A view of the marginal notes of the popish Testament, translated into English by the English fugitiue papists resiant at Rhemes in France. By George Wither

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Title: A view of the marginal notes of the popish Testament, translated into English by the English fugitiue papists resiant at Rhemes in France. By George Wither
Author: Wither, George, 1540-1605.
Publication: Printed at London :: By Edm. Bollifant for Thomas Woodcocke,; [1588]
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〈◊〉〈◊〉. 3. 15.

The text.

But if you haue bitter zeale, and there be contentions in your harts: glorie not, and be not liers against the truth: for this is not ∴ wisdome descending from aboue, but earthly, sen∣suall, diuelish.

The note.

The difference betwixt the humane wisedome specially of heretikes, and the wisedome of the catholike church and hir children.

The answer.

If a man compare the fruits of heauenly wisedome, with the fruits of the wisedome of your church, he shall find them as con∣trarie as white is to blacke. All stories testifie, that your church hath béene the author of most of the wars and contentions in Christendome these thrée hundred yéeres, and vpwards. Your bookes in praise of Sodomitri••, your curtesans maintained in the eies and bosome of your most holy father, and the beastly life of your priests, testifie the chastitie of your church. The mercie of your church the massacres of France, and the Marian storme in England not yet forgotten, do sufficiently shew. I might go tho∣rough

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the rest: but peace, chastitie, and mercie wanting amongst you, doth sufficiently shew your wisedome to be earthly, sensuall, and diuelish.