Demands to be propounded of Catholickes to the heretikes by Richard Bristow ... ; taken partly out of his late English booke of Motiues to the Catholicke faith, partely out of his printed Latin booke of the same matter.

The 41. Demaund. Studying all Truth.

VVETHER our Church, to keepe safely all Truth in man∣ner aforesayd: doe not diligent∣ly studdy all Truth: her Masters therefore, in their Bookes, and Schooles, teaching all Truth, & her scholers therfore learning all Truth: to defend (I say) all Truth of Christ, against all ene∣myes, against Painyms, against Iewes, and against all Heresyes? And whether Protestantes, on the contrary side, & but a few of thē (God wot) do study any more then a few questions of this tyme onely, and that so lightly, that they be afrayd to reason with common Catholickes: Being all rather occupyed about wyuing, and thriuing in the world, then

sincerely and learnedly to defend Religion. Or let them tell vs, why else our Countrey is so ful of Atheists, Achristes, and all kinds of most detestable heretikes? Aske them, whether in their vniuersi∣tyes they haue the whole course of Diuinity, within a certaine tearme of yeares, yea or in Anno Platonis (proceding as they do) all read ouer? Yea, whether their Students, or Doctours also, and Readers can tel you almost, what the course of diuinity meaneth? And againe aske them, who for christian study, and increase of godly knowledg foūded those v∣niuersityes, builded those Colle∣ges, and instituted those degrees of learning, whether our Church or theirs, and who hath authority to make Doctours of Diuinity? whether Kinges and Queens, or

only Bishops? And therefore, if our Church haue againe taken from them her graunt, and an∣nullated their degrees (as it a hath done) aske them, by what title they will clayme the same?

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  Bulla Pij 5. Anno 1564.