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

8 Or how if it had liked any man to haue ben baptized of them, or to haue receiued the communion of them, or to haue bene married of them, or to haue ioyned them selues in Fayth and Religion to them, how might I say that secret, contemptible, and vnknowne company, be founde in this case?

HE must haue sought them out as well as he could, & if he had bene perswaded, that they onely ministred the Sacraments, & Ecclesiasticall rites, sincerely, ac∣cording to the word of God, it were no great mat∣ter for him to find them, seing he knew by whom he was so perswaded, and of them might also be informed where he should haue them. I maruell you are not ashamed to demaūd these questions, as though it were materiall to discusse, whe∣ther of vs hath the Church, to haue the Church so manifest,

that euery man may see it. Doe you not remember how ma∣ny schismes haue bene euen in the popish church, more thē twenty, and sometime two Popes at once, sometime three, & sometime fower, which of them should a simple Papist take for head of the Church, especially in the 22. schisme, which lasted 39. yeares: one Pope sitting at Rome, an other at A∣uinion, either hauing his court, either hauing and making Cardinals, either cursing other. Or in the 23. schisme, when the question was of one of the highest pointes in all popery, and is not yet throughly decided among them: Whether the Pope be aboue the Councell, or the Councell aboue the Pope. In the time of these schismes how might a man haue founde out, which was the true Church, which was Christes vicare in earth, which had the right Sacraments and Sacra∣mentalls, to which Popes court should he appeale, where did the principall Pastors sit in iudgement, &c. How should coun∣cells be gathered, which Pope shoulde confirme their actes, &c, When you are able to aunswere these questions, for your owne church, then you may better require them of ours. As for that secrete, contemptible, and vnknowne company of our Church, in the sight of the world, was neuerthelesse ma∣nifest, glorious, and knowen to our Sauiour Christ, and the liuely members of his body.