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

By this Father, whom the great (198)¹ General Council of Chalcedon agnised for Supreme Governor of the Church of Christ, and honoured with the singular title of Universal Bishop, it is ordained, that if anywhere one Church could not conveniently hold all the people together at one time: they that came after the first company, should have their^❧ Devotion served by having an other Mass celebrated again. And least perhaps some might doubt whether that were lawful so to be done or no, or because then some doubted thereof, as now likewise some seem to doubt of it: to put the matter out of doubt, he saith assuredly, Sacrificij Oblatio indubitanter iteretur. Let them not stick to iterate, or do again the Oblation of the Sacrifice, that is to say, Let the Mass be celebrated again, indubitanter, without casting peril, without sticking, staggering, or doubting. In that epistle he showeth two great causes, why more Masses then one may be done in one Church in one day. The one is, least the aftercommers should seeme rei•cted, non recepti, not received^*: The other is, that the one part of the people be not defrauded of the benefit of their Devotion: as himself saithe, Necesse est autem ut quaedam pars populi sua devotion privetur, si, units tantum Missae more se•ua•o, Sacrificium offe••e non possint, nisi qui prima diei part conuenerint. It must needs be, that a part of the people be be•efie of their devotion,⁴ if, the custom of having one Mass only kept, none may offer the Sacrifice, but such as came to Church together in the morning, or first part of the day. Now, the people ⟨p. 483⟩may neither be rejected, whom God hath chosen: nor sparkled abroad, whom our Lord hath gathered together: neither ought they to be defrauded of their Devotion, by withdrawing the Mass from them, but rather to be stirred thereunto by their devout presence, at the celebration of the same, where the Death,