Here, Right Worshipful Mr. Prolocutor, and ye the rest of the Commissioners, it may please you to understand, that I do not lean to these things only, which I have written in my former Answers and Confirmations, but that I have also for the proof of that I have spoken, ⟨p. 54⟩whatsoever Bertram, a man Learned, of sound and upright Judgment, and ever counted a Catholic for these Seven hundred years, until this our age, hath written. His Treatise, whosoever shall read and weigh, considering the time of the Writer, his Learning, Godliness of life, the Allegations of the Ancient Fathers, and his manifold and most grounded Arguments, I cannot (doubtless) but much marvel, if he have any fear of God at all, how he can with good Conscience speak against him in this matter of the Sacrament. This Bertram was the first that pulled me by the Ear, and that first brought me from the common Error of the Romish Church, and caused me to search more diligently and exactly both the Scriptures and the Writings of the old Ecclesiastical Fathers in this matter. And this I protest before the face of God, who knoweth that I lye not in the things I now speak.
Here, Right Worshipful Mr. Prolocutor, and ye the rest of the Commissioners, it may please you to understand, that I do not lean to these things only, which I have written in my former Answers and Confirmations, but that I have also for the proof of that I have spoken, ⟨p. 54⟩whatsoever Bertram, a man Learned, of sound and upright Judgment, and ever counted a Catholick for these Seven hundred years, until this our age, hath written. His Treatise, whosoever shall read and weigh, considering the time of the Writer, his Learning, Godliness of life, the Allegations of the Ancient Fathers, and his manifold and most grounded Arguments, I cannot (doubtless) but much marvel, if he have any fear of God at all, how he can with good Conscience speak against him in this matter of the Sacrament. This Bertram was the first that pulled me by the Ear, and that first brought me from the common Error of the Romish Church, and caused me to search more diligently and exactly both the Scriptures and the Writings of the old Ecclesiastical Fathers in this matter. And this I protest before the face of God, who knoweth that I lye not in the things I now speak.
