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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 › M. Harding. The .8. Division.Article 6 › M. Hardinge. The .8. Diuision.
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M. Harding. The .8. Division.
M. Hardinge. The .8. Diuision.
We find in Chrysostom a most manifest place for the being of Christs Body in many places at once, so as, though he be offered in many places, yet is he but one Christ, not many Christs. His words be these.1 Unum est hoc Sacrificium: alioquin hac ratione, quoniam multis in locis offertur, multi Christi sunt? Nequaquam: sed unus ubique est Christus, 2& h•c plenus existens, & illic plenus. Unum Corpus. Sicut enim qui ubique offertur, unum Corpus est, & non multa corpora: ita etiam & unum Sacrificium. This Sacrifice is one: else by this reason, sith it is offered in many places, be there many Christs? Not so, but there is but one Christ everywhere, being both here fully, and there fully also, one Body. For as he, that is offered everywhere, is but one Body, and not many Bodies, so likewise it is but one Sacrifice. By this place of Chrysostom we see, what hath been the Faith of the Old Fathers touching this Article: even the same, which the Catholic Church professeth at these days, that one Christ is offered in many places, so as he be fully, and perfectly here, and fully, and perfectly there. And thus we perceive, what force their arguments have in the judgement of the learned Fathers, by which they take away from Christ power to make his Body present in many places at once. S. Bernard uttereth the Faith of the Church in his time agreeable with this, in these words:3 Sed unde hoc nobis pijssime Domine, ut nos vermiculi reptantes &c. From whence cometh this, most loving Lord, that we silly worms creeping on the face of the earth, yea we that are but dust and ashes, be admitted to have thee present in our hands, and before our eyes, which all, and whole sittest at the right hand of thy Father, which also art present to all in one moment of time, from the East, to the West: from the North, to the South: one in many, the same in diverse places: from whence (I say) cometh this? Soothly, not of our duty, or desert, but of thy good will, and of the good pleasure of thy Sweetness. for thou hast prepared in thy sweetness for the poor one, O God. In the same Sermon exhorting the Church to rejoice of the presence of Christ, he saith, In terra Sponsum habes in Sacramento, in coelis habitura es sine velamento: & hîc, & ibi veritas: sed hîc palliata, ibi manifestata.