Ane answer to one Epistle written by Renat Benedict, the French Doctor, professor of God's word (as the translator of this Epistle calleth him) to John Knox and the rest of his brethren ministers of the word of God: made by David Feargussone minister of the same word at this present in Dumfermling.  Psalm. 8. 
Out of the mouth of babis and sucklings haste thou ordained strength, because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.  
Imprinted at Edinburgh, by Robert Lekprevik.  
Cum privilegio. 1563.   

The Prenter to the Reader.  
AS that it was long after this Epistle was written and tranflated, before it came to his hands that answered it. So was it long after it was answered before it came to my hands to hunt, when therefore (good Reader) thou shall see so much time pass over betuix the translating and answering, and betuix the answering and prenting: impute it neither to his negligence that gladly would have answered it sooner if it had comen to his hands, or yet to mine, that als gladly would have printed it, but rather take in good worth both our labours, taken to thy comfort, whosoever thou be that readeth it, to purge thy heart from error, imbraice the truth and believe it to the glory of God and thy Salvation, in Christ jesus, to whose protection I commit thee, now and ever.   

The Preface.  
David Feargussone unto the Reader wisheth grace mercy and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord jesus Christ with that spirit of righteous judgement.  
I Have not enterprised (beloved brethren in Christ jesus) to answer this Epistle as one more able so to do, than the rest of my fellows in office: but rather driven thereunto by the uncessant requeist of some zealous and godly persons, who brought it to my hands for that purpose, after that it had been carried as a matter of great importance from one place to an other: & so at length translated by an certain friar out of latin into English in favour of such perso●…es 
What mo●… ve me to●… wryt.  as he thereby would gratify) it was ●…reatlie boasted of: partly therefore to sa●…ffie the reasonable requeist of the afore●…aid persons, and also to stop the mouth of the adversary from further bragging but chief for the discharge of my conscience in the office whereunto God hath called me. I have occupied my pen in answering as after followeth. And although this pithles Epistle have little or no strength to deceive any that have but meanly teasted of the truth, yet because it may be a piece of help to hold them still in error that are as yet within it (in my judgement it would not be passed over in silence) neither do I know whither any man hath unto this hour answered it or not. For asmuch as I see it a thing which all learned men will not only laugh at, and so contempe it, as not worthy of answer but also judge it such a matter as they will spend no time upon, seeing that they may be better occupied nor to answer a fool according to his folly: but list 
〈◊〉 ●…c. 26  he est came himself wise in his own conceit. I have thought good to write somewhat in this matter: unto the which writing I have added my name, nor for vain 
Why I have expressit my na●…e.  ●…lorie God knows, but to this end one li●…, that when the Reader shall find the rules of Rhetoric transgressed, and ornate Eloquence omitted (no man be blamed but I alone (moreover if it shall hap pen that I be sumwhates longer than ye would wish, weary not yet I beseech you to reid it to the end, for certanely as I suppose no man is able fully to answer this ordorles' confused Chaos without many words. To the end therefore that ye may the better understand the matter (because this man's letter keepeth no certain order) so far as the confusione of it will suffer. I have divided it, and that in four Sectionis: first writing his words faithfully as they are translated, and thereafter my answer. Fair well dear brethren in Christ jesus our only comfort, and judge with equity.   

Heir followeth renat's Epistle the first Section.  
THE love of Christ (most cunning men) & no small desire of Salvation unto you all, con trinis me to warn and pray you from the bottom of my heart, that ye intruse not nor bring not in an strange doctrine and uncouth, in the Church of God. alien and inpertinent (after the judgement of all wise and good men) to God's word & consuetude thereof, ather for the favour of the people, or for naine and transitory glory, that is, that ather ye may be esteemed the more wise and cunning of some (and received as they say in both their arms) or else that ye may thereby get and gather to yourselves riches. What tempt ye I pray you to do, what is (I beseech you in Christ jesu) this your beginning, look I pray you how great is this your boldness, to profess a new doctrine against the antiquity consent and universality of Religion, without any plain testimonies or authorities of holy Scripture, or of Christian Authores, ancient and tried in learning and godliness.  

D. Feargussones answer.  
IT would appear at the first sight to i●… of small judgement and learning, that the cause that has moved you to write, were very godly and charitable. Forasmuch as ye say that the love of Christ, and the salvation of us all hes contrined you thereto: but when the matter is tried with truth, the contrary will soon appear. It will please you therefore to give us leave a little to try what kind of love this is that hath moved you, and what fruit it bringeth forth, and then I trust both ye and others (if ye have eyes to see) shall easily perceive this love to be preposterus and carnal: I will say no worse till I have better opportunity, and list that ye should think that we deal to austeirlie with you at the first: I would ye understand that the Spirit of our God hath commanded us in his Scriptures (very stratelie) to be war of deceivers and not to hearken to false Prophets, but rather 
math. 24.  to try the Spirits whither they be of 
1. I●…on. 4 Deuter. 13.  God or not, yea, and suppose the Prophet show a wonder or a myrackle, if his doctrine be false we are forbidden to credeit him. If then we aught not to believe him to be of God that works mirackles If his doctrine persuade us to Idolatry how much les ought we to believe that this is the true love of God that moveth you to write, when as your doctrine and admonition tendis to nothing else through out this Epistle, but to draw us from the true worshipping of our God in Spirit and verity to serve him according to man's invention by Idols and Idolatry. And although that I would grant unto you, that this your love were even to Christ & god ward without any hypocrisy, yet I dare boldly say that it is als preposterous as Peter's love was to Christ when as he exhorted him to favour himself & not to suffer the death of the Trose. For the which Christ calleth him Satan, 
●…ath. 16.  neither fear I to affirm that Peter's love to Christ (which ye do see hear damned) was als true love as it that moved you to write which suppose it be unfeinzeit, is nottheles als void of knowledge as the zeal of Paul's brethren, for whom he praycth most effectuously in his Epistle to the Romans. This much I have spoken 
Rom. 10  of the nature of your love to Christ, to the end that the truth may appear, and that ignorants be not deceived with the name of love, for true love indeid which proceadis of faith and knowledge. It is dangerous in died to give hasty credeit to all such as have the name of Christ hypocritically in their mouths: for he himself affirmeth in the evangel of Matthew that their shall come many and advise his 
math. 24  name and that so craftily, that if it were possible they should deceive the very elect. These men are we expressedly sorbidden to believe. The desire that ye bear to our Salvation is no better nor your love, but in all points is like unto the desire that the pharisees had unto the conversion of the Bentiles, for the which the Lord jesus pronunces an extreme woe against them in these words. Woe be unto 
math. 23  you Scribes and pharisees, Hypocrites, for ye compass sea and land, to make one of your professione, and when he is made ye make him the child of hell twofold more than yourselves. Your admonition 
moth. 23.  in desiring us not to intruse an strange doctrine, we very gladly admit. For as yet we have taught nothing (neither are in time coming minded to teach) that has not agreed, and shall fully and i all points agree with the infallible truth of God's eternal verity, to the more evident manifestation whereof we have set out in print a general confession of our Faith and doctrine, with the which who so is not contented, let them show the cause out of the word of God, and it shallbe amended. Ye name generally all wise and good men to be against our doctrine, & that also it disagreeth with God's word, and yet in the mean time ye bring forth no man for your prufe nor any sentence out of God's word for your defence. The next time therefore that ye writ let us hear these good men's names that agreeth not with us, and the sentences of Scripture that be against us (for we can not answer to nameless men and word les sentences) and then I trust by the grace of God that ye shallbe answered accordingly, for pressed be God we be 
1. Peter. 3  ready to give a reckoning of that hope that is 〈◊〉 us, to all men that demandeth it.  
There he twa thing●… that ye charge us ●…ith, the first is, that we hunt for the fa●…r of the people, the next that we study 〈◊〉 gather riches, the which accusations ●…od knoweth are manifest falls. That the ●…rst is false, all men may see that are not ●…ilfully blind, for he that hunteth for the ●…or of the people must bear with their 
Falls preachers spekis to the people pleasant thin thin●…  ●…ce, the contrary whereof the very ●…eid itself testifies in us. What person 〈◊〉 persons have we spared to reboke op●…enly, of what estate soever they were of, ●…we knew them to be vicious. And where ●…e Magistrate is godly we procure at his ●…nd the punishment of whoredom, drō●…ennes, blasphemy, I idolatry, murder, ●…ift, and all other vices as the word of ●…od prescribes. For we know as sayeth ●…e Apostle, that the Law is good, being ●…ughfully used, so that suppose the Law 
1. Timo. 1.  ●…th nothing to do with the just man, yet 〈◊〉 serveth well to punish the lawless and ●…issobedient, the ungodly & the sinners, ●…he unholy and profane, the murderers ●…f Fathers and mothers, the whoremongers and buggers, the liars and perjured persons, or to the punishment of any other vice that is contrary to wholesome doctrine, which is according to the glorious Gospel of the blessed God, commieted unto us. And where their is no magistrate that obeyth the voice of God (as to few there be the more to be lamented) we use to expel such ꝑsones as are above written, by excommunication out of our Congregations and from the communion of the faithful. This is not the mean to win the favour of the people, I am assured except they be altogether godly, for then the rebuker of their vice is the more beloved of them, as sayeth Solomon. Reboke 
Prover 9  the wise and he will love thee, and be the contrary he that reboked the wicked purchaseth his hatred, neither fear I to affirm 
〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 gospelers 〈◊〉 t●…e ministers.  that the greatest number of carnal Gospelers in Scotland this day hateth the Ministers of the evangel, for no uther cause than for their seveir reboking of vice, for the which I for one, that writeth this answer, am hated to the death, but God is with me, and therefore I fear not who be against me. The second whereof 
Rom●…. 8.  ye accuse us (I mean the gathering of riches) is so impudent a lie, that all men ●…ay perceive it to have proceeded of the ●…euil, the author of lies. Thou art never ●…le to prove that ever any Minister in ●…cotland had a bribe of any man in the ●…rth for any cause, yea, and I dare say for 〈◊〉 own part (and am assured my brethrē●…ay say no les for their parts) with Sa●…uel whose Ox, whose Ass, have I taken 
1 Samu 12  〈◊〉 whom have I done wrong to, or whom ●…ue I hurt, or of whose hand have I re●…aued a bribe to blind mine eyes there●…ith, tell me and I will restore it? but so ●…r absent are we from gathering of rich●…, that the greatest number of us have ●…ed in great penury, without all stipend ●…e tuelf month, some eight, and some ●…lf a year, having nothing in the mean ●…me to susteane ourselves and our fami●…es, but that which friends have given ●…s, and that which we have borrowed of ●…eritable persons until God send it us 〈◊〉 repay them. Ye strife fast to shift this ●…ut from yourselves to us, but I must ●…alken you up because herein ye appear ●…o me to be fast a sleep. Have ye forget the ●…saciable greediness of your Popes the Antichristes' of Rome & of you his chapmen. Remember yourself (omitting the rest for tediousness) of Pope john the 23. of that name, called before jacobus Caturcensis, and of Clement the. 5. of that name called before, Bertrandus ●…ottho. The one of these I mean john left behind him in his treasure more abundance of gold as sayeth Baptista Platyna nor any that ever was Bischop of Rome did before 
Pope ●…o ne●… treasure 〈◊〉. thousand pieces off gold.  him, some saith 25. mylzeon but I will write the least, which is. 25. M. pecis of gold, the other I mean Clement at his coronation, which was at Lions in France (for then was the court of Rome translated to France by this same Clement) lost of his attire strooken from his horse by a certain fall of the town wall by which also john the Duke of Bertanzie and divers others were slain. In this tumult I say your holy father Clement 
Clementio Carbounkle: worth sex thousand crow nis.  lost a Carbunkle, worth, as sayeth the same Platyna, sex thousand crowns.  
