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their nurses' milk those prejudices against us, of which even the best informed, and well-wishers to us can hardly ever after divest themselves.

Mr. EDITOR,-Ibeg leave, through the medium of your Journal, to thank your correspondent Julius, for the valuable letter with which In the 2nd chap. of the 2nd part he has favoured the catholic public. of his Three Conversions, p. 229, F. From them I perceive-for I never / Parsons writes thus : He that will was able to read more than portions consider the proportion of John of 2 or 3 of his numbers-that the Fox his booke of Acts and MonuAnti-jacobin Review and Protestantments in the later edition, he shall Advocate continues his usual dirty find it the greatest perhaps in the work of calumny and misrepresen-volume, that ever was put forth tation, drawing largely his materials in our English tongue : and from that rich bank and store-house the falsest in substance, without of lies, John Fox's Martyrology

perhaps, that ever was published, in any tongue."-" I have had occasion these months past ( Relation of a trial before the king of France between the bishop of Evreux, and the lord Plessis Mornay, p. 58) to peruse a great part of his last edition of Acts and Monuments, print

With what different eyes, Mr. Editor, do we, shallow and short-sighted | mortals, view one and the same ob. ject, according to the different educations which we have received, or the prejudices we have imbibed. This Protestant Advocate sees nothing in the Martyrology, but aned the fifth ty me in 1596, and do find authentic history:" while "father it so stuffed with all kinds of falseParsons, who had examined his wri- hood, and deceytful manner of teltings thoroughly, declares, that, to ling tales, as I could never, truly, speak modestly, there were at least have believed yt, yf I had not found 10,000 notorious lies, either express- yt by my owne experience. And ly asserted or insinuated in them." I do persuade myselfe fully, notwithdo not quote the precise words of standing all his hypocritical words, F, Parsons, nor can I at the present | and protestations, which are more, moment, refer to the place where and oftener repeated by him, than they may be found: but I give you in all the wryters togeather, that I the words of the learned author have read in my lyfe, that there is of England's Conversion and Refor- scarce one whole story in that large mation compared, (p. 110. Ed. 1729.) volume, told by himselfe, except and have no doubt of his having when he relateth other men's words given at least the substance of them out of records, and therby is bound with his usual accuracy. to the formality therof, but that it is falsified and perverted one way or other, eyther in the beginnenge, middle, or end, by adding, cutting of, concealing, false translating, wrong eyting, or cunning jugling and falsification, which I do not speake for any tooth against the man, that is dead, and whom I never knew, but in respect of truth only, and of so many deceaved souls, as are in danger to perish by his deluding them. Nor when I speake of

However, that I may not seem to any of your readers to advance, on this authority, more than may be true, I will here_transcribe the character given by F Parsons, in various parts of his Three Conversions of England, of this work of John Fox, a work of which, I believe, catholics know rather too little, and protestants a great deal too much; it being the grand storehouse, from which they suck in with

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Maister Fox his falsehoods, do I make accompt of any errors or oversights, though never so grosse, that are found in him, as to reckon some martyrs, that were alive at the making of his booke; for this he excuseth in his later edition, in that he was deceaved by false informations; nor do I urge, that others are made calendar martyrs by him, whome he cannot gainsay, but that they were malefactors, and some of them eyther madde or denyed Christ himselfe, and placeth he them in his calendar for saints. These escaped, I say, are not heare to be urged by me now, but rather in another place. The points that I for the present accuse him of, are wilful corruptions, and falsifications that cannot be excused; as many other things, and for example sake, when he recyteth any point in controversie of the catholicks doctrine, he putteth yt down commonly in plaine contrary words and sense, to that which he must needs know, that they holde and teach; for so much as their publicke books are extant in every mans hands to testifie the

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But all this, it may be said, is nothing more than bare assertion, and the assertion of F. Parsons-of a Jesuit-of the adversary of "honest John Fox."-But where are we to find the proof of these bold asssertions-Ample proofs, Mr. Editor, may be seen in the 19th chap. of the Examen of the second part of Fox's Calendar, page 412-But because the whole will, I fear, be too long for your insertion, you must be satisfied with a short specimen of them. The title of the chapter is this: A note of more than A HUNDRED AND TWENTY LIES uttered by John Fox, IN LESS THAN THREE LEAVES of his Acts and Monuments, and this, in

one kind only of perfidious dealings, in falsifyinge the opinions of catholikes tonching divers chief points of their religion.

