2. That these men deal with orthodox Authors, I cannot say, fas flies, that leave the whole hide where it is whole & sound to seize on some sore or unsound part; (tho prone enough, I doubt not, they would be gso to do, if they could light on ought thus tainted in them) because those writers were sound enough in those places, which these men, thereby to countenance their own unsound opinions, ⟨image 13⟩do abuse. and yet, I may well say,h as flies, that are wont to slip away from the glass, where it is slick and smooth, but to fasten upon it, where they find any scratches in it. for they pass by those places in them, and those their speeches, where and wherein they plainly and familiarly deliver themselves and their mind, in terms most proper and suitable to the truth and nature of the doctrine they deal with; and pitch upon some high and harsh expressions, which carried in an hyperbolical strain, do sometime fall from them; the rather thereby to amuse silly people; who are iprone most to admire, what they least understand; and to beguile such, as are not able to distinguish between propriety of speech, and rhetorical, tho sometime more emphatical, mere flourishes. where they might do well to remember, that it is a dangerous matter, as from *typical, so from tropical speeches, hyperbolical especially, to raise points of doctrine, and to strain that to propriety, that is spoken by a figure. But herein they deal as the Papists do in some controversies between us and them; who to justify the invocation of Saints deceased, passing by, yea kcrossing out sometime, those clear places of the ancients, wherein they are most pregnant for invocation of God in Christ only, use to press us with those passages in their panegyrical discourses; where they break forth into rhetorical compellations of the blessed spirits deceased, as they do sometime the like, lof the senseless, yea and lifeless creatures; and to make men believe that their late forged monster of transubstantiation is no novelty, but a doctrine held and believed in the ancient Church, letting slip the plain and pregnant speeches of the ancients to the contrary; which yet they cannot be ignorant of, being inserted msome of them, even into the corps of their Canon-law;
2. That these men deal with orthodox Authors, I cannot say, fas flies, that leave the whole hide where it is whole & sound to seize on some sore or unsound part; (tho prone enough, I doubt not, they would be gso to do, if they could light on ought thus tainted in thē) because those writers were sound enough in those places, which these men, thereby to countenance their own unsound opinions, ⟨image 13⟩do abuse. and yet, I may well say,h as flies, that are wont to slip away from the glasse, where it is slick and smooth, but to fasten upon it, where they find any scratches in it. for they passe by those places in them, and those their speeches, where and wherein they plainly and familiarly deliver themselves and their mind, in tearms most proper and suitable to the truth and nature of the doctrine they deal with; and pitch upon some high and harsh expressions, which carried in an hyperbolicall strain, do sometime fall from them; the rather thereby to amuse silly people; who are iprone most to admire, what they least understand; and to beguile such, as are not able to distinguish between propriety of speech, and rhetoricall, tho sometime more emphaticall, meer flourishes. where they might do well to remember, that it is a dangerous matter, as from *typicall, so from tropicall speeches, hyperbolicall especially, to raise points of doctrine, and to strain that to propriety, that is spoken by a figure. But herein they deal as the Papists do in some controversies between us and them; who to justifie the invocation of Saints deceased, passing by, yea kcrossing out sometime, those cleer places of the ancients, wherein they are most pregnant for invocation of God in Christ onely, use to presse us with those passages in their panegyricall discourses; where they break forth into rhetoricall compellations of the blessed spirits deceased, as they do sometime the like, lof the senselesse, yea and livelesse creatures; and to make men beleeve that their late forged monster of transubstantiation is no novelty, but a doctrine held and beleeved in the ancient Church, letting slip the plain and pregnant speeches of the ancients to the contrary; which yet they cannot be ignorant of, being inserted
- f[Greek or Hebrew]. Justin. ad Tryph.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Justin. ad Tryph.
- g[Greek or Hebrew]. Plut. de curios. & consolat. ad uxor.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Plut. de curios. & consolat. ad uxor.
- h[Greek or Hebrew]. Pl•t de •ranquil.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Pl•t de •ranquil.
- iFlebecula ind•cta qicqid non inte•lig•t, plus miratur. Hieron. a• Nep•t.
- *Theologia symbolica, typica, vel tropica, non est a•gumentativa. De Valentinianis Tertul. c. 27. Omnia in imagines urgent, planè & imaginarii ipsi Chro stiani.Theologia symbolica, typica, vel tropica, non est a•gumentativa. De Valentinianis Tertul. c. 27. Omnia in imagines urgent, planè & imaginarii ipsi Chr• stiani.
- kVideantur Indices expurg. Hispan. & Belg.
- lIta, paschatia festum. Greg. Stas orat. in S. Pascha Aqae elementum, Ambros in Luc. 10.
- mVideantur ex Augustino adducta à Gratiano de consecr. dist. 2.
