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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 know what followeth, for §Nas truly as god is god, if ye would have vouchsafed to follow either y• scriptures, or y• ancient doctors, & Councils, ye would never have restored again the Supremacy of Rome after it was once abolished, or the private Mass, or the ⟨image 16⟩Communion under one kind▪ & […] ▪
You knowe what foloweth, for §Nas truely as god is god, if ye wold haue vouchsaued to folow either y• scriptures, or y• aunciēt doctours, & Councels, ye wolde neuer haue restored againe the Supremacye of Rome after it was once abolisshed, or the priuate Masse, or the ⟨image 16⟩Communion vnder one kinde▪ & 〈…〉 ▪
It giveth you that I should rest upon the negative, and […] put you to your proofs. Wherein notwithstanding ye allege against me the custom of the Schools, yet, ye know. Christ used the same §Okind of reasoning in his school. As when he said to the Pharisees, Hoc Abraham non fecit, thys thing Abraham never did. And again when he answered them in the •ase of matrimony, A p•incipio non fuit sic, it was not so from the beginning: he stood only upon the negative. herein if the Pharisees had ben able to […] but one affirmative, either that Abraham had done so: or that the law of divorce had been so from the beginning, Christ with his negative might soon have ben confounded.