Response aux cinq premieres et principales demandes de F. Jean Hay, moine jesuite, aux ministres escossois

of the past time mockingly: then he adds that this is very far from groaning: seeing that Saint Paul declares to us that these are enormous and inexcusable offenses before God. From which it follows that his followers are damned.

Truly you continue as well as you began. For instead of the question being to know if the Papal doctrine, which has been combated and, thanks to God, abolished in Scotland by the ministry of these two whom you name, and others, is true or false, you want one to show you if Scotland, from the beginning that Christ was announced there, received Christianity such as you preach it, or such as we announce it. A question which cannot in any way resolve our difference. For be it one or the other, the true will always be found true, and the false, false. But if, believing your Chronicles, the Scots received Christianity through the Christian Britons, having retreated there at the time of the persecution of Diocletian: we say boldly that it happened to Scotland as to other countries, having first had the pure Gospel preached there that we are now restoring: and having since slipped in little by little like