VERY
WORTHY
AND
WELWISHED
FRIEND
.
Whereas
in
your
letter
which
I
last
receaued
,
you
desire
to
be
by
me
informed
of
the
present
state
of
thinges
touching
the
Palsgraue
,
or
Prince
Palatine
:
As
also
what
opinion
we
haue
in
these
parts
of
the
Match
between
England
&
Spayne
;
I
must
answere
you
that
I
dare
not
presume
to
extend
my
own
ignorance
so
farre
,
as
to
penetrate
into
the
depth
of
such
important
matter
,
or
so
to
deliuer
you
my
conceyt
,
as
that
thereon
you
might
settle
a
resolued
opinion
,
of
the
future
euent
.
But
if
you
will
be
pleased
to
vnderstand
what
I
heare
in
these
partes
,
where
speach
hath
more
freedome
then
in
England
,
and
that
therunto
I
may
a
little
adde
my
priuate
opinion
,
I
can
be
content
to
enthrall
vnto
you
my
thoughts
from
their
priuiledged
liberty
,
seeing
you
can
so
much
command
me
.
First
then
as
touching
the
Prince
Palatine
,
it
should
seeme
by
that
I
heare
,
and
the
sequell
of
thinges
thereunto
also
according
,
that
he
is
more
enclined
to
harken
vnto
the
directions
of
the
Hollanders
,
then
vnto
the
graue
aduice
of
our
King
his
Father-in
Law
,
vnto
whome
besides
obligation
of
affinity
,
he
ought
both
in
regard
of
Maiesty
,
as
also
of
Counsell
more
worthy
to
be
followed
,
to
haue
harkned
.
For
at
the
very
time
that
his
Maiesty
was
so
prouident
and
carefull
for
him
as
to
send
his
Embassadour
Sir
Richard
Weston
to
treate
with
the
Archduchesse
at
Bruxells
,
about
some
agreement
in
his
behalfe
,
then
did
the
Hollanders
as
more
powerfull
ouer
him
,
post
him
away
into
Germany
,
there
to
set
on
foot
actions
of
hostility
:
wherunto
he
obeyed
,
as
not
seeming
to
regard
the
prudent
course
intended
by
his
Father-in-Law
to
his
greater
good
,
but
endeauouring
to
satisfy
the
desires
of
those
who
care
not
whose
house
be
on
fire
,
so
they
may
warm
them
by
the
coales
.
Also
,
whereas
his
Maiesty
,
being
regardfull
of
iustice
and
equity
,
hath
shewed
his
dislike
of
this
Prince
his
great
errour
,
in
accepting
at
the
hands
of
Rebells
the
Bohemian
Crowne
,
which
appertayned
vnto
his
owne
soueraygne
Lord
the
Emperour
,
vnto
whome
he
being
a
subiect
,
it
maketh
the
case
so
much
the
more
dishonorable
and
vniust
;
and
notwithstanding
that
he
is
driuen
out
of
the
sayd
Kingdome
,
and
hath
lesse
reason
to
retaine
the
title
,
then
when
he
was
in
it
:
yet
the
Hollanders
still
giuing
it
him
(
vpon
hope
that
some
other
Crowne
may
befall
him
,
&
that
therfore
the
title
of
Kingly
dignity
shall
not
in
the
meane
tyme
leaue
him
)
his
ambitious
blindnes
is
pleased
to
retayne
it
,
and
perhaps
to
make
it
the
cause
of
his
totall
Ruyne
.
And
lastly
,
wheras
it
seemeth
that
eare
is
giuen
vnto
his
Maiestyes
desyre
about
a
Truce
,
or
perhaps
an
absolute
Peace
and
Reconciliation
,
betweene
the
sayd
Prince
and
the
Imperiall
Maiesty
,
to
the
accomplishment
whereof
there
ought
in
all
reason
to
follow
a
submission
from
the
inferiour
and
offending
syde
;
yet
appeareth
it
not
that
this
Prince
is
willing
to
relinquish
the
aforesayd
Tytle
,
and
to
yield
vnto
due
submission
,
by
humbly
asking
pardon
and
acknowledging
his
offence
,
but
rather
to
remayne
obstinate
,
and
follow
the
counsell
of
the
baggage
Hollanders
,
who
only
dispose
of
him
to
their
owne
endes
and
purposes
,
not
caring
at
all
to
what
calamityes
they
expose
him
,
so
their
owne
turnes
be
serued
,
nor
whether
in
the
end
he
sinke
or
swimme
.
Me
thinkes
,
I
can
compare
the
state
of
the
Hollanders
as
now
it
standeth
,
vnto
the
state
of
a
Merchant
inclyning
vnto
Banke-breaking
.
They
doe
owe
as
I
haue
byn
giuen
to
vnderstand
by
such
as
seeme
well
to
know
it
,
about
eight
millions
of
florins
,
for
which
they
pay
interest
.
Their
trade
&
trafike
is
exceedingly
decayed
.
Their
charges
so
great
with
their
Exercito
,
and
Presidies
&c.
that
they
are
forced
to
disburse
euery
day
,
some
hundreds
of
pounds
more
then
their
comings
in
do
extend
vnto
.
Their
good
carriage
hath
byn
such
,
that
they
haue
almost
out-liued
all
their
friends
that
were
ablest
to
haue
holpen
them
.
The
meanes
they
haue
to
continue
the
warres
,
they
are
constrayned
to
presse
out
of
the
harts
of
their
subiects
,
by
most
grieuous
exactions
;
and
being
driuen
vnto
desperate
tearmes
themselues
,
they
haue
drawne
this
Prince
into
action
,
in
as
bad
a
cause
as
their
owne
,
and
in
such
a
dependance
with
theirs
,
that
if
the
one
of
these
fall
,
both
may
fall
togeather
for
company
:
for
it
cannot
be
otherwise
when
the
one
draweth
downe
the
other
with
him
,
while
he
is
falling
,
and
no
wonder
it
is
that
this
may
happen
,
where
good
counsell
is
despised
,
and
that
men
will
needes
be
left
to
their
owne
folly
,
and
to
bake
as
they
haue
brewed
.
You
must
also
vnderstand
that
the
Hollanders
posting
away
the
Palatine
into
Germany
,
was
not
vpon
assurance
of
preferring
him
to
the
recouery
of
that
which
he
had
forfayted
and
lost
,
but
only
to
keep
the
forces
of
the
King
of
Spayne
there
occupyed
,
to
the
end
they
might
not
returne
to
the
Netherlandes
agaynst
them
.
But
how
euer
it
be
,
it
is
in
the
meane
time
sufficient
for
the
honour
of
his
Maiesty
,
to
haue
let
al
the
world
see
that
he
hath
done
his
endeuours
to
haue
ended
these
broyles
with
peacefull
security
,
for
the
sparing
of
much
bloud
,
and
auoyding
the
danger
of
depending
in
warre
vpon
the
good
will
of
fortune
,
which
now
is
not
like
to
fall
out
so
happily
.
