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AtaD in ibe Papacy : he bocamc our dragon to wmtch oar gardca of golden friiiU A», in the Fall of man, the entering in of si wmi only to prepare fur the rcTcbticfi of t Son, tbroni^ whom sb was to be condetDDod in the flesh, and, being condemned, to be for erer subjected under the feet of Christ ; ao in the church, the temple of the S|Mrit, thiA A|H>!(la3«y was permitted to sme, in order that the Spirit in the election might condemn it, and expose and triumph over it; and the holiness aod t power of God might be the more macrniticd bo by the Incarnation of the Word and the working of the Spirit in the church, " that now unto iha^^ priiicipalitieft and powei^ lu heavenly pl»ci'»,'^^ might be shewn by the chnrch the manifold wis- dom of God. The manifoldnesf of the erron and schisms which Satan brought in, did reveal the^ maiiifoldness of the wisdom of the church. Tbo^ orthodox creed, which infatuated ntcn so loudly declaim against, as it grew and grew agvnxt th^H heresies, was a great work of the Spirit's wisdcwn^^^ And here we most gladly assign the credit to ihe church which was represented by Councils (I do not call it the Hupal church, because in the first five centuries, when the battles of the faith wens fought, the Papacy was not revealed); nor cgn , I express the elbundance of ray thanksgivings iii^M particular to the four Councils of Nice, Coostan*™ tinople, Eptiebu^ and Chalcedon, which stated and defended the true doctrine of our Lord s per- son. And when the Papacy wa^^ constituted, who is igtwrant of the noble army of martyra who tes* ttAed against it? and not only of manyn;, but of writers, from Sl Augustine downward^;, tbrougli Berei^^rius llago de Sancto-Victore, whom Tretlieniitifi callclh another Aut^ueUnc, to {.uthcr, in €ver>^ coimtr)* and m every age ; whose worics, I do say it, arc mighty fruits of the wi!<dom of the Spirit, arc the parent stock of all knowledge^ and laws, atul customs, wtiicli diwtinguisli CUrUieridoiii over all other parts of tlie worid, I cannot speak paJTtieularly of our Otildees, who kept the li^ht burning in the north, till your Lollards got it in the south, and the l[u»<iitea of Dohcmia from them, aud the Kclormatloti spread it through this island, iwrer, as 1 hope, to be extinguished again. Tbei^e testimoTiien of the wisdom of the elect, the«c offeritiE^of the bloo<^t ofmartvn, ihefco knowledges, and arU, and various invciitiDnfi. inrhich tJic enlightened reason stnkcth out of the darkened under^^tanding of men, hare, in a most eminent debtee umm