I haue read (sayth that learned Protestant Zanchius)
the Latin coppy of the Apology, and diligently
read it ouer, not without choller, when I perceaued
what manner of writing very many, let me not say
for the most partial, doe vse in the Churches (as they
are called) of the reformed Ghospel; who would
seem notwithstanding to be Pastours, Doctours, &
Pillars of the Church. The state of the question that
it may not be vnderstood, we often of set purpose
ouerclowd with darknes: things which are manifest
we impudently denie; things false we without
shame auouch; things plainly impious we propose
as the first principles of fayth, things orthodoxal
we condemne of heresy; scriptures at our pleasure
we detort to our owne dreames; we boast of Fathers
when we wil follow nothing lesse then their doctrine;
to deceaue, to calumniate, to raile is familiar
with vs &c. So as we may defend our cause, good
or bad, by right or by wrong, al other things we
turne vp-side-downe, ô times! ô manners! Zanch. epist.
ad Io. Sturm. this in fine lib. 7. & 8. Miscellan.
