self. For, who shall call it? who shall sit president in it? who shall be present, and give their voices? what shall be the rule of the decisions? what the order of execution?

Let them bring forth, if they will, the sister or the daughter of that their Tridentine Assembly : who can hold from smiles and scorn? Forsooth, they would deal with us, as Luther wittily jested of the summoning of this Council by Paul the Third, much like unto them, that mock a hungry dog with a crust and a knife; who, instead of giving him the bread, let him feel the haft. Well may we resolve, with Nazianzen, to avoid all such meetings of Bishops; for that no such Synod ever did good, but tended rather to the decay than advantage of the Church t.

In

I remember Isidore derives the Latin word Concilium, à ciliis oculorum; for that all direct the sight of their minds into one centre. There can, therefore, be no Council held by those, which profess a general and public disagreement of judgment. vain should we endeavour any such course, unless every one of them would resolve to think of peace at home; and would persuade his heart, laying aside all prejudice and wilful respects of faction, ingenuously to submit himself to the truth, when it once appears, and more to regard their souls than their estates.

For can we think it equal, as things now stand, that the same parties should be allowed, witnesses, plaintiffs, defendants, judges in their own cause? Or, shall we perhaps hope, that those privileges, which have hitherto been treacherously and tyrannically usurped by Papists, will now, upon better advisement, be ingenuously given up by them, and renounced? or, that they will now, at last, thunder and lighten Anathemas against their own heads? Some fools may hope for this, which are unacquainted with that old verse, so common in the mouth and pen of Lipsius,

Moribus antiquis Res stat Romana, virisque.

But, for us; unless he, that doth wonders alone, by his stretchedout arm from heaven, should mightily, beyond all hope, effect this; we know too well that it cannot be done.

Only this one thing, which God hath promised, we do verily expect; to see the day, when the Lord Jesus shall, with the breath of his mouth, destroy this lawless man §, long since revealed to his Church; and, by the brightness of his glorious coming, fully discover, and dispatch him. Not only in the means and way, but in the end also, is Rome opposite to heaven. The heaven shall pass away by a change of quality, not an utter destruction of sub

*Synod. Ariminens.

+ Ad Constan. Theod. 1. ii. c. 19. πάντα σύλλογον φεύγειν ἐπισκοπων ; ὅτι μηδεμίας συνόδε τέλΘ χρῆσον, &c. in Præfat. Concil. Binii.

Optat. Milev. 1. vii. Decr. 2. q. Multi.

τὸν ἄνομον.

stance*: Rome, by destruction, not by change. Of us, therefore, and them, shall that old Bucolick Verse be verified:

Out of each others' breast their swords they drew;

Nor would they rest, till one the other slew †.

GLORY TO GOD, VICTORY TO THE TRUTH, WAR WITH HERESY, PEACE TO THE CHURCH. Amen.

NOTE, BY THE EDITOR.

It was a common practice in our Author's time, to place notes and references in the side margin, which being supposed to be opposite to the parts of the text with which they were connected, few or no marks were introduced to determine this connection. When, therefore, the notes and references were so numerous that they could not be placed opposite to the corresponding parts of the text, great confusion would often arise. The reader may form some opinion of the difficulty of disembarrassing this confusion in the preceding Treatise, when he reviews the multitude of notes and references which accompany it, and understands that the preceding editions. contain throughout the whole, but one single asterisk. In some passages, even the order in which the notes are placed varies from the order in which the corresponding matter occurs in the text. No certain way was left of removing all obscurity, but that of verifying the respective references and quotations; which, however, would be wholly impracticable, as many of the books are not now to be met with: and I am, besides, obliged to say, that, in some of the instances, in which I have attempted this course, I have found the references so inaccurate, whether from the author's having used editions differently divided from those which I employed, or from his own errors or those of the press, that I have been obliged to desist. After close attention to the preceding Treatise, I think I have succeeded, in esta blishing, in most cases, the connection between the text and the notes. On the following obscure or doubtful references, however, the reader may try his own skill: viz. p. 34. reference marked *.-p. 39. from † to .-p. 41. *.-p. 45. ***.—p. 58. *. †.—p. 68. †.—p. 71. *.—p. 74. †. ‡.—p. 75. *.

Hier. in Matt. xxiv.

+ Theocr. Idyl. xß′. Tw d' äog' ix xoλeoïïv, &c.

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