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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10443	A copie of a challenge, taken owt [sic] of the confutation of M. Iuells sermon made by Iohn Rastell	Rastell, John, 1532-1577.; Rastell, John, 1532-1577. Confutation of a sermon, pronounced by M. Juell, at Paules crosse, the second Sondaie before Easter (which Catholikes doe call Passion Sondaie) Anno Domini .M.D.LX. Selections.	1565 (1565)	STC 20727; ESTC S119777	10,470	36

or by any example of the primitiue church I promise that I will geaue ouer and subscribe vnto hym in that poynt And of this I for my part will not onlie not call in any poynt being well assured of the trueth therein but allso will laye more matter to it Wherefor beside all that I haue said allready I will say further and yet nothing so much as might be said If any one of our aduersaries be able clearlie and plainelie to proue by such authoritie of the scri ptures the old Doctors and Councels as I said before 22 That the Bishopp of Rome was called Antichrist within the first vjC yeares after Christ 23 Or that the people was then tawght to beleue that the force and strength of their faith made Christ his bodye present to them in the Sacramēt and not any vertue of wordes and consecration 24 Or that the residue of the Sacramēt vnreceaued was taken of the priest or the parish clark to spread ther young childerns butter therevppon or to serue their owne to the with it at their homely table 25 Or that who so had said in the Sacrament is the true and reall bodie of Christ and not a figuratiue body onlie or mistical shold ben therefor iudged a papist and brought vp before high commissioners 26 Or that it was lawfull then to haue but one communion in one church in one daye 27 Or that images were then cutt hewed mangled and reuiled though it were answered that they are not holden for Godes or Sainctes but kept only for memorial sake of Christ him selfe or any of his faithfull 28 Or that Bishopes then threw downe Christ and his sainctes images and set vp their owne their wyues and their childernes pictures in their opē chambers and parlors 29 Or that our Sauior in his last supper deliuered hys bodye to many more then his twelue Apostels 30 Or that Iudas Machabeus in causing sacrifice to be offered for the dead added in that point vnto the law and offended God and ys no more to be folowed in that doing then Loth and Dauid are in their incest and adultery 31 Or that a Bishopp being a virgin at takyng hys office did afterwardes yet commendablie take a wife so to call an harlot vnto hym 32 Or that after the first wyfes death which he had before holy orders receiued any priest toke a second or third vnto hym with a toties quoties the later wyfe departing left hym in hott fiery passions that he needed an other to coole hym 33 Or that any preacher of those daies moued young men and women in open sermons not to blushe or be ashamed of desyering the one the other no more then they would be ashamed of spetting or any such naturall actiō 34 Or that it was at those dayes the right way to knowledge euery man to read by hym self the Scriptures and neglect all kynd of tradition 35 Or that the lent or friday was to be fasted for ciuile policie and not for any deuotion 36 Or that Palmesonday was solemnised without bearing of bowes conmonly called palmebowes Or that Christmassdaye was without a masse or asshewensday without asshes or Candelmasdaye without bearing of Candels 37 Or that the Natiuity of S. Ihon Baptist was kept holy and the Eue fasted and neither the natiuity neither the assumption of owr blessed lady kept holy with a special fast vpon the Eues 38 Or that they did pray vnto God vpō the feast of S. Michael saying grawnt that owr liffe maye be defended on earth by them by whom thow art allwayes wayted vpon in heauen and neuerthelesse tawght the people that it was iniurious to Christ and his mediation to aske for helpe at any others handes then his 39 Or that they should vse the signe of the crosse in baptysme only and not at the cōsecrating of Christ his body 40 Or that they were not heretykes which threw downe altars erected vnto Christ 41 Or that any Bisshopp then was maryed vpon Asshewensday 42 Or that any goodman then did write that the gouernement of women was monstruous 43 Or that est in these wordes hoc est corpus meū ys to be taken for significat 44 Or that the lay people communicatyng did take the cup one at an others handes and not at the priests handes or the deacons 45 Or that there was any controuersie then in religion which being decided by the Bishop of Rome the contrarie part was not taken for heresie and the mainteiners of it accompted heretikes 46 Or that any then was put in the Calender for a Martir which was hanged by iust iudgement not for any cause and matter of faith but for euident and wicked felonie 47 Or that any ecclesiasticall persons were depriued then of their benefices or excōmunicated owt of church and liuyng for that they refused to sweare against the authoritie of the Bishope of Rome Or that any suche othe was vsed to be put vnto any man at that tyme 48 Or that any fryer of threescore yeares obteinyng afterwardes the Rome of a Bishop maried a young woman of xix yeares 49 Or that any Bishopp then preached to be all one to pray on a dunghyll and in a churche 50 Or that any but heretikes refused to subscribe to a general and lawful coūcell gathered and confirmed by the Bishop of Rome his authoritie These be the highest misteries and greatest keies of their religiō and without these their doctrine can neuer be mainteyned and stād vpright Yf any one therefor of all owr aduersaries be able to auouch any one of all these articles by any such sufficient authoritie of Scriptures doctors or Councels as I haue required as I sayd before so saie I now againe I am content to yeld vnto hym and to subscribe in that poynt which I wold neuer do nor might do vnto an heretike knowing that my faith must not hang vpon the euent of disputation yet seing I haue begon to playe the foole with a foole therefor I vse this terme of subscribing as I do lerne it of master Iuell But I am well assured they shal neuer be able trulye to alleage one sentence And becaufe I know it therefor I speake it least any happelie should be deceaued And thus far furth to the imitation of master Iuell Factus sum insipiens vos me coëgistis But what now might any protestant think of this challenge will he not mislike with me that emong so manye articles as I reherse with great solemnitie so few are of weight and substance will he not be moued at the very hart that for indifferēt matters and reasonable ceremonies I shall require yet to haue their proufe out of the first six hundred yeares after Christ and owt of generall councells or auncient doctours or els make an exclamation agaynst the keeping of them will it not greiue hym that I stick vpon termes which can neuer be fownd in the cumpasse of the primitiue church which if their