But by the inwarde baptyme (whiche is the water of lyfe and spiryte of God) we haue in dede put hym vpon vs and lyue in hym and he in vs. Whiche not withstondynge is verye false for all the outwarde baptyme, in them that receyue it not in fayth. And vnto them it is but abare sygne, wherof they gette no profytte, but dampnacyon.
And here you maye evydentlye perceyue, howe it is sometyme in scrypture ascrybed vnto the outwarde worke and ceremonye, whiche is onelye true in the inwarde veryte. And this place shall expounde all the olde doctours whiche seame contrarye to our sentence. And therfore marke it well.
Thus haue you my mynde further vpon the sacrament of the bodye and bloode of Christe. Wherin yf you reaken that I haue bene to lōge in repetynge one thynge so often, I shall praye you of pardone. But surelye me thought I coulde not be shorter. For the worlde is suche now adayes, that some wolde heare and can not: and some do heare and wyll not. And therfore I am compelled so often to repete that thynge whyche a wyse man wolde vnderstonde wyth halue the wordes.
❧ Praye Christen reader that the wordes of GOD maye increace, and that GOD maye be gloryfyed through my bondes. AMEN.
The Artycles wherfore Iohan Fryth dyed, whiche he wrote in Newgate the .23. daye of Iune, the yeare of our Lorde .1533.
I doubt not deare bretherne, but that it doth some deale vexe you, to see the one parte haue all the wordes, and frely to speake what they lyste, and the other to be put to sylence, and not to be harde indyfferently. But referre your matters to God, whiche shortelye shall Iudge after a nother fashyon. But in the meane seasō, I shall rehearse vnto you the artycles for which I am condempned.
❧ They examyned me but of two artycles whiche are these.
|1. Article.| Fyrste whyther I thought there were any Purgatorye to pourge the soule after thys present lyfe. And I sayde, that I thought there was none. For man is made but of two partes, the bodye and the soule. And the bodye is pourged by the crosse of Christe, whiche he layeth vpon euery chylde that he receyueth: as afflyctyon, worldlye opressyon, persecucyon, emprysonment & cet. and deathe fynysheth synne. And the soule is pourged by the worde of God, which we receyue through fayth, vnto the healthe and saluacyon bothe of bodye and soule.
Now and yf I ded knowe any thyrde parte wherof we are made, I wolde also gladly graunt the .3. purgatory, but seynge I knowe none suche, I must denye the Popes purgatorye. Neuertheles I cownte neyther parte a necessarye artycle of our faythe, necessaryly to be beleued vnder payne of dampnacyon, whyther there be soche a purgatory or not.
|2. article.| The seconde artycle was thys, whyther that I thought, that the sacrament of the aulter was the bodye of Christe. And I sayde yea, that I thought that it was bothe Christes bodye and also our bodye, as Saynt Paule sayeth to the Corynthyans. i. Cori. 10.