The Challenge at Paul's Cross by Bishop
John Jewel.
"If any learned man of all our adversaries, or,
if all the learned men that be alive, be able to bring any one
sufficient sentence out of any old Catholic doctor or father; or
out of any old general Council; or out of the Holy Scriptures of
God; or, any one example of the primitive Church, whereby it may
be clearly and plainly proved,
- that - 1. There was any private mass in the whole
world at that time, for the space of six hundred years
after Christ:
- or that - 2. There was any communion ministered
unto the people under one kind;
- or that - 3. The people had their common prayers,
then, in a strange tongue that they understood not;
- or that - 4. The bishop of Rome was then called
an universal bishop, or the head of the universal Church;
- or that - 5. The people was then taught to
believe that Christ's body is really, substantially,
corporally, carnally or naturally in the Sacrament;
- or that - 6. His body is, or may be in a thousand
places or more, at one time;
- or that - 7. The priest did then hold up the
Sacrament over his head;
- or that - 8. The people did then fall down and
worship it with godly honour;
- or that 9. The Sacrament was then, or now ought
to be, hanged up under a canopy;
- or that - 10. In the Sacrament after the words of
consecration there remaineth only the accidents and
shows, without the substance of the bread and wind;
- or that - 11. The priest then divided the
Sacrament into three parts and afterwards received
himself alone;
- or that - 12. Whosoever had said the Sacrament is
a pledge, a token or a remembrance of Christ's body, had
therefore been judged a heretic;
- or that - 13. It was lawful, then, to have
thirty, twenty, fifteen, ten or five masses said in one
Church, in one day;
- or that - 14. Images were then set up in churches
to the intent the people might worship them;
- or that - 15. The lay people was then forbidden
to read the word of God, in their own tongue:
If any man alive be able to prove any of these
articles, by any one clear or plain clause or sentence, either of
the Scriptures, or of the old doctors, or any of the old General
Council, or by any Example of the Primitive Church; I promise,
then, that I will give over and subscribe unto him."
[from T&T Clark Anti-Nicene Fathers Vol. III, Elucidations
V, p267 ]