A04468:1174
A defence of the Apology of the Church of England containing an answer to…A defence of the Apologie of the Churche of Englande conteininge an answeare to…
A defence of the Apology of the Church of England containing an answer to a certain book lately set forth by M. Harding, and entitled, A confutation of &c. By John Jewel Bishop of Salisbury.A defence of the Apologie of the Churche of Englande conteininge an answeare to a certaine booke lately set foorthe by M. Hardinge, and entituled, A confutation of &c. By Iohn Iewel Bishop of Sarisburie.
Imprinted at London : In Fleetestreate, at the sign of the Elephant, by Henry Wykes, Anno 1567. 27. OctobrisImprinted at London : In Fleetestreate, at the signe of the Elephante, by Henry VVykes, Anno 1567. 27. Octobris
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Chrysostome saithe, 1Non dico, ut Confitearis Conseruo tuo peccata tua. Dicito Deo, qui curet ea: I will thee not to Confess thy Sins unto the Priest, that is thy fellow servant. Confess them unto God, that may heal them. Again, Cogitation tua fiat delictorum exquisitio: Sine teste sit hoc Judicium: Solus Deus te Consitentem videat: Examine thy Sins in thy heart within thee. Let this Judgement be without witness: Let God only see thee making thy Confession. Beatus Rhenanus, a man of great reading, and singular Judgement, hereof writeth thus: Tertullianus de Clancularia ista Confessione admissorum nihil loquitur. Neque eam usquam olim Praeceptam legimus: Tertullian of this Privy Confession of Sins saith nothing. Neither do we read, that the same Kind of Privy Confession in Old times was ever Commanded. M. Harding saith, It was Commanded: Rhenanus saith, It was not Commanded. If Rhenanus words be true, as they be in deed, their are M. Hardinges words most untrue. Likewise it is noted in the very Gloss upon M. Hardinges own Decrees: 2Fortè tunc (tempore Ambrosij) non erat facta Institutio Confessionis, quae modò est: Perhaps then (in the time of S. Ambrose, which was four hundred yéres after Christ) the manner of Confession, that now is used, was not appointed. 3And Gratian saith, Antequam Sacerdoti Ora nostra ostendamus, id est, Peccata nostra Confiteamur, à Lepra peccati mundamur: Before we open our mouth unto the Priest, that is to say, before we make Confession of our Sins, the Leprosy of our Sin is made clean. 4Theodorus saithe, Quidam Deo solummodò confiteri debere peccata dicunt, ut Graeci: Somme say, we ought to Confess our Sins only unto God, as do the Grecians. Peter Lombard the Chief Founder of M. Hardinges Divinity, 5saith thus: Sanè dici potest, quòd sine Confessione Oris, & solution Poenae exterioris, Peccata delentur per Contritionem, & humilitatem Cordis: We may safely say, that without Confession of the Mouthe, and Absolution of the out ward pain, Sins be forgiven by the Contrition, and humility of the Harte.