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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
To the reader: Unto the Christian Reader.To the reader: Vnto the Christian Reader.
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But M. Harding threatened afore hand, that mine Answer (be it true, be it false) shall soon be answered. How be it, if he will not dissemble, but deal plainly, and lay out the whole, and answer the whole, as, he seeth, I have dealt with him, perhaps it may require him some longer time. But if he dismember my sayings, and •ulle out my words, and take choice of my sentences, without regard, what goeth before, or what cometh after: or, if he send us over such pretty Pamphlets, ⟨image 4⟩as he lately printed together, and joined with the Turkish News of Malta, I warn him before hand, I may not vouchsafe, to make him answer.
But M. Hardinge threatened afore hande, that mine Answeare (be it true, be it false) shal soone be answered. How be it, if he wil not dissemble, but deale plainly, and laye out the whole, and answeare the whole, as, he seeth, I haue dealte with him, perhappes it may require him some longer time. But if he dismembre my sayinges, and •ulle out my woordes, and take choise of my sentences, without regarde, what goeth before, or what cometh after: or, if he sende vs ouer suche pretie Pamflettes, ⟨image 4⟩as he lately printed togeather, and ioined with the Turkish Newes of Malta, I warne him before hande, I may not vouchesaue, to make him answeare.
Notwithstanding, before he address him self to his second Book, I would counsel him, first, to consider better the oversights, and scapes of his former Book: and further, to think, that, what so ever he shall write, it will be examined, and come to trial. And let him remember, it is not sufficient, to call us Sacramentaries, and Heretics: or to condemn our Books for pelf, and trash, and fardels of lies, before he see them. For these things will now no longer go for Arguments. But before all things, let him write no moe Untruths: For thereof he hath sent us enough already: Let him no more wrest, and rack the Scriptures: Let him no more neither misallege, nor misconstrue, nor corrupt, nor alter the holy Fathers: Let him no more imagine Councils, and Canons, that he never saw: Let him no more bring us, neither his Amphilochius, nor his Obadiah, nor his Hippolytus, nor his Clemens, nor his Leontius, nor any other like childish forgeries: nor his Guesses, nor his Visions, nor his Dreams, nor his Fables: Let him no more bring one thing for an other: And, to be short, let him bring no moe Contradictions in his own tales, nor be found contrary to him self. Otherwise, the more he striveth, the more he betrayeth his own cause.