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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
Preface: ¶AN ANSWER TO M. Hardinges Preface.Preface: ¶AN ANSVVEARE TO M. Hardinges Preface.
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.
And you your self, M. Harding, at your Mass, and in the highest Secretes of your Canon, desire God the Father, to look favourably upon Jesus Christ his own Son, at your request. Your words be plain, and evident: No interpretation, or shift is able to salve them. Now if it be meet, you should entreat God the Father to be merciful unto Christ his Son, and to behold him favourably for your sake, then may you say, there is no fault in all your Canon.
And yowe your selfe, M. Hardinge, at your Masse, and in the highest Secretes of your Canon, desire God the Father, to looke fauourably vpon Iesus Christe his owne Sonne, at your request. Your woordes be plaine, and euident: No interpretation, or shifte is hable to salue them. Nowe yf it be meete, yowe shoulde intreate God the Father to be merciful vnto Christe his Sonne, and to beholde him fauourably for your sake, then maie yowe saie, there is no faulte in al your Canon.
You seem to complain, that I leave out prayer for the Dead, and Invocation of Saints: And that thing you amplify largely with many words. And yet I think, you would not have us believe, that these points of your Religion be greater, then your Sacrifice, or then your Mass.
Yowe seeme to complaine, that I leaue out praier for the Deade, and Inuocation of Sainctes: And that thinge yowe amplifie largely with many woordes. And yet I thinke, yowe woulde not haue vs beleeue, that these pointes of your Religion be greater, then your Sacrifice, or then your Masse.
Verily, touching the first, I heard once, when you your self blew down the Paper Walls, 1as ye then called them, and utterly quenched all the Painted Fires of Purgatory. For the other, S. Chrysostom saith, Homines utuntur Atriensibus. In Deo nihil est tale. Sine mediatore exorabilis est: Menne use Porters, and Ushers. But in God there is no such thing. He is easy to be entreated, yea without a Mediator.