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Notwithstanding these swinish Jesuits, tread the pearls of the Greek copies under their filthy feet, and that either without any manner of reason at all, or else with so small reason, as will hardly justify them to be ⟨p. 178⟩reasonable creatures: yet can they not bear that Master Beza should (with great probability and likelihood of trueth) so much as suspect the Greek copies. For they are not able to show one only place that he hath corrected, contrary to a whole consent of the Greek copies. They may condemn without reason, he may not suspect, with great probability thereof. They may set in the text what pleaseth them, contrary to the authority of all the Greek copies: he may not utter his opinion in his scholia and annotations upon the text. They cannot bear to be charged, with their praesent error. But he must bear the blame of slips & errors, which have past and now are reformed. Wherefore either their hatred is so great against the Greek copies, that they cannot abide Master Bezas modest and shamefast reprehensions of them, unless he would flatly condemn them, as they do: or else their equity is so little, that they can see a mote in his eye: when they perceive not the beam ⟨p. 179⟩that is in their own. And if the places were so many, wherein M. Beza pronounceth the Greek to be corrupted, that they would make the reader to wonder: you have done very foolishly, which (in the great store you pretend) have repeated the most places twice, and that of Cainan, thrice at the least in this book: bewraying thereby, how (in great want of ability of accusing him justly) the will and desire to accuse, was out of all measure. Yet speak we not this, as taking upon us Master Bezas defence, without all exception. For we have showed