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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 › M. Harding. The 6. Division.Article 13 › M. Hardinge. The 6. Diuision.
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M. Harding. The 6. Division.
M. Hardinge. The 6. Diuision.
Here that I may add somewhat more for proof of this Article,1 If the Plurality of Masses in one Church in one day had been utterly unlawful, the Fathers of the Council of Antisiodorum would not have Decreed,2 that it should not be lawful to celebrate two Masses upon one Altar in one day: neither, where the Bishop had said Mass, that a Priest might not say the same day, at the same Altar. For beside that the prohibition presupposeth, the thing prohibited to have been before used, (else prohibition had been superfluous, and so far forth it appeareth, that before the making of that Decree moe Masses were said at one Altar in one day) the argument of this Decree serveth very well for proof, that by force of this Council it was then lawful to say moe Masses in one Church in one day. For this prohibition of the Council is not general, but especial, restricted to a particular place of the Church, in uno Altario, at one Altar, which includeth not of any reason a more general, and larger matter, then it self, as neither at any other Altar in the same Church the same day it shall be lawful to say Mass: but of consequent this being but one special case forbidden, inferreth a permission, and good leave in the rest eiusdem generis, & subiecti, that be of the same kind, and about the same matter, and not included by▪ words of reason in that prohibition. So that we may not argue by reason in this sort, It is forbidden to say moe Masses at one Altar in one day, Ergo, It is forbidden to say many Masses at all in one Church, in one day, upon diverse Altars: but the contrary reason followeth, Ergo, ye may say many Masses, upon divers Altars in one day. And likewise, ye may not say Mass that day on the Altar where the Bishop hath said, Ergo, ye may lawfully say at an other Altar: For otherwise the law would have forbidden generally, ye shall not say Mass in the Church where the Bishop hath said that day: and then ye had been forbidden that Altar, and all Altars there at one word. But in forbidding the one Altar, the law granteth you the use of the rest there.