280 A Commentary ipenthe Co('peI Chap.7. 7iifp.,de rep. to Rome, as Machiavellhimftlf obferved: who yet was bimfelf lib t. cap it. none efrhebefi,as is well known : for he profcfl th Cefar Borgia Deprincipe, (notwithftanding all his villanies) as the oncly example for a piling. Prince to imitate. The Boni. Pharifces like the devils, are Fotycrcep. then thought to doe well, when they ceafeto doehurt, faith 7,_ tib.b. cap.4 r Y ¡nromifrcifra aims Sarisbxrienfit. In Popes (faith PpiriauMafonisu, a po- nemo bodíefan - pif). writer, fpeakingofthofe Popes that lived in the timeofthe íitatem requi- Trent.councell) no man now-ad aies kequireth holinefir. They rit. are thought tobevery good, ifnot exarcam evil: or any thing ßptinsi pavan- rur,l vettevi. better then theworft ufe tobe. The-Sea ofRome, faith Another, tar ;Bali, &C. bath not merited alate, to be ruled by any better thenreprobates. I±aroit.Pauli.3. Divers Popes have been Necromancers,. Atheists, Epicures, Bennio ait Monfters, as Bennio ¿ardinalia defcribes Hildebrand : and Luit. Hildebrand p feud's/ reports of ohn the twelfth, that he OX dained Priefts in a f life homici- ,dam, aautters (table among his horfes, that he went intohis fathers Concubïnes,, necromanticú, that he drank a health to the devil, &c. Be+acdi i the twelfth had fchiffaaticu;n, this ?epitaph fat over him,. kereticum. Hic fitur efl Nero, Laicis ruffs, vipera clero ; aLuitprand. lib. Devizes a vero, turba replete mero, 6. de r<b.seltú I amnot ignorant what is the common put-off.ofPaaifts when in Europafile P , tempore, urged with theft and the like histories,vit, Luitprandi illud non Parei hilt Ec - ef, fedA,seninei cufufdana; qui hoc hiflorie iyfaui appenderit. Luit- ctef. F ßg.3 aa. prandau never wrote any filch thing, but fame other nameleffej Tertia ctafJir Authour , that hath pieced it tohis hiftory, faithBella-mine and eenriner pages, Baronitca: But who this nameleffc Authour was, or when he Tel potiut rri vas. Allied, lived, or how it may appear, that it was fo indeed, they fay not a Inde probo hoc word. So if Wecite Besmsio Cardinalia. .1m potiv, Lutheraaui, ilS.rue?e, i:Yud faith Bellarmine, and Florimund. How difdaintully they rej c'1 eon elfe,quia the Fathers when they make againft them, I need not here re hoe pro me ro. e+at, 3rud con. cite. I, would fooner believe one Pope, then a thoufand An tra rae. F ui{, grcffines, faith a Jef,tite : An i yet, when they cannot be heard, Manich ap, they arc ready fátraight to cryout, as that hxretike Diofcorcu id Aug. in the Canncailof Chafcedon. I arm eaf% out with the Fathers, I de. Corn. a4us in fend the dot:hine oftloe Fathers, I tra o rref fe them not in any point. see Guild his YI f weproduce their own Do oors and Schoolmen 'as witnc f.s }ropithglory- ofthe truth, their men, fay they, are Catholike Autbours, but sag, (c. pas. they ftand not r=eEli incuria, theymull be purged. So witty are F*llarm. faith heretikes rather todevife a thoufand flaifrs tadelude the truth, co rrenæur, then once to 3fecld and acknowledge it. They will not receive Teats/ tarp, the love ofthe truth, (as tibintemperate patient, will not ism ruled
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