s they
teach, erre in a poynt of doctrine as Pope) calleth her expresly _Deam_.
_Pet. Bembus_ in his epistles written in Pope _Leo 10._ name, _lib. 8.
epist. 17._ printed at _Strasburg an. 1609._ that which is worst of all,
in their most approued Bible: they translate Gen. 3. 15. _ipsa conteret
caput tuum_: she shall breake thine head, although (as their owne Iesuit
[ae]_Ribera_ confesseth honestly) the _Hebrew_ text, the _Chaldee_
paraphrase, the translation of the _Septuagint_, and all good _Latin_
copies reade _ipse conteret_, he shall bruise the serpents head,
applying it to Christ, according to that of _Paul_, _The God of peace
shall tread downe Satan vnder your feete_, Rom. 16. 20. by this euidence
you may see that the gunpowder crue praise not God in the saints, nor
the saints in God: but on the contrarie the saints as God.
[Sidenote y: _Tit. de sanct. inuocat._]
[Sidenote z: _See D. Fulke in 1. Tim 2. 5._]
[Sidenote aa: _Bellar. de sanct. beat. cap. 17._]
[Sidenote ab: _Apud Magdeburg. Cent. 10. Coll. 275._]
[Sidenote ac: _See Gospell Annunciat._]
[Sidenote ad: _Chemnit. exam. Con. Trident. part. 3. pag. 151._]
[Sidenote ae: _In Habacuc. cap. 1. num. 32._]
Againe these S. _Peter_ men (and as I haue warrant to terme them on this
day _Salt Peter men_) erre from the true meaning of our text, because
they doe not praise God _in sanctis eius_, in his saints: but dishonour
God _in sanctis eorum_, in saints of their owne making, vsually praying
vnto some who were no men, and to many who were not holy men. It is
doubted by the two great lights in their glorious firmament,
_Bellarmine_ and _Baronius_, whether there were euer any such man as
S. _George_, or such a woman as S. _Catharine_. Cardinall _Bellarmine_
_lib. de beatitudine sanct. cap. vlt. Sec.. respondeo sanctorum_ doth
acknowledge that they worship certaine saints whose stories are
vncertaine, reputing the legend of S. _George_ apocryphall according to
the censure of Pope [af]_Gelasius:_ and Cardinall _Baronius ecclesiast.
annal. Tom. 2. ad an. 290._ according to the impression at Rome, fol.
650. as also _de Martyrologio Romano, cap. 2._ confesseth as much of
_Quiriacus_ and _Iulitta_, declaring plainely that their acts are
written either by fooles or heretikes, and in his annotations vpon the
_Romane Martyrologie_ 23. Aprill, he taketh vp _Iacobus de Voragine_ for
his leaden Legend of our English S. _George_, concluding in fine, t
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