To give you some instances; as among Physicians Hippocrates, and Galen, and Celsus of old; and of late Montanus, Crato Fernelius, Platerus, Hildanus, and such others, do speak with that self-evidencing honesty, and many Paracelsians with that palpable vanity, that one of them will constrain belief, and the other unbelief, even in them that never heard what they were: So among Historians, Eusebius, though counted an Arian, and Socrates, and Sozomen, though called Novatians, and Theodoret, and Liberatus, and some others, do write so as to constrain belief of things which were within their notice, and with honest impartiality: Among the Papists, what clear footsteps of understanding, honesty, and impartiality, and so of truth, is there in Thuanus, and much in Commines, Guicciardine, Father Paulus Servita Hist. of Trent Council, and divers others: Though Doctor James bid us keep Crab, because the later Councils are corrupt, and all of them must be taken with due Antidotes, yet because most of the matter is fetched from public Acts and Records, they are more credible than most single History; Acosta speaketh impartially of the West Indies, and Godignus of the Abassians, Matth. Paris of England, and the Pope, and so of some others: Of Protestants, some do but recite recorded testimonies, or public acts, and the very writings themselves of the times they speak of, when others do but ⟨image 7⟩tell you stories on their bare word: Goldastus, Ruberus, Freherus, and Pistorius, do but give us Collections of the writings of those former Ages, and nothing of their own: So doth Mr. Rushworth now in his three Volumes of Collections; and Mr. Fuller hath partly done so, and writeth moderately; Mr. Gilbert Burnet thus writeth the History of the Reformation, laying not the credit on his word, but on his Evidences; and Camden impartially thus writeth of Queen Elizabeth, and in his Britannia: Usher hath done the like, de succes. Eccles. of the Waldenses; and in his de Primordiis Eccl. Brit. of the Pelagians, not saying, but proving by Records, and old Evidences, what he delivereth, besides the advantage of his known extraordinary learning, honesty, and impartiality;
To give you some instances; as among Physitians Hypocrates, and Galen, and Celsus of old; and of late Montanus, Crato Fernelius, Platerus, Hildanus, and such others, do speak with that self-evidencing honesty, and many Paracelsians with that palpable vanity, that one of them will constrain belief, and the other unbelief, even in them that never heard what they were: So among Historians, Eusebius, though counted an Arrian, and Socrates, and Sozomen, though called Novatians, and Theodoret, and Liberatus, and some others, do write so as to constrain belief of things which were within their notice, and with honest impartiality: Among the Papists, what clear footsteps of understanding, honesty, and impartiality, and so of truth, is there in Thuanus, and much in Commines, Guicciardine, Father Paulus Servita Hist. of Trent Council, and divers others: Though Doctor Iames bid us keep Crab, because the later Councils are corrupt, and all of them must be taken with due Antidotes, yet because most of the matter is fetcht from publick Acts and Records, they are more credible than most single History; Acosta speaketh impartially of the West Indies, and Godignus of the Abassians, Matth. Paris of England, and the Pope, and so of some others: Of Protestants, some do but recite recorded testimonies, or publick acts, and the very writings themselves of the times they speak of, when others do but ⟨image 7⟩tell you stories on their bare word: Goldastus, Ruberus, Freherus, and Pistorius, do but give us Collections of the writings of those former Ages, and nothing of their own: So doth Mr. Rushworth now in his three Volumes of Collections; and Mr. Fuller hath partly done so, and writeth moderately; Mr. Gilbert Burnet thus writeth the History of the Reformation, laying not the credit on his word, but on his Evidences; and Cambden impartially thus writeth of Queen Elizabeth, and in his Brittania: Vsher hath done the like, de succes. Eccles. of the Waldenses; and in his de Primordiis Eccl. Brit. of the Pelagians, not saying, but proving by Records, and old Evidences, what he delivereth, besides the advantage of his known extraordinary learning, honesty, and impartiality;
