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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

on ather partie writinges giuē and taken we shalbe instructed by the holy Spirit what we our selues should beleue in so weightie a mater and what we oght to propone to others and set furth to trow For the thing that I trow and beleuis is teached by the holy Scriptures the holy doctors writings and consuetude of the Kirk The same I as it ap●…rteineth to euerie Christiane mā to do I professe simple and plainly with out any simulation Written at Edinburgh in the Palaice of the moste noble Quene of Scotland 18. calend of December Remember I pray you and prent in your myndes that in the last dayes the continuall and daylie Sacrifice is to be ●…aken away Lawes and statutes to be ●…brogat and changed and ye knowe by ●…home by the Antichrist they that ta●…th part with him take head to youre ●…elues my brethren I besech you God is ●…itnes of what mynde I deal with you D. Feargussones answer HOw the aforsaides are by vs weyed and considered let the indifferēt ●…ader iudge what zeil it is that hither●…o hath and yet stil doeth burne you I ●…aue already noted Ye ask of vs why we ●…eiect the masse which ye call the Chri●…tiane peoples Sacrifice we answer Be●…ause it is not that thing in deid whiche ●…e call it in worde as at lenth before I ●…aue prouen nether are ye able to proue 〈◊〉 Gods word that euer Christ appoin●…ed his ministers to offer the Sacramen●…all bread and wine in Sacrifice for their ●…wn sinnes and the sinnes of the people ●…swel dead as aliue Cry out and affirme ●…his mater with als many wordes as ye ●…st ye●… may ye not be beleued vntill ye ●…roue it by the Scriptures other Sacri●…ces then Gods worde teacheth vs we may not with saif consciēce admit except we wilfully prouoke God to punish and consume vs in his wrath as he did Nadab and Abihu and vterlie reiect vs as he did Saule S. Paule writing to the Romans exhorteth vs to giue vp our bo dies a lyning Sacrifice holy and acceptable vnto God which he affirmeth to be our reasonable seruing of God The Apostle writing to the Hebreues also exhorteth vs to offer the Sacrifice of thankes geuinge alwayes to God through Christe which he sayeth is the frute of our lippes which confesse his name willing vs also not to forget to do good and to distribute he meaneth our substance to them that ●…edeth for sayeth he with suche Sacrifices God is pleased other Sacrifices appertening to Christiane people we knowe none commanded in the new Testament Ye boste much of Moyses of the Law of nature the Prophetes the Euangel but out of none of thē bring ye any prufe for your purpose Ye affirme that your masse wes authorised in the Primatiue Church and alwayes vsed of Gods chosen and yet ye infer none of their excersices for your exemple but the bare names of two men whose autoritie and strenth is to weak to withstand Gods worde As to Dionisius Areopagita I will set his master S. Paule against him writing to the Corinthians who hauing occasiō to treat of the veritie of the Lordes Supper abused in that Churche rehearseth the wordes of Christes institution which of him he had receaued faithfully without adding to or diminishing which wordes and whole action there by him recyted how lyke they are to your mischeuous masse I make your self iudge Then whi ther ●…ght we to creadit the Elect veshell of God S. Paule that spak not his own wordes but Christes or to Dionisse that hath added vnto them if it be treu that ye alledge on him iudge also Ye wil neuer be able to proue that that Dionisse of whō ye mean wes that Dionisius Areopagita that beleued Paules doctrine in the Actes of the Apostoles ād althogh it were yet is he of no suche authoritie as an Angel of heauen whome yet we are forbidden to creadit teachīg any other doctrine then Paule hath taught but rather to hold him accursed But that euer Paule taught ather to Timothie Titus or any other Minister that he did appoynte ouer any Churche the merualus craft of massing the Scripture maketh no mention Acursed therefore be the teachers of it as the Apostle hath commanded vs to hold them As to Ignatius and the rest of your holy Fathers I haue spoken my iudgement of them already that is that I nether contempne them nor builde my Faith vpon them seing that they were but men and so might be deceaued and also deceaue others As to your requeist wherein ye exhort vs to follow them obsolutlie in exponing the Scriptures it is more then any Christiane may admit seing that we may follow no man further then they follow Christe nether in this case cal any man Father or Master vpon earth hauing one Father the Eternall God and one Master Christe Iesus in the heauen yea and althogh that Paule wes the Elect and moste worthy veshell to bear the name of Christe to Nations Kinges and the Childrene of Israell and