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Answ. 1. It sufficeth us if those Fathers were Christians, as we are, though having no usurper of an universal Monarchy to Protest against, they were not to be called Protestants. 2. It is an idle pretence indeed, to go about to prove a Succession of one thousand six hundred years, by the bare instance of five hundred years: but your idle head hath forged more idle pretences then this, by way of calumniation. But yet we may prove the Antiquity of our Religion from those Fathers, and the Novelty of yours, and a Succession for those five hundred years: and for the rest, if the whole Christian world had been big ⟨p. 126⟩enough for you to see, you might have discerned our Evidence of a further Succession.

He adds [2. Because those of the sixth age must needs know what was the Religion and Tenets of them that lived in the fifth age, by whom they were instructed, and with whom they daily conversed better then our Protestants can now do; who have Protested on their salvation, that it was the very same with theirs, received from them by word of mouth &c.]

Answ. 1. Any thing will serve for the simple that will believe you. But I pray you tell us whether it were all or some of the sixth age that made this solemn Protestation that you mention. If all or most, or the ten thousandth man, tell us where we may find that Protestation. If a few, they were not the sixth age. 2. If Pope Boniface alone was not the sixth age, tell us where that age did Protest on their salvation, that the Bishop of Rome was taken by their Fore fathers for the universal Monarch and Head of the Church (beyond his bare Primacy of order) 3. What age hath protested on their salvation, that the Roman prohibition of reading Scriptures, or of receiving the Eucharist in both kinds, or other points anon to be mentioned, were the Religion of their Fore-fathers, and so from age to age? 4. I pray you tell us where to find this Protestation of the tenth age, which Genebrard, Bellarmine, and others of your own so complain of, as having not learned men, nor any Council, but Apostatical Popes and an ignorant wicked Clergy, that suspected a man of Heresy if he understood Greek or Hebrew, and of Magic or Conjuring, if he meddled with Mathematics? 5. It is legible in the writings of the sixth Age, that they did fetch the doctrine of the fifth age from their writings, and not only from word of mouth. What else mean the preservation of those writings and those numerous citations out of them? Nay more; they would not trust their memories in a General Council for the Canons of the Church: no nor for the Canons of the next preceding Council, no nor for the Common Creed; but had all read and repeated out of the writing before the Council when there was occasion. And let Conscience be free to speak truth for a few sentences, and tell us in good sadness, whether you believe that the Oral Tradition of all the Church did preserve the Knowledge of Augustine's,