A reply unto M. Hardinges answerA replie vnto M. Hardinges ansvveare

Now concerning this article it self, if it may be called an article, wherein M. Ivel thinketh to have great advantage against us, as though nothing could be brought for it^* (though it be not one of the greatest Keys, nor of the highest mysteries of our Religion, as he reporteth it to be, the more to deface it) of the Canopy, what may be found, I leave to others, neither it forceth greatly. But of the hanging up of the Sacrament over the altar, we find plain mention in S. Basiles life written by Amphilochius that worthy Bishop of Iconium. Who telleth that S. Basil at his Mass having divided the Sacrament in three parts,² did put the one into the golden Dove (after which form the Pyx was then commonly made) hanging over the altar. His words be these, Imposue•unt Columbae aureae pendenti super altar. And for further evidence, that such Pyxes made in form of a Dove in remembrance of the holy Ghost, that appeared like a Dove, were hanged up over the altar, we find in the Acts of the General Council holden at Constantinople, that the Clergy of Antioch accused one Severus an Heretic, before John the Patriarch and the Council there, that he had riffled, and spoiled the holy Altars, and molted the Consecrated vessels, and had made away with some of them to his companions,³ Praesumpsisset etiā Columbas aureas, & argenteas in formā Spiritus Sancti super divina lavachra, & altaria appensas una cum alijs sibi appropriare, dicens, non oportere in specie Columbae Spiritum Sanctum nominare. Which is to say, that he had presumed also to convert to his own use, beside other things, the golden, and silvern Doves made to represent the holy Ghost, that were hanged up over the holy Fonts, and Altars, saying that no man ought to speak of the holy Ghost in the shape of a Dove.