"replete with venomous envy, rancour and malice."

“This had been no great cause more to reject the one than thother, for ye know by histories of the bible that god may by his revelation dispense with his own Law.”

“A Subject and born to obey laws...The trial of all laws only consisteth in honest and probable witness.”

“The king's majesty desires nothing more than concord...; he knows there are those who would stir up strife, and that in many places in his field tares have sprongen to harm the wheat. The forwardness and carnal lust of some, the inveterate corruption and superstitious tenacity of opinion of others, excite disputation and quarrels most horrible to good Christian men; one side calls the other papists, and the other again calls them heretics, both naughty and not to be borne; and that the less so because they miserably abuse the Holy Word of God and the Scriptures which the same most noble prince of his gentleness and for the salvation and consolation of his people has permitted them to read in the vulgar tongue. They twist God's sacred gift, now into heresy and now into superstition. favours nor one side nor the other but, as becometh a Christian prince, profess the true Christian faith true doctrine and rule of the Gospel shall be published clear and established the pious observation of ceremonies shall be distinguished from the impious, their use taught and their abuse abolished.”

“My prayer is that God give me no longer life than I shall be glad to use mine office in edification, and not in destruction.”

“I have meddled in so many matters under your Highness that I am not able to answer them all...but hard it is for me or any other meddling as I have done to live under your grace and your laws but we must daily offend.”

“My lord, you had showed yourself of much more patience—I wll not say of much more prudency—if ye had contented yourself with their lawful appeal and my lawful injunctions and rather have sought fully to instruct me in the matter than thus to desire to conquer me by shrewd words, to vanquish me by sharp threaps of Scripture which, as I know to be true, so I trust to God—as great clerk as ye be—ye allege them out of their place.”