waies and let his keper take him away Thus endeth the .vij. parte of this tragedie The next daye in the morning bytyme the bishop sent one of his men vnto me to call me vp vnto his chappel to heare masse The bishops mā MAister Philpot wher be you Phil. Who is that calleth me B. man My lordes wil is you should ryse and come to heare masse Wil you come o no ▪ phil My stomake is not very good this morning you may tell my lord I am sicke After this the keper was sent to bring me to my lorde The keper Master Philpot you must ryse and come to my lorde Phil. I am at your cōmaundemēt master keper as sone as I can and goyng out of the prisone he asked me sayeng The keper Wil you go to masse phil My stomake is to rawe to disgest suche rawe meates of fleshe bloud and bone this morning After this my keper presented me to the bishop in his hall London Master Philpot I charge you to answere to suche articles as my chaplayne master Dee and my regester haue from me to obiecte against you go and answere them phil My lord Omnia iudicia debent esse publica Aliudgementes ought to be publike Therfore yf your lordship hath any thing to charge me lawfully withall let me be in iudgement lawfully and openly called and I wil answere according to my dewtie otherwise in corners I wil not London Thou art a folishe knaue I see wel Inough Thou shalt answere whether thou wilt or no go thy waies with them I saye Phil. I may wel goo with them at your lordships pleasure but I wil make thē no further answere then I haue sayd already London No wilt thou knaue Haue him away and set him in the stockes what folishe knaue Phil. In dede my lorde you handle me with others lyke foles and we must be cōtent to be made foles at your hādes stockes and violence is your byshoplyke almose You go about by force in corners to oppresse be ashamed that your doinges should cum to lyght God shortē your cruel kingdome for his mercyes sake And I was put by by into the stockes in an house alone seperate from my felowes God be praysed that he hath thought me worthy to suffer any thing for his names sake better it is to syt in the stocks of this world then to sytt in the stockes of a damnable conscience Marke here the proceding Ex officio The next daye after an houre before day the bishop sent for me agayne by the keper Keper MAster Philpot aryse you must come to my lord phil I wonder what my lord meaneth that he sendeth for me thus early I feare he will vse some vyolēce towardes me wherfore I praye you make him this answere that yf he sende for me by an order of lawe I will come and answere otherwise synce I am not of his diocese neyther he is myne ordinarie I wil not without I be vyolently constrayned come vnto him Keper I will goo tell my lord what answere you make and so he went away to the bishop and immediatly returned with two of the bishops men sayeng that I must come whether I would or no. Phil. If by violence any of you wil enforce me to goo then must I goo other wise I wil not and therwith one of thē toke me with force by the arme and led me vp vnto the bishoppes galerye Lond. What thou arte afolyshe knaue in dede thou wilt not come without thou be fett Phil. I am brought in dede my lorde by violence vnto you and your crueltye is such that I am afrayd to come before you I would your lordship would gētlie procede agaynst me by the lawe London I am blamed of the lords the bishopes for that I haue not dispatched thee er this And in faith I made sute to my lorde cardinal to al the conuocacion house that they would hear ye. And my lorde of Lincolne stode vp sayd that thou wert a frantike felowe a man that would haue the last word And they all haue blamed me because I haue brought the so often before the lordes openly and they saye it is meat and drinke to you to speake in an audience you glorye so of your selfe Wherfore I am commaunded to take a farther order with thee And in good faythe yf thou wilte not relent I will make no farther delaye Mary yf thou wilt be conformable I wil yet forgeue thee all that is paste And shalt haue no hurte for any thing that is alreadye sayd or done Phil. My lorde I haue answered you al ready in this behalfe what I wil do And as for the reporte of maister whyte bishop of Lincoln̄ I passe not who is knowē to be myne enemy for that I beyng archdeacon dyd excōmunicate him for preaching naughty doctrine If Christ my master were called a madde mā it is no maruel though you count me frātyke London Haddest not thou a pygge brought thee thother daye with a knyfe in it Wherfore was it I praye thee