As
for
the
willingnes
of
the
Puritans
and
Puritanly
affected
in
England
,
to
contribute
(
as
in
your
letter
you
signify
)
towardes
the
maintenance
of
some
thousands
of
men
,
to
the
assistance
of
this
Prince
,
they
do
without
all
doubt
reckon
without
their
host
,
little
imagining
what
a
charge
it
is
to
maintayne
an
army
so
farre
of
,
and
what
a
burthen
the
continuance
thereof
would
proue
to
be
vnto
the
Realme
;
for
it
could
not
but
proue
a
warre
of
long
continuance
,
wherof
the
sequell
would
be
the
impouerishing
of
the
people
,
by
drawing
away
the
welth
of
the
Realme
by
so
long
lasting
transportes
of
money
,
which
would
neuer
come
in
againe
,
nor
euer
bring
the
Realme
any
benefit
,
to
recompence
it
:
all
which
his
Maiesty
as
a
most
prouident
Prince
wisely
foreseeing
,
besides
the
great
effusion
of
bloud
,
it
moued
him
to
resolue
vpon
a
sweeter
&
more
conuenient
course
,
if
the
enemyes
of
peace
and
quietnes
had
not
interrupted
it
.
And
if
so
be
his
Maiesty
shall
now
leaue
this
Prince
vnto
himselfe
,
seeing
he
hath
followed
his
owne
selfe
will
,
&
the
sinister
counsell
of
turbulent
spirits
,
that
accompt
their
fishing
best
in
a
troubled
water
,
who
cannot
but
thinke
that
his
Maiesty
hath
serued
him
right
?
And
this
is
all
I
can
deliuer
vnto
you
of
the
opinions
of
such
as
I
haue
discoursed
withall
,
about
this
matter
.
Touching
the
Match
with
Spayne
,
wherof
there
is
now
great
speech
and
good
apparence
,
we
must
resolue
that
it
resteth
most
in
the
disposition
of
God
,
in
whose
power
is
the
disposing
of
all
thinges
.
For
myne
owne
part
I
dare
confidently
say
that
I
do
not
think
there
can
a
more
Great
or
Honorable
Match
be
found
for
that
Prince
,
in
all
the
world
.
And
let
passionate
men
say
what
they
will
,
certayne
it
is
,
that
the
continuance
of
peace
and
friendship
with
Spayne
,
is
as
commodious
to
England
as
the
keeping
of
peace
&
friendship
with
any
Countrey
whatsoeuer
.
And
this
the
prudent
King
Henry
the
seauenth
his
Maiestyes
Ancestour
,
well
saw
,
when
he
matched
his
sonne
and
the
heyre
of
his
crowne
Prince
Arthur
,
with
the
Lady
Catharine
,
the
Kinges
daughter
of
Castilia
,
when
there
was
no
such
greatnes
added
vnto
it
as
now
there
is
.
And
the
sayd
Prince
fayling
,
for
he
was
sickly
when
he
marryed
,
&
dyed
before
the
mariage
in
all
respects
was
consumate
,
the
sayd
King
Henry
neglected
not
to
procure
by
dispensation
the
match
to
be
made
with
his
Son
Henry
,
who
now
was
become
his
heyre
insteed
of
the
other
,
and
reygned
after
him
by
the
name
of
King
Henry
the
eight
:
and
albeit
this
King
did
put
this
his
marryed
wife
and
most
vertuous
Queene
from
him
,
after
he
had
had
her
about
twenty
and
two
yeares
,
for
the
loue
of
Anne
Bullen
;
yet
was
it
without
any
iust
cause
,
and
his
match
with
Anne
Bullen
proued
not
honorable
vnto
him
;
for
he
caused
her
to
be
beheaded
for
her
abhominable
adultery
;
of
the
truth
whereof
if
any
doubt
,
there
is
among
other
testimonies
yet
a
letter
extant
of
the
Lord
Cromwells
,
wherein
so
much
is
signifyed
.
I
know
the
Puritans
and
Puritanly
affected
haue
no
liking
of
this
new
match
with
Spayne
,
and
that
their
friendes
the
Hollanders
can
in
no
case
endure
to
heare
of
it
,
the
one
in
regard
of
reason
of
State
,
the
other
in
regard
of
a
long
wished
Puritanicall
discipline
,
according
to
the
Holland
Reformation
.
Concerning
the
Hollanders
,
who
can
thinke
his
Maiesty
obliged
to
forbeare
this
match
for
the
giuing
of
them
satisfaction
,
whose
greatest
desyre
indeed
is
,
that
the
Prince
should
not
match
at
all
,
for
their
more
assurance
of
bringing
the
House
of
Nassow
to
Domineere
in
England
,
seeing
the
Prince
Palatine
by
his
mothers
side
being
of
that
House
,
and
coming
in
the
right
of
his
wife
to
that
Crowne
,
England
should
then
become
Hollandes
buckler
against
Spayne
:
&
then
might
come
with
this
Prince
into
that
Realme
I
know
not
how
many
land-lesse
Lords
of
the
same
House
,
and
he
bringing
also
with
him
,
as
a
Puritan
Messias
,
their
long
desired
Reformation
;
how
fit
would
Bishops
liuings
fall
for
his
Kinsmen
,
and
perhapps
they
would
be
aswel
also
contented
to
beare
the
names
of
Bishops
or
Administrators
,
as
the
Lutheran
Lord
that
hath
gotten
by
his
demeanour
,
the
Reuerend
tytle
,
of
the
mad
Bishop
of
Halberstat
;
and
as
other
the
like
doe
in
Germany
,
that
gallantly
ryde
vpon
their
great
horses
,
in
their
apparell
of
all
colours
of
the
raynbow
,
with
their
rapiers
by
their
sides
,
and
huge
feathers
in
their
hattes
,
and
looke
as
like
Bishops
,
as
Owles
looke
like
Apes
;
which
goodly
Ecclesiasticall
state
and
dignity
,
English
Puritans
for
Reformation
sake
would
perhaps
be
very
well
content
to
commend
,
(
as
well
as
their
Puritan
brethren
in
Scotland
haue
liked
and
alowed
such
like
state
and
tytle
to
Lords
and
Gentlemen
there
)
and
especially
when
they
medled
with
no
more
but
only
with
the
displaced
Bishops
liuings
,
and
leaue
all
businesses
belonging
to
the
Word
,
wholy
in
the
handes
of
Puritan-Ministers
,
and
Consistory
discipline
.
But
as
the
Hollanders
and
their
correspondent-brethren
our
English
Puritanes
,
doe
for
their
seuerall
designes
,
desire
nothing
more
then
the
not
going
forward
of
this
Match
,
and
in
very
deed
,
no
match
at
all
for
this
Prince
,
as
before
I
haue
noted
;
so
to
the
contrary
,
all
true
and
louing
subiects
to
his
Maiesty
,
and
bearers
of
dutifull
affection
to
the
Prince
and
countrey
,
ought
to
desire
it
;
and
to
desire
,
that
vpon
the
accomplishment
thereof
,
issue
may
speedily
follow
,
because
heerin
consisteth
both
his
Maiestyes
,
and
the
Princes
safety
.
And
this
is
all
I
can
say
vnto
you
fore
present
,
concerning
the
match
with
Spayne
.
As
concerning
your
obiection
about
difference
of
Religion
.
The
Lady
being
,
as
you
say
a
Papist
,
and
to
haue
the
free
exercise
of
her
Religion
,
and
consequently
,
the
vse
of
her
Chappell
and
Masse
in
the
Court
,
which
you
say
wil
be
an
ey-sore
to
the
professours
of
the
Ghospell
&c.
Vpon
these
your
wordes
I
shal
be
occasioned
to
open
my selfe
further
then
els
I
should
haue
byn
willing
to
doe
,
because
of
giuing
you
some
vnexpected
disgust
,
when
in
making
answere
vnto
your
speeches
I
shal
be
brought
(
if
I
must
deale
directly
and
playnly
as
with
a
friend
)
to
declare
this
eye-sore
to
be
but
a
misconceaued
sorenes
:
for
heerupon
I
know
you
will
straightways
censure
me
to
be
turned
Papist
,
and
condemne
me
of
leuity
for
being
so
soone
swarued
from
the
light
of
your
Ghospell
,
to
the
liking
of
a
Religion
so
generally
misliked
in
England
,
wherby
I
may
stand
in
danger
to
loose
your
loue
,
which
very
loath
I
would
be
to
do
,
considering
how
sincere
I
haue
alwayes
found
it
,
and
what
reciprocall
correspondence
I
haue
vsed
for
conseruation
of
the
same
.
The
esteeme
wherof
being
indeed
the
greatest
cause
that
moueth
me
to
be
so
carefull
to
endeauour
so
to
excuse
myselfe
,
that
you
may
think
me
the
lesse
blame-worthy
,
and
consequently
the
lesse
breach
may
be
made
in
your
good
affection
towardes
me
,
seeing
in
myne
towardes
you
(
notwithstanding
difference
of
iudgment
in
Religion-matters
)
there
is
none
at
all
;
for
I
can
see
no
reason
to
the
contrary
,
but
that
men
may
beare
themselues
in
amity
and
Ciuill
conuersation
with
one
another
,
though
the
one
be
inclyned
in
conscience
to
serue
God
in
a
different
manner
from
the
other
,
seeing
euery
man
oweth
his
honest
behauiour
vnto
men
.
Well
then
,
good
Sir
,
vpon
hope
of
reseruation
of
your
loue
,
&
that
when
you
shall
haue
vnderstood
how
thinges
haue
passed
,
you
will
consider
before
you
condemne
me
of
leuity
,
whether
I
had
any
sufficient
motiues
or
no
,
to
bethinke
my selfe
in
matter
of
Religion
,
more
then
I
did
,
before
I
knew
there
was
so
great
cause
why
I
should
,
I
will
heere
endeauour
to
be
accomptable
vnto
you
how
things
haue
passed
with
me
in
this
matter
,
since
my
coming
out
of
England
.
Whiles
I
liued
in
England
I
was
,
as
you
know
,
as
feruent
in
our
Protestant
religion
(
wherin
I
was
brought
vp
)
as
eyther
your selfe
or
any
in
the
Countrey
can
be
.
I
was
a
great
reader
of
Scripture
,
a
great
frequenter
of
Sermons
,
and
a
great
hater
of
Papists
.
I
often
heard
our
preachers
tell
,
that
the
Church
of
Rome
was
a
lienated
from
her
first
purity
,
that
it
had
entertayned
many
grosse
errors
and
corruptions
,
&
that
forsooth
the
preachers
of
their
Ghospell
did
restore
and
teach
the
very
same
doctrine
,
that
was
taught
in
the
tyme
of
the
Apostles
and
primitiue
Church
of
Christ
.
This
vpon
their
meere
saying
so
,
I
confidently
belieued
,
without
euer
making
doubt
thereof
,
or
further
enquiry
for
any
proofe
.
But
coming
into
Germany
,
whither
my
iourney
was
,
as
you
know
intended
,
for
the
seruice
of
the
Prince
Palatine
,
who
we
then
called
King
of
Bohemia
,
and
there
beholding
the
Lutheran
preachers
to
stand
swaggering
in
their
pulpits
,
with
their
mouthes
as
full
of
Scripture
,
as
any
of
our
Pulpit-mens
in
England
might
possibly
be
,
and
there
to
see
them
so
to
contemne
,
scorne
&
deride
our
English
preachers
pretension
of
restoring
Apostolicall
religion
,
as
the
most
ridiculous
iest
in
the
world
,
I
stood
not
a
little
amazed
at
the
matter
.
Trauailing
from
Germany
into
Bohemia
,
there
did
I
heare
the
Hussite-preachers
as
I
had
heard
the
Lutherans
before
,
condemne
our
doctrine
of
England
,
laugh
and
scof
at
our
preachers
pretension
of
primitiue
truth
,
as
a
iest
only
to
make
sport
withall
,
not
conteyning
,
nor
carying
therewith
,
so
much
as
any
shew
of
truth
;
which
to
my
consideration
proued
no
iest
at
all
.
Lighting
after
this
,
in
the
company
of
Anabaptists
,
with
which
albeit
England
be
little
acquainted
,
yet
in
these
parts
they
will
also
be
some
body
as
wel
as
the
rest
,
seing
they
hold
themselues
to
be
as
flush
in
Scripture
as
the
proudest
of
their
Competitors
,
they
protested
by
yea
,
and
by
nay
,
that
our
Protestant
Religion
of
England
,
was
not
consonant
,
but
contrary
to
the
truth
of
the
Ghospell
of
the
Lord
.
What
might
I
thinke
of
the
great
boast
which
our
Pulpit-masters
in
England
make
of
the
light
of
their
Ghospell
(
who
seeme
where
they
are
there
alone
,
to
be
the
only
men
at
it
,
in
the
world
)
when
heere
in
Germany
I
heard
the
Lutheran
Preachers
(
whose
Patriarke
Martin
Luther
we
in
England
so
much
commend
,
)
extoll
the
light
of
their
owne
Ghospell
aboue
the
brightnes
of
the
Sunne
,
&
make
our
Ghospell
of
England
more
dimmer
then
a
lanterne
.
How
might
I
maruell
,
thinke
you
,
when
I
heard
the
Hussite-preachers
so
much
to
scorne
our
Gods
Word
of
England
,
as
if
it
were
but
the
Word
of
Robin-hood
.
And
what
might
I
imagine
when
the
Anabaptistes
,
that
speake
nothing
but
Scripture
,
durst
challenge
all
our
Rabins
at
no
other
weapon
,
but
at
the
only
Word
,
&
will
alwayes
be
ready
to
continue
the
combat
as
long
as
they
haue
fingers
to
turne
ouer
leaues
in
the
Bible
.
But
what
labyrinth
may
you
thinke
me
to
haue
lighted
in
,
why
in
my
trauails
I
hapned
into
an
Inne
where
I
had
about
myne
eares
all
these
at
once
;
where
I
found
my selfe
enuyroned
about
,
with
different
Wordes
of
God
,
&
different
Lights
of
the
Ghospel
;
where
when
I
went
about
to
defend
our
Ghospell
of
England
,
I
had
Bibles
so
fast
drawne
out
vpon
me
,
that
I
knew
not
which
way
to
turne
me
,
but
was
fayne
to
stand
as
an
Owle
among
other
birdes
,
and
with
much
impatience
,
patiently
heare
our
Gods
Word
of
England
made
the
veriest
hotch-potch
&
Olla-podrida
of
the
world
.
They
became
so
pleasant
and
sportfull
with
me
,
as
to
aske
me
whether
God
had
banished
his
truest
Religion
into
an
I
le
,
and
hembd
it
about
with
the
sea
,
to
the
end
it
shold
dwell
no
where
but
there
;
intending
thereby
,
that
our
Religion
of
England
,
both
in
fayth
and
in
forme
,
was
different
from
all
other
Religions
that
now
are
extant
:
which
when
I
would
haue
gaynsayed
,
they
strayghtwayes
came
vpon
me
with
Temporall
,
and
Feminine
Ecclesiasticall
Iurisdiction
,
and
with
pageants
of
little
Popes
,
as
though
they
had
their
instructions
from
Puritans
and
Brownists
.
Lord
,
how
hartily
did
I
wish
that
but
some
one
of
our
great
Pulpit-thunderers
had
byn
heere
,
that
can
talke
so
brauely
in
England
before
those
that
belieue
in
him
,
to
haue
seene
how
these
different
kinds
of
Scripture-followes
would
haue
Bible-bastonaded
him
,
and
put
him
downe
like
a
poore
Snake
:
for
verily
there
did
neuer
squirrell
skip
more
nimbly
from
one
bowgh
vnto
another
in
a
tree
,
then
do
these
fellowes
from
one
text
to
another
,
in
the
old
and
new
Testament
.
Of
all
which
,
when
I
had
well
considered
,
there
was
nothing
wherat
I
more
stood
amazed
,
then
at
my
owne
ignorance
,
whylst
I
was
in
England
;
because
I
did
not
apprehend
any
opposition
to
any
purpose
to
be
made
against
the
Religion
;
there
allowed
,
then
that
which
was
made
agaynst
it
by
those
of
the
Church
of
Rome
;
and
because
our
Preachers
could
smoothly
dissemble
these
other
opposites
,
and
but
little
meddle
with
them
,
crying
Crucifige
lowdest
of
all
agaynst
those
of
the
Church
of
Rome
.
But
finding
now
a
farre
other
matter
,
to
wit
,
these
seuerall
sects
so
full
of
Scripture
as
none
in
England
could
be
fuller
,
and
these
so
contemptibly
to
despise
,
scorne
&
hold
most
ridiculous
our
English
protestant
religion
,
as
a
very
mock-religion
;
and
in
most
serious
asseueration
of
their
soules
,
to
declare
it
to
be
the
damnation
of
al
their
soules
that
follow
it
,
what
might
I
now
imagine
.
Finding
them
also
to
haue
asmuch
sense
and
vnderstanding
,
as
great
acquaintance
,
as
farre
to
haue
trauayled
in
the
Word
,
and
as
ready
in
their
language
to
speake
&
defend
their
causes
,
as
any
in
England
,
how
Text-fast
soeuer
he
be
,
is
able
to
do
;
and
in
fine
,
to
protest
with
all
zeale
&
vehemency
of
spirit
,
his
resolution
for
the
offering
of
his
body
,
to
the
torments
,
and
paynes
of
death
,
and
his
soule
to
the
sentence
of
saluation
or
damnation
thereon
;
what
could
I
find
any
of
our
professing
people
in
England
to
say
more
;
and
what
reason
had
I
now
to
reiect
these
,
&
not
to
heare
them
speake
,
as
well
as
I
had
I
heard
our
Pulpit-people
in
England
,
vnlesse
it
should
only
haue
byn
for
their
not
being
Englishmen
,
which
were
too
poore
a
reason
to
be
yielded
vnto
.
All
this
also
considered
,
what
I
pray
you
,
might
I
thinke
,
whether
I
were
now
in
a
perplexity
or
no
I
leaue
your selfe
to
iudge
?
what
reason
did
there
now
remayne
to
oblige
me
vnto
our
English
Protestant
Religion
,
other
then
because
it
was
the
Religion
of
England
?
and
whether
the
following
therof
,
because
it
so
was
,
could
be
a
sufficient
warrant
for
the
proofe
of
it
to
be
true
Religion
,
and
consequently
for
the
saluation
of
my
soule
,
lying
&
dying
therin
?
Whylst
I
stood
in
this
amazement
,
hearing
the
Hussites
most
resolute
in
mayntayning
the
Reall
Presence
of
Christ
in
the
Sacrament
,
and
the
Lutherans
also
;
the
former
by
transubstantiation
,
the
later
by
consubstantiation
,
yet
eyther
affirming
no
signe
,
but
the
very
same
body
that
was
borne
of
the
Blessed
Virgin
Mary
to
be
there
;
I
was
by
this
meanes
brought
to
looke
backe
vnto
the
Christian
world
of
former
ages
,
and
to
thinke
with
my selfe
that
if
so
be
the
ancient
Church
of
Rome
from
which
also
these
new
congregations
had
deryued
their
Christianity
,
was
in
processe
of
tyme
become
alienated
from
her
first
purity
,
by
hauing
,
as
these
pretend
,
nourished
and
entertayned
many
corruptions
;
and
that
God
would
vouchsafe
to
benefit
the
world
with
a
restauration
or
reformation
of
Religion
according
to
her
first
purity
,
that
it
was
not
then
like
he
would
send
so
many
togeather
into
the
world
about
a
restauration
,
wherein
they
should
be
so
opposite
one
vnto
the
other
,
that
they
should
goe
about
the
setting
it
forward
in
sundry
different
fashions
,
ech
according
to
his
owne
manner
;
and
ech
condemning
the
endeauours
of
all
the
others
,
should
preferre
his
owne
for
the
sole
and
only
truth
.
And
seeing
there
can
be
but
one
fort
of
true
Reformers
,
(
if
there
be
worke
for
them
)
and
that
all
these
pretenders
themselues
doe
confesse
so
much
,
and
ech
of
them
(
as
no
doubt
our
sort
in
England
doth
in
like
sort
)
pretend
themselues
to
be
those
only
true
reformers
,
and
consequently
to
be
directly
sent
from
God
into
the
world
,
with
the
priuiledge
and
commission
of
restauration
of
true
Religion
,
I
thought
my selfe
bound
in
all
right
and
conscience
to
seeke
to
discouer
by
the
best
way
,
which
thereunto
I
could
possibly
imagine
to
be
most
requisite
,
which
of
all
others
this
might
be
;
wherin
I
also
with
my
prayers
beseeched
Almighty
God
his
fauour
and
direction
,
relying
vpon
his
promise
,
when
he
sayth
:
He
that
seeketh
,
shall
find
.
Heereupon
came
a
resolution
to
my
mynde
,
to
demaund
of
these
different
sorts
of
Reformers
,
of
ech
a
part
&
in
particuler
what
they
could
alleadge
for
themselues
,
to
declare
&
proue
vnto
me
,
why
their
interpretation
and
vnderstanding
of
Scripture
was
better
,
&
ought
to
be
followed
more
then
that
of
any
of
the
others
that
differed
from
it
.
And
of
this
I
desired
to
be
certified
,
by
some
proofes
and
reasons
,
as
that
sort
to
whome
I
made
the
demaund
could
only
alleage
for
it selfe
,
and
none
of
the
rest
for
themselues
:
but
when
all
came
to
all
,
&
that
I
had
most
seriously
dealt
with
ech
of
these
apart
,
the
satisfaction
I
got
of
the
one
was
as
good
,
as
that
I
had
of
the
other
,
albeit
their
vnderstandings
were
neuer
so
different
and
contrary
:
for
alwayes
I
found
that
after
many
circūloqutions
before
I
could
bring
them
to
the
matter
(
for
euery
sort
sought
by
shifts
&
exasions
to
slip
from
giuing
direct
answere
to
the
question
)
in
conclusion
the
proofe
and
assurance
of
hauing
the
true
vnderstanding
and
interpretation
of
Scripture
,
was
no
other
,
then
that
they
had
it
ech
of
them
,
within
it selfe
,
deliuered
vnto
them
by
a
certayne
inward
illumination
of
spirit
.
But
when
vpon
this
I
told
them
,
that
I
was
now
as
farre
to
seeke
as
before
,
because
ech
sort
pretended
his
inward
illumination
of
spirit
;
&
that
I
desyred
then
to
know
,
how
I
might
be
assured
that
any
one
of
these
illuminations
of
spirit
was
from
God
,
and
which
it
was
;
they
told
me
I
might
know
that
,
by
that
doctrine
that
was
most
consonant
vnto
the
Word
of
God
.
I
demaunded
which
that
was
?
None
but
ours
,
quoth
the
Hussite
:
None
but
ours
,
quoth
the
Lutheran
:
None
but
ours
quoth
the
Anabaptist
,
and
so
in
like
sort
any
of
our
English
Protestant
Preachers
would
also
haue
sayd
,
if
he
had
byn
heere
among
the
rest
.
But
who
shall
iudge
this
,
quoth
I
?
Gods
word
quoth
the
one
:
Gods
word
quoth
the
other
:
and
Gods
word
,
quoth
the
third
.
But
who
shall
shew
me
,
quoth
I
,
out
of
Gods
word
which
it
is
,
that
Gods
word
so
iudgeth
.
That
will
I
,
quoth
the
Hussyte
:
no
,
that
will
I
,
quoth
the
Lutheran
:
no
,
that
will
I
,
quoth
the
Anabaptist
,
and
so
would
as
many
and
as
more
haue
sayd
,
if
they
had
all
byn
heere
.
In
fine
it
came
to
no
other
conclusion
but
that
ech
would
haue
his
truth
,
and
true
illumination
of
spirit
,
tryed
by
Gods
word
,
but
iust
according
as
himselfe
would
be
the
interpreter
thereof
:
and
heerby
was
I
brought
at
last
to
be
as
far
to
seeke
as
at
the
first
.
Consider
now
I
pray
you
,
how
well
and
wisely
I
was
adrest
.
Trust
me
if
wishes
might
haue
wrought
their
effects
,
I
desyred
nothing
more
then
that
you
had
byn
present
,
with
some
two
or
three
of
the
principall
of
your
Paules-crosse
Preachers
,
to
see
what
victory
they
could
heere
haue
gotten
aboue
the
rest
,
that
fight
there
so
valiantly
agaynst
the
ayre
,
and
make
their
auditory
belieue
that
the
dwelling
place
of
Gods
word
is
only
in
their
mouthes
.
My
experience
in
this
busines
,
hath
emboldned
me
to
deliuer
it
thus
plainly
vnto
you
,
as
it
was
,
and
further
to
tell
you
,
that
not
long
after
I
had
left
this
discordant
company
,
I
mett
with
one
of
our
English
Rabbins
,
who
held
himselfe
for
no
small
foole
neyther
,
and
I
proposed
vnto
him
the
same
question
:
and
I
assure
you
he
delt
so
honestly
and
plainly
with
me
,
that
he
gaue
me
iust
the
same
answere
;
&
so
left
me
as
much
beholding
vnto
him
,
for
good
satisfaction
,
as
had
done
the
others
before
him
.
Trust
me
,
good
Sir
,
I
had
neuer
thought
that
our
pretence
and
bragge
of
our
Ghospells
light
in
England
,
had
stood
vpon
so
weake
a
foundation
,
as
now
I
haue
byn
taught
to
discerne
it
,
and
yet
by
no
Papist
neyther
.
A
man
heerby
may
see
what
it
is
to
be
nuzled
vp
in
deceyt
and
foolery
,
and
himselfe
not
to
know
it
.
You
may
see
,
by
that
which
heere
I
haue
sayd
,
I
haue
not
byn
carelesse
but
curious
in
the
seeking
of
such
satisfaction
as
is
most
requisite
&
reasonablee
but
you
would
haue
wondred
,
if
you
had
byn
present
to
see
with
what
tricks
and
shifts
ech
of
these
sought
to
diuert
and
put
of
his
answering
to
the
question
,
of
giuing
me
assured
knowledge
of
his
illumination
of
spirit
;
howbeit
I
lost
not
all
my
labour
,
for
all
of
them
in
the
end
gaue
me
assured
knowledge
,
that
this
their
inward
illumination
,
that
euery
one
is
assured
of
,
aswel
as
the
other
,
is
but
a
meere
bable
to
beguile
fooles
.
Wherof
hauing
so
cleerly
discouered
the
vanity
and
folly
,
I
must
desyre
you
to
giue
me
leaue
,
no
longer
to
make
a
foole
of
my selfe
.
And
albeit
I
had
continued
vntill
now
,
my
auersion
from
the
Church
of
Rome
;
yet
considering
that
Hussytes
,
Lutherans
,
Anabaptists
,
and
Caluinists
,
(
for
by
the
name
of
Caluinists
our
Protestants
in
England
are
of
all
these
others
called
,
aswell
as
of
the
Catholikes
)
had
al
played
the
run-awayes
from
the
sayd
Roman
Church
,
&
were
now
become
the
accusers
thereof
,
but
with
different
accusations
,
I
considered
with
my selfe
that
if
the
accusers
of
Susanna
were
proued
false
,
&
she
innocent
vpon
the
disagreement
of
two
witnesses
in
their
accusation
,
how
much
the
more
may
the
Church
of
Rome
be
deemed
innocent
,
when
there
is
so
great
a
disagreement
found
in
foure
of
her
principall
accusers
.
Vpon
this
motiue
I
resolued
to
seeke
to
haue
conference
with
some
sufficient
learned
man
of
that
Religion
,
which
by
the
meanes
that
I
vsed
I
attayned
vnto
,
but
bearing
my selfe
still
as
an
earnest
Protestant
;
&
I
found
myself
so
confuted
in
my
alleaging
of
the
Protestants
reasons
and
arguments
,
that
I
neuer
imagined
them
to
haue
byn
so
weake
;
nor
did
I
euer
thinke
that
so
much
could
be
sayd
of
so
great
force
for
the
contrary
.
I
found
also
very
manifestly
that
diuers
pointes
which
our
preachers
in
England
make
vs
belieue
they
hold
,
are
very
calumnies
and
slaunders
,
and
that
they
hold
them
not
at
all
.
But
it
is
a
matter
of
state
for
English
Ministers
to
make
Catholikes
and
Catholike
religion
odious
to
the
people
;
matter
of
state
I
meane
for
themselues
,
because
their
owne
estate
depends
vpon
their
Protestant
Religion
,
that
Religion
being
their
trade
they
liue
by
.
But
as
touching
the
Masse
,
and
such
points
as
they
doe
hould
,
I
haue
had
such
proofes
and
reasons
shewed
me
that
I
do
not
now
maruell
that
the
greatest
,
and
most
potent
part
of
Christendome
still
remayneth
in
that
Religion
;
and
that
diuers
in
France
,
Germany
,
and
the
Netherlandes
aswell
as
in
England
,
do
forsake
Protestancy
,
and
other
late
and
new
risen
opinions
,
and
returne
vnto
this
ancient
and
vniuersall
fayth
of
the
Christian
world
.
Me
thinkes
I
now
heare
you
aske
me
,
where
the
Masse
is
found
in
Scripture
?
But
to
this
,
I
may
aske
you
&
all
the
Protestants
in
the
world
,
where
they
can
shew
me
out
of
the
Scripture
,
after
what
manner
the
Apostles
themselues
did
celebrate
this
Sacrament
?
Christ
instituted
it
at
night
,
and
after
supper
in
the
same
paued
Parlour
,
&
at
the
same
table
whereat
he
had
supped
,
occasioned
thereunto
by
reason
of
the
lytle
tyme
he
had
,
being
from
thence
to
goe
into
the
garden
of
Gethsemani
,
to
make
his
prayers
and
preparation
to
his
passion
.
That
the
Apostles
celebrated
also
in
paued
Parlours
,
at
supping
tables
,
at
night
,
after
they
had
supped
,
and
not
in
the
morning
,
and
being
fasting
;
that
they
had
no
women
present
at
it
,
seeing
Christ
had
none
,
no
not
his
own
Mother
,
notwithstanding
her
great
worthynes
.
In
what
manner
they
tooke
the
bread
and
blessed
it
,
what
speeches
,
action
,
or
ceremony
heerin
was
vsed
;
whether
they
vsed
the
same
hymne
that
was
sayd
before
Christ
his
rising
vp
from
the
table
;
what
hymne
that
was
,
or
what
other
prayers
,
hymns
,
or
by
what
speeches
or
ceremonies
they
shewed
our
Lords
death
,
where
can
they
deliuer
vs
notice
of
all
this
?
Was
there
no
forme
or
order
set
downe
,
and
vsed
by
the
Apostles
,
&
left
by
them
vnto
succeeding
Christians
to
follow
?
Or
was
it
left
so
raw
and
vnordered
that
they
knew
not
of
any
forme
,
or
manner
of
celebration
thereof
at
all
?
Who
can
imagine
the
Apostles
to
haue
byn
so
carelesse
and
improuident
?
S.
Paul
telleth
vs
the
contrary
,
when
hauing
spoken
of
Christ
his
institution
of
this
Sacrament
,
he
promiseth
to
set
the
rest
(
thereunto
belonging
)
in
order
,
at
his
comming
vnto
those
,
to
whome
he
wrote
of
the
same
.
When
the
Hussites
began
their
pretended
reformation
of
Religion
,
according
as
they
sayd
to
the
tyme
of
the
Apostles
,
they
tooke
away
no
Altars
out
of
Churches
,
but
left
them
standing
,
and
sayd
Masse
at
them
,
as
yet
they
continue
to
do
.
When
Luther
an
hundreth
yeares
after
this
,
began
his
pretended
Reformation
,
which
he
also
sayd
was
according
the
the
tyme
of
the
Apostles
,
he
tooke
away
no
Altars
neyther
,
but
celebrated
at
them
,
as
do
those
of
his
sect
in
Germany
at
this
day
,
calling
the
Sacrament
thereon
celebrated
,
by
no
other
name
,
then
the
Sacrament
of
the
Altar
.
But
the
first
that
began
to
celebrate
vpon
House-tables
were
the
Anabaptists
,
who
began
some
yeares
after
Luther
.
And
after
these
came
the
Caluinists
,
or
disciples
of
Caluin
,
whose
doctrine
we
in
England
for
the
most
part
do
follow
,
and
these
brake
downe
the
Altars
in
Churches
,
&
brought
house-tables
and
set
them
in
their
places
,
and
theron
celebrated
their
Communion
,
affirming
this
be
a
reformation
according
to
the
tyme
of
the
Apostles
,
and
primitiue
Church
of
Christ
.
Heere
falleth
now
to
be
considered
,
whether
the
first
Christians
that
had
the
vse
of
Churches
,
had
in
their
Churches
Altars
or
House-tables
.
If
they
vsed
first
tables
,
then
the
question
is
,
when
,
by
what
order
,
and
vpon
what
occasion
,
were
these
tables
caryed
out
,
&
Altars
builded
in
their
steeds
,
as
also
what
question
or
dispute
hapned
about
this
alteration
,
or
what
memory
or
notice
is
there
left
vnto
the
world
of
it
,
in
any
Ecclesiastical
Annals
or
other
History
.
When
Altars
were
by
Caluinists
broken
down
in
Churches
&
communion-tables
set
in
their
places
,
all
the
world
tooke
notice
thereof
;
and
euen
as
much
notice
must
there
also
haue
byn
taken
,
if
at
the
first
House-tables
had
bin
vsed
in
Churches
,
&
that
afterward
they
had
byn
taken
out
,
and
Altars
there
erected
.
Franciscus
Aluares
,
who
liued
six
yeares
in
Aethiopia
among
the
Abissines
,
writeth
,
that
their
Ecclesiasticall
Annales
doe
testify
,
that
they
had
a
Church
built
in
their
Countrey
to
the
honour
of
Christ
,
within
ten
yeares
of
his
Ascension
,
which
Church
there
yet
remayneth
,
and
beareth
the
name
as
alwayes
it
hath
done
,
of
The
Church
of
our
Lady
of
mount
Sion
:
and
the
reason
why
it
is
so
called
,
is
because
the
stone
whereof
the
Altar
was
builded
,
was
brought
thither
from
Mount
Sion
.
Such
testimony
of
the
auncient
vse
of
Altars
in
Churches
,
is
not
only
found
among
these
so
auncient
Christians
,
but
among
all
other
ancient
Christians
of
the
world
,
besydes
those
of
the
Church
of
Rome
,
as
among
those
of
the
Greeke
Church
,
those
of
Cangranor
,
and
Malabar
in
the
east
Indies
that
were
conuerted
by
S.
Thomas
the
Apostle
,
and
by
all
other
ancient
Christians
of
the
world
,
albeit
they
depend
not
vpon
the
Church
of
Rome
.
And
further
can
I
tell
you
,
that
I
haue
seene
a
discourse
,
which
as
yet
is
not
printed
,
wherin
is
cleerly
&
manifestly
shewed
,
by
most
great
and
good
arguments
that
in
all
those
Countreyes
wherein
the
Apostles
themselues
preached
,
and
planted
the
Christian
fayth
,
they
did
leaue
behind
them
the
Masse
,
which
hath
from
their
tyme
remayned
among
those
Christians
,
and
their
successours
vnto
this
day
.
As
touching
the
fayth
and
beliefe
of
the
Reall
presence
of
Christ
in
the
sayd
Sacrament
,
it
neuer
appeared
that
euer
any
one
man
in
the
Greeke
Church
did
deny
it
,
and
in
this
fayth
and
belieue
all
the
other
most
ancient
and
remote
Christians
of
the
world
are
most
confident
,
seing
they
haue
had
it
ab
initio
,
and
that
it
is
deryued
from
the
very
mouth
of
Christ
.
That
Christ
sayd
at
his
last
supper
,
taking
bread
and
blessing
it
,
This
is
my
body
,
no
man
can
deny
,
That
it
is
his
body
,
but
only
Anabaptistes
and
Caluinists
(
two
late
risen
Sects
)
who
doe
deny
it
:
if
they
speake
truly
,
then
is
not
Christ
to
be
belieued
;
if
they
say
he
meant
not
as
he
sayd
,
they
make
him
a
double
dealer
:
but
if
he
meant
not
as
he
sayd
,
then
are
they
to
shew
where
it
standeth
written
in
Gods
word
,
that
he
meant
it
not
;
and
not
meaning
it
,
where
it
is
then
written
how
he
would
haue
his
words
vnderstood
.
But
who
shall
shew
vs
this
?
Or
where
,
or
when
shall
we
find
it
?
That
Christ
was
able
when
he
tooke
bread
,
blessed
it
and
sayd
it
was
his
body
,
to
make
it
so
to
be
,
who
can
make
doubt
,
that
doubteth
him
not
to
be
Christ
,
and
consequently
God
?
and
why
is
he
not
as
well
able
to
doe
this
as
to
doe
with
the
same
his
owne
naturall
body
sundry
other
miracles
aboue
the
course
of
nature
.
When
he
said
that
it
was
as
easy
for
a
camell
to
goe
through
the
eye
of
a
needle
,
as
for
a
rich
man
to
enter
into
the
Kingdome
of
heauen
,
whereupon
his
disciples
asked
him
who
could
then
be
saued
?
he
answered
that
with
God
all
thinges
were
possible
.
If
then
it
be
possible
for
a
Camel
or
for
a
cable-rope
to
go
through
the
eye
of
a
needle
,
it
is
possible
for
the
body
of
Christ
to
be
in
the
Sacrament
,
and
the
more
possible
when
he
that
is
God
himselfe
hath
sayd
it
.
When
he
had
sayd
,
that
with
God
all
thinges
were
possible
,
the
Apostles
were
silent
,
and
belieued
it
,
for
they
replyed
not
to
the
contrary
,
or
by
asking
how
it
might
be
.
So
belieued
they
him
also
,
when
taking
the
bread
at
his
last
supper
and
blessing
it
,
he
said
it
was
his
body
,
els
had
they
also
asked
him
,
as
they
did
of
the
Camels
going
through
the
eye
of
the
needle
,
how
it
was
possible
.
Manifest
also
it
is
,
that
all
the
ancient
Christians
of
the
world
,
besides
those
of
the
Church
of
Rome
,
haue
euen
from
the
originall
of
their
Christianity
belieued
this
.
If
now
Anabaptists
and
Caluinists
,
that
are
but
risen
vp
in
our
dayes
,
must
be
belieued
in
the
deniall
thereof
,
not
only
agaynst
their
precedent
competitours
in
Reformation
,
Husse
and
Luther
,
but
agaynst
the
Church
of
Rome
,
the
Church
of
Greece
,
and
all
other
ancient
Christians
,
resyding
in
the
farre
and
remote
partes
of
Asia
and
Africa
;
who
can
belieue
when
he
hath
well
reflected
vpon
these
thinges
,
and
aboue
all
,
vpon
the
foundation
of
this
fayth
,
which
standeth
vpon
the
very
wordes
of
Christ
his
owne
mouth
,
and
from
no
where
els
is
deriued
,
that
he
can
heerin
be
deceaued
?
Seeing
Christ
in
no
iustice
or
equity
,
can
condemne
any
man
of
misbeliefe
,
for
belieuing
that
which
himselfe
telleth
him
so
to
be
(
yea
albeit
it
were
not
so
:
which
cannot
be
,
seeing
himselfe
is
all
truth
,
and
that
vnto
him
being
also
God
,
there
is
nothing
impossible
)
and
seeing
also
that
none
of
his
Apostles
did
euer
after
declare
vnto
the
world
,
that
he
meant
not
as
he
sayd
,
&
that
notwithstanding
he
speake
those
wordes
,
it
was
but
the
figure
or
signe
of
his
body
,
and
not
his
very
body
indeed
,
as
Caluinists
&
Anabaptists
now
more
then
fifteene
hundred
yeares
after
do
teach
vs
.
I
am
no
Deuine
as
you
know
,
yet
could
I
not
heere
conteyne
within
the
compas
of
a
Letter
,
if
I
should
enlarge
my selfe
with
so
much
more
as
I
could
say
concerning
this
matter
,
and
with
proofes
of
Scriptures
,
Fathers
,
and
the
successiue
vniuersall
fayth
and
practise
of
Chtistians
throughout
the
world
,
euer
since
the
tyme
of
Christ
.
This
haue
I
done
to
let
you
see
whether
I
had
reason
or
no
,
comming
to
so
much
knowledge
and
vnderstanding
of
differences
among
so
many
late
pretenders
of
reformation
of
Religion
(
&
truly
to
vnderstand
what
the
Catholike
religion
holdeth
and
professeth
indeed
)
to
remayne
still
a
protestant
,
seeing
if
so
I
had
done
,
it
must
haue
byn
for
fashions
sake
only
,
and
to
runne
in
cry
among
the
rest
,
as
some
doe
that
will
know
no
better
,
and
others
that
can
discerne
no
better
,
because
they
come
not
where
may
they
,
or
are
idiots
and
want
capacity
to
apprehend
it
.
Iudge
now
I
pray
you
,
hauing
well
considered
of
the
premisses
,
whether
there
appeareth
reason
for
my
excuse
or
not
,
and
whether
Protestants
may
haue
reason
to
be
so
picquant
and
hatefull
vnto
Catholikes
as
they
are
,
and
not
quietly
to
let
them
liue
among
them
,
&
enioy
their
Ciuill
conuersation
,
seeing
Catholikes
are
no
intruders
vpon
protestants
,
or
bringers
in
of
any
nouelties
among
them
,
but
the
imbracers
only
of
that
fayth
from
which
Protestants
are
falne
,
and
all
the
rest
of
their
competitors
in
pretending
discordant
reformations
,
and
wherein
vnto
this
day
the
maiesty
of
Christendome
in
fight
of
all
the
world
yet
remayneth
,
I
meane
the
greater
and
the
better
part
therof
.
Wheras
Caluinisme
(
for
by
that
Name
our
Protestant
Religion
of
England
passeth
throughout
all
Christendome
among
all
Religions
,
except
themselues
)
being
but
new
begon
,
is
already
splitted
,
and
deuided
into
foure
partes
within
it selfe
,
to
wit
,
Protestants
,
Puritans
,
Brownistes
,
and
Arminians
declining
to
decay
,
and
chiefly
supported
by
rebellion
.
Be
not
offended
with
me
I
beseech
you
,
I
only
speake
this
in
regard
of
truth
,
because
the
truth
is
so
,
as
the
whole
world
can
heerin
beare
me
witnes
,
and
not
because
I
would
in
speaking
thus
,
go
about
to
vexe
you
.
And
to
let
you
see
my
indifferency
in
speaking
as
vnpartially
of
the
rest
,
you
shall
please
also
to
vnderstand
:
That
the
Hussytes
,
and
the
others
want
not
their
diuisions
among
them
,
aswel
as
ours
:
for
there
are
the
old
and
the
new
Hussytes
;
the
rigide
,
and
the
soft
,
or
myld
Lutherans
.
And
the
Anabaptists
being
fullest
of
all
the
others
of
Scriptures
,
are
also
fullest
of
all
of
diuisions
,
for
I
haue
counted
among
them
fifteene
seuerall
sorts
my selfe
,
and
how
many
more
there
are
,
I
know
not
.
But
as
sor
the
Hussytes
and
the
Lutherans
,
I
haue
exceedingly
meruayled
at
the
cogging
of
M.
Fox
our
English
Martyrologian
,
and
of
our
Preachers
in
England
,
who
for
their
Ghospells
pouerty
,
haue
so
much
extold
Iohn
Husse
for
a
blessed
martyr
,
and
Martin
Luther
for
a
blessed
confessour
,
(
the
one
disliking
the
doctrine
of
the
other
,
and
both
being
contrary
vnto
theirs
)
and
to
dissemble
and
hyde
from
the
knowledge
of
their
audience
,
what
the
Hussytes
,
and
the
Lutherans
do
preach
and
write
of
them
;
and
how
farre
they
are
from
fynding
any
Ghospell
affinity
between
them
,
but
contemne
&
scorne
their
society
to
the
full
,
and
haue
no
other
esteeme
of
them
,
then
of
a
company
of
cocks
crowing
on
their
owne
dunghills
.
In
Conclusion
I
must
say
vnto
you
,
that
if
it
please
God
,
the
Match
with
Spayne
do
succeed
,
I
trust
it
will
proue
to
the
great
good
&
tranquillity
of
our
countrey
,
and
will
make
England
continually
participant
of
the
wealth
of
Spayne
,
and
the
Countreys
thereon
depending
,
which
seeing
the
rebellious
Hollanders
cannot
enioy
,
they
enuy
that
our
Nation
should
.
If
the
Match
with
Spaine
succeed
not
)
yet
seeing
Englishmen
cannot
liue
pen'd
in
within
the
compasse
of
their
countrey
,
as
those
of
China
,
between
the
sea
and
a
huge
wall
,
but
must
trauayle
and
traffique
abroad
in
so
many
flourishing
Countreyes
and
places
of
Christendome
as
are
Catholike
,
they
must
needes
be
hatefull
and
odious
to
those
Nations
,
if
it
be
knowne
vnto
them
that
they
doe
hate
and
persecute
Catholikes
at
home
,
they
being
members
with
them
of
one
same
body
,
to
wit
of
one
same
Catholike
fayth
,
and
Church
,
which
is
sole
and
entiere
,
and
consisteth
not
in
splitted
partes
and
diuisions
;
and
hath
lasted
and
continued
in
the
world
,
when
the
world
was
vnacquainted
with
Protestants
;
and
will
remayne
in
it
when
Protestants
may
happen
to
returne
agayne
to
inuisibility
,
from
whence
they
pretend
,
with
as
much
reason
to
be
assured
,
as
either
Hussytes
,
Lutherans
,
or
Anabaptistes
may
do
the
like
,
and
may
also
fynd
as
good
allowance
to
be
belieued
without
being
laughed
at
,
as
any
of
these
,
how
late
or
sooner
before
they
crept
out
of
the
like
obscurity
.
Heere
will
I
make
an
end
of
this
letter
,
which
I
leaue
vnto
your
good
consideration
,
and
myselfe
in
all
the
dutyes
of
affection
at
your
commaund
.
From
the
place
of
my
aboad
this
25.
of
Iuly
1622.
You
know
the
Hand
,
&
the
louing
Hart
of
the
Writer
.