A confutation of a popishe, and sclaunderous libelle in forme of an apologie: geuen out into the courte, and spread abrode in diuerse other places of the realme. VVritten by VVilliam Fulke, Bacheler in Diuinitie, and felowe of S. Ihons Colledge in Cambridge.

The aunswere.

Firste, it it is a sporte to see, howe to make a shewe of a greate multitude of di∣shes, and to fill vp the noumber of tenne, you diuide one matter into fower quar∣ters, whiche is of the cōmunitie of al thin∣ges, that was in the primitiue Churche, whiche should haue been serued all in one mease, but for fashiōs fake. That thei had all thynges common, one while in Hieru∣salem, it is very true, but that thei had so alwaies, and in all places, it is most false, for saincte Paule exhorteth the Corinthi∣ans, to giue almose to the poore liberally. j. Cor. xvj, and he willeth Timothe, that he charge thē that be riche, in this worlde, to be ready to distribute vnto y^t necessitie of their brethren. j. Timoth. vj. which ne∣ded not all, if all thynges had been com∣mon. This was therefore a variable or∣der, and constitution, whiche continued but a shorte tyme, neither was it profita∣ble, but onely then, when the noumber of the disciples was but small, in compari∣son, and liued all in one place at Hierusalē.