A retentiue, to stay good Christians, in true faith and religion, against the motiues of Richard Bristow Also a discouerie of the daungerous rocke of the popish Church, commended by Nicholas Sander D. of Diuinitie. Done by VVilliam Fulke Doctor of diuinitie, and Maister of Pembroke hall in Cambridge.

The 43. Motiue is parte of the 47. demaunde.

Communion of Saintes. Christendom shut out of England by Parliament. Councels. Sainct Paule might not write * 1.1 ad Anglos for the Pa••l••ament.

The Church of Englande is not so straythened or pinched within the lymites of one Kingdombut that * 1.2 she beleeueth and inioyeth the communion of all the Sainctes of God, as a member of the vniuersal church of Christe. And therefore I meruail what collour Bristowe hath for those slaunders: that one Christian man in Englande in spirituall affayres is a straunger to another, that generall Councels haue no authoritie in it, that Sainct Paule or all the Apostles if they were lyuing might not write to the Englishmen aswell as to the Romaines, Galathians, Corinthians &c. that Christe without the consente of the Kinge and the Parliament might not dispose his owne Church. These vaine and impossible suppositions, could not come but from a grosse and foolish inuention of one that lacketh argumentes to proue his cause. The lawes are made ac∣cording

to that which is, namely the trueth, set foorth in the holy Scriptures, not according to that which e∣uery foole will fondly suppose or imagine.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Pristow.
• * 1.2

  Fulke.