Wotton
observes: "This is the distinguishing character of the Christian
religion. Christiana religio absoluta et simplex, was Ammianus
Marcellinus's description of it, who was himself a heathen." But
the learned Peter argues that if a doctrine cannot be found, totidem
verbis, in so many words, it may be found in so many syllables, or,
if that way fail, we shall make them out in a third way, of so many
letters.
{76} Quibusdam veteribus codicibus [some ancient MSS.].--S.
{77a} There are two kinds--oral tradition and the written record,--
reference to the value attached to tradition in the Roman Church.
{77b} The flame-coloured lining figures the doctrine of Purgatory;
and the codicil annexed, the Apocryphal books annexed to the Bible.
The dog-keeper is said to be an allusion to the Apocryphal book of
Tobit.
{78a} Dread hell and subdue their lusts.
{78b} Strained glosses and interpretations of the simple text.
{79a} Images in churches.
{79b} The locking up of the Gospel in the original Greek or in the
Latin of the Vulgate, and forbidding its diffusion in the language
of the people.
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