An ansvver of a true Christian to the proude challenge of a counterset Catholike. By VVilliam Fulke Doctor in diuinitie

1 I aske of them whether the Lutherans, Zuinglians, Illirians, Caluenistes, Confessionistes, Swenkefeldians, Anabaptistes and such like, be all of one Church?

BEcause you would make simple men beleue, that there be so many diuerse sectes of Protestantes, as you haue giuen them names, I will first discusse these sectes, and afterwarde aunswere your question. Lutherans, you meane them that follow Luthers opinion of the Sacrament. Zuinglians, follow Caluines iudgement of the same. Confessi∣onistes, them that exhibited their confession at Auspurge, which were both the Lutherans and Zuinglians, so these 3. names may be contracted into two: Lutherans and Zuingli∣ans. As for Illyrians, if you call them of Flaccius Illyricus, they be Lutherans, in opinion of the Sacrament, and differ onely in ceremonies, which can not diuide them from the faith. Caluine, and they that be of his iudgement, agree plainly with Zuinglius, so that of fiue names, there remaine but two sortes differing in opinion, whereunto you ioyne the Swenkefeldi∣ans and Anabaptistes. Now to your question, these be not all of one Church, for y^e Swenkefeldians & Anabaptists be dete∣stable heretiks, but y^e Lutherans & Zuingliās (as it pleaseth you to cal thē) are of one true church, although they differ in one opinion, cōcerning y^e Sacramēt, for although the one affirme a real presence, y^e other deny it, yet they both cōsent in this, that y^e body of Christ, is receiued spiritually, not corporally, with the hart, and not with the mouth. Wherfore, this dissen∣tion is not so great (though there be error on the one side) but that they may be both of the Church of Christ, as well as S. Cyprian, the Martyr, and all the Bishops of Africa, and a

great many of Asia, differing with Stephanus, bishop of Rome, and the rest of his opinion in rebaptizing such as were bapti∣zed by heretiks.