For the purpose of persuading the unwary, that _the highest divine adoration of the consecrated bread and wine had been the practice of the Church from the earliest ages_, Bp. Trevern adduces a direction or rubric from the ancient Clementine Liturgy: and, after him, Mr. Husenbeth eagerly catches up, for the same purpose, the same ancient rubric or direction. {69a} Meanwhile the direction itself, in its _genuine_ state says not a syllable respecting _any_ adoration of the consecrated bread and wine. Bp. Trevern first _interpolates_ it, to make it serve his purpose: and then Mr. Husenbeth brings forward, _as evidence_, the precise words of the gallican prelates _interpolation_ wedged into an utterly false construction of the original passage. {69b} 9. Our ninth and last specimen is of a somewhat wholesale nature: whence it will the more completely exemplify the PRINCIPLE, laid down, for the better furtherance of truth, by the painful Professors of Douay. The King of Spain (I avail myself of the diligent researches of our own excellent Bishop Jeremy Taylor) gave a commission to the Inquisitors, to _purge_ all catholic authors: but with this special clause; that _they should keep private among themselves the expurgatory index_, _neither communicating it to others_, _nor giving a copy of it to any one_. It happened, however, by the Divine Providence so ordering it, that, about thirteen years after, a copy of it was procured and published by Johannes Pappus and Franciscus Junius. This circumstance compelled the Inquisitors to acknowledge their expurgatory index: and they have since printed it themselves. (1.) Let us now observe some few of the exploits of _emendation_, achieved by these honest and laborious correctors of erring Antiquity. In Chrysostom’s Works printed at Basil, the words, _There is no merit_, _but what is given us by Christ_, are commanded to be expunged. Yet these very words occur in his first Homily upon the text of St. John, _Ye are my friends_. A similar erasure is enjoined of the clause, _The Church is built_, _not upon the man_, _but upon the faith_. Yet this clause occurs in his Sermonon Pentecost. The same _expurgatory process_ has been undergone by Chrysostom in many other places: and Ambrose and Augustine and the rest of the old Fathers have been subjected to the like necessary _emendations_. In short the _curtailments_ of the ancient writers were carried to so great an extent, that Ludovicus Saurius, the corrector of the press at Lyons, shewed and complained of them to Junius: lamenting, that he was forced to cancel and erase many sayings of Ambrose in that edition of his Works which was printed at Lyons in the year 1559.