2S2 ,t_4 Commentary upon the Golie1 Chap.7, ..et,geemer4. whom 'Pliny maketh mention, that they fang antelrtcanoshrnonos, Pfalms ofpratfe to God before break-of-day. But had Bonner f andhis fellow-buzzards but obfervcd the burning zeal, Tweet af- f:mblies, watching, prayings, holineífe of life, patience in death, &e. of thof that ferved God after the way that they cal. led hærcfy, they might well have Peen and faid as much, as the Centurion did of our Saviour, and they might have rcplyed,, as Match :x7.54" our Saviour did of himfclf. I have net a devil, bat I honour my father, andye doe difhonoter me. ff.!honour my f lf, my honour 1oh.8,49,S4 nothing: ltimyfather that henourethme, ofwhomyefay, that he áa your God, Cenali Bi(hop of erluranehes, wrote again(} the Congregation ofParis,defending impudently,that their affem- blies were tomaintain whoredom. Howmuch better, and with more ingenuity the Bithop of flliffa; who prcachingat Trent in the time of that Conn(ell, e4nno I 563. Spake oathe faith and manners ofthe Catholikes and herericke, and fa;d, that as the Rift, o'the faith of the. Catholikes was better, fo the hereticks exceeded color. of Trent them"in good LE:: which gave much diffaft, faith the Hifforian, fol. 7 But Bcllarmine(had he been then and there preterit) would not Nos etiamf likely havebeen much offended : For we, faith he, although we credirrur ta- mtn ut artvain believe that all the venues are tobe found in the Church :,yet that ob,'o! to d ci any man may be abfalutely laid to be a member of the true psfAt Pan ,ve- Church, defcribed in the Scriptures, we doe not think that any rs eceaefiæ--riot, internal( venue is required of him : but onely an externall pro- tutaelUS relui. fzfrion oft he faith, and fuch a partaking of theSacraments, as is riallaminter- perceived by the outward fenfes. A pretty defcriprior, and nna ntrtutem, P" fedrartitmex, piciure ola Papitl : amongft whom if any be vertuous, it is by return profef accident, and not as they are members of that Church: As O. 1ionenn fdei,& acre wittily faid cf the Epicures, that if any of that feel proved facrame:storurn good, it was meetly by the benefit of a better nature ; for they gemrraunoiem, taught all manner cf loof-neffe and libertinifine, But for the quo ptiarrPlo molt parr, fuch as their do,`trine is, Inch is alfo their practife, perciprtur P t,® ;.sap. a, de The Friers ((faith One that had feen it, and fa could well avouch er.;ie%mti tá e. it) are a race cf people al.waies praying, but f ldom with figue sands his Rat., of devotion : vowing obedience, but frill contentious: chaft,te, o]'JYejt. Rea" yet molt luxurious : °t ever fora in and covetous. Jett r ye over , Y ye e P g9 jef.8. And generally the devotions of papifls, faithhe, are prifed more by tale, then by weight ofzeal : placed more in the m fay mate- riality of the outward work, then purityof the hcart,fromwhich t.-iey proceed. They hold integrity for little better then Gll.i. neffe,, }
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