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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.
¶ Cole.
I Doubted more than I do now, ye give me good cause to be well confirmed.
I Doubted more thē I do now, ye geue me good cause to be well confirmed.
The reply. Sarum.
This is a fair shift of rhetoric when other help faileth you: Even thus the Pharisees after they had ben long in a mammering, and in doubt of Christ, at the last were fully confirmed and out of doubt, and said unto him, […] scimus te habere daemon•um. As if they should then have said unto Christ, as you say now to us: we doubted more before then we do now, for now ye give us good cause to be well confirmed▪ But if I have confirmed you bringing such proofs as ye are not able to answer, how then (think ye) have others cause to be confirmed at your hands, that have used such extremity, and yet are able to bring nothing at all,