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…

Thus ye would seem to follow S. Ambrose, and yet allege him in such places, where your self most of all vary from him. But perhaps your mind was occupied, or ye had not thē leisure to mark him better.

Thus ye would seme to folow S. Ambrose, and yet alledge hym in suche places, where youre selfe moste of all varye from hym. But perhaps your mind was occupied, or ye had not thē leysure to marke hym better.

Hitherto, I think we agree, that touching such things as have been ordained by men, we are not bound of necessity to the order of yt Primitive church.

Hetherto, I thinke we agree, yt touchīg such things as haue been ordeyned by men, we are not boūd of necessity to the order of yt Primitiue church.

But of the other part. I say, that such things as God […] commaū dead precisely by his word, may never ⟨p. 109⟩be broken by any custom, or consent And such be the things that we now require at your hands, not devised by men, but commaū dead by God to last for ever. Onlesse ye will haply say, as Montanus did, that God hath revealed both mo things, and also better things unto you, then ever he did unto his Apostles: or else, as Manicheus said, that the Apostle saw nothing, but only in speculo, & in aenigmate: or as your doctor Sylvester Prierias saith, Indulgentiae non habent authoritatem ex verbo Dei, sed habent authoritatem ab Ecclesia Romana, quia maior est. Pardons, sayth he, have no ground of gods word, but they have their ground of the church of Rome, which is a great deal more. The cup which ye have taken from the people, ⟨image 112⟩