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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16910	Demands to be propounded of Catholickes to the heretikes by Richard Bristow ... ; taken partly out of his late English booke of Motiues to the Catholicke faith, partely out of his printed Latin booke of the same matter.	Bristow, Richard, 1538-1581.	1623 (1623)	STC 3801.5; ESTC S1528	47,404	192

their Seruice or any wher els any thing to be commended but they haue like Apes taken it of vs by imitatiō as may bee seene in their Communion booke comparing it with our Masse book in their spiritual Courtes Visitations Conuocations Councels Excommunications Burning of Heretikes Depriuations Degradations c. Aud therfore aske them how that can be the true Church which so must and so doth imitate or that the false Church which so is imitated and so worthy to be imitated The 24. Demand Priesthood ALSO whether they be content to trie Religion by the Priesthood that not onely these later hundreds of yeares but also from the beginning hath serued in the foresaide churches of Christendome As whether S. Hierome S. Augustine S. Cyprian S. Ireneus or any other were made Bishop or Prieste by a King or Queene and not by Bishops and Priestes Or whether it be not expressely written in many a Tim. 4. d 14. 5. d 22 Tit. 1. b 5 places of the new Testament that Bishops and Priestes should be and also were made by Bishops and Priestes And as the most aūcient priests of Christendome were made by such so againe whether they were not made b Hie. l. 14. in Ezec. 45 Paulin. ep 4. ad Amand. c. Cyp ep 66. to offer Sacrifice yea also c Ang. cō fess● 9. c. 14. for the dead And whether therfore there were not besides Priestes and Deacons which they seeme to retaine euen in the first Churches I say also d Eus l. 6. c. 35. Subdeacōs Acolytes Exorcistes Lectors Ostiaries or Dore-keapers all which they haue plainely laide away Whether these orders were not I say e Cyp. ep 66. in respect of a Sacrifice and there vpon so distinguished that although they might all be with in the Chauncell which the Lay people were he the King or Emperour f Theod. l. 5. c. 17. Soz. l. 7. c. 24. might not yet some of thē might g Dion Ec. Dion c. 3. p. 2. ep 8. ad Demoph not come at the Altar others might and there h Hier. in Ezec. 45.48 some able to doe lesse others able to doe more Let them say whether they finde not all this in Antiquitie yea and that it was thē so obserued much more straightly then we obserue it now and therefore wher as our obseruatiō plainly sheweth that we beleue a Sacrifice and also whom we beleeue to be there sacrificed so whether the more obseruation of the same in Antiquitie be not a plainer demostrantion that they also then beleeued the same And whether this be not so euident that they also to proue Christ to be GOD i Eus de laud. Const pag. 384. Cyp. Test l. 1. c. 16. Chry. to 5. Con. Iud. or 2 co 942. obiected this their Priesthood and Sacrifice to the Iewes Painims shewing vnto them that wheras then both in Herusalem and in all Nations both the Iudaical also pagane Sacrifices had giuen and daily did giue place to this Sacrifice that the same I say was euen so promised and foretolde by the Prophets k Mal. 1. c. 11. of the old testament And therfore aske thē againe whether by all this it be not euident that they haue changed the priesthood of the new Testament both because they are made by the Prince and because they are not made for the Altare or to offer Sacrifice As it is also euident onely by this that they go about to change the name of Priestes For as the Apostles bringing into the wolde a new Order changed the olde names of the Iewes and Gentiles to witte Pontifex and Sacerdos for which we haue no English and said for them Episcopus and Presbyter whereof are deriued our English names Bishop and Prieste so who seeth not that the Heretikes changing again those Apostolike names into Superintendent and Elder doe manifestly bewray them selues that they haue also changed the Apostolike Order And that wee who are found still to haue reteined the Apostolike names haue therefore neuer gone aboute to change the Apostolike Order In so much that wheras we as they know accompte their Orders no Orders yet they accepte our Orders for true Orders and hauing bene Ordered by vs seeke not to be reordered as may be noted in Parker Grindall Sandes Horne and many moe that are Priestes of the Catholicke making And herevpō may al men note how it is that wheras aforetime Heresies haue troubled the world vnder the name of christiās these men haue brought in not so properly an Heresie but as it may rather be called an Apostasie from almost all the Law of Christ For as Sainte Paule saieth Vpon the changing of Sacerdotium Heb. 7. c. 12. that is to saye Orders or Peiesthoode there must needes folow changing of the Law bycause the Law runneth so much vpō the Priests as is to be noted both in Moyses Iudaicall law also in our Catholike Christiā law which one thing I would to God they wold quietly sadly and with the feare of God consider that they I say go about to do against Christ and his law as much almost as the Turke if he should come would do and where he cometh doth The 25. Demaund Monkes THEN whether they be content Eus hist l. 2. c. 15.16 that the matter be tried betweene vs by the Religion of the Monkes Nunnes Ermites Anchoretes Soz. l. 1. c. 12.13.14 l. 3 c. 12.13.15 l. 6. c. 15.17.28 and other such like persons in state of perfection that were in those first tymes of the church of Christ Yea whether it be not a plaine confounding of them and their doings to heare that then also as euer sithens Aug. de moribusec cat c. 31 de vn Ec. c. 14. there were such persons in the church of Christ specially to see that a Eus de lau Const p. 385. christian writers haue against the Painimes made of thē for their straight life and great numbers an argument to proue Christes diuinity The 26. Demaund Fathers VVETHER they will be tryed by the fayth and Religion of the ancient Fathers Or whether euer any refused to be so tryed but onely Heretikes Or whether the Fathers Faith and Religion were not the faith and Religion of all the church in their seuerall tymes Or whether the Fathers were not all of one faith of one church and of one religion Or whether these besides many moe be not good causes for christian men to beleeue the Fathers in so much that the Protestantes themselues thinke it good and necessary to make a shew of the fathers in their books and sermons vnto the people But yet let them say in conscience whether they were not al of our church and of our religion Or els why do they put vs to defend their authority Why do they in writing and speaking as most men know so derogate frō their credite yea let them say whether they were not all