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The true copies of the letters between the reverend father in God John Bishop…The true copies of the letters betwene the reuerend father in God Iohn Bisshop…
The true copies of the letters between the reverend father in God John Bishop of Sarum and D. Cole upon occasion of a sermon that the said Bishop preached before the Queens Majesty, and her most honourable Counsel. 1560. Set forth and allowed, according to the order appointed in the Queens Maiesties iniunctions. Cum gratia & privilegio Regiæ Maiestatis per septennium.The true copies of the letters betwene the reuerend father in God Iohn Bisshop of Sarum and D. Cole vpon occasion of a sermon that the said Bishop preached before the Quenes Maiestie, and hir most honorable Counsel. 1560. Set forthe and allowed, according to the order appointed in the Quenes Maiesties iniunctions. Cum gratia & priuilegio Regiæ Maiestatis per septennium.
London: printed by John Day, 1560
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Reply of the Bishop of Sarum.
Contrary to y• Rules of Rhetoric, I see you begin to […] ⟨p. 37⟩and to inflame all your affections even at the first. Soberness were much fitter for a doctor. But your heats be such, that your friends have showed me you must be born withal.
COntrarie to y• Rueles of Rhetorik, I sie you begin to 〈…〉 ⟨p. 37⟩and to enflame all your affections euen at the first. Sobernes were much fitter for a doctor. But your heats be such, yt your frēdes haue shewed me you must be born wtal.
I neither discover, nor cover any untruth in my writing, but as you know, only utter y• very trueth For at Pauls Cross I required you, or any of you, to show the grounds of your religion, if you had any, that by indifferent conference the trueth the better might appear. And this had been to your purpose, if ye had meant plainly, & to mine to. But you run away in the mist, and […] the net, lest haply ye should be taken, and so purposely go about to blear your readers […], & to cover the truth and having in very died nothing to allege for your self, yet ye make a ⟨image 39⟩countenance as though ye lacked nothing. And so I grant you follow your purpose, and not mine.