I answer that * Doeg / when he said that David came to Abimelech / said 1nothing but truth / and when they that witnessed against Christ / that he said / * destroy the temple / and in three days I will build it up again / said nothing 2but that our saviour Christ said: But yet Doeg was a slanderer / and the other false witnesses: because the one spake it of mind to hurt / & the other understood it of an other temple then our saviour Christ meant it. So although you do in part rehearse their words / yet taking them contrary to their meaning (which might easily appear by the circumstances) I see not how you can be free from these faults / unless it be done ignorantly / which I wish were true for your own sake. And here I will desire thee (gentle reader) to mark with what conscience this man saith / that they are joined and confederate with papists against the church. The papists mislike of the book of common prayer / for nothing else / ⟨p. 20⟩but because it swerveth from their mass book / and is not in all points like unto it. And these men mislike it / for nothing else / but because it hath too much likelihood unto it. And judge whether they be more joined with the papists / which would have no communion nor fellowship with them / neither in ceremonies / nor doctrine / nor government / or they / which forsaking their doctrine / retain part of their ceremonies / and almost their whole government: that is / they that separate them selves by three walls / or by one: they that would be parted by the broad sea from them / or which would be divided by narrow water / where they may make a bridge / to come in again / and displace the truth of the gospel / as they have done in times past: They that would not only unhorse the Pope / but also take away the stirrups / whereby he should never get into the saddle again / or they which being content with that that he is unhorsed / leave his ceremonies & his government especially / as stirrups / whereby he may leap up again / when as occasion serveth: They that are content / only to have cut the arms and body of the tree of antichristianitie / or they which would have stump and root all up.
I answer that * Doeg / when he sayd that Dauid came to Abimelech / said 1nothing but truth / and when they that witnessed against Christe / that he sayde / * destroy the temple / and in three dayes I will build it vp againe / sayde nothing 2but that our sauior Christ sayd: But yet Doeg was a slaunderer / and the other false witnesses: because the one spake it of minde to hurt / & the other vnderstode it of an other temple then oure sauioure Christ ment it. So although you doe in parte rehearse their wordes / yet taking them contrary to their meaning (whych myght easely appeare by the circumstances) I see not howe you can be free from these faultes / vnles it be done ignorantly / whych I wishe were true for your owne sake. And here I wil desire thee (gentle reader) to marke with what conscience this man sayth / that they are ioyned and confederate with papists against the church. The papistes mislyke of the boke of common prayer / for nothing els / ⟨p. 20⟩but because it swarueth from their masse boke / and is not in all poynts like vnto it. And these men mislike it / for nothyng els / but because it hath too much likelyhode vnto it. And iudge whether they be more ioyned wyth the papists / whych would haue no communion nor felowship wyth them / neither in ceremonies / nor doctrine / nor gouernment / or they / whych forsaking their doctrine / retaine parte of their ceremonies / and almost their whole gouernment: that is / they that seperate them selues by three walles / or by one: they that would be parted by ye brode sea from them / or which would be deuided by narowe water / where they may make a bridge / to come in againe / and displace the truthe of the gospell / as they haue done in times past: They that would not only vnhorse the Pope / but also take away the stirrops / whereby he should neuer get into the saddle agayne / or they which being content wyth that that he is vnhorsed / leaue his ceremonies & hys gouernment especially / as stirrops / whereby he may leape vp againe / when as occasion serueth: They that are content / only to haue cut the armes and body of the tree of antichristianitie / or they which wold haue stumpe and roote all vp.
- 1Psal. 52. 1.
- 2Math. 26. 61.
