Answer to the Proud Challenge of a Counterset Catholic, Title page – Errata
AN ANSVVER OF A TRVE CHRISTIAN TO THE PROVDE CHALLENGE OF A counterfet Catholike.
By VVilliam Fulke Doctor in diuinitie.
Imprinted at London by Thomas Vautrollier dwelling in the Blacke Friers. 1577.
To the Chriſtian Reader.
THIS short treatiſe (gentle Reader) hath lyen by me neare hand or altogether tenne yeres ſpace, vvritten at the requeſt of a godly & learned friend of myne, in aunſvver to a proud challenge of a Papiſt againſt the Proteſtant. VVhichWhich though at the firſt and many yeares after I determined not to publish, ſuppoſing the ſame challēge to hauehave ben priuate, or in fevve mens handes: yet novv of late that I hauehave ſeene it in diuerſe godly gentlemens handes, to vvhom it hath bene deliuered by Papiſtes, belike to peruert them, and of vvhom alſo I hauehave bene deſired to aū ſvver it, and am further credibly informed, that the ſame is in print, & eſteemed of many ignorant Papiſtes, to be ſo vnanſvverable, that although it hath bin proteſted, by gentlemen of great vvorship, and credit, that they hauehave ſeene the aūſvvere therof in vvriting, yet they vvil not beleue, that any man dare ſet his penne to the paper, once to attempte the matter: I hauehave novve thought good to put it in print, as it vvas vvrittē at the firſt. Nothing douting, by Gods help, but I shall be able to ſtand to the defence, if the Challenger vvill proceede to mainteyne his challenge any longer. And vvhereas the ſame of late hath bene ioyned vvith my confutation of the doctrine of purgatory, and yet is deſired of many to be ſet forth in ſeuerall, becauſe the argument is more generall, it is thought good to ſatisfie their deſire, & to ſpare their exſpenſes, that being reſolued in the matter of purgatory, doe yet ſtagger in the challenge of the Church. The breuity that I hauehave vſed (as I vnderſtand) is miſliked of ſome men, vvhichwhich vvoulde hauehave vvished a larger diſcourſe, but ſeeing the Challenger requireth shortnes, if this that is vſed be ſufficient to ſatisfie his demaunds or any of them, a longer treatiſe vvere but ſuperfluous. If he thinke him ſelfe not throughly aunſvvered, (& declare the ſame) in all or in part, that vvhichwhich is novve omitted shall then God vvilling be ſupplied. In the meane time vſe this (gentle Reader) and fare vvell in the Lorde.
The faultes of this impreſſion are thus to be amended: The firſt figure ſignifieth the page, the ſecond the line.
Pag. 3. line 35. Lithuania reade Lithuanda.
5.3. vvriting r. vvritinges.
10.10. the ſcripture, reade the booke of ſcripture.
13.17. then, reade thou and line 19. you, reade thou.
15. line the laſte. T…erius. reade Liberius.
19.4. you, reade the, and line 10. Ca. line. 58. reade Carolines. 8. and line 19. Mercamas, r. Marranias.
22.9. fauour, reade honor.
…3.26. the prince, reade the printers.
24.1. put out and.
25.9 not for his, r. for his.
29.10. vnitie of minde, r. vnitie of faith & minde.
30.3. in the places aboue rehearſed. in diuerſe places of his epiſtles, a. lib. 3. epiſt. 14. and 15.16. &c.
41.30. Rhenes, r. Rhemes.
49.5. the the, r. that the. & the 12. r. & the Catho. &c.
52.13. in Brytish, reade in the Brytish.
63.14. about the articles, r. about the chiefeſt articles.
64.20. put out (that hilde.) and the 24. here, rea. ſore.
67.21. vvhichwhich can not, rea. vvhichwhich you can not.
68.4. in a name, reade in a manner.
69.4. prorſus opinemur, r. prorſus non opinemur. and 34. vniuerſally, r. vniuerſalitie and 36 vvhichwhich you do, r. vvhichwhich you do not.
70.17. proponēda, r. praeponēda. & 22. in a r. in the. & 24. vvhen. r. vvhē the.
71.20. vvhere, ręa. vvere, and the 22. to, reade in.
78.26. that you ſavv a baſtard church, r. that you being a baſtard church hauehave.
87.34 Commentualls, rea. Conuentualles.
91.32. that he rea. then he.
92.30. cultiued, r. cōtinued.
97.…. your, reade youres.
99.13. there, rea. therefore. & 14. vinci, reade v…icè.
AN ANSVVER OF A TRVE CHRISTIAN TO A COVNTERFAIT CATHOLIKE.
The propoſition of the Aduerſarie.
CHrist did commit at his departure hence, the teſtimony of that truth, for which he died, and the conuerſion of the Nations to the beleefe in him, to the true church of God, which then ſtoode principally, and almoſt onelyonly in the perſons of the Apoſtles and a fewe more, that by their preachings, and thoſe afterward of their calling, the Chriſtian religion might be planted in all Nations, beginning at Ieruſalem, and ſo proceeding to the coaſtes and corners of the earth.
AN ANSVVERE TO THE PROPOSITION.
I Graunt that our Sauiour Chriſt, at his departure hence, commaunded his Apoſtles as principal members of his Church, though not the greateſt part of it, to preach the doctrine which he confirmed by his death vntounto all nations, beginning at Ieruſalem, and ſo forth according to his ſaying: Goe therefore and teach all Nations baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Sonne, and of the holy Ghoſt: Teaching them to obſerue all thinges what ſo euer I hauehave commaunded you. Matth. 28. Whereuppon I chalenge the Papiſt, that if he be able to proue that the doctrine of poperie is all that trueth, and nothing but that trueth, for which Chriſt dyed, and which he commaunded the Apoſtles to teach, I will acknowledge the popiſh church to be the Church of Chriſt.