John Edmund Cox (ed.): "Works of Thomas Cranmer:" 2,18ff., "Of the Sacra...
More back-and-forth between Wily and the ABC. Both are skilled at innuendo and the daggers are out. Wily has levelled his digs and imputations against Dr. Cranmer. Cranmer uses the exact language in this section: a mirror of Wily’s language but hurls back the same terms of craftiness, sleights, obliquities, etc. Here’s Dr. Cranmer’s return volley using Wily's own words against him -- “And for the conclusion of your matter here, I doubt not but the indifferent reader shall easily perceive what spirit moved you to write your book. For seeing that your book is so full of crafts, sleights, shifts, obliquities, and manifest untruths, it may be easily judged, that whatsover pretence be made of truth, yet nothing is less intended, than that truth should either have victory, or appear and be seen at all.” Oh the great love they have for each other. Wily will be an accessory and principal to mass genocide--287 first degree homocides. Jesus teaches that there is an afterlife which this scene invokes for consideration. Where are both men today in 2021?
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