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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 › M. Harding. The .16. Division.Article 15 › M. Hardinge. The .16. Diuision.
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M. Harding. The .16. Division.
M. Hardinge. The .16. Diuision.
As for the Church of this land of Britain, the Faith hath continued in it thirteen hundred years until now of late, (211)1 without having the Bible translated into the Vulgar tongue, to be used of all in common. Our Lord grant, we yield no worse souls to God now, having the Scriptures in our own tongue, and talking so much of the Gospel, then our ancestors have done before us.2 This Island saith Bede (speaking of the estate the Church was in at his days) at this present, according to the number of Books that God's Law was written in, doth search and confess one, and the self same knowledge of the high trueth, and of the true height, with the tongues of five Nations, of the English, the Britons, the Scots, the Picts, and the Latines. Quae meditatione Scripturarum caeteris omnibus est facta communis. Which tongue of the Latins (saith he) is for the studi•, and meditation of the Scriptures made common to all the other. Verily as the Latin tongue was then common to all the Nations of this land▪ being of distinct languages, for the study of the Scriptures, as Bede reporteth: so the same only hath always until our time, been common to all the Countries and Nations of the Occidental or West Church, for the same purpose, and thereof it hath been called the Latin Church.
As for the Churche of this lande of Britaine, the Faith hath continued in it thirteene hundred yeeres vntil nowe of late, (211)1