AN ANSWER TO A CHALLENGE MADE BY A JESUIT IN IRELAND. WHEREIN THE JUDGMENT OF ANTIQUITY IN THE POINTS QUESTIONED, IS TRULY DELIVERED, AND THE NOVELTY BY JAMES USSHER, BISHOP OF MEATH. MATT. xix. 18. From the beginning it was not so. LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY OF STATIONERS. 1625. TO HIS MOST SACRED MAJESTY, JAMES, BY THE GRACE OF GOD KING OF GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE, AND IRELAND, MOST GRACIOUS AND DREAD SOVEREIGN, WE find it recorded for the everlasting honour of Theodosius the younger, that it was his use to reason with his bishops of the things contained in the holy Scriptures, as if he himself had been one of their order: and of the emperor Alexius in latter days, that whatsoever time he could spare from the public cares of the commonwealth, he did wholly employ in the diligent reading of God's book, and in conferring thereof with worthy men, of whom his court was never empty. How little a Socrat. lib. 7. hist. cap. 22. b Euthym. Zigaben. in Præfat. Dogmatica Panoplia. |