I16 e.4 Commentary upon the Gofel Chapa, itfl.aud Mon whoredom. The lives of Calvin and Beza were ( at the requeft ;0,818 of the Popifh fide ) written by Bolfeccm a runnagate frier, their Sandr his Re. (worn enemy ; and though fo many lines fo many lies , yet are lnoon of yyef. they in all their writings aliedged as Canonicall. Wicliffe difal- Relig Gene- lowed the Invocation of Saints, whomhe called fervants,not gods. trard b For the word, Knave, which heu(ed, fignified, in thole dales, a rep arrcth,ehrc childe or a fervant not as it Both in our daies a wicked varlet as Luther and + > > , died of his enemies malicioufly interpret it ; 8ellarmine for one , a man drunkcnn fr, utterly ignorantof the Englifh tongue. Hereupon the people are Cade of the taught to beleeve that the Proteflants are blafphemers of God Chor,h. pag. and alibis Saints : that in England, Churches are turned intoftá- 4' tiles: the people grown young children that Neytins Geo P i g wF,i,y,,g9. they areas black as devils, ever fence they were blalted and thunder- conrraxifJ'e a- !truck with tl\e Popes' excommunication : that Geneva is a profet- Prareni drabo- fed fan tuary ofrogery,&-c. that the fall of Black- filers(where be- ticum. Prra. fides a t oo.of his hcarers flain,Drury the Prieft had his. Sermon and his brains knockt out of his head together) was caufed by the Puri- tans, who had fecretly !awed in two the beams and other timber. With like honelly they would have fathered the powder-plot upon the Puritans,by their Proclamations, which they had ready, to be Puritans ecf. Lent abroad immediatly, had Faux but fired the powder. And a aera tradit con- certain Spanifh Authcur hath taken the boldnefle, fence, to averne, juratiosiJul. that they were the auchourscf that hellifh confpiracy. There is a phurpria au- book lately publifhed, and commonly fold in Italyand France, rbor t fuifse. containing a relation of Gods judgements (hewn on a fort ofPro- Anther rqu:data Ntanicw, tef.ant-ht reticks by the fall of a houle in Blackfriers, London, . vrideaux, in which they were af&mbled to hear a Geneva-leaure, 0Bob. L ea p 3:7. 36.1623. And Dr Welton doubted not to make his boafts to a D HO" Ge- Noble-manofEngland, that at the late conference and difputa- oS Pk c s'' tion between Fifberand Featly (,with certain others ofboth fides) our Doetours were confounded, and theirs triumphed and had the day infomuch that two Earles and a hundred others were con- verted co the CatholikeRoman faith. Whereas he, towhom this tale was told, was himfelfoneof the two Earls, continuing found and Orthodox, and knew full well that there were not a hundred pflideacirc. Papifts and Proteflants (taken together,) prefent at that difputa- Le04.317. Lion. But this was one oftheir pic fraudes,doubtlefte : match like their Legend of miracles of their Saints, which the Jefuit confef- fed to my felt'(faith mine Authour) tobe, for molt part, falleand foolifh but it was made for good intention ; and that it was laWfull
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