M. Hardinge.
As yee confesse youre departinge, so woulde God yee vnderstoode youre gylte.
Those reuerent Fathers, and Godly learned menne, whose romes ye holde wrongfully, whom it li∣ked your interpreter to cal Ringleaders, resiste not the Gospel, but suffer persecution for the Gospel. Your Gospel, that is to saie, your vile heresies and blaspemies, worthely thei detes••e. Your newe trouth, that is to saie, your false and wicked lies, thei abhorre. Neither euer departed they from any parte of the dutie of Catholique menne,* 1.1 by their owne accorde and good wil, as ye saie.* 1.2 But wherein they slepte aside, they were compelled by sutche feare, as might happen to a right constant man, I meane the terrour of death, whiche, as Aristotle saithe, of al terrible thinges is most terrible. Nowe bicause yet they finde the terroure of a gilty conscience, more terrible then death of their persons, thei entende by Gods grace assisting them, neuer so to steppe aside againe, but rather to suffer what so euer extremities. VVhose bloude, or the bloude of any of them, if God to his honour shal at any time per∣mitt