A replie to Iesuit Fishers answere to certain questions propou[n]ded by his most gratious Matie: King Iames By Francis White D: of Div· deane of Carlile, chaplaine to his Matie. Hereunto is annexed, a conference of the right: R:B: of St Dauids wth the same Iesuit*
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A replie to Iesuit Fishers answere to certain questions propou[n]ded by his most gratious Matie: King Iames By Francis White D: of Div· deane of Carlile, chaplaine to his Matie. Hereunto is annexed, a conference of the right: R:B: of St Dauids wth the same Iesuit*
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White, Francis, 1564?-1638.
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London :: Printed by Adam Islip,
1624.
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Fisher, John, 1569-1641 -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.
Church of England -- Apologetic works -- Early works to 1800.
Catholic Church -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.
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"A replie to Iesuit Fishers answere to certain questions propou[n]ded by his most gratious Matie: King Iames By Francis White D: of Div· deane of Carlile, chaplaine to his Matie. Hereunto is annexed, a conference of the right: R:B: of St Dauids wth the same Iesuit*." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A15082.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 3, 2024.
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ANSWER.
Wee affirme with great confidence, both that the reading of holy Scripture by Lay people (which must needes imply Translation of them) is a Diuine Ordinance, and that Image worship was neither warranted by the Apostles, nor practised by the Primatiue Church succeeding the Apostles.
Neither doe wee alledge onely those Sentences of holy Scripture, Iohn 5. 39. Collos. 3. 16. which the Iesuit thinkes himselfe able to elude by subtile distinctions, as the Arrians [ E] in times past eluded the Text of Saint Iohn, Cap. 10.30. But we cite also the Precept of God giuen to the Church, before Christ his comming, and the perpetuall practise of the god∣ly, in the Old and New Testament, and the vehement exhor∣tations
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of the Primatiue Fathers, exhorting Lay people to the [ A] reading and meditation of holy Scripture, and magnifying the fruit and benefit arising from thence. The Eunuch is com∣mended for reading holy Scripture, Acts 8. 28. The Baereans are called Noble, by the holy Ghost, for searching the holy Scriptures, Acts 17. 11. Hee is called Blessed which readeth and heareth, Apoc. 1. 3. The Galathians read the Scripture, Gal. 4.21. The Ephesians, Cap. 3.4. The Collossians, Cap. 4. 16. The Thessalonians, 1. Thes. 5.27. The Fathers are so plen∣tifull in this Argument, as I haue elsewhere shewed a 1.1, that it would astonish any man who hath read them b 1.2 [ C] , to behold such [ B] impudencie in Papists, as to denie this Practise to haue beene Primatiue and Catholicke. But necessitie hath no Law, for if the Scriptures may be suffered to speake, Papistrie must fall, like Dagon before the Arke.