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A15431	Tetrastylon papisticum, that is, The foure principal pillers of papistrie the first conteyning their raylings, slanders, forgeries, vntruthes: the second their blasphemies, flat contradictions to scripture, heresies, absurdities: the third their loose arguments, weake solutions, subtill distinctions: the fourth and last the repugnant opinions of new papistes with the old; of the new one with an other; of the same writers with themselues: yea of popish religion with and in it selfe. Compiled as a necessarie supplement or fit appertinance to the authors former worke, intituled Synopsis papismi: to the glorie of God for the dissuading of light-minded men from trusting to the sandie foundation of poperie, and to exhort good Christians stedfastlie to hold the rockie foundation of faith in the Gospell.	Willet, Andrew, 1562-1621.	1593 (1593)	STC 25701; ESTC S119967	179,229	213

Church beside which are reckoned to 232 bookes beside his homilies and epistles which were more then as many againe So foolish men haue presumed to be most bold with his writings defiling his learned workes with ridiculous additions of their owne All I cannot neither is it needful in this place to recite onely for some trial of the matter I will set downe these fewe The questions Veteris noui testamenti are none of Augustines for quest 21. it is affirmed that Melchisedech was the holy ghost which opinion is heresie with Augustine and in his booke de haeresib he numbreth the Melchisedechians amongest other heretikes Therefore Augustine is not the author and this Bellarm. confesseth De sacrament lib. 2. cap. 10. yet is the authoritie of this booke vrged by our Rhemistes as sound Annot. 1. Corinth sec. 5. Saint Augustine not the author of the serm de sanctis for the author of these homilies alleadgeth the testimonie of Isidorus who liued about 200 yeares after Augustine August ser. 91. and 251. none of Augustines the author saith that the mightie men when they come to Church compell the priest to make short his masse this manner agreed not with Augustines age The booke de visitatione infirmorum none of his Erasmus saieth it is the speech of a brabler neither learned nor eloquent and most impudently entituled to S. Augustine The 215. serm de tempore the treatise de rectitud Cathol conuersat none of Augustines Fulk annot Galath 4. sect 2. The booke de dogmatib ecclesiastic none of Augustines for the author of that booke excludeth those from orders that had eyther more wiues then one or one concubine By this rule Augustine could neuer haue beene a Bishop for he had two cōcubines And many other beside these are found to be counterfeit bookes as he that wil take the paines to peruse Erasmus censures vpon Augustines workes shall easily finde The last forgery which I will charge our aduersaries withall in this place shalbe concerning the donation of Constantine vpon the which the Bishop of Rome doth ground his supreame dominion and right ouer al the political gouernmēt of the west partes The which said donation is but a forged and deuised deede or instrument of their owne For the donation saith that Constantine was baptised at Rome of Siluester and the 4. day after his baptisme this patrimonie was giuen before his battaile against Maximinus and Li●inius Here are manie vntrueths couched together 1. Because the trueth of the storie of Constantines baptisme is otherwise reported by Eusebius Hierom Ruffin Socrates Theodoret Sozomen that Constantine was baptized at Nicomedia not at Rome and by Eusebius Bishop of Nicomedia not by Siluester and not before that battaile but in the xxxi yeare of his raigne a little before his death 2. whereas the saide donation giueth iurisdiction to the Bishop of Rome ouer the 4. patriarchall seas of Antioch Alexandria Constantinople Hierusalem how could this be done before his battell with Maximinus when as the citie of Constantinople was not yet begunne So this forged donation neither agreeth with itselfe nor with others Plura apud Fox pag. 105. All this notwithstanding which we haue not barely and nakedlie affirmed but I trust sufficientlie prooued and to the indifferent Reader by more then probable argumentes demonstrated that our aduersaries haue vsed much deceit in conueying false and forged writinges vnder auncient authors names yet they will needes beare the worlde in hand that there is no such matter but that they are those authors proper and peculiar workes Whereupon they are boulde in euerie controuersie as they haue occasion to presse vs with their light and vaine authorities As the constitut of Clemens alleadged by the Rhom annot Luk. 4. sec. 1. Ignatius Math. 4. sec. 2. 1. Peter 2. sect 6. Hippolytus Math. 24. sec. 5. Policarpus Act. 6. sec. 1. Decret Alexandri 1. Timoth. 4. sec. 13. Milc●adi Fabian Act. 8. sect 6. Dionisi Areop ibid. S. Andrew S. Martial Hebr. 10. sect 11. Leiturg Iacob Basil. Chrysost. 