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A00685	Ane answer to ane epistle written by Renat Benedict the Frenche doctor, profesor of Gods worde (as the translator of this epistle calleth him) to Iohn Knox, and the rest of his brethren ministers of the word of God: made by Dauid Feargussone minister of the same word at this present in Dumfermling.	Fergusson, David, d. 1598.; Benoit, René, 1521-1608.; Winzet, Ninian, 1518-1592.	1563 (1563)	STC 10819; ESTC S117552	36,974	88

red Scriptures and Doctors writinges knoweth that we propone but the wordes of the Law and not the Law it self nor yet haue we say ye Gods worde for vs so ye cōclude verie magistraliter as your maner is that we reteane onely Christes Name and not him self There is no mā I am assured that hath red the Scriptures and Doctors writinges with iudgement which doeth not knowe this affirmatiue of yours to be rashe rayling lincked full of lies c. And then ye laboure to shew how we haue expelled Christe firste ye say in his ymages and Secōdly in the Euchariste and masse and Thridly in exponing the Scripture according to mans inuention Hitherto it might haue appeared to men of sklender iudgement as I haue said in the begining of this answer that the loue of God had moued you to this mater but blissed be God euē the Father of our lord Iesus Christ that now ye haue detected your self bewraying that which before ye couered with an exceading wyde cloke of Hipocrycie Let an Asse be als well decked as may be with a Lyons skin and yet will his long eares declare what he is Let a Uoulfe be neuer so well ●…led with a ●…hepes skin yet occasion being offered he wil shew hi self to be a rauening blood ●…hristie deuorer of those poore beastes whose skin he wes clothed with So al●…hogh that hitherto ye haue most craftely ●…ouered your self with Christes name yet ●…ow thou doest shew thy self to be a filthy ●…dolater and fals worshipper of God ●…nd that the loue to thy Idoles and Ido●…atrous masse which thou cōplanes that ●…e haue expelled hath moued thee to ●…rite and not the loue of God and Sal●…ation of thy brethrē as thou pretendeth ●…hou fayest that we haue expelled Christ 〈◊〉 his ymages it became thee firste to ●…ue prouen that he wes present in yma●…s and then thy argument had bene the strōger But that ymages are forbidden of God that his people shal abhor them and flee from them as from snares that catcheth the soules of ignorants in the miserable captiuitie of Idolatrie and deuorcement frō God the whole Scriptures do testifie First the Lorde our God expresly forbiddeth in the Second cōmandement of the Decaloge that we shall make any ymages similitudes or lycknesses of any kynde of thing in the heauē aboue the earth beneth or in the water vnder the earth Secondly that if it shall come to pas that Sathan shall fill any mās hart with vanitie to make ymages then are we forbidden to rēder any kinde of reuerence ather in outward gestur or in inuard mynde In these wordes thou shalt not bowe doune to them nor worshep them Thridly he promiseth to punish the transgressors of this commandement vnto the thrid fourt Generatiō This is the immutable decrie of the most hiest cōcerning ymages whereupon we rest not caring what men of how great authoritie nor the wicked world be cankered custome hath ather done or vsed to the contrarie How greuously Idolaters are punished the seuere and rigorus executiō vsed by Moyses against them who yet wes the meakest man on earth euidently witnesseth read the 32. of Exodus The intysers to Idolatrie must be killed althogh they appeare to be holy how neir so euer they be of kin freindship or allyance The miserable and vnto this hour endles captiuitie of the whole 10. Tribes of Israel whom Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat caused to sinne sufficientlie doeth declare vnto vs bothe how sore God hateth Idolatrie and punisheth Idolaters how detestable they haue alwayes bene in the syght of all Gods Prophetes Dauid in his Psalmes Esayas in his Prophecie and the wise man in his wisdome testifieth Ieremie calleth them the doctrine of vanitie and yet ye are not affray ed by your Theologie to affirme that they ar lay mēs bokes whereby Christ presēteth him self to his people as if he delited to teache his people with vanitie God send you better knowledge if that of ignorance and not of malice ye write Seing therefore that as the wise man sayeth they were not from the begining nether shall continue for euer with him I conclude that they are miserable and among the dead is their ho●…e that worshippeth and calleth them Gods that are the workes of mens handes Fynally whither we that dependeth vpō God allone to receaue our doctrine of his mouth or ye that stablisheth your doctrine by the authoritie of the Church of Coūsels and Doctors which of vs exponeth the Scrip tuce according to mans inuention Let all mē iudge as they wil answer to God Renats Epistle the Fourt Section I Require o learned and lettered men for the death of Christes sake to weye a●…d consider this foresaid for I burne when I se so expert mē with a great nom ber of others led by your persuation and exemple in so manifest perrel and danger of their Saluation Wherefore abhor and reiect ye the Christiane peoples Sacrifice that is the masse which we haue figured by the Law of nature and of Mayses pro mised in the Prophetes which we haue exhebit and giuen vs in the Euangel which wes receaued and authorised in the Primatiue Kirk and hath bene alwayes vsed so oft as a thing moste necessar by all the Elect and predestmat people of God whiche thing moste plainely witnesseth Dionisius Areopagita Ignatius with the rest of the holy Fathers of the primatiue Kirk whose iudgement and authoritie in exponing and declaring the holy Scripture namelye of the Sacrifice of the masse I pray you o cōuing men let vs with sobernes follow and not lean to our own wit and iudgement in a mater of so great importance Let vs stere vp the negligēce and sluggishnes of Pastors not tollarable and let vs plainely argew their abuses with the vehemēcie of Gods word And I pray God of his infinit mer ●…y that we may confirme and kepe the Christiane people in trew Faith and god lynes and that we may edifie and helpe as belongeth to Christiane men ilk one other of charitie in Religion and godly lyfe Because we oght to aduert moste ●…r ●…ūspectlie that we ꝑuert not the treu faith and Religion and feare lest we vnderstād ●…uer hie in exponing of holy Scripture And firste of all we oght to prouide that we leid in captiuitie our own wittes ād others that vnderstāding we may haue the pouertie humilitie of Spirit which Christ our Lord placed in the fundation of Christiane building and hath promised to recompence the same with the Realme of heauen Mat. 15. The Lord mo●… grant vs all to be so affected And thus faire ye well o learned men in Christ Iesu. And requireth you again that ye wold declare me manifestlie as the Minister of Gods worde oght to do what ye think of the masse the Christiane peoples Sacrifice for so I hope it shal come to pas that by quiet talking had