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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.
O merciful God, who would think, there could be so much wilfulness in the heart of man? O Gregory? O Augustine? O Hierome? O Chrysostom? O Leo? O Dionyse? O Anacletus? O sixtus? O Paul? O Christ? If we be deceived herein, ye are they y• have deceived us. You have taught us these scions, & divisions, ye have taught us these heresies.
O mercifull God, who woulde thynke, there coulde be so muche wilfulnes in the heart of man? O Gregorye? O Augustine? O Hierome? O Chrisostome? O Leo? O Dionyse? O Anacletus? O sixtus? O Paule? O Christ? If we be deceyued herein, ye are they y• haue deceyued vs. You haue taught vs these sci•nes, & diuisions, ye haue taught vs these heresies.
Thus ye ordered the holy communion in your time, the same w• ⟨p. 161⟩received at your hand, and have faithfully delivered it unto the people. And that ye may the more marvel, at the wilfulness of such men, they stand this day against so many old fathers, so many doctors, so many examples of the primitive church, so manifest, and so plain words of the holy scriptures, & yet have they herein, not one father, not one doctor, not one allowed example of the primitive church to make for them. And when I say, not one, I speak not this in vehemency of spirit, or heat of talk, but even, as before God, by the way of simplicity and truth, lest any of you should, haply, be deceived, and think, there is more weight in the other side, than, in conclusion, there shall be found. And therefore once again ⟨image 164⟩I say: of all the words of the holy scriptures: of all the examples of y• primitive church: of all the old fathers: of all the ancient doctors: in these causes they have not one.