to cease talking, if he tell nothing but lies. In the place mentioned Sir Francis talketh neither of feares, frights, nor terrors. Nor doth it follow, because Parsons and his con∣sorts are still packing vnderhand, and dealing with the Spaniards, that we are terrified. For we haue neither cause to feare treason, nor publike force, vnlesse we will trust traytors, and wilfully throw away our armes. Nei∣ther haue Papists cause to begin to stirre, vnlesse they be weary of their liues, of peace, of ease, and of their natiue countrey.
Fol. 25. a. he boldly auoucheth, that I count it a blessing, to haue Catholike rites and seruice abolished: whereas in truth I desire nothing more, then that Catholike religion may be restored, and speake onely against the filthy abo∣minations of popish masse, the idolatrous worship of saints and idols, the tyranny of the Pope, and such like: which none but the slaues of Antichrist can endure, and wil affirme to be Catholike.
That Iouinian and Vigilantius held some errors, we will not deny. But that Hierome called them heretikes for the same points that wee hold, concerning virginitie, prayers to saints, and lights at martyrs tombes, as Parsons fol. 27. affirmeth most falsly, will not be proued. For Hie∣rome doth rather excuse those, that lighted candels at noone day, then condemne those that thought contrary. Neither did he euer place perfection in forced virginity, or teach prayers to saints, or allow those, that worshipped false relikes, as the papists do. This therefore which Par∣sons sayth, is to be scored vp among the relikes of his lea∣sings.
In the same leafe he addeth another grosse lye, saying, That Iewell (writing) against Harding, and Fulke against Allen and Bristow, do often call Saint Hierome borne pa∣pist and scolding doctor. For neither the one terme, nor the other is found in their writings. Nay we should great∣ly wrong Saint Hierome, if we should call him either papist, or borne papist, séeing that in his time neither the monster