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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.
You can not say I am an heretic, or obstinate, and thereby put me of. For I offer to yield in all that ye prove to me. I stand in place and case to learn, and you a man appointed to teach. I come for no other purpose but to learn more then I know. I come to you for counsel in those points ye seem very resolute in, I mean you no harm nor guile. Cast me not of for God's love, as men do beggars, when they mind to do them no good.
You can not say I am an heretique, or obstinate, and therby put me of. For I offer to yelde in all that ye proue to me. I stand in place and case to learne, and you a man appoynted to teache. I come for no other purpose but to learne more then I knowe. I come to you for councell in those pointes ye seeme very resolute in, I meane you no harme nor guile. Cast me not of for Goddes loue, as men doe beggers, when they mynde to doe them no good.
If ye have Scriptures, Councils. &c. with you, I desire to know them. If ye have none, let me & my fellows alone in your Sermons. We trouble you not, nor give you cause to deal so unmerciful with us, as some of your side doth, as though we were the most unreasonable men in the world.
Yf ye haue Scriptures, Councels. &c. with you, I desire to know them. Yf ye haue none, lette me & my felowes alone in your Sermons. We trouble you not, nor giue you cause to deale so vnmercifull with vs, as some of your side dothe, as thoughe we were the most vnreasonable men in the world.
By law upon good grounds no man should be put to reason where matters are once agreed on. I and my fellows are in bands to avoid such kind of reasoning as ye would put me to. Wherein wise men see, when ye openly provoke us to disprove that ye teach, ye fare as if you should say to one that is bound hand and foot, come strike me & thou darest. We are as I said in place of learners, & ye in place to teach. We are defendants, and ye y plaintiffs. We continue in the faith we professed sith our Baptism, ye pretend a change in the same. We have with us an Apostolical church, ye have none yet approved. We make no innovation, for, In rebus novis constituendis, sayeth y law, evidens debet esse utilitas: and all new attempts are to be suspected.