taught of God in the thride Heauen the moste wonderfull and vnspeakable Mysteries of God yet durst he not be so bolde as precisly to desyre men to follow him no but euer rebuked their depending vpon men moste seuerely exhorting them to follow him as he followed Christ affirming that nether he that plan●…ed nor he that watereth is any thing but God that giueth the incres is all in all c. Moreouer the Lord by his Propher accur seth all suche as dependeth vpon men in these wordes Cursed be the man that trusteth in man and maketh fleshe his arme and withdraueth his hart from the Lorde These and the lyke cōminations will not suffer vs to trust in mā or make him the Paterne of our saluation lest we be accursed of God As to the ●…nggishnes of your Pastors we leaue them to be stirred vp of you as ye think good for in our iudgements they are so fast a slepe that they can not be walkned so vnsauere that they can not be salted so blind that they can not be lyghtned we haue therefore long ago determined by the worde of God to giue none of our holy thinges to your dogges nor cast any mo of our pretious Pearles before your filthy Swyne Lift vp your voce cry als loude as eue●… ye can yet shal it come to pas that when Baal heareth his Chaplanes and sendeth them Fyre to consume their Sacrifice that then your ignorant Idole Bishopes who for the moste part knoweth nether new nor old shall preache the Euangel yea your holy Father S. Frances shall als sone make good Christianes of the fou les that he preached to as that ye beig an Idolater shal cause an ignorant Idole to do the deutie of a paineful Pastor There did neuer one of them enter in as the dure of the shepefolde but clam vp another ●…ay

Ane answer to ane Epistle written by Renat Benedict the Frenche Doctor professor of Gods worde as the translater of this Epistle calleth him to John 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 Psalme 8. Out of the mouth of babis and sucklinges haste thou ordeyned strength because of thine enimies that thou mightest still the enimie and the auenger Imprinted at Edinburgh by Robert Lekpreuik Cum priuilegio 1563. The Prenter to the Reader AS that it wes long after this Epistle wes written and tranflated before it came to his handes that answered it So wes it long after it wes answered before it came to my handes to prent when therefore good Reader thou shal se so much tyme pas ouer betuix the trāslating and answering and betuix the answering and prenting impute it nether to his negligence that gladely wold haue answered it soner if it had comen to his handes or yet to myne that als gladely wold haue prented it but rather take in good worth bothe our laboures taken to thy confort whosoeuer thou be that readeth it to purge thy hart from error imbraice the treuth and beleue it to the glorie of God and thy Saluation in Christe Iesus to whose protectiō I cōmit the now and euer The Preface Dauid Feargussone vnto the Reader wisheth grace mercy and peace from God the Father and from our Lord Iesus Christ with y t spirit of righteous iudgement I Haue not interprised beloued brethrē in Christ Iesus to answer this Epistle as one more able so to do then the rest of my fellowes in office but rather driuen thereunto by the vncessant requeist of some zealous and godlie persones who broght it to my hādes for that purpose after that it had bene caried as a matter of great importance from one place to an other so at length translated by an certane Freir out of latine into Inglish in fauor of suche perso●…es as he thereby wold gratifie it wes ●…reatlie bosted of partlie therefore to sa●…ffie the reasonable requeist of the afore●…aid persones and also to stop the mouth of the aduersarie frome further braging but chiefly for the discharge of my conscience in the office whereunto God hath called me I haue occupyed my pen in answering as after followeth And althogh this pithles Epistle haue lytle or no strength to deceaue any that haue but meanly teasted of the treuth yet because it may be a peice of help to hold them stil in error that are as yet within it in my iudgement it wold not be past ouer in silence nether do I know whither any man hath vnto this hour answered it or not For asmuch as I se it a thing which all learned men will not onely laugh at and so contempe it as not worthy of answer but also iudge it suche a mater as they will spend no tyme vpon seinge that they may be better occupyed nor to āswer a foole accordig to his folie but list he est came him self wise in his owne cōceite I haue thoght good to write sumwhat in this mater vnto the which writing I haue added my name nor for vain ●…lorie God knowes but to this end one li●… that when the Reader shal find the reules of Rethorick transgressed and ornate Eloquence omitted no man be blamed but I allone moreouer if it shal hap pen that I be sumwhates