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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.
¶ Sarum
The people must needs think •m what of your silence, and mistrust your doctrine, if it shall appear to have no manner of ground, neither of y• counsels, nor of the doctors, nor of the Scriptures, nor any one allowed example of the Primitive church, to stand upon. And so your fifteen hundred years, with the consent of antiquity, and generality, shall come to nothing.
THe people must needes thinke •m what of your silence, and mistrust your doctrine, if it shall appeare to haue no manner of ground, neither of y• counsels, nor of the doctours, nor of the Scriptures, nor any one allowed exāple of the Primitiue church, to stand vpon. And so your fyftene hūdred yeres, whith the consent of antiquity, and gene•ality, shall come to nothing.