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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 14 › The B. of Salisbury.Article 14 › The B. of Sarisburie.
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The B. of Salisbury.
The B. of Sarisburie.
Touching the Second commodity of Images, which is the moving, and stirring of the mind, M. Harding is fain to pray aid of the Heathenish Poets, Virgil, and Ovid, not the meetest Authorities for a Doctor of Divinity: and for proof hereof to bring in their idle fables, with an old profane story of Appiā. Therefore he seemeth now to draw very deep, and not far from the lies. I marvel,1 he had forgotten the young man in Eunuchus, who, for that he saw Jupiter painted in a Table, was straightway thoroughly moved, and emboldened to his youthful purpose. I grant, Images do oftentimes vehemently move the ⟨p. 512⟩mind diversly to sundry affections. And I reckon him a blind man, that will hold the contrary. Sallust saith, Quintus Maximus, and Publius Scipio, when so ever they beheld their Ancestors Images, were by and by inflamed with nobility of courage, to advance them selves to like adventures. But every thing, that may delight, or move the mind, is not therefore meet for the Church of God. God's house is a house of prayer, and not of gassing. And, to answer one profane story by an other, the Old Lacedaemonians would not suffer any Image,2 or Picture to stand in their Council house: least the Senators minds by mean thereof, should be drawn from that, they had in hand, to other fantasies. Certainly the wise man saith, Aspectus Imaginis dat insipienti concupiscentiam: 3The sight of an Image in the unwise stirreth up concupiscence.