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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 1 › The B. of Salisbury.Article 1 › The B. of Sarisburie.
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The feast (saith M. Harding) is common: all are invited: they shall be received that be disposed and proved. If this feast be common, it must needs be common to very few: for the provision is very little to serve many. That all be called in the Latin Mass, it is a great and manifest untruth. For neither the Priest, nor the Deacon, either by word or by gesture calleth them: nor have they any preparation for them, if they were called. Yet are these men not ashamed to say, they shall be received, that be disposed, and proved.
The feast (saithe M. Hardinge) is common: al are inuited: they shal be receiued that be disposed and proued. If this feast be common, it must néedes be common to verie few: for the prouision is verie litle to serue many. That al be called in the Latine Masse, it is a greate and manifest vntruthe. For neither the Priest, nor the Deacon, either by woorde or by gesture calleth them: nor haue they any preparation for them, if they were called. Yet are these men not ashamed to say, they shal be receiued, that be disposed, and proued.
Every man ought humbly to prepare and dispose his heart,1 before he presume to hear or receive any thing, that toucheth God. For God is Spirit, and we are flesh: God in heaven, and we in earth. Pythagoras being but an Heathen was wont to say, Non Joquendum de Deo sine Jumine: we ought not to speak of God without light, that is, without premeditation, and good advisement, who it is, of whom we speak. And the Pagans in their Sacrifices were wont to remember their priest with these words, Hoc age, the meaning whereof was, dispose thy mind, it is God, unto whom thou speakest. 2The wise man saith, before thou pray, prepare thine heart, and be not as a man, that tempteth God. Likewise in old times they, that were called Catechumeni, were warned afore hand to prepare their hearts, that they might worthily receive Baptism,3 as it is decreed under the name of Clement, whose words be these, Let him prepare him self in all things, that after three months ended upon the holy day he may be Baptized.