A reply unto M. Hardinges answerA replie vnto M. Hardinges ansvveare

Now, if the Decretal Epistle, which M. Harding hath brought in under the name of Anacletus, be nothing else but forged evidence, as it is sufficiently declared: If M. Harding have uncourteously used S. Gregory, cutting of his tale in the middest,¹ and purposely leaving out those words, Tamen Petrus universalis Apostolus non vocatur, yet is not Peter called the Universal Apostle, which was the only matter,² that S. Gregory had then in hand: If S. Gregory say, None of my Predecessors Bishops of Rome, would ever take upon him the name of Universal Bishop: If S. Gregory say,³ It is the puff of arrogance: the word of pride: a new, a pompous, a perverse, a foolish, a rash, a superstitious, a profane, an ungodly, and a wicked name: a name of singularity: a name of error: a name of Hypocrisy: a name of Vanity: and a name of Blasphemy: and that who so ever calleth him self, or desireth to be called by that arrogant name, in the pride of his heart is the forerunner of Antichrist: ⁴and that the quiet, and indifferent bearing of the same is the Destruction of the Faith of the Universal Church: If M. Harding have wittingly,⁵ and openly falsified the words of S. Cyprian, and that twice together in one sentence, as he him self cannot deny: If the Epistle, that he allegeth under the title of Athanasius, be nothing else, but a shameless counterfeit, full of vile flattering, and apparent lies, Then is this former part hitherto but weakly proved, neither can M. Harding truly say, his Doctrine standeth upon good and sure ground.

Nowe, if the Decretal Epistle, whiche M. Hardinge hath brought in vnder the name of Anacletus, be nothinge els but forged euidence, as it is sufficiently declared: If M. Hardinge haue vncourteously vsed S. Gregorie, cuttinge of his tale in the middest,¹ and purposely leauinge out those woordes, Tamen Petrus vniuersalis Apostolus non vocatur, yet is not Peter called the Vniuersal Apostle, which was the onely mater,