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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.
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But this one thing, good Reader, I give the further to consider. These Lycaonians, as M. Harding confesseth,1 and as plainly appeareth by S. Luke, being yet Infidels, made their prayers unto their Idols, Jupiter, and Mercury in their own tongue. And may it any wise seem likely, that the same being afterward become Christians, made their prayers unto Almighty God, and to Christ his Son in a strange tongue? If it behoove Idolaters to understand their own prayers, much more it behooveth the people of God, to do the like.
But this one thinge, good Reader, I geue the further to consider. These Lycaonians, as M. Hardinge confesseth,1 and as plainely appeareth by S. Luke, beinge yet Infidels, made their praiers vnto their Idolles, Iuppiter, and Mercurie in their owne tongue. And may it any wise seeme likely, that the same beinge afterwarde become Christians, made their praiers vnto Almighty God, and to Christe his Sonne in a straunge tongue? If it behooue Idolaters to vnderstande their owne praiers, muche more it behooueth the people of God, to doo the like.
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Certainly, if the same Lycaonians were now alive, they would reprove M. Hardinges error in their own tongue.
Certainely, if the same Lycaonians were nowe aliue, they would reproue M. Hardinges errour in their owne tongue.
The blazing of the young Emperor Gordian's grave with five sundry languages, like as it was needless in this place, as all the rest, the matter being confessed, even so it weigheth very much against M. Hardinges side. For if the Barbarous Soldiers of their duty, and allegiance towards their Prince, thought his death worthy to be published in so many tongues: what may then be thought of them, that can not suffer the Death of Christ to be published in any one tongue? And if they so furnished a mortal mans memory, as Capitolinus saithe, Ut ab omnibus legeretur, that it might be read of all men, why then do these men so hide, and bury the immortal memory of the glory of Christ, that saving them selves, they would have it to be read, and seen of no Man?