An Epistle to the Terrible Priests of the Convocation House, Issue 3

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Page 15 - Bridges, a man might almost run himselfe out of breath before he could come to a full point in many places in your booke, page 69.
Page 13 - You haue bin a worthy writer as they say of a long time, your first book was a proper Enterlude, called Gammar Gurtons needle. But I thinke that this trifle, which sheweth the author to haue had some witte and inuention in him, was none of your doing : Because your bookes seeme to proceede from the braynes of a woodcocke, as hauing neyther wit nor learning.
Page 2 - ... scene and allowed in the title of the booke. Well fare old mother experience yet /the burnt childe dreads the fire : his grace will cary to his graue I warrant you / the blowes which M. Cartwright...
Page 48 - Lord bishops of this lande. 1. In primis, the said Lord Bb. must promise and obserue, without fraud or collusion, and that as much as in them lyeth, they labor to promote the preaching of the worde in euery part of this land. 2. That hereafter they admitt none vnto the ministerie, but such as shalbe knowen, both for their godlinesse and learning, to be fit for the ministerie...
Page 74 - A Refutation of Sundry Reprehensions, Cavils, and false sleightes, by which M. Whitaker laboureth to deface the late English translation, and Catholike annotations of the new Testament, and the booke of Discovery of heretical corruptions.

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