THE ANSWERE TO THE TENTH Section of the Authors defence to all inferior subiects.
The Apologie.
THe summe of the Epistlers defence here is this, to perswade the inferior sort to embrace Po∣perie, Because all their auncestors were of the same religion, they liued by pensions, farmes, annuities, almes of re∣ligious houses: no fines or enhanced rents, &c. no forfeitures, turning out of farmes, destruction of woods, &c. no wife to pro∣uide for ioynture, no daughter to endowe, &c. no elder sonne to enrich with new inheritance▪ not so many iarres and qua∣rels in lawe.
The Antilogie.
THis Popes Pedler openeth his pack to euery one, and is odious in obtruding the same wares: for like a tired hackney, he keepeth his old tract, and still trea∣deth in the same steps: He hath said nothing in this Section, which is not alleadged before: he broacheth the same stale stuffe, wearying his reader with his vaine repe∣titions, and long periodes: that I may say to him, as Hierome against Iouinian, Quotiescum que ••um legero, vbi∣cunque me defecerat spiritus, ibi est distinctio: totum incipit, totum pe••det ex altero, totus sermo omni materiae conuenit, quia nulli conuenit: As often as I reade him, I finde no di∣stinction, till I want breath: euery sentence begins, and yet hangs vpon another: whatsoeuer he saith, is fit for euery matter, because it fitteth indeede none. But to answere this babler and Battist: although not all, yet most of our Auncestors were popish, what then? So were their Auncestors Paganes. Few of the Apostles Aunce∣stors