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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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To be short, what leadeth M. Harding to say, The Bishop of Rome hath these three score and ten Canons in safe keeping? Why doth he thus dissemble, & mock the world? Certainly the Bishop of Rome himself utterly disclaimeth it, and saith, He hath them not. For thus he writeth touching the same: Viginti tantùm capitula Nicenae Synodi in Sancta Romana Ecclesia habentur: 1sed quo neglectu alia defecerint, ambiguum est. There are in the Church of Rome only twenty Canons of the Council of Nice. But by what negligence the rest are lost, it is not known. The Pope saith, There are but twenty Canons extant: M. Harding saith, There are threescore and ten Canons. I trow, It is no reason, we should believe M. Harding, & leave the Pope.
To be shorte, what leadeth M. Hardinge to saie, The Bishop of Rome hath these three scoare and tenne Canons in safe keepinge? Why dooth he thus dissemble, & mocke the world? Certainely the Bishop of Rome himselfe vtterly disclaimeth it, and saith, He hath them not. For thus he writeth touchinge the same: Viginti tantùm capitula Nicenae Synodi in Sancta Romana Ecclesia habentur: 1sed quo neglectu alia defecerint, ambiguum est. There are in the Churche of Rome onely twentie Canons of the Councel of Nice. But by what negligence the rest are loste, it is not knowen. The Pope saithe, There are but twentie Canons extant: M. Hardinge saithe, There are threscore and tenne Canons. I trowe, It is no reason, we should beléeue M. Harding, & leaue the Pope.
- 1Dist. 16. viginti. Stephanus pp.
But Stevin the Bishop of Rome saith, There were sometime in Rome the full threescore and ten Canons: which thing he gathereth only upon this forgery of M. Hardinges Athanasius. And the same being the evidence whereby he holdeth his whole title, and such evidence, as was not to be found else where in all the world, yet cannot he tell neither how he came by it, nor how long he kept it, nor how he lost it. But a thing is well lost, that can not be avouched, and showed without shame.