1. Corinth 11. sect 10. Iodoc. Clicton for Cirill Iohn 11. sect 1. Paulinus Iohn 19. sect 2. August serm de sanct Act. 1. sect 7. de rectit●d cathol conuers de visitation infirmor serm de tempor Galath 4. sect 2. de ecclesiastic dogmatib 1. Corinth 11. sect 7. Thus we see both the great boldnes of our aduersaries in vrging such authorities which they knowe to be counterfeit as also the apparant weakenesse of their cause that are constrained to vse such beggerlie shiftes But let them vse and vrge these stragling runnagate and fatherlesse bookes neuer so much wee will still holde vs to this point wherein they shall neuer be able to disproue vs that they do deceiue them selues and abuse the world in making men to beleeue that they are the fathers owne writinges Wee say therefore of these and of all such other bookes as Augustine did of that which went in Henoehs name Libriisti ob nimiam antiquitatem reijciuntur These bookes are too old to be true De ciuitat dei lib. 18. cap. 38. And concerning some of them as those which are fathered vpon the Apostles and them that followed in the next age as Augustine saith of the epistle which the Manichees ascribed to Christ Si aliqua huiusmodi epistola fuit ab eis proferri potuit qui illi adhaerebant So if they wrote any such bookes it is like they would haue brought them to light that were the Apostles schollers cont Faust. lib. 22. cap. 79. And of them all and the rest of that sort wee pronounce this sentence with the same father Quae proferuntur ab errantibus sub nomine ipsorum quia non sunt ipsorum improbantur nec acceptantur ab ecclesia Those bookes which are brought forth vnder the name of the Apostles and other auncient writers because they are not theirs are reiected and not receiued or acknowledged of the Churche in Psal. 130. Thus hauing in part declared so much as I thought necessary for the matter in hand how deceitfully our aduersaries haue dealt with the worlde giuing them Quid pro quo as wee say one thing for an other in falsely entituling their friuolous pamphletes with graue and good authors names I will spende a little time before I leaue this place to shewe how they haue not onely thrust vppon those auncient doctors and fathers false writinges but haue also falsified their good woorkes by putting in and putting out by clipping chaunging and altering lines wordes sentences And no maruaile then if by such cunning rather cousoning sleightes they make those good authors to speake what they list them selues Ann. 420. There was a councell held in Africa by 217. Bishoppes called the 6. councell of Carthage whereat Augustine was present vnto this councell sent Zosimus then Bishop of Rome certaime messengers with fower requestes or demaundes whereof this was one that it might be lawfull for Bishops or Priestes to appeale from the sentence

you spare neither Apostle pastor nor minister neither primitiue and auncient nor present and now being Church say on still as ye doe that the protestants tende euery day more and more to Atheisme and Antichristianisme Rhemist 2. Thessa. 2. sect 14. That the protestantes haue forsaken Christ the protestantes are become Iewes the protestantes wil be circumcised according to Moses law the protestantes require to haue the paschal Lambe the protestantes tell the people there is no hell at all the protestantes at their next proceeding wil vtterly denie God Har ding praefat ad defens apolog ex Iuello Well yee slaunderous mouthed hypocrites if Ieremies saying were not verified vppon you Thou hast a whores forehead thou wouldest not be ashamed 3. 3. ye might well blushe and shew al your blood in your face when you inuent such vnchristian slaunders against vs which the worlde crieth shame vpon and your owne consciences accuse ye of Wee haue no other shielde to holde vp against these iniuries of yours but the prophet Dauids saying with his words in the person of our Church As he loued cursing so let it come vnto him and as he loued not blessing so shall it be farre from him as he clothed him selfe with cursing like a rayment so shall it come into his bowels like water and like oyle into his bones Let it be vnto him as a garment to couer him and for a girdle wherewith he shall alway be girded Let this be the rewarde of mine aduersarie from God and of them that speake euill against my soule Psal. 109 vers 17. 18. 19. 20. Heare ye also what Bernard saith Gladius anceps lingua detractoris Nec verò huiusmodi linguam ipso mucrone quo dominicum latus confossum est crudeliorem dicere verearis haec enim non iam examine Christi corpus fodit sed facit examine fodiendo A slauderous tongue is a two edged sword And such a tongue we need not doubt to cal more cruel then the speares point that peirced our Lordes side for this doth not pierce or wound the dead bodie of Christ but slayeth and woundeth it to death serm de triplici custodia Thus yee papistes shew your selues greater enimies to Christ in slaundering his Church then if ye had thrust his body through that hanged vppon the crosse for then his bodie was first dead before it was pierced But you doe rent and wound the liuelie bodie of Christ now which is his Church I pray God giue you grace if yee belong vnto him to repente you of this wickednes And thus much also concerning the slaunders and malicious reportes giuen out by papistes against our Church The 3. part of the manifold vntruthes forgeries and bold denials of papistes of manifest vntruthes Part. 3. IT followeth now in the