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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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The B. of Salisbury.
The B. of Sarisburie.
If vain guesses without proof: If the corruption of S. Augustine: If the falsifying of the Emperor Justinian's law, may stand for an answer, then are my allegations fully answered.
If vaine gheasses without proufe: If the corruption of S. Augustine: If the falsifiynge of the Emperour Iustinians lawe, may stande for an answeare, then are my allegations fully answeared.
M. Harding. The .21. Division.
M. Hardinge. The .21. Diuision.
Which ere I answer, I will according to my promise prove, that about nine hundred years past, yea a thousand also, and therefore some deal within his six hundred years, even in S. Gregorius time, the Service was in an unknown tongue in this land of England, then called Britain, and begun to be called England, at least, for so much, as sithence, and at these days is called by the name of England. Bede an English man, that wrote the Ecclesiastical story of the English nation, in the year of our Lord .731. and of their coming to Britain about .285. recordeth that S. Augustine, and his company, who were sent hither, to convert the English people to the Faith of Christ, which the Britons had here proessed long before, having a safe conduct granted them by King Ethelbert, to preach the Gospel where they would: said, and song their service in a Church, builded of old time in the honour of S. Martin, adjoining on the East side of the head City of Kent, whiles the Romans dwelt in Britain. The words of Bede be these. In hac (Ecclesia) conuenire primò,