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And for Gods sake, consider the event of this fact. For I pray you whom would it profit if that were done which ye desire? Certainly neither would it profit you nor them, nor these with whom ye sojourn, nor the Church of God. Contrariwise whom would it not hurt? This thing would set you more on fire:^“ as contentions are wont the more to make hot, the more they are stirred. It would more alienate them whom ye pretend to be to injuriously estranged from you: For this is not the way of teaching, nor of informing, nor of seeking reconciliation. It would rent asunder the good men whose hospitality ye do now commodiously use either from you, or amongst themselves (which duty they have not deserved of you by their hospitality,) It would set a more grievous fire on the whole Church, and spread through all her joints, which God turn away. And that^“ unwise man which should usurp this authority, it would make a scorn to ill tongues, while good men would pity his vain labour and your expectation. Lastly (that I may also add this, and mark brethren, how sincerely and brotherly I deal with you) albeit I might and would lawfully give sentence both of your faith which ye declare, and also of the fact of accusation which ye bend against your countrymen: Yet ye by this course and manner of dealing have taken from me the authority of doing that which ye require touching your fact; your selves by this manner of request do hinder your own desire. Ye will marvel perhaps at that which I say, and yet it is so. For you do so require my judgement as you do also with all require the judgement of all Universities and Students. If you request this in common; then you do not desire that I should do it alone: but if particularly, do you think that any of us will be so mad, that when the judgement of so many good men and diligence is desired, some one Palamon should take upon him the chiefest parts: and should by him self speak of that thing, which is required of so many as learned, yea better learned, and better furnished with pi••ie, judgement, and experience, which requireth a serious consultation, an holy communication, and a ripe inoffensive judgment.

And for Gods sake, consider the event of this fact. For I pray you whom would it profit if that were done which yee desire? Certainly neither would it profit you nor thē, nor these with whom ye soiourne, nor the Church of God. Contrariwise whom would it not hurt? This thing would set you more on fire: