A defense of the sincere and true translations of the holie Scriptures into the English tong against the manifolde cauils, friuolous quarels, and impudent slaunders of Gregorie Martin, one of the readers of popish diuinitie in the trayterous Seminarie of Rhemes. By William Fvlke D. in Diuinitie, and M. of Pembroke haule in Cambridge. Wherevnto is added a briefe confutation of all such quarrels & cauils, as haue bene of late vttered by diuerse papistes in their English pamphlets, against the writings of the saide William Fvlke.

MART. 29. These onely (I meane heresies and here∣tikes) are the idols and idolaters (by the ancient Doctors iudge∣ment)

which haue bene among Christians, since the idolatrie of* 1.1 the Gentiles ceased, according to the Prophets. Therefore S. Hierom sayth againe: If thou see a man that will not yeeld to the truth, but when the falshoode of his opinions is once shewed, perseuereth still in that he began: thou* 1.2 mayst aptly say, Sperat in figmento suo, and he maketh dumme or deafe idolls. And againe, All Heretikes haue their gods: and whatsoeuer they haue forged, they a∣dore the same as Sculptile, and Constantile: that is as a gra∣uen and molten idoll. And againe, He sayth well, I haue* 1.3 found vnto my selfe an idoll: For, all the forgeries of heretikes are as the idolls of the Gentiles: neither doe they much differ in impiety, though in name they seeme to differ. And againe, Whatsoeuer according to the let∣ter* 1.4 is spoken against the idolatrie of the Iewes, doe thou referre al this vnto them, which vnder the name of Christ worship idols, and forging to them selues peruerse opi∣nions, carye the tabernacle of their king the deuill, and the image of their idolls. For they worshippe not an i∣doll, but for varietie of their doctrine, they adore di∣uerse Gods. And he put in very well, which you made to your selues: for they receiued them not of God, but forged them of their owne minde. And of the idoll of Samaria, he sayth, we alwayes vnderstand Samaria, (and the* 1.5 idoll of Samaria) in the person of Heretikes, the same Pro∣phet saying, WOE BE TO THEM THAT DE∣SPISE* 1.6 SION, AND TRVST IN THE MOVNT OF SAMARIA. For Heretikes despise the Churche of God, and trust in the falshood of their opinions, ere∣cting them selues against the knowledge of God: and saying, when they haue diuided the people (by schisme,) we haue no part in Dauid, nor inheritance in the sonne of Isay.

FVLK. 29. Not these onely, but the idols of the Simonists, Valentinians, Gnostici, Carpocratits, Colly∣ridians, and such like, made with handes, of Christ, and his mother, of Paule, and Simon, and Selene, and Pytha∣goras,

&c. and such other, were idolls of false Christi∣ans, since the idolatrie of the Gentiles gaue place, by the iudgement of Irenaeus, Epiphanius, and other auncient doctors. And whatsoeuer you cite, or can cite out of Saint Hierom, against the idolls of heresies, agreeth most aptly to your selues, the Papistes, who worship not onely idols made with handes, but also the idols of your braines, which are abhominable heresies.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Zach 13. Loco citato.
• * 1.2

  Osee. 11.
• * 1.3

  Osee. 12.
• * 1.4

  In 5. Amos.
• * 1.5

  In 8. Amos.
• * 1.6

  c. 6.