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An answer to a challenge madeAn ansvver to a challenge made
An answer to a challenge made by a Jesuit in Ireland Wherein the judgement of antiquity in the points questioned is truly delivered, and the novelty of the now romish doctrine plainly discovered. By James Usher Bishop of Meath.An ansvver to a challenge made by a Iesuite in Ireland Wherein the iudgement of antiquity in the points questioned is truely delivered, and the noveltie of the now romish doctrine plainly discovered. By Iames Vssher Bishop of Meath.
Dublin: printed by the Society of Stationers and Eliot's Court Press, 1624Dublin: printed by the Societie of Stationers and Eliot's Court Press, 1624
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Your Doctors and Masters grant that the Church of Rome for 400 or 500 years after Christ, did hold the true Religion. First then would I fain know, what Bishop of Rome did first alter that Religion, which you commend in them of the first 400 years? In what Pope his days was the true Religion overthrown in Rome?
YOur Doctors and Masters graunt that the Church of Rome for 400 or 500 years after Christ, did hold the true Religion. First then would I faine knowe, what Bishop of Rome did first alter that Religion, which you commend in them of the first 400 years? In what Pope his dayes was the true Religion overthrowne in Rome?
Next, I would fain know, How can your Religion be true, which disalloweth of many chief articles, which the Saints and Fathers of that primitive Church of Rome did generally hold to be true?
Next, I would faine know, How can your Religion be true, which dissalloweth of many chiefe articles, which the Saints and Fathers of that primitive Church of Rome did generally hold to be true?
For they of your side, that have read the Fathers ⟨image 11⟩of that unspotted Church, can well testify (and if any deny it, it shall be presently shown) that the Doctors, Pastors, and Fathers of that Church do allow of Traditions; that they acknowledge the real presence of the body of Christ in the Sacrament of the Altar: that they exhorted the people to confess their sins unto their ghostly Fathers: that they affirmed, that Priests have power to forgive sins: that they taught, that there is a Purgatory: that prayer for the dead is both commendable and godly: that there is Limbus Patrum, and that our Saviour descended into Hell, to deliver the ancient Fathers of the Old Testament; because before his Passion none ever entered into Heaven: that prayer to Saints, and use of holy Images was of great account amongst them: that man hath free-will, and that for his meritorious works he receiveth, through the assistance of Gods grace, the bliss of everlasting happiness.