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A short Reply unto M. Doctors brief answer / which he maketh to certain godly Admonitions and Exhortations / which he calleth pamphlets.

A short Replie vnto M. Doctors briefe answere / whych he maketh to certaine godly Admonitions and Exhortations / whych he calleth pamphletes.

Where the sayeth the authors of the admonition are not punished / or their book misliked / for that it telleth of the faults in the church / or of the since of men / but for that it maintaineth false doctrine / and for that they preferred ⟨p. 220⟩a libel: For the doctrine / it appeareth by that which is said / what it is. And if he would define what a libel were / it were easy to answer unto the other point. If he mean because it was preferred without any name unto it / how will he answer unto the example of the writer of the Epistle unto the Hebrews / which was a singular instrument / and did not subscribe his Epistle / wherein notwithstanding / he sharply rebuketh divers faults amongst them. And yet the writer to the Hebrews / was not the minister of Satan. And if he call it a libel / because it useth some sharper speeches / surely all men see that his book deserveth then to be called a Satire / having for tart words / bitter / and for one / twenty. But in what respect so ever he call it a libel / he accuseth not so much the authors of the admonition for preferring of it / as divers of the honourable house of Parliament / which did allow it. Where as master Doctor compareth us with the Pharisees / and sayeth we do all to be seen of men / and that we hold down our heads in the streets / and strain at a gnat / swallowing down a Camel / because they are in all mens knowledge / I will leave it to them to judge of the truth of those things. Where he sayeth we seldom / or never laugh / it is not therefore that we think that it is not lawful to laugh / but that the considerations of the calamities of other churches / and of the ruins of ours / with the heavy judgements of the Lord which hang over us / ought to turn our laughing into weeping / besides that a man may laugh / although he show not his teeth. And so Jerome in effect / answereth in an epistle which he wrote / where upon occasion that certain used the same accusation / that M. doctor doeth / he sayeth / because we do not laugh with open mouth / therefore we are counted sad.