Io. Whitgifte.
The. 7. Article. Pag. 3. Sect. 4.
They earnestly cryed out against pride, gluttonie. &c. They spake* 1.1 much of mortification: they pretended great grauitie, they sighed muche: they seldome or neuer laughed: they were verie austere in reprehendyng: they spake gloriouslye. To be shorte, Magna & varia erat ipsorum bypocrisis, they were greate hypocrites, thereby to winne authoritie to their heresie, among the simple and ignorant people.
If you doe note these thinges (which we say not) we wil rather doo them with the Anabap∣tistes, than leaue them vndone with you. Of our simple heart and meaning in them, we haue be∣fore* 1.2 protested. In the meane season, we will paciently abyde, vntill the Lord bring our *rightu∣ousnesse in this behalfe vnto lyght, and our iust dealing as the noone day. Touching our sighing and seldome or neuer laughyng, you giue occasion after to speake of it, vnto the whiche place, I reserue the answere.