T. Stapleton and Martiall (two popish heretikes) confuted, and of their particular heresies detected. By D. Fulke, Master of Pembrooke hall in Cambridge. Done and directed to all those that loue the truth, and hate superstitious vanities. Seene and allowed
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T. Stapleton and Martiall (two popish heretikes) confuted, and of their particular heresies detected. By D. Fulke, Master of Pembrooke hall in Cambridge. Done and directed to all those that loue the truth, and hate superstitious vanities. Seene and allowed
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Fulke, William, 1538-1589.
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At London :: Printed by Henrie Middleton for George Bishop,
Anno. 1580.
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Stapleton, Thomas, 1535-1598. -- Fortresse of the faith first planted.
Martiall, John, 1534-1597. -- Replie to M. Calfhills blasphemous answer made against the Treatise of the Crosse.
Catholic Church -- Controversial literature.
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"T. Stapleton and Martiall (two popish heretikes) confuted, and of their particular heresies detected. By D. Fulke, Master of Pembrooke hall in Cambridge. Done and directed to all those that loue the truth, and hate superstitious vanities. Seene and allowed." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A01333.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 9, 2024.
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CAP. I.
AN introduction, declaring the necessitie of the matter to
be treated vpon, and the order which the auothour wil take
in treating thereof.
OMitting the necessitie of the mater, his order
which he promiseth to keepe is this. First he wil
proue, if he can, that Papistrie is the only true Christi∣anitie.
This proposition he will followe by two prin∣cipall
partes. In the former he will proue by autho∣rity
of Scriptures, and answering of the aduersaries ob∣iections,
that the Church cannot possibly erre. Second∣ly
that this Church must be a knowne Church, that
no malignant Church can preuaile against it: that Pa∣pistrie
can be no schisme nor heresie. In the latter part
after a fewe reasonable demandes that protestantes
must not refuse to answere, putting the case that the
knowne Church of 900. yeares is a kinde of papistry,
he will proue that the faith of protestants is differing
from that was first planted among Englishe men in
more then fortie pointes, and that in all those pointes
of difference, he wil shew they agree with the first 600.
yeares, which he saith (but falsely) that protestants of∣fer
to be tried by. For although the Bishop of Sarum
made challenge of many articles nowe holden of the
Papistes, not to be founde within the compasse of the
first 600. yeares, and therefore to be newe and false
doctrines, yet neither he, nor any protestant liuing,
or dead, did euer agree to receiue what doctrine so e∣uer
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was taught within the first sixe hundreth yeares.
But this I dare avowe, that what article of doctrine so
euer we do affirme, that same hath bene affirmed of the
godly fathers of the primitiue Church, what so euer
we denie, the same can not be proued to haue ben vni∣uersally
affirmed and receiued of all the godly fathers
by the space of the 600. yeares together.