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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 if it were taken for no heresy, as ye say it was not, then was your Council to much to blame that gave so cruel sentence against the people of Bohemia, for that they thought it necessary to use both kinds, according to the institution of Christ, and pronounced thus against them: Tanquam Haeretici arcendi sunt. For yf they take them for no heretics▪ they did them great wrong to punish ⟨image 87⟩them as heretics. And yet is your doctor […] to much to blame, to condemn any thing for heresy, without any word of God, and specially without the authority of any old doctor, or any general council.
And if it were taken for no heresye, as ye saye it was not, then was your Councell to muche to blame that gaue so cruell sentence againste the people of Bohema, for that they thought it necessary to vse both kindes, accordingee to the institucion of Christ, and pronounced thus against them: Tanquam Haeretici arcendi sunt. For yf they take them for no heretikes▪ they did them great wrong to punishe ⟨image 87⟩them as heretikes. And yet is your doctour 〈…〉 to muche to blame, to condemne any thing for heresy, without any word of God, and speciallye without the authority of any olde doctor, or any generall councell.
Ye ask me what text I can bring forth wherein Christ commanded that the communion should be received under both kinds. The institution of Christ, and his commandment thereunto annexed, as me thinketh, is text good i•ought to him that will be ruled by Christ. I will not ask ye, what text ye can bring wherein Christ hath commanded you to minister the communion in one kind. But this only would I know, what text ye can bring where by a Priest ministering the Sacrament, is commanded ⟨p. 87⟩