A04474:1555
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 4 › The B. of Salisbury.Article 4 › 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.
And writing unto Eulogius the Patriarch of Alexandria, he useth these words: Sanctitas vestra mihi sic loquitur,1 Sicut jussistis: Quod verbum Jussionis, Pe•o, a meo auditu removete. Quia scio, quis sim, & qui sitis: Loco mihi fratres estis: moribus patres. Your holiness writeth thus unto me, As you commanded. This word of Commanding, I beseech you, take away from my hearing. For I know both what I am, and also what you are.2 In place (or dignity) ye are my brethren, in life and manners, ye are my Fathers. Again he saith, Ecce in praefatione Epistolae &c. Behold even in the very preface of the Epistle, that you sent unto me, you have written the name of that Presumptuous title, calling me the universal Pope, notwithstanding I have forbidden it. I beseech your holiness to do it no more. For you do defraud your self, when you give an other more, then reason would. The self same meaning M. Harding might have found twice written, even in the same place of S. Gregory that he here allegeth, if it had pleased him to consider, either what went before, or else what followed immediately after.3 Before, he writeth thus, Non mea causa, sed Dei est. Nec solus ego, sed to•a turbatur Ecclesia.4 Quia piae Leges: quia venerandae Synodi: quia ipsa Domini nostri Jesu Christi manda•a Superbi, atque Pompatici cuiusdam sermonis inuentione turbantur. It is Gods cause, it is not mine: Neither only I, but also the whole Church is troubled. For both the godly Laws, and the Reverend Councils, and the very commandments of our Lord Jesus Christ, are cumbered with the devise of this proud pompous Title. Immediately after it followeth thus: Nunquid ego in hac re pijssime Domine propriā cau•am defendo? O my most Gracious Sovereign, do I herein defend mine own right? By these it may appear, that S. Gregory being Bishop of Rome, would not suffer the name of universal Bishop to be given, neither to any other Bishop, nor to him self.