[Footnote 66: Bishop Morley, (London, 1683,) in a letter written
whilst he was in exile at Breda, to J. Ulitius, refers to
Cardinal Perron, "Replique a la Resp. du Roy de la Grande Bret."
p. 1402 and 4, for this sentiment: "The Fathers do not always
speak what they think, but conceal their real sentiments, and
say that which best serves the cause which they sustain, so as
to protect it against the objections of the gentiles. The
Fathers, as much as in them lies, and as far as they can, avoid
and decline all occasions of speaking about the invocation of
saints then practised in the Church, fearing lest to the
gentiles there might appear a sort of similarity, although
untrue and equivocal, between the worship paid to the saints by
the Church, and by the Pagans to their false divinities; and
lest the Pagans might thence seize a handle, however unfair, of
retorting upon them that custom of the Church." Had a member of
the Anglican Church thus spoken of the Fathers, and thus pleaded
in their name guilty of subterfuge and duplicity, he would have
been immediately charged with irreverence and wanton insult, and
that with good reason. These sentiments of the Cardinal are in
p. 982 of the Paris edition of 1620.] {192}
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