Again, where Authors are engaged for interest sake, they fall into heat, passion, malice, and envy, and what they cannot make out by strength of arguments, they labour to make good by lyes and scandals, as is most apparent in this one Example we shall here give. _Henricus Cornelius Agrippa_, a person in his time well known to most of the Learned in _Europe_, and admired for his general and universal skill in all kind of Learning, having published a Piece which he styled, _A Declaration of the incertitude and vanity of Sciences and Arts, and the excellency of the Word of God_: wherein amongst other things he had sharply taxed the Monks and Fryars, and other Orders, of their ignorance, idleness, and many other crimes and misdemeanors, whereby certain Theologasters of _Lovain_ (netled with their own guilt) did in bitter malice draw up certain Articles against him, therein accusing him of Errour, Impiety, and Heresie, and had so far incensed _Charles_ the Fifth then Emperour against him, that he had commanded _Agrippa_ unheard to make a Recantation. But he writing a strong, polite, and pithy Apology, gave them such a responsion, that afterwards they did never reply; by which, and the mediation of divers learned Friends, who gave _Cæsar_ a right information of the end and drift of that Book, and of the things therein contained, He was pacified, and brought to a better understanding of the matter. Yet this could not protect _Agrippa_ from the virulent malice of the Popish Witchmongers, but that they forged most abominable lyes and scandals against him, especially that wretched and ignorant Monk _Paulus Jovius_, that was not ashamed to record in his Book intituled, _De Elogiis doctorum Virorum_, that _Agrippa_ carried a Cacodemon about with him, in the likeness of a black Dog, and that he died at _Lyons_, when it is certain he died at _Gratianople_. From all which horrid aspersions and lying scandals he is sufficiently acquitted by the famous Physician _Johannes Wierus_, one that was educated under him, and lived familiarly with him; and therefore was best able to testifie the whole truth of these particulars. But any that are so perversly and wilfully blinded as to have a sinister opinion of this person, (who _ab ineunte ætate in literis educatus esset, quâ fuit ingenii fælicitate, in omni artium ac disciplinarum genere ita versatus est, ut excelluerit_) may have most ample satisfaction from the modest and impartial Pen of _Melchior Adams_, who hath written his Life: as also from something that our Countryman, who called himself _Eugenius Philalethes_, hath clearly delivered: so that none can be ignorant of this particular, but such as wilfully refuse to be informed of the truth. [Sidenote: Inquir. into vulgar Errours, pag. 34.] [Sidenote: _Vid. vit. Germ. medic._ _pag._ 29.]