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But Hosius will here make exclamation, saying we do him wrong, and that
these be not his own words, but the words of the heretic Zuenckfeldius.
But how then, if Zuenckfeldius make exclamation on the other side, and
say, that the same very words be not his, but Hosius' own words? For
tell me where hath Zuenckfeldius ever written them? or, if he have
written them, and Hosius have judged the same to be wicked, why hath not
Hosius spoken so much as one word to confute them? Howsoever the matter
goeth, although Hosius peradventure will not allow of those words, yet he
doth not disallow the meaning of the words For well near in all
controversies, and namely touching the use of the holy "communion under
both kinds," although the words of Christ be plain and evident, yet doth
Hosius disdainfully reject them, as no better than "cold and dead
elements;" and commandeth us to give faith to certain new lessons,
appointed by the Church, and to I wot not what revelations of the Holy
Ghost. And Pighius saith: "Men ought not to believe, no not the most
clear and manifest words of the Scriptures, unless the same be allowed
for good by the interpretation and authority of the Church."
And yet, as though this were too little, they also burn the Holy
Scriptures, as in times past wicked King Aza did, or as Antiochus or
Maximinus did, and are wont to name them heretics' books. And out of
doubt, to see too, they would fain do as Herod in old time did in Jewry,
that he might with more surety keep still his dominion: who being an
Idumaean born, and a stranger to the stock and kindred of the Jews, and
yet coveting much to be taken for a Jew, to the end he might establish to
him and his posterity the kingdom of that country, which he had gotten of
Augustus Caesar, he commanded all the genealogies and pedigrees to be
burnt, and made out of the way, so that there should remain no record
whereby he might be known to them that came after that he was an alien in
blood: whereas even from Abraham's time these monuments had been safely
kept amongst the Jews, and laid up in their treasury; because in them it
might easily and most assuredly be found of what lineage everyone did
descend. So (in good faith) do these men, when they would have all their
own doings in estimation, as though they had been delivered to us even
from the Apostles, or from Christ Himself: to the end there might be
found nowhere anything able to convince such their dreams and lies,
either they burn the Holy Scriptures, or else they craftily convey them
from the people surely.
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