longer then ye wold wishe werie not yet I beseche you to reid it to the end for certanely as I suppose no man is able fully to answer this ordorles confused Chaos without many wordes To the end therefor that ye may the better vnderstande the mater because this mans letter kepeth no certane ordor so far as the confusione of it will suffer I haue deuided it and that in four Sectionis first writing his wordes faithfully as they are translated and thereafter my answer Fair well deare brethren in Christe Iesus our onely confort and iudge with equitie Heir followeth Renats Epistle the first Section THE loue of Christ most cūing mē no small desyre of Saluation vnto you all con trinis me to warne and pray you frome the bottome of my hart that ye intruse not nor bring not in an strange doctrine and vncouth in the Church of God Aliene and inpertinent after the iudgemēt of all wise and good men to Gods word consuetude thereof ather for the fauoure of the people or for naine and trāsitorie glorie that is that ather ye may be estemed the more wise and cūning of some and receaued as they say in bothe their armes or els that ye may thereby get and gather to your selues riches What tempt ye I pray you to do what is I beseche you in Christ Iesu this your beginning loke I pray you how great is this your boldnes to professe a new doctrine against the antiquitie consent and vniuersalitie of Religion without any plaine testimonies or auctorities of holy Scripture or of Christiane Authores ancient and tryed in learning and godlines D. Feargussones answer IT wold appear at the first sight to i●… of small iudgement and learning that the cause that hes moued you to write were verray godly and charitable Forasmuch as ye say that the loue of Christe and the saluation of vs all hes contrined you thereto but when the mater is tried with treuth the contrarie will sone appear It will please you therefore to giue vs leaue a lytle to try what kinde of loue this is that hath moued you and what frute it bringeth furth and then I truste bothe ye and vthers if ye haue eyes to se shal easylie perceaue this loue to be preposterus and carnall I will say no wors til I haue better oportunitie and list that ye should think that we deale to austeirlie with you at the first I wold ye vnderstude that the Spirit of our God hath c●… manded vs in his Scriptures verray stratelie to be war of deceauers and not to harken to fals Prophets but rather to try the Spirites whither they be of God or not yea and suppose the Prophet shew a wonder or a myrackle if his doctrine be fals we are forbidden to credeit him If then we aught not to beleue him to be of God that workes mirackles If his doctrine persuade vs to Idolatrie how much les oght we to beleue that this is the trew loue of God that moueth you to write when as your doctrine and admonition tendis to nothing els through out this Epistle but to draw vs from the trew worshipping of oure God in Spirit and veritie to serue him according to manns inuention by Idoles and Idolatrie And althogh that I wold grant vnto you that this your loue were euen to Christ god ward without any hipocrysie yet I dar boldly say that it is als preposterous as Peters loue

the Prence and Patriarck and people of Cōstantinopol celebrated a latine masse●… all that were present for the tyme allowing it so easylie are men deceaued this long to wit 681. yeare wes the Churche without this Sacrifice which yet differed far from it that wes in our dayes for it wes almost 7. hundreth yeares after this or euer the people were commanded to worship it for that wes done by Honorious the 3 who wes Pope the yeare from our Redemption 1216. thereafter when it wes worshipped as a God the Deuil did find the meanes that this new Idole shoulde be caryed Solempnitlie throughout all tounes vpon a peculyar day dedicat to that Histrionicall gyse cal 〈◊〉 Corpuschristies day The īstruments ●…t the Deuill vseth to this labour were ●…banus Pope of Rome the 4. of that ●…e and a certane Religious woman ●…d Eua and it came to pas as ye shal 〈◊〉 The aforesaid Urbanus Pope in ●…ear from our Redemption 1261. had 〈◊〉 aforesaid supersticious Eua in fami●… acquentance ▪ before he came to the ●…tes saite who feinzeed her self to haue ●…a reuelation from heauen cōcerning ●…edication of a Festual day ●…o the Po 〈◊〉 God of bread in the masse the maner 〈◊〉 Circumstances of this reuelation she 〈◊〉 to Urbanꝰ at length desyring him ●…rforme her vision which he did with ●…elay cōfirming it with a Bul which ●…enth I omit The Churche wes a ●…sand two hundreth thre scoir and one 〈◊〉 without this Idolatrous gyse this ●…yte and muche more could out of ●…own Histories if it were not ouer ●…some to shew that all their braging ●…tiquitie is nothing els but●… fals for●…lies Their corrupted knauerie peice 〈◊〉 peice crope into the Churche by the 〈◊〉 of Sathan