To proue crossing in Baptisme, M. Bucers authoritie is brought. I haue sayde before what iniurie it is to leaue the publike workes of Bucer, and to flie vnto the Apochryphas, where∣in also they might driue vs to vse the like, and to set downe likewise his wordes whiche we finde in his priuate letters. But it is first of all to be obserued of the reader, howe and with what name those notes are called, which are cyted of M. Doctor for the defense of these corrup∣tions: they are called by M. Doctors owne confession (Censures) which worde signifieth and implyeth, as much as corrections and controlments of the booke of seruice, and therefore we may take this for a generall rule throughout the whole booke of Seruice, that in whatsoeuer things in controuersie M. Doctor doth not bring Bucers authoritie, to confirme them that those things Bucer mislyked of, as for example in priuate Baptisme, and Communions ministerd in houses, for interrogatories ministred to Infants, and such lyke, for so muche as they are not con∣firmed here by M. Bucers iudgement, it may be thought that he mislyked of them, and no doubt, if eyther M. Bucers notes had not either condemned or misliked of diuerse things in the Seruice booke, we shoulde haue had the notes printed and set forth to the full. This I thought in a worde to admonish the reader of.
To your first cauill, I haue answered before, where you made the same. To your seconde of master Bucers Censures (though the booke be not so intituled) the* 1.1 answere is short and plaine, it was his iudgement vppon the first Communion booke, in the time of king Edwarde wherein he misliked some things: but alloweth both priuate Baptisme, and the Communion ministred to the sicke, as I before de∣clared, and you might haue remembred, if your memorie had not fayled you.