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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

concerning the latter dayes are of vs carelesly passed ouer no God forbid for they be warninges betuix our●… eyes The Apostle Peter hath moste carefully warned vs of Sathans ●…yght and fury not forgetting also to istruct vs how to withstand him in these wordes Be sober and watche for your aduersarie the Deuil as a roring lyon walketh aboute feking whome he may beuore whome sayeth the Apostle ye shall resist being steadfast in Faith ye say that Sathan can not take Christes name from vs no certanely nor steare a haire of our heades forther then God doeth appoint him ●…e are not affrayed that that Serpent ●…al ather spoyle vs of thrist or of his na●…e for we know our selues to be Christs ●…epe to whom he hath not onely pmised ●…ernal lyfe but also that they shall neuer ●…rishe nor be plucked out of his hand by ●…y This certanetie of our Saluation ●…ocedeth not of our owne merites and ●…orthynes which God did foresie to be 〈◊〉 vs as ye blasphemous Papistes do ●…irme nor yet of the worthynes of the●… workes that follow after our externall ●…ocation no but the begining the mid●…est and the end of our Saluatiō cometh 〈◊〉 the mear mercy of our God alone in ●…hriste Iesus his Sonne to whome he ●…ly liberally gaue vs before all worl●…es as that he him self witnesseth in the ●…uangle of Iohn saying My Father ●…hich gaue them me is greater then all ●…nd none is able to take them out of my ●…athers hand I and my Father are one ●…pon these promises we rest and shall ●…od willing vnto the end nether feare we ●…s promises nor the fidelitie of them for ●…ppose we be fragel yet wil he not deny 〈◊〉 self but how cometh it to pas that ye perceaue not the craft of this Serpent your self whereof ye admonish others so earnestly For Sathan hath not one●…e spoyled you of christ him self giuen you a whyte tepertane God to play you with but also hath spoyled a great nomber of your masters men euen of the verie name of Christe For they think it to base a name to be called Christians wherewith enerie man is tearmed that is Baptised And therefore are som of them called Frasiscans so●…e Benedictinis some Don●…nicans Agustmians some Car●…elites and Cartusians some Heremites and Iacobins and some with one name and some with other whiche I irke to rehers Hereby plainely witnessing that they are ashamed of the name of Christ before men that he may deny them before his Father in any wise to apertean to him but to be of the nomber of those filthy locustes that S. Iohn remembreth in his Reuelation to haue come out of the bottomles pit Ye desyre vs to remember where and by what maner we haue Christe treuly then ye laboure to persuade vs that he is inclosed in the Sacrament knet to the Church vnto the which in deid he is cup led and maried by an euerlasting couenāt but not to your adulterus Church which ye wold make men beleue were the trew Church of God and so ye conclude that 〈◊〉 haue dispysed the Church sittuat vpō the montane and hath intrused a figure for Christes body in the Sacrament This I trust be your meaning and the ●…one of your argument whereunto we ●…er That the Lord Iesus being rea●… to leue the world and go to his Father seing his Disciples who at that present were carnall mynded sorie for ●…s bodylie departing made vnto them 〈◊〉 solempned promise that he wolde not ●…aue them confortles but if they wolde ●…pe his commandements and teache his people also to obserue all whatsoeuer 〈◊〉 had commanded them that then but ●…out he wold be present with them vnto ●…e end of the world not catnally nor ma●…cally inclosed in a bit of coniured bread 〈◊〉 which is now and then offered for seicke 〈◊〉 wine and Fearsy horses but by his ho●…e Spirit effectually working i their har 〈◊〉 that thing which his bodylie presence ●…uld not do whose departing from them ●…es vtterly necessarie and expedient as he him self doeth witnes in these wordes I tell you the treuth it is expedient for you that I go away for if I go not away the conforter which is the holy Ghoste will not come vnto you but if I depart I will send him vnto you Marck these wordes ye carnal Capernaites that wold pluck Christes fleshe from the right hand of the Father that if ye haue his flesh yet still with you ye lack his Spirit for he affirmeth in plaine wordes that the Spirit will not come except he depart and be absent in bodie Now chuse yow whither ye will want his bodie or his Spirit or rather whither think ye it better to imagine that ye haue his bodie for otherwise ye haue it nor and so for your fals imagi nation lack his Spirit or to grant that thing to be absent which is absent in deid and can not come til the latter day to the end ye may be participant of that holie Spirit that God poureth in the hartes of his chosen euē here in this lyfe whereby we cry Abba Father But the questiō is soue answered on your part I am assured ye had rather play you with your myrrie conceats contenting your selues with that presence of Christe that you think ye haue nor to haue his Spirit except that ye might win money thereby as Symon Magus your predicessoure wold haue done For ye haue win more by the Magicall and merualous lying myrackle of transubstantiation whereby ye wold make men beleue that a peice of bread not worth a quarter of a farthing were changed in your masses to the body of Christ God and man the same lenth brede that he hang on the crose by this iugling I say ye haue win more then euer ye did by his Spirit But to the purpose we conclude that Christ is here present with his Church alwayes according to his promise by his holy Ghoste whiche who so hath not aperteined not to Christ with what giftes soeuer he be indued besyde ye make our selues iudges whither that we haue lighlyed the treu Church or not sittuat vpon the montane if ye mean hereby the Church of Rome as I dout not but ye do we deny simplie that it is the trew Church but rather that spirituall Babylone whereout of the Lord hath commanded his people to come that they ●…e not partaker of her plagues whither ye meane by this montane that great hil of ambitiō that Sathan caryed Christ to when that he promised him the whole Kingdomes of the earth if he wold worship hi which Christ refused your Pope hath receaued or if ye meane hereby the hilles that are sittuat about Rome which S. Iohn sayeth are 7. in nomber which also Baptista Mantuanus affirmeth for he calleth your Rome Se●…ollem vrbem I can not well tell

breath without respiratiō broght furthe these profound mysteries euerie soule preist knoweth not but onely the great Rabbines All that were present with Christ were pertakers of the Sacra ment and no mā is pertaker with them for they deuore all alone But some of thē wil say we debar no mā if any wold take part the contrarie is trew it wes neuer sene that euer a preist wold parte with a quarter of his God to another preist no not with a lyck of his dishe and that is les this I say they neuer did to their own brethrē of craft muche les to a laye man as they did call them I neuer knew any thing that euer they might or did forbeare to any man at that dosoned disione except it were a kisse of the Patene that onely to him that lifted their taile or els to some gentilmē that sat by whom they wold gratifie If temporal men had bene als euil fellowes of their carnal brekfasts as ye were of your fantasticall Feastes some of you had not worne so fat neckes as ye did Christ gaue vnto his Apostles the frute of the wine tre without any mixture but your masse is not ryghtly said except there be commixtion of water and wine togither In the Lordes Supper bothe trew bread and trew wine is ministrat to the communicants in the masse the papist affirmeth that there remaneth nether bread nor wine after their Incan tation but accidents as whytnes roūdnes and color c. when the Lord Iesus had finished his ministration the Euangelist sayeth They praysed God with a Hymne or Psalme of thankesgeuing Bot when masse is done there is nothing bot ●…te ●…issa est ather said or sung whereunto is added a latine blissing with the aers of an emptie cup. Now loke what ye think of your masse for in my answer to the second Section of your Epistle I haue prouen it to be abhominable Idolatrie because that bread and wine corruptable Creatures are in it worshipped in place of God the Father and Christ his Sōne that it spoyleth Christ of his Preisthead so of his Sacrifice ī that ye that offer it vsurpeth his office vpon you I haue pro ●…ē also The wicked opiniō of it to wit that it is Satisfactorie for sinnes in this argument also is included and that the whole action of it in