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2. It is not true that this History is uncertain (though not to be equalled with Scripture.) Is the Case of a vast Empire of Ethiopia (as big yet after the decay saith Brierwood, as Germany, Italy, France and Spain) uncertain, when the World knoweth that they have not had so much as Converse with the Pope, and at Oviedo's attempt did not know who he was? And so of Persia, India, &c.

2. It is not true that this Historie is uncertain (though not to be equalled with Scripture.) Is the Case of a vast Empire of Aethiopia (as big yet after the decay saith Brierwood, as Germany, Italy, France and Spain) uncertain, when the World knoweth that they have not had so much as Converse with the Pope, and at Oviedos attempt did not know who he was? And so of Persia, India, &c.

If you will needs be so much wiser than your neighbours as to prove all history uncertain, even that there was a Caesar, or a William the Conqueror. 1. While you befriend the Papists in this one point, you will incommodate them in others, 2. And you will promote Infidelity, by making that history uncertain by which we know the Canonical books of Scripture, and that they are delivered down to us the same and uncorrupt.

If you will needs be so much wiser than your neighbours as to prove all historie uncertain, even that there was a Caesar, or a William the Conqueror. 1. While you befriend the Papists in this one point, you will incommodate them in others, 2. And you will promote Infidelitie, by making that historie uncertain by which we know the Canonical books of Scripture, and that they are delivered down to us the same and uncorrupt.

When I had given in few words, a full and plain answer to the Papists about our separation from their Church, and remembered how many Volumes they have troubled the World with, by obscuring our plain and