they must be otherwise handeled / and seinge they do
confesse Christe / they are to be enforced to his pure and true
religion. Again the Iues can not do so moche hurte as these
Iebuzites maie / for all men / for the moste parte / do shonne
and deteste the Iue / But these are subtile sorcerers / which
vnder the cloke of the name of Christ / and ciuile
familiaritie / maye deceyue many: furthermore there is a promise
of the saluation of the Iues / to be shewed in the latter age /
The lyke peculiar promise of papistes ther is not. And yet I do
not speake this / as though I dyd condemne the counsell of many
good princes / which haue cast the Iues owt of their countrye /
for good iuste and laufull causes. Their acte I do allowe. But
to returne vnto theise heretiques the papistes / we are bounde
to praie for them / and seinge they do dwell amonge vs / we
muste obserue the aforenamed rules / In vsinge or not vsinge
familiaritie / and being conuersaunte with them / which I dyd
giue / of being conuersaunt with the vnfaithfull and wicked / in
which sorte I do place them. And if any of them do returne to
the truith / and will embrace the true Religion of Christ / they
are not to be rebaptized. For though a Christian ought not to
demaunde baptisme in the popishe churche / yet the baptisme
which they haue hetherto vsed we acknowledge it to be such that
it is not to be reiterated of them whom they do baptise.
Augustine writinge of baptisme /

[[Contra donat. lib. 5. cap. 23.]]

againste the donatistes / sayeth that when they retorne / the
handes only are to be layde on them: and that les is sholde
apeare / that they were before without fault. Also that the
holye ghost maye by praier be begged to comme vpon them / whose
singular gifte the vnitie of the true churche is. This ceremonie
trulye is laudable / but yet seinge it is not appointed to this
purpose in the holye scripture / it maie be omitted: because we
do se that the cheifest vse of it (as the apostles vsed it) was
in the institution of the ministers of the churche. Suche of
them as haue bene byshopps / and elders / maie be receyued into
their degrees / and offices / if they do returne vnto the
truithe: but this must be done / so as shall seme moste
profitable to the flocke / and churche of the lorde. If they
haue suche giftes as maie serue for the edyfying of the
churche / And if by their ministerie / the truithe of the
gospell and the saluation of the people which was c