Rejoinder to Bristows Reply, Part 2 · Book 7
The seuenth Booke.
To the Preface.
SAnder hauing finished the sixt booke, supposed to hauehave ended his labour, but then came forth the B. of Salisburies replie vntounto Doctor Hardings booke, wherevpon he was moued to answere that article, which concerned the reall presence. But because the words of both their bookes were too large to bee inserted in this his volume, hee hath chosen the pyth of either (as hee affirmeth) with such fidelitie, as Master Iewell should finde no fault with him. For my part, I was likewise purposed to hauehave omitted the answere of this appendix, partly because Master Iewels defense of the Apologie, being set foorth after this booke of Sander, the chiefe matters are therein by Master Iewel himselfe wayed and answered: partly, because Sander, bringeth no newe matter in this replie, but either such as he hath brought in the sixe bookes before: and partly because his chiefe and most generall answere, is nothing, but a begging of the whole matter in controuersie, with an affirming and denying, grounded vponupon his owne authoritie. By meanes whereof in this one article, he hath noted iump 218 vntruethes: howe well and iustely, let the readers of his booke, and Master Iewels replie, be iudges. As for mee, I will not examine them all, but onelyonly so manie as touch the controuersie, with any shewe of argument, sauing that in a fewe of the first, I will giuegive the reader a taste, that hee may iudge of the rest. And whereas hee chargeth the Bishoppe for setting one trueth against another, for falsifying of autorities, for misconstruing of their meaning &c: as the matters shall occurre, I wil not faile to consider them.