all pointes dissagreeth with the institutiō of the Lordes S●… per the conferring of the one action with the other aboue written sufficientlie proueth wherefore we iudge that your papistical inuention the Idolatrous Sacri fice of the masse is to be reiected and abhorred of al trew worshippers of God as that that is co●…nelious and blasphemous to God the Father and Derogatiō to the honor and dignitie of the Lord Iesus his Sonne This is it that we think of your masse and this doctrine we teach to the people out of the infallible word of God that indureth for euer nether haue we respect to Doctors cōsuetude or bare name of the Churche acknowledging onely that to be the trew Church in deid which rendereth humble obedience vnto her housband Christe Iesus This letter ye say wes written in the Quenes maiesties palaice at Edinburgh I am the more sorie in deid that suche as ye are hath any interteniment in the palaices of Princes but it is no new thing to se fals Prophetes more familiar in the Court thē the trew sernādes of God Amazias the Idolatrous preist of Bethel wes in greater estimation with Ieroboā King of Israel then wes Amos the trew prophet of God as the Imperious braging of that Idolater witnesseth O thou Scar sayeth Amazias go fle thou ●…way into the land of Iuda and there eat thy bread and prophecie there but prophecie no more at Bethel for it is the Kinges Chappell and the Kinges Court. Iesabels Idolatrous preistes were better bele ned of A●…hab King of Israel althogh they prophecieth lies to his distruction then the Prophet of God Micheas that tolde him the treuth to his Saluation God of his great mercy purge the hart of our natiue Princesse frō al leauen Papistical and plant in place thereof his ●…rew feare ād loue to his eternal veritie Ye desyre vs to prent into our myndes that in the latter dayes the continual and daylie Sacrifice shalbe taken away vnderstand ye this of your masse if ye do thē certanely Master Doctor your Theologie is not onely rude but also repugnant to the mynd of the Prophet in this place if ye mean of that sentēce that Daniel rehearseth in the end of his 12. last Ca. as I thīk ye do for I know no place where this sentence that ye haue throwē for your purpose is written but in that place if ye mean of that sentence I trust the Readers shal easylie perceaue bothe your ignorance if of ignorance ye haue inferred it and otherwayes your malice in throwing of this Text. Daniel as he him self confesseth in the beginnīg of his 9. Chapiter vnderstude by bokes name ly of Ieremies Prophecie that the Lord had appointed his people to indure banishmēt out of their own cūtrie to abyd captiues in Babilō 70. yeares which yeares drawing neir an end Daniel as an cairful for his people their returning ho me euerted hī self vnto God by ardent earnest prayer desyring him not to differ the tyme of their deliuerance any longer but for his owne names ●…aike althogh they were not worthy to restore them to their libertie whil he wes yet speaking praying and cōfessing his own sinne and the sinnes of his people vnto God The Angel of the Lorde is sent vnto him to otter vnto him the yeares determinat of their captiuitie their returninge home the reedifying of the citie the cōming of Christ his slaughter and destruction of the citie Ierusalem By a vision is declared vnto him in the 10. Chap. the cause of ●…he hinderante or defferring of their deli●…rance whiche come by the meanes of ●…ambises Prence of Persia. The king●…omes of the earth ād Monarches with their Kings as of Persia Grecia Egypt Syria and the Romans one striuinge with an other and all against God are ●…t lenth wonderfull mystically recited in ●…he 11. Chap. Fynally in the 12. Chap. is ●…eclared how the Church being euē scattered and dispersed shalbe deliuered by Christes death which should abolishe the ●…aylie Sacrifice whiche being done he Prophecies that the temple and the citie ●…atbe distroyed by the abhominable de●…ation which is the Hoste of the Romans mysticallie also signifeing By the thousand two hūdreth and nynety dayes and by the thousand thre hundreth fyue and threttie dayes the tyme from the deuastation of Ierusalem to Christes secōd cōming in the Cloudes the Prophet also in the mean tyme is certified that althogh he depart out of this lyfe yet shal he stād vp at the end of the dayes in the