Jealousy was the cause, and heresy the pretext,that most convenient cry of theologians, often indeed just, as when Bernard accused Abélard, and Calvin complained of Servetus; but oftener, the most effectual way of bringing ruin on a hated man, as when the partisans of Alexander VI.

Jealousy was the cause, and heresy the pretext,that most convenient cry of theologians, often indeed just, as when Bernard accused Abélard, and Calvin complained of Servetus; but oftener, the most effectual way of bringing ruin on a hated man, as when the partisans of Alexander VI.

How many heresies the first translation of Tindal produced in few years, let my Lord Herbert's history of Henry VIII.