. CAP.11. A IZgelationof the Apóc .1yp(e, 373 tort time alfo to contain fo great tyranny, as wee have before declared to belong to him. But we fee how each words almoft do confute that device. And they f,ball notfifer their Carcafes. They 11 all bereave them of all common honour, which we owe one to another,by the right of humanity. And indeed when the Minifters of, the Gofpel did flrive for this, that all might be done according to the fquare of Gods Word, the Emperour thruft upon the world that wicked Interim, commanding that the Scriptures fhould keep filence, and fhould not once dare to open.their mouths. Now how did the Bilhopof the iltrebates take on, and ftomack the matter, when the men ofthe Auouflane Confeflîon excufed themfelves,that they had not received the formof Dodrine,becaufe it did diffentfrom the Holy Scripture ? What, faithhe,deyee think that Cæfar maynot as Well of his oWn autho- rity make laWs, andprefcribea certain form concerning Holy matters alto that pertain toReligion, ad he may concerningcivill andpolitical?? Sleid. Book23. And I pray you mark what Pilfavius anfwered in the nameofthe reft of the Biihops, during the time of the Councell of Trent to,the Legats ofíanciia : For when thefe men require that the fame Previfo might be made for them, as was of old for the Bo- hemians., according to the form ofthe decree ofBafal, to wir, That the Scripture might be judge in every controverfie; he returneth them this answer ; that the Scripture Was an empty anddumb thing of it felfe, as are alto the refl. of the Civill laws, and the 'sedges voyce mull beaddedunto them, that they may command any thing Well, and to purpofe., Sleidan, Book 24. He faith in plain terms,as much as here is prophefìed of, That the Scripture is a meer Carcafe that loath no life in it of it fell: And why might he not be thus htfty, when as he knewwell that the Scriptures had now for a good while, been put to deathby his means, and the help ofthe reft of that Trentifhfather- hood. But while they thus envie the Scriptures this honour due unto them ; fo as they wouldnot fut er them tohave fo much as that au- thority, which a fewof thepoor and defpifed worthippers of God would willingly have given unto them, it was in effect, as much as if they fhould forbid to lay thofe bodies decently in their graves,which they had long before thruft through and:flabbed at the heart. `Pilate permitted Iofephand 2'? codemus upon their requeft, to take Chrilts body,and tobeftow what coil they would upon it: But when the Pro- teftantsput up their humble fupplications,that they might be fuffered, at leafl,but tobury the Carcafes of the Scriptures among themfetves, C c c 2 though
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