. Antichrist the pope of Rome : or, the pope of Rome is Antichrist. TO THE RIGHT Honourable, and Right Reuerend Father in (jod> Iohn Lord ^BiJIoop oiLincolne^ Lord Keeper of the Great Scale of England) One of bis Maiefliermoft Honourable PriuieCcttncclL tight Honourable^ Elian reports, that whenDiogenes faw certaine Rho*dim Gallants gorgeouflyattyred, hee laughed, and(aid, Hit nihil eH prater fa-(lum: and after feeing cer-taine Laconians in bafe andJ fordide apparrel, Et h/ctfaidhe) alius fafl weft. So it may bee thought a kindeof pride and vaine-glory v to thruft foorth manyBooks in this f
. Antichrist the pope of Rome : or, the pope of Rome is Antichrist. TO THE RIGHT Honourable, and Right Reuerend Father in (jod> Iohn Lord ^BiJIoop oiLincolne^ Lord Keeper of the Great Scale of England) One of bis Maiefliermoft Honourable PriuieCcttncclL tight Honourable^ Elian reports, that whenDiogenes faw certaine Rho*dim Gallants gorgeouflyattyred, hee laughed, and(aid, Hit nihil eH prater fa-(lum: and after feeing cer-taine Laconians in bafe andJ fordide apparrel, Et h/ctfaidhe) alius fafl weft. So it may bee thought a kindeof pride and vaine-glory v to thruft foorth manyBooks in this fcribling Age. And again,for fuchto put forth none thai are beft that againftthe common Aduerfarie, may bee thought to pro-I A 2 ccede. mi THE EPISTLE ceede from another kinde of pride. In rhe firftkinde peraduenture I may be taxed/or I hade nowthefecond time prefumed to batter the walles ofBabel with the beft Engines of my poore fhre, notthinking much to be reputed in fome fbit vainc-glorious, fo I might any wayes aduance the truth,and be profitable to the Church of God. Toaddefemthing into her Treafury3t hough but two mites,was commended in the pcorc Widdow, and (hallnot(I hope) bee condemned in a poore Icfuitesand Romifli Priefts, multiply Bookcsand Pamphlets againftv?, and our Religion, notfhaming to load vs and our iuft caufe, with impu-dent lyes and flanders- thefe their fit fnudes ^asthey terme them)bcing the pillars of their church:andrtiallnot wee encounter themattheyr ovvncweapon, and ^/>z?vipeUere, ftbookagainftbook,though not numero (for therein they haue the van-tagc of vsj bmpovdere, equall to their bcftcCl fpeakofthe Ttiarij of our Churchy and not of my felfe,being confeious to mine owne
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