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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 › M. Harding. The .8. Division.Article 3 › M. Hardinge. The .8. Diuision.
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M. Harding. The .8. Division.
M. Hardinge. The .8. Diuision.
Now, how well I am able to prove this, I refer it to your own consideration. The less Asi• being a principal part of the Greek Church, had then the Service in the Greek tongue:1 But the people of sundry Regions, and Countries of the less Asia, then understood not the Greek tongue: Ergo, the people of sundry Regions, and Countries, had then their Service in an unknown tongue. The first proposition, or Major, is confessed as manifest: no learned man will deny it: and if any would, it may easily be proved. The second proposition, or Minor, may thus be proved. Strabo, who travailed over all the Countries of Asia, for perfect knowledge of the same, near about the time of S. Pauls peregrination there, who also was borne in the same, in his 14. Book of Geography writeth, that, where as within that Cherronesus, that is the strait between sea, and sea, there were sixteen Nations by report of Ephorus: 702 of them all only three were Greeks, all the rest Barbarous. Likewise Plinius in the sixth Book Naturalis historiae Ca. 2. declareth, that 713 within the circuit of that Land were three Creek Nations only, Doors, Jones, Atolls: and that the rest were Barbarous.4 Amongest whom the people of Lycaonia was one, who in S. Pauls time spake before Paul and Barnabas in the Lycaonical tongue.
Nowe, how wel I am hable to prooue this, I referre it to your owne consideration. The lesse Asi• beinge a principal parte of the Greeke Churche, had then the Seruice in the Greeke tongue: