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 ſelf-ſame Words in Engliſh which were in Latin, ſaving Things taken out, which were ſo fond, that it had  a Shame to have heard them in Engliſh, as all they can, which liſt to report the Truth. The Difference is, meant godly; that you Our Subjects ſhould underſtand Engliſh, being Our natural Country Tongue, that which  heretofore ſpoken in Latin, then ſerving only for them, which underſtood Latin, and now, for all you which be born. How can this with Reaſon offend any reaſonable, that he ſhall underſtand what any other faith, and ſo with the Speaker? If the Service in the Church was in Latin, it remaineth good in Engliſh; for nothing is, but to ſpeak with Knowledge, that which was ſpoken with Ignorance, and to let you underſtand what is ſaid  you, to the Intent you may further it with your own Devotion: An Alteration to the Better, except Knowledge be worſe  Ignorance. So that, whoſoever hath moved you to this Order, can give you no Reaſon, nor anſwer yours,  ye underſtood it. Fox's Acts and Monuments, Vol. 2. Pg. 667.

In the eighth Seſſion of the General Aſſembly held in Auguſt 1590, King James VI. was preſent, where he praiſed God, That he was born in ſuch a Time, as in the Time of Light of the Goſpel, to ſuch a Place, as to be King of  a Kirk, the ſincereſt Kirk in the World. The Kirk of Geneva, ſaid he, keepeth Paſch and Tule: What have they them? They have no Inſtitution. As for Our Neighbour Kirk in England, their Service is an evil-ſaid Maſs in ; they want nothing of the Maſs but the Liſtings. I you, My good People, Miniſters, Doctors, Elders, Noblemen, Gentlemen and Barons, to ſtand to your Purity,  to exhort the People to do the ſame, and I forſooth, ſo  as I bruik my Life and Crown, ſhall mantain the ſame  all Deadly, &c. There was nothing heard for a of an Hour, but praiſing God, and praying for the King,  Hiſt, Pag. 256, 257.

As to Prelacy and the Identity of Biſhop and Presbyter, the eat Eraſmus upon I Tim. 4. 4. Biſhop Cranmer, in his Conferences, P. 310, 331. Biſhop in Defence of his Apology, Part 2d, Chap. 9. Diviſ. 1. Biſhop Morton in Catholick Apology, Part 1. Chap. 33. Biſhop Bilſon in his book againſt Seminaries, Lib. 1. Pag. 318. and Archbiſhop Whiteguiſt against Carthright, and many others; as Biſhop