Now as for the murmurs that the _Gentiles_, the Hereticks, and the Catholicks have against _Rome_, there is this difference between them. The Heathens murmure upon what they hear; the Hereticks against those things that they do not believe; and the Catholicks against those things they see; and certainly of them all the Catholicks murmurs are the worst: for the eyes being as it were the treasurers of the heart, do furnish it so abundantly with the impressions which they receive, that it never is dispossessed of them afterwards; the Proverb being very true, which sayes, _That in vain we fly from that which we carry in our hearts_. Therefore the Catholicks, murmuring boldly, because they see the abuses of _Rome_, are much more believed then the others. But indeed to speak truth, if we ballance the reasons that these three sorts of persons have to talke disadvantagiously of _Rome_, we shall find that the Hereticks have the greatest and most weighty arguments of their discontent. But before I prove this, it is necessary to give notice that I make a distinction betwixt Hereticks and Protestants, though the Church of _Rome_ does confound both these denominations; for they are Hereticks who deny the true Religion for a false one, which they set up without any foundation of reason, thinking that their own opinion is enough. The Protestants are those that abhorre innovations, and do tie themselves to the sense of the Holy Scripture, denying every thing they find not in those Sacred Records: and for my part, I intend to speak only of the Protestants, not of the Hereticks. Let us return to our subject; and say, that the _Popes_ do neither good nor harme to the Heathens; to the Catholicks they do both good and evil; and to the Protestants alwayes ill, and never good. Looking upon the Heathens as neater, upon the Catholicks as their friends, and upon the Protestants as their greatest enemies. From thence it proceeds that the Catholicks are more scandalized at the _Popes_ errours; for they being friends are admitted to dive into the bottom of the disorders: The Protestants seeing that the _Popes_ do not only suspect them, but openly profess enmity with them, do busie all their industry in penetrating into those hidden mysteries of the Court of Rome, that they may not be surprised, but have wherewith to defend themselves in their disputes: and therefore that which they report of the Court of _Rome_ is most ordinarily true. The Heathens let _Rome_ alone as long as _Rome_ lets them alone; and they talke according to the informations they receive from Catholicks and Protestants.