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§. 33. It would be but matter of shame and sorrow to go on, and add the later and more shameful instances of Anathematizing, especially about Images, several Emperors and Councils hereticating each other. What an Engine the Pope and Prelates made Cursing men from Christ, to get dominion over Emperors and Kings, to subdue Kingdoms, and to turn Love and peace into wrath and wars and bloodshed and pernicious divisions: To recite their damning of Loyalty under the name of the Henrician heresy: their damning all that (about Transubstantiation) ⟨p. 195⟩renounced not the belief of all their senses and rational perception of sensate things; and that renounced not also the belief of all the sound mens senses in the world, and consequently the belief of God: as he is the God of Nature, making his revelation to our understandings by our senses; making it necessary to salvation to take God for the deceiver of the senses (or apprehensions by sensation) of all the world. How they have decreed the burning or exterminating of all others, that do not thus believe Transubstantiation, and deposing temporal Lords that will not exterminate them, and absolving their Subjects from their Oaths and Allegiance, and giving their dominions to others. Did I but recite to you how ridiculously they hereticated Gilbert Porretane and some other learned men, and how such exposed the Councils of Bishops to scorn by detecting their ignorance by some questions which they could not answer; should I tell you what work their long and numerous Schisms, and two or three Popes at once made for the great Councils of Constance and Basil; and also what work those Councils made themselves, it might melt the heart of a lover of Christianity into grief and tears.

§. 33. It would be but matter of shame and sorrow to go on, and add the later and more shameful instances of Anathematizing, especially about Images, several Emperours and Councils hereticating each other. What an Engine the Pope and Prelates made Cursing men from Christ, to get dominion over Emperours and Kings, to subdue Kingdoms, and to turn Love and peace into wrath and wars and bloodshed and pernicious divisions: To recite their damning of Loyalty under the name of the Henrician heresie: their damning all that (about Transubstantiation) ⟨p. 195⟩renounced not the belief of all their senses and rational perception of sensate things; and that renounced not also the belief of all the sound mens senses in the world, and consequently the belief of God: as he is the God of Nature, making his revelation to our understandings by our senses; making it necessary to salvation to take God for the deceiver of the senses (or apprehensions by sensation) of all the world. How they have decreed the burning or exterminating of all others, that do not thus believe Transubstantiation, and deposing temporal Lords that will not exterminate them, and absolving their Subjects from their Oaths and Allegiance, and giving their dominions to others. Did I but recite to you how ridiculously they hereticated Gilbert Porretane and some other learned men, and how such exposed the Councils of Bishops to scorn by detecting their ignorance by some questions which they could not answer; should I tell you what work their long and numerous Schisms, and two or three Popes at once made for the great Councils of Constance and Basil; and also what work those Councils made themselves, it might melt the heart of a lover of Christianity into grief and tears.