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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 .22. Division.Article 3 › M. Hardinge. The .22. Diuision.
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M. Harding. The .22. Division.
M. Hardinge. The .22. Diuision.
Where as S. Augustine, after that the English Nation had received the faith, and he had been Archbishop over them, having found, the Faith being one, diversity of customs in diverse Churches, one mane• of Masses in the holy Romaine Church, an other in that of France: for this, and ⟨p. 187⟩certain other purposes, sent two of his Clergy, Laurence, and Peter to Rome, to be advertised amongst other things, what order, manner, and custom of Masses, it liked S. Gregory, the Churches of the English nation should have. Hereunto that holy Father answered, that what he espied, either in the Romaine, or French, or any other Church, that might be most acceptable to almighty God, he should choose out, and gather together, and commend the same to the Church of England, there to be left in custom to continue. Li. 1. Ca. 27. If it had then ben thought necessary, the Service of the Mass to be in English, or if it had been translated into the English tongue, it is not to be thought, that Bede, who declareth all things concerning matters of Religion so diligently, specially professing to write an Ecclesiastical story, would have passed over that in silence. And if the Mass had been used in the English tongue, the Monuments, and Books so much multiplied among the Churches, would have remained in some place, or other. And doubtless, some mention would have been made of the time, and causes of the leaving such kind of Service, and of the beginning the new Latin Service. As certain of S. Gregory's works turned into English by Bede him self have been kept, so as they remain to this day.