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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.
YE do me to much wrong, that will not allow me thus much Logic of mine own. But it was ever your grace, to bear the people in hand that all we are altogether unlearned, and know ⟨p. 42⟩nothing. Which thing if it were •rew, it were y• more to your shame, thus openly to be confounded through the whole world, by men of so small learning. Howbeit thus it pleased you to talk, for want of better reason.
YE do me to much wrong, that will not allow me thus much Logik of mine own. But it was euer your grace, to beare the people in hand that all we are altogether vnlearned, and knowe ⟨p. 42⟩nothing. Whiche thing if it were •rew, it wer y• more to your shame, thus openlye to be confounded through the whole world, by men of so smal learning. Howbeit thus it pleased you to talk, for want of better reason.
Ye call me a smatterer in Logic, as if your self were as perfect in Logic as Aristotle. And yet I remember well I understood as much logic as this cumeth to, and sum deal more, for twenty years ago, ywis when you, by your own report, were but a simple smatterer in divinity. Neither did I bring it in for a she we of skill, as you say, but to declare your oversight, & lack of skill, which appeareth now not only in divinity, but also in logic. For where you say I brought it in out of all purpose, me think ⟨image 44⟩you have forgotten sum part of your old rules, and know not what Paralogismus à non causa, ut causa▪ meaneth. Which is when so ever in reasoning the very true cause is suppressed, and an other cause of purpose set in place. For example I say, I confer with you under protestation, lest I should seem to call that doctrine into doubt, which I knew to be established by gods word, & by sufficient authority throughout this realm. And you would have it taken that I do it, because I am a Bishop. Which indeed is of your side a sophistication, à non causa, ut causa, So likewise I say, you allege no doctors, nor scriptures, nor general Coū cells, as true it is, because ye have none to allege. But you would make men believe ye dare not allege