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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.
This long discourse may well be granted without great prejudice. For this Council was holden at Antisiodorum, as M. Harding hath also noted in the Margin, in the year of our Lord six hundred, and thirteen: and therefore neither furthereth him, nor hindereth me: as standing without the compass of the first six hundred years. And who so lifteth to peruse the Acts of that Council, shall soon find, that many great disorders, and horrible Abuses, &, as they are termed there, Incestae Consuetudines, 1wicked, and abominable customs, were by that time grown into the Church of Rome:2 as Strenae Diabolicae, Devilish New years gifts: ⟨p. 488⟩Heathenish vows: to pray in groves, and at the water sides, 3as the Heathens had used to pray: To Consecrate, and Minister the Lords Cup in Metheglen: 4To put the Sacrament into dead mens mouths: and such other like.5 And, that among these, and other like disorders, the Plurality of Masses first began at that time, and not before, it may appear by the Pontifical it self,6 in the life of Pope Deusdedit, where it is written thus: Deusdedit constituit secundam Missam in Clero. 7And Petrus Urbevetanus in his Scholia upon the same place writeth thus: Quia tn, d instar Graecorum, non cantabatur in una Ecclesia, nisi forsan una Missa: quod magis aedificabat, secundum antiquos. For then there was but one Mass (or Communion) said,