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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 doeth M. Harding think, that every man is an Heathen, that reproveth error, that discloseth the Man of Sin, & wisheth the Reformation of God's Church? Christ said unto the Scribes, and Pharisees,1 You have made the house of God a den of Thieves: Jeremiah saith,2 The labourers them selves have trodden down, and torn the Vine of the Lord. The Prophet Isaiah saith,3 Your Silver is turned into Dr•sse: S. Bernard saith of the Bishops in his time,4 Pro Mercenarijs habemus Diabolos &c. In stead of hirelings we have Devils: from the top to the toe, there is no part left whole in the Church of Rome. Nicolaus de Clavengijs saith,5 Calamitosa desolatio est in domo Dei: There is a miserable desolation in the House of the Lord: Pigghius confesseth, there be abuses in the Private Mass:6 Latomus confesseth, there is an error in the Administration in One Kind. And will M. Harding know all these by his own privy Mark?7 Or must Christ, Jeremiah, Isaiah, S. Bernard, Pigghius, and Latomus be taken for no better, then Heathens and Publicans? Certainly, touching these pluralities of Masses, and this shameful profanation, and waste of God's Holy Mysteries, both Christ,8 and his Apostles, and all the Old Catholic Fathers of the Primitive Church will say,9 Nos huiusmodi consuetudinem non habemus, nec Ecclesia Dei: We have no such custom, neither the Church of God. And to the wilful maintainers of the same, Christ will say, Frustra colitis me, docents doctrinas, praecepta hominum. 10