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…

Many things confound the weak memory. A few places well weighed and perceived / lighteneth the understanding. Trueth is there to be searched with diligence / where it is certain to be had. Though God do speak the trueth by man / yet in mans word which God hath not revealed to be his / a man may doubt without mistrust in God. Christ is the truth of God / revealed unto man from heaven by God himself / and therefore in his word the trueth is to be found / which is to be embraced of all that be his. Christ biddeth us ask and we shall have / Search and we shall find / Knock and it shall be opened unto us. Therefore O heavenly father author and fountain of all truth / the bottomless Sea of all true understanding / send down we beseech thee thy holy spirit into our hearts / and lighten our understanding with the beams of thy heavenly grace. We ask the this O heavenly father not in respect of our deserts / but for thy dear Son our Saviour Jesus Christs ⟨p. 37⟩sake. Thou knowest O heavenly father / that the controversy about the Sacrament of the blessed body and blood of thy dear Son our Saviour Christ / hath troubled not of late only thy church of England / France / Germany / and Italy / but also many years ago. The fault is ours no doubt thereof / for we have deserved thy plague. But O Lord be merciful and relieve our misery / with some light of grace. Thou knowest O Lord how this wicked world rolleth up and down / and reeleth to and fro / and careth not what thy will is / so it may abide in wealth. If truth have wealth then who are so stout to defend the truth as they. But if Christs cross be laid on truths back / then they vanish straight away as wax before the fire.¹ But these are not they O heavenly father for whom I make my most moan / but for those silly ones O Lord / which have a Zeal unto thee / those I mean which would and wish to know thy will and yet are let / hold back / and blinded by the subtleties of Satan / and his ministers / the wickedness of this wretched world / and the sinful lusts and affections of the flesh. Alas Lord / thou knowest that we be of our selves but flesh / wherein there dwelleth nothing that is good. How then is it possible for man / without thee (O Lord) to understand thy truth in deed. Can the natural man perceive the will of God?²

MAnie thinges cōfounde the weake memorie. A fewe places well weighed ād perceiued / lightneth the vndstandinge. Trueth is there to bee searched with diligence / where it is certaine to be hadde. Though God do speake the trueth by man / yet in mannes worde which God hath not reueled to bee his / a man maie doubt without mistruste in God. Christ is the truth of God / reueiled vnto man from heauen by God himselfe / and therefore in his worde the trueth is to bee founde / whyche is to bee embraced of all that be his. Christe biddeth vs aske and wee shall haue / Searche and we shall finde / Knocke and it shal be opened vnto vs. Therfore O heauenly father autour and fountaine of all truth / the bottomeles Sea of al true vnderstanding / send doune wee beseche thee thy holye spirite into oure hartes / and lighten oure vnderstanding with the beames of thy heauenly grace. We aske the this O heauenlie father not in respect of our desertes / but for thy deare Sonne oure Sauiour Iesus Christes