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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 8 › The B. of Salisbury.Article 8 › The B. of Sarisburie.
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The B. of Salisbury.
The B. of Sarisburie.
Christ, as he had showed his Disciples before, that he must go up to Jerusalem, and there be Crucified, so being at that his last mournful Supper, he ordained a Sacrament of his Death, and took Bread, and Brake it, and described, and expressed before their eyes the whole order, and manner of his Passion: As if he should have said, Thus shall my Body be Broken: thus shall my Blood be shed. This description of Christs Death so plain, and so lively, Hesychius calleth a Sacrifice, that is to say, an Exemplar, or Resemblance of that Sacrifice, which he had to offer the day following upon the Cross. And in deed, as the Bread was Christs Body, so the Breaking of the same was Christs Passion. And in this manner of speech the Ancient Fathers seem to call Baptism a Sacrifice. Chrysostom saith, Baptisma Christi,1 Passio Christi est. The Baptisme of Christ, is Christs Passion. So Tertullian, Tingimur in Passione Domini, We be washed in the Passion of our Lord. So like wise again Chrysostome saith,2 Quod Crux, & Sepulchrum fuit Christo, id nobis Baptismus factus est.3 That is Baptism unto us, that the Cross, and Grave was unto Christ. In this sense Hesychius saith, Christ offered him self at his last Supper: that is to say,4 by way of a Sacrament, and in a Mystery, but not in deed: to take away the sins of the World. In like sense the same Hesychius calleth the Birth of Christ a Sacrifice:5