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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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The B. of Salisbury.
The B. of Sarisburie.
M. Harding, as well here, as else where, thinketh it an easy matter, with a bold Asseveration to smooth his unlearned simple Reader, specially such a one, as hath no eyes to look after him. These words of S, Augustine, saith he, pertain only unto the matter he had then in hand, and therefore may not be forced to any other. And here he remembereth us of a profound point in Logic, that a Negative Conclusion from the Special to the General cannot hold. Here it were a matter worthy the hearing: first, how M. Harding could enter so deeply, to know so much of S. Augustine's meaning: next, for as much as in respect of him self, he evermore fancieth us to be unlearned, how he were able to teach us to know the same. He assureth us upon his word, that these words of S. Augustine must needs be pounded, and restrained to that one only matter, & may not in any wise be stretched farther: & this, he imagineth, was S. Augustine's meaning. Thus, good Reader, by M. Hardinges handling, thou haste here a meaning of S. Augustine's, that S. Augustine himself never meant. For S. Augustine in the same matter, and against the same Heretic Petilian, although not in the same Book, writeth thus:1 Sive de Christo, sive de eius Ecclesia, sive de quacunque re alia, quae pertinet ad Fidem, vitamque nostrā, non dicam, Si Nos, Sed, si Angelus de Coelo nobis annuntiaverit, praeterquàm quod in Scripturis Legalibus, & Evangelicis accepistis, Anathema sit: Whether it be of Christ, or of his Church, or of any thing else what so ever, pertaining either to our life, or to our Faith, I will not say, If I me self, but if an Angel from Heaven shall teach us otherwise, 2then we have received in the Books of the Law, and in the Gospels, hold him accursed.