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Deus no illuditur, Dei sapientia est in misterio quam nemo 
principu huius seculi cognovit. Verbu crucis pereuntibus qui- 
dem stultitia est. 
I also requyre yow not to disturbe the towardness of y* 
perpetuall reconciliations of these II realmes in unite of hart. 
Behold not your self to be an instrumet of discord, that have 
so hartely professed this union. If you thynk well of your 
title that yow pretend, beware that by sekyng to furder your 
cocept, yow doo not manifestly recuyle backward. I meane 
much herin, and if you will not understand it, I thynk all y° 
rest of my wrytyng litle worth. 
Lastly I requyre you, if nothyng shall move yow, yet 
remeber that this matter is grat and weighty, and wold be 
well behold on all partes, before yow accept it, deliberandu 
certe sentio. 
I know well ther is nothyng y‘ I have thus wrytten that 
you can not know but I onely feare, that your affection is so 
larg as it hath covered your judgmét. God gyye you his spyrit 
to discerne herin what shall be most to his honor. 
I must end w' a promiss for myne own part, by Gods good- 
ness (before whom I this will pronotce), I will never be 
author, or assentor to that which I shall probably thynk will 
ether extinguish y° knowledg of y* Gospell in this Ile, or will 
deminish y* cocord y'is presently betwixt the nations, for if I 
shall willyngly so doo I shall syne ageynst my conscience. 
Now choose yow what ye will doo, but hartily I wish and 
praye that you maye doo to y° best. 
From Wyndsor y° xx" of August, 1563. 
Yours in God an 
the cocord of this Ile 
insaparable. - 
W. CECILL. 
