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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. Sarum.
Your whole practise, and the order of your doings for six years together hath proved it sufficiently. And besides it, a Bishop of yours, even in that tune, sitting in judgement upon a pore man in a case of Religion, and hearing him allege the Scriptures, and other authorities for him self, rounded a gentleman in the ear that sate next to him, with these words. Nay if we strive with them in Scriptures & reasoning, we shall never have done. We must proceed against them with the Law.
YOur whole practise, and the order of your doiuges for sixe yeres together hath proued it sufficiently. And besides yt, a Bishop of yours, euen in that tune, sittyng in iudgement vpon a pore man in a case of Religiō, and hearing him alledge the Scripturs, and other authorities for him self, rounded a geutlemā in the ear that sate next to him, with these wordes. Naye if we stryue with them in Scriptures & reasoning, we shall neuer haue done. We must proced agaīst them with the Law.
¶ Sarum.
For as truly as God, is God, if ye would have vouchsafed to follow either the Scriptures, or the ancient Doctors, or the Councils, ye would never have restored again either y• supremacy of Rome after it was once abolished, or the private Mass, or y communion