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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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But, for better view hereof, I remember, Cardinal Cusanus touching the Famous Donation of Constantine,1 writeth thus: In ipsa scriptura reperi manifesta argumenta falsitatis: Even in the writing of it, I have found manifest tokens of falsehood. The like may be said of these M. Hardinges new Canons: Even in the utterance, and writing of them, we may find plain contrariety, and therefore undoubted tokens of untruth. For the former twenty Canons, whereof there is no question, were made in the Council of Nice: But the rest, whereof S. Augustine, and the Bishops of Africa moved doubt, & whereby the Bishop of Rome would seem to claim, were devised at Rome, and not at Nice. This new Canon here alleged saith, The Bishop of Rome hath the rule, and sovereignty over all Patriarchs: But the very true, and undoubted Council of Nice saith far otherwise: Antiqua consuetudo seruetur per Aegyptum, Lybiam, & Pentapolim: ut Alexandrinus Episcopus horum omnium habeat potestatem: 2quia & urbis Romae Episcopo parilis mos est. Let the ancient custom be kept throughout Egypt, Libya, and Pentapolis: that the Bishop of Alexandria have the government over all these. For the Bishop of the City of Rome hath the like order. But this Canon the Bishop of Rome hath no sovereignty over other Patriarchs, as M. Harding fantasieth, but only a fellowship, and equality with the rest, to walk carefully within his ⟨p. 239⟩own division,3 as others were bound to do within theirs. And in this Canon these two words, Parilis mos, are specially to be noted: which cannot otherwise be expounded, but only of like manner, order, and authority of Jurisdiction. M. Hardinges Canon saith, S. Peter was Master, and ruler over all Christen Princes: and yet is not M. Harding able to prove, that while S. Peter lived, there was any one Prince Christened in the whole world. And if Peter had had power over Kings, & Princes, it is not likely, he would have taken up his lodging with Cornelius the poor Tanner.4 In the end he concludeth with a terror: If any man repine against this statute, accursed be he. Wherein he doth great wrong both to S. Augustine, and also to all the Bishops of Africa, Numidia, Mauritania, Pentapolis, and Bizancena: who not only repined openly against this Canon, but also said, It was falsified: