A04474:3842
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 22 › The B. of Salisbury.Article 22 › The B. of Sarisburie.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
I cannot imagine, wherefore M. Harding should so often tell us, that the people in the Primitive Church was taught plainly. For, as now, in his Church of Rome, all things of purpose are drowned in darkness, & the simple people suffered to know nothing: no not the meaning of the Sacraments, which of all other things should be most plain.
I cannot imagine, wherefore M. Hardinge should so often telle vs, that the people in the Primitiue Churche was taught plainely. For, as nowe, in his Churche of Rome, al thinges of purpose are drowned in darknesse, & the simple people suffered to knowe nothinge: no not the meaninge of the Sacramentes, whiche of al other thinges should be moste plaine.
For, briefly to open some part of the Mysteries, which every of the simple unlearned People may not know, mark, I beseech thee, good Christian Reader, how plainly they have determined the manner of Christs being in the Sacrament. Thomas of Aquine that most famous of all the School doctors writeth thus: In Corpore Christi in Sacramento non est distantia partium ab inuicem, 1ut oculi ab oculo, aut Capitis à pedibus: sicut est in alijs Corporibus organicis. Talis enim distantia par•ium est in ipso Corpore Christi vero: sed non prout est in Sacramento. Quia sic non habet Quantitatem dimensivam. In the Body of Christ in the Sacrament there is no distance of parts, one from an other: as between eye, and eye: or eye, and ear: or head, and feet, as it is in other natural Bodies: For such a distance there is in the True Body of Christ: but not as it is in the Sacrament. For so it hath no dimension of Quantities. Out of which words the Reader may gather by the way, that, the True Body of Christ is not in the Sacrament. O what a Christ have they devised for them selves? He hath neither Quantity, nor Proportion of Body, nor distance of parts: he is neither long, nor short, nor round, nor broad, nor thick, nor thin: his eyes, his ears, his head, his feet are all in one. Yet is this the very Proportion, and stature of Christs Body, even as he walked upon the Earth: and even as he was nale upon the Cross.