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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.
And say not I allege matter against my self, onl•s ye have where with to disprove it better.
And say not I alledg matter against my self, onl•s ye haue wher with to disproue it better.
You answer farther, that one might ⟨p. 49⟩say y• like against us, ye we preach this day is naught, because men in times past taught not so. Like as Gregory found fault with John the Bishop of Constantinople, for that he titled him self an universal Bishop of y• whole Church, where as none of his preder•ssours durst ever-take that name upon him. In deed this answer might have sum show, if men in times past had never taught so, as we teach now. But I doubt not but herein your own learning & conscience crieth out against you. For you know that the matters that lie in question between us, have ben taught, as we now teach them, both by Christ him self, and by his Apostles, and by the old Doctors, and by the ancient general co• cells: and that you, having no• ⟨image 51⟩of these or like authorities, have set up a Religion of your own, & built it only upon your self. Therefore I may justly and truly conclude, y• you now teach and of long time have taught the people, touching the Massive, y• Supremacy, the Common prayer. &c. is naught: for neither Christ, nor his Apostles, nor the old Doctors, Tertullian, Cyprian, S. Hierom, S. Augustin, S. Ambrose, S. Chri•om, &c. ever taught the people […] as you have taught them.