burne with fire and fagot, whosoeuer holdeth and defen∣deth,
any one article, contrary to his late hatched Religi∣on:
yea, if one passe by an Image, or their house of Inqui∣sition
(which they terme the Holy-house) and do not re∣uerence
thereunto, it is enough to cast that man into the
sayde disholy prison: Which kind of punishment, if it were
vpon iust cause, executed within his Maiesties Dominions,
shortly, few or no disloyall subiects would be found with∣in
his kingdomes. Which is not my bare opinion onely,
but euen Saint Austens in the like subiect; as it doeth and
may appeare to the indifferent Reader, in his learned Epi∣stle
to Vincentius the third, because for the better successe
and more free passage of the late Romish Religion, the lai∣call
people are commanded by Popish Canon-law, vnder
paine of Excommunication, not to reason at all, in matters
of Faith and Religion; and the learned semblably, not to
examine or discusse, how farre the Popes power doeth ex∣tend,
whatsoeuer or howsoeuer he command them to be∣leeue.
For the Popes law hath made it Sacriledge, to dis∣pute
of his power, or to call it into question; so writeth
their owne deare Doctor and popish Fryer, Franciscus à
Victoria, the first man that brought the Popish School-do∣ctrine
into Spaine: yea the Popes owne decrees are con∣sonant
to the same, these are the expresse wordes: Similiter
de iudicio summi pontificis alicui disputare non licet. In like ma∣ner,
no man may dispute of the iudgment of the Pope, or
high-priest. The fourth, because neyther any of the layty,
nor yet of the Cleargy, can vnder paine of Excommunica∣tion,
read eyther the olde or the new Testament translated
into the vulgar tongue, or any other booke of Controuer∣sie
or Diuinity, set forth by any not professed Vassall vnto
the Pope; vnlesse such person or persons be especially li∣cenced
of the pope so to doe.