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Now, saith Master Rainolds, if these serve not,¹ a man would think their martyrs testimony should be irrefragable. And think you then the argument to be so sure and necessary, that is drawn from authority of a martyr? will you grant this reason to be invincible, A martyr hath said it, therefore it is true? what say you then of Cyprian the martyr, of Justinus the martyr, of Irenaeus the martyr, who notwithstanding their blessed martyrdom, are known to have maintained opinions against the trueth? If martyrs then may have their errors, how may the testimony of martyrs be always irrefragable? you see (good readers) how pithy a disputer this man doth show him-self to be. If his loose rhetoric helped him not a little better, then his logic, he were in very weak and miserable case.

Now, saith Master Rainolds, if these serue not,¹ a man woulde thinke their martyrs testimonie should be irrefragable. And thinke you then the argument to be so sure and necessarie, that is drawen from authoritie of a martyr? will you graunt this reason to be inuincible, A marttr hath saide it, therefore it is true? what say you then of Cyprian the martyr, of Iustinus the martyr, of Irenaeus the martyr, who notwitstanding their blessed martyrdome, are knowne to haue maintained opinions against the trueth? If martyrs then may haue their errours, how may the testimonie of martyrs be alwaies irrefragable? you see (good readers) how pithie a disputer this man doth shewe him-selfe to be. If his loose rhetorike helped him not a litle better, then his logike, he were in verie weake and miserable case.

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Lastly concerning whole Churches reformed,¹ what can you, Master Rainolds, conclude against us? In matter of discipline great difference heretofore hath been amongst the Churches East and West, Greek and Latin. If then some such be in our reformed Churches, can you thereof truly gather, that therefore they are not the Churches of Christ? Tell us what you