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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 .10. Division.Article 3 › M. Hardinge. The .10. Diuision.
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M. Harding. The .10. Division.
M. Hardinge. The .10. Diuision.
S. Augustine speaking of the title written by Pilate on the Cross,1 saith thus: It was in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, Rex Jud•eorum. For these three tongues were there in preeminence before all other. Hebraea, propter Judaeos in Die lege gloriantes: Graeca, propter gentium sapientes: Latina, propter Romanos multis ac penè omnibus jam tun• gentibus imperantes. The Hebrew, for the Jews, that gloried in the law of God: the Greek, for the wise men of the •entiles: the Latin, for the Romans bearing rule at that time over many, and almost over all nations. Now where he saith here, that the Greek tongue was in preeminence Propter gentium sapientes, for the wise men of the Gentiles: he discusseth fully the doubt, that might seem to rise of S. Hieromes saying, and showeth, that the Greek tongue was common not to all the vulgar people of the whole Orient, but to the wise men only, and that for the attaining of learning. And for this it is to be noted, that the Scripture reporteth the vulgar tongue of the Lycaonians, to have been uttered in the hearing of Paul, and Barnabas, not by the Magistrates, or other the chief, but by the vulgar people. Turbae levaverunt vocem sua• Lycaonic• dicentes &c. Act. 14. And so S. Hierome is to be understanded to speak in that place, not of all men of the Nations of the East, but rather of a great number, and of some persons of all nations. For else, if all the East had spoken Greek, the Soldiers that buried Gordianus the younger Emperour, apud Circeium Castrum, at Circey Castle, near to the land of Persia, would not have written his title of honour upon his Sepulchre, in Greek, and Latin, in the Persians, Jews, and the Egyptians tongues, ut ab omnibus legeretur, that it might be read of all,