To the right Honorable Rich. Archb. of Canterburie, H. B. wisheth G.
WHen Barow and Greenwood, R.H. were to be pardoned, if they would haue come to Church: they could finde no barr sound but this: That none should hold them of good religion, which beleeued that our Lords soule went to Hell. Archb. Wh. thought that the Creede was translated in English, after the most learned Greeke: but the wicked translation English differeth from the Greek: as doth descending in soules, from ascending: and Heaven differs frō Hell. Archb. Wh. thought our Lord in soule descended: and into Hell. But Bishopp Elmer knew the Greeke meant a going vp to heaven: and had saved Barow and Greenwood, shewing that by a friend to them: if a Chaplein a messenger, had as he promised, spoken to the partie. vpon new stirre, I opened the trueth: and for receiving a Letter from Maister Iames Melvin: the vnable in Divinitie, meant to plague in humanitie. But this blew good corne to you, by E. E. helpe, and became your making, and the death of him that preferred you. As you were making friendes, I wrote of our faith and King. For [Page] the King you brent the booke, as having treason: that I called him the King of our language. I wil not denie my meaning: I meant to keepe you from bent to P [...]iamus happines: you & Bar. Abbas. After this, I write to the graue Father, Archb. Wh. a treatise that he was deceaved. He saw it, and sent Maister Geffrey K. to me, to cōfesse errour Maister Rob. Beal told Q Eliz. that Archb. Wh. was deceaved: and, I think, Q E. bade Archb. Wh. to confesse errour. But witlesse Bar. skopheth his yeelding, and D. Bilsons, as if he were an Ape, and not a body of reason, and skopheth the Sc. M. as having a minde to vndoe the soile that bredd so senseles and so impudent a wight, and skopheth the Concent of Scripture: and skopheth the booke of Scripture concent: to graue in memorie howe vnlearned a wight hee is. To Archb. Wh. I write an epistle of D. Bilson his yeelding, for the matter in strife: but by feigning a iourney from Heaven to Hell by the Creed: to make this phāsie heard, our Christian Religion, he was much deceaved. you brent these copies: and a second Impression for the King of our lāguage. Consider how little you feared God and the King in so doing: And to teach how slender a Doctor you are in Divinitie, I advertise of corruptions in your handling of religion: and of betraying the Gospel to Iewes, & at wordes you chafe: where your libels style is my warrant. Now I wishe you to be a Lucifer, and light giver: But not a Babylonian Lucifer, to exalt your selfe aboue the Gospell, for our Lords passage hence: and I wishe you not to be a Bargulus Illyricus, to cease vpon other mens good: and an Orthodox, not as Cotton exceter, to burne bookes defensiue of our religion: and I send to your iudgement, the booke made against you to the King, if you iudge your selfe, the King needeth not [Page] to be troubled. And I will burie all griefes, if you find some to answer the Iew, for the honour of all Christendome: If you can not, your iudgement is heavie that threatned to hinder others. But take a right course, and all wilbe well. I haue no minde to striue with you, but to leaue you to Gods iudgement, where I holde your bent not good. We should heare that Saint Paul telleth: It is appointed for all men once to die: and then cometh iudgement. And our yeares tell vs, there is but a stepp betwixt vs and death: that wee should looke shortly for death and iudgement: and not sell our Birth-right in heauen, for a messe of pottage: but looke vnto the blessing which God hath layde vpp for all that loue his glorious appearance. AMEN.