An apology or answer in defence of the Church of England with a brief…An apologie or answere in defence of the Churche of Englande with a briefe…

And for the other Professors, as of Philosophy, of Logic, of Rhetoric, and of the Mathematicalles, the Universities themselves do allow stipends unto them. And these Professors have the ruling of the Disputations and other school exercises which be daily used in the common Schools: Amongest whom, they that by the same Disputations & exercises are thought to be come to any tipenes in knowledge, are wont according to the use in other universities, solemnly to take degrees, every one in the same science and faculty which he professeth.

And for the other Professours, as of Phylosophie, of Logique, of Rethorike, and of the Mathematicalles, the Vniuersities themselues doe allowe stipendes vnto them. And these Professours haue the ruling of the Disputaciōs and other schole exercises whiche be dayly vsed in the common Scholes: Amongest whome, they that by the same Disputations & exercises are thought to be come to any tipenes in knowledge, are wont according to ye vse in other vniuersities, soleniply to take degrees, euery one in ye same science and facultie which he professeth.

We thought good to annex these things, to the end we might confute & ⟨image 137⟩confound those that spread abroad rumours, how that with us nothing is don in order & as ought to be don: that there is no Religion at all, no Ecclesiastical Discipline observed, no regard had of the salvation of mens souls, but that all is don quite out of order and seditiously, that all antiquity is despised, that liberty is given to all sensuality and lewd lusts of folks, that the livings of the Church be converted to profane and worldly uses, whereas in very truth we seek nothing else but that, that God above all most good, may have still his honour truly and purely reserved unto him, that the rule and way to everlasting Salvation may be taken from out of his very word, and not from mens fantasies, that the Sacraments may be ministered not like a Maskary or a stage play, but religiously and reverently according to the rule prescribed unto us by Christ, and after the example of the holy Fathers which flourished in the primitive ⟨image 138⟩