third place hauing alreadie sufficiently discoursed of their personal slaunders which they vomite and spue vp either against our Church in general or against some particular members thereof that now we lay open to the worlde their vntruthes and lies which in heapes are coyned and forged out of their shoppes that whereas they accuse vs of lying saying most scornefully That lies are as common with heretikes as lice with beggers Harding it may euidentlie appeare to the world whether of twaine be the greate lyers And first of their forgeries Neuer anie Heretikes were more cunning or had better dexteritie in forging of writinges and foisting bookes of their owne deuising and making vnder the name of other authors First the Canons of the Apostles as they call them which are fathered vpon the Apostles are but bastard writinges falsely going vnder their name for in the last canon the gospell written by S. Iohn is numbred among the bookes of the newe testament which is confessed by all to haue beene penned by the Euangelist after the death of all or most of the Apostles How could then these Canons as they affirme be deuised and published by the Apostles them selues assembled together Againe those Canons of the Apostles doe recken 3. bookes of the Macchabees amongest the canonicall scripture But the papistes them selues receiue but two if then they were perswaded them selues that they were the verie Canons of the Apostles how durst they disagree from them in opinion Plura apud Whitacher controu 1 de scriptur cap. 4. The constitutions also of the Apostles the collection whereof is ascribed to Clemens seemeth to be but a forged booke conteining many thinges false and friuolous as lib. 6. cap. 14. He bringeth in Iames the brother of Iohn writing and speaking with the rest of the Apostles many yeares after his death Lib. 6. cap. 7. he calleth Philip spoken of Act. 8. an Apostle but lib. 8. cap. 52. he maketh him but a Deacon Of the like credite are the counterfeit writinges which passe vnder the name of Abdias Ignatius Hippolytus Policarpus as it may appeare by the homely stuffe contained in them Abdias prescribeth a most superstitious obseruation of Lent fast not onely in abstaining from all flesh-meates but also from all carnall copulation betweene man and wife The same Abdias is also contrarie to himselfe for he affirmeth that Paule suffered 2. yeares after Peter And saith further that Paule after Peter was crucified remained in his custodie at Rome mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles which was as Hierome saith the 3. or 4. yeare of Nero so that by this account there must be 10. yeares space betweene the suffering of Paule and Peter for it is confessed by all writers that Paule suffered the 14. that is the last yeare of Nero. Ignatius saith in his epistle to the Philippians that if any man shal fast on Sunday or Saturday he is a murtherer of Christ so hoat this counterfeit father is about his counterfeit traditions Of the like authoritie is Policarpus epistle ad Philippen which is gathered out of the Apocryphall constitutions of counterfeit Clemens Hippolytus booke is too ful of fables then to be thought to be that auncient Martyrs worke for writing of Antichrist he saith he shalbe no man but a deuil in the shape of man that Iohn the Euangelist shal come with Henoch and Helias before the comming of Antichrist that Antichrist shal bring deuils with him in the shape of Angels and commaund them to carie him vp to heauen with other such stuffe Now commeth in that vncleane dunghil of decretals which are falsely attributed to those good Bishops of Rome that suffered in the great persecutions in the primitiue age of the Church for the testimonie of Iesus As wee may strongly coniecture by the matter and substance of those decretals The epistle fathered vppon Alexander doth euidentlie appeare to be counterfeit by the date which it beareth when Traianus and Helianus were Consuls But there was neuer anie Helianus Consull with Traianus Fulk 1. Tim. 4. 13. Euaristus Bishop of Rome is saide to haue decreed that no priest should be ordained without a title But it is not like that

of their Metropolitanes and also of the councel to the sea of Rome alleadging for him selfe certaine wordes as he pretended taken out of the Nicene councell Hereupon the councell sent their Legates to Cirillus patriarke of Alexandria for the auncient copies in Greeke of the Nicene councell wherein they found no such canon as was pretended but the contrarie howe the decrees of the Nicene councell had committed all and singular persons Ecclesiasticall vnto the charge of their Metropolitanes Thus then to beginne this game withall the Bishops of Rome them selues are proued to bee forgers and falsifiers of auncient writinges Plura apud Fox pag. 10. Canisius reporting Augustines wordes for the continuall succession of the Bishops of Rome from Peter alleadgeth onely the former part of the sentence Cathedra quid tibi fecit Ecclesiae Romanae in qua Petrus sedit in qua hodie Anastasius sedet What hath the sea of the Church of Rome offended thee wherein Peter sometime sat and Anastasius now sitteth but he craftilie leaueth out that which followeth Vel ecclesiae Hierosolymitanae in qua Iacobus sedit in qua hodie Iohannes sedet Or what hath the sea of Ierusalem offended thee wherein Iames sometime sat and Iohn nowe sitteth these wordes he cunningly suppresseth because they made little for him Canis oper catechistic cap. de praecept eccles artic 9. Christoforson translating Eusebius storie into latine where Nouatus is brought in thus adiuring the people that came to the oblations holding both their handes in his sweare to me by the bodie and blouds of the Lorde Iesus that thou wilt not leaue me and go to Cornelius and he refused to distribute vnto them till that they swearing vnto him in steade of Amen to be saide at the receiuing of breade shoulde aunswere I will not returne to Cornelius Christoforson I say comming to these wordes craftilie leaueth out the name of breade because the author so calleth it in plaine termes after consecration Christofor lib. 6. cap. 43. The Rhemist 1. Corinth 10. sec. 8. speaking of their popish sacrifice of the Masse alleadge the authoritie of Ciril Alexand in concil Ephesin Anathem 11. where he should call it The quickening holy sacrifice the vnbloody hoast and victime But this is a false forgerie for there is no such worde found there Likewise in the same place they quote Tertullian de coron militis Chrisost. homil 41. in 1. Corinth Ciprian epist. 66. August Enchirid. 109. That the Masse is a propitiatorie sacrifice for the liuing and dead which is founde to be a great vntrueth for those authors in some of these places speake of praier for the dead but of any such propitiatorie sacrifice not one word Fulk ibid. Gregor Nyssen oration cap. 37. is made to speake much of the transmutation of the bread in the sacrament and it is often repeated but there is no such thing found in many auncient copies And Nicephorus writeth that many things were foisted into him by heretikes Niceph. lib. 11. cap. 19. The wordes of Ciprian de vnitat Eccles. are falsified by Pammelius for whereas Ciprian writeth thus Uerilie the rest of the Apostles were the same thing that Peter was endued with equall fellowship both of honor and power but the beginning proceedeth from one that the church may be declared to be one But the Rhemistes according to their corrupt edition reade thus But the beginning proceedeth from one the primacie is giuen to Peter that the Church of Christ may be shewed to be one and one Chaire Fulk Iohn 21. sect 4. In like sort haue the papistes corrected as they say but in deede corrupted other writinges of the auncient fathers and especially Bertram amongest the rest who is a great enemie to their popish opinion of transubstantiation They meane to deale with him as with other ancient writers In whom say they we beare verie many errors and extenuate them excuse them and verie oftentimes by deuising some pretie shift wee doe denie them and doe fayne some commodious sense vnto them when they are opposed against vs This is the iudgement of the vniuersitie of Doway in their owne words approoued by the Censors according to the Councell of Trent And thus they meant to haue filed nay rather defiled althe auncient writings where they seemed to contradict them as it appeareth in their Index expurgatorius lately printed to their perpetual shame which they purposed to keepe in secret Hee that will resort to that booke shall not want proofe of their Popish falsifying of writers And it were to bee wished that they would haue stayed here though this bee shamefull enough onely to haue defaced the writinges of men but when they take vpon them to correct and amend the sacred Scriptures which are the Lords owne writings who will not crie out against so great impietie As Dan 11. 37. Where the text according to the Hebrue is Hee shall not regard the Gods of his fathers nor the desires of women Bellarm. readeth cleane contrarie taking vpon him to correct the text Erit in concupiscentijs mulierum He shalbe giuen to the pleasures of women Whereas S. Paul sayth Tit. 3. 10. Reiect him that is an heretike after once or twise admonition Bellarm. denieth the text and saith it should rather be thus read after once admontion De laicis cap. 22. Likewise where the true reading is agreeable to the originall Galath 2. 9. Iames Cephas and Iohn Bellarmne not well content that Iames should be named before Peter sayth the more auncient reading is thus Peter Iames and Iohn De Roman pontif lib. 1. cap. 18. Iudith cap. 5. ver 18. The text sayth That the Temple of the Iewes had bene cast downe to the ground Bellarmne to make his opinion stande that the storie of Iudith fell out before the captiuitie saith flatly that these words are supposititia are foysted into the text And this booke of Iudith though it be not with vs yet is Scripture with them Bellar. lib. 1. de verb. dei 12. Leuit. 18. 16. Whereas the text is plaine Thou shalt not discouer the shame of thy brothers wife There steppeth me foorth a bold shamefull papist and saith plainely Illud praeceptum vitio scriptorum superadditum That this precept was put into the text through the default or ouersight of the writer Iohan. Maior in 4. sentent distinct 40. qu. 3. And as they are not ashamed thus boldly and wickedly to defaulke clippe from the Scriptures so an otherwhile they will bee so saucie as to adde thereunto and put to of their owne Thus Pope Sixtus the 4. added this clause to the salutation of Marie which is commonly called the Aue Marie hayle Marie full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou amongest women then followeth that blasphemous addition Et benedicta sit Anna mater tua de qua sine macula tua pro cessit caro virginea And blessed is Anna thy mother of whom thy Virgines flesh hath proceeded without

