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

quhilk was, that God him self should judge betwixt him and them, as that he did be fire from the heaven.

quhilk was, that God him self should iudge betuix him and thē, as that he did be fyre from the heauen.

This privilege crave we to be granted to us of the Papists in our days: to wit, that they suffer God to Judge betwixt our Religion and theirs: What he approveth, let it be approven of both, and what be him is not commanded, nor be the Apostles of Jesus Christ established and practised, let it be of both rejected, and so shall we suddenly agree. But if that they will still cry, that we are Schismatics and Apostates, because we refuse to defile our selves with their abominations: We can not but appeal from their corrupt sentence to the uncorrupt Judge, of whose favours we are assuredly persuaded in y• point, because he hath said follow not the multitude in evil doing: and because that ⟨image 17⟩we find Kings, Prophets & people before us, to have done the self same thing in their days (and therefore to have been approved of God), which we in God's fear have done in our days. To wit, they have destroyed the monumentis of Idolatry, & have repressed the same externally be power and force, notwithstanding the antiquity thereof, & that great multitude adhered unto it. And this much for the multitude, and that which the multitude most commonly believeth. Now to the further reasons of the writer.

This priuiledge craue we to be granted to vs of the Papistes in our days: to wit, that they suffer God to Iudge betuix our Religioun and theirs: What he approueth, let it be approuen of bothe, and what be him is not commanded, nor be the Apostles of Iesus Christ established and practised, let it be of bothe reiected, and so shall we suddanelie aggre. But if that they will still cry, that we ar Schismatykes and Apostates, becaus we refuse to defyle our selues with their abhominationis: We cā not but appeale from their corrupt sentence to the vncorrupt Iudge, of whose fauoures we are assuredly perswaded in y point, becaus he hath said follow not the multitude in euill doing: and becaus that