A Revision of Two Letters from George Morley, Bishop of Winchester, to Jan van Vliet

Church is far different from the worship with which Pagans pursued their idols; and that the crime of idolatry, so abominable, is objected to the Church with no less injustice than the horrible crime of high treason was objected, not long ago, to most innocent men, and to their most faithful King, and to most obedient subjects, by the enemies of God, the Church, and the King himself, with a truly Protestant, truly Calvinist faith. Meanwhile, they were themselves preparing a true conspiracy for the ruin of the King and the Kingdom, meditating on killing the King and his only brother, and deriving the hatred of the execrable crime onto the innocent Catholics who were thinking nothing of the matter, exacting penalties from them, and destroying them for a crime committed by others. How many crimes in one act! And all this, in order that, with the Monarchy eliminated and the entire Royal family extinguished or punished with exile, they might establish a Genevan form of republic in England; as the wiser ones suspected from the beginning, and as now manifests itself clearly.

In other parts of this book written in English, he attacks other heads of the Faith; to which I have replied in English, so that, according to the rules of grammar, the solution might correspond with the question, and the response might square with the objection. Those who know that language will pass judgment on both.