of affaires, and the whole bleſſing of God, profeſſing alſo their great hope of the kindneſſe of the Emperour, and their Lords, and the diminiſhing of their burdens, and they alſo themſelves being but little liberall in ſuch a grievous dearth of proviſion, did offer either money, or corn, if they would change their religion, by which ſtratagem ſome are deceived; examples of this thing are extant every where, and alſo in Koſſimberg, Cerket; where when a Monk being more greedy of praiſe for the converſion of Hereticks, or rather of meriting heaven did promiſe to every one thaſ confeſſed a buſhell of wheat, the poorer ſort ran to him, bringing their confeſſions to the Prieſt for corn, he being afraid of his Granary, leſt it ſhould faile, if he did ſo largely diſtribute, reſolved to diſpenſe more ſparingly, and gives to one of a mean eſtate that came to him, but halfe the meaſure; but he taking away his ſhare, returns and requires the reſt. The Monk denying him, What, ſayes he, is my ſoule more vile then the reſt? ſo he departed angerly. Is not this groſly to make merchandiſe of the ſouls of men, as Peter fore-told? or rather to bring the miſerable common people to ſuch a paſſe as they ſhould think gain to be godlineſſe, which Paul in the firſt of Timothy notes of certain falſe teachers, and men of corrupt minds, and averſe from the truth.
