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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
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Where as it liketh you, so bitterly, as your manner is, to call us Heretics, and to say, We sit in the Chair of Pestilence, and that the people learneth of us dissolution of manners, and liberty of the Flesh, and walketh utterly without sense, or fear, or care of God, It standeth not with your credit, thus with manifest untruths, and common slanders to inveigle your Reader. Balach, when he saw, he could not prevail against the people of God by force of arms,1 he began to rail against them, and to curse them, thinking, that by such means he should prevail.
VVhere as it lik•th you, so bitterly, as your manner is, to calle vs Heretiques, and to say, VVee sit in the Chaire of Pestilence, and that the people learneth of vs dissolution of manners, and libertie of the Fleashe, and vvalketh vtterly vvithout sense, or feare, or care of God, It standeth not with your credite, thus with manifest vntruethes, and common sclaunders to enuegle your Reader. Balach, when he sawe, he coulde not preuaile against the people of God by force of armes,1 he began to raile against them, and to curse them, thinkinge, that by suche meanes he shoulde preuaile.
- 1Numer. 22. & 23.
But it is not always Heresy, that an Heretic calleth Heresy. Athalia, when she understood,1 that Joas the right Inheritor of the Crown of Judah, was proclaimed King, flew in her fury into the Temple, and cried out, Treason, Treason. Yet was it not King Joas, but she her self, that had wrought the Treason. The Arian Heretics called the true Christians, that professed the Faith of the Holy Trinity, sometime Ambrosians, sometime