1 he Hon011r oftheMariedC lergie. l1s.III. SECT. V. BUt llilll am taken tardy in my time, or rather doe over-take. I t<ekon this Libertytohavccontinued in Germany after H•ldericlz, for fame twohundred years; Whereat l etwixl $. Vda/ric/zandGngory thefiventh, rnretMI • f.NDIIred and JDelveJedn. , But fiill his Saint deceives him,and (ifl lhould have erred) his own Chrono1ogm lhould have deceived me. For his OnwphriHI in his EccJer.allicall Chronicle, o13kes D our HHid<riclz Bifhop of Aj}Hrge in the beginningofPope Nicol,-, anno, 8 59· And hisSigt6trl and 01her Chroniclers call Gregoryrheftvemh hisoppolirion roPricns m:iriage, upon the year 1074· Where now is my errcur? Where is my over-re:!· ching?Count it,lteader, and fee whether I cannot make myword good and grve him fifteen years into the bargain:and now judgewhetherof us may fay ,No11 fat comn:g. dC divifa fnnl temporihNstibi~ Dave)h.ec; and whether of us it is, from whom no1hing commeth,filvouring ofany learning or truth:and ifthou think() it fir,blulb for him. . The like(! feare) willing errour upon the fame ground is the mif.olculation of the times of Leo the ninth,and NicoiM the fecond, betwixt whot;: times and vJ•Irirk hemakes but fifty years; abating one other half~ofthe hundred, toexpo le mere the laughter ofhisCredulous Clients, which may now fay, loe rheman which in a E reckoningof2oo.years did ouc-lafh butt so. When as both their sigcbtrtandHerIIJ4n11fts Contral1HI' (•nd who nor?)make Leo rhe ninrh,Pope,•n. t 049,•nd Nirho/., the fecond feme ten yearsafter him ; The very elder whereof, if we reckon ro Hfflderic/z, •n-859·will be in no lelfe than 190. years difhnce. The man w•nred eirhcr coumers,orwit,or hone!ly ; Truth I am fore he wan rs. SECT. V(. AN tichrift,whichwas conceived in the Primirive time;,Gw the light in 1ichifm thethird,andwas grown tohis flature and "'"" in Gng•rJ rhefev<nrh. S~·~ I nr'~~t
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