"Albeit, (says F. Parsons, in the beginning of this chapter,) there be many sorts of lyinge and false dealinge to be noted in John Fox, yet are two most notorious in general, each of them contayninge sundry members and branches under them. The first may be called historical, when in his narrations he purposely uttereth falsehood for when he doth yt by error, or false information concerning any fact, as when for example in his former edition, he putteth down John Mar becke, singingman of Windesor, and some others for martyrs, and describeth the particularityes of their burnings and yet were never burned; this I accompt for error, and not to be made accompt of, because his intention, perhaps, was not to lye.

But when he cannot chuse but know, that the thing which he he writeth was false, this I call a willing or wilfull lye; of which kind you have heard store of examples before," that is, in his Examination of Fox's Calendar. In this point, though not to the full extent, the Oxford historian agrees with F. Parsons, as may be seen in the last letter of Julius." The second kind of lying, (continues F. P.,) may be called dogmatical, when not only in fact and actions, but of doctrine. also he falsifyeth and lyeth of purpose, which is so much the more greivous than the former, by how much lesse he cannot pretend ignorance, or misinformation of others; but with his owne greater reproach, who will reprehend that which he knoweth not. And of this kind principally we are to give examples beare,......And for that this is a common shift of the hereticks of our tyme, always to

See the story of Collins and Coubridge, se tt downe the state of the question

10th and 11th of October.

griilefully, and never to suffer the

reader sincerely to see how the case necessary to each man's salvation`; standeth between them and us; I so as they are four several lyes, and have the more willingly byn induced as for two of them, to wit, holy to lay forth this handfull of exam-orders, and the pope's pardon, they ples in this place,.... without any be double lyes; for that holy orders large refutation, but only shewing are receaved but of few men, and some authentical author or place therby can be no necessary meanes of ours, where we hold the contro- of salvation to all. Pardons are so versie to that which he affirmeth, farre of from justifying us, as we And commonly the author shall hould that they can remitt no sinne eyther be the Councel of Trent, at all, but only temporal paynes rewhereunto all catholicks do subject mayinge after sinnes already remyt themselves, or St. Thomas of Aquin, ted; and therby we see as well the which is an universall doctor that fraud, as folly of John Fox." wrote 300 (500) years gone, and is generally received by all, which point among protestants is not to be found.

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"In the same, p. 22, n. 50, is a fifth lye, and so much the greater and more heinous in that it is directly against God himself, and contayneth many lyes in it. For he saith, that Almighty God assigneth noné other condition (for our salvation) eyther of law, or any works, but only of faith. Whereas, expressly to the contrary, Christ in Mat. 19, and Mark o, being asked by one what he should do to have life everlasting, he answered: If you will go into life everlasting, keep the commandments ; thou shalt not kill, &c. If thou wilt be saved, thou knowest the commandments that thou must keep. indeed this lye contayneth so many lyes under yt, as there be commandements assigned by God to be kept of us. But I will spare John Fox and score up but one lye, for I shall have store enough afterward.”

So as

"First then, whereas p. 22 of his work, No. 26, he relateth our opinion about faith and justification, he makes four lyes togeather, in setting down four meanes of salvation, as held by us, to witt, the sacrifice of the masse, merits of saints, holy orders, and the pope's pardons; after which assertion he inferreth this relation: so es, saith he, Christ's sacrifice, stripes, and sufferings by this teaching (of the Papists) doth not heale us, nor is not beneficiall to us, though we believe never so well, unlesse we add also these works and merits above recyted. And the works and meritts before by him recyted, are these four among divers other things ... But the four are four manifest untruthes; for that we do not hould them for so "In the next page, after n. 22, he absolutely necessary to every man's saith, that the word of God doth presalvation,as no man can be saved with-cisely exclude from the conditions of out them, and much lesse that Christ's sacrifice is not beneficial, without addition of these, witnesse the Councel of Trent, Sess. 6, c. 6, 7, and 14, where the necessary meanes of our salvation being recompted (to wit, the grace of God, that preventeth us, and our cooporation by faith, hope, and charity, penance, and receaving the sacrament of baptism) none of these four are mentioned, and consequently are not absolutely

our justification, both hope and charity. These are two manifestlyes against the two excellent virtues of hope and charity, or rather against the word of God ytself, which is so far from excluding precisely these two virtues, as of the first of them the Holy Ghost saith, God shall save them (the just) for that they have hoped in him. Ps. 36, 40. And of charity, St. Paul wryteth, If I should have all faith, and yet not

Kave Charity, I am nothing. 1 Cor. 13, 2.... And when he talketh of a justifying faith, he saith it is that which worketh by Charity. Gal. 5.

"Again, in the same page, n. 66. Fox wryteth thus: whose error about good works (of papists,) standeth in this, that they do call good works, not such as are properly commanded by the law of God, but such as are agreeable to the pope's law, &c. out of which words, though I might gather many lyes, yet will I score up only two in this place. The first, where he saith, that we do not call good works, such as are properly commanded by the law of God, which lye contayneth as many other lyes in it, as are good works commanded by God, and acknowledged by us for such, as our love of our neighbours, fasting, prayer, &c. The second lye is, that we do only call those works good, which are agreeable to the pope's law.

"In the same page, n. 80. Fox wryteth thus: Albeit all papists confesse, that Gratia Dei gratis data, is the chief and principal cause of good works, and worketh in us justitiam priscam, as they call yt, yet their good works after regeneration they refer to other subordinate causes under God, as to free will, &c. and nothing at all to faith, &c. In these words of Fox, as there is contayned much ignorance, so are there divers manifest and malitious lyes also. But the most shameless of all this rablement of lyes, is that which he uttereth in the very last words, that in good works we attribute no- | thing at all to faith, whereas expressly to the contrary, the said Councell of Trent speaking of the self same matter, Sess. 6, c. 8. bath these words: Faith is the beginning of man's salvation, and the foundation, and root of all justification."

The above quotations, Mr. Editor, are a sufficient specimen of the manner in which this learned father has exORTHODOX JOUR. VOL. VIII.

| amined Fox's martyrology, and pro-
ceeds to prove his position, that more
than 120 lyes are uttered by him in
lesse than 3 leaves of his Acts and
Monuments. The 3 leaves examined
comprehend the pages 22, 3, 4, 5,
& 26, and the examination extends
from p. 412, to p. 458. He con-
cludes his 19th chapter thus: "Last
of all in the same page 26, n. 25,
Fox hath a certayn definition of a
true christian catholike man, accord-
ing to the pope's religion, wherein
are as many lyes as lynes, yf not
more, as you shall see examined
more particularly in the next chap-
ter. Out of which heap of lyes, I
will only now take a dozen to add to
the former number, though in exami-
nation they will arrive, at least, to
thrice as many. And so by the ex-
ample of this one chapter, you may
consider, in what dreadfull dreames
the more simple sort of protestants
are held, about our opinions in mat-
ters of controversie, &c.
And yf
they please to do this in their printed
books, what will they feare to do in
pullpits and private speaches, which
passe more free from examination
and controlement; and the most ig-
norant are wont to show most auda-
city in slandering us, and our doc- -
trine, which ordinarily they lay forth
so sauced and powdered, as it may
seeme the most absurdest doctrine in
the world, and themselves jolly fel-
lows in refuting the same. And this
shall suffice for a short admonition
out of this chapter; the number of
lyes proved against John Fox, ari-
sing to the number OF MORE THAN
SIX SCORE, besides many by me
pardoned to him, which the reader
will easily have observed in reading
yt over."

In the preceding chapter, F. Parsons gives this general character of Fox's martyrology: "From the beginning to the end of this whole volume, he commonly setteth down nothing affirmative or positive of his

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st entowne in matters of religion, nor any which is hawked about this certain rule what to believe; but lightened country" in almost every only carpeth and scoffeth at that size and shape, and sold at almost which was in use before: so as the every price, that no one may be dereader is brought into unbeliefe, dis-prived of this precious storehouse of trust and contempt of that, which misrepresentation and calumuy. was accompted piety and religion by Shame on such anti-christian enhis forefathers, and nothing certayne deavours to perpetuate prejudices taught him in place thereof, but only against their brethren in Christ. negative or scornefull taunts, the proper means to make ATHEISTS and INFIDELS."

P. S. Not having had time to examine the quotations and references, I give them as I find them in F. Parsons.

EPITOME OF INTELLIGENCE.

N our last we hinted that the against them, which are alike injurious heat of delirious joy, were preparing judicial to the general welfare of the