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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 .38. Division.Article 3 › M. Hardinge. The .38. Diuision.
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M. Harding. The .38. Division.
M. Hardinge. The .38. Diuision.
89.1 The Nations that have ever had their Service in the Vulgar Tongue, the people thereof have continued in Schisms, errors, and certain Judaical observances, so, as they have not been reckoned in the number of the Catholic Church: As the Christians of Moschovia, of Armenia, of Prester John his land in Ethiopia.2 Bessarion asking by way of a question of the Greeks his country men, what Church that is, against the which Hell gates shall never prevail: answereth him self and saith: Aut Latina, aut Graeca est Ecclesia: tertia enim dari non potest. Siquidem aliae omnes haeresibus sunt plenae, quas sancti Patres, & Generales Synodi condemnarunt. Either it is the Latin, or the Greek Church: for there is no third that can be granted. For all other Churches be full of Heresies, which the holy Fathers, and General Councils have condemned. ⟨p. 216⟩Wherefore of these Churches no example ought to be taken for Service in the Vulgar Tongue: as neither of the Churches of Russia, and Moravia, and certain other, to whom above six hundred years paste, it was granted to have the Mass in the Sclavons Tongue, through special licence thereto obtained of the see Apostolic, by Cyrillus and Methodius that first converted them to the Faith. Which manner of Service, so many of them as be Catholic, for good causes have left, and used the Latin, as other Latin Churches do. Concerning the rest yet keeping their Sclavone tongue, beside other errors and defaults, for which they are not herein to be esteemed worthy to be followed, we may say of them, the words of Gregory Nazianzene. Privilelegia paucorum, non faciunt legem communem: The Privileges of a few, make not a thing lawful in common.