An aunswer to sixe reasons, that Thomas Pownde, Gentleman, and prisoner in the Marshalsey , at the commaundement of her Maiesties Commissioners for causes Ecclesisasticall: required to be aunswered. : Because these reasons doo mooue him to think, that controuersies and doubts in religion may not be judged by the scriptures, but that the scriptures must be judged by the Catholicke Church. 1. The first is: for that the scriptures, are mute and dum. ... 6. The sixt is, for that in refusing the authoritie of the churches absolute iudgement herein: we seeme to denie the holy ghoste to be the spirit of trueth.