The answere.
I say first, that I haue said sufficiently for the authoritie of [ 1] the fathers, in my booke of Motiues, in the ninth chap. of cre∣dit due vnto writers. I say secondly, that the fathers as they [ 2] were men, so had they their imperfections and errors, & are no lesse reiected of the papists when they make against them, then of vs. Yea, no man reiecteth the fathers with such temeritie; as doth the Iesuite Bellar. when he dislikes them. This is proued in my book of Motiues. I say thirdly, that thogh sundry of the [ 3] fathers seeme to grant that there is a purgatorie, yet do they it so doubtfully, so vnconstantly, so coldly, as none of thē do or can make it an article of our belief. And for proofe hereof, one only, S. Austin may suffice for the rest.* 1.1 In one place he writes in this manner; Tale aliquid etiam post hanc vitam fieri incredibile non est, & vtrum ita sit quaeri potest. It is not incredible, but