Remember yourself who are gatherers of riches, Christ and his Apostles who had not so much as to rest their head upon to pay their tribute: nor gold nor silver in 
Math. 8. Ibid. 17. acts. 3.  possession, & we his ministers that suffereth affliction and penury, and whither this fault of covetousness may justly be ●…de to our charge or yours, I bid you ●…ember yourself again, yea, and more ●…er I dare be bold to say that these same ●…o forenamed Popes had more riches 
Two Pope's ●…cher in geir them all the ministers of Scotland & Ingland  〈◊〉 all the Ministers of the evangel in ●…tland and Ingland both are valze●… of in temporal gear at this hour. ●…ither was it Aristippus or Diogenes ●…t hunted for riches, Diogenes that ●…d on erbes or Aristippus that wai●… on the Court of Dionysius? So why ●…r is it we Ministers of God's word ●…t liveth in penury, as I have said, ta●… upon us the indignation of Princes ●…ether with the hatred of the People, ●…speaking of the verity, & are nothing else 〈◊〉 as sheep appointed to the slaughter, 
Psal. 44.  ●…yring nothing for all these foresaides, 〈◊〉 that we may be suffered to reteane the ●…w worshipping of our God and his ●…ist, as we are taught in the Scriptu●…, whither is it we or ye impudent and ●…meles shavillinges that hunteth for ●…hes, we that speaketh the truth freely without respect of persons, or ye falls ●…tterers who for the maintenance of your ●…lleis careth not to go to everlasting damnation nation. It was more like that baallcs chaplanis (that eat at jesabels' table) served Mammon, than Eliah and the hundredth Prophets that for the tyranny of this cruel Queen durst not walk abroad, but were fed in caves (by Obadiah Ahabes stewart) under the ground. But ye do well to charge us with lies, because ye 
1. Reg. 18  have nothing justly to accuse us of. Ye ask of us what we attempt to do, we assure you (by the grace of God) to rute out superstitious and pestilent Papistry, and in place thereof to plant sincere and whole some verity, contained in the book of God. Ye desire us to look to our beginning, God be pressed we have laid our count long ago, what this labour will cost us or ever we begouth to put out 
Luke. 14.  hands to it, neither commoned we with flesh nor blood in this case. Ye affirm 
〈◊〉. 1.  that this is a great boldness of us to profess a new doctrine, contrary to antiquity, consent and universality of Religion, having for us neither Scriptures nor ancient Authors, if this your affirmation were true, certanly our boldness were to great. It is an easy matter to you to speak so, but ye will not find it so easy to prove. It hath been the wont and ac●…stomed use of Satan, from time to ●…me, to slander the truth with noual●…e, and deck falsehood with antiquity & ●…nsuetude, persuading men that the doc●…ine of Salvation is such new-fangled ●…tasie, as never hath been hard before ●…ny place. Thus did the wise and cun●…ng Philosophers of Athenis call, Pan●…s doctrine. May we not know (said 
Actie. 17.  ●…ey) what this new doctrine is, where●… thou speakest? And certanly the rude ●…ultitude are easily persuaded that it is 〈◊〉, for as sayeth Tertuliane. Ueritas pe●…rina 
The trenth is one stranger on earth.  est in terris. that is to say the veri●… is a stranger upon the earth, & it is no ●…nder although a stranger be misknow 〈◊〉, so although the truth appear unto you 〈◊〉 be new doctrine (that so long hath been ●…ssaled up in falsehood) I marvel not. ●…ut I would ye knew that we teach no ●…her doctrine than is contained in the ●…w, the Psalms, the Prophets, and the ●…uangel, yea, even that same that. S. 
1. Ihon. 〈◊〉.  ●…ohn testifieth to have been, Ab initio. 
Tertuli●… in his Apology for the christ●… 〈◊〉 the Gentil●…  ●…hat is, from the beginning. Moreover ●…e offer unto you with the aforesaid Ter ●…liane, that the oldest religione (whither ours or yours) prevail. Ye boast ●…uch of antiquity, but when the matter is tried it will appear that ye have little for you, yea, your most precious gear & oldest constitutions will appear, to be that thing that they are in very died, to wit, beggarly ceremonies invented by the foolhardy and rash conceit of man, with out the warrant of God's word, or any example of that first or primative Church most happily planted by the Apostles & reuled by the holy Ghost, for long after the primative Church, and many hundredth years after that the word was preached in Rome, yea, of poor preachers of the Gospel, or bishops call them as ye list, and then Archebishopes, and last Patriarc●…es (for be these degries they ascended to the beasts saite) there was in Rome 
Th●…e 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i●…●…ome: o●… ever there 〈◊〉 ●…ne Pope  ●…st. 66. in number, or ever there was a word that any man durst claim to himself the name of universal Bishop or head of the Church, after so many Boniface the third of that name, obt●…ed of Phocas the traitor, that slew his master, Mauritius the Emperor together with his wife 
〈◊〉. t●… 〈◊〉 ●…is the ●…ste Pope.  and children, of this bloody judas, the ambitious beast, Boniface obtained (I say) to be called the head of all bishops and the Church of Rome the mother of all Churches, and this was done in the year of God, sex hundredth and seven, or thereby. This long the Church of God ●…ked this monstrous head from whom 〈◊〉 the rest of his successors and you Papi●…s their members, all poison descen●…ed, as from the natural head of man's bo●…y ather good nutriment or evil humours ●…scendeht to the rest of the members. ●…he visible head of your kingdom is no ●…der, judge ye then of the members there●…, and increase of the body. For after that with great contention (as sayeth Plati●…) this matter was granted by the afore●…d traitorous usurper of the empire, yet ●…d very few for a long time acknowledge ●…his title of the head of the Church to ap●…rteane to any one earthly man, but rather ●…ithstude it to the uttermost of their now ●…s, and this chief did for the most part ●…l the Churches of Grecia, and of the ●…ast, likewise did money other Churches ●…ntill that the strength of this beast was ●…uch as at length compelled them tirranni ●…ally to commit fornication with her, after ●…hat she had shaken of the zock of lawful obedience to Kings and emperors (as their proud Decries which afterward I will inter shall prove) and had exalted herself above all that was called God, and so sat as one that promised unto herself neither 
Thess. 2  sorrow nor wedowhead, but rather cō●…innal prosperity, and might do whatso 
say. 47 poca. 18  ever she liketh, as these words followig Taken out of your own law shall testify. ●…apa dicitur habere celeste arbitrium et ideo c●…am naturam rerum immutat substamnalia unius re●… applicando ali●…/ et de nihilo potest aliquid facere/ et sententiam que nulla est aliquam facere/ quia in his que vult ei est pro ratione voluntas/ nec est qu●… e●… dicat cut ita facis/ ipse enim potest supra ●…us dispensare/ et de iniusti●…a facere justiciam corrigendo iur●… et mutando nam pleitudinem obtinet potestatis.  
●…hese words are written in the first book of that ●…laiphemous wolome gathered by one Raymond, and called the decree talis of Gregory the 9 in the 7. title and 〈◊〉. chapter there o●…, the title is called, De translatione Episcopi. the chapter begin 〈◊〉▪ with this word, Quanto. These words I did find in died in many notable writers that writeth against your Pope, but because I delight not to make report (much les to commit to writ) any thing by here say, and also, that first when I read them, it appeared an incredible mat●…r to me that ever the Devil could so far ●…ind any man that he would break forth in this plain blasphemy, so grossie that all men may perceive it) I therefore deserred the writing of them until I did find out these same decretales wherein I 〈◊〉 these words before written and there●… took boldness to affirm that which I ●…d see and reid, the english whereof is this, 〈◊〉 near as I could translate it. It is said that the Pope hath a heavenly judgement, 〈◊〉 therefore changeth the nature of things, applying the substance of one thing to an other, and of nothing he can make something, and of the sentence which w●…s nought ●…he can make it somewhat worth, for in 
O devilish presumption.  ●…ose things that he list, his will standeth ●…r reason, neither is there any man that ●…ay say unto him, why doth thou so? 〈◊〉 he may dispense with the Law, and of ●…ustice, may make justice, in amending 〈◊〉 changing the Laws, for he hath gotten the fullness of power. which of you ●…re so shameless as to stand in the defence ●…f these words? or rather who seeth not ●…hat this is that same mouth that the ●…rophet Daniel affirmeth, should speak 
Daniel. 7.  presumptions things, this is the plesand doctrine that proceedeth from this monster, whose beginning ye have hard, whose increase and growth to the hight I could declare, out of their own Histories (if it were not tedious) whereout of ye might easily perceive how fals●…ie antiquity, by them, is applied to their new forged religion in the deap dungeon of Satan's workehous, and practised by them, his members and Luftennents, hear in earth. But when they find in our Congregations that thing used which Gods word hath not taught us, then boldly accuse us of novelty, and unto that time, best it is to hold their peace list they be found ini●…st accusers. As to the Doctors I neither contempt them, nor yet do I build my faith upon them, because they were but men, and in their writings many things a●…is to be found, as Augustine (indeid the very best of them in my judge meant) testifieth in divers places & chief in his retractations, in these words 
〈◊〉 ●…n his Re●…tatiōs  ●…re non possum nec deb●…o 〈◊〉 ●…ut in ipsis inato●…s 〈◊〉 ita multa esse in tam multis opus●…lis meis que posiunt justo iudic●…o et nulla te meritate culpare. Behold friend that Augustine doth not deny that there be many things in his volonies that may by just judgement, and without all temerity be found fault with. Finally because of all that hitherto ye have written, and I have answered, ye have inferred no ●…rufe of Scripture but naked words of ●…our own. In this case I say with 〈◊〉. ●…uod de Scripturis non habet auctor●… 
●…erome▪ upon 〈◊〉▪ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 23. Chap.  ●…adem facilitate contempn●…tur qua probatur. That is to say that thing which hath not his authority out of the Scriptures, als easily as it is proven, als easily may it be rejected.    

