A reply unto M. Hardinges answerA replie vnto M. Hardinges ansvveare

I find no fault with M. Hardinges Cosmography: but, I trow, Cosmography ⟨p. 167⟩in this case maketh small proof. His proof for the Latin Service,¹ hangeth upon two points. The first is, that all the faith of the West part of the world, came only from the Bishops of Rome: The second is, that the planters of the same Faith ministered the Common Service every where in the Latin Tongue. He knoweth well,² that either of these points is untrue, and will never be proved. And somewhat to touch hereof by the way, S. Paul saith, that he him self had filled all places with the Gospel of Christ, even as far as Illyricum: and that not from Rome, but from Jerusalem: and promiseth, that he would pass by Rome into Spain, as, by report of some, afterward he did: and Theodoretus saith, that Paul came into this Island now called England,³ and here planted the Gospel. The like is commonly surmised by the writers of the British Chronicles, of Joseph of Arimathea. And, although Conjectures in such Antiquities be often uncertain and dark, yet it may seem very likely, that the Religion of Christ came first into this Island, not from Rome, but from the Greeks: both for that in the keeping of Easter day we followed the Church of Graecia, ⁴