A15061:141
An answer to a certain book, writtenAn answere to a certeine booke, written
An answer to a certain book, written by Master William Rainolds student of divinity in the English college at Rhemes, and entitled, A refutation of sundry reprehensions, cavils, etc. by William Whitaker ...An answere to a certeine booke, written by Maister William Rainolds student of diuinitie in the English colledge at Rhemes, and entituled, A refutation of sundrie reprehensions, cauils, etc. by William Whitaker ...
Printed at London : For Thomas Chard, 1585
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
In this taking you begin to throw out arguments,1 which must needs be full simply and miserably made. Howbeit sooner may you devise many formal syllogisms for your sacrifice, then make one sound reason in divinity for confirmation thereof. Thus you have framed your argument with ⟨p. 71⟩your own hands:2 That Christ did, and appointed to be done, that may & ought to be done: But Christ at his last supper offered sacrifice according to the order of Melchizedek, and appointed the Apostles and priests to do the same: Ergo the Apostles & priests may, & ought to offer sacrifice. This syllogism seemeth to be terribly compounded, and to prove invincibly the sacrifice of the Mass: doubtless Master Rainolds is persuaded he shall herewith fray us all away. But be not dismayed (good Reader) the light driveth darkness before it, and trueth cannot be vanquished with an army of false arguments, be they never so cunningly framed, much less with such slender sophisms as these. Your Assumption hath two parts, & they both are false: whereof the conclusion following cannot be able to look the trueth in the face. For where you say I have acknowledged the former part, I acknowledge no such thing, nor ever did.3 Christ at his last supper offered no sacrifice according to the order of Melchizedek: Christ appointed not the Apostles, nor any else, to offer the same. Neither of these parts shall you prove whilst you live, though you live the last on the earth. For what ⟨p. 72⟩sacrifice offered Christ at his supper? and what was the effect thereof? was this a sacrifice according to the order of Melchizedek? then was it not the same he offered on the Cross: for that was not of Melchisedechs order, being not in bread and wine, as you will have it, but the very body of Jesus Christ. But your Church maintaineth that the sacrifice which Christ offered at his supper, was the same that he offered on the Cross. Thus handsomely your dreams hang together.
In this taking you beginne to throw out arguments,