The third part of the Defence of the Reformed Catholike against Doct. Bishops Second part of the Reformation of a Catholike, as the same was first guilefully published vnder that name, conteining only a large and most malicious preface to the reader, and an answer to M. Perkins his aduertisement to Romane Catholicks, &c. Whereunto is added an aduertisement for the time concerning the said Doct. Bishops reproofe, lately published against a little piece of the answer to his epistle to the King, with an answer to some few exceptions taken against the same, by M. T. Higgons latley become a proselyte of the Church of Rome. By R. Abbot Doctor of Diuinitie.

10. W. BISHOP.

6. Concerning Christs resurrection, they doe also erre. For whereas a resurrection is the rising vp of the very same body that died, with all his naturall parts: they denie Christ to haue taken againe the same bloud, which he shed in his passion; * 1.1 and yet is the bloud one notable part of the body. Caluin also affir∣meth it to be an old wiues dreame, to thinke that in Christs hands and feete there remaine the print of nailes, and the wound in his side, notwithstanding that Christ shewed them to his Disciples, and offered them to bee touched of Saint Tho∣mas.

7. About Christs ascension into heauen, they doe some∣what dissent from the truth. For some of them say, that Christs body did not pearce through the heauens by vertue of a glorious body (lest they should thereby be compelled to grant, that two naturall bodies may be together in one place, and therefore as well one true body in two places at once) but that broad gappes were made in the lower heauens, to make him way to the highest, which is very ridiculous, and more against true Philosophy:

they say also, * 1.2 that he was not the first man that entred into the possession of heauen; which is flat against the Scriptures, that call Christ the first fruits and first begotten of the dead. Thirdly, they locke Christ so closely vp in heauen, that they hold it impos∣sible for him to remooue thence at any time before the last iudge∣ment (for feare they should otherwise be inforced to confesse, that his body may be in two places at once) which is to make him not Lord of the place, but some poore prisoner therein. And as for Christs sitting one the right hand of his Father, they are not yet agreed what it signifieth. See Conrad. * 1.3 Caluin plainely saith, that after the latter iudgement hee shall sit there no longer. That God shall then render to euery man accor∣ding to his workes (as holy Scripture very often doth testifie) all the packe of them doth vtterly denie.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Cal. in 27. Math. Perkins pag. 194. In. ca. 24. Lucae,
• * 1.2

  1 Cor. 15. vers. 21. Coll. 1.18. Beza. inc. 2. Actorum L. 1. ar. 25. de concor. Calui∣nist.
• * 1.3

  L. 2. Insti. c. 14 ss. 3.