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An answer made the fourth day of September a thousand five hundred sixty [and]…Ane answer made the fourth day of Septembre a thousand fyue hundreth syxtie [and]…
An answer made the fourth day of September a thousand five hundred sixty [and] one, by maister Theodore de Besza minister of the holy Evangel, in the presence of the queen mother, the king and queen of Navarre, the princes of the blood royal, and of the privy counsel, unto that which the cardinal of Lorraine had replied against that which was propounded in the first journey of their talking together, by the said de Besza in the name of the reformed churches. Together with an other short answer made by the said de Besza the 26 day of the said month unto certain articles of reply set forth by the said cardinalAne answer made the fourth day of Septembre a thousand fyue hundreth syxtie [and] one, by maister Theodore de Besza minister of the holie Euangile, in the presence of the quene mother, the king and quene of Nauarre, the princes of the blood royall, and of the priuie counseil, vnto that whiche the cardinall of Lorraine had replied against that whiche was propounded in the first iourney of their talking together, by the said de Besza in the name of the reformed churches. Together with an other short answer made by the said de Besza the 26 day of the said moneth vnto certein articles of replie set forth by the said cardinall
Edinburgh: printed by Robert Lekprewik, 1562
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Thus we see that it came pass in Israel in the time of Elijah and in the time of the captivity of Babylon & in the time of the cumming of Jesus Christ, when as scarcely ⟨image 28⟩was there found a Zechariah an Elizabeth, a Joseph, a Virgin Mary, a Simeon, and an Anna the Prophetess,1 which had a understanding of the fulfilling of the Prophets, amongest so great corruptions of Scribes, Pharisees and Sadducees. Such interruptions therefore in the Church of God proceeding and coming of the iniquity of men, be as a storm or cloudy weather, which afterwards he causeth to vanish away with the brightness of his word as it pleaseth him, and according as he distributeth the secretes of his judgements and of mercies. Are we willing likewise thus to condemn the ancient Councils? God forbid. For as ye your selves know right well that if it were in question to be ruled by them ye should change mo things then we: ⟨image 28⟩ye have travelled therein these days past, but we require that the Scripture be the touch stone for to examine all that is done and said in the Church. If this seem strange I pray you my Lords to consider this most renowned place of Saint Augustine writing unto Maximin Arian in the second book. chapter 14 Is there any general Council more authorised then the first, called the Council of Niece?2 And what is the Council of Arimin? A Council rejected and condemned & that worthily. And whereof disputeth S. Augustine? Even of a principal article of the belief, that which had been before that often times fully resolved, to wit of the Consubstantiality of the Son of God. in this mean season ye may see that S. Augustine witnesseth that for his part ⟨image 29⟩he is not astricted nether to the Coū cell of Niece nor yet to the Council of Arimin:3 but that he will fight with the Scriptures, which be, sayeth he, common witnesses unto both parties. If any body will against this allege the obscurity of the Scriptures, we must needs confess that which S. Paul sayeth: that the natural man knoweth not those things that be of God,