but to kyl thy selfe Or as it is told me mary and I am coūcelled to take hede of the to kyl me but I fear the not I trowe I am able to tread the vnder my fote do the best thou canst Phil. My lorde I can not denye that there was a knyfe in the prgges belye that was brought me But who put him in or for what purpose I knowe not onles it were bicause he that sent the meat thought I was without a knyfe so put him in But other thinges your lordship nedeth not to feare for I was neuer without a knyfe synce I came into prison And touching your owne person you should lyue long yf you should lyue vntyl I would go about to kyl you And I confesse by violence your lordship is hable to ouercōme me London I charge the answer to myne articles Hold him a boke Thou shalt sweare to answere truly to al such articles as I shal demaunde thee of Phil. I wil first knowe your lordship to be myne ordinarie before I sweare herin London What we shal haue an Anabaptist of thee which thinketh it not lawfull to sweare before a Iudge Phil. My lorde I am no Anabaptist I thinke it lawful to sweare before a cōpetent Iudge beyng lawfully required But I refuse to sweare in these causes before your lordship bicause you are not myne ordinarie London I am thyne ordinarie here do pronounce by sentence interrogatory that I am thyne ordinarie and that thou art of my dioces and here he bad cal in mo to beare witnes And I make thee taking one of his seruaūtes by the arme to be my notary And nowe harkē to my articles to the which whē he had red them he monished me to make answer And said to the keper fet me his felowes I wil make thē to be witnes against him In the meane while cam in one of the sherifs of Lōdō whō
the sacrament bothe to be a signe and the thing it selfe when it is duely ministred after the institution of Christ London You maye se howe he goeth about the bushe as he hath done before with my lordes of the clergie and dare not vtter his mynde playnly Ryche Shewe vs what maner of presence you alowe in the sacrament Phil. Yf it shal please you my lorde of London to geue my leaue to procede orderly therunto and to let me declare my mynde wtout interruption I wil throughly open my mynde therin L. Shand. I pray you my lorde let him speake his mynde Phil. My lordes that at the first I haue not playnly declared my iudgement vnto you is this bicause I can not speake herof without the daunger of my lyfe Ryche Ther is none of vs here that seketh thy lyfe or meane to take any auauntage of that thou shalt speake Phil. Although I mistrust not your honourable lordshippes that be here of the temporaltie yet here is one that fytteth against me appointing to my lorde of London that wil laye it to my charge euen to the death Notwithstandyng seyng your honours do require me to declare my mynde of the presence of Christ in the sacrament that ye maye perceyue that I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ neither do mayntayne any opinion without probable and sufficient autoritie of the scripture I wil shewe frankly my mynde without al colour what so euer shal ensewe vnto me therfore so that my lorde of London wyll not let me to vtter my mynde Ryche My lorde permit hym to saye what he can seyng he is willyng to shewe his mynde London I am cōtent my lordes let him saye what he can I wil heare him Phil. That which I do entend to speake vnto you right honourable lordes I do protest here first before God his Angels that I speake it not neither of vain-glorie neither of singularitie neither of wilful stubburnes but truly vpō a good conscience groūded on goddes worde against that which I dare not do for feare of dampnaciō which wil folowe that is done contrary to knowledge Neither do I disagre to the procedinges of this realme in religion for that I loue not the Quene whō I loue frō the bottō of my hart but because I ought to loue feare God in his worde more then man in his lawes Though I stande as I seme to do in this consideration and for none other By what thinges the cleargie deceaueth the hole realme as God I cal to witnesse There be two thinges principally by the which the cleargie at this daye dothe deceyue the hole realme That is the sacrament of the body and bloud of Christ and the name of the catholike churche the which bothe they do vsurpe hauing in dede none of them bothe And as touching their sacrament whych they terme of the Altar I saye nowe as I sayd in the conuocacion house that it is not the sacrament of Christ neither in the same is ther any maner of Christes presence Wherfore they deceyue the Quenes maiestie and you of the nobilitie of this realme in making you to beleue that to be a sacrament which is none and cause you to commit manifest idolatrie inworshippyng that for God which ys no God And in testimony of thys to be true besydes manifest profe which I am hable to make to the Quenes maiestie and to al you of her nobilitie I wil yelde my lyfe The which to do yf yt were not vpō a sure grounde yt were to my vtter dāpnacion Note And where they take on them the name of the catholike churche wherby they blynde many folkes eyes they ar nothyng so callyng you frō the true religion which was reueled taught in kyng Edwardes tyme vnto vayne supersticiō And this I wil saye for the trial hereof that yf they can proue them selues to be the catholyke churche as they shal neuer be hable to do I wil neuer be against their doynges but reuoke al that I haue sayd And I shal desyre you my lordes to be meane for me to the Quenes maiestie that I maye be brought to the iust trial herof Yea I wil not refuse to stande agaynst tenne of the best of them in this realme And yf they be hable to proue that otherwyse then I haue sayd eyther by writyng or by reasonyng with good lawful authoritie I wil here promise to recant what so euer I haue sayd and to consent to them in al pointes And in the declaration of these thinges more at large which nowe I wryte in somme the bishop of London eftsones would haue interrupt me but the lordes procured me lybertie to make out my tale to the great grefe of my lorde bishop of London as it appeared by his dumpes he was in London It hath ben tolde me before that you loue to make a long tale Ryche All heretikes do boast of the spirite of God And euery one would haue a churche by him self as Iohn of Kent and the Anabaptistes I had my selfe Iohn of Kent a seuen nyght in my house after the wrytte was out for her to be burnt where my lorde of Cantorburye and bishop Rydley resorted almost daylye vnto her but she was so hyghe in the spirite that they could do nothyng with hir for al their lernyng But she went wilfullye vnto the fier was burnt so do you nowe Phil. As for Iohn of Kent she was a vayne woman I knewe her wel and an heretike in dede wel worthy to be burnt because she stode against one of the manifest artikles of our fayth contrarye to the scripture And suche vayne spirites be sone knowen from the true spirite of God and his churche for that the same abydeth within the lymittes of Goddes worde and wyll not go out of the same neither stubburnly mayntayne any thing contrarye to the worde as I haue Goddes worde throughly on my syde to shewe for that I stande in London I praye you howe wil you ioyne me these two scriptures together Pater maior me est Et pater ego vnum sumus I must interprete the same bycause my lordes here vnderstande no latyne that is to saye the father is greater thē I and I and the father are one But I crie you mercie my lordes I haue mispoken in sayng you vnderstande no latyne for the most parte of you vnderstande latyne as wel as I. But I spake in cōsideraciō of my lorde Shandois and maister Brydges hys brother whom I take to be no great latine men Now shew you your connyng and ioyne these twayne scriptures by the worde yf you can Phil. Yes that I can ryght well For we must vnderstand that in Christ there be two natures the diuinitie and humanitie And in respecte of his humanitie it is spoken of Christ the father is greater then I. But in respect of his deitie he sayd agayne the father and I be one London But what scripture haue you
is my hole desyre now to folow that which is good what soeuer I haue don in tymes past and to cleaue to Goddes truthe Duresme Do you so and then shal you do wel It is almost nyght my lorde of London I must nedes be gone London Nay my lorde of Duresme I must desire your lordship and my lord of Chichester to tary a lytle whyle And before he had so said the bishop of Bathe went his way wtout sayeÌ„g any worde What my lorde of Bathe wil you be gone I praye you tary My lordes I haue earnest maters to charge this man withal wherof I would your lordships to be made priuie And I haue them here written in a lybel I praye you syt downe agayne or els I wil. First I laye to him here that he hath written in a Bible which I toke from him this erroneous sayeng ê™ spiritus est vicarius Christi in terra wilt thou abyde by this sayeng of thyne that the spirite is Christes vicar on earth Phil. My lorde it is not my sayeng it is a better learned mans then myne For I vse not to wryt mine owne sayenges but the notable sayenges of other auncient wryters as al the other be where ye fynde the same wrytten And as I remember it is in the sayeng of S. Bernarde and a sayeng that I nede not to be ashamed of nether you to be offended as my lorde of Duresine my lorde of Chichester by their learning can discerne and wil not recken it euil sayd London No wil why take awaye the first sillable and it soundeth Arius phil That is farre fetched in dede yf your lordship wil scan mens sayengs in suche wise you may fynde out what you lyst London But to helpe this I fynde moreouer writteÌ„ with his owne haÌ„de in an other boke In me Ioanne Philpotto vbi abundauit peccatum superabundauit gratia That is in me IohnÌ„ Philpot wher synne did abound grace hath superabouÌ„ded I pray you what superabouÌ„daunt grace haue you more theÌ„ other men So said Arius that he had the aboundaunce of grace aboue al other phil My lorde you nede not to be offended with that sayeng more theÌ„ the other for it is the sayeng of S. Paule of hym selfe and I did applye it to my selfe for my comforte knowyng that though my synnes be huge and great in the syght of God yet is his mercye and grace aboue them all And coÌ„cerning Arius and his adherentes I defye them as it is wel knowen I haue written against them London Also I lay to thy charge that thou killedst thy father wast accursed of thy mother in her deathbed as I can bring witnes herof phil O lord what blasphemy is this hathe your lordship nothing of truth to charge me wtal but as I may speake it with your honours such forged blasphemous lyes If any of these caÌ„ be ê“ued I wil promis here to recant at Paules crosse what you wil haue me I am so sure they are as great blasphemies as may be obiected agaynst any man Ha my lordes I pray you considre how my lord of London hath hitherto proceded agaynst me For in dede he hath none other but such pretensed slauÌ„derous lies Chichest They be parorga That is maters besyde the purpose Dures My lord I must nedes bid you fare well London Nay my lord here is a letter which your lordship I shall desire to heare or you goo This man being in my keping hath taken vpon him to write letters out of prison and to peruerte a yong gentilman called Master Grene in my house cal him hyther and hath made a false report of his examinacion as you shall heare not being content to be euill him selfe but to make others as bad as him selfe he all to tare the letter when he sawe my man went about to searche him But yet I haue pieced it agayne together and caused a copy to be written therof and he read the torn letter bidding master Christo for soÌ„ and doctor Morgan to marke the copy therof The contentes of the letter was the examinacion of master Grene before the bishop of London in the presence of master Feknam Deane of Pauls and of dyuers others whose redy answeres in the scriptures and in the doctors was woÌ„dered at of the deane him self and of many others as master Feknam dyd report And that he was first committed to doctor Chadsey and after to doctor Dee the great coniurer and to haue his meate from the bishops owne table How say you my lords was this wel done of him being my prisoner to write this And yet he hath written as shamfully that he was in doctors Chadseys keping how say you maister doctor Chadsey is it not a shamfull lye Chad. Yes my lord he was neuer in my keping Lond. Art thou not ashamed to write suche shamfullyes come hither master Grene did not I shewe you this letter Grene. yea forsoth my lord you shewed it me London Howe thinke you my lordes Is not this an honest man to belye me to call my chaplayne a great coÌ„iurer my lord of Duresme smyled therat phil Your lordship dothe mystake all things this letter as your lordship may perceaue al other that haue herd the same was not wrytteÌ„ by me but by a freÌ„d of myne certyfyeÌ„g me at my request howe master Grene sped at my lord of LoÌ„doÌ„s haÌ„des there is nothiÌ„g in that letter the other I or he the wrote it nede to feare but that myght be wrytten as my reporte London Then tel me who wrote it if you dare phil No my lord it is not my deuty to accuse my frende specyally seyng you will take all thinges to the worst Nether you shal neuer knowe of me who wrote it Your lordship may se in the ende of the letter that my freÌ„d did wryte vnto me vpoÌ„ the occasion of my appeale which I haue made to the hole parlyament house about suche maters as I am wrongfully troubled for London I would see any so hardy to put vp thyne appeale Phil. My lord I caÌ„not tel what God wil worke I haue writteÌ„ it spede as it may London My lord I haue vsed him with muche gentilnes synce he cam to me howe sayst thou haue I not phil If to lye in the vilest prison in this towne being a gentilman and an archdiacon and in a cole house by the space of v. or vi wekes already without fyer or candel be to be counted gentilnes at your handes I must nedes say I haue fouÌ„de geÌ„tilnes But there were neuer meÌ„ so cruelly haÌ„dled as we are at these dayes London Lo what a varlet is this besydes this my lords euen yesterday he procured his man to bring him a bladder of blacke powder I cannot tel for what purpose I. phil Your lordship nedeth not to mistrust the mater it is nothing but to make ynke withall for lacke of ynke as I had it before in the kinges benche wheÌ„ my keper
phil And I was had into the wardrobe agayne by my keper and within an howre after was sent for to come before him and the bishops of Worcester and Bangor Lond. Syr I haue talked with you many tymes and haue caused you to be talked with all of many learned men yea and honourable bothe temporall and spirituall and yet it auayleth nothing with you I am blamed that I haue brought thee afore so many for they say thou gloryest to haue many to talke withal Well nowe it lieth the vpon to loke to thy selfe for thy tyme drawith nere to an ende yf thou be not become conformable And at this present we are sent from the synod to offer you this grace that yf you wil come to the vnitie of the churche of Rome with vs and acknowledged the reall presence of Christ in the sacrament of the altare with vs all that is past shal be forgeuen and you receyued to fauour worcest M. Philpot we are sent as you here haue heard by my lord of Londō frō the synod to offer you mercye yf you wil receiue it And of good will I beare you I wishe you to take it whiles it is offred and be not a singular man agaynst a hole multytude of learned men which nowe in fasting and prayer are gathered together to ymagyne thinges to do you good There haue many learned men talked with you why should you thinke your selfe better learned thā them all be not of suche arrogauncy but haue humilitie and remembre ther is no saluacion but in the churche Bangor Me thinketh my lord hath sayde wonderfully well vnto you that you should not thinke your selfe so well learned but other men are as wel learned as you neither of so good wyt but other be as wise as you neyther of so good memory but other haue as good memory as you Therfore mystrust your owne iudgement and come home to vs agayne Iwis I neuer lyked your religion bicause it was set further by violence and tyranny The same token proueth your religion false and that is no token of true religion And I was that same maner of man then that I am nowe and a great meany mo Mary for fear we held our peace and bare with the tyme wherfore M. Philpot I would you did wel for I loue you and therfore be cōtent to come home with vs agayne into the catholyke churche of Rome Phil. Where my lorde as I maye begynne first to answere you that you say that religion is to be misliked which is set forth by tyrāny I pray God you giue not men occasion to thinke the same by yours at this daye which hath none other argument to stande by but violēce Yf you can shewe me by any good sufficient grounde wherby to grounde my conscience that the churche of Rome is the true catholike churche whervnto you cal me I wil gladly be of the same otherwise I can not sone chaūge the religiō I haue learned these many yeres Bangor Where was your religion I pray you a hundred yeres ago that any man knewe of it Phil. It was in Germany in diuers other places apparent worcest Iesus wil you be stil so singular a man what is Germany to the hole worlde London My lordes I praye you geue me leaue to tell you that I sent for him to hear masse this morning and wote you what excuse be made vnto me for soth that he was accursed cursed allegyng his owne shame He playeth as that varlet Latimer dyd at Cambrige Harke how fyne my lorde is in dogges eloquence If he had come to mass he had ben cursed in dede when the vice Chaunceler sent for him who entended to haue excommunicated him for some of his he resies and the chaunceler was commyng to his chamber which as sone as he herde that the chaunceler was come made answer that he was sicke of the plague and so deluded the chaūceler euen so this man sayeth he is accursed because he will not come to masse worcest My Lorde I am sure here dothe behaue him selfe lyke a father vnto you therfore be admonished by hym and by vs that come now frendly