The apology of the Church of England, and an epistle to one Seignior Scipio…

4. AND again, if they do indeed entirely trust to Antiquity, and do not dissemble any thing, why did one John Clement, an English man, rend and burn some Leaves of Theodoret, a most ancient Father, and a Greek Bishop, in the presence of several persons of good Worth and Credit, believing that another Copy of that Book was no where to be found, because this Father had perspicuously and clearly taught, that the Nature of the Bread was not abolished in the Eucharist? Why doth Albertus Pighius deny that the ancient Father St. Augustin had a true notion of original Sin? Or of Matrimony, in that he saith that a Marriage made after a Vow entered, is a good Marriage, and cannot be dissolved; upon which occasion Pighius saith,¹ Augustin erred and made use of false Logic? And why did they in a late Impression of Origen, upon the Gospel of St. John, omit the whole sixth Chapter, in which it is probable, or rather certain, that Father has delivered many things contrary to their Opinions, concerning the Eucharist, choosing rather to deface ⟨p. 87⟩and to mutilate this ancient Father, than to suffer any thing to appear in the World which might contradict their Doctrine,² by printing the Book perfect? Is their Rending, Suppressing, Maiming and Burning the Writings of the ancient Fathers, an Argument of their Reliance on Antiquity?

4. AND again, if they do indeed intirely trust to Antiquity, and do not dissemble any thing, why did one John Clement, an English man, rend and burn some Leaves of Theodoret, a most ancient Father, and a Greek Bishop, in the presence of several persons of good Worth and Credit, believing that another Copy of that Book was no where to be found, because this Father had perspicuously and clearly taught, that the Nature of the Bread was not abolished in the Eucharist? Why doth Albertus Pighius deny that the ancient Father St. Augustin had a true notion of original Sin? Or of Matrimony, in that he saith that a Marriage made after a Vow entered, is a good Marriage, and cannot be dissolved; upon which occasion Pighius saith,¹ Augustin erred and made use of false Logick? And why did they in a late Impression of Origen, upon the Gospel of St. John, omit the whole sixth Chapter, in which it is probable, or rather certain, that Father has delivered many things contrary to their Opinions, concerning the Eucharist, choosing rather to deface