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.
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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.
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Bristow, Richard, 1538-1581.
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[S.l.] :: For Iohn Heigham,
1623.
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Catholic Church -- Apologetic works.
Heretics, Christian.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16910.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 12, 2024.
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The 46. Demaund. Our Auncestors saued.
THEN whether al this while that they cōfesse our church to haue bene, at least 12 hundred yeeres, they will say, that all our and their fathers & mothers grād fathers and grandmothers, and other Anncestors, Kinsefolke & Countreimen, and all others that haue gonne so long for Christian men,
* 1.1 are all dāned in Hell? yea, whether Caluine him selfe do not confesse the contrarie, that our Church (I say) serued well the turne all this while to saue men from Hell, and to bringe men to Heauen? Aske them then, why it cannot serue still that turne as wel? Or if they say, that ignorāce afore did excuse, & now (because of their preaching) it cannot aske
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them, why they do confesse that S. Augustine and such like, are of all most surely saued, who yet had not this ignorance, but knew right well their new doctrine (as in Aerius, Iouinianus, Vigilanti∣us, &c) and condēned it for most wicked Heresie? And therefore whether it be not wisdome for al men to hold thē still in our chuch or to returne againe vnto it?