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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

by Sy●…onie by Uiolence by requeis●…s of great men by Popes Bulles and dispēsations by Sorcerie ād witchecraft wherefore we vnderstand that as Christ hath said of them they be theues and murtherers let the dead therefore 〈◊〉 there dead Seing that we are commanded to preach the Gospel to Christes dispersed flock I am assured ye mean not when as ye speak of ●…uggish Pastors of our Pastors and preachers for in your conscience I dout not but ye think them to vigilant and wolde wishe that they were a●…s s●…ack as your owne for then should ye not haue neded to haue written this letter I pray God of his infinit mercy to deliuer his people from fals doc trine and giue them grace to heare his voice onely as becōmeth his shepe a●…ding in him by trew Faith and vnfenied loue imprenting his trew feare in their hartes that they presume not to vnderstand aboue that which is mete to be vnderstanded but according to sobrietie as God hath dealt to euerie man the measur of Faith we know that God hath blissed the meak but there is a difference betuix meaknes and ignorant error God giue vs his grace therefore to imbraice Iesus Christe frely now offered vnto vs with humilytie and meaknes giuing a bolde cōfession of his name before this froward generatiō that he may confesse vs before his Father in heauen Amen Now ye bid vs faire wel and thereafter ye require vs to declare vnto you manifestlie as the Minister of Gods worde oght to do what we think of the masse which ye throughout this letter haue called the Christiane peoples Sacrifice This your requeist we dar not put back not for that we iudge that ye will beleue the treuth whē it is told you but because we are bound to giue a reconing of the hope that is in vs to euerie one that demandeth it I haue already declared vnto you what Sacrifices are appointed for Christiane people to offer out of the 12. Chap. of S. Paules Epistle to the Romans and 13. to the Hebreues But as to a Sacrifice for our sinnes daylie to be offered as wer the Sacrifices and oblations of the olde Testament appointed of God vnto the tyme of reformation we vnderstand that not onely haue we no neide so to do being now already purged by the blood of Christe but also whosoeuer he be that so doeth estemeth the Sacrifice of Christ insufficient which the Apostle affirmeth he offered ones for all on the Croce And as it is sayeth he appointed vnto mē that they shal ones die and after that cometh the iudgement so Christ wes ones offered to take away the sinnes of many and vnto them that loke for him shal appeare the Second tyme without sinne vnto Saluation From the 7. Chapiter vnto the middest of the 10. Chapiter he trauelleth at lenth in this mater finding no other faute with the Leuiticall Sacrifices but that they were daylie offered because they had not strenth to expell sinne at ones and therefore inferreth that Christes Sacrifice wes the consumation and end of them and all other Sacrifices for sinnes Forasmuche as he by one oblatiō hath done that thing to wit consecrated for euer them that are Sanctified which they be so often offerring Sacrificing could not do concluding that where remission of sinne is there resteth no more offerring for sinne Cursed be he thē that offereth for sinne any more seing the holy Ghoste hath concluded the contrarie As to your masse ye shal haue our iudgement of it in few wordes and what we do mislyke in it Firste we mislyke the persone that sayeth it and iudgeth him to be a blasphemer of Christes death because he taketh vpon him the office of Christe namely he vndertaketh by that Sacrifice which he offered to pacifie the wrathe of God the Father conceaued against aswel his own sinnes as the sinnes of them for whome he offereth whither they be aliue or dead But this can no man do but Christ alone for of him and to him alone were these wordes spoken out of the heauen by the mouth of his Father This is my welbeloued Sonne in whome I am well pleased heare him wherefore your preist in his masse taking the aforesaid office vpon him doeth all that in him lyeth to spoyle Christ of his dignitie therefor worthie to be iudged a fals Christ and a traytor to mans Saluation for if Christe pronounceth in the Euangel all suche as came before him vsurpinge the name of Messiah or tytle of Sauioures to be theues