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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 15 › The B. of Salisbury.Article 15 › The B. of Sarisburie.
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The B. of Salisbury.
The B. of Sarisburie.
It were much better for M. Harding not to know the Word of God, then thus wilfully to abuse it. They, unto whom Christ would not open the Secretes of the Kingdom of Heaven, were not the Common sort of the Lay People, as M. Harding supposeth, but the Bishops, the Priests, the Doctors, the Scribes, and the Pharisees, and other like reprobates, whom God had given over in the hardness of their hearts, as it is plain by the Words, that Christ allegeth out of the Prophet Isaiah:1 O Lord, harden the heart of this people: stop their ears: blind their eyes: least happily they be converted, and so be saved. And thus that Ancient ⟨p. 527⟩Father Irenaeus immediately after the Apostles time expounded it:2 and applieth thereto these words of S. Paule, In quibus Deus huius saeculi excoecavit corda infidelium, ut non fulgeat illis illuminatio Evangelij Gloriae Dei. In whom God hath blinded the hearts of them, that be unfaithful, that the brightness of the Gospel of the Glory of God may not shine unto them: 3And likewise these words, Tradidit illos Deus in reprobum sensum, God hath delivered them over into a reprobate understanding: And in the end he compareth them with Pharaoh, and Antichrist. So likewise Dionysius the Carthusian, whose authority, I trow, M. Harding will not deny, saith of them: