A declaration of suche true articles as George Ioye hath gone about to confute as false

Steuen Bysshop of wynchester to the reader.

GOD geue the (gentle reader) iudgement to dis∣cerne truth frome vntruth. Bitwene whiche two, in the personnes of me and Ioye, thou shalt se contenciō. Wherin I haue not suche regarde to the man, to dispute with hym (whom by saynt Poules counsayll, after so many admonitions, I shoulde exchue) but onelye to treate the matter, which nedeth true explication. As I haue contemned the ioyly hun∣ter and other ianglers, wiselye in my frendes opinions: so shoulde I do Ioye, for any thyng he hath sayde of me. And agaynst Ioye I stryue not, who ouerturneth him self, but am enforced to talke with

hym, as a medler in the thynge, which I can not pretermitte, and suffre vndeclared. I cā not frame my writinges meet for all mens capacities, eyther learnynge fay∣leth, or the matter wyll not suffre, good wyll wanteth not, whiche I wold wysshe, were through∣lye persuaded vnto the, with this also, that albeit, thar∣ticles of our beleef, with knoweledge sufficient, for direction of our lyuynge, to gods pleasure, may be com∣prehended of rude and vnlear∣ned wittes: yet the dis∣cussion of the scriptures, re∣quireth goddes further giftes of erudicion and learnynge. Farewell.