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My distinction of the whole Church, & some Churches, is as clear as the day: & it is to be observed, that whereas in it resteth the sum of this your second Chapter, and you are desirous to have it removed, yet you bring nothing once to stir it. That S. James hath been doubted of in such sort, as Judith, Maccabees, the counterfeit Esther, (for the right Esther we embrace) is proved already false: and that our own doctors refuse it, is an other untruth. For were it, as you say, of that conference, yet is it but one single mans sentence, and that by way of arguing.

My distinction of the wholl Church, & some Churhes, is as cleare as the day: & it is to be obserued, that whereas in it resteth the summe of this your second Chapter, and you are desirous to haue it remooued, yet you bring nothing once to stirre it. That S. Iames hath bene douted of in such sorte, as Iudith, Macchabees, the counterfaite Hester, (for the right Hester we embrace) is prooued alreadie false: and that our owne doctours refuse it, is an other vntrueth. For were it, as you saie, of that conference, yet is it but one single mans sentence, and that by waie of arguing.

Thirdly, you descant upon Been habet, It is well, ¹but so simply and fondly, that every one may see you are a trifler. It is well, I said, that Campian could not charge Luther, for denying a book, which never any Church denied, but for denying such a one, as had been heretofore by some ⟨p. 37⟩Churches denied. And although I seek not herein to defend either Luther, or those ancient Churches that refused the same, yet is Luther's offence not so heinous, as it should have been, if this had first proceeded of him-self, without example of other Churches. If you will burden us with refusal of S. Luke his Gospel, the known trueth will easily acquit us of that accusation. But nothing can be so falsely surmised, that you will not find in your hearts to burden us withal. As for Atheism, I doubt not but your own conscience doth tell you, our doctrine is far from it: which when you forsook, I will not say, how near you approached to Atheism, in yielding to the strawn opinions at Rome, but I am assured, you went from Christ, to follow Antichrist: and of a minister of the Gospel, became an open enemy of the Gospel. If you repent not, it had bin better for you never to have been borne.