renat's Epistle the Second Section.  
THis a little I beseech you take head and enter in yourselves by dilegent reasoning, putting away all mist of affection from you: say I require you by ●…e mercy of God and Christ jesus love ●…owardes us all? where is it red in the holy write, ather in old Testament or new, that the mass that is the conswete Sacrifice of holy ●…irk is abomination, or any thing sounding to Idolatry? where or in an of so many Counsels holden in the Kirk of God? where in any learned or tried authorities? Look? never truly, allege the place it ye can, which verily never an of you could ever yet do. I me●… vel therefore why ye affirm that doctrine with so great clamour, with such ardence as it is believed, yea, with so great labours, to the peril of so many Christian souls, and to your own (I fear) perdition: contemning the prudent authority of all good and learned men, which doctrine hath no certain probation except that ye would think your own expolition of the Scripture (that repugneth manifestly to all cunning men's) enough for to confirm a new doctrine of Faith and Religion.  

D. Feargussones answer.  
ALl missed of affection set aside, ye require us by the mercy of God and Christ jesus love towards us all, to show you, where the mass is called abhominatione or Idolatry, in the old Testament or new? whereunto we answer, 
●…e n●…me ●…f the ●…sse 〈◊〉 not in ●…e Scrip ●…ris.  that when ye find this word mass ather in the old or new Testament, then shall we prove it to be Idolatry. This might serve you right well for an answer, 〈◊〉 should be also unto you such a desire 〈◊〉 am assured ye were never able to ac ●…plish. But in the mean time until ●…d it, list this might appear rather to 〈◊〉 ●…hift nor an answer: we say and 〈◊〉 affirm, that wheresoever the ●…ture (or the thing that is made) is ●…shipped (in the place of the Creator, ●…maker of all) that there is Idolatry ●…mitted contrary to the commandiment ●…od, who hath said, thou shall worship 
Deute. 6. mathe. 4.  ●…ord thy God, & high only shalt thou 〈◊〉. But in the mass there is worship●…read and wine, corruptible Creatu●… the place of God the Father, and ●…te his Son, as ye can not deny, ●…refore it followeth that the mass is ●…latrie, this argument (which I have 
The mass Idolatry  ●…f God's word als well old Testa●…s new) when ye have refelled which ●…e (ad grecas calendas) then shall ye 〈◊〉 others. Ye call your abominable ●…e the conswete or wont Sacrifice ●…oly Church, the wont Sacrifice of ●…r Malignant synagogue of Satan, ●…onfesse it to have been ever since the ●…es of your Pope Agattho the first, whose orator john the Bishop of Portu ens to have been the first that ever song or said a latin mass, Platina the Pope's own Gnato in his book, ●…e vi●… Pontificum. affirmeth in these words, the Counsel being ended (this was the 6. general Consel holden in the year of God 681.) that thanks might be given unto God, that of the two Churches had made one (meaning the Greak and the Latin Church) the octane of Pashe john the Bishop of Portuens in the presence of the Prence and patriarch, and people of Constantinopol celebrated a latin masse●… all that were present for the time allowing it (so easily are men deceived) this long to wit 681. year was the Church without this Sacrifice which yet differed far from it that was in our days, for it was almost 7. hundredth years after this or ever the people were commanded to worship it, for that was done by Honorious the 3, who was Pope the year 
〈◊〉 3 ●…ste orde ●…de ●…he mass 〈◊〉 to be wor●…ipped.  from our Redemption. 1216. thereafter, when it was worshipped as a God, the Devil did find the means that this new Idol should be carried Solempnitlie, throughout all towns, upon a peculiar day dedicat to that Histrionical guise, call 〈◊〉 Corpuschristies' day. The instruments ●…t the Devil useth to this labour, were 
Cor●… Christies' day.  ●…banus Pope of Rome the 4. of that ●…e, and a certain Religious woman ●…d Eva, and it came to pass as ye shall 〈◊〉 The aforesaid Urbanus (Pope in ●…ear from our Redemption 1261.) had 
Urban●… 4  〈◊〉 aforesaid superstitious Eva in fami●… acquentance▪ before he came to the 
Eva  ●…tes saite, who feinzeed herself to have ●…a revelation from heaven, concerning ●…edication of a Festual day ●…o the Po 〈◊〉 God of bread in the mass, the manner 〈◊〉 Circumstances of this revelation, she 〈◊〉 to Urbanus at length, desiring him ●…rforme her vision, which he did with ●…elay, confirming it with a Bull which ●…enth I omit. The Church was a ●…sand two hundredth three scoir and one 〈◊〉 without this Idolatrous guise, this ●…yte, and much more could, out of ●…own Histories (if it were not over ●…some) to show that all their bragging ●…tiquitie is nothing else but●… falls for●…lies. Their corrupted knavery piece 〈◊〉 piece crope into the Church by the 〈◊〉 of Satan their Father, who ●…urste not show himself at one's, list he should have been known, and so resisted. But rather transfiguring himself in an Angel of light, as the slackness of Pastor's begouth 
2. Cori. 11.  to increase, wrought speedily as a bissie Bishop, under their hands till at length he had fully brought to pass, the whole mystery of his iniquity, which the Apostle affirmeth to have been a working in his days, But what needeth Circumlocution 
2. Thes. 2.  when few words directly spoken, may speedily end this strife. What if I should say with Ambrose. Quicquid non ab Apostolis traditum est Sceleribus plenum est. 
Ambros●… 1. Corin. 4  that is, whatsoever is not given unto us by the Apostles, is full of iniquity, or as he sayeth in an uther place. Nos nou●… omnia que Christus non docuit iure damnamus 
●…bro. 4. de Uirgi●…bus.  quia fidelibus via Christus est. Siigitur Christus non docuit quod docemus●… etiam nos id detestabile iudicamus. that is, we justly damp all new things that Christ hath not taught, because Christ is the way to the faithful. If therefore Christ hath not taught that thing which we teach, yea, even we ourselves do judge it detestable. First therefore because your ●…se was never given nor ordained unto us by the Apostles I with Ambrose affirm it to be 〈◊〉 of iniquity. Secondly, because it is a 〈◊〉 doctrine which Christ never taught, ●…stly damp it, that Christ never taught 〈◊〉 subsequentes s●…al declare? where ●…euer Christ or any of his Apostles ●…o a man? when they Elected and ad●…ed him to the ministery of the church ●…pe potestatem celebrandi vel sacrificandi 
Summa an gelica folio. 319.  ●…iuis et mortuis. as your Idol Bis●…s sayeth to you, their shawelinges, ●…n ye receive the beasts mark with ●…er to by and sell the marchandrise of 
Apoc●…. 13.  〈◊〉 great whore of Babylon. These word●…ey say when the Chalice is given you, ●…ther with the Paiene, the bread and ●…ine, take thou authority or power ●…lebrate or say mass for the quick and 
Suido de monte Ro cher●…i ma nipulo curato●… trac tatu. 5. de ordine. Cap. 4.  ●…ead, yea, so heighly are these words ●…ed of your Doctors, that if the Bis●… omit the saying of them for his part ●…e prosering of the aforesaid things, ●…he that is to be ordained omit the ●…hing of the things proffered, that all ●…r nought, where commanded Christ ●…t ye should devour all alone, standing ●…n alter with your back to the p●…ple? ●…ere are ye commanded to lift the bread your heads that the people may commit Idolatry with it. Where are ye commanded to dissagyse yourselves like players or fools with shaven crowns, long wide sarks above your clothing, and short peys like coats of Armour above all▪ Where are ye commanded at the ministra●…i on of the Sacrament, some times to i●…ke and some times to nod, to sleep a while 
The trifling toys of the Pope's mass  and walk another, now to cry out with a loud voice, and then to quhisper that you●… tail may not hear you, to put both your hands to your ears and then to streiche them out as the Daw doth when she raxeth her in the morning. Why speak ye in a strange language (contrary to the mind 
1. Cor. 14.  o●… the holy Ghost) that the people understandeth not? when ye have told me who learned you these juggling casts, them will I assay what reckoning ye can give of the rest. Finally I would ask at you, if the three thousand persons that Peter by the word of God converted (of whom we read in the Second Chapter of the 
acts. 2.  Acts) were of the Church of God or not ye dare not deny but that they were of the Church. If then the mass be the wont Sacrifice of holy Church (as ye would make men believe) I wonder that they ●…itted it. For the holy Ghost for our ●…rning by the ●…en of Lucas hath most ●…gentlie registrate their excercise which 
The exercise of the primative Church.  ●…at after they had received the word, 〈◊〉 were baptized continued in the Apo●… doctrine, fellowship breakig of bread ●…yers, to be short get me one word ●…tion of a Sacrifice offered for sins, 〈◊〉 the death of Christ) in all the Acts ●…he Apostles or in any part of the new ●…ament by God's people, and I will ●…t your argument true, but unto the ●…e that ye prove your arguments out 〈◊〉 word of god, ye must apardone me 〈◊〉 can not believe you, no, not suppose 
Sal●…. 1.  ●…ere one Angel as ye are but a man. 〈◊〉 to your general Counsels, my faith ●…ot builded upon them, neither am I ●…nd to believe one jot of them, further ●…hey agree with God's word, for they ●…beleueth or taketh any counsel but of 〈◊〉, hath an extreme woe pronounced ●…nst them. by the Spirit of God in ●…e words. woe to the rebellion's chil●…, 
●…say. 30.  sayeth the Lord, that take counsel, 〈◊〉 not of me, and cover with a covering, 〈◊〉 not by my Spirit that they may lay sin upon sin. And in few words except these four, to wit, the first Counsel Nicen holden against Arrius, and gathered 
General counsels.  by the Empreoure Constantine, and by no Pope, for many hundredth years after the bishops of Rome, were but preachers of the word of God, having no further dominion than their own diosies did streich. The next general Counsel was gathered by the Empreoure Graciane, against the Heresy of Macidonins and Endo●…us, and was holden in Constantinopol. The third was held in Ephesus▪ under the Empreour Theodorieus against the Heresy of Nestorius. The fourth in Chalchedom under the Empreour, Martiane against the Heresy of Eutiches, except these four, all the rest for the most part are suspect to me, because your Popes were judges in them their selves. Therefore seeing the wise man hath counseled me otherwise, namely, not to go to Law with the judge forasmuch as he 
Eccle●…. 8.  will give sentence according to his own honour, it were but Folly then to subject my Faith to the judgement of these counseles whereof Antichristes' have been heads and judges. The controversy then being betuix us Christians, & you papi●…es, ye striving for the tyrannical domi●…ion and vainglory of your Pope, and ●…e certitude of his Counsels, and we for ●…e eternal heavenly glory of our Christ, ●…d the verity of his holy evangel. Let 〈◊〉 men judge whither it be right to ad●…t the Pope Arbiter in his own cause, 〈◊〉 whither he ought to be judged by the ●…ord of God, and Gospel of his Christ, 〈◊〉 whom all power is given in heaven, 
