But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:
Ver. 14. Which they call heresy] Haeresis est vex Eccleslae peculiaris. Antiquitus enim dicebatur, In hac haeresi sum, id est in hac sum sententia vel sic sentio. (Tull. Paradox.) Ecclesiastical writers take it for an error in religion, for an opinion repugnant to the word of God. There must be in it, Error in ratione, et pertinacia in voluntate. Fevardentius, that fiery friar, feigns 1400 errors and heresies, all which he fathers and fastens on the Calvinists. Genebrard imputes to Calvin as an error, that he taught Christ to be αυτοθεος, God of himself. It is not so long since, whosoever among us was not an Arminian, was eo nomine a doctrinal Puritan, as he was then termed; and now, he that was the old English Puritan, cried out upon as the worst of men, and greatest Heteroclite. a
a - pudet haec opprobria noble et dici potuisse et non potuisse refelli.