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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 4 › The B. of Salisbury.Article 4 › The B. of Sarisburie.
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For thus he saithe,1 Animaduertendum est, quia non Nicena, non denique ulla Synodus quicquam Romanae contulit Ecclesiae priu•legij: quae in Petro noverat eam totius jura potestatis pleniter meruisse, & cunctarum Christi ovium regimen accepisse. Ye must consider, that neither the Council of Nice, nor any other Council ever gave any privilege to this Church of Rome: For this Church knoweth, that in Peter she hath fully deserved the right of all power, and hath attained the government of all the sheep of Christ.
For thus he saithe,1 Animaduertendum est, quia non Nicena, non denique vlla Synodus quicquam Romanae contulit Ecclesiae priu•legij: quae in Petro nouerat eam totius iura potestatis pleniter meruisse, & cunctarum Christi ouium regimen accepisse. Ye muste consider, that neither the Councel of Nice, nor any other Councel euer gaue any priuilege to this Churche of Rome: For this Churche knoweth, that in Peter she hath fully deserued the right of al power, and hath atteined the gouernement of al the sheepe of Christe.
- 1Nicolaus 1. ad Michaelem Imperatorem.
But touching the forgery of this Council of Nice, the very beginning of the quarrel, and the whole story standeth thus: One Apiarius a Priest of the Church of Sicca in Africa, as it appeareth, a very il man, being justly excommunicate, both by his own Bishop, and also by a great number of other Bishops together in the Council there, appealed from them all unto Zosimus then Bishop of ⟨p. 236⟩Rome. Zosimus without further knowledge of the cause,1