vnto you and folowe your fathers before you phil It is forbidden vs of God by the prophet Ezechiel to folow our fathers ▪ neither to walke in their cōmaūdemēts worcest It is written also in an other place interroga patres aske of your fathers phil We ought to aske in dede our fathers that haue more experiēce knowlage then we of Goddes will but nomore to allowe them then we perceaue they agree with the scriptures worcest You wil be a contentious mā I see well and S. Paule sayeth that we neither the church of God haue no suche custome Phil. I am not contentious but for the veritie of my fayth in the which I ought to contende with al suche as do impugne the same without any iust obiection worces Let vs ryse my lorde for I see we shal do no good London Nay I praye you tary hear the articles I laye to his charge and after he had recited them they arose and afterwarde standing they reasoned with me a whyle worces M. Philpot I am very sorye that you wil be so singular I neuer talked with non yet of my diocese but after once cōmunicatiō had with me they haue ben cōtēted to reuoke their errours to teache the people howe they were deceaued and so do muche good as you may yf you list For as I vnderstande you were archdiacon of winchester which is the eye of the B. you may do much good in the coūtrey yf you would forsake your errours come to the catholyke churche phil Wher withal you so sone persuaded them to your will I see not Erroure that I knowe I holde none and of the catholike churche I am sure I am worces The Catholike churche doth acknowlege a real presence of Christ in the sacrament and so wil not you phil That is not so For I acknowlage a very essensial presence in the sacramēt duely vsed worces What a real presence Phil. Yea a reall presens by the spirite of God in the ryght administracion worces That is wel sayd and do you agree with the catholike churche also Phil. I do agre with the true catholike churche worcest My lorde of London this mā speaketh reasonably nowe London You do agree in generalties But when it shal come to the particularities you wil farre disagree worces Wel kepe your selfe here and you shal haue other learned bishops to common farther with you as my lord of Duresme my lorde of Chichester whome I heare say you do lyke wel Phil. I do lyke them as I do all other that speaketh the truthe I haue once already spoken with them they foūde no fault with me worcest Praye in the meane season for grace to God Phil. Prayer is the comfortablest exercise I feale in my trouble and my conscience is quiet and I
hable of himselfe to enriche thee with al felicitie Thou arte lyke them that be of the congregation of Laoditia mencioned in the Apocalips which sayeth with them that I am ryche and enryched and want nothing Apoca. 3. and knowest not in dede that thou art wretched and myserable both poore blind and bare I counsel thee therfore to bye fyrye golde of the deitie of our Christ that thou myghtest thorough true belefe wexe ryche and be clothed with his whit garmentes that the shame of thy nakednes myght not appeare as it doth now to thy great confusioÌ„ Yf thou se not this thou art one of them whome Christ for thyne infidelitie towardes him made blinde vnto euerlasting dampnacion These Arrianes would not be couÌ„ted myserable and they can not awaye with this godly prayer which the churche vseth saieng Lorde haue mercy vpoÌ„ vs myserable synners Rom. 7. But S. Paule was not ashamed to say miserable persone that I am who shal delyuer me from this body subiect to death He confesseth aswell our myserable as synfull state in this lyfe and they that perceaue the impuritie of our nature which it hath throughe the fall of Adam and the want of originall iustice which we lost by hym can not but crye we are miserable and saye with Dauid I am miserable and made croked I went al daye long sorowfully praye with the blynde man of the gospel Luke 18. Iesu the sonne of Dauid haue mercye vpon vs. What vayne religion is this of theirs What pharisaical leuen dothe they scatter abrode what lyeng hypocrisie do they maintaine But is this al no verely It were to long for me to touche their infinite errours they are infected withal they deny the olde testameÌ„t to be of any authoritie Dauid psalmes be not to be vsed as prayers and prayses to God and they are almost as bolde with the newe For they fynde fault with the Lordes prayer and affirme that they nede not saye for theÌ„ selues let thy kyngdome come for it is already come vpoÌ„ them And what nede we praye say they for that we