M. Hardinge.
For answeare to all this, ye ioine your selues with Christe and his Apostles, as though yee were gilty herein no more, then they. Presumptuously saide. But the matter is not so answeared. And yet yee runne at large in that common place, and very vainely, or rather Luciferlike, compare your selues with the Apostles. But Sirs, staie here, runne no farther. Yee are soone stopped. The case is not like pardie. These be but your woordes. In the Apostles was the Truthe in deede, so was it in the Holy Prophetes, and those firste Blessed men of the Churche. The Truthe yee boaste and crake so muche of, is not that Truthe. Talke lesse like Rhetoricians, and proue vs that yee haue Truthe, like honest men. And then talke on: But that can ye neuer doo, so longe as ye remaine out of the Churche, and ennemies to the Churche.* 1.1 But what spende I woordes in vaine? Your hartes be har∣dened, your Eies be blinded, your Eares be stopped.