A04474:1900
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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They saw, that the accusers, and witnesses, without whom no ordinary judgement can proceed, either for age, or for sickness, & other causes, could not well travel so far. Therefore they desired the Bishop of Rome by their letters, that he would bring no such ambitious puff of vanity into the Church:1 and made a strait Decree in the Council among them selves, that it should not be lawful for any man, to appeal out of Africa to any foreign Bishop. An hundred years after that, this Eulalius the Bishop of Carthage, if it be true that is reported of him, and not forged at Rome, as were many things moe, reconciled him self to the Church of Rome, in the time of Bonifacius the Second, as it is recorded in the Pontifical: for other record thereof to my remembrance there is none. The words of the Reconciliation be these,2 Hanc professionem meam manu mea subscripsi &c. This profession I have subscribed with mine own hand, and have directed the same to Bonifacius the holy, and Reverend Pope of the City of Rome, utterly condemning my Predecessors, and Successors, and all others that shall go about to frustrate the Privileges of the Apostolic See of Rome. Likewise Bonifacius writeth hereof unto Eulalius the Bishop of Alexandria in this wise, Aurelius Carthaginensis Ecclesiac olim Episcopus cùm Collegis suis, 3instigante Diabolo, superbire temporibus praedecessorum nostrorum contra Romanam Ecclesiam coepit: Aurelius sometime Bishop of Carthage together with his fellows (his fellows were S. Augustine, Alypius, and two hundred and fifteen other Bishops) being set on by the Devil, in the time of my predecessors, began to bear him self disdainfully against the Church of Rome.
They saw, that the accusers, and witnesses, without whom no ordinarie iudgement can procéede, either for age, or for sickenesse, & other causes, coulde not wel trauel so farre. Therefore they desired the Bishop of Rome by their letters, that he woulde bringe no suche ambitious puffe of vanitie into the Churche:1 and made a straite Decrée in ye Councel emonge them selues, that it should not be lawful for any man, to appeale out of Aphrica to any foren Bishop. An hundred yéeres after that, this Eulalius the Bishop of Carthage, if it be true that is reported of him, and not forged at Rome, as were many thinges moe, reconciled him selfe to the Churche of Rome, in the time of Bonifacius the Seconde, as it is recorded in the Pontifical: for other recorde therof to my remembrance there is none. The woordes of the Reconciliation be these,