An Answer to a Great Number of Blasphemous Cavillations

O the death of Seruetus your dear brother for whose deliverance your champion Castalio solemnly did pray, with whom, if once ye could have spoken, that kingdom, which ye hope for, had begun to be enlarged, his blood I say, with the blood of others, I think ye mean of your prophetess Joan of kent, do cry a vengeance in your ears, & hearts, that none other cause do you see of the shedding of the blood of those most constant martyrs of Christ Jesus, Thomas Cranmer, Nicholas Ridley Hugh latimer, John Hooper, John Rogers, John Bradford, and of others mo, But that God hath partly revenged their blood,¹ that is of your great prophet and prophetess, upon their persecutors, and hath served them with the same measure, with the which they served others, I appeal to the judgement, of all those that fear God, what is thy judgement, and the judgement of thy faction, of that glorious Gospel of Christ Jesus, which of late, hath been suppressed in England, what is thy judgement of those most valiant soldiers and most happy martyrs of Christ Jesus, upon whom, ô blasphemous ⟨p. 207⟩mouth thou sayest, God hath taken vengeance, which is an horrible blasphemy in the ears of all the godly, I will not now so much labour to confute by thy pen, as that my full purpose is to lay the same to thy charge if I shall apprehend the in any common wealth where justice against blasphemers may be ministered, as gods word requireth. And hereof I give the warning, lest that after thou shalt complain, that under the cloak of friendship, I have deceived thee. Thy manifest defection from God, and this thy open blasphemy, spoken against his eternal trueth and against such as most constantly did suffer, for testimony of the same, have so broken and dissolved all familiarity, which hath been betwixt us, that although thou were my natural brother I durst not conceal thy iniquity, in this case.

O the death of Seruetus your deare brother for whose deliuerāce your chāpion Castalio solēnely did praie, with whom, if once ye coulde haue spoken, that kingdome, which ye hope for, had begonne to be enlarged, his blood I saie, with the blood of others, I thinke ye meane of your prophetesse Ione of kent, do crie a vengeance in your eares, & heartes, that none other cause do you se of ye shedding of ye blood of those most cōstāt martyres of Christ Iesus, Thomas Crammer, Nicholas Redley Hugh latimer, Iohn Hooper, Iohn Rogers, Iohn Bradfurth, and of others mo, But that God hathe partly reuenged their blood,