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Certe[n] godly, learned, and comfortable conferences, between the two reverend fathers, and holy martyrs…Certe[n] godly, learned, and comfortable conferences, betwene the two reuerende fathers, and holye martyrs…
Certe[n] godly, learned, and comfortable conferences, between the two reverend fathers, and holy martyrs of Christ, D. Nicolas Ridley late Bishop of London, and M. Hugh Latimer sometime Bishop of Worcester, during the time of their imprisonments. Whereunto is added. A treatise against the error of transubstantiation, made by the said reverend father D. Nicolas Ridley. M.D.LVI.Certe[n] godly, learned, and comfortable conferences, betwene the two reuerende fathers, and holye martyrs of Christe, D. Nicolas Rydley late Bysshoppe of London, and M. Hughe Latymer sometyme Bysshoppe of Worcester, during the tyme of their emprysonmentes. Whereunto is added. A treatise agaynst the errour of transubstantiation, made by the sayd reuerende father D. Nicolas Rydley. M.D.LVI.
Strasbourg: printed by the heirs of W. Rihel, 1556
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1Where you say (I would wish? surely I would ⟨p. 31⟩wish / that you had spoken more vehemently / and to have said it is of necessity / that all things in the congregation should be done in the vulgar tongue / for the edifying and comfort of them that are present. Notwithstanding that the child it self is sufficiently baptised in the Latin tongue.
1Wher you saye (I wolde wisshe? surely I wolde ⟨p. 31⟩wisshe / that you hadde spoken more vehemently / and to haue sayed it is of necessitee / that all thinges in the congregation shulde be doone in the vulgare tounge / for thedyffyenge and cōforte of them that are presente. Nottwithstandinge that the childe it selfe is sufficientlye baptised in the Latin tounge.
- 1H. Laty.
Forasmuch as I perceive you are so stiffly / 1I will not say obstinately bent / and so wedded to your own opinion / that no gentle exhortations / no wholesome counsels / no other kind of means can call you home to a better mind: there remaineth / that which in like cases was wont to be the only remedy against stiff necked / and stubborn persons / that is / you must be hampered by the laws / and compelled either to obey whether ye will or no / or else to suffer that / which a rebel to the laws ought to suffer. Do you not know that whosoever refuseth to obey the laws of the realm / he bewrayeth himself to be an enemy to his country? Do you not know that this is the readiest way / to stir up sedition / and civil war? It is better that you should bear your own sin / then that through the example of your breach of the common laws / the common quiet should be disturbed. How can you say / you will be the Queen's true subject / when as you do openly profess / that you will not keep her laws?