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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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Al these things be confessed,1 and nothing touch this case, nor serve to any other purpose, but only to amaze the ignorant Reader with a countenance of great learning.
Al these thinges be confessed,1 and nothinge touche this case, nor serue to any other purpose, but onely to amase ye ignorant Reader with a countenance of great learninge.
- 1Hieron. in praefatio. in. lib. 2. Commen. ad. •alathas.
But that the whole people of the City of Hippo, where the Service was ministered in the Latin tongue, understood, and spake Latin, who can witness better then S. Augustine him self, that was then Bishop of Hippo? And to pass over that he reporteth of him self, that being borne in Tagasta a City of Africa,1 he learned the Latin tongue, In•er blandimenta nu•ricum, As he was playing under his Nurse, Signifying thereby, that his Nurses understood, and spake Latin:2 In his Book De Catechizandis rudibus; He writeth thus: Let them know, there is no voice, that soundeth in God's ears, but the devotion of the mind. So shall they not scorn at the head Priests, and Ministers of the Church, if they happen in making their prayers unto God, to speak false Latin, or not to understand the words that they speak, or to speak them out of order. He addeth •urther, Non qu•d ista corrigenda non sint, ut populus ad id, quòd planè intelligit, dica, Amen. Not for that, such faults should not be amended to the end that the people, to the thing that they plainly perceive, may say, Amen. Here S. Augustine willeth that the Priests utter their Latin Service distinctly, and truly, that the people may understand them. Again he saith thus: