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Title:  A challenge concerning the Romish Church, her doctrine & practises, published first against Rob. Parsons, and now againe reuiewed, enlarged, and fortified, and directed to him, to Frier Garnet, to the archpriest Blackevvell and all their adhærents, by Matth. Sutcliffe. Thereunto also is annexed an answere vnto certeine vaine, and friuolous exceptions, taken to his former challenge, and to a certeine worthlesse pamphlet lately set out by some poore disciple of Antichrist, and entituled, A detection of diuers notable vntrueths, contradictions, corruptions, and falsifications gathered out of M. Sutcliffes new challenge, &c.
Author: Sutcliffe, Matthew, 1550?-1629.
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and diuers other set out vnder his name are manifestly to be prooued, not to be his, and that not onely by the testimony of learned men, but also by the stile, circumstances of the time, the monastical and grosse veine of the authors, and di∣uers other notes.Vnder the name of Basil. and Chrysostome they haue set out, not onely commentaries and masses, but also epistles and sermons; whereof some are no where to bee found in Greeke, the rest sauour rather of a frier like veine, then of those two fathers spirit.And the like they haue done vnder the names of the rest of the fathers. But as it is forgerie to father bastards vpon wrong fathers; so it is forgery, and great wrong to set out such base stuffe vnder the name of fathers. And this may be gathered out of the lawe, qui falsam. ff. ad l. cornel. de fal∣sis. & l. cum suppositi. Cod. etiam ad l. cornel. de falsis. Like∣wise if it be falshood, to giue vs base mettall for golde, and to pare true coyne, as appeareth by the lawe, quicun{que} num∣mos. ff. ad leg. Cornel. de falsis: then is it likewise falshood, to giue vs base stuffe for the writings of the fathers.Herein they doe also commit another point of falshood. for hauing themselues abused the names of fathers, they by all meanes endeuour to suppresse the originall writings of the Gréeke fathers. Posseuin in his rapsody, which he entitu∣leth bibliothecam selectam (albeit it is rather bibliotheca sce∣lesta) perswadeth all, that haue gréeke copies to kéepe them from the sight of students in diuinity. Bellarmine also and Baronius, and diuers others confesse sometimes both bookes, and decretal epistles set out vnder the names of fathers, and auncient bishops of Rome to be forged. Their owne testi∣mony therefore doth condemne them to be falsaries, if they vse these false writings, and alleadge them, as they do most commonly. And least any man might doubt, whether the papists are falsaries or no; in their expurgatory indexes they openly pro∣fesse themselues to be falsaries. In epist. ad Pi∣um 5. ante bi∣bliothec. san∣am. For what is falsity, but to take away, to adde, to alter mens writings? but this the papists doe ex professo. Sixtus Senensis confesseth, that Pius 5. caused 0