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ANSVVER. [ A]
〈◊〉〈◊〉 opposed the Doctrine of the holy 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and of the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Church, and was 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 by 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and the Fathers of the 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉, and that by the Scriptures a: and the Pelagians were 〈◊〉〈◊〉 con∣uicted by S. Augustine, and his Scholers, out of the holy Scrip∣ture. And although Pope Celestine approoued S. Augustines Faith, and condemned these Hereticks b, yet that was not the principall reason whereupon they were reputed Heretickes, by [ B] the Christian world, but the falshood of their Doctrine (proo∣ued such by repugnancie with the Scriptures c) made them to be so esteemed. And how many Heretickes were discouered and confuted by the Fathers of the first three hundred yeares, out of the Scriptures, before the Roman Church ascended to the height of authoritie d. The Waldenses were no Hereticks, as I haue formerly prooued, but were only branded with that aspersion, by Papals, whose pride and tyrrannie they did op∣pose: and had S. Paul e himselfe beene aliue, and reprooued the errour and wickednesse of the Babilonian Harlot, he must [ C] not haue escaped her censure and malice. Wicliffe and Husse, were blessed instruments of Christ, vindicating and defending Gods Truth, withheld in Iniquitie; neither did they hold such blas∣phemies as the Romists cast vpon them. They might haue some opinions in points lesse materiall, wherein perhaps they concurre not with our Doctrine, as likewise the Waldenses; but as for those vile reports which Romists make of their Do∣ctrine, no indifferent person will regard it: for euen at this day, when things are in present view and action, you calumni∣ate the persons, and falsifie the Doctrine f of all your Oppo∣sites, [ D] as grosly as euer Pagans traduced the Primitiue Christi∣ans. And many of the Bookes and Writings of Wicliffe and Husse are extant, wherein are found no such Doctrines as Pa∣pists haue charged them with.