to in those or any other Points. Of Coccius I have given an account, enough to make a modeft Adversary blufh. But I could not then give any account of GU ALTE RUS, because I could not get his Book, which is very scarce among us. The Title of it is, Tabula Chronologich ftatus Ecclefia Catholice à Chrifto nato ad Annum MDCXIV. In quâ duodenis Columnis exhibentur fummi Pontifices, & Antipapa, Concilia, & Patriarcha quatuor veterum Ecclefiarum, &c. Nec non veterum errorum cum recentioribus Calviniana Sectæ hærefibus, ac demum duodecim ex iis, quas vel nunc Calvinismus impugnat, Catholicarum veritatum Confirmatio, &c. Authore Jacobo Gualtero. Lugduni MDCXVI.

Seven of his twelve Catholick Verities are, TranSubftantiation Invocation of Saints; The religi ous Ufe and Veneration of Relicks and Images, especially of the holy Cross, The Calibacy of Priests; Purgatory, and Prayers for the Dead, The Primacy of St. Peter, and the Roman Church; The Infallibility of the Church in her Decifions, Decrees, and Traditions. Which he proves by forged and fpurious Writings, or by the Words of true Authors egregioufly wrefted and mifapplied. Let us give fome account of the noble Atchievements of this Carbolick Champion, of which his firft Century will afford us a Specimen. There he goes about to prove Tranfubftantiation out of the Spurious Martyrdom of St. Andrew, faid to be written by Achaias the Presbyter, particularly out of his Confeffion, which that Forger relates him to have made before Ageas the Tyrant. Another of his Authorities is taken out of the Epistle to the People of Bourdeaux, forged in the name of

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St. Martialis, to which I may add the Liturgies of St. Peter, St. James the Elder, and of St. Matthew, and St. Mark, as if written by them; and the Works under the name of Pfeudo Dionyfius Areopagita, as if they had been written in that Century by the true Areopagite. In this Century he alfo cites the fpurious Acts of the Paffion of St. Peter and St. Paul, forged in the name of St. Linus, the fpurious Epiftle of St. Ignatius to Heron the Deacon, and what is faid in the name of the Apostles in the interpolated Apoftolical Conftitutions falfely afcrib'd to St. Clemens Romanus. In his Collation of the Errors of this Century with thofe of the Calviniftical Sect, by which he understands the Proteftants in general, the Title of the first Chapter is, De Fuda Ifcariote Sacramentariorum Principe; Of Fudas Iscariot the chief of the Sacramentarians; where he also writes thus : "Fudas Iscariot, the Traytor, who was the first Apoftate and firft Heretick of Chriftianity, may "of right be esteemed the firft Architect of the "pretended Calvinian Reformation, efpecially in "three things. Firft, In impugning the holy "Mafs, and Reality of the Eucharift, &c. This is my Adverfary's Catholick Champion of the Catholick Verities, to whom he fends me for an Anfwer to Albertinus, Launoy, and Barrow, though the eldest of them wrote nine and thirty Years after him; and if he thinks him fuch a noble defender of their Catholick Verities, let him put the iffue of the Controverfies about them betwixt their Church and ours upon his authorities and proofs. Let him prove out of him, if he can, that the Doctrines in difpute between us and them were Doctrines of Faith in the five firft Centuries. This I have often called upon him to do; and if he can prove That out of Gualterus's authorities,

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an author to whom he hath in a manner appealed, it will be much for his honour to make his proofs good.

In the 70th page I have cited an ancient poetical harmony of the Gofpels extant in the Cotto nian Library, written in the Francick or old German Tongue. In which I have obferved there are no Titles or Appellations given to the everbleffed Virgin Mary, but fuch as any Proteftant may give her, especially in a Poem, as that History of our Saviour's Life is. The Original Titles I have fince met with in my Collections, and judge it not inconvenient to fet them down here, hoping they may gratify the curious Reader (as certainly they will, if he be ftudious of the old Septentrional Learning) as well as prove what I affirmed.

