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The B. of Sarisburie.
Were you not a stranger in your owne Bookes, M. Harding, yée would not thinke it so strange a mater, to heare Ruffinus called an Heretique. S. Hierome doubted not so to calle him.* 1.1 Thus he saith: Dum mihi inconstantiae crimen impingit, se Haereti∣cū, &c: Ita verrit Origenē, vt, qui in Trinitate Catholiquum legeret, in alijs Haereticū non caueret: While Ruffinus chargeth me with inconstancie, he proueth him selfe to be an Heretique, &c. Ruffinus hath so translated Origen into Latine, that who so findeth him Catholique touchinge the Trinitie, shoulde neuer suspecte him, in any thinge els, to be an Heretique.* 1.2 Againe he saith vnto him, Solos Haereticos non recipimus, quos vos solos recipitis: Onely Heretiques wee receiue not into our houses: And yet them onely you re∣ceiue.
Anastasius, the Bishop of Rome, hath thus published his Iudgemente of the same Ruffinus:* 1.3 Omni suspicione seposita, Ruffinum scito, quòd proptia mente Orige∣nis dicta in Latinū transtulit, ac probauit. Nec dissimilis ab eo est, qui alienis vitijs praestat assensum. Illud tamen scire te cupio, ita haberi à nostris partibus alienum, vt quid agat, vbi sit, nec scire cupiamus: Al suspiciō sette aparte, knowe thou, yt Ruffinus hath translated Origen (the Heretiques) woordes into Latine, accordinge to his owne likinge, and vvel allovveth the same. And, who so euer geueth his consente vnto an other mannes faulte, it not vnlike vnto him. Notwithstandinge thus mutche I woulde haue thee to knowe, that Ruffinus is so far from our felowship, or profession of Faithe, that wee desire not to knowe, neither what he dooth, nor where he is.
Vincentius saithe,* 1.4 that S. Hierome charged Ruffinus with the Pelagian He∣resie. Erasmus saith, Ruffinus non fuit alienus ab Origenistarum Haeresi: Ruffi∣nus was not cleare from the Origenians Heresie. Againe, speakinge of the same Heretiques,* 1.5 he saithe, Huius reī Dux, & signifer Aquileiensis Ruffinus fuit. A∣gaine, Notat, nescio quem: ipsum, opinor, Ruffinum, qui in eam Haeresim inductus est à Magistro quopiam,* 1.6 &c. Againe, Monet, vt explosa factione Origenistarum, cos etiam eijciat, qui clam, & oblique essent Origenistae, Ruffinum, & illius amicos: The Captaine, and standarde bearer of this Heresie, vvas Ruffinus of Aquileia, &c. Againe, S. Hie∣rome here noteth somme body, I knowe not whom: but I thinke, Ruffinus him selfe: that was brought into this Heresie by somme teacher,* 1.7 &c. Againe, He warneth his frende, that hauinge renounced the Origenian Heretiques, he woulde likewise renounce them, that priuily, and in secrete were Origenian Heretiques, meaninge Ruffinus, and his frendes.
Likewise againe he saithe, Ruffinus grauissima suspicione premebatur, quòd esset Origenista. Sub hoc enim titulo Arianorum Haeresis conata est repullulascere: Ruffinus was greeuously supected to be an Origenian Heretique.* 1.8 For vnder that name the Arian Heresie beganne to reuiue. Thus yée sée, M. Hardinge, it was not so greate an Heresie, to saie, that Ruffinus was an Heretique.