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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 6 › The B. of Salisbury.Article 6 › The B. of Sarisburie.
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But what a fantasy is this, That Christs Body is, neither the Creator, nor a Creature, ⟨p. 350⟩but, as it is here avouched, after a manner between both? 1Who ever would warrant this Doctrine, but that Old Heretic Abbot Eutyches? Verily S. Augustine saith, Omnis substantia, quae Deus non est, Creatura est: & quae Creatura non est, Deus est. Et quod Deo minus est, 2Deus non est. Every Substance, that is not God, is a Creature: and that is not a Creature, is God: and, what so ever is less then God, is not God. Here S. Augustine knoweth a Creator, and a Creature: but M. Hardinges mean between both, he knoweth not. Leo writing against Eutyches, of whom M. Harding seemeth to have received this learning, writeth thus:3 Emergunt alij, qui Carnem Domini, & Divini•atem dicunt unius esse Naturae. Quae tantum Sacrilegium inferna vomuere? Tolerabiliores sunt Ariani, &c. Up there start others, that say, The Flesh of Christ, and his Divinity are both of one Nature. What Hell hath poured us out such wicked sacrilege? The very Arians are more to be borne withal, then these men. S. Augustine saith,4 Quod ad Hominem attinet, Creatura est Christus. Christe, as concerning his Manhood, is (not a mean between both, but) a Creature. Again he saith, Duas Substantias, id est, Naturas esse fatemur: Divinitatis, scilicet, & Humanitatis: 5Creatricis, & Creatae: quae tamen substantiae, non confusae, sed unitae, atque in una, eademque Persona inseparabiles, & in sua semper proprietate manentes. We confess, there are in Christ two Substances, or Natures: The one, of the Godhead, the other, of the Manhood: The one of the Creator, the other of the Creature: Which Substances notwithstanding, are not Confused, but United, and in one self same Person inseparable, and remaining ever more in their own Properties. The like writeth Leo, Cyrillus, Gelasius, and all the rest of the Old Learned Fathers. Therefore M. Harding was much overseen, either to teach the people, that Christs Body is neither the Creator, nor the Creature, but a mean between both: or else to say, that the same Body, being united unto the Godhead, may therefore be in sundry places at one time. Herein rested the old Heresy of Eutyches. For thus Flavianus writeth of him: