A discussion of the popish doctrine of transubstantiation wherein the same is declared, by…A discussion of the popish doctrine of transubstantiation vvherein the same is declared, by…

His third Author is S. Cyril, that should be Bishop of Jerusalem a little after the time of Constantine the Great: An Author not without good cause shrewdly suspected. Under his name our Popish Father-forgers have set out divers things: Among others an Epistle of his that should be written to S. Augustine of S. Jeromes decease, and of the miracles that he wrought. Which Epistle is so gross and ridiculous, writing of the death of one that many a long year out-lived him that should write it, that albeit many of them are not ashamed to ^mcite it as Cyril's for the maintenance of sundry Popish points, yet others of them are enforced ⁿto confess the work counterfeit, and stick not to brand the ^oAuthor of it for an heretical impostor, and a loud liar. And of late they have set out under the name of the same Cyril ^ptwo books of Catechising; which besides sundry passages in them that argue a late writer, as ^qwhere he speaketh of the Invention of the Cross as ^ra matter long before his time, and ⟨p. 65⟩saith that the whole world was then filled with the pieces of it, whereas ^rthe true Cyril was living at the very time when the Cross is reported to have been found by Helen; the same Catech•sings are ^treported to be found in some written copies under the name one John Bishop of Jerusalem, of which name there was ^uone about the 2. Nicene Council, some hundreds of years after that Cyril's decease. So that they may as well cite that second Council of Nice for the adoration of Images, as this counterfeit Cyril for their Transubstantiation, unless they can bring sounder proof for him, and better inform us what he is, and whence he came. The authority of this Catechiser is no better then the authority of that Epistler for ought can be showed; which yet