and murtherers How muche more worthie are they of that name that dare presume to be Sauioures ather of them sellues or others now when he is come and parfited the worke of our Redemption Secondly we mislyke the whole action of your masse which from the beginning to the end is nothing els but als plaine an Antithesis or cōtraposition to the Lordes Supper as lyght is to darck nes or treuth to falshead First the Lord Iesus when he institute this Sacrament and did minister it I dout not moste sincerely to his Apostles wes no other wayes clothed then his common custome wes And your preistes after whose ordoure I can not tell for Arons preistes they wil not grant them selues to be and according to Melchisedeces ordour there wes neuer one but Christ then must they be Baals chaplanes they I say dissagysed lyke players euerie peice of their cote cōteining a mysterie proceadeth to their masse The Lorde Iesus sat doune with the 12. Apostles They stand at an alter alone he gaue thankes vnto the Father before the Ministration and they before their masse rehearseth there blasphemous Confiteor wherein euerie S. in heauen is made equall or as we say Iakfellow lyke vnto the Eternal God He preached the confortable promises of Saluation mixed with exhortations to mutuall loue ād amitie c. In that language that they all might vnderstand they nether preach nor exhort but occupyeth the tyme with speaking to the wall and now then for the manersakes one word or two turning them to the people in a strange language that nether the people nor the grea test part of those god makers them selues vnderstandeth In giuing the Apostles the bread the Lorde Iesus declared vnto them in plaine wordes what it signifieth namely his bodie which should be brokē for them In these wordes take eat this is my bodie which is broken for you They round and whisper their wordes with a certane magical susurration as if it were treason to speak them that the people might heare saying hoc est enim corpus meum adding this word enim at their owne hand but this is not done without a mysterie for to this end say they do we it that as the Uirgin conceaued Christe with these fyue wordes Fiat michi secundū verbum tuum so we may make Christe of bread by other fyue wordes distinctly vnder one

are grounded vpō come ne uer be the will of man as sayeth Peter but by the wil of God we are assured not to deceaue our selues for he is no deceauer in whom we trust but rather the way the veritie and the life and him we follow certeanely beleuing that then we can not walk in darknes for we know as sayeth S. Iohn in his first generall Epistle that we are of God althogh the whole world l●…eth in wickednes we know that the Sonne of God is come and hath giuen ●…s a mynde to knowe him that is trew and we are in him that is in his Sonne Iesus Christ the same is verie God and eternall lyfe This doctrine we haue lear ●…ed of God in it we trust being assured that the gates of Hell shall not preuale against vs. Trew it is that the Scriptures plain●…y affirmeth in diuers and syndrie places ●…hat the latter dayes shalbe ful of dāgers ●…nd therefore moste carefully doeth the Spirit of our God not onely warne vs of the dangers but also the meane to a●…oyde them is manifestly-proponed to vs ●…n these wordes He that ꝑseuereth vnto ●…he end shal be saued But as all shall be ●…ll of perrel euerie where so shal not the Church lack her part being assalted with ●…als Christes and fals Prophetes who shal shew suche lying wonders signes and myrackles that if it were possible ●…he verie chosen should be deceaued But ●…lissed be God that hath not left these his moste necessar admonitions in so obscure ●…arables that hardly may the mater be decerned no but rather hath by his Apostles and diligent watchmen painted out moste liuely the maners and doctrine of these fals ꝓphetes Peter sayeth They shal deny the Lord that boght them and through couetousnes make merchandrise of the people Wes Christ Iesu alōe i the Popes Church granted to be the Lorde that boght vs with his blood or were we not teached to be boght out of purgatorie by masses whiche of these gredie beastes wes boght for money with mony other such dānable wayes whereby the way of treuth wes euil spoken of which I omit for tediousnes this remembring onelie as the fontane whereout of the rest sprāg These men that thus deminisheth the power of the Sonne of God to