A15061:485
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.
But what can Master Rainolds say in excuse of this so manifest blasphemy?1 He asketh first, Where say we that of all those things proposed by the Apostle, it followeth not that Christs priesthood is eternal? Must you again be put in mind of your own Annotation, which your self have at large rehearsed? Have you not therein expressly in writing published, All this proveth not that in proper signification his priesthood is perpetual? And what differeth this from that, which I have affirmed of you? Hath the Apostle propounded any thing concerning your pretended sacrifice. If he hath, show us where, in what words, ⟨p. 407⟩after what sort. If any thing at all can be showed to this purpose, as nothing indeed can, and without this be showed, in your opinion the eternity of Christs priesthood is no ways sufficiently proved, do you not plainly declare your judgement to be that it followeth not of all those things, which the Apostle hath said that Christs priesthood is eternal? yea but M.R. saith, that they have avouched the clean contrary in saying, that all the fathers gather of this deep and divine discourse, the eternity of his Priesthood. The fathers indeed have gathered of this discourse most truly the eternity of Christs Priesthood, and therein they confute your wicked dannotation, that saith, all this proveth not Christs Priesthood to be perpetual. They understood the Apostle rightly, and they expounded his meaning faithfully. Show me now one ancient father if you can M. R. that ever said as you say, that all this alleged by the Apostle proveth not in proper signification, that Christs priesthood, is perpetual: or else that he taught, as you teach, that Christ must continually be sacrificed in form of bread and wine. This is the point, this show us, if you can. For in your Annotation ⟨p. 408⟩no such thing is showed, and all the fathers confess with one consent, that the Apostle hath proved soundly the eternity of Christs Priesthood, and that no other sacrifice remaineth to be offered, but only a remembrance and sacrament of that one everlasting sacrifice to be continued in the Church to the end of the world.
But what can Master Rainolds saie in excuse of this so manifest blasphemie?1