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

we can well say that the one in question was a very faithful baker, having very well kneaded, shaped, put in the oven, and baked the bread of life for the Scots, and we praise God following the steps and the words of Jesus Christ. Luke 10:21, and what the Apostle testifies 1 Cor. 1:26, that he has raised up again in our time the little ones to shame those who are wise in their own eyes. But, all things considered, your impudence is marvelous in that you dare to reproach such things in our time to the ministers of the true Gospel, it being a thing quite notorious that your false priesthood has been for several centuries stuffed and filled with the greatest and most contemptible asses that can be found in the world. And as for John Knox of happy memory, you could not do him greater honor than to call him an apostate of your priesthood, the crime of Necromancy that you object to him being, moreover, neither true nor likely, and one which rather belongs to you in truth, seeing that you live only on enchanted bread.

As for the passage you alleged from a sermon of Mr. John Calvin. Calvin says, and says truly, that there are among those very people who have knowledge of the Gospel, some so poorly taught yet, that instead of condemning ignorance after the example of St. Paul, they imagine that there is no malice nor venom in those who err through simplicity, as one commonly says. Then afterwards he reproaches even more greatly those who, instead of recognizing with the Apostle the great grace of God which has called them to his knowledge, and of groaning over the faults committed by them and their superstitions of time past, when they were plunged into their idolatries and such wicked superstitions, speak of it only in mockery, and yet St. Paul declares in his person that these are enormous and inexcusable offenses before God.