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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.
Ye say, your own ordinances may not be broken, without y• authority of a general Council. And dare ye without any such authority, only upon a vain and particular ⟨image 86⟩custom, to break the universal ordinance of Christ?
Ye say, your own ordinaunces may not be broken, without y• anthority of a general Councel. And dare ye without any suche authority, only vpon a vain and particuler ⟨image 86⟩custome, to break the vniuersall ordenaunce of Christ?
Ye say, men are not to be judged heretics, that withstand your order herein, but only to be in a wrong opinion. Here I see that ye, and your brethren, agree not in judgement both together. And therefore ye shall the less marvel, if we disagree, from you, & mistrust you both. For Hossius, a doctor of your side, is not afraid to call it heresy, and sacrilege, his words be plain.
Ye saye, men are not to be iudged heretikes, that withstād your order herein, but onely to be in a wrong opinion. Here I se that ye, and your brethren, agree not in iudgemēt both together. And therfore ye shall the lesse marueile, yf we disagree, from you, & mistrust you both. For Hossius, a doctoure of your syde, is not afrayed to call it heresy, and sacrilege, his words be plaine.
Nunc haeresin profert, séque pollicetur ostensurum, omnes esse impios, qui utriusque speciei communionem laicis denegant. And again. An autem idem in regno tuo factū non vidimus? ubi Calix per summum sacrilegium usurpatur? And agayn: vellem autem unam mihi terram aliquam