And where the Bishop sayth, it is knowne and confessed that ther wanted many things to the persection of the Churche of the Iewes: truly I doe not knowe, nor can not consesse that that Churche wanted (*) 1.1 any thing to the perfection of that estate, which the Lord would haue them be in, vntill the comming of our sauioure Christ. And if there were any thing wanting, it was not for wante of good lawes and pollicies, whereof the question is, but for wante of due execution of them, which we speake not of.
Conueniet nulli. &c. Nowe can he agrée with anye other man, that dothe not agree with him selfe? For before (after you haue recyted diuers thinges lefte to the* 1.2 order of that Churche of the Iewes, for the whiche they had no expresse worde) You saye, that you wyll offer for one that I bring that we haue lefte to the order of the* 1.3 Churche, to shewe that they had twenty, whyche were vndecided by the expresse word of God. And heere you saye, that it wanted nothing to the perfection of that estate: how you wyll reconcile your selfe, I knowe not: or whether it be your pleasure not to respecte your owne credite, so that you may séeme to discredite that whyche that no∣table Byshop hathe spoken: but that whyche I haue alleadged of Iehosaphat, 2. Chro. 19. dothe manifestly iustifye my Lord of Sarisburies saying, and condemneth youres. For there it is to be séene that in matters of gouernment, orders were ap∣poynted which neyther were commaunded by any expresse commaundemente of God, neyther yet expressed in the worde of God. But of thys matter I haue spo∣ken before.