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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.
For my promise was, and that openly, here before you all. That if any man were able, to prove the contrary, I would yield, and subscribe to him. And he should ⟨image 165⟩depart with the victory. Loth I am to trouble you, with rehearsal of such things, as I have spoken afore, and yet, because the case so requireth, I shall desire you that have already heard me, to bear y• more with me in this behalf. Better it were, to trouble your ears with twice hearing of one thing, then to betray the truth of God.
For my promise was, and that openly, here before you all. That if anye man were able, to proue the contrary, I woulde yelde, and subscribe to hym. And he shoulde ⟨image 165⟩depart with the victorye. Loth I am to trouble you, with rehersall of suche thinges, as I haue spokē afore, and yet, because the case so requireth, I shall desire you that haue alredy hearde me, to beare y• more with me in this behalf. Better it were, to trouble your eares with twyse hearing of one thyng, then to betray the truth of God.
The words, that I then spake, as near as I can call them to mind, were these. If any learned man of all our adversaries, or if all the learned men that be alive be able to bring, any one sufficient sentence, out of any old catholic doctor, or father: Or out of any old general council: Or out of y• holy scriptures of God: Or any one example of the primitive Church, whereby it may be clearly & plainly ⟨p. 163⟩proved, that there was any private mass in the whole world at that time, for the space of six hundred years after Christ: Or that there was then any Communion ministered unto the people under one kind: Or that, the people had th•r common prayers then in a strange tongue, that they understood not: Or that, the Bishop of Rome was then called, an universal Bishop, or the head of y universal church: Or that, y people was then taught to believe that Christs body is really, substantially, corporally, carnally or naturally in the sacrament: Or that, his body is or may be in a thousand places, or mo, at one time: Or that, the priest did then hold up the sacrament over his head: Or that, the people did then fall down and worship it with