The encounter against M. Parsons, by a revievv of his last sober reckoning, and his exceptions vrged in the treatise of his mitigation. Wherein moreouer is inserted: 1. A confession of some Romanists, both concerning the particular falsifications of principall Romanists, as namely, Bellarmine, Suarez, and others: as also concerning the generall fraude of that curch, in corrupting of authors. 2. A confutation of slaunders, which Bellarmine vrged against Protestants. 3. A performance of the challenge, which Mr. Parsons made, for the examining of sixtie Fathers, cited by Coccius for proofe of Purgatorie ... 4. A censure of a late pamphlet, intituled, The patterne of a Protestant, by one once termed the moderate answerer. 5. An handling of his question of mentall equiuocation (after his boldnesse with the L. Cooke) vpon occasion of the most memorable, and feyned Yorkeshire case of equiuocating; and of his raging against D. Kings sermon. Published by authoritie

SECT. V.

The Falshoods which are confessed to swarme in Gratian, the auncient compiler of the Decrees of Popes, Fathers and Councels.

22. AFterwards the zeale, which Mr. Parsons hath, for the defence of the Romish Authors, transported him to iustifie their Gratian also, especially in one point, wher∣in notwithstanding his guilt * 1.1 will appeare to bee most transparant. But now in generall their owne a 1.2 Antonius Au∣gustinus, an Arch-bishop in Spaine, hath lately written a booke professedly for the purging of Gratian, whose faults he saith are Ità multa, &c. So many that they cannot be declared in one day: many false inscriptions of Authors; ascribing many words vnto Gregorie, Ambrose, and Augustine: which are no where to be found, or not in them; producing also true Authors, but yet so, as oftentimes bringing in contrary sentences.

23. Afterwards he proceedeth to vnfold many particular grosse, and dangerous vntruths of Gratian, the Compiler of the Decrees of Councels, and Popes, and of the Testimonies of Fathers; a worke which for diuers hundred yeeres was ad∣mitted for the publike directorie of the Doctors of the Ro∣mish Church.

24. Heere, heere had beene a large field of falsities, for Mr. Parsons his pen to galloppe in, and to play his Rhetoricall curuets, if that his Holy itch, (as hee calleth such his desire to be meddling with Protestants) had not mooued him, rather to calumniate the manisest truthes of his Aduersaries, then to acknowledge the Falsifications committed by the Principall Authors of his owne side. If peraduenture these confessed corruptions in these their particular, but yet publike and fa∣mous Bookes, seeme not to our Reader sufficient to prooue Mr. Parsons his Distinctiue Note to be notoriously calumni∣ous, wee haue further to acquaint him with that which fol∣loweth.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Sec hereaftes ca. 5. §. 3. &c.
• a 1.2

  Ant. Augustin' Archiepiscopus Tarraconens. de emend. Gratiani. lib. 1. Dialog. 1. pag. 5. Paris. 1607.