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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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But M. Harding will say, We must Adore the Flesh of Christ. We grant: we believe it: it is our Faith: we teach the people, as the old learned Fathers did, that no man eateth that Flesh, but first he Adoreth it: and that he deadly offendeth God, and is wicked, and guilty of the Lords Body, that Adoreth it not.
But M. Hardinge wil saie, VVe must Adoure the Fleashe of Christe. We graunt: we beléeue it: it is our Faithe: we teache the people, as the olde learned Fathers did, that noman eateth that Fleashe, but first he Adoureth it: and that he deadly offendeth God, and is wicked, and gilty of the Lordes Bodie, that Adoureth it not.
But as we Eat it, so we Adore it. We eat it sitting in Heaven at the Right hand of God: Thither we lift up our hearts, and there we Adore it. S. Ambrose ⟨p. 404⟩saith,1 Stephanus in terris positus, Christum tangit in Coelo: Steven standing in the Earth, toucheth Christ being in Heaven. Again he saithe, Non Corporali tactu Christum, sed Fide tangimus: We touch Christ by Faith, and not by Corporal touching. And as we touch Christ,2 so we see him: that is, with the Spiritual eyes of our Faith: and not otherwise. So S. Ambrose saith in the place before alleged: Stephanus intra Coelos Dominum cernit absentem:3 Steven seeth Christ being absent within the Heavens. And for proof hereof, that all that Glorious ••ght was mere Spiritual, and not offered to the Corporal eye of the Body, S. Augustine saith, that S. Steven stood then under a roof before the Judges,4 and saw the Heavens open, when with his Bodily eyes he was not able to look up, and to see the Heavens. There we see Christs Body: there we Approach unto it: there we touch it: there we Taste it: there we eat it: there we Adore it.