Tricoenivm Christi in nocte proditionis suæ The threefold svpper of Christ in the night that he vvas betrayed / explained by Edvvard Kellett.

PAR. 10.

I Come to the Iesuite Maldonate, and nearer to the point in hand: Magnâ nos Iohannes molestiâ, contentioneque liberâsset (saith he) si vel unum adjecisset verbum, quo, quis ille Iudaeorum dies fuisset Festus declarâsset, that is, Saint Iohn might have rid us of much trouble, and strife, if he had added but one word declarative, what that Feast day was: sawcily, boldly, malapertly written, Plus quàm pro censurâ, sa∣tis pro imperio, over-censorious, and imperiously enough. Will the Iesuite prescribe to the Almighty a better course then he hath taken? will he grudge if the divine Scripture hath left some points dubious, enveloped, and fit to be enquired after? will he taxe the holy writ of deficiency? when as Nature (which is nothing but the right hand of God) doth neither abound in superfluities, nor is wanting in ne∣cessaries? Or is it a molestation to dive into the harder places of the word of God?

or if it be a strife, is it not an holy strife, to overcome errour, to trace after the truth? The Iesuites impudency being reproved, I approach to the matter. I will not touch at all the Iewish feasts, either primary or secundary; but such onely as have Patrones, and defenders, that they are meant by these words,a 1.1 Ioh. 5.1. There was a Feast of the Iewes: you heard before the opinion of Cajetan, and Canus, see them excellently confuted by the learnedb 1.2 Pererius.

Notes

• a 1.1

  Ioh. 5.1.
• b 1.2

  Perer. disput. 1 in Ioh. 5.1.