TETRASTYLON PAPISTICVM That is THE FOVRE PRINCIPAL PILLERS of Papistrie the first conteyning their raylings slanders forgeries vntruthes the second their blasphemies flat contradictions to scripture heresies absurdities the third their loose arguments weake solutions subtill distinctions the fourth and last the repugnant opinions of New Papistes With the old of the new one with another of the same writers with themselues yea of Popish religion with and in it selfe Compiled as a necessarie supplement or fit appertinance to the Authors former worke intituled Synopsis Papismi To the glorie of God for the dissuading of light-minded men from trusting to the sandie foundation of poperie and to exhort good Christians stedfastlie to hold the rockie foundation of faith in the Gospell Epist. Iud. ver 9. 10. Michael the Archangel when he stroue against the diuell did not blame him with cursed speaking but said the Lord rebuke thee But these speake euill of those things they know not and whatsoeuer things they know naturally as beastes which are without reason in those things they corrupt themselues Haeretici cùm peruersitatis suae rationem reddere non possunt ad maledicta conuertuntur Heretickes when they can render no reason of their wilfulnesse fall to flat railing Printed by Robert Robinson for Thomas Man dwelling in Pater noster row at the signe of the Talbot 1593. To the Right Honorable Sir Iohn Puckering Knight Lord Keeper of the broad Seale of England and of her Maiesties most Honorable priuie Counsell I Haue not neither can forget Right Honorable your courteous acceptation of that simple gift which not long since I presumed to present your Honor withall Since that time I confesse my selfe a debtor to your Lordship and therefore haue strained my selfe for kindnesse receiued to shew at the least thankefulnesse againe and to recompense the meannes of that gift by an other of that sort Iubemur saith one colligere fragmenta ne pereant id est ne minima beneficia obliuisci Wee are bidden to gather vp the verie fragmentes and crummes that is not to forget the least benefites First then J will declare the contentes of this present treatise Secondly the reasons that mooued mee thereunto Lastly why I would haue it passe vnder your honors name First of all therfore as in my former booke I haue gathered together into one summe the Lord by the gracious assistance of his spirite directing me the whole doctrine of the Church of Rome and opinions of Papistes in that worke but plainely and nakedly offering to the Readers viewe the substance of the controuersies and state of the questions betweene vs So further I thought it not amisse to bring to light and to shew as in the face of the Sunne the manifold absurdities inconueniences shiftes subtilties blasphemies which our aduersaries in defense of their errours are constrained to vse in oppugning the trueth This I haue accordingly perfourmed I trust in this worke that the weaknes of their cause the beggerie of their Religion the vanitie of their Councels and deceite of their heartes might appeare and be made knowen to all the worlde This booke I haue intituled the PILLERS OF PAPISTRIE which is built vpon lies and vntruthes faced out with rayling and bitter speech propped vp with blasphemies and patched together with dissonant contrarie opinions among them selues The proofe of these particulars followeth at large discoursed in this treatise First as touching thir lying and vntruthes I could haue wished that they had embraced his wise counsell that saith Aut cauenda sunt mendacia rectè agendo aut confitenda paenitendo non autem cum abundent infoeliciter viuendo augenda sunt docendo August lib. 2. de mendac cap. 21. But they are so farre from correcting by repentance that which they haue offended in practise that they are not onely become liemakers but lie-maisters not practisers of this craft but teachers defenders Concerning their railing speech it is al the Rhetorike they vse Such are no better then sheep-biters meacockes among thē that haue not filed whetted their toongs to smite wound vs withall But here I say vnto thē as Augustine did to the heretike Pascentius Literae tuae nec ad reddenda conuitia me provocant nec a reddendis literis me reuocare potuerunt So neither shall their rayling writinges prouoke vs likewise to passe the bondes of modestie and to pay them home in the same kind neither yet cause vs to cease from answering their follies Nowe as for their blasphemies it woulde offend a chast and a Christian eare to heare what horrible and vngodly sayings doe passe from them in the second piller of this booke we haue set downe a whole kenning of them But as Augustine saieth to some who the more readily to descrie heretikes them selues also fel into blasphemie tolerabilius in suis foueis delite scerent vulpes quā propter illas capiendas in blasphemiae foueam caderent venatores The Foxes might more safely lurke in their holes then the huntsmen to take them should fal into the pit of blasphemie So though we were the foxes and they the huntsmen it is no good way for the huntsmen to snare themselues to entangle the foxes But we in deede are the huntsmen and they the foxes as it is said take vs These foxes these litle foxes that destroy the vines Cantic 2. 