A14227:580
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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But the sentence of the Chancellor and the Theological faculty of Paris in the year 1354. against one Guido an Austin Friar, that then defended the merit of condignitie, is not to be overpassed. For by their order, this form of recantation was prescribed unto him. kI said against a Bachelor of the order of the Friars Preachers in conference with him, that a man doth merit everlasting life of condignitie, that is to say, that in case it were not given, there should injury be done unto him. I wrote likewise, that God should do him injury: and approved it. This I revoke as FALSE, HERETICAL, and BLASPHEMOUS. Yet now the times are so changed, and men in them that our new Divines of Rhemes stick not to tell us, that it lis most clear to all not blinded in pride and contention, that good works be meritorious, and the very cause of salvation, so far that God should be unjust, if he rendered not heaven for the same. where to the judgement of the indifferent Reader I refer it, whether side in this case is more likely to have been ⟨p. 524⟩blinded in pride: (we who abase our selves before Gods footstool, and utterly disclaim all our own merits; or they who have so high a conceit of them, that they dare in this presumptuous manner to challenge God of injustice, if he should judge them to deserve a less reward than Heaven it self:) and whether that sentence of our Saviour Christ be not fulfilled in them, as well as in the proud and blind Pharisees their predecessors. mFor judgement I am come into this world, that they which see not might see, and that they which see might be made blind. And so leaving these blind leaders of the blind, who say they nsee (by that means making their sin to remain) and say they oare rich and increased with goods (not knowing that they are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:) I proceed, and out of the fifteenth Century or Hundred of years after Christ produce other two witnesses of this truth. The one is Paulus Burgensis; who expounding those words of David,