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Archb. Can you tell who is of this Church?

Cobh. Yea truly can I. Then a Prior said, it is doubt to you who is thereof: for Christ said noli judicare; if you must not judge your neighbours, much less your superiors. He answered, Christ saith in the same Chapter, As the ill tree is known by his ill fruits, so a false Prophet by his works. And he saith in John, Believe the outward doings. And again in John, Justum Judicium judicate: When we know the thing is true we may judge. And David saith, Recte judicate filii hominum. As for your superiority; were you of Christ you would be meek Ministers, and not proud superiors. Then Doctor Walden said, You make no differences of judgements: so swift Judges always are the learned Scholars of Wycliffe. He answered, your judgements are preposterous, as the Prophet Isaiah saith, ye judge ill good, and good ill: therefore your ways are not Gods ways, nor Gods ways your ways. Afore that virtuous man Wycliffe, whom you disdain, I will say before God and man; before I knew the despised doctrine of his, I never abstained from sin, but since I trust I have done otherwise: so much grace could I never find in all your glorious instructions. Doctor Walden answered, It were not well with me if so many learned and virtuous men, teaching the Scriptures, and the examples of the Fathers so plenteous, if I had no grace to amend until I heard the Devil preach. Hierome, saith, he which seeketh such suspected masters, shall not find the mid-day, but the mid-day Devil. He answered, the Pharisees your fathers ascribed Christs miracles to Beelzebub, and his doctrine to the Devil; and you, their natural children, have still the same judgement of his faithful followers: they that reprove your vicious living must needs be heretics, and when you cannot prove it by Scriptures, then your Doctors must prove it. Then said he to them all, to judge you we need go no further then your acts: Where find you in Gods law that you should thus sit in judgement, and sentence every man to death as you do here daily? You have no ground in Scripture but in Annas and Caiaphas, which sat thus upon Christ, and upon his Apostles after his ascension: you learned it not of Peter and John. A Lawyer said, yes sir, Christ judged Judas. He answered, no; Christ judged him not, he judged himself: