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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 13 › The B. of Salisbury.Article 13 › The B. of Sarisburie.
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The B. of Salisbury.
The B. of Sarisburie.
Howe good cause M. Harding hath, to make these vaunts of his proofs for his Private Mass, it may soon appear unto the discrete Reader upon the view. But here he thought it proof sufficient, for the multitude of his Masses, to call us Thieves, and wicked Judges, and to charge us with the Law of Lydforde, and so to solace him self with an old Wives tale, and to make holy day out of season. How be it, this comparison of his Thieves is not so greatly agreeable to his purpose. For the coin, that is taken from him, was neither Gold, nor so Old as he maketh it, nor was it touched with Caesars stamp. We may rather say unto him:1 Sometime ye had Gold: but how is it now become Dross? ye had good seed: but how is it now become Cockle? 2Thou were sometime a Faithful City: how art thou now become an Harlot? 3Thou were sometime the House of God: how art thou now turned into a Cave of Thieves? How have ye lost the Holy Communion, that the Apostles had from Christ, and you from them? How came ye by your Private Masses, that the Apostles had never? Thus, thus, M. Harding, we may appose you. For it were but lost labour, to trouble you with questions of your Old Gold. Ye are not that rich wealthy Carl, that ye would be taken for: but even as it is written in the Apocalypse of S. John,4 Dicis, dives sum, & ditatus, & nullius egeo: & nescis, quòd tu es miser, & miserabilis, & pauper, & Coecus, & nudus: Thou sa•ste, I am rich, and wealthy, and need nothing: And thou knowest not, that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.