We know also that
the Son of God, our Saviour Jesu Christ, when He taught the truth, was
counted a juggler and an enchanter, a Samaritan, Beelzebub, a deceiver of
the people, a drunkard, and a glutton. Again, who wotteth not what words
were spoken against St. Paul, the most earnest and vehement preacher and
maintainer of the truth? sometime that he was a seditious and busy man, a
raiser of tumults, a causer of rebellion; sometime again, that he was an
heretic; sometime, that he was mad; sometime, that only upon strife and
stomach he was both a blasphemer of God's law, and a despiser of the
fathers' ordinances. Further, who knoweth not how St. Stephen, after he
had thoroughly and sincerely embraced the truth, and began frankly and
stoutly to preach and set forth the same, as he ought to do, was
immediately called to answer for his life, as one that had wickedly
uttered disdainful and heinous words against the law, against Moses,
against the temple, and against God? Or who is ignorant that in times
past there were some which reproved the Holy Scripts of falsehood, saying
they contained things both contrary and quite one against other; and how
that the Apostles of Christ did severally disagree between themselves,
and that St.
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