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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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Again, if all the East had spoken Greek, sundry the holy Fathers would not have been so •n•ious to the common weal of the Church, as to hide their singular works from the reading of all, which they wrote in Barbarous and vulgar tongues, to the commodity only of their brethren that understood the same.1 Antonius that wrote seven not able Epistles to diverse Monasteries of Apostolic sense and speech, as S. Hierome witnesseth, in the Egyptian tongue. Likewise holy Ephrem of Edessa, Bardesanes of Mesopotamia, who wrote very excellent works in the Syriacal tongue.
Againe, if al the East had spoken Greeke, sundrie the holy Fathers woulde not haue beene so •n•ious to the common weale of the Church, as to hide their singular woorkes from the readinge of al, which they wrote in Barbarous and vulgare tongues, to the commoditie onely of their brethren that vnderstoode the same.1 Antonius that wrote seuen not able Epistles to diuerse Monasteries of Apostolike sense and speache, as S. Hierome witnesseth, in the Egyptian tongue. Likewise holy Ephrem of Edessa, Bardesanes of Mesopotamia, who wrote very excellent woorkes in the Syriacal tongue.
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Even so did Isaac of Antioch, and Samuel of Edessa priests, write many goodly works against the enemies of the Church, in the same tongue, as Gennadius recordeth. But what shall we speak of all the East? Neither all the Less Asia, and the Countries there adjoining, spake not Greek, one generation before the coming of Christ. For if all had spoken Greek, Mithridates that renowned King of ontus, had not needed to have learned two and twenty languages of so many Nations he was king over, to make answer to suitors, to appoint them orders and laws, and in open audience to speak to them in so many languages without an Interpreter,