A15061:213
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.
Three articles you acknowledge to be of weight,1 The primacy of the Pope, the real presence, and the sacrifice: wherein you have uttered your judgement of the rest, that they are not of such weight as your Church would have them to be esteemed. And of these three you might with as good reason except the two latter, & so make the first only a matter of weight. For that indeed is the substantial point, in maintenance whereof all your labours are bestowed. ⟨p. 153⟩Otherwise were it not for defence of your Popes wicked, unreasonable, Antichristian monarchy, you could easily agree with us for these two, & all the rest, I doubt not. But what think you then M. R. of private Mass? Is it a thing of no weight as here you would have it accounted? there is not, I suppose, any thing in your Church more used, or better liked. Your half communion, your latin service, your Images, your keeping the scriptures in a tongue unknown to the people, and other such heads of your Romish religion, are they of no weight? are they trifles? are they not worth the striving for? Then let your men give over all defence of them, let private masses be abolished, let the communion be administered in both kinds, according to Christs institution, let the public prayers be said in the tongue that every country useth, let Images be burned and Idolatry forbidden, let it be lawful for the people of all countries to read the scriptures in their own language, let there be no controversy about the other articles. For while you stand so stiffly in maintenance of all these and others, you cannot truly say, and bear us in ⟨p. 154⟩hand, they are not of weight in your account.
Three articles you acknowledge to be of weight,1 The primacy of the Pope, thereall presence, and the sacrifice: wherein you haue vttered your iudgement of the rest, that they are not of such weight as your Church would haue them to be esteemed. And of these three you might with as good reason except the two latter, & so make the first onely a matter of weight. For that indeede is the substantiall point, in mainteance wherof all your labours are bestowed. ⟨p. 153⟩