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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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But the next that is gathered of the same, is much weaker: The people is negligent now: ergo there was Private Mass in the Primitive Church. For this only was my denial: and this hath M. Harding taken in hand to prove. It is called Petitio principij, where as one weak thing is proved by an other, as weak as it. So might M. Harding say: The people will not hear the word of God: ergo, the Priest may go into the Pulpit and Preach alone. For Christs Supper (as S. Augustine saith) is a Sermon, and the Priest therein Preacheth, 1and uttereth the death of the Lord.
But the nexte that is geathered of the same, is much weaker: The people is negligent now: ergo there was Priuate Masse in the Primitiue Churche. For this onely was my denial: and this hath M. Hardyng taken in hande to prooue. It is called Petitio principij, where as one weake thinge is proued by an other, as weake as it. So might M. Hardinge say: The people wil not heare the woorde of God: ergo, the Priest may goe into the Pulpit and Preache alone. For Christes Supper (as S. Augustine sayth) is a Sermon, and the Priest therein Preacheth, 1and vttereth the death of the Lorde.
- 1Augustinus De Trinitate lib. 3. cap. 4.
Again if only the negligence of the people have enforced Private Mass, how then came it into Colleges, Monasteries, Cathedral Churches, yea,1 even into the very holy Church of Rome, where as be such numbers of Clerks, Vicars, Monks Priests, and Prebendaries, that the Emperor Justinian was fain• to stay the increase of them, all idle, all in study and contemplation, all void from worldly cares, all confessed, all in clean life, all prepared? Wherefore have they Private Mass? Yea wherefore have they so many Masses severally, at divers Altars, and many of them at one time? Wherefore do not they Communicate together, as it appeareth they did in the Primitive Church? Doubtless this groweth not of the negligence of the people.