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![Jvia mats cent, mats mille et tous les Jours d'avoir embrasse quelque PART I, autre chose? Mountaigii lib. 2. i)e* Zi^*««t*. Chap. 12. Stct.6. Every man is not a proper Champion for truth, etc.] A good cause is uever betray'd more than when it is prosecuted with much eagerness, and but little sufficiency ; and therefore Zuing- lius, though he were of Carolostadius his opinion in the point of the Sacrament of the Eucharist against Luther, yet he blamed him for undertaking the defence of that cause against Luther, not judging him able enough for the encounter: Nan satis habet humerorum, saith he of Carolostad , alluding to that of Horace, Sumite materiam vestris qui scribitis cequam Viribus, et versate diu quid ferre recusent Quid valeant humeri. So Minutius Fcelix; Plerumq; pro disserentium viribus, et eloquentice potestate, etiam perspieucB veritatis conditio mutetur. Minut. in Octav. And Lactantius saith, this truth is verified in Minutius himself: for Him, Tertullian and Cyprian, he spares not to blame (all of them) as if they had not with dexterity enough defended the Christian cause against the Ethniques. Lactant. de justitia, cap. 1. I could wish that those that succeeded him had not as much cause of complaint against him : surely he is noted to have many errors contra fidem. In Philosophy there is no man more Paradoxical then my Pag. 13. self, but in Divinity I love to keep the Road, etc.] Appositely to the mind of the Author, saith the Publisher of Mr. Pevibel's Book de origine formarum, Certe (saith he) in locis Theologicis ne quid detrimenti capiat vel Pax, vel Veritas Christi d novarvm opinionum pruritu prorsus abstinendum puto, usq; adeo utad cert am regulam etiam loqui debcamus, quod pie et prudenter monet Aiigus- tinus {de Civ. Dei. 1. 10, cap. 23.) [ne verborum licentia impia vi gignat opinionem,'] at in pulvere Scholastico ubi in nullius verba ju- ramus, et in utramvis partem sine dispendio vel pads, vel salutis ire liceat, major conceditur cum scntiendi turn loquendi libertas, etc. Capel. in Ep. Dedicat. Pembel. de origine form, prcefix. Heresies perish not with their Authors, but like the River Arethusa, though they lose their Currents in one place, they rise again in another.^ Who would not think that this expres- sion were taken from Mr. Mountaigne, I. 2, des Ess. cap. 12. Where he hath these words, Nature enserre dans les termes de son progress ordinaire comme toutes autres choses aussi les creances les judgements et opinions des hommes elles ont leur revolutions; and that Mountaigne took his from Tully. Non enim hominum interitu sententia; quoque occidunt, Tull. de nat. deorum I. 1, etc. Of the River Arethusa thus Seneca. Videbis celebratissimum car- minibus fontem Arethusam limpidissimi ac perludicissimi ad imum stagni gelidissimas aquas profundentem, sive illas primum nascentes invenit, sive jlumm integrum subter tot maria, et d confusione ^ pejoris und<B servatum reddidit. Senec. de consolat. ad Mar- tiam.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22650349_0001_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