haue alreadi And we haue no synne wherfore than should we saye forgeue vs our trespasses O impudeÌ„cy of al impudencyes the greatest O infidelitie more than euer was amoÌ„g the brutishe heathen Was ther euer any that went about to set God to scole before he hathe taught vs howe to praye and they saye we nede not so to pray The godly men saieth S. Peter 2. Pet. 1. which dyd write the scriptures spake not of theÌ„selues but by the instructioÌ„ of the holy Goost And these frantike heretikes and Antichristes will bothe correcte and teache the holy Goost to speake Who hauyng any spitte in his body may not thinke it wel bestowed vpon suche wicked blasphemours of God and his worde I woulde I had a fouÌ„tayne of spitle to spatle on them I woulde my spittle myght be of so great vertue against them as the wordes of S. Paule was agaiÌ„st Bariesu whom resysting the belefe of Christ Act. 13. he called the sonne of the deuill and therwith stroke him blynde Better it were for a man to lose his outwarde syght wherby corruptible thinges be only sene than to want the inwarde wherby God is perceyued And more precious is the glorie of my Christ in my syght than al the men of the world The blynde Pharisees I knowe wyll be offended at this my sayeng think it is vncharitably spoken but I passe not vpon their offence answering theÌ„ with Christ let them alone they are blynde the leaders of blynde he that is ignoraunt let him be ignorauÌ„t still and he that is fylthie let him be more filthye but he that is holy let him become more holy Apoc. 22. and beware of these pestiferous Arrians leauen who besydes al this deny the benefite of repentaunce to any persone that synneth after baptisme coÌ„trary to the manyfest worde of God Ezech. 13. sayeng that in what so euer houre a synner dothe repent him of his synnes they shal be forgiueÌ„ him Do ye not thiÌ„ke that these beastes are to be borne withal Say what ye wil they wil not heare they are lyke vnto those of whome it is written in the psalmes Psal 115. eyes they haue and see not eares they haue and hear not they haue noses and smel not yea they haue a frowarde hart and vnderstande not wheÌ„ the scriptures be so clearly alledged agaynst them that they haue not what to saye these be their folishe answers they can make you vnderstande it so you wil nedes haue it so Yf ye were of vs ye should perceyue more thaÌ„ ye do Thus vnder the pretence of a hyddeÌ„ secret which they saye is reueled vnto them aboue al other they would thorough curiositie haue meÌ„ to cal their faith in doubt so to denye the same But saye to them departe froÌ„ me you Sathans whelpes Take hede lest by any meanes it come to passe that lyke as the serpent deceaued Eue so by his sutteltie 2. Cor. 11. your sences be corrupted froÌ„ the simplicitie of fayth which ye haue towards Christ And yf any maÌ„ preache vnto you an other Iesus whome the churche of Christ hitherto hath not taught or an other spirite which the church hath not receiued Math. 24 hear him not beleue him not for suche Christ ê“phecied of to come in the latter dayes that should go about to shewe vs other Christes than he taught vs whom he chargeth vs not to credit Hebr. 13. for Iesus Christ as it is written is alwayes one yesterdaye and to day and shal be to the worldes ende and for euer Therfore do as saint Paule exhorteth you Gala. 1. Yf an Angel from heauen should preache vnto you any other Gospel besydes that which hath ben preached vnto you let it be accursed or yf any man preache any other holde hym accursed These be sufficient warninges for al true christiaÌ„s to beware of these late sproÌ„g heresies specially of these newe baptised Arrians who be more craftyer than the others and more dampnable and for that the diligeÌ„ter to be auoided If they will goo about to peruert you from the true faith in corners and dennes as they do very diligently as I heare say the more pity it is they be so suffred tell suche that the truth seketh no corners as the prouerbe teacheth vs. And therfore if they were of the truth they wolde not lurk in corners this loÌ„ge as they haue don Thapostles whose counterfaicted successours they would be counted to be after the truth of the gospel was reueled vnto them went furth and preached the same boldelie notwithstanding they were straightlie forbidden and persecuted for the same Euery one saith our saueour Christ that dothe wel cometh to the light that his workes may be seen that they be done according to Godes will Ioh. 3. but he which doth naughtely hateth the light and cometh not to the