A reply to an answer made of M. Doctor Whitgifte Against the admonition to…A replye to an ansvvere made of M. Doctor VVhitgifte Against the admonition to…

Now I will come to the examining of your witnesses / whereof some of them are so bored in the ears / and branded in their foreheads / that no man need to fear any credit they shall get before any judge wheresoever / or before whomsoever they come / but in the Romish court / and the papists only excepted. For to let go Polidore Virgil / because whatsoever he saith / he saith of the credit of another / let us come to Clement which is the author of this you speak. And what is he? is there any so blind that knoweth not that this was nothing less then Clement / of whom S. Paul speaketh / and which * some think was the ¹first bishop of Rome ordained by Peter / and not rather a wicked hellhound / into whom the Lord had sent satan to be a lying spirit in his mouth / to deceive them for their unthankful receiving of the gospel? And he must witness for the archbishop: a worthy witness. For as all that popish hierarchy came out of the bottomless pit of hell / so to uphold the archbishop the neck of it / whereupon that Romish monster standeth / are raised up from hell bastards / Clemens and Anacletus / and in deed as it may appear / the very natural sons of Satan / and the sworn soldiers of Antichrist.

Now I will come to the examining of your witnesses / whereof some of them are so bored in the eares / and branded in their foreheades / that no man neede to feare any credite they shall get before any iudge wheresoeuer / or before whomsoeuer they come / but in the Romishe courte / and the papistes only excepted. For to let go Polidore Virgil / because whatsoeuer hee sayth / hee sayth of the credite of another / lette vs come to Clement which is the author of this you speake. And what is he? is there any so blinde that knoweth not that this was nothing lesse then Clement / of whome S. Paule speaketh / and which * some thinke was the ¹first bishop of Rome ordayned by Peter / and not rather a wicked helhounde / into whom the Lord had sent sathan to be a lying spirit in his mouth / to deceiue them for their vnthankfull receiuing of the gospell? And he must witnesse for the archbishop: a worthy witnesse. For as all that popishe hierarchie came out of the bottomlesse pitte of hell / so to vpholde the archbishop the necke of it / whereupon that Romishe monster standeth / are raised vp from hell bastardes / Clemens and Anacletus / and in deede as it may appeare / the very naturall sonnes of Sathan / and the sworne souldiers of Antichrist.