A14227:4
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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TO HIS MOST SACRED MAJESTY, JAMES BY THE GRACE OF God King of great BRITAIN, FRANCE, and IRELAND, Defender of the Faith, &c.
TO HIS MOST SACRED MAIESTIE, IAMES BY THE GRACE OF God King of great BRITAINE, FRANCE, and IRELAND, Defender of the Faith, &c.
Most Gracious and Dread Sovereign.
Most Gratious and Dread Soveraigne.
We find it recorded for the everlasting honour of Theodosius the younger, that it was his use ato reason with his Bishops of the things contained ⟨image 3⟩in the holy Scriptures, as if he himself had been one of their order: and of the Emperor Alexius in latter days; that bwhatsoever time he could spare from the public cares of the Common-wealth, he did wholly employ in the diligent reading of Gods book, and in conferring thereof with worthy men, of whom his Court was never empty. How little inferior, or how much superior rather, your Majesty is to either of these in this kind of praise, I need not speak: it is acknowledged even by such as differ from you in the point of Religion, as a matter that hath cadded more than ordinary lustre of ornament to your Royal estate; that you do not forbear so much as at the time of your bodily repast, to have for the then like feeding