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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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But how ye came to all, that ye had, & being but Copper, uttered the same for Old Gold, it is an easy matter to be answered. For you your selves will not say, ye had it, either from Christ, or from the Apostles, or from any the Ancient Fathers. It were double robbery, to make any of these the Authors, and Fathers of your robberies. Your own Doctor Cochlaeus1 confesseth, as it is said before, that the Multitude of your Masses sprang, not from God, but from the Negligence, and Slothfulness, and want of Devotion, that grew both in Priest, and People. Then ye began, to tell the simple, that it was sufficient for them to •itte by: that your Mass was a Propitiatory Sacrifice for their sins: that it was available unto ⟨p. 481⟩them Ex opere operato, although they understood not what it meant: that you had power to apply it to quick, and dead, and to whom ye listed: and that the very hearing thereof, of it self was meritorious. Upon this foundation, ye erected up your Chantries, your Monasteries, your Pardons, your Supererogations, and I know not, what. Thus was the Holy Communion quite forgotten: Thus were your Masses multiplied above number: Thus ye came by that, ye would have called your Old Gold.2 Then this doubt first grew in question, whether Christ being in one of your Hosts, might see him self, being at the same time in an other Host. Then ye began to devour up poor Widows houses. In consideration hereof, your own Gloss saith of your Soul Priests: Malus Presbyter aequiparatur Coruo, 3in nig•edine vitiorum, in •aucedine vocis, in voracitate oblationum mortuorum, in faetore Spiritus, in garrulitate, & in furto. An evil Priest is resembled unto a Raven, for the Blackness of his vices, for the hoarseness of his voice, for his ravening of the Oblations of the dead, for the stink of his breathe, for his unpleasant voice, and for his theft. Unto such chevisance these words of S. Augustine may be well applied:4