15. Concerning the dissensions and diuisions among papistes it is no strange thing as he saith Omnia vitia erroresque mortaliū diuisi sunt inter se contrarij apud Idolorum cultores diuisi sunt spiritus Iunonis spiritus Herculis Paganus Iudaeus hostes sunt Christi sed diuisi inter se Arrianus Photinianus haeretici diuisi inter se sic Donatistae sic Maximinianistae All vices and errors among men are deuided and contrary to themselues among the Idolatrous Heathen the spirite of Iuno and Hercules are diuided the Paganes Iewes enemies to Christ and yet diuided the Arrians likewise Photmians the Donatistes and Maximinianistes ad also the Scotistes and Thomistes among the Papistes deuided betweene them selues yet Ambo pertinent ad regnum diaboli Both doe belong to the raigne or kingdome of the Deuil Now the reasons that haue moued me principally to enterprise this businesse were these First in respect of those countrie men of ours which haue suffered themselues a long time to be seduced and deceiued with false opinions and a vaine shew of holines beeing as it were made drunke with the whore of Babylons intoxicate cuppe that they now at the length seeing the nakednes beggerie of popish religion would take heed to themselues in time and thinke it enough yea too much to haue sipped of that poisoned cuppe lest drinking more deepely thereof they afterward bee constrained to draw out the dregges to be partakers of their plagues of them we say with Augustine Licèt non timentur vt perdant non

epistle to the Ephesians word for word And how is it like that Marcellinus which died in the 20. yeare of Dioclesian could write of consubstantialitie of the diuine persons when that controuersie and terme of consubstantialitie was not heard of in the Church before the Nicene Councell which was 23. yeares after him Fox ibid. Eusebius in his decretall epistle writeth thus In sede apostolica extra maculam semper catholica seruata est religio That is in the Apostolike Sea alwayes the catholike religion hath beene preserued without any spotte or blemish And yet his late predecessor Marcellinus within his time and remembrance did fall grieuously in sacrificing to Idols though afterward hee repented thereof and was condemned for the same and expulsed the citie by the Councell of 300. Bishops How then could Eusebius this fault and error of his predecessor beeing so fresh in memorie so report of the Apostolike Sea that it was neuer stayned with any blemish in the faith therefore it is apparant that it was none of his doing The decretall epistle also of Milciades bewrayeth it selfe to be counterfeite wherein the forged author sheweth how much more worthie the popish sacrament of confirmation is then baptisme Thus I hope it is a cleare case to anie man that is not wilfully blinde that those decretall epistles are but forged and bastard writings those holy Bishops and Martyrs to be falsely reputed the authors thereof considering that the matter therein conteyned neyther seemeth to be agreeable to those times nor yet besitting the grauitie of their person Beside these counterfeite decretals of the Bishops of Rome they haue also many other of the like inuention In the decrees of Gratian Distinction 10. Quoniam Is set foorth vnder Ciprians name Ciprianus Iuliano imperatori Ciprian to Iulian the Emperor wherein it is affirmed that the imperiall dignitie is subiect to the papall dignitie as the inferior to the superior But Ciprian lyued not in lulian the Apostata his time not by 200. yeares wherefore this is a lying glosse Siluesters constitution whome I should before haue recyted amongst the number of the Bishops of Rome That the Corporal whereupon our Lords bodie lyeth vpon the altar must bee pure and plaine linnen seemeth also to come out of the same forge for the papistes practise is contrarie they lay it vpon a guilt patten and they haue a certayne poke for reseruation lyned indeed with linnen but the out-side is silke gold siluer and pearles Dionisius booke de Eccles. Hierarchia which commonly is thrust vpon Dionisius Areopagita who was conuerted by S. Paul is worthily suspected not to bee of that authors doing for his writings coulde not haue beene vnknowen to Eusebius Hierome Gennadius who continued the catalogue of the principall writers of the Church for 500. yeares after Christ. And Dionisius Bishop of Corinth who lyued in the raigne of Commodus about ann 185. writing of Dionisius Areopagita declareth how hee was first conuerted to the faith by S. Paul as it is in the Actes of the Apostles and afterward was made Bishop of Athens But of his booke de Hierarch he hath not one word Euseb. li. 4. ca. 23. Gulielmus Gracinus