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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.
Ye may be sure, many men think this your homely stuff not only weak and slender, but also corrupt, venomous, and loathsome. But now by like, ye will amend your fault. But how? Surely by going from very evil to as bad or worse, if ye can do worse, then hitherto ye have done. Julius the Pope (say ye) doth evidently forbid, that a Priest in Ministering the Communion, should dip the Bread in the Cup Now verily your former fault of lying is well amended. For where before the best out, cast in, or changed some of those words, which ye pretend to allege, now ye make every whit new of your own. Where hath Julius these word? I speak not of your false alleging of places in your Books margin. I forgive you the puttinge of Cum enim nemo, in stede of cum omne. These be small and slipper faults, which if they were alone might be winked at in such slipper merchants, as ye are. But let us hear, what Pope Julius saith. Alios quoque audivimus intinctā Eucharistiā populis pro complemento communionis porrigere, We have heard also of others, who give to the people the Eucharist dipped, or steeped, for making up of the Communion. It is to be understanded, that whereas Christ, gave the blessed Sacrament of the Altar to his Apostles, he gave it under both kinds. And when the Priests in some countries, either for lack of wine at all times ready, either for some private fancy, used to dip or steep the sacred body of our Lord under form of Bread in the consecrated ⟨p. 521⟩blood,1 and so to give it to the people: Pope Julius findeth fault therewith, for that neither Christ ordained so, nor the Apostles left such order to the Church. So that Julius meaneth nothing else, but to reprove and reform that use of dipping or steeping the one kind in the other in the Administration of the Communion unto the people. Read the place, who listeth, he shall find the same sense more largely uttered a little after.