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Why urge you these things so unjustly against this Church of Christ and all the members of it▪ which hath suffered mo afflictions of all sorts / mo reproaches imprisonments / losses / banishments deaths / then your self and divers other good men (yea though your troubles were ten times doubled) whose particular stories notwithstanding are written / published / and approved. But we will let these things pass: for neither do we like this course of aunting / disdaining winding away from the point in hand so often used by you in your letters unworthily: Neither do we deny but your afflictions were as you have related / heavy and to be lamented which also / if you continue faith full to the end / the Captain of our faith and beholder of our warfare will abundantly reward in the heavens even Jesus Christ / to whom we commit and commend this whole cause:

Why vrge you these thinges so vnjustly against this Church of Christ and all the members of it▪ which hath suffered mo afflictions of all sortes / mo reproches imprisonments / losses / banishments deathes / then your self and divers other good men (yea though your troubles were tē tymes doubled) whose particular storyes notwithstanding are wrytten / publyshed / and approved. But we will let these thinges passe: for neyther do we lyke this course of aunting / disdayning wynding away from the point in hand so often used by you in your letters vnworthely: Neyther do we deny but your aflictions were as you have related / heavy and to be lamented which also / if you contynew fayth full to the end / the Captaine of our faith and beholder of our warfare will abundantly reward in the heavens even Iesus Christ / to whome we commytt and commend this whole cause:

The Conclusion also hath ben debated before / And now what others think of our cause we refer to themselves either by silence to be insinuated / or other wise (as they think best) to be expressed. In the mean time we cannot omit M Bezaes modest and yet confident judgment: whose supposition, because it is, known to be of things most true and certain / it is all one as if it had b•n simply propounded. And thus to collect we are persuaded is neither to deal ll with good men / neither hath God, reason or the times ever taught it to be dangerous. Nay, this rather do all these teach us to be full of danger when as men are content to wink at the defection and remnants of Antichrist / and do not so much as by way of supposition bear witness to the truth of Christ against them / being called into question. And here (if you please) ponder with your self the first original of that Antichrist his growth his exaltation