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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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This is the whole Summary of all that he had to say. Hereof he would seem to conclude, that within the first six hundred years after Christ, the Common Service was ministered openly in a tongue unknown unto the people: Albeit he hath hitherto alleged neither Scripture, nor Council, nor Decree, nor Doctor, nor Example, or Practise of the Primitive Church to prove the same.
This is the whole Summarie of al that he had to say. Hereof he woulde séeme to conclude, that within the first sixe hundred yeeres after Christe, the Common Seruice was ministred openly in a tongue vnknowen vnto the people: Albeit he hath hitherto alleged neitheir Scripture, nor Councel, nor Decrée, nor Doctour, nor Example, or Practise of the Primitiue Churche to prooue the same.
Of the other side,1 it is sufficiently proved of our part, that the fourteenth Chapter to the Corinthians must of necessity belong to the use of Common prayers: and that in the Primitive Church, the Service was every where Ministered in the Vulgar Tongue, and that the Priest and the people prayed all together: I have proved, not only that the Nations, that understood Greek, or Latin, had their Service in the Greek, or Latin tongue, but by Theodoretus, ⟨p. 219⟩Sozomenus, S. Ambrose, and S. Hierome, that the Syrians had their Service in the Syrian tongue: by S. Ba••le, that the Egyptians had their Service in the Egyptian tongue: The Libyans, the Thebans, the Palestines, the Arabians, & the Phoenicians, each of them in their own tongue: by Origen, that all Barbarous people had their Service in their several Barbarous tongues: by Sulpitius, that the people of France, then called Gallia, had their Service in the French tongue. S. Hierome saith, Vox quidem dissona, sed una Religio. Tot penè psallentium chori, quot gentium diversitates. The voice is divers, but the Religion is alone. There be wellnigh so many companies of people singing,