A14227:581
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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and so it is manifest that in heaven most of all the mercy of God shineth forth in the blessed. The other is Thomas Walden, who living in England the same time that the other did in Spain, professeth plainly his dislike of that saying; qthat a man by his merits is worthy of the kingdom of heaven, or this grace or that glory: howsoever certain Schoolmen, that ⟨p. 525⟩they might so speak, had invented the terms of Condignitie and Congruity. But rI repute him (saith he) the sounder Divine, the more faithful Catholic, and more consonant with the holy Scriptures, who doth simply deny such merit, and with the qualification of the Apostle and of the Scriptures confesseth, that simply no man meriteth the kingdom of heaven, but by the grace of God or will of the giver. sas all the former Saints, until the late Schoolmen, and the universal Church hath written.
and so it is manifest that in heaven most of all the mercy of God shineth forth in the blessed. The other is Thomas Walden, who living in England the same time that the other did in Spaine, professeth plainly his dislike of that saying; qthat a man by his merits is worthy of the kingdome of heaven, or this grace or that glory: howsoever certaine Schoolemen, that ⟨p. 525⟩they might so speake, had invented the tearmes of Condignitie and Congruitie. But rI repute him (saith he) the sounder Divine, the more faithfull Catholicke, and more consonant with the holy Scriptures, who doth simply denie such merit, and with the qualification of the Apostle and of the Scriptures confesseth, that simply no man meriteth the kingdome of heaven, but by the grace of God or will of the giver. s