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

The Reueiwe.

33. If I had gotten no aduantage before, yet now haue I gained much by this Reckoning: the first is this, that Bellar∣mine, whom I was to proue a falsificator, may be conuicted of falshood by your confession, for to cut off a necessary part of a sentence of Tertullian, where the whole was obiected, doth argue fraude in the highest degree. Secondly I finde in your

Answere, that which may be obserued in many of your fel∣lowes, that Protestants are condemned by you for Heretikes * 1.1 sometimes, when they speake the very language of auncient Fathers. Thirdly I discerne in you, Mr. Parsons, eyther igno∣rance not to vnderstand, or malice not to acknowledge the truth of this doctrine of Tertullian, which hath beene thus * 1.2 cleared by the Authour of the Admonition, concerning the opi∣nions of Tertullian, praefixed before his workes, expounding the fore-named sentence, Tres sunt, &c. thus; Tertullian (saith he) calleth that a State, which the Schoolemen cal the substance: that he calleth a Degree, which they cal Notion: that he nameth a form, which they terme properties: & he taketh that to be Spe∣cies, or kinde, which they note to be the maner of being. Will not now M. Parsons blush to perceiue his malady detected, whil'st that he chose that Tertullian should bee rather condemned, then that (as I may so say) his sonne Bullinger a Protestant should not be condemned? Here is malice.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Three obser∣uable points.
• * 1.2

  M. Parsons ig∣norance of the iudgement of Tertullian.