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Yet one thing more I long much to be answered in, why ye rather offer ⟨p. 2⟩•othe in your Sermon yesterday in the Court, & at all other times at Powles Cross, to dispute in these iiii. points, then in the chief matters that lye in question betwixt the Church of Rome and the Protestants. It seemeth to me far the nearer way to compass that you would so fain win, if ye began not with such matters which we deny not, but a general Council might take order that they should be practised as ye would have it. Mary the Article of the presence of Christs Body & blood in the Sacrament, the article of our Justification, the value of a Christian mans good works, whether the Mass used in the church of Rome be tolerable yea or no, yea whether that the mass be not a very sacrifice acceptable to God in deed, and good both for the quick and the dead, whether any Scripture forbiddeth a man to de•re the blessed Apostles and Martyrs in heaven to pray for us, whether it be lawful to honour them, and whether it be lawful for us, and good for them, to pray• for all christian Souls: I ween if ye ⟨image 4⟩•ad the upper hand but in one of these questions, the world might well think we were smally to be trusted in all the •est. For we make a plot and plain answer to them, without if, or and. So do we not, whether the Service ought to be in English or not. Or whether the people ought to receive in both kinds or no. Or whether any private▪ Mass ought to be said in the Church or no.

Yet one thing more I long muche to be answeared in, why ye rather offer ⟨p. 2⟩•othe in your Sermon yesterday in the Courte, & at all other times at Powles Crosse, to dispute in these iiii. pointes, then in the chiefe matters that lye in question betwixte the Church of Rome and the Protestaūtes. Yt semith to me farre the nearer way to compasse that you would so faine winne, if ye began not with suche matters which we deny not, but a generall Coūsell might take order that they shoulde be practised as ye woulde haue it. Mary the Article of the presence of Christes Body & bludde in the Sacrament, the article of our Iustification, the valewe of a Christian mans good workes, whether the Masse sed in the churche of Rome be tolerable yea or no, yea whether that ye masse be not a verye sacrifice acceptable to God in dede, and good bothe for the quicke and the dead, whether any Scripture forbiddeth a manne to dere the blessed Apostles and Martyrs in heauen to pray for vs, whether it be lefull to honour them, and whether it be lefull for vs, and good for them, to pray for all christian Soules: I wene if ye