be vterlie ignorant of the Father and with him to haue no societie S. Iohn plainely affirmeth Iudas the seruant of Iesus Christ and brother of Iames calleth them cloudes without water and trees without frute that is such mē as are called Bishopes and Pastors and when it cometh to the watering of Christes shepe with the water of lyfe they ather suffer them to die for thrist or els compell them to do two euiles that is to forsake the eternal who is the onely fontane of lyuing water and drink of rotten pooles made by men that can hold no water when Christes chosen are to be fed with the frute of that tre that ●…andeth in the middest of the Paradise of God ather get they no frute or els sti●…●…g Dnzeons and Barlyk of Egypt that 〈◊〉 to say massing ●…inking ringing sing●…g playing sensing crossing ●…king ●…dding and processions wherein the ●…preaching prelat with his shameles ●…auelinges no better preachers then the ●…m dog their master he I say lacking ●…e misterie of Saluation in his hart ād ●…e Sermon of exhortatiō banished from ●…s mouth is decked like a player in mi●…al aparel with Crose and myter glo●…s and ringes caip and coule to the ●…at contempt and mockage of God and ●…ruction of his people forgetting in ●…e mean tyme that their triumpth is the ●…gining of their sorow hauing the black ●…rcknes reserued to them for euer ●…ule the moste vigilant watcheman of ●…hristes Church not onely for his owne ●…me but also careful for the posteritie ●…eth no les diligentlie not these men ●…r the rest of his nyghboures in office ●…moste in all his Episties but chiefly to ●…imothie in these wordes The Spirit ●…eaketh euidētly that in the latter tymes some shall depart from the faith and shal giue head vnto Spirites of erro●… and doctrines of Deuilles whiche speak l●…es through Ipocrycie and haue their cons●… ence burnt with an ho●…e yrne forbidding to marie ād cōmanding to abst●…ane sco●… meates which God hath created to be receaued with gi●…ig of thākes of thē which bele●… and know the t●…euth who doeth not se out suche as be wilfully blind the doctrine papistical moste liuely discriued and handsomely set furth in this prophecie for who in these latter and dangerous dayes hath forbidden Mariage and hath commanded distinction of meates persecutig the violaters of these precepts with Fyre and sword esteaming his own traditions aboue the cōmandements of God who I say hath done this but the Pope and his clargie the Antichriste his mēbers It wil auale you nothing to ascriue and applye the accōplishing of this prophecie to Montanus to the ●…erityques called Tatiani and the Encratikes seing ye are found in the lyke faut and so gilty of the same damnation no more then it wil auale a murtherer that now killeth a man to think that the curse of God pro nounced against Cain streacheth not ●…er him Wherefore freind in my iudgdement it ●…eth with you as ●…sope in his Fables ●…zeed to haue happened to a Paddock 〈◊〉 gaue her self forth for a Phisition 〈◊〉 of others who when she came to 〈◊〉 her Counsell and minister her Phi●… wes reiected of the seicke persones ●…cause she her self appeared to be all o●…goine with the gulsogh with this an●…r ●…dice cura teipsum So say I to 〈◊〉 ye giue your self forth for a spiritual ●…tion a professor of Gods worde 〈◊〉 to be a warner of others to be ware ●…rrours whē as in the meane tyme ye ●…r self had moste neid of spiritual Phi●…k and holsome Counsell of all others ●…d that because I se you ●…longed in ex●…me errore and vehementlie deceaued ●…th fals doctrine therefore I say to you 〈◊〉 Paule the Apostle said to his brethren ●…he Pharisies as concerning the fleshe ●…ho were to zeaious for the mantenance their owne ryghteuosnes which they ●…ght they had by the workes of the law 〈◊〉 therefore vtterly spoyled them selues 〈◊〉 the ryghteousnes of God that came by Faith in Iesus Christe Thou preaches that a man should not steal and in the meane tyme thou robbist God of his glo rie If then ye wold that we should admit you to take the mote out of our Eiecast first out the balk that is in your own If ye wold that we should obey your admonitiōs let them bring forth some frute in your self or els ye are lyke to be repulsed with this sentence Pihsition haile thy self And althogh we do reiect you for iust causes principally for your intoxicat doc trine think not therefor that these Scriptures whereof your admonitions are taken