A04459:67
An apology or answer in defence of the Church of England with a brief…An apologie or answere in defence of the Churche of Englande with a briefe…
An apology or answer in defence of the Church of England with a brief and plain declaration of the true religion professed and used in the same.An apologie or answere in defence of the Churche of Englande with a briefe and plaine declaration of the true religion professed and vsed in the same.
Londini: printed by Reginald Wolfe, 1564
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hath there ben no strifes, no debates amongest them at no time & why then do the Scotists ⟨image 42⟩and Thomists about that they call meritum congrui, & meritū condigni, no better agree together? Why agree they no better among themselves concerning original sin in the blessed virgin: concerning a solemn vow, and a single vow? Why say the Canonists that auricular confession is appointed by the positive law of man, and the Schoolmen contrary wise, that it is appointed by the law of God? Why doth Albertus Pius dissent from Caietanus? why doth Thomas dissent from Lomb•rdus, Scotus •rom Thomas, Occanus from Scotus, Alliensis from Occanus: And why do the Nominals disagree from the Reals? And yet say I nothing of so many diversities of fryers and monks, how some of them put a great holiness in eating of Fish, and some in eating of herbs: some in wearing of shows, and some in wearing of Sandals: some in going in a linen garment, and some in a woollen: some of them called whit, some black: some being ⟨image 42⟩shaven broad, and some narrow: some stalking abroad upon pattens, some barefooted: some girt, and some ungert? They ought Iwis to remember how there be some of their own company which say, that the body of Christ is in his supper naturally:1 Contrary other some of the self same company deny it to be so: Again that there be other of them which say, the body of Christ in the holy Communion is rent and torn with our teach,2 and some again that deny the same. Some also of them there be, which write that the body of Christ is quantum in Eucharistia, That is to say, hath his perfect quantity in the Sacrament: Some other again say nay. That there be others of them which say, Christ did consecrate with a certain divine power,3 some that he did the same with his blessing, some again that say he did it with uttering five solemn those words, and some with rehearsing the same words afterward again. ⟨image 43⟩