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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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Chrysostom saith,1 Let the Court (where thou yieldest thy self guilty) be without witness: Let God alone see thee. And again, If thou be ashamed to show thy sins to any man, then utter them every day in thy heart. I say not, go, confess thy sins unto thy fellow servant, that may upbraid thee with them. But confess them unto God, that is able to cure them. And again, thus he imagineth God to speak unto a sinner, Mihi soli dic peccatum tuum privatim, ut sanem ulcus. 2Open thy sin privately to me alone, that I may heal thy wound. And Theodorus sometime Archbishop of Canterbury saith, Graeci, & totus Oriens confitetur soli Deo. 3The Greeks, and all they of the East, confess them self only to God. Thus much I thought good to touch hereof,4 lest it should be thought there is none other way for a man to prove and dispose him self, but only by Auricular Confession. The meaning of these words of S. Paul,5 Let a man examine him self, standeth in two points, in Faith, and Repentance. Faith containeth the truth of our belief: Repentance concerneth the amendment of our life. Which kind of examining endureth all our life long. But to say, or think, we are all examined and disposed one only day in the year, and that of custom, not of Holiness, and not one day before, nor one day after, it is childish, it is superstitious, it is Jewish, it is no persuasion meet for the people of God.6 If Chrysostom were alive, he would cry out, O praesumptionem: O consuetudinem. O what presumption: O what a custom is this? And S. Ambrose would say, If thou be not worthy every day to receive, then art thou not worthy once in the year.7
Chrysostome sayth,1 Let the Court (where thou yeldest thy selfe giltie) be without witnesse: Let God alone see thee. And againe, If thou be ashamed to shew thy sinnes to any man, then vtter them euerie day in thy harte. I say not, goe, confesse thy sinnes vnto thy felow seruante, that may vpbrayde thee with them. But confesse them vnto God, that is hable to cure them. And againe, thus he imagineth God to speake vnto a sinner, Mihi soli dic peccatum tuum priuatim, vt sanem vlcus.