C A P 16. 1 eve1ation oftheApocalypfe. gal sntyfrith thingras offer themfelves manifeflly, in theprocef e ofwork, but alllath. things 4ò as lie luring, .as it were, in ambsJbWithin the Fxpoitions, Abridgements, marginall Noses, Indexes ofBool¿s, andis the prefecettogether With the epiflles Dedicatory. In a Book called An Inflruílion concerning the correIion of Books, D. 2. How fufpicious is this botchie difeafe? Certainly this fear of ruffling againft any thing that might offend, hath curtailed many of the newWriters, and hath pared out of them whatfoevcr was favouring offound judgement, and freedome of fpeaking the truth. But the Books are in every mans hand to be had, by which it may be perceived,what it is that grieveth theft branded flavesand where they put to pain.. And yet that one Book alone that is called Aporting Index,or an Index ifyee will that came out ofPurgatory,or the pit ofHel rather, which was fet forth by Philip the fecondKing of Spain, in the yeer 1581. may ferve in ft_ad of many others. And left we fhould think, perhaps, that thefe Purgatory fellowes are troubled about late Wri- ters only, or about the Marginal! Notes which are added to ancient Writers,we mutt know that theydo allo lay violent hands upon the very words of the ancient Fathers : as for example, in a certain edi- tion of Amp/line, which lohn gibbon the Iefinite an Englifb man, a Do&or of Divinity, and Profeffor at Trevirs inFrance, urfed in his difpute about the Saints,Thef, 209. It is no longer read ; Neither yet de wefet sip andappoint Tcmplcv, l'riefliiaods, Sacrifices, andother fa- Bred thingsitnteM+ar-t trs, Nc. As the true ancient Copies do run. Book 8. ofthe City ofGad, Chap.27. But contrarily; We do appoint Temples,Prieflheods,Holythins, andSacrifices sotto Martyrs, becan e not they,but their Godü essr Ged, &c. Oh yee moil impudent forgers, that do force Anfien to affirme that which here doth flat deny, no: to fay, howfondyou imaginehim tobe,whom you will have to avouch that Sacrifices are therefore ed be appointed for the Martyrs, be- caufe they are not God. Thefe Rats come to ruine by their own bewrayingt Francis luniettt law at Lione in the houfeofTrellonirts,in the yeer 15 59.certainPages oftrue Ambrofe, cancelled and fcraped out by twe Francifeans, and other of a new mint, put in the room of the former, even as they lifted, and that befides all authority of other copier. Oh foul and ungodly deed ! but this is no new trick with thefeRomifb Packers', who have 'Ong fine approved themfelves tobefueh-cunnin çogging Matts in the Canutcl of Nice. X x X 2 But
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