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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 5 › The B. of Salisbury.Article 5 › The B. of Sarisburie.
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M. Harding saith, These words, This is my Body, must needs be taken without Metaphor, Trope, or Figure, even as the plain letter lieth, and none otherwise. So saith M. Harding only upon his own credit. But the old Catholic Doctors of the Church, of whom (he saith) he hath such store, say not so. S. Augustine, S. Ambrose, S. Hierome, S. Chrysostom, S. Basil, Tertullian, and others call the Sacrament a Figure, a Token, a Sign, an Example, an ⟨p. 326⟩Image,1 a Similitude, a Remembrance: as hereafter, God willing, shall be showed more at large upon better occasion, in an Article specially touching the same. Even Duns him self, with sundry others of that side, saw, that following the very bare Letter, we must needs say, That the Bread it self is Christs Body. For so the words stand. This (Bread) is my Body: which were a great inconvenience, and a repugnance in Nature. For salving whereof, they are driven to say, That Christ,2 when he pointed to the Bread, & said, This, meant not, This Bread, but, as they call it, Individuum vagum, Which is one certain thing in general: but what one thing, they cannot tell: but sure they be, it was no Breade. Est, 3they expounde, Erit, 4that is to say, This shall be: Againe, Erit, hoc est, transubstantiabitur, that is, The Substance of th•s uncertain General one thing, that no man knoweth, shall be changed into the Substance of my Body. Is given, 5They expound, shall be given: Is broken, they expound,6 shall be broken: Do ye this, they expound, Sacrifice ye this. This Bread, they expound thus,7 This, that was Bread. And, where as these Verbs stand together in order,