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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.
Chrysostom saw, & reproved the superstition thereof in his time by these words:1 Quidam Sacerdotes partem aliquam Evangelij alligant circa column. Dic Sacerdos insipiens: Nonne quotidiè Evangelium in Ecclesia legitur, & auditur ab hominibus? Cui ergo in auribus posita Evangelia nihil prosunt, quomodo eum poterunt circa column suspensa saluare? Ubi est virtus Evangelij? In figuris literarum, an in intellectu sensuum? Certain Priests there be, that bind a piece of the Gospel about their necks. Tell me thou foolish Priest: Is not the Gospel every day read, and heard of men in the Church? If the Gospel do not profit a man being put in his ear, how then can it profit him being tide at his neck? For wherein resteth the power of the Gospel? In the form of the letters, or in the understanding of the sense? So may we say unto M. Harding: Wherein resteth the power of the Psalms, wherewith the Devil is vanquished? In the bare sound of the words, or in the sense, and meaning of the same? Certainly S. Augustine saith,2 The word of God worketh in our hartes, nō quia dicitur, sed quia creditur: Not because it is spoken, but because it is believed. Likewise saith S. Basile, Non qui ore profert verba Psalmi, Psallit Domino: sed quicunque de puro corde proferunt Psalmodiam. He singeth not unto the Lord, that uttereth the words of the Psalm: but they that from a pure heart pronounce the Psalmody: Likewise Origen,3 Fiduciam habet ad Deum, non propter Verba Orationis, vel Psalmi, quamuis videantur bene composita, & de Scripturis electa: sed quia altare cordis sui been construxit. He that prayeth, hath trust in God, not for the words of his prayer, or of the Psalm, although they seem to be well made, and chosen out of the Scriptures: but because he hath well made up the Altar of his heart. This was Origens whole, and only purpose. He exhorteth not the people to hear Service in a strange language. Neither is M. Harding able to show, that there was any such Service in the whole Church of God, either then in Origens time, or within four hundred years after him. Only he encouraged the people to read the Scriptures, yea although they were not able to reach the bottom of them: as it plainly appeareth by his own words following: In Scripturis Sanctis est vis quaedam, quae legenti etiam sine explanatione sufficiat.