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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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Here M. Harding hath found a sport, to pass the time withal. He maketh M. Calvin a Patriarch, and setteth him on high in judgement, to condemn all the world. S. Pauls meaning is bombasted, and brought out of tune, with a noise of strange words. And in this point he doubleth, and showeth copy, and playeth •ounde about merrily with his own fantasy. Wherein he may not be much offended, if I say unto him, as S. Hierome said sometime unto S. Ambrose, for his Commentaries upon S. Luke, Verbis Judis: senten•ijs dormitas: That is, your words be pleasant: 1but your senses be half a sleep.
Here M. Hardinge hath founde a sporte, to passe the time withal. He maketh M. Caluin a Patriarke, and setteth him on high in iudgement, to condemne al the worlde. S. Paules meaninge is bombasted, and brought out of tune, with a noice of strange woordes. And in this pointe he doubleth, and sheweth copie, and plaieth •ounde aboute merily with his owne fantasie. Wherein he may not be muche offended, if I say vnto him, as S. Hierome saide sometime vnto S. Ambrose, for his Commentaries vpon S. Luke, Verbis Iudis: senten•ijs dormitas: That is, your wordes be pleasant: 1but your senses be halfe a sleape.
- 1Ruffinus.
For that I saw, these words of S. Paul, If thou Bliss with thy Sprite, might seem doubtful, and divers expositions rising thereupon, I thought it meet, for the more ease of the unlearned, to open, what S. Paul might seem to mean by this word, Sprite, in that place. And following the judgement of sundry old Fathers, I called it a sound, or noise of unknown words. This is it, that M. Harding here so pleasantly calleth Stuffing, and bombast, and a strange newfangled interpretation. Wherein he showeth him self to be somewhat short witted, as may soon appear. For within a few lines after, expounding these words of S. Paul (Quàm decem millia verborum in lingua) he him self useth the like bombast, and the very same stuffing.