And he, if our things here below arrive him where he is, does not repent him to see that point of knowledge which he first, and with an unche•t freedom preached to those more knowing times of England, now found so necessary, though what he admonished were lost out of ⟨image 7⟩our memory, yet that God doth now again create the same doctrine in another un• table, and raises it up immediately out of his pure oracle to the convincement of […] perverse age, eager in the reformation of names and ceremonies, but i• real•ies as traditional and as ignorant as their forefathers. I would ask now the foremost of my profound accusers, whether they dare affirm that to be licentious, new and dangerous, which Martin Bucer so often, and so urgently avouched to be most lawful, most necessary, and most Christian, without the lest blemish to his good name, among all the worthy men of that age, and since, who testify so highly of him? If they dare, they must then set up an arrogance of their own against all those Churches and Saints who honoured him without this exception: If they dare not, how can they now make that licentious doctrine in another, which was never blamed, or confuted in Bucer, or in Fagius? The truth is, there will be due to them for this their unadvised rashness, the best donative that can be given them, I mean, a round reproof; now that where they thought to be most Magisterial, they have displayed their own want, both of reading, and of judgement. First, to be so unacquainted in the writings of Bucer, which are so obvious and so useful in their own faculty; next, to be so caught in a prejudicating weakness, as to condemn that for lewd, which (whether they knew or not) these elect servants of Christ commended for lawful; and for new, that which was taught by these almost the first and greatest authors of reformation, who were never taxed for so teaching; and dedicated without scruple to a royal pair of the first reforming Kings in Christendom, and confessed in the public confession of a most orthodoxall Church & state in Germany. This is also another fault which I must tell them;
And he, if our things heer below arrive him where he is, does not rep•nt him to see that point of knowledge which he first, and with an unche•t freedom preacht to those more knowing times of England, now found so necessary, though what he admonisht were lost out of ⟨image 7⟩our memory, yet that God doth now again create the same doctrin in another un• table, and raises it up immediatly out of his pure oracle to the convincement of 〈…〉 p•rvers age, eager in the reformation of names and ceremonies, but i• real•ies as traditional and as ignorant as their forefathers. I would ask now the foremost of my profound accusers, whether they dare affirm that to be lic•ntious, new and dangerous, which Martin Bucer so often, and so urgently avoucht to be most lawfull, most necessary, and most Christian, without the lest blemish to his good name, among all the worthy men of that age, and since, who testifie so highly of him? If they dare, they must then set up an arrogance of their own against all those Churches and Saints who honour'd him without this exception: If they dare not, how can they now make that licentious doctrin in another, which was never blam'd, or confuted in Bucer, or in Fagius? The truth is, there will be due to them for this their unadvised rashnes, the best donative that can be giv'n them, I mean, a round reproof; now that where they thought to be most Magisterial, they have display'd their own want, both of reading, and of judgement. First, to be so unacquainted in the writings of Bucer, which are so obvious and so usefull in their own faculty; next, to be so caught in a prejudicating weaknes, as to condemn that for lewd, which (whether they knew or not) these elect servants of Christ commended for lawfull; and for new, that which was taught by these almost the first and greatest authors of reformation, who were never taxt for so teaching; and dedicated without scruple to a royall pair of the first reforming Kings in Christendom, and confest in the public confession of a most orthodoxall Church & state in Germany. This is also another fault which I must tell them;