did read in his open lecture in the Church of S. Pauls this book de eccl Hierarch who at the first entrance vehemently inueighed against those that held opinion that Dionisius Areopag was not author of that booke but after a fewe weekes being better aduised hee altered his minde and protested openly that in his iudgement Dionisius Areopag mentioned in the Actes was not author of that booke Ex Erasm. ad Parisiens Historia passionis of S. Andrew S. Martialis epist. ad Burdegalens are but counterfeite fables Fulk Hebr. 10. sect 9. No better is that pamphlet which goeth vnder Linus name intituled De Petripassione Which if it were true that is there reported Peter was most iustly condemned for entysing and leading away women from their husbands Beza annot Iohn 21. v. 19. against the doctrine of Christ and his Apostles The Liturgie of S. Iames is but a late deuised toye for Balsamon patriarke of Antioch sayth that the Liturgie of S. Iames was not extant in his time but vtterly worne away Fulke annot 1. Corinth 11. sect 10. No maruell then if these good fellowes make it not dayntie to belie the auncient Bishops and Martyrs with phantasticall and forged pamphlets seeing that they presume without blushing to vtter their forgeries both of the Apostles themselues and vnder their names not much vnlike to the olde heretikes the Manichees and others that scattered abroade hereticall deuises vnder the Apostles names as the Apocalypse of S. Paul whereof S. Augustine maketh mention Tract in Iohann 98. Another booke of S. Thomas the Apostle Augustine epist. 38. Certayne Epistles fathered vpon the Apostles August in Psalm 47. Yea they conteyned not them selues here but in their foolish conceyte deuised fables more auncient then the floode as the booke of Henoch whereof Augustine speaketh de ciuitat Dei lib. 18. cap. 38. And yet were more impudent for they alleadged an Epistle which they say was of Christes owne writing August cont Faust. lib. 28. cap. 4. I would now our aduersaries did not giue vs occasion by these imaginarie and decoytfull writings of theirs which they would notwithstanding to bee reputed as sound and substantiall to compare them in this respect to those heretikes of elder time Let vs now see what other phantasies they haue which doe maske vnder the name of later writers In the Liturgie that beareth the name of Chrysostome which the papistes call Chrysostomes Masse as it is set foorth by Cla●dius du Sanctis there is a prayer for Pope Nicholas and the Emperour Alexius whereof the one was neare 500. yeares the other 700 yeares after Chrysostome Iudge therefore Christian reader whether it bee likely to bee Chrysostomes The Liturgie bearing the name of Basill sheweth it selfe to bee none of his because it obserueth not that forme of doxologie that is prayse to the holy Ghost with the prepositiō 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which Basil doth so earnestly maintayne to be deriued from the Apostles tradition de Spirit sanct cap. 27. 28. There are 4. bookes interserted among Cirils commentaries vppon Iohn which were composed by Iodocus Clictouaeus to supplie so many bookes of Cirils wanting yet are they commonly alleadged by our aduersaries in Cirils name Paulinus Bishop of Nola his epistles forged For epistle 1● hee writeth thus of the wood of the crosse That it hath such an incorruptible vertue that it susteyneth no diminishing but continueth as though it had neuer beene touched men daily taking part of it Which is so grosse a fable that the Censors appointed according to the Councell of Trent in their Ind. expurgat commanded it to be put out How many bookes are foysted into Augustines workes it were to long to rehearse for as he in number of his workes exceeded any one of the auncient doctors of the

lies in his historie de poenitent lib. 3. cap. 14. Likewise in another place the Iesuite refuseth Platina non publica authoritate vitas illas Pontificum scripsit He was not by publike authoritie allowed to write the liues of the Popes de poenitent lib. 3. cap. 13. Benno a Cardinal refused that wrote the storie of Gregorie the 7. And the Iesuites loose coniecture is that the booke was made by some Lutherane whereas it is manifest that the booke is more auncient by almost fiue hundred yeares than the name of Luther Bellarm. de sum Pontif. lib. 4. cap. 13. But thus they deale not onely with these latter writers but euen with the most auncient If Tertullian be alleadged against them not to their liking they crie out that he was an heretike and wrote this or that in defence of heresie Harding detect 238. In deede Tertullian had his errors but yet all that he wrote contrarie to them is not heresie Where wee cite that saying of Cyprian If the truth faint or faile in any point wee ought to returne to the originall of our Lorde and to the traditions of the Gospell Wee receiue this aunswere S. Cyprian vsed that saying in an euill case and therefore hee defending a falshood was driuen to the verie same shiftes whereunto all heretikes are driuen Defens Apolog. pag. 172. Harding See the boldnes of this man The counsell and commaundement of Christ Search the Scriptures is no better with him than an hereticall shift When wee affirme