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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 › M. Harding. The .33. Division.Article 4 › M. Hardinge. The .33. Diuision.
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M. Harding. The .33. Division.
M. Hardinge. The .33. Diuision.
I will add to all that hath ben hitherto said of this matter, a saying of Martin Luther, that such as do little regard the gravity of ancient Fathers of the old Church, may yet some what be ⟨p. 312⟩moved with the lightness of the young Father Luther, Patriarch, and founder of their new Church. Lightness I may well call it, for in this saying, which I shall here rehearse, he doth not so soberly allow the Popes primacy, as in sundry other treatises he doth rashly, and furiously inveigh against the same. In a little treatise entitled, Resolutio Lutheriana super propositione sua. 13. De po•estate Papae: His words be these: Primum quod me movet Romanum Pontificem esse alijs omnibus, quos saltem noverimus see Pontifices gerere, Superiorem, est ipsa voluntas Dei, quàm in ipso facto videmus. Neque. n. sine voluntate Dei, in hanc Monarchiam unquam venire potnisset Rom. Pontifex. At voluntas Dei, quoquo modo not̄a fuerit, cum reverentia suscipienda est, ideoque non licer temer• Romano Pontifici in suo primatu resistere. Haec autem ratio tanta est, ut si etiā nulla scriptura, nulla alia causa esset, haec tamen satis esset ad compescendam temeritatem resistentium. Et hac sola ratione gloriosissimus Martyr Cyprianus, per multas Epistolas confidentissimè gloriatur contra omnes Episcoporum quorumcunque aduersarios. Sicut. 3. Regum legimus, qu•d decem Tribus Israel discesserunt à Rehoboam filio Salomonis, & tamen quia voluntate Dei, sive auctoritate factum est, ratum apud Deum fuit. Nam & apud Theologos omnes, voluntas Signi, quam vocant operationem Dei, non minus quàm alia signa voluntatis Dei, ut praecepta prohibitiva &c. metuenda est. Ideo non video, quomodo sint excusati à Schismatis reatu, qui huic voluntati contravenientes, sese à Romani Pontificis auctoritate subtrahunt. Ecce haec est una prima mihi insuperabilis ratio, quae me subijcit Romano Pontifici, & primatum eius confiteri cogir. The first thing, that moveth me to think the Bishop of Rome to be over all other, that we know to be Bishops, is the very will of God, which we see in the fact, or deed it self. For without the will of God the Bishop of Rome could never have ben come unto this Monarchy. But the will of God, by what mean so ever it be known, is to be received reverently. And therefore it is not lawful rashly to resist the Bishop of Rome in his primacy.