“I learned the Gospel of Christ Jesus, if that be what you mean by pestilent doctrine, from Master Trudgeon at the first. He learned me that the Sacrament, as ye minister it, is an idol, and that no priest hath power to remit sin.”
“Dost thou account of this Trudgeon as a true prophet?”
“Ay, I do.”
“What then sayest thou to our Saviour Christ’s word to His Apostles, ‘Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them’?”
“Marry, I say nought, without you desire it.”
“What meanest by that?”
“Why, you are not apostles, nor yet the priests that be now alive. He said not, ‘Whosesoever sins Sir Thomas Tye shall remit, they are remitted unto them.’”
“Thou foolish man, Sir Thomas Tye is successor of the apostles.”
“Well, but it sayeth not neither, ‘Whosesoever sins ye and your successors do remit.’ I’ll take the words as they stand, by your leave. To apostles were they said, and to apostles will I leave them.”
“The man hath no reason in him!” said Kingston. “Have him away likewise.”