The English concord in ansvver to Becane's English iarre: together with a reply to Becan's Examen of the English Concord. By Richard Harris, Dr. in Diuinitie.

D^r. HARRIS Reply.

INdeed, if I were so rude, and such a stranger in the Fathers and Councells, as hee sheweth himselfe heere to be, I might rightly be termed rude and ig∣norant. The very misplacing, and the twice setting downe of the same Canon, and of the same Councell for words so diuerse, might easily haue informed the Iesuit, that it was the Compositors, or Transcribers, and not the Authors ouersight. There is none that knoweth Becane and my self, but presume that I know as well as hee, the times and places of all the Councells put forth in print; and that I could not be ignorant of this, viz. that S. Cyprian was dead, a glorious Martyr, more then 50 yeeres before any of the foure generall Councells (much more before this sixt of Constantino∣ple) was celebrated or called.

But, silly Iesuit, can not hee find these words of Cy∣prian vttered by him, in any Councell where hee was present? Can hee cite any Councell but that of Car∣thage, where Cyprian was present? Or is hee ignorant, that Cyprian was present at the Councell of Carthage, and there vttered these words, Nemo nostrum Episco∣pum. &c. If he be so ignorant, let him heare Cyprian in these his owne words. Superest vt de hacipsa re, singu∣li, quid sentiamus, proseramus, neminem iudicantes, aut à iure Communion is, aliquem, si diuersum senserit, amo∣uentes. Neque enim quisquam nostrûm Episcopum se esse Episcoporum constituit, aut tyrannico timore ad obsequendi necessitatem, colleg as suos adigit: quando habet omnis Epi∣scopus,

pro licentia libertatis et potestatis suae arbitriū; pro∣prium, tanquam iudicari ab alio non possit, qui nec ipse po∣test alierum iudicare.

Let euery of vs vtter what vvee thinke of this matter, iudging no man, nor excommunicating any, who shall think otherwise then we doe. For there is none of vs, that makes himselfe a Bishop of Bishops; or by tyrannicall feare for∣ceth his colleagues to obey: sith euery Bishop may speak free∣ly what he thinks, iudged of none, as he can iudge none.

Doth not the Iesuit knowe euen by the name Papa, that the Pope ambitiously makes himselfe Bishoppe of Bishops, in their popish Canons? and tyrannicallie by oath, enforceth all Bishops to the necessity of obeying him, to say as he saith, in their canonicall obedience? If he know not, let Aeneas Syluius, afterward Pope Pi∣us 2. schoole him in these words: Bishops contradicting the Pope, though they speake the truth, yet they sin against their oath made to the Pope.

If this Iesuite were not ignorant that Cyprian spake those words in the Councell of Carthage; what a friuo∣lous Doctor is he, misspending the precious time a∣bout trifling escapes of the Printer, or Transcriber &c. viz. of the word, Constantinople, for the word Car∣thage? as though such escapes were not frequent in the Popes Canon law.