But we weary the unlearned, who need not know so much; and trouble the learned, who know it already. Yet before we end, we must answer a third cavil and objection of their’s against us, for altering and amending our translations so oft; wherein truly they deal hardly and strangely with us. For to whom ever was it imputed for a fault, (by such as were wise,) to go over that which he had done, and to amend it where he saw cause? [Sidenote: _St. August. Epist. 9. St. August. lib. Retract Video interdum vitia mea. St. August. Epist. 8._] St. _Augustine_ was not afraid to exhort St. _Hierome_ to a _Palinodia_ or recantation. The same St. _Augustine_ was not ashamed to retractate, we might say, revoke, many things that had passed him, and doth even glory that he seeth his infirmities. If we will be sons of the truth, we must consider what it speaketh, and trample upon our own credit, yea, and upon other men’s too, if either be any way an hindrance to it. This to the cause. Then to the persons we say, that of all men they ought to be most silent in this case. For what varieties have they, and what alterations have they made, not only of their service books, portesses, and breviaries, but also of their _Latin_ translation? The service book supposed to be made by St. _Ambrose_, (_Officium Ambrosianum_,) was a great while in special use and request: but Pope _Adrian_, [Sidenote: _Durand. lib. 5. cap. 2._] calling a council with the aid of _Charles_ the Emperor, abolished it, yea, burnt it, and commanded the service book of St. _Gregory_ universally to be used. Well, _Officium Gregorianum_ gets by this means to be in credit; but doth it continue without change or altering? No, the very _Roman_ service was of two fashions; the new fashion, and the old, the one used in one Church, and the other in another; as is to be seen in _Pamelius_ a Romanist, his preface before _Micrologus_. The same _Pamelius_ reporteth out of _Radulphus de Rivo_, that about the year of our Lord 1277 Pope _Nicolas_ the Third removed out of the churches of _Rome_ the more ancient books (of service,) and brought into use the missals of the Friers Minorites, and commanded them to be observed there: insomuch that about an hundred years after, when the aboved named _Radulphus_ happened to be at Rome, he found all the books to be new, of the new stamp. Neither was there this chopping and changing in the more ancient times only, but also of late. _Pius Quintus_ himself confesseth, that every bishoprick almost had a peculiar kind of service, most unlike to that which others had; which moved him to abolish all other breviaries, though never so ancient, and privileged and published by Bishops in their Dioceses, and to establish and ratify that only which was of his own setting forth in the year 1568. Now when the Father of their Church, who gladly would heal the sore of the daughter of his people softly and slightly, and make the best of it, findeth so great fault with