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4 The means of their utterance; feigned words. Heresy was never found disjoined from hypocrisy. As it is said of the liar and the thief; show me a liar, and I will show you a thief: so show me a Schismatic, and I will show you an Hypocrite. Pacis verba ferunt, et caedibus omnia miscent. Their speeches are so ambiguous and equivocal,¹ that they seem to hold both ours, and our adversaries Tenets. Ut •li••• haereticus, aliter catholicus audiat. With heretics they are heretics, with catholics they are catholics. The cup of poison had need be anointed with honey, to allay the bitterness. What they cannot perform by the evidence of truth, they seek to attain by the eloquence of art.² Saint Paul affirms his preaching to •ee, not with enticing words of mans wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of po•••. They on the contrary, come not with the demonstration of the Spirit, but with the impostures of oratory. Thus are all those Italianated Emissaries qualified, whom the grand Cacus of the western world sends abroad; being first throughly instructed in the cunning legerdemain of their Divinity. The fittest denomination and fundamental principle, is^u that Gain is godliness. For their doctrine emptieth •t self from point to point into the Churches treasure. They most unjustly exchange their lead for gold, which the French lawyers account no better than robbery. Hereupon their Paternoster and Avemarie have been worthily called, the two neapolitan• thieves.^x They devour widows houses, and for a show make long prayers. They are thieves in that Spiritual kind of sacrilege, that do [Greek or Hebrew], with feigned wor•• cozen mens souls. Neither doth this art of dissimulation limit and content it self with the bare narration of untruths, and suggestion of errors in the credulous adherents: but it extends to perjury; and that we call equivocation.