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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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And there remaineth as yet one difficulty to be resolved,1 which lieth in this that many have thought that the will of God touching all that is requisite unto our salvation was not fully written by the Evangelists & Apostles. But if this might take place, I pray you my Lords, what a door should there be opened to set forth all manner of dreams and ravings, that men list? And in very deed we see that this haeth ⟨image 31⟩been the passage by which Satan haeth entered in, to waste the vine yard of the Lord, and yet deny we not,2 but that before Moses time, God governed his Church, by visions and revelations, and that the Apostles first planted the Churches with a lively voice before that their doctrine was written. But where fore is it that whiles,3 men grew greater in malice and mo in number, & contrary wise their lives growing shorter, that the Lord haeth willed that this doctrine should be enregistered in a common language to be understand of all? Haeth this been to encounter them that decor and deck their ravings and dreams with the title of traditions, revelations or of custom? Now if this doctrine be not written but in part, wherefore should this remedy ⟨image 31⟩serve then?4 Surely Saint John speaketh not so of the Scriptures, where he sayeth that the things that he haeth written be written to the end, that in believing that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, ye might have life, the which thing should be false, if there should be left out any doctrine necessary unto salvation. Saint Paul also declaring the use of the Scripture, where he would teach all the ministers of the Church of God, in the person of his faithful disciple Timothy,5 had not said that it maketh the man of God, that is to say the ministers of the word of God, or in especial if ye list, every faithful man to be in all points perfect, if it had been, needful to have added any thing that as yet was not written. And yet we doubt not but always there