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Certain letters, translated into English, being first written in Latin. Two, by the reverend…Certayne letters, translated into English, being first written in Latine. Two, by the reverend…
Certain letters, translated into English, being first written in Latin. Two, by the reverend and learned Mr. Francis Junius, divinity reader at Leiden in Holland. The other, by the exiled English Church, abiding for the present at Amsterdam in Holland. Together with the confession of faith prefixed: where upon the said letters were first writtenCertayne letters, translated into English, being first written in Latine. Two, by the reverend and learned Mr. Francis Iunius, divinitie reader at Leyden in Holland. The other, by the exiled English Church, abiding for the present at Amsterdam in Holland. Together with the confession of faith prefixed: where vpon the said letters were first written
Amsterdam : Printed, in the year. 1602Amsterdam : Printed, in the yeare. 1602
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
But to return to M. Beza again / in him there are many things (concerning our cause) to be carefully observed: first / that his private epistles he set forth in public: secondly / that in t•• he di• not dissemble / but freely and ingeniously declare his judgment of the estate of the Church of England: thirdly that yet he was n• busybody▪ or unwise which would clime into th•• seat / or by provoking that church made his cause the worse with good men etc. fourthly / if there were nothing else yet by this we may well think / that what you say of your self / is not the answer of the other brethren which are in any place in Churches and Universities: lastly that he should not have burst, if he had dissembled these things / nor yet while he wrote the godly and faithfully / was factious uncivil, or sowed any •a•es, but ha•e witness to the truth of the Gospel of Christ and did truly show that •e trod in the steps of the Apostle who writeth and testifieth thus of himself and of all the faithful servants of Christ / we cannot •o any thing against the truth, but for the truth. 2 Cor. 13.8 But these things by the way: Yet so as you may well consider with your self (beloved Brother) whether the things which here and there in your letter you seem to insinuate against us fall not upon the very head of that most godly man Mr. Beza by like right or rather indeed by like wrong. Of other like godly and learned […] we will not now speak: it shall suffice here to have mentioned him / alone. And where you seem to acknowledge for true Pastors the Prelates and Priests by them created (such as the English ministry is known to be) mind how well you have done this and how agreeably with the Spirit of God / which calleth such / Locusts, false Prophets, the whores merchants / &c. But touching that which you speak of Christ our Saviour how he brought judgment to victory, not by crying out and filling the streets with clamours, but by blowing softly upon the smoking flax and handling tenderly the bruised reed. This we do indeed most willingly acknowledge / and pray that we may always follow this his most sacred example. Nevertheless / this also must be remembered that Christ dealt after one manner with the weak (of whom here the speech is) after an other with the * Scribes and Pharisees and other the like sworn enemies of the truth: