A14227:571
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. › OF MERITS.AN ANSVVER TO THE FORMER CHALLENGE. › OF MERITS.
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That this doctrine was by Gods great mercy preserved in the Church the next 500. years also, as well as in those middle times: appeareth most evidently by those Instructions and Consolations, which were prescribed to be used unto such as were ready to depart out of this life. hThis form of preparing men for their death, was commonly to be had in all Libraries, and particularly was found inserted among the Epistles of Anselm Archbishop of Canterbury; who was commonly accounted to be the Author of it. The substance thereof may be seen (for the copies vary, some being shorter, and some larger than others) in a Tractate written by a Cistercian Monk, of the Art of dying well (which I have in written hand, and have seen also printed in the year 1483. and 1504.) in the book called, Hortulus animae; in Cassanders Appendix to the book of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, de fiduciâ & misericordiâ Dei; (edit. Colon. An. 1556.) Caspar Ulenbergius his Motives; (caus. 14. pag. 462.463. edit. Colon. An. 1589.) in the Roman Sacerdotal (part. 1. tract. 5. cap. 13. fol. 116. edit. Venet. An. 1585.) in the book entitled, Sacra institutio Baptizandi juxta ritum Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae, ex decreto Concilij Tridentini restituta, &c. printed at Paris, in the year 1575. and in a like book entitled Ordo Baptizandi, cum Modo visitandi, printed at Venice the same year. out of which the Spanish Inquisitors, as well in their New, as in their Old Expurgatory Index (the one set out by Cardinal Quiroga in the year 1584. the other by the Cardinal of Sandoval and Roxas, in the year 1612.) command ⟨p. 514⟩these interrogatories to be blotted out. iDost thou believe to come to glory, not by thine own merits, but by the virtue and merit of the passion of our Lord Jesus Christ? and, Dost thou believe, that our Lord Jesus Christ did die for our salvation: and that none can be saved by his own merits, or by any other means, but by the merit of his passion? Whereby we may observe how late it is, since our Romanists in this main and most substantial point (which is the very foundation of all our comfort) have most shamefully departed from the faith of their fore-fathers. In other copies of this same Instruction (which are followed by Cassander, Ulenbergius, and Cardinal Hosius himself) k