An apologetical reply to a book called an answer to the unjust complaint of…An apologeticall reply to a booke called an ansvver to the unjust complaint of…

To the second. It is no wrong to the Answerer, nor to the Church that I say so.

First, Not to the Answerer. For the report is, neither untrue, nor needlessly made, but, upon constraint, to declare so much for the clearing of mine own innocency. Nor doth he, nor can he disprove any thing spoken by me, in that particular.

First, Not to the Answerer. For the report is, neither untrue, nor needlesly made, but, upon constraint, to declare so much for the clearing of myne owne innocency. Nor doth he, nor can he disprove any thing spoken by me, in that particular.

Secondly not to the Church. For: neither do I speak of the body of it, indefinitely, without exception (but of the better and most considerable part of it) nor doth my speech argue them (of whom it is spoken) to be of a Schismatical disposition. For the clearing whereof (because the word Schism is so frequently used,¹ and misapplied by the Answerer) we will briefly consider the ordinary uses of the word Schism, in the Church, which signifieth, §11. sometimes such a voluntary and unjust secession from the Church,² whereby the Unity of it is broken. §22. sometimes such a dissension in the Church, whereby, not the Unity,³ but the peace is broken: In which of these senses doth the Answerer use the word in this place? If in the latter; they are Schismatics (according to the judgment of the Apostle) who cause division and offences.