An ansvvere to a Romish rime lately printed, and entituled, A proper new ballad wherein are contayned Catholike questions to the Protestant, the which ballad was put foorth without date or day, name of authour or printer, libell-like scattered and sent abroad, to withdraw the simple from the fayth of Christ, vnto the doctrine of Antichrist the pope of Rome / written by that Protestant Catholike, I.R.

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An ansvvere to a Romish rime lately printed, and entituled, A proper new ballad wherein are contayned Catholike questions to the Protestant, the which ballad was put foorth without date or day, name of authour or printer, libell-like scattered and sent abroad, to withdraw the simple from the fayth of Christ, vnto the doctrine of Antichrist the pope of Rome / written by that Protestant Catholike, I.R.
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Rhodes, John, fl. 1606.
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Imprinted at London :: By Simon Stafford dwelling in Hosier Lane, neere Smithfield,
1602.
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Anti-Catholicism -- England -- Poetry.
Ballads, English.
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"An ansvvere to a Romish rime lately printed, and entituled, A proper new ballad wherein are contayned Catholike questions to the Protestant, the which ballad was put foorth without date or day, name of authour or printer, libell-like scattered and sent abroad, to withdraw the simple from the fayth of Christ, vnto the doctrine of Antichrist the pope of Rome / written by that Protestant Catholike, I.R." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A10684.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.

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6 Of Succession.

The Papist proceedes.
ANd is not that the Church most true, [ 11] wherein succeeded still in viewe,* 1.1 Of Bishops some two hundred three, as thou in Histories mayest see? Saint Peter first, and then the rest, which haue the people taught and blest? Shew me this marke once amongst you, and I will say your faith is true. If not, it is the Church of Rome, that I will cleaue vnto for doome.
The Protestants answere.
FOR trueth, this your succession came from false Prophets euery one, From Balaams time vnto this day,* 1.2 with high Priests and such like alway, And holy Scripture doth describe the Pope with his condemned pride: And though you say he doth excell, yet he and you may burne in hell. Iohn in the Reuelation, writes of Romes desolation.

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