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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
AN ANSWER TO THE FORMER CHALLENGE.AN ANSVVER TO THE FORMER CHALLENGE.
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AN ANSWER TO THE FORMER CHALLENGE.
AN ANSVVER TO THE FORMER CHALLENGE.
TO uphold the Religion, which at this day is maintained in the Church of Rome, and to discredit the truth which we profess: three things are here urged, by one who hath undertaken to make good the Papists cause against all gainsayers. The first concerneth the original of the errors wherewith that part standeth charged: the Author and time whereof, he requireth us to show. The other two respect the testimony, both of the Primitive Church, & of the sacred Scriptures: which, in the points wherein we vary, if this man may be believed, maketh wholly for them, and against us.
TO uphold the Religion, which at this day is maintained in the Church of Rome, and to discredit the truth which we professe: three things are here urged, by one who hath vndertaken to make good the Papists cause against all gainesayers. The first concerneth the originall of the errors wherwith that part standeth charged: the Author and time whereof, he requireth us to shew. The other two respect the testimonie, both of the Primitive Church, & of the sacred Scriptures: which, in the points wherein we varie, if this man may be believed, maketh wholly for them, and against us.
First then would he fain know, what Bishop of Rome did first alter that Religion, which we commend in them of the first 400 years? In what Popes days was the true Religion overthrown in Rome? To which I answer, First, that we do not hold that Rome was built in a §Iday; or that the great dung-hill of errors, which now we see in it, was raised in an age: and therefore it is a