the same claye: this doth euen he, which a litle afore was made of earth himself, and within a litle whyle after (whan he dyeth) turneth to earth agayne.

C   Notwithstandinge, he careth not þe; more because he shal labo&highr; ner because his life is shorte: but stryueth to excell goldsmythes, þe; syluer smythes ∧ copper smithes, and taketh it for an hono&highr; to make vayne thinges. For his hert is ashes, his hope is but vaine earth ∧ his life is more vyle then claye: for so moch as he knoweth not his awne maker, that gaue him his soule to worke, and brethed in him the breth of life. They counte oure life but a pastyme, and oure conuersacion to be butt a market, and that men shulde euer be gettinge, yee and that by euell meanes. Now he þt; of earth maketh frayle vessell and ymages, knoweth himself to offende aboue all other.

D   All the enemies of thy people and þt; holde them in subieccion, are vnwyse, vnhappie and exceadinge proude vnto their owne soules: ^notefor they iudge all the Idols of the Heith&ebar; to be goddes, which nether haue eyesight to se, ner noses to smell, ner eares to heare, ner fingers of handes for to grope: ∧ as for their fete, they are to slowe to go. For man made them, and he that hath but a borowed sprete, fashioned them. But no man can make a God like vnto him: for seinge he is but mortall himself, it is but mortall that he maketh with vnrighteous handes. He himself is better then they whom he worshippeth, for he lyued though he was mortall, but so dyd neuer they. Yee they worshippe beestes also,

which are most miserable: for compare thinges that can not fele vnto them, ∧ they are worse then those. Yet is there not one of these beestes, that with his sight c&abar; beholde eny good thinge, nether haue they geuen prayse ner thankes vnto God.

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