Munelica magat. Thia Davides dohtor diurlic Wif, Waldende Wurthirig. Ibis ensho ful. Ures drohtines modor, dereo sconioft, ellero Wiuo whitigoft. Theru helagun thiornum Marium thero guodun. Wifo Sconiorta. Fagar helag thiorno, thiu magat. Fagero.frio Sconiorta thiu mobor. Mis thero Godes thiornum. Isis thero Guosun. Giwitun him than te hus thanan fan Hieruralem Ioseph endi Maria helag hiwrki; Haboun im hefan Cuning rimla te gerithe runo brohtines. Endi ina that Wif beheld thiu thiorno Lechiuso. Mid thero guodan thiornan. Giwitun im thuo eft an Galileo Land Ioreph endi helag hiwirki hefan Cuninges. Lifragn after thiu eft othron sage athal cunnes Wif rælig thiorna that hie under them gerithie ni was. Thiu Goses thiorna. Munelia magat thar Maria was mid iro runie relfo ralig thiorna Mahtiges nuoder. Than rtuos thar a Maria muoder Crirtes blec under them bome. Ibis unwemma. The San&imonial Virgin. The Daugh

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ter of David, dearly beloved Woman worthy of the Lord, Lady full of Grace. Mother of our Lord, faireft of Ladies, moft beautiful of all Women. Of the holy Maiden, Mary the pious. Faireft of Women. The fair boly Maiden, the Virgin. The most beautiful Mother of a fair-Off-Spring. With the Maiden of God. Of the Virtuous Lady. Then Jofeph and Mary his holy Wife returned home from Hierufalem, always having the King of Heaven, the Son of God, in their Company. And that Woman the blessed Maiden beheld (it) the Star. With the devout Maiden. Then Jofepli and the holy Spoufe of the King of Heaven returned into Galilee. After this the Woman of noble Race, the bleed Maiden, underflood that he was not in the Company. The Maiden of God. There Mary the fanctimonial Virgin, the bleed Maiden, Mother of the Almighty, was her felf with her Son. Then Mary the Mother of Chrift flood all the while there aftonifh'd under the Crofs. The unblemish'd Lady.

She is alfo often plainly without Epithets called Maria, Mary. Thiu bis, the Lady. Thu thiorna, the Maiden. Is muover, his Mother. That Wif, the Woman. Thiu magat, the Vir gin, &c. Here is no Gloriofa Domina, no Regi na Calorum; no Domina Angelorum; no Regina, Mater Mifericordia; no Spes noftra; no Mater Gratie; no Maris ftella, no Cæli Porta; no Gloriofa interceffio; no Regis alti janua; no Por ta lucis; no Cali Feneftra; in fhort, nothing of her Merits and Interceffion, not one Prayer to her for any temporal Mercy or spiritual Bleffing, nor any Apoftrophe like a Prayer. Which with the Poet's plain defcription of the Inftitution of the holy Eucharift, which I have printed in p. 191. of my Saxon Grammar, as well as the Language

in which the Book is written, make me believe the Author wrote it about the time of Charles the Great, before or not long after the fecond Council of Nice; when the Northern World was not yet taught the worshipping of Saints, nor the DoEtrine of the corporal prefence of Chrift in the holy Eucharift; of which, as Bellarmin and Sirmundus both acknowledge, Pafchafius Radbertus, Monk of Corbey, was the firft teacher who flourished fome time before the middle of the ninth Century. This Doctrine, after the first broaching of it, was always oppofed in the English-Saxon Church, as is evident not only from Alfric's Pafchal Homily, but many other paffages of the Saxon MSS, cited in both the † Volumes of the Septentrional Literature, which I publifh'd at Oxford in 1705. And it never was taught in England, till the Normans fubdu'd it; when Lanfranc being made Archbishop of Canterbury wrote against Berengarius. And about that time, I fuppofe, it was when that Homily was made for the CORPORAL PRESENCE, of which Mr. Wanley hath given the World a Specimen in the 227 page, col. 1. of the fecond Volume of the Septentrional Literature, cited above in the preceding period.

In p. 189. I have cited Sir Humphrey Lynde with particular refpect, and I cannot but with for the Honour of our Church and the publick Good, that his excellent Works, Via tuta and Via devia, were reprinted with Dr. Featly's Defence of him against the impudent Jefuit, J. R.

I muft alfo inform my Reader, that whatever he fhall find inferted within thefe marks [] in my answer to my Adverfary's Reply, was not in the Copy I fent him, but is fince added at more

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