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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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But S. Augustine saith, Very children know, that these Images h•ue eyes, and s•e not: mouths, and speak not. Wherefore then doth the holy Ghost so often teach us,1 and admonish us the same thing in the Scriptures, as if we knew it not? He answereth, Quia species membrorum in eminenti collocata suggestu, cùm honorari, atque adorari coeperit a multitudine, parit in unoquoque sordidissimum erroris affectum: ut, quoniam in illo figmento non inuenit vitalem motum, credat numen occul•um: 2et effigiem viventi Corpori similem, seductus forma, & commotus authoritate, quasi saplentium i•sti•utor•m, obsequentium turbarum, sine vivo aliquo habita•ote esse non putet. For that, the very shape, and proportion of a man set aloft, after it once beginneth to be Adored, and honoured of the multitude, it breedeth in every man that most vile affection of error, that although he find there no natural moving, or token of life, yet he thinketh some God, or godly thing is within it: And so being deceived, partly by the form, that he seeth▪ and partly by the Authority, and credit of the Authors, •nd makers of it, whom they take to be wise, and partly also by the example, and devotion of the people, whom they see obedient to the same, he thinketh, that the Image, being so like to a living body, cannot be without some living thing underneath it. Again he saith, Cùm in his •edibus lo•an•ur, honorabili sublimitate, 3ut a precantibus, atque immolantibus attendantur, ipsa similitudine animatorum membrorum, atque sensuum, quamuis sensu, & anima careant, afficiunt infirmos animos, ut vivere, atque spirare videantur. After that Images be once set up in these places in honourable height, that they, that pray, or sacrifice, may look upon them, although they have neither sense, not soul, yet they so strike, and amaze the weak minds of the people, even with the very proportion of living members, and senses, that they seem to have life, and to draw breathe.