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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.
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.
It geueth you that I shoulde rest vpon the negatiue, and 〈…〉 put you to your proufes. Wherin notwithstanding ye alleage against me the custome of the Schooles, yet, ye know. Christ vsed the same §Okinde of reasoning in his schoole. As whē he said to the Pharisees, Hoc Abraham non fecit, thys thyng Abraham neuer did. And agayne when he answeared them in the •ase of matrimonie, A p•incipio non fuit sic, it was not so from the beginning: he stode only vpon the negatiue. •herein if the Pharisies had ben able to 〈…〉 but one affir•atiue, eyther that Abraham had donne so: or that the lawe of diuorse had bene so from the beginninge, Christ wt hys negat•ue might sone haue ben confounded.
Even so when the Bishop of Constantinople had taken upon hi to be alled the universal bishop of the whole Church, which title after ward the Bishop of Rome began to […] to himself, & for the […] of the same had […] […] disquieted and shaken the […] world, but when the Bishop of Constantinople first began to use this stile, Gregory being then the Bishop of Rome confounded him