math. 28.  ●…d in earth whose word that he hath spo ●…n, shall judge us all in the last day. I ●…re not to affirm that the matter ought ●…e tried by the Scriptures, howsoever ●…tichrist brag of his own authority, ●…t most ●…iustly he usurpeth over men as 
These ●…o dis or 〈◊〉 ten in th●… book th●… is cal●… 〈◊〉 trauaga●…●…es communes ●…o 1. de 〈◊〉 rita●…e et o●… bedienti●… Chap. 1.  〈◊〉 Law doth witness, in these words. ●…nes Christi fideles de necessitate Salutis 〈◊〉 sunt Romano pontifica qui utrumque gladium ●…et et omnes judicat a n●…mine ●…utem judicatur ●…t is, all that be faithful Christianis 〈◊〉 the necessity of Salvation are subject 〈◊〉 the Bishop of Rome, which hath both ●…e sword (that is spiritual and tempo 〈◊〉) and judgeth all men, and to be iudg●… of no man: what I beseech you may ●…e look for at those Counsels▪ whereof this tyrant is judge, even this (in my judgement) that when all the adulterers 
〈◊〉 pretty ●…e  and whoremongers of Scotland and all uther Countries giveth their general conseut to put down all ●…ordales and villainy, that then a general Counsel whereof the ●…ope is head and judge (with his Creatures, the carnal Caroinalles and their a●…s, for●…e slaves and monstrous ●…ytiar bishops) shall aboli●…e and put down all superstition & Idolatry. marvel nor therefore why we affirm this doctrine or ours, I mean the evangel, with so great clamour and labour, not to our own perdition and others, as ye suppose, but rather to our Salvation, yea, we ●…we that damnation abideth us, if 
Cor. 9  that we preach not the evangel, which also we are commanded to cry and not to 
〈◊〉. ●…8.  ce●…s from speaking and bearing witness to the truth, which we have both hard 
●…s. 4.  and ●…ene, neither do●…th our doctrine repugn (as ye would make men believe) to all good and cunning men, as I trust the vnaffec●…onat Reader shall perceive, but we ●…e nor upon men, but upon the truth of God, con●…nge eure ●…elues to 
Cor. 2.  k●…w nothing but jesus Christ (not him that hingeth in a cord or halter over your altars sometime till he be woormeatten and not worth the holding adjudged to the fire) no, but him we confess that was made (not of white corn) but of the ●…ede of David, according to the flesh, yea, 
Rom. 〈◊〉.  even him that was crucified, and declared ●…ightylie to be the Son of God touch●…g the Spirit of Sanctification by the Resurrection from the dead. ye brag much of Doctors and learned men to be ●…pon your side, but hitherto we have ne●…her hard their names, nor yet any authorities out of their writings for your prufe And that it may appear how falls this ●…our accusation is, although I have no ●…ede of Doctors, yet do I infer some, and ●…al god willing infer more hereafter, as that occasion shall be offered. As to your ●…clandring with novelty our faith and ●…octrine, I have already in the first Sec●…on answered, and partly by occasion also 〈◊〉 this. The doctrine that we profess & ●…ach, to have been from the beginning, 〈◊〉 have already proven, and that the scope thereof is only to teach men to know the Eternal the Father of our Lord jesus, to be the very only true God, and that he whom he sent, is the saviour of the world. In this doctrine alone consisteth life everlasting, as witnesseth the 
joh. 17.  Lord IIesus, and this is life eternal that they know thee to be only very God, and whom thou hath sent, jesus Christ, this doctrine we have professed at this present doth, and shall by God's grace, confess unto the end in despite of Satan and his Uickar your Pope & Antichrist.    

renat's Epistle the third Section.  
BEhold I beseech you, that ye deceive not yourselves, and namely in these last and most perilous days, of the which the holy write prophesieth and affirmeth the great dangeres and mischief so that in the days, even the chosen and Elect (if it were possible) therethrough shallbe perverted. Ye know plainly if that ye look over the Scripture with humility the slight and desait of Satan (Christ's and all Christianes' enemies) for to misreule and disturb the true Kirk and his furious enterprises also to deleit and put away the remembrance of Christ jesus ye misknow not. Take head therefore I adjure you well-beloved and Christian brethren, that ye be not Seduced with his subtlety and craftiness, and being Seduced, that ye be not the instruments to pervert others from the faith. ●…athan can not take Christ's name from you but yet be war I pray you, and I warn you of charity for your weill and Salvation, that he pluk not Christ himself from you. Think I beseech you where, and by what manner we have Christ truly? Have we him not by his true word in the true Sacrament? Have we him ●…ot in the true Kirk by very faith? Have ●…e not lightlyed I make yourselves iud●…es, and contemned the true Kirk sit●…uat upon the montane? and this enough knowing of all men, Intruse ye not an only figure for the treuh of Christ's live ●…y body in the Sacrament and eucharist? They know who hath red the Scriptu●…es and Doctors writings, that ye pro●…one the words of the Law, and not the Law itself, nor the true word of God, for probation and setting forth of your doctrine, therefore ye reteane only the name of Christ, but be war I pray you that ye put not Christ himself from you, have ye not expelled him first in his images? and thereafter in the eucharist and mass. And last of all in exponing the Scripture otherwise than it behoved, in whose room what other thing have ye set out but a Creature or creatures invent, that is your doctrine and teachement.  

D. Feargussones answer.  
IF that we did depend ather on men or men's doctrine, whither it were our own or other men's, than no doubt, we were very able to be deceived, and to deceive others. But forasmuch as the doctrine that we are grounded upon, come ne ver be the will of man (as sayeth Peter) 
D●…t. 1.  but by the will of God, we are assured not to deceive ourselves, for he is no deceiver in whom we trust, but rather the way the verity and the life, and him we follow 
●…ohn. 14.  certeanely believing that then we can not walk in darkness, for we know as sayeth 
bid. 8.  S. john in his first general Epistle that we are of God, although the whole world l●…eth in wickedness. we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given ●…s a mind to know him that is true, and we are in him, that is in his Son jesus Christ, the same is very God and eternal life. This doctrine we have lear●…ed 
1. Ihon.  of God, in it we trust, being assured that the gates of Hell shall not prevail against us. 
math. 1●…   
True it is, that the Scriptures plain●…y affirmeth in divers and sundry places, ●…hat the latter days shallbe full of dangers, ●…nd therefore most carefully doth the Spirit of our God, not only warn us of the dangers, but also the mean to a●…oyde them is manifestly-proponed to us ●…n these words. He that ꝑsevereth unto 
math. 2.  ●…he end shall be saved. But as all shall be ●…ll of peril every where, so shall not the Church lack her part, being assaulted with ●…als Christ's and falls Prophets, who shall show such lying wonders, signs, 
2. Tess●…  and myrackles, that if it were possible ●…he very chosen should be deceived. But ●…lissed be God that hath not left these his most necessary admonitions in so obscure ●…arables that hardly may the matter be discerned, no but rather hath by his Apostles and diligent watchmen, painted out most lively, the manners and doctrine of these false prophets, Peter sayeth. They 
2. Peter  shall deny the Lord that bought them, and through covetousness make merchandrise of the people. Wes Christ jesus alone (i the Pope's Church) granted to be the Lord that bought us with his blood? or were we not teached to be bought out of purgatory by masses, which of these greedy beasts was bought for money, with money other such damnable ways, whereby the way of truth was evil spoken of, which I omit for tediousness, this remembering only as the fountain whereout of the rest sprung. These men that thus deminisheth the power of the Son of God, to be utterly ignorant of the Father, and with him to 
1. joh. 〈◊〉.  have no society. S. john plainly affirmeth. judas the servant of jesus Christ and brother of james, calleth them clouds 
jude. 〈◊〉.  without water, and trees without fruit, that is such men as are called bishops and Pastors, and when it cometh to the watering of Christ's sheep with the water of life, they ather suffer them to die for thirst or else compel them to do two 
jere. 2.  evils, that is to forsake the eternal who is the only fountain of living water and drink of rotten pools made by men that can hold no water, when Christ's chosen are to be fed with the fruit of that tree that ●…andeth in the midst of the Paradise of 
Apo. 2.  God, ather get they no fruit, or else sti●…●…g Dnzeons and Barlyk of Egypt, that 〈◊〉 to say massing, ●…inking, ringing, sing●…g, playing, sensing, crossing, ●…king, ●…dding, and processions: wherein the ●…preaching prelate (with his shameless ●…auelinges, no better preachers than the ●…m dog their master) he I say (lacking ●…e mystery of Salvation in his heart, and ●…e Sermon of exhortation banished from ●…s mouth) is decked like a player in mi●…al apparel with Cross and mitre, glo●…s and rings, caip and cowl, to the ●…at contempt and mockage of God, and ●…ruction of his people, forgetting in ●…e mean time that their triumpth is the ●…gining of their sorrow, having the black 
2. Pet. 2  ●…rcknes reserved to them for ever.  
●…ule the most vigilant watchman of ●…hristes Church, not only for his own ●…me, but also careful for the posterity, ●…eth no les diligently, not these men ●…r the rest of his nyghboures in office ●…moste in all his Episties, but chief to ●…imothie, in these words. The Spirit ●…eaketh evidently that in the latter times some shall departed from the faith, and shall give head unto Spirits of erro●…, and doctrines of devils which speak l●…es through Ipocrycie, and have their conscience burnt with an ho●…e iron, forbidding 
1. Tim. 4.  to marry, and commanding to abst●…ane sco●… meats which God hath created to be received with gi●…ig of thanks of them which bele●… and know the t●…euth, who doth not see (out such as be wilfully blind) the doctrine papistical moste lively discrived and handsomely set forth in this prophecy, for who in these latter and dangerous days hath forbidden Marriage, and hath commanded distinction of meats, persecutig the violaters of these precepts with Fire and sword, esteaming his own traditions above the commandments of God who I say hath done this but the Pope 
math. 15.  and his clergy the antichrist & his members. It will avail you nothing to ascrive and apply the accomplishing of this prophecy to Montanus, to the ●…erityques 
Old 〈◊〉 that for●…ad ma ●…ge ercu si●… not the new.  called Tatiani, and the Encratikes, seeing ye are found in the like faut, and so guilty of the same damnation, no more than it will avail a murderer that now killeth a man, to think that the curse of God pronounced against Cain, streacheth not ●…er him.  
Wherefore friend in my iudgdement, it ●…eth with you as ●…sope in his Fables, ●…zeed to have happened to a Paddock, 
●…sope.  〈◊〉 gave herself forth for a Physician, & 〈◊〉 of others, who when she came to 〈◊〉 her Counsel and minister her Phi●…, was rejected of the seicke persons ●…cause she herself appeared to be all o●…goine with the gulsogh) with this an●…r, ●…dice cura teipsum. So say I to 〈◊〉, ye give yourself forth for a spiritual ●…tion, a professor of God's word, 〈◊〉 to be a warner of others, to be aware ●…rrours, when as in the mean time ye ●…r self had most need of spiritual Phi●…k, and wholesome Counsel of all others, ●…d that because I see you ●…longed in ex●…me errore and vehemently deceived ●…th falls doctrine, therefore I say to you 〈◊〉 Paul the Apostle said to his brethren ●…he pharisees) as concerning the flesh, who were to zeaious for the maintenance 
Rom. 10.  their own ryghtevosnes which they ●…ght they had by the works of the law 〈◊〉 therefore utterly spoiled themselves 〈◊〉 the righteousness of God, that came by Faith in jesus Christ. Thou preaches that a man should not steal, and in the 
Rom. 2.  mean time thou robbest God of his glory. If then ye would that we should admit you to take the mote out of our Eiecast first out the balk that is in your own 
●…t. 7.  If ye would that we should obey your admonitions, let them bring forth some fruit in yourself, or else ye are like to be repulsed with this sentence. Pihsition hail thyself. And although we do reject you for just causes, principally for your intoxicat doctrine, think not therefore that these Scriptures (whereof your admonitions are taken, concerning the latter days) are of us carelessly passed over, no, God forbidden, for they be warnings betuix our●… eyes. The Apostle Peter hath most carefully 
〈◊〉. 11.  warned us, of Satan's ●…yght and fury, not forgetting also to istruct us how to withstand him, in these words. Be sober and watch for your adversary, the Devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about feking whom he may bevore, whom (sayeth the Apostle) ye shall resist, being steadfast in Faith, ye say that Satan can 
〈◊〉. 〈◊〉. 5.  not take Christ's name from us, no, certanely, nor steer a hair of our heads, further than God doth appoint him.  
●…e are not afraid that that Serpent 
job. 1.  ●…al ather spoil us of thirst or of his na●…e, for we know ourselves to be Christ's ●…epe, to whom he hath not only pmised 
job. 10.  ●…ernal life, but also that they shall never ●…rishe, nor be plucked out of his hand by ●…y. This certainty of our Salvation, ●…ocedeth not of our own merits and ●…orthynes (which God did foresie to be 〈◊〉 us, as ye blasphemous Papists do ●…irme) nor yet of the worthiness of the●… works that follow after our external ●…ocation, no, but the beginning, the mid●…est, and the end of our Salvation, cometh 〈◊〉 the mear mercy of our God alone, in ●…hriste jesus his Son, to whom he ●…ly & liberally gave us, before all worl●…es, 
Ephe. 1.  as that he himself witnesseth in the ●…uangle of john, saying. My Father ●…hich gave them me, is greater than all, ●…nd none is able to take them out of my ●…athers hand, I and my Father are one. 
john. 10.  ●…pon these promises we rest, and shall ●…od willing unto the end, neither fear we ●…s promises nor the fidelity of them, for 
2 Timo. 2  ●…ppose we be fragel, yet will he not deny 〈◊〉 self, but how cometh it to pass that ye perceive not the craft of this Serpent yourself, whereof ye admonish others so earnestly. For Satan hath not one●…e spoiled you of christ himself (given you a white tepertane God to play you with) but also hath spoiled a great number of your master's men, even of the very name of Christ. For they think it to base a name to be called Christians wherewith every man is termed that is baptized. And therefore are some of them called Frasiscans, so●…e Benedictinis, some Don●…nicans & Agustmians, some Car●…elites and Cartusians, some hermits and jacobins, and some with one name and some with other, which I irk to rehearse. Hereby plainly witnessing that they are ashamed of the name of Christ before men that he may deny them before his Father 
math. 10.  in any wise to apertean to him, but to be of the number of those filthy locusts that 
Apoca. 9  S. john remembreth in his Revelation, to have come out of the bottomless pit.  
Ye desire us to remember where and by what manner we have Christ truly, than ye labour to persuade us that he is enclosed in the Sacrament, & knet to the Church, unto the which in died he is cup led and married by an everlasting covenant 
〈◊〉. 〈◊〉.  but not to your adulterous Church, which ye would make men believe, were the true Church of God, and so ye conclude that 〈◊〉 have despised the Church sittuat upon the montane, and hath intrused a figure for Christ's body in the Sacrament.  
This I trust be your meaning and the ●…one of your argument, whereunto we ●…er. That the Lord jesus being rea●… 
john. 16.  to leave the world and go to his Father, seeing his Disciples (who at that present were carnal minded) sorry for ●…s bodily departing, made unto them 〈◊〉 solempned promise, that he would not ●…aue them comfortless, but if they would 
john. 14.  ●…pe his commandments and teach his people also to observe all, & whatsoever 〈◊〉 had commanded them, that then but ●…out he would be present with them unto ●…e end of the world, not catnally nor ma●…cally 
math. 2●….  enclosed in a bit of conjured bread 〈◊〉 which is now and then offered for seicke 〈◊〉 wine and Fearsy horses) but by his ho●…e Spirit effectually working i their har〈◊〉 that thing which his bodily presence ●…uld not do, whose departing from them ●…es utterly necessary and expedient, as he himself doth witness, in these words I tell you the truth it is expedient for you that I go away, for if I go not away 
john. 16.  the comforter which is the holy Ghost, will not come unto you, but if I depart I will send him unto you. Marck these words ye carnal Capernaites (that would pluck Christ's flesh from the right hand of the Father) that if ye have his flesh yet still with you, ye lack his Spirit, for he affirmeth in plain words that the Spirit will not come except he depart and be absent in body. Now choose you, whither ye will want his body or his Spirit? or rather whither think ye it better to imagine that ye have his body? for otherwise ye have it nor, and so for your false imagis nation, lack his Spirit, or to grant that thing to be absent, which is absent in died and can not come till the latter day, to the end ye may be participant of that holy Spirit that God poureth in the hearts of his chosen, even here in this life, whereby we cry Abba, Father. But the question is soon answered on your part, I am assured 
Rom. 8.  ye had rather play you with your myrrie conceits, contenting yourselves with that presence of Christ that you think ye have, nor to have his Spirit, except that ye might win money thereby, as Simon Magus your predicessoure would have done. For ye have win more by the Magical and marvelous lying myrackle of transubstantiation, whereby ye would make men believe that a piece of bread not worth a quarter of a farthing, were changed in your masses, to the body of Christ God and man, the same length & breed that he hang on the cross, by this juggling I say ye have win more than ever ye did by his Spirit. But to the purpose, we conclude that Christ is here present with his Church always (according to his promise) by his holy Ghost, which who so hath not aperteined not to Christ with what gifts soever he be endued beside. 
Rom●…. 8.  ye make ourselves judges whither that we have lighlyed the true Church or not, sittuat upon the montane, if ye mean hereby the Church of Rome (as I doubt not but ye do) we deny simply that it is the true Church, but rather that spiritual babylon, whereout of the Lord hath commanded his people to come, that they 
Apoc. 14.  ●…e not partaker of her plagues. whither ye mean by this montane, that great hill of ambition that Satan carried Christ to, when that he promised him the whole Kingdoms of the earth, if he would worship 
●…ath. 4.  high, which Christ refused, & your Pope 
Apoca. 17  hath received, or if ye mean hereby the hills that are sittuat about Rome (which S. john sayeth. are 7. in number, which also Baptista Mantuanus affirmeth, for 
〈◊〉. manueno libro●…. de v●…ta ●…lasu.  he calleth your Rome, Se●…ollem urbem) I can not well tell. another hill or hills whereon your harlot sitteth, I know none, and thought your meaning be not hid from me concerning this matter, yet for the vanity of it, I leave it to be interpreted by yourself.  
Ye affirm that we intruse an only figure for the truth of Christ's body in the Sacrament. They must have leave to lie that can not speak the truth. who ever hard any of us ather say privately or s●…ak openly in our preachings that the Sacrament is but a bare figure of Christ's body. I am assured there is no man able to prove it. But rather this is our doctrine of that most sacrete and holy Sacrament, that as we agree not with you Papists that would make men believe that the bread were changed in Christ's carnal and manly flesh by transubstantiation (which flesh the heaven must hold unto the time that all things be restored which God hath spoken by the mouths of his holy Prophets since the world begouth as witnesseth S. Peter) So do we 
Act●…s. 〈◊〉.  not agree with them that judgeth the Sacramental bread and wine to be but bare signs or figures only, constantly affirming and undoubtedly believing that als verily as our teith eateth the bread and our mouths drinketh the wine (whereby our bodies, as sayeth David, is strengthened, 
Psal 104.  and our hearts made glade) so verily are we partakers of Christ's body by Faith, whereby we are nourished to life everlasting, and this partaking requireth neither transubstantiation, inpanation, nor carnal present, but requireth the elevation of our Spirits by faith to heaven, there to be partakers of Christ not with carnal teith, but with faith affectual. This manner of partakig were the people taught in the primative Church, as witnesseth this sentence. Sursum cord▪ 
Sur●…. corda. abused 〈◊〉 the mas●…  which was used at the ministration of the lords Supper whereby the people we moved to lift up their hearts above all earthly and sensible things, whose answer was, habemus ad Dominum we have them lifted up to the Lord, which words most shamefully were abused in your mischievous mass, to your shame and confusion.  
