Now we come to the third general part of this Treatise, wherin the Treatiser endeuoreth to answere certaine ob∣iections of ours, in defence of the Crosse: Our first ob∣iection he setteth downe in these words.
The first obiection. 8. Sect.
The signe of the Crosse in the first institution was free from superstition and Idolatrie: and if the abuse which grewe after be remoued, why should it not recouer his aun∣cient vse, and indifferency, like as the bread in the Lords supper, which the Papists do religiously adore?
There is great difference &c.
I expected the Treatiser in his answere to our obiecti∣ons, framed by himselfe, would haue made every thinge plaine and euident: so as a man at the first sight, might perceaue the answere fitted and applied to the obiection in every point: But some thing there was: either hast, or Jgnorance, not knowing how to answere, or Conscientia fraudis, or J knowe not what, that would not suffer him to speake directly, nor to exemplifie his allegations, but make him wind himselfe every way, and so to double, & huddle things together, that my selfe J confesse, and J beleeue few men else, can find in him, Quid cui respo dea∣tur, what is answered vnto which; as to any man that di∣ligently marketh, what he saith to the first obiection, may plainly appeare. By which meanes, though he hath put me to a double labour, yet J will endeuor in my Replie,