This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1639 Excerpt: ...them, especially if they handle too roughly the Nalimetangere of the Popes fupremacie. In later times what aspersions, as false as foul, have Cochleus and Bolsccus laid on Luther and Calvine? Now how fearlesse will they be to steal at midnight, who dare thus rob men of their good name at noon-day? When such Authours as ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1639 Excerpt: ...them, especially if they handle too roughly the Nalimetangere of the Popes fupremacie. In later times what aspersions, as false as foul, have Cochleus and Bolsccus laid on Luther and Calvine? Now how fearlesse will they be to steal at midnight, who dare thus rob men of their good name at noon-day? When such Authours as these lie with awitnesse, yea, with many witnesses, who could disprove them; no wonder if they take liberty falsely to accuse the Albingenfes, conceiving themselves out of the reach of confutation 3 writing in such an age when all the Counsel is on their own side, being plaintiffs, and none assigned for the defendants. Secondly, I find they produce the authenticall copies (such as are above their enemies calumnies)of the Catechifmes, Apologies, Remonstrances of these Albingenfes, wherein the distilled doctrine of the Protestants is delivered free from Mani BiJbop Jenel, Apol.part. i. ehap.z. divif.i. Waldo and the rcst, for ought vvc know, and I beleeve (setting malice aside) for ought you know3were godly men. Their greatell errour was that they complained of the dissolute and vinous lives of the Clergie. In vita Lmberl. In vita Calvini. Solidly confuted by Dr Whitaker, VenothScclesiifap.if. OutofMelanchthon, Sleidan, Gryneus, Btza, eye-witnesses Manicheisme, or any other heresie fathered upon them. Thirdly, their enemies flanders plainly appear in some particulars-, wbich justly shaketh the credit of the whole accusation. For whereas they are charged with the Adamites willingly to have gone naked, we find them rather nudati then midi, Forced thereunto by the Popes Legate: Who being about to take the city of Carcassone inPrance, where these people most swarmed, he would not grant them their lives but on this condition, That both males and female
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