And that Christ's body is a true natural body in died, like unto ours in all things sin except, & no fantasy which 
●…ebre. 4.  may be enclosed in a piece of bread, and so in 10. thousand places at ones, and that the Sacramental bread is not changed in Christ's flesh and blood, as the Papist dreameth, not only the whole Scripture, but all godly and faithful writers do testify. And first S. augustine whose most plain and evident sentences (for 
●…gustine.  the prufe of this purpose) if I should infer this little work should grow to a greater volome than ather I am minded now to write, or yet time will permit, being otherwaves occupied, principally in the feding of that flock whereof the holy Ghost hath made me overseer. Sum yet I will produce to give the readers a test of the r●…st. In his commentary upon the Psalms 
Agustine. v●… c●…. ●…ee ●…8. ●…sal.  he hath these words. Non hoc corpu●… est t●… 〈◊〉 quod videtis et bibituri illum Sanguinem quem fusuri sunt qui me crucifigent. Sed Sacramentum ●…liquod commendo vobis quod Spiritualiter intellectum viuific●… bit vos that is ye shall not eat this body which ye see, nor drink that blood that they shall shed which shall Crucify me, but I commend unto you a certain Sacrament (or mystery) which being spiritually understanded, shall quicken you. And in an other place. Corpus Christi in quo resurre●…it in 
In ●…ne 〈◊〉 ●…iscle to Hierom●…  uno loco esse oportet: veritas autem ●…us ubique diffusa est. That is the body of Christ wherein he arose must be, on force in one place, but his verity is spread abroad every where. His tractat upon john is full of such sentences, and many other of his works also, as his Epistle to Dardanus, his book of Christian doctrine, the notable work of the City of God, all which I omit for length. And because that the latin sentences occupieth room, and also that every man understandeth them not, let it be sufficient to recite them in English, the truth of the Allegations & translating of them, who so doubts of, let him examine the places alleged.  
Tertuliane writing against Martione 
Tertulis Ubio. 4.  hath these words. Christ taking bread & distributing it to his Disciples made it his body, saying. This is my body, that is to say the figure of my body, but this bread could not have been a figure of it except Christ hath had a true body, for a vain or fantastical thing can take no figure. Ambrose upon the first Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians and 11. chapter, hath 
Ambros●….  these words (upon this sentence) Show the lords death. Because (sayeth he) that we were delivered by the death of the Lord, we in eating and drinking of this thing (he meaneth the Sacrament) do signify the flesh and blood which were offered for us. etc.  
Origene in his 7. homily upon Leviticus, 
Origine.  hath these words, not only is there a letter that killeth in the old Testa meant to be found, but also in the new Testament a letter which killeth him that doth not understand the things spiritu ally, for if thou do follow after the letter, this that is spoken. Except ye eat my flesh, and drink my blood, this letter killeth, therefore it is spiritually to be understand. S. john Chrisostome, in one 
Chrisosto.  of his homilies upon the 26, of Matthew hath these words. He also drank of it lest when they heard his words they should say,. why do we then drink blood and eat flesh? And so should be troubled, for when he spoke before of those things they were offended with his words, and that the same should not now also come to pass, he himself drank first of it, that they also without grudging or trouble might commu nicat of the mysteries. These same words 
Cathe●… auria. Thom●… aquin a●… in. ma●… 26.  in affect shortlyer somewhat collected hath Thomas Aquino in his book called cathena aurea upon the four Evangelists where also he alleges the same Chrisostome upon the same place. S. Jerome in his commentary upon matthew the. 26. 
Hiero●…  chapter, hath these words. After the mystical Easter Lamb was fulfilled, and he had eaten the Lambis flesh with his Apostles, he passeth through unto the Sacrament of the true Easter Lamb that 
Hiero●… conferenc●… tuix c●… and 〈◊〉 chisede●… sum w●… obscur●…  when Melchisedec the priest of the heigh God in prefiguration of him brought forth bread and wine, he might also represent the truth of his body. Although that Jerome have not so clearly, as the matter required, mad the conference betuix Christ and Melchisedec yet hath he truly judged in this place of the Sacrament, if I should rehears all such sentences as maketh for this purpose out of the ancient Doctor's writings (as I have said before) this small treaty would grow to a great volome, that I be not to tedious, therefore let these inferred serve at this present, rea die hereafter to collect more, if these ends not the strife.  
Ye say that they which have red Scriptures and Doctors writings, knoweth that we propone but the words of the Law, and not the Law itself, nor yet have we (say ye) God's word for us, & so ye conclude, very magistraliter, as your manner is, that we reteane only Christ's Name and not himself. There is no man I am assured that hath red the Scriptures and Doctors writings with judgement, which doth not know this affirmative of yours to be rash railing, linked full of lies. etc.  
And then ye labour to show how we have expelled Christ, first ye say in his images, and Secondly in the eucharist and mass, and thirdly in exponing the Scripture according to man's invention. Hitherto it might have appeared to men of slender judgement (as I have said in the beginning of this answer) that the love of God had moved you to this matter, but blessed be God, even the Father of our lord jesus Christ, that now ye have detected yourself, bewraying that which before ye covered with an exceeding wide cloak of 
Hypocrisy disclosed.  Hipocrycie. Let an Ass be als well decked as may be with a lions skin and yet will his long ears declare what he is. Let a Uoulfe be never so well ●…led with a ●…hepes skin, yet occasion being offered, he will show high self to be a ravening & blood ●…hristie devorer of those poor beasts, whose skin he was clothed with. So al●…hogh that hitherto ye have most craftily ●…ouered yourself with Christ's name, yet ●…ow thou dost show thyself to be a filthy ●…dolater, and falls worshipper of God, ●…nd that the love to thy Idols and Ido●…atrous mass (which thou complanes that ●…e have expelled) hath moved thee to ●…rite, and not the love of God and Sal●…ation of thy brethren as thou pretendeth. ●…hou fayest that we have expelled Christ 〈◊〉 his images, it became thee first to ●…ue proven that he was present in yma●…s, and then thy argument had been the stronger. But that images are forbidden of God, & that his people shall abhor them and flee from them, as from snares that catcheth the souls of ignorants in the miserable captivity of Idolatry, and divorcement from God, the whole Scriptures do testify. First the Lord our God expressly forbiddeth in the Second commandment 
Exod. 20.  of the decalogue, that we shall make any images, similitudes or lycknesses of any kind of thing in the heaven above, the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Secondly that if it shall come to pass that Satan shall fill any man's heart with vanity to make images, then are we forbidden to tender any kind of reverence ather in outward gestur or in invard mind. In these words thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worshep them. thirdly he promiseth to punish the transgressors of this commandment, unto the third & fourth Generation. This is the immutable decry of the most highest, concerning images, whereupon we rest, not caring what men of how great authority, nor the wicked world, be cankered custom hath ather done or used to the contrary. How grievously Idolaters are punished, the severe and rigorous execution used by Moses against them (who yet was the meakest man on earth) evidently witnesseth, read the 32. of Exodus 
Nun. 12. Erod. 32.  The intysers to Idolatry must be killed although they appear to be holy, how near so ever they be of kin, friendship or alliance. 
Deuter. 15  The miserable (and unto this hour endless) captivity of the whole 10. Tribes 
1. Reg. 12.  of Israel (whom jeroboam the son of Nebat caused to sin) sufficiently doth declare unto us, both how sore God hateth 
2. Reg. 17.  Idolatry and punisheth Idolaters, how detestable they have always been in the sight of all God's Prophets, David 
Psalm. 115  in his Psalms, Esayas in his Prophecy, and the wise man in his wisdom 
Esay. 40. and 41.  testifieth, jeremy calleth them the doctrine of vanity, and yet ye are not affray 
Sapie. 13.  ed by your Theology to affirm that they are lay men's books, whereby Christ presenteth 
jeremis. 10  himself to his people, as if he delighted to teach his people with vanity, God send you better knowledge, if that of ignorance and not of malice ye writ.  
Seeing therefore that as the wise man sayeth, they were not from the beginning, neither shall continue for ever, with him 
Saple. 14  I conclude that they are miserable, and among the dead is their ho●…e that worshippeth and calleth them Gods, that are the works of men's hands. Finally whither we that dependeth upon God alone to receive our doctrine of his mouth or ye that stablisheth your doctrine by the authority of the Church, of Counsels and Doctors, which of us exponeth the Scripture according to man's invention. Let all men judge as they will answer to God.    

renat's Epistle the fourth Section.  
I Require, o learned and lettered men, for the death of Christ's sake to weigh a●…d consider this foresaid, for I burn when I see so expert men with a great number of others led by your persuasion and example in so manifest peril and danger of their Salvation. Wherefore abhor and reject ye the Christian people's Sacrifice that is the mass? which we have figured by the Law of nature and of Mayses, pro missed in the Prophets, which we have exhebit and given us in the evangel, which was received and authorized in the primative Kirk, and hath been always used so oft as a thing most necessary by all the Elect and predestmat people of God, which thing most plainly witnesseth, Dionysius Areopagita, Ignatius with the rest of the holy Fathers of the primative Kirk, whose judgement and authority in exponing and declaring the holy Scripture, namely of the Sacrifice of the mass. I pray you (o conving men) let us with soberness follow and not lean to our own wit and judgement in a matter of so great importance. Let us steer up the negligence and sluggishness of Pastors, not tollarable, and let us plainly argue their abuses with the vehemency of God's word. And I pray God of his infinite mer ●…y that we may confirm and keep the Christian people in true Faith and god lines, and that we may edify and help as belongeth to Christian men, ilk one other of charity in Religion and godly life. Because we ought to advert most ●…r ●…ūspectlie that we ꝑuert not the true faith and Religion, and fear lest we understand ●…uer high in exponing of holy Scripture. And first of all we ought to provide that we leid in captivity, our own wits and others, & that understanding we may have the poverty & humility of Spirit which Christ our Lord placed in the foundation of Christian building and hath promised to recompense the same with the Realm of heaven Mat. 15. The Lord mo●… grant us all to be so affected. And thus fair ye well o learned men, in Christ jesu. And requireth you again that ye would declare me manifestly as the Minister of God's word ought to do, what ye think of the mass, the Christian people's Sacrifice, for so I hope it shall come to pass that by quiet talking had on ather party & writings given and taken, we shallbe instructed by the holy Spirit, what we our selves should believe in so weighty a matter and what we ought to propone to others, and set forth to trow. For the thing that I trow and belevis is teached by the holy Scriptures, the holy doctor's writings and consuetude of the Kirk. The same I as it ap●…rteineth to every Christian man to do. I profess simple and plainly with out any simulation. Written at Edinburgh in the Palace of the most noble Queen of Scotland 18. calend of December. Remember I pray you, and prent in your minds that in the last days the continual and daily Sacrifice is to be ●…aken away, Laws and statutes to be ●…brogat and changed, and ye know by ●…home, by the Antichrist, & they that ta●…th part with him, take head to yourselves my brethren I beseech you. God is ●…itnes of what mind I deal with you.  

D. Feargussones answer.  
HOw the aforsaides are by us weighed and considered, let the indifferent ●…ader judge, what zeil it is that hither●…o hath, and yet still doth burn you, I ●…aue already noted. Ye ask of us why we ●…eiect the mass, which ye call the Chri●…tiane people's Sacrifice, we answer. Be●…ause it is not that thing in died which ●…e call it in word, as at length before I ●…aue proven, neither are ye able to prove 〈◊〉 God's word that ever Christ appoin●…ed his ministers to offer the Sacramen●…all bread and wine, in Sacrifice for their ●…wn sins, and the sins of the people, ●…swel dead as alive. Cry out, and affirm ●…his matter with als many words as ye ●…st, ye●… may ye not be believed until ye ●…roue it by the Scriptures, other Sacri●…ces than God's word teacheth us, we may not with saif conscience admit, except we wilfully provoke God to punish and consume us in his wrath, as he did Nadab 
Zeviti. 10.  and Abihu, and utterly reject us, as he did Saul. S. Paul writing to the 
1. Samuel 13.  Romans exhorteth us to give up our bodies, a lining Sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God, which he affirmeth to be 
Roma. 12.  our reasonable serving of God. The Apostle writing to the hebrews, also exhorteth us to offer the Sacrifice of thanks giving always to God, through Christ, which (he sayeth) is the fruit of 
Hebre. 13.  our lips which confess his name, willing us also not to forget to do good, and to distribute (he meaneth our substance to them that ●…edeth) for (sayeth he) with such Sacrifices God is pleased, other Sacrifices appertaining to Christian people, we know none commanded in the new Testament.  
Ye boast much of Moses, of the Law of nature, the Prophets & the evangel, but out of none of them bring ye any prufe for your purpose. Ye affirm that your mass was authorized in the primative Church, and always used of Gods chosen, and yet ye infer none of their exercises for your example, but the bare names of two men, whose authority and strength is to weak to withstand God's word.  
As to Dionysius Areopagita, I will set his master S. Paul against him, writing to the Corinthians, who having occasion to treat of the verity of the lords Supper (abused in that Church) rehearseth 
1. Cor. 11.  the words of Christ's institution, which of him he had received, faithfully without adding to, or diminishing, which words and whole action there by him recited, how like they are to your mischievous mass, I make yourself judge. Then why there ●…ght we to credit the Elect vessel of God S. Paul that spoke not his own words but Christ's, or to Dionisse that hath added unto them (if it be true that ye allege on him) judge also. Ye will never be able to prove that, that Dionisse of whom ye mean, was that Dionysius Areopagita that believed Paul's doctrine, in the Acts 
acts. 17.  of the Apostles, and although it were, yet is he of no such authority as an Angel of heaven, whom yet we are forbidden 
Sala. 1  to credit, teaching any other doctrine than Paul hath taught, but rather to hold him accursed. But that ever Paul taught ather to Timothy, Titus, or any other Minister that he did appoint over any Church, the marvelous craft of massing, the Scripture maketh no mention. accursed therefore be the teachers of it as the Apostle hath commanded us to hold them. As to Ignatius and the rest of your holy Fathers, I have spoken my judgement of them already, that is, that I neither contemn them nor build my Faith upon them, seeing that they were but men and so might be deceived, and also deceive others. As to your requeist, wherein ye exhort us to follow them obsolutlie in exponing the Scriptures, it is more than any Christian may admit, seeing that we may follow no man, further than they follow Christ, neither in this case call any man Father or Master upon earth, having one Father the Eternal 
●…th. 23.  God, and one Master Christ jesus in the heaven, yea, and although that Paul was the Elect and most worthy vessel to bear the name of Christ, to Nations, 
●…tis. 9  Kings, and the children of Israel, and taught of God in the thrid Heaven, 
Cor. 12.  the most wonderful and unspeakable Mysteries of God, yet durst he not be so bold as precisly to desire men to follow him, no, but ever rebuked their depending 
1. Cor. 1. 1. Cor. 11. Ibid. 3.  upon men most severely, exhorting them to follow him as he followed Christ affirming that neither he that plan●…ed nor he that watereth, is any thing but God that giveth the increase, is all in all. etc. Moreover the Lord by his Prophet accurseth all such as dependeth upon men, in these words. Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his 
jerem. 17  arm, and withdraveth his heart from the Lord. These and the like comminations will not suffer us to trust in man, or make him the Pattern of our salvation, lest we be accursed of God. As to the ●…nggishnes of your Pastors we leave them to be stirred up of you, as ye think good, for in our judgements they are so fast a sleep that they can not be walkned so unsavere 
math. 〈◊〉.  that they can not be salted, & so blind that they can not be lightened, we have therefore long ago determined by the word of God to give none of our holy things to 
math. 7.  your dogs, nor cast any more of our precious Pearls before your filthy Swine. Lift up your voce & cry als loud as ever ye can, yet shall it come to pass that when Baal heareth his Chaplanes and sendeth them Fire to consume their Sacrifice, that then your ignorant Idol bishops (who for the most part knoweth neither new nor old) shall preach the evangel, yea, your holy Father S. Frances, shall 
●…egenda 〈◊〉 de 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. fo●…o ●…40.  als soon make good Christianes' of the fou les that he preached to, as that ye being an Idolater shall cause an ignorant Idol to do the duty of a painful Pastor. There did never one of them enter in as the dure of the sheepfold, but clam up another ●…ay, by Sy●…onie, by violence, by requeis●…s of great men, by Pope's Bulls, and dispensations, by Sorcery and witchcraft, wherefore we understand (that as Christ hath said of them) they be thieves and murderers, let the dead therefore 
●…on. 10. ●…k. 9  〈◊〉 there dead. Seeing that we are commanded to preach the Gospel to Christ's dispersed flock. I am assured ye mean not (when as ye speak of ●…uggish Pastors) of our Pastors and preachers, for in your conscience (I doubt not) but ye think them to vigilant, and would wish that they were a●…s s●…ack as your own, for than should ye not have needed to have written this letter. I pray God of his infinite mercy to deliver his people from false doctrine, and give them grace to hear his voice only, as becometh his sheep, a●…ding in him by true Faith and unfenied love, imprenting his true fear in their hearts that they presume not to understand above that which is meet to be understanded, but according to sobriety, as God hath dealt to every man the measure 
Roma. 1●…  of Faith. we know that God hath blessed the meak, but there is a difference betuix meekness and ignorant error, God give us his grace therefore to imbraice jesus Christ, freely now offered unto us with humility and meekness, giving a bold 
math. 10●…  confession of his name before this froward generation, that he may confess us before 
mark. 8.  his Father in heaven. Amen.  
Now ye bid us fair well, and thereafter ye require us to declare unto you manifestly (as the Minister of God's word ought to do) what we think of the mass, which ye throughout this letter have called the Christian people's Sacrifice. This your requeist we dare not put back, not for that we judge that ye will believe the truth when it is told you, but because we are bound to give a reckoning of the hope that is in us, to every one that demandeth it. 
●…eter. 〈◊〉.   
I have already declared unto you what Sacrifices are appointed for Christian people, to offer, out of the 12. Chap. of S. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, and 13. to the hebrews. But as to a Sacrifice for our sins daily to be offered (as were the Sacrifices and oblations of the old Testament) appointed of God unto the time of reformation, we understand that not only have we no neide so to do (being 
〈◊〉. 9  now already purged by the blood of Christ) but also whosoever he be that so doth, esteemeth the Sacrifice of Christ insufficient, which the Apostle affirmeth, he offered once for all on the Croce. And as it is (sayeth he) appointed unto men that they shall once die, and after that cometh the judgement, so Christ was once offered 
〈◊〉. 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉 the 9  to take away the sins of many, and unto them that look for him shall appear the Second time without sin, unto Salvation. From the 7. Chapter unto the midst of the 10. Chapter, he traveleth at length in this matter, finding no other fault with the levitical Sacrifices, but that they were daily offered, because they had not strength to expel sin at ones, and therefore inferreth that Christ's Sacrifice was the consummation and end of them, and all other Sacrifices for sins. Forasmuch as he by one oblation hath done that thing (to wit, consecrated for ever them that are Sanctified) which they be so often offerring & Sacrificing, could not do, concluding, that where remission of sin is, there resteth no more offerring for sin. Cursed be he them, that offereth for sin any more, seeing the holy Ghost hath concluded the contrary.  
As to your mass ye shall have our judgement of it in few words, and what we do mislike in it. first we mislike the person that sayeth it, and judgeth him to be a blasphemer of Christ's death, because he taketh upon him the office of Christ, namely, he undertaketh by that Sacrifice which he offered, to pacify the wrath of God the Father, conceived against aswell his own sins, as the sins of them for whom he offereth, whither they be alive or dead. But this can no man do, but Christ alone, for of him and to him, alone were these words spoken out of the heaven, by the mouth of his Father. This is my well-beloved Son in whom I am well pleased, hear him. wherefore your 
●…ath. 3. and ●…7.  priest in his mass taking the aforesaid office upon him, doth all that in him lieth to spoil Christ of his dignity, & therefore worthy to be judged a false Christ, and a traitor to man's Salvation, for if Christ pronounceth in the evangel, all such as came before him (usurping the name of Messiah, or title of saviours) to be thieves 
●…hon. 10.  and murderers. How much more worthy are they of that name, that dare presume to be saviours, ather of them sellues or others now when he is come and parfited the work of our Redemption. Secondly, we mislike the whole action of your mass, which from the beginning to the end, is nothing else but als plain an Antithesis or contraposition to the lords Supper, as light is to darkness, or truth to falsehood. First the Lord jesus when he institute this Sacrament and did minister it (I doubt not most sincerely) to his Apostles, was no other ways clothed then his common custom was. And your priests, after whose ordure I can not tell, for Aaron's priests they will not grant themselves to be, and according to Melchisedeces ordure there was never one but Christ, then must they be Baal's chaplanes, they I say dissagysed like players (every piece of their cote containing a mystery) proceedeth to their mass. The Lord jesus sat down with 
Luk. 22.  the 12. Apostles. They stand at an alter alone, he gave thanks unto the Father before the Ministration, and they before 
1. Cor. 11.  their mass rehearseth there blasphemous Confiteor, wherein every S. in heaven is made equal (or as we say) jakfellow like, unto the Eternal God. He preached the comfortable promises of Salvation 
Ihon. 13. 14. 15. 16.  mixed with exhortations to mutual love and amity. etc. In that language that they all might understand, they neither preach nor exhort, but occupieth the time with speaking to the wall, and now & then for the manersakes, one word or two (turning them to the people) in a strange language that neither the people nor the great test part of those god makers themselves understandeth. In giving the Apostles the bread, the Lord jesus declared unto 
math. 26. mark. 14.  them in plain words, what it signifieth namely his body, which should be broken for them. In these words, take eat, this is my body which is broken for you. They round and whisper their words, with a certain magical susurration, as if it were treason to speak them that the people might hear, saying, hoc est enim corpus meum adding this word enim at their own hand, but this is not done without a mystery, for to this end say they do we it, that as the Virgin conceived Christ, with these five words, Fiat michi secundum verbum tuum so we may make Christ of 
Luk. 1.  bread by other five words distinctly under one breath, without respiration, brought 
The caute les of the mass.  forth, these profound mysteries every soul priest knoweth not, but only the great Rabbins. All that were present with Christ were partakers of the Sacra ment, and no man is partaker with them, 
mark. 14.  for they devour all alone. But some of them will say, we debar no man if any would take part, the contrary is true, it was never seen that ever a priest would part, with a quarter of his God to another priest, no not with a lick of his dish, and that is les, this I say they never did to their own brethren of craft, much les to a lay man, as they did call them, I never knew any thing that ever they might or did forbear to any man at that dosoned disione except it were a kiss of the Patene, & that only to him that lifted their tail or else to some gentlemen that sat by, whom they would gratify. If temporal men had been als evil fellows of their carnal brekfasts as ye were of your fantastical Feasts, some of you had not worn so fat necks as ye did. Christ gave unto his Apostles the fruit of the wine tree without any mixture, but your mass is not rightly said, except there be commixtion of water and wine together. In the lords Supper both true bread and true wine is ministrat to the communicants, & in the mass the papist affirmeth that there remaineth neither bread nor wine, after their Incantation, but accidents, as whytnes, roundness, and colour. etc. when the Lord jesus had finished his ministration, the Evangelist sayeth. They praised God with a Hymn or Psalm of thanksgiving. Bot 
math. 26.  when mass is done, there is nothing bot ●…te ●…issa est ather said or sung, whereunto is added a latin blessing, with the aers of an empty cup. Now look what ye think of your mass, for in my answer to the second Section of your Epistle I have proven it to be abominable Idolatry because that bread and wine corruptible Creatures, are in it worshipped in place of God the Father and Christ his Son, that it spoileth Christ of his Preisthead, & so of his Sacrifice, in that ye that offer it usurpeth his office upon you, I have pro ●…ē also. The wicked opinion of it, to wit, that it is Satisfactory for sins, in this argument also is included, and that the whole action of it in all points dissagreeth with the institution of the Lords S●… per, the conferring of the one action with the other above written sufficiently proveth. wherefore we judge that your papistical invention, the Idolatrous Sacri fice of the mass, is to be rejected and abhorred of all true worshippers of God as that, that is co●…nelious and blasphemous to God the Father, and Derogation to the honour and dignity of the Lord jesus his Son. This is it that we think of your mass, and this doctrine we teach to the people out of the infallible word of God, that endureth for ever, neither have we respect to Doctor's consuetude, or bare 
〈◊〉. 40.  name of the Church, acknowledging only that to be the true Church in died 
Ephest. 5.  which rendereth humble obedience unto her husband. Christ jesus.  
This letter ye say was written in the queens majesties palace at Edinburgh, I am the more sorry in died, that such as ye are hath any interteniment in the palaces of Princes, but it is no new thing to see false Prophets more familiar in the Court, than the true sernandes of God, Amazias the Idolatrous priest of Bethel, was in greater estimation with jeroboam 
Amazias  King of Israel, then was Amos the true 
Amos.  prophet of God, as the Imperious bragging of that Idolater witnesseth. O thou Scar (sayeth Amazias) go i'll thou ●…way 
Amos. 7.  into the land of juda, and there eat thy bread and prophecy there, but prophecy no more at Bethel, for it is the kings Chapel and the kings Court. jesabels' Idolatrous priests were better beleued 
1. Res. 22.  of A●…hab King of Israel although they prophesieth lies to his destruction, than the Prophet of God Micheas that told him the truth to his Salvation.  
God of his great mercy, purge the heart of our native Princess from all leaven 
A prayer.  Papistical, and plant in place thereof his ●…rew fear, and love to his eternal verity.  
Ye desire us to prent into our minds that in the latter days the continual and daily Sacrifice shallbe taken away, understand ye this of your mass? if ye do, them certanely, Master Doctor, your Theology is not only rude, but also repugnant to the mind of the Prophet in this place, if ye mean of that sentence that Daniel rehearseth in the end of his 12. & last Ca. (as I think ye do) for I know no place where this sentence (that ye have thrown for your purpose) is written but in that place, if ye mean of that sentence, I trust the Readers shall easily perceive both your ignorance (if of ignorance ye have inferred it) and otherways your malice in throwing of this Text. Daniel (as he himself confesseth in the beginning of his 
Daniel. 9  9 Chapter) understand by books, name lie of jeremies' Prophecy, that the Lord had appointed his people to endure banishment out of their own country, & to abid captives in Babylon 70. years which years 
jerem. 29  drawing near an end, Daniel (as an cairful for his people & their returning ho me) everted him self unto God by ardent & earnest prayer, desiring him not to differ the time of their deliverance any longer, but for his own names ●…aike (although they were not worthy) to restore them to their liberty, while he was yet speaking, praying and confessing his own sin, and the sins of his people unto God. The Angel of the Lord is sent unto him, to otter unto him the years determinat of their captivity, their returning home, the re-edifying of the city, the coming of Christ, his slaughter, and destruction of the city jerusalem. By a vision is declared unto him in the 10. Chap. the cause of 
Daniel. 10  ●…he hinderante or defferring of their deli●…rance, which come by the means of ●…ambises Prence of Persia. The king●…omes of the earth and monarchs, with their Kings (as of Persia, Grecia, Egypt Syria and the Romans, one striving with an other and all against God) are ●…t length wonderful mystically recited in ●…he 11. Chap. Finally in the 12. Chap. is 
Daniel. 11 and 12.  ●…eclared how the Church being even scattered and dispersed, shallbe delivered by Christ's death, which should abolish the ●…aylie Sacrifice, which being done, he Prophecies that the temple, and the city ●…atbe destroyed by the abominable de●…ation, which is the Host of the Romans, mystically also signifeing. By the thousand, two hundredth and nynety days and by the thousand three hundredth & five and threttie days, the time from the devastation of jerusalem to Christ's second coming in the Clouds, the Prophet also in the mean time is certified that although he depart out of this life, yet shall he stand up at the end of the days, in the general resurrection, to ring with God in glory. Let all men now judge whither that this prophecy appertaineth to the abolishing of the judaical Sacrifices or not, and then shall it appear how falsely and ignorantly ye throw this place, as I have said, contrary to the prophets mind, adding of your own, that this Sacrifice shall be taken away in the last days, where as there is no such word in the Prophecy, ●…id it who so list, but with such lies & additions hath your kingdom (that now boasteth to fall) been holden up.  
To conclude ye say that Laws and statutes shallbe abrogat by Antichrist and 
Daniel. 7  his adherents, we are very well contented that the name of Antichrist be ascribed unto that man, or those men that ever hath abrogat, or now doth abolish any Law, statute or ordinance, that ever God in his  
●…tlie rage passeth the bounds of all modesty. The first was Stephanus the sixth, this made tyrant sound after that he was made Pope, first of all abrogat all the Acts of his predecessor Formosus, and gathering a Counsel they concluded to take the body of the dead man out of the grave, 
〈◊〉 de vit●… pon●…  and beside some other superstitions used toward high, Stiven, caused the two fingers of his right hand to be strooken of, these two namely that he used to consecrate his priests with, and thereafter caused the fingers to be cast in Tiber. The other, to wit, Sergius the third, thought it not enough to abrogat, yet once again, the Acts of the same Formosus, and to put all out of authority that he had authorized, but caused the Second time the dead Cor●…s to be taken out of the grave and the head to be strooken from it, as if he had been leving, and the body as not worthy of Sepulchre, to be casten in tiber ●…lood. Great was this controversy (sayeth Platyna) and a most wicked example, specially this consuetud being afterward still almost observed of such as were Popes, that ather they brak or utterly abrogat the constitutions and Acts of their 〈◊〉 decessors. Hitherto platyna, yet I am compelled to recite an example more of your holy Fathers, written also by the same Platyna, and so conclude. Paul the Second of that name, before he was Pope, called Petrus barbo an venetianes borne, he succeeded to Pius the Second, and immediately after he was established in his dignity, did bear such hatred and invy to all that ever his predecessor had done, that strait way he abrogat all his acts & statutes, and put out of office, all the learned men that the other had gathered together, to be his abbreviatoures, among whom Platina was one, who somwhates more boldly than the rest, exhorted the Pope that their cause might be suffered to come to trial and examination before the judges. When the Pope had frowardly looked on him a while, he bursteth forth his answer in these words. Ita nos (inquit) ad judices renoc●…s/ ac si nescires omnia ●…ra in Scrinio pectorie nostri collocat●… esse. Sic stat sententia (inquit) loco cedant omnes/ c●…nt quo velunt/ nihil eos moror/ pontifex suin mihi●…licet pro arbitrio animi/ ●…orum acta et ●…ere et approbare. Hitherto Platyna that is to say, and dost thou so (sayeth 〈◊〉) call us back unto the judges, as if thou knew not that all Laws were placed within the chest of our breist. Thus (sayeth he) standeth the sentence. Let all 
Marck ●…ood render this proud bragging.  men give place, let them go where they list, I regard them nothing, I am heigh Bishop, and it is lesome to me according to the arbitrament of my mind, ather to break, or allow the Acts of others. The Lord open your eyes, ears and mind, to see, to hear and consider the truth, & considering it, to imbraice it. For if this be not Antichristes' voice, then shall it never be hard. To the lord our god be praise for ever more, that thus hath Illuminat our eyes to see and espy the enemy to all righteousness, to the end we may avoid him, and so the plagues that God hath prepared to pour out upon that beastly kingdom, and the partakers therewith. Thus have I answered (according to my knowledge) this foresaid Epistle, although not so learnedly as some other of my brethren could have done, yet (I doubt not) treuly, and according to the Scriptures of our God, whose power is sufficient to beat down all imaginations and heigh 
2. Cor. 10.  things, that do exalt themselves against the knowledge of God, yea, and able to bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ, who is God over all, to whom be praise for ever and 
〈◊〉. 9  ever. So be it.   
From Dumfermling the 26. of April. 1562.   

Deut. 18.  
The Prophet that shall presume to speak a word in my Name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that speaketh in the name of other Gods, even the same Prophet shall die.