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Whereas you conclude / that these contentions would be soon ended / if M. Calvins words were noted / here we will join with you / and will not refuse the judgement of M. Calvin / in any matter that we have in controversy with you. Which I speak not therefore because I would call the decision of controversies to men / and their words (which pertain only to God and to his word) but because I know his judgement in these things to be clean against you / and especially for that you would bear men in hand / that M. Calvin is on your side / and against us. And as for Peter Martyr / and Bucer / and Musculus / and Bullinger / Gualter / and Hemingius / and the rest of the late writers / by citing of whom you would give to understand / that they are against us in these matters / there is set down in the latter end of this book / their several judgements / of the most of these things which are in controversy: whereby it may appear / that if they have spoken one word against us / they have spoken two for us. And whereas they have written (as it is said and alleged in their private letters to their friends) against some of these causes / it may appear / that they have in their works published to the whole world / that they confirm the same causes. So y• if they wrote any such things / they shall be found not so much to have dissented from us / as from them selves: and therefore we appeal from them selves / unto them selves: and from their private notes and letters / to their public writings / as more authentical. You labour still in the fire / that is unprofitably / to bring M. Bucer his Epistle / to prove / that the church may order things / whereof there is no particular and expressed commandment / for there is none denieth it / neither is this saying / that all things are to be done in the church / according to the rule of the word of God / any thing repugnant unto this / that the church may ordain certain things / according to the word of God.

Wheras you conclude / that these contentions woulde be sone ended / if M. Caluins wordes were noted / heere we will ioyne with you / and will not refuse the iudgement of M. Caluin / in any matter that we haue in controuersy wt you. Which I speake not therfore because I would call the decision of controuersies to men / and their words (which pertaine only to God and to his worde) but because I know hys iudgement in these things to be cleane against you / and especially for that you would beare men in hand / that M. Caluin is on your side / and against vs. And as for Peter Martyr / and Bucer / and Musculus / and Bullinger / Gualter / and Hemingius / and the rest of the late wryters / by citing of whom you wold geue to vnderstand / that they are against vs in these matters / there is set downe in the latter end of this boke / their seuerall iudgements / of the most of these things whych are in controuersy: whereby it may appeare / that if they haue spoken one word against vs / they haue spoken two for vs. And wheras they haue wrytten (as it is sayde and alleaged in their priuate letters to their freendes) againste some of these causes / it may appeare / that they haue in their workes published to the whole world / that they confirme the same causes. So y if they wrote any such thyngs / they shall be founde not so much to haue dissented from vs / as from them selues: and therefore we appeale from them selues / vnto them selues: and from their priuate notes and letters / to their publike wrytings / as more autenticall. You labor still in the fire / that is vnprofitably / to bring M. Bucer hys Epistle / to proue / that the church may order things / wherof there is no particular and expressed commaundement / for there is none denieth it / neither is thys saying / that all things are to be done in the churche / according to the rule of the word of God / any thing repugnant vnto this / that the church may ordaine certaine thyngs / according to the word of God.