A04474:1577
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.
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Thus S. Cyprian spake these words generally of the authority of all Bishops in their several dioceses: and not of any special authority of the Bishop of Rome: as •t is here untruly affirmed by M. Harding.
Thus S. Cyprian spake these woordes generally of the authoritie of al Bishops in their seueral dioceses: and not of any special authoritie of the Bishop of Rome: as •t is here vntruely affirmed by M. Hardinge.
But he will reply,1 S. Cyprian saith, Universa fraterni•as, That is, The whole Brotherhood ought to be obedient to that one Bishop. And that whole brotherhood must needs be the whole company of all Christian people. Notwithstanding this exposition seem very large, yet if S. Cyprian him self had not opened his own meaning otherwise,2 perhaps some man either of simplicity, or of ignorance might so take it. But S. Cyprian, that doubtless best knew his own mind, understandeth these words, Fraternitas universa, not of all the universal company of all Christian people, throughout all the world, as M. Harding doth, but of the whole brotherhood within every Several, and Particular Diocese. For thus he writeth in the next Epistle following.3 Ferè per provincias universas tenetur, ut ad ordinationes ritè celebrandas, ad eam plebem cui praepositus ordinatur, Episcopi4 •iusdem provinciae proximi quique conueniant, & Episcopus deligatur plebe praesente, &c. Quod & apud nos factum vidimus in Sabini Collegae nostri ordinatione: ut de universae fraterni•atis suffragio Episcopatus ei deferretur. This order is in manner kept in all Provinces, that unto the dew ordering, or installing of a Bishop, the Bishops of the same province that dwell nearest come together to the people of that City, unto which a new Bishop is appointed: and that the Bishop be chosen in the presence of the people. Which thing we saw done in the Election and ordering of our fellow Bishop Sabinus, that the Bishopric was bestowed upon him by the consent, and voices of the whole brotherhood. Here, universa fraternitas, undoubtedly is used for the whole faithful company of one City. In like manner he writeth unto Cornelius of certain, that were returned from Schisms,