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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00820	A briefe replie of Thomas Udall, Gent. to a short memorandum, or shew of answere against his booke intituled: A briefe view of the weake grounds of poperie: by B.C. student in diuinitie.	Udall, Thomas.	1609 (1609)	STC 24508.3; ESTC S95630	21,665	59

not because it was profitable to the question then handled yet doth Pope Adrian vse these words In sextae Sinodi Diuine legaliter praedicatis Canonibus In the Canons of the sixt Synode holily and lawfully published And the Popes Legates demanded of the sacred Synode whether they receiued the letters of the most holy Pope or no The sacred Synode answered we folow receiue approue them And what other thing is this but to confirme the Canons of the sixt Synode Neither is it any strange matter for one Pope and a Councell to condemne the decrees of another Pope and Councell As I haue shewed in my booke pag. 58. 59. Of Pope Stephan and Pope Iohn And thus much for the first note The reason of his second note lies thus If Venerable Bede saith that the Pope did disanull that erraticall Synode then cannot Master Vdall with conscience call it a generall Councell and vrge the authoritie thereof as authenticall But the antecedent is true Ergo the consequent I denie the consequence and demaund of Master B. C. why I may not with as good a conscience as Bellarmine and diuers Popes and Papists before alleaged call it a generall Councell for Bellarmine reckoneth this Councell amongst those generall Councels which are partly approued partly reproued And Caranza that gathered the summe of the Councels sheweth immediatly before the Canons that nine Canons of the same Synode were reiected as bastards and that these 102. Canons were not as yet forsaken and cast off And though many hold that this Councell made no Canons yet a Councell made them with credit of a generall Councell Prefat Synod Trul. ad Iustini And the next generall Councell did confirme them Conc. Nic. 2. cap. 1. And Caranza sheweth that the Canons were made in supplie of the other two Councels that wanted and therefore it was not numbred as the sixt but called Quini Sexta because it supplied that which was wanting to the fift and sixt And yet hee cals it a generall Councell Now could any man of M. B. C. learning vpon Bedes authoritie vrge such consequents against all these proofes before alleaged And for my vrging it as Authent'call I haue shewed before how farre we receiue the authority of generall Councels and the reason why I vrged it But I pray you master B.C. is this a Maxime in your Diuinitie That whatsoeuer any ancient Father hath said is to be beleeued Surely Saint Austin was of another mind For he challengeth to himselfe a libertie to iudge In quorumlibet hominum scriptis De natur gra contr pelag ca. 61. Ibidem In the writings of all men whatsoeuer And addeth this reason because I doe consent without any stay to the Canonicall Scriptures onely Cont. Faust lib. 11. ca. 5. The rest must be read as hee teacheth Non cum credendi necessitate sed cum iudicandi libertate Not with a necessitie to beleeue them but with a libertie to iudge them Epist 48. de Peccat Merit Remiss l. 1. c. 22 And must bee distinguished from the authoritie of the Canon For that the authoritie of the sacred Scriptures can neither deceiue nor be deceiued Cont. Crescon lib. 2. cap. 3. And by those bookes we may freely iudge of other writings both of Christians and Infidels And thus much for the second note The reason of the third note lies thus If the Reuelation of Saint Iohn be omitted by the Councell of Laodicea then doth not the Councell set downe the same Canon of the Scriptures which the Church of England alloweth But the antecedent is true Ergo the consequent Master B. C. would faine finde a knot in a rush so much doth it please his cauelling carping spirit For if he had obserued in the third page of my Booke that the aunswere which I there set downe in the name of the Protestant toucheth onely the bookes which are in question beeweene vs hee might haue found that the proofe I there brought was touching the Hebrew Canon of the old Testament Whereof I might truely say that this Councell setteth downe the same Canon of the Scriptures which both the old Church had and our Church doth hold for reproofe whereof the omitting of the Reuelation by the Councell of Laodicea which was not in question was impertinently alleaged by you And thus much for the third note The reason of his fourth note lies thus If the Councell forbid the reading of other bookes not there expressed then Master Vdall can hardly show how the Church of England reading the history of Iudith and Tobie in their publique assemblies agreeth with the decree of that Councell But the antecedent is true Ergo the consequent Is not this substantiall stuffe and worthy of Master B. C. learning What if I could not shew this What inconuenience were it to the Church of England or what aduantageth it my aduersary Doth any of vs acknowledge that the Church of England is bound to follow the decrees of councels in all things Blush then for shame is reason thus idely yet wee say with S. Hierom That the Church readeth those bookes See the 4. page of my booke Hierom. praefa in lib. Solom Rufin in expos Symb. apud Cyprian but receiueth them not amongst the Canonicall Scriptures And that they are read for instruction of manners but not alleaged for confirmation of doctrine But it seemes Master B. C. was much pressed by some of his followers to answere my booke And therfore to giue them some satisfaction he would say somewhat though it were to little purpose And thus much for the fourth note The reason of his fift note lieth thus If these words And receiued into authoritie be not to be found in that Councel then M. Vdall hath corrupted the Councell by adding some thing of his owne But the Antecedent is true Ergo the consequent To this I answere that those words are found in the Councell and therefore Master Vdall is slaunderously charged by Master B. C. The words are these Quae autem oporteat legi in authoritatē recipi hec sunt Those Bookes which must be read and receiued into authoritie are these From which thus I dispute those bookes which are to bee receiued into authoritie are those set downe by the Councell But the bookes we call Apocrypha are not there set downe by the Councell Ergo those bookes which we call Apocrypha are not to be receiued into authoritie Now that I may pay M B. C. in his owne coine how many of these his worthie notes may be returned him for hauing neither truth nor Schollership as the vsing that silly shift of wrangling Sophisters to take that for graunted which hee should haue proued The weakenesse of his consequence the charging me to vse the testimonie of the Councell for the Canon of the New Testament which he knew I applied to the old Testament the vrging of impertinent reasons without end or purpose and the charging me with