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Our lives trouble them: this they object, this they exprobrate ad nauseam usque. But do they not stumble at our straws, and leap over their own blocks? cavil at our motes, and forget (or justify) their own beams? The swelling on the Foxes head shall be a horn, if the Pope will so judge it: a Catiline, Lopus, Garnet, Faulx, an honest man, a Catholic, a Saint, if he will so interpret, so canonize him. If I should but prick this rank vein, how would Rome bleed?¹ Would not (haec prodidisse, be vicisse, as Erasmus said of Augustine's dealing against the Manichees) the very demonstration of these things, be a sufficient conviction? Unnatural and hideous treasons, conspiracies against whole kingdoms, deposing, dethroning, touching with a murderous hand (Christos Dei) the Annointed of God; oaths, uncleannesses, perjuries from whom are they produced, by whom practised, if not mostly, if not only by Papists? They pry, search, deride, censure the forepart of their Wallet, wherein they put our iniquities: whiles their own sins are ready to break their necks behind them. The greatest evils we have are theirs; fathered by those that will not be mothered of our Church: ^kHaec non ad frument a Christi, sed ad eorum paleam pertinent: These belong not to Christs wheat, but to the ch•ffe of Antichrist. These are monsters bred of that viperous dam, that have shook hands with humanity, with civility, though they reserve the form of Religion.

Our liues trouble them: this they obiect, this they exprobrate ad nauseam vsque. But do they not stumble at our strawes, and leape ouer their owne blockes? cauill at our motes, and forget (or iustifie) their owne beames? The swelling on the Foxes head shall be a horne, if the Pope will so iudge it: a Catiline, Lopus, Garnet, Faulx, an honest man, a Catholike, a Saint, if hee will so interpret, so canonize him. If I should but pricke this ranke vein, how would Rome bleed?¹ Would not (haec prodidisse, be vicisse, as Erasmus said of Augustines dealing against the Maniches) the very demonstration of these things, be a sufficient conuiction? Vnnaturall and hideous treasons, conspiracies against whole kingdomes, deposing, dethroning, touching with a murderous hand (Christos Dei) the Annointed of God; oathes, vncleannesses, periuries from whom are they produced, by whom practised, if not mostly, if not onely by Papists? They prie, search, deride, censure the forepart of their Wallet, wherein they put our iniquities: whiles their owne sinnes are ready to breake their neckes behinde them. The greatest euils wee haue are theirs; father'd by those that will not be mother'd of our Church: