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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.
I See you would fain put me out of credit, as though I were not able to answer your letters ⟨p. 47⟩without conference. But this I reckon you do for a jolly policy, that while your reader is looking upon me, he should forget the whole matter that we talk of. Y• y• erā ples that I allege be against my self, then are you the more beholding to me. For they can not lightly make against me in this case, but they must needs make for you. Yet I pray you show me by all your Logic, how holdeth this argument of yours.
I See you would faine put me out of credit, as thogh I wer not able to answere your letters ⟨p. 47⟩without conference. But this I reken you do for a ioly policie, that while your reader is lokig vpon me, he should forget the whole matter that we talk of. Y• y• erā ples that I alledge be against my self, then are you the more beholding to me. For they can not lightly make against me in this case, but they must nedes make for you. Yet I praye you shewe me by all your Logik, howe holdeth this argument of yours.
Christ proved that the Pharisees were not Abraham's Children, & that a man may not put away his wife for every cause. Ergo. this matter maketh quite against me.