Where are the splendid crowns you held out to him?
Did he gain any by combating against true religion and his conscience?
* * * I blush with shame when you talk of the many atrocities which you allege to have been committed by those of our faith; cast out the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the moat in thy brother's eye: purify the earth that is stained with the innocent blood which those of your party have shed, a fact you can bear testimony to.
* * * You are ignorant of what our ministers are, who teach patience, obedience to sovereigns, and the other virtues of which the apostles and the martyrs have left them an example.

* * * You affirm that multitudes draw back from our belief, while I maintain that the number of its adherents increases daily.

As to ancient authorities, I hear them every day cited by our ministers.

I am not indeed sufficiently learned to have gone through so many works, but neither, I suspect, have you, or are better versed in them than myself, as you were always known to be more acquainted with matters of state than those of the church.

* * * I place no reliance on doctors, not even Calvin, Beza, and others, but as they follow Scripture.