CHALLENGE.

DOe you see what your Church doth professe? See also, wee pray you, notwithstanding, what your owne Doctours are brought to c confesse (namely) first, that The Example of Christ and his Apostles is against this uttering those words in a lowe and in∣audible voice. Secondly, that The same Custome was controlled by the practice of the whole Church of Christ, both in the East part thereof (from the testimonies of ancient Liturgies, and Fathers) and in the ancient Romane Church, by the witnessing of two Popes; in whose time the People hearing the words of Consecration pronoun∣ced, did answere thereunto, AMEN. Thirdly, that the same In∣novation was much misliked by the Emperour Iustinian, who severely commanded by his Edict (as d you know) that The Priest should pronounce the words with a cleare voice, that they may be heard of the people. Whose authority you peremptorily contemne, as though it did not belong to an Emperour to make Lawes in this kind. But forasmuch as the King of Kings, and the High Priest of Priests, the Sonne of God, hath said of this, as of the other such Cir∣cumstances, [Doe this,] who are you, that you should dare to contradict this Injunction, by the practice of any Priest, saying and speaking (yet not as Christ did, vnto Them) but only to him∣selfe, without so much as any pretence of Reason, e which Page  19 might not likewise haue moued the ancient Church of Christ, both Greeke and Romane, to the same manner of Pronunciation? Where∣as the Catholike Church, notwithstanding, for many hundred yeares together, precisely observed the ordinance of Christ.