Tvvo treatises written against the papistes the one being an answere of the Christian Protestant to the proud challenge of a popish Catholicke: the other a confutation of the popish churches doctrine touching purgatory & prayers for the dead: by William Fulke Doctor in diuinitie.

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Tvvo treatises written against the papistes the one being an answere of the Christian Protestant to the proud challenge of a popish Catholicke: the other a confutation of the popish churches doctrine touching purgatory & prayers for the dead: by William Fulke Doctor in diuinitie.
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Fulke, William, 1538-1589.
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Imprinted at London :: By Thomas Vautrollier dwelling in the Blacke friers,
1577.
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Allen, William, 1532-1594. -- Defense and declaration of the Catholike Churches doctrine, touching purgatory, and prayers for the soules departed -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.
Rishton, Edward, 1550-1586.
Catholic Church -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.
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"Tvvo treatises written against the papistes the one being an answere of the Christian Protestant to the proud challenge of a popish Catholicke: the other a confutation of the popish churches doctrine touching purgatory & prayers for the dead: by William Fulke Doctor in diuinitie." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A01335.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.

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The 19. article hath but one demande.

Againe, if these, which by the common calling and iudgement of Christian people, be named and commonly taken for heretikes, haue not in all ages proued them selues in the ende to be heretikes in deede, notwithstanding their cra∣king of Gods worde, and therefore that the Protestants being so taken and called, proue not so in deede, I recant.

THose that by true Christians, haue bene called and counted for heretikes, haue proued so in deede, and therefore the Papistes, being called and counted he∣retikes of true Christians, without doubt, are here∣tikes in deede. But it hath not bene alwayes true, that they, which of the people commonly called Christians, were cal∣led and taken for heretikes, proued so in deede. For the true

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Christians of the Arrian people, that were called Christian people, were called and taken for heretikes, and in reproch, were called Homousians, and Athanasians, yet they proued and were in deede, true Christians and no heretikes. So the true Christians at this day, being of the Papistes, which after a sorte, are named Christians: called heretikes, and in re∣proch Protestants, and Caluinistes, in that their faith agreeth with the worde of God, proue them selues in deede, to be true Christians, & no heretikes. Therefore you haue bound your selfe to recant.

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