CAP. CVII.
How all these landes yles and kingdomes, and the men therof afore rehersed, haue some of the articles of our faith.
AND ye shall understand that all these men & folke that haue reason yt I haue spoken of, haue some articles of our faith, all1 if they be of divers lawes and divers beleves, yet they haue some good poynts of our fayth, & they beleve in God of kinde as theyr prophecie sayth, Et metuent eum omnes fines terræ, That is to say, And all endes of the earth shall dread him. And in another place, Omnes gentes servient ei, That is to say, All folk shall serve him, but they cannot speak parfitly but as theyr kyndly wit teacheth them, neither of the Son nor of the Holy Ghost can they speake, but they can speake well of the Byble, and specially of Genesis, and of the bokes of Moyses. And they say that those creatures yt they worship are no gods, but they worship them for great vertue that is in them which may not be without special grace of God, & of simulacre and ydoles, they say that all men haue simulacres, and that, say they, for us christen men haue ymages of our Lady & other, but they wot not that we worship not the ymages of stone nor of wood, but the saynts of whome they are made, for as the letter teacheth clarkes how they shal beleve, so ymages and paynture teacheth lewde2 men. They say also that the aungell of God speaketh to them in their ydoles & do miracles, they say soth,3 but it is the evil aungell that doth myracles to maintaine them in their ydolatrie.