by Saint Hieromes testimonie that Pope Liberius subscribed to the Arrians wee are sent away with this scornefull aunswere that Hierome was deceiued by a rumour dwelling in the East Harding pag. 661. But that famous learned father Augustine is most vncourteously vsed at their hands of all the rest The Rhemistes refuse Augustines exposition of these wordes in the Gospel vpon this rocke c. Math. 16. which he expoundeth not of Peters person but of Peters faith Annot. Math. 16. Sect. ● They likewise refuse his reading Hebr. 11. Iacob worshipped leaning vpon his staffe but they will needs haue it Iacob worshipped the top of his staffe as though Iacob made an idol of his staffe Annot. Heb. 11. v. 21. Bellarmine also taketh the same libertie to reiect Augustines iudgemēt as where Augustine interpreteth that place of S. Paul 1. Cor. 3. He shalbe saued as through fire of the afflictions or tribulations of this life But the Iesuite wresteth the words to signifie Purgatorie de Purgator lib. 1. ca. 4. And in another place he doth not only refuse but confute at large Augustines interpretation of that place of Peter epist. 1. cap. 3. of the spirites now in prison which were sometime disobedient de Christo lib. 4. cap. 13. Yea he doth not onely reiect this learned father and by argument confute him but hee proceedeth yet further to father a lie vpon him thus writing Augustinus absurdissimum censuit quod haeresis Donatistarum post annum Domini 300 ex Carthagine esset propaganda in omnem terram Augustine thought most absurdly that the Donatistes heresie three hundred yeares expired after Christ should out of Carthage spring foorth and bee propagated or spread abroad into all the earth And the Iesuite quoteth the place in Augustine lib. de vnitat Eccles. cap. 14. 15. Bellarm. de notis Eccles lib. 4. cap. 7. But in Augustine read the place who will there is no such matter to be founde The Donatistes assertion was this that the Church was perished from the whole worlde and onely remained in Africa Augustine thus confuteth them How can the faith be perished from the worlde when the faith of the Gentiles is not yet fulfilled how can it be lost which they haue not yet receiued Nisi fortè dicatis earum reparationem ex Africa per partem Donati expectandam Vnlesse you will say that the faith of the Nations being decayed is like to be by the Donatistes sect repaired and then it followeth Puto quod ipsi etiam rideant cum hoc audiunt tamen nisi hoc dicunt quod erubescant si dicant non habent omnino quod dicant I thinke that they themselues will laugh when they heare this and yet vnlesse they affirme this which they may be ashamed to affirme they haue nothing at all to say See then Augustine is so farre from saying or thinking as the Iesuite chargeth him that he taketh it rather to be folly to be laughed at or an absurditie to be blushed at Who will not rather iudge the Iesuite most absurd in blemishing so falsly Augustines name with such an absurditie By this wee may coniecture that the Iesuite both in this place and in many other trusted to other mens readings rather than to his owne Doth not also Albertus Pigghius most vnreuerently saye of Augustine that he erred lied vsed false Logique in affirming matrimonie after a vow made to be perfite not to be vndone againe Distinct. 27. Quidam And as they deale with the auncient writers so they spare not their owne friends Harding sayth Wee take not vpon vs all that the Canonists or Schoole-men say or write Defens apol pag. 385. The like they say of others Wee binde not our selues to maintayne whatsoeuer Albertus Pigghins hath written Cardinall Caietanus hath his errours Erasmus and Agrippa be men of small credite Alphonsus de castro Beatus Rhenanus Platina appendix Concilij Basiliens are stuffe little worth Harding detection 307. b. a. Bellarmine also is so bolde as to checke Aeneas Sylvius who afterwarde was Pope of Rome called Pius 2. for whereas we alleadge that saying of his Ante Nicenum Concilium ad Romanam Ecclesiam paruus habebatur respectus Before the first Nicene Councell there was small regarde had to the Church of Rome The Iesuite aunsweareth Quae sententia Aenea Syluij partim est vera partem non est vera which sentence of Aeneas Syluius is partly true partlie false Bellar. de Rom. pontif lib. 2. cap. 17. Thus in their mood they neither spare old nor new writer neither Cardinall nor Pope friend or foe And no maruel for as Augustine wel saith Si diuina l●x persuadere non possit humana authoritas ad veritatem reuocare nequit If the word of God cannot perswade them it is not straunge that they are not mooued with humane authoritie Cont. Crescon lib. 1. cap. 3. and indeed they make as bold with the holy Scriptures as with the writings of men wresting mangling them altering changing the text at their pleasures As Bellarmine citing a text out of S. Luke 22. 19. addeth these wordes of his owne C●nantibus eis While they supped he tooke bread whereas the text is And when hee had taken bread because he would proue very fondly that the bread was distributed in supper while and the cup after supper not both together Bellarm. desacram Eucharist lib. 4. cap. 24. In an other place he quoteth Apocal. 14. v. 1. For