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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 12 › The B. of Salisbury.Article 12 › The B. of Sarisburie.
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The B. of Salisbury.
The B. of Sarisburie.
M. Harding, as he is content to yield to these names, Figure, Sign, Token, &c. so the addeth thereto an Exposition of his own, such, as, I believe, he can hardly find the like in any Ancient Father. Therefore it must be such a Figure, not as the Old Doctors, and learned Fathers have at any time used, but such, as M. Harding can best imagine:1 and therefore now, not the Old Doctors, but M. Hardinges New Figure. In deed Tertullian saith, Haeretici nudas voces coniecturis, quò volunt rapiunt. Heretics by their Conjectural Guesses, draw bare words whither they list. With such conditions, y• wicked Heretic Nestorius was contented to grant Christ to be God: but by his lewd Exposition he made him no God. For thus he saide:2 Non inuideo Christo Divinita•ē suā: Hoc & ego fieri possū, si volo. It grieveth me not, to confess Christ to be God: I me self can be God too, if I list. The Pelagian Heretics,3 notwithstanding they were the enemies of God's Grace, yet being forced by disputation, and conference, were content to yield, and to confess the Grace of God. But by their fantastical Exposition, in the end ⟨p. 448⟩they made it no Grace at all.4 In like manner M. Harding, notwithstanding he be driven by force, to confess the name of Figure, yet, as he gloseth it, with his colours, in deed he maketh it no Figure. Sometimes, he saith, it is a Figure of Christs Body secretly being there: Sometimes, it is a Figure of the life to come: Sometimes, Common Bread is a Figure: Sometimes, the Accident, and outward Form of Bread is a Figure: Sometimes, Christs Body Invisible, is a Figure of Christs Body Visible: Al hitherto M. Harding. Sometimes also, it is a Figure of the Church: So saith Hosius,