The Little Horns Downfall, Postscript
POSTSCRIPT.
HAving often referred the Reader in this book, unto that intitled, The Reſurrection of the Witneſſes; I ſhall here deſire the Reader to take notice, That in the laſt line of pag. 81. in that Book, he is, for The reign of Phocas the Emperour, to reade the reign of Arcadius and Honorius the Emperours: There being in that Book a miſtake of the Emperours name, by reaſon of a truſting to memory, and neglecting to conſult the hiſtory about it; but no miſtake of the time: for that's moſt evident, That in the yeer 404 Innocentius being made Biſhop of Rome, he then firſt uſurped the Papal power, and advanced the See of Rome above all other, and would have it to be judged by none. And preſently upon this, began the Saints to be perſecuted, and deprived of their liberties: For Innocentius was the firſt that drove the Novations out of Rome, and deprived them of many Churches: as witneſſes Socrates (lib. 7. ch. 8.) And thoſe that were Novations were the moſt truly religious people in thoſe times, as appears by the ſeveral teſtimonies Hiſtorians give of them: I will cite but one expreſſion that Socrates hath concerning them. (lib. 4. chap. 9.) The Arrians abhorred them, ſays he, becauſe they loved intirely ſuch as embraced the Faith of one ſubſtance. Thoſe that embraced the Faith of one ſubſtance, were they that believed▪ the Son of God to be very God, and of one ſubſtance with the Father; and theſe the Novations loved intirely, ſays Socrates. In many other things they are by Hiſtorians diſcovered to be truly religious. And theſe, and all that purely profeſſed the truths of Chriſt, from this yeer 404 began to be perſecuted and troden under foot by the Popiſh crew.
Thus much I thought good here to inſert, to correct that miſtake in the firſt impreſſion of thoſe books. There are two or three other faults eſcaped in printing; but they being not material, I ſhall not trouble the Reader with the mention of them.
FINIS.
End of the text · Mary Cary, The Little Horns Downfall (1651)