An answer to a letter of a Jesuit named Tyrie, be John KnoxAn answer to a letter of a Iesuit named Tyrie, be Iohne Knox

OF late days, there came to our hands a Letter, direct unto you, right worshipful, from James Tyrie, who styleth him self your humble servitor & brother: The beginning whereof, showeth the care that he beiri• of your salvation, his charity, that hes moved him so oft to write unto you, and therewith covertly he accuses you, that he hes received no answer of his former: and yet that the same charity moveth him, still to continue in his former suit. In the progress of the said letter, he plainly furthshawis, what is his scope & purpose: to wit, to alien at your mind from the truth of God, now of God's great mercy, •fter long darkness, offered to this Realm. The purpose, as we suppose, wherefore ye send the same letter unto us, is, y• we may give solutions to they things that he objects against the truth. Which to do, were not very hard, provided that his dytement were sensible, and his argumentis formal and proper, to that which ⟨image 7⟩he would persuade. But because, in writing he appeareth to us, rather scabrously to have translated that which he writes forth of latin, or of sum other foreign tongue, then freely to have expressit his a win mind: And because that his argumentis, are not only impertinent, but also, so general, that in no wise they conclude that which h• would prove: Our answers must excid y measure of a missive: & yet, we shall avoid so far as we can, all unprofitable prolixity. But lest that any should think, that we deprave, either his dytement, or argumentis, we shall insert his hole letter, from parcel, to parcel: and give answer, to sic heads, as either are blasphemous against the truth of God, or yet, may be offensive to y wak conscience of men. In other things, […] all not be curious: his letter thus begins: