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A reply unto M. Hardinges answerA replie vnto M. Hardinges ansvveare
A reply unto M. Hardinges answer by perusing whereof the discrete, and diligent reader may easily see, the weak, and unstable grounds of the Romaine religion, which of late hath been accounted Catholic. By John Jewel Bishop of Salisbury.A replie vnto M. Hardinges ansvveare by perusinge whereof the discrete, and diligent reader may easily see, the weake, and vnstable groundes of the Romaine religion, whiche of late hath beene accompted Catholique. By Iohn Iewel Bishoppe of Sarisburie.
Imprinted at London : In Fleetestreate, at the sign of the Black Oliphant, by Henry Wykes, Anno. 1565Imprinted at London : In Fleetestreate, at the signe of the Blacke Oliphante, by Henry VVykes, Anno. 1565
Article 3 › The B. of Salisbury.Article 3 › The B. of Sarisburie.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The B. of Salisbury.
The B. of Sarisburie.
Or that the People had their Common Prayers then in a strange tongue, that they understood not.
Or that the People had their Common Praiers then in a strange tongue, that they vnderstoode not.
TO furnish out this Article, M. Harding hath laid together a great heap of Stories, Antiquities, Observations of writers, Erections, Propagations, Canons, and Orders of the Church, Cosmography, Situation of Countries, Corruptions and Changes of tongues: which things he might better have used to some other purpose. Now they serve him more for show of learning, then for substance of proof. He hath bestowed upon this treaty, what so ever he could either devise of him self, or find in others, adding besides all manner of beauty, and force unto the same, both with weight of sentence, and also with colour of words. How be it, great vessels be not always full: and the emptier they be, the more they sound. The wise Reader will be weighed with reason, and not with talk. As I said at the beginning, One good sentence were proof sufficient. And if there be any one such in this whole book, I will yield according to promise. If there be none, then must M. Harding consider better of the matter, and begin again. How be it, he hath done, that was the part of a good Orator: that the learned may say, he hath showed learning, and eloquence: the unlearned may think, he hath said some truth.