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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 27 › The B. of Salisbury.Article 27 › The B. of Sarisburie.
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By these Policies they overrule the Church of God, and keep the people in Obedience:1 even as the Philistines, after they had once shorne of Samsons hear, and bored out his eyes, notwithstanding the strength, and sturdiness of his Body,2 were able to lead him whither they listed, at their pleasure. For he that walketh in the dark, knoweth not, whither to go.
By these Policies they ouerrule the Churche of God, and keepe the people in Obedience:1 euen as the Philistines, after they had once shorne of Samsons heare, and boared out his eies, notwithstandinge the strengthe, and sturdinesse of his Bodie,2 were hable to leade him whither they listed, at theire pleasure. For he that walketh in the darke, knoweth not, whither to goe.
In the Council of Toledo in Spain it is written thus, 1Matter omnium errorum Ignorantia: Ignorance is the Mother (not of Devotion, but) of all errors: Like as S. Augustine also saith, 2Erat in illis Regnum Ignorantiae, id est, Regnum Erroris: There was in them the Kingdom of Ignorance, that is to say, the Kingdom (not of Devotion, but) of Error.