In the viewe of the second admonition M. Doctor doth as it seemeth of purpose, cul out those things which he hath spoken on before, and in repeating of them, referreth his Reader vnto hys booke. Diuers other matters there are of great weight which he speaketh not of, if he doe approue them. (*) 1.1 it had beene well he had sign fyed his liking: if he doe not, that he had confuted them. And if he trauelled so heauily of bringing foorth of this booke, that it was as heauy a burden vnto hym, as Salomon sayth, a fond worde is vnto an vnwyse man: he might haue taken day to answere it. Now by this slēder answering or rather not answering at al, but only asking how this & that is pro∣ued (wheras beeing proued it is vnreproued of him) he doth his cause more harme than he is aware of. For vnlesse his profes he ioyned with his expulsions, imprisonmēts, & with all that racket which he maketh in Cambridge, to the vtter most of that his authoritie will stretch vnto, he may be well assured, that their driuing out wyll drawe in the truthe, and their imprisonment wyll set the truthe at greater libertie, and thereby proue it self to be neyther Papistrie, nor Anabaptistrie, Donatistrie, Catharisme, nor any other heresie, whych are by due correction repressed. But as for the truthe of God, the more it is laden, the strayghter it standeth, and the more it is kepte vnder, the more it eu∣forceth it selfe to ryse, and wyll vndoubtedly get vp, howe great so euer the stone be whyche is layde vpon it.
I haue omitted no matter of substance vnanswered in eyther of the Admoniti∣ons. The wordes you héere vtter be contumelious: you onely rayle, you answere not. I neuer expelled any of degrée since my first comming to Trinitie Colledge, but two: the one for pertinacie, the other for periurie. And yet I might haue done lawfully and iustly, and intende to doe if the statutes wherevnto I haue sworne, doe therevnto enforce me. But by your often obiecting this vnto me, men may vnder∣stande what conscience it is that makes you so zealous, and what diuinitie it is that you so carnestly professe: scil. a minde full of reuengment, and a face puffed vp with arrogancie and vayneglory.