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VVHether they will be con∣tent to be tryed by the Reli∣hion of those first christiā church∣es, or temples, and chappels a 1.1 that in the foresayd persecutions were by the pagane Emperours ouerthrown? Or b 1.2 by those chur∣ches, that were afterward by the Emperours, specially when they
were conuerted, built vp againe? * 1.3 Or by the Churches that are now ouer al Christendome to be seene being the most liuely, and most principall Monumentes of Chri∣stianitie?
And whereas the Churches now beare plaine witnesse to our Reli∣gion, both in their fashion, & in their furniture, as that they be bu∣ilded at length into the East, and the chiefest also in the forme of a Crosse; & furnished with Chaun∣cells, Altares, Crosses, and other Images, with holy Relikes with Chalices, and other holy vessells, and with Holy Vestimentes, &c. Aske the Protestants, what they reade of the aunciēt & first Chur∣ches, whether they also were not so builded, and so furnished? yea whether very many of these that are now to be seene, are not of the
very first and most auncient. Or when the Churches beganne to be chaunged and altered from the first, to a cleane contrary forme & furniture?
As for example in our owne Countrey, whether of late yeares they were changed from c 1.4 those of our first conuersiō. Or whether those of our first conuersiō did dif∣fer from d 1.5 the former of the Bri∣tons or welshemen? Or, whether of both, Englishe (I say and Bri∣tannes) there are not yet some to be seene: and they, and others as well in that Iland, as in all the reste of Christendome, so like and vniforme, that neither the Here∣tikes can pointe out so much as one that was of their Religion, & the Catholickes may see g 1.6 by theire vniformitie, I say) that they haue bene, and be al of the
Apostles Religion and tradition. And therefore put the Heretickes in mind of their hainous Sacrilege, partely in pulling downe so many of the Churches, partely in vsur∣ping the reste, and the Liuinges of al, being the possessiōs of Christ and Dowries of his onely Catho∣like Church, and no one of them all builded by Protestantes, nor for Protestants, nor for their we∣men and children.
Eus. hist. l. 7. c. 24. l. 8. c.
Eus. l. 8. c. 28
9. c. 8.9. l. 10. c. 2.3.4 & de vit Cōst. l. 1. c. 40. l. 3. cap. 41.58. Bed. hist. l. 5. c. 12.18. c Bed. l. 3. cap. 2. Chrys. to 5. con. gē∣quod Christus sit Deus. col. 1036
Bed. l. 2. c. 3.14.16. l. 3. c. 2.7.
Bed. l. 1. c. 6.8.26. l. 2. cap. 5.
Aug. ep. 118. & de bap l. 4. c. 24