their Father who ●…urste not shew him self at ones list he shoulde haue bene knowen and so resisted But rather transfiguring him self in an Angel of light as the slacknes of Pastors begouth to incres wroght spedylie as a bissie Bishop vnder their handes til at length he had fully broght to pas the whole misterie of his iniquitie which the Apostle affirmeth to haue bene a working in his dayes But what nedeth Circumloquution when few wordes directlie spoken may spedily end this stryfe What if I should say with Ambrose Quicquid non ab Apostolis traditū est Sceleribus plenū est that is whatsoeuer is not giuen vnto vs by the Apostles is full of iniquitie or as he sayeth in an vther place Nos nou●… omnia que Christus non docuit iure damnamus quia fidelibus via Christus est Siigitur Christus non docuit quod docemus●… etiam nos id detestabile iudicamus that is we iustlie damp all new thinges that Christe hath not taught because Christe is the way to the faithfull If therefore Christ hath not taught that thing which we teache yea euen we our selues do iudge it detestable First therefore because your ●…se wes neuer giuen nor ordeined vnto vs by the Apostles I with Ambrose affirme it to be 〈◊〉 of iniquitie Secondly because it is a 〈◊〉 doctrine which Christ neuer taught ●…stly damp it that Christ neuer taught 〈◊〉 subsequentes s●…al declare where ●…euer Christe or any of his Apostles ●…o a man when they Elected and ad●…ed him to the ministerie of the church ●…pe potestatem celebrandi vel sacrificandi ●…iuis et mortuis as your Idole Bis●…s sayeth to you their shawelinges ●…n ye receaue the beastes marke with ●…er to by and sell the marchandrise of 〈◊〉 great hoore of Babilon These word●…ey say whē the Chalice is giuen you ●…ther with the Paiene the bread and ●…ine take thou authoritie or power ●…lebrate or say masse for the quick and ●…ead yea so heighly are these wordes ●…ed of your Doctors that if the Bis●… omit the saying of them for his part ●…e prosering of the aforesaid thinges ●…he that is to be ordeined omit the ●…hing of the thinges profered that all ●…r noght where commanded Christe ●…t ye should deuore all alone standing ●…n alter with your back to the p●…ple ●…ere are ye cōmanded to lift the bread your heades that the people may commit Idolatrie with it Where are ye cōmanded to dissagyse your selues lyke players or fooles with shauē crownes long wide sarkes aboue your clothing and shorte peies lyke cotes of Armoure aboue all ▪ Where are ye cōmanded at the ministra●…i on of the Sacrament some tymes to i●…ke and some tymes to nod to slepe a while and walk another now to cry out with a loud voice and thē to quhisper that you●… taill may not hear you to put bothe your handes to your eares and then to streiche them out as the Daw doeth whē she raxeth her in the morning Why speak ye in a strange langage contrar to the mynde o●… the holy Ghoste that the people vnderstandeth not when ye haue told me who learned you these iugling castes thē will I assay what reckening ye can giue of the rest Fynally I wold ask at you if the thre thousand persones that Peter by the word of God conuerted of whom we read in the Second Chapiter of the Actes were of the Church of God or not ye dar not deny but that they were of the Church If then the masse be the wonted Sacrifice of holy Church as ye wolde make men beleue I wonder that they ●…itted it For the holy Ghoste for our ●…rning by the ●…en of Lucas hath moste ●…gentlie registrat their excercise which ●…at after they had receaued the word 〈◊〉 were baptised continued in the Apo●… doctrine sele wship breakig of bread ●…yers to be shorte get me one word ●…tion of a Sacrifice offered for sinnes 〈◊〉 the death of Christ in all the Actes ●…he Apostles or in any part of the new ●…ament by Gods people and I will ●…t your argument trew but vnto the ●…e that ye proue your arguments out 〈◊〉 word of god ye must apardone me 〈◊〉 can not beleue you no not suppose ●…ere ane Angel as ye are but a man 〈◊〉 to your generall Counsels my faith ●…ot builded vpon them nether am I ●…nd to beleue one iote of them further ●…hey aggre with Gods word for they ●…beleueth or taketh any counsel but of 〈◊〉 hath an extreme wo pronounced ●…nst them by the Spirit of God in ●…e wordes Wo to the rebellions chil●… sayeth the Lord that take counsel 〈◊〉 not of me and couer with a couering 〈◊〉 not by my Spirit that they may lay sinne vpon sinne And in few wordes except these foure to wit the first Counsell Nicen holden against Arrius and gathered by the Empreoure Constantine and by no Pope for many hundreth yeares after the Bishopes of Rome were but Prechers of the word of God hauing no further dominion then their own diosies did streich The nixt general Coūsel wes gathered by the Empreoure Graciane against the Herisie of Macidonins and

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