BY the favour of the Bishop of London (most worthy Prelate and my very good Lord) there was brought me one of your Apologies for the Church of England; which neither I nor any others hereabouts before had seen: It is true in your last Letter you rather intimated that it might come out, than signified that it should; but however it came not hither till about the middle of July. And from hence your Lordship may consider how much we suffer from the distance of places. It hath not only given me an entire satisfaction, who approve and am strangely pleased with all you do; but to Bullinger and his Sons, and Sons in Law: And it seems so very wise, admirable and elegant to Gualter and Wolphius, that they can put no end to their Commendations of it, as not thinking there hath been any thing printed in these times of so great a Perfection. I do infinitely congratulate this great felicity of your Parts, this excellent Edification of the Church, and the Honour you have done your Country, and I do most earnestly beseech you to go on in the same way; for tho we have a good Cause, yet the Defenders of it are few in comparison of its Enemies; and they now seem so awakened, that they have of late won much upon the ignorant Multitude, by the goodness of their Stile, and the subtlety of their Sophistry. I speak this of Staphylus and ⟨p. 55⟩Hosius, and some other Writers of that Party, who are now the stout Champions of the Papal Errors. But now you have by this your most elegant and learned Apology, raised such an hope in the minds of all good and learned men, that they generally promise themselves, that whilst you live, the reformed Religion shall never want an Advocate against its Enemies. And truly I am extremely glad, that I am so happy as to live to see that day which made you the Father of so illustrious and eloquent a Production. May the God of Heaven of his goodness grant that you may be blessed in time with many more such.
BY the favour of the Bishop of London (most worthy Prelate and my very good Lord) there was brought me one of your Apologies for the Church of England; which neither I nor any others hereabouts before had seen: It is true in your last Letter you rather intimated that it might come out, than signfied that it should; but however it came not hither till about the middle of July. And from hence your Lordship may consider how much we suffer from the distance of places. It hath not only given me an intire satisfaction, who approve and am strangely pleased with all you do; but to Bullinger and his Sons, and Sons in Law: And it seems so very wise, admirable and elegant to Gualter and Wolphius, that they can put no end to their Commendations of it, as not thinking there hath been any thing printed in these times of so great a Perfection. I do infinitely congratulate this great felicity of your Parts, this excellent Edification of the Church, and the Honour you have done your Country, and I do most earnestly beseech you to go on in the same way; for tho we have a good Cause, yet the Defenders of it are few in comparison of its Enemies; and they now seem so awakened, that they have of late won much upon the ignorant Multitude, by the goodness of their Stile, and the subtilty of their Sophistry. I speak this of Staphylus and ⟨p. 55⟩Hosius, and some other Writers of that Party, who are now the stout Champions of the Papal Errors. But now you have by this your most elegant and learned Apology, raised such an hope in the minds of all good and learned men, that they generally promise themselves, that whilst you live, the reformed Religion shall never want an Advocate against its Enemies. And truly I am extreamly glad, that I am so happy as to live to see that day which made you the Father of so illustrious and eloquent a Production. May the God of Heaven of his goodness grant that you may be blessed in time with many more such.
