His reply took the form of a small treatise entitled Adversus factiosos in ecclesia, in which their conduct was vigorously censured.
They are declared to have ipso facto have fallen into schism, and to have incurred excommunication and irregularity.
It is doubtful whether this tractate was published; but it was widely circulated in manuscript, and proved divisive.
Lister's tract was suppressed by papal Brief (May 1601), and Blackwell rebuked for his unreasonable conduct.
The treatise Adversus factiosos was incorporated into Christopher Bagshaw's Relatio compendium turbarum; a portion of it was reprinted in Thomas Graves Law, Historical Sketch of Conflicts between Jesuits and Seculars in the Reign of Elizabeth (London, 1889), appendix D.