CHARLES R.
HIs Majesty resteth very much unsatisfied, That you have now again wholly declined the answ••∣ring of those t••ree questions so clearly proposed by him, which your selves also confesse to be of grea im∣portance, upon this only pretence, That the whole volum•• of Ecclesia••••icall policy is contained in them: Wherea•• his Majesty did neither expect not require from you any large or polemicall Discourse concerning those Questions conceiving that you were ••n some sort ob∣liged to have declared what your judgment was there∣in, with the grounds thereof. For certainly untill one of these three things can be clearly evidenced unto his Maj. 1. Either that there is no certain form of Church Government at all prescribed in the Word. 2. That th•• Civill power may change the same as they see cause. 3 Or if it be unchangable, that it was not Episcopall, but some other, his Maj. thinks himself excusable in the judgment of all reasonable men, if he cannot be indu∣ced to give his consent to the utter abolition of th•• Government of the Church which be found here set∣led to his hands, which hath continued all over the Christian world, from the times of the Apostles untill this last Age.