A04468:1936
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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M. Harding.
M. Hardinge.
Why do ye not by your quotation direct us to the place, where this saying of Cyril may be found? Know ye not that we have good cause to suspect your dealing? Do we not almost every where find you in manifest lies?1 If ye mean plain Truth, why deal ye not plainly? Christs saying must needs be true,2 Who evil doth, hateth light. Because ye knew the place maketh directly against you, and subverteth your whole Sacramentary Doctrine, ye thought it good policy, to take a word or two for your purpose, and leave the rest, trusting it should not be espied. Wherein ye do like the Scorpion, that casteth forth his venom with the spurt of his tail, and forthwith creepeth away into a hole. Would God as ye abuse the name of Cyril, so ye would stand to the Truth by him even in that place, which ye allege, Substantially declared Who listeth to see the place, let him read Cyril's answer to Theodori•es reprehension of the eleventh anathematisme against ⟨p. 278⟩Nestorius. There he showeth, that Nestorius destroyed the mean of the Union of be the Natures in Christ, to the intent the Body of Christ might be found but a common body as men have, and not a Body proper of the Word,3 having power to vivificate, or quicken all things.* For Nestorius divided Christ, and taught the word to be the Son of God, not of Mary: and Christ Man the Son of Mary only, as Man: and dissolved the whole Mystery of the incarnation so, as Christ should be an other certain Son beside the Word. And because the