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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 1 › The B. of Salisbury.Article 1 › The B. of Sarisburie.
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Anacletus that was next after Peter,1 willeth and straitly commandeth, that all Bishops once in the year,2 do visit the entry of S. Peters Church in Rome, which they call Limina Petri. Yet was there then no Church yet built there in the name of Peter.3 For Pope Cornelius saith (as he is alleged) that he first took up S.4 Peters body, and buried the same in Apollos Church in Rome, at the least one hundred and forty years after that Anacletus was dead. Pope Antherus maketh mention of Eusebius Alexandrinus, and Felix, which lived a long time after him, and therefore was it not possible for him to know them. Fabianus writeth of the coming of Novatus into Italy:5 And yet it is clear by S. Cyprian, and by Eusebius,6 that Novatus came first into Italy in the time of Cornelius which was next after him. And to leave a number of other conjectures, which may be hereafter more aptly touched some otherwhere, neither S. Hierome, nor Gennadius, entreating of the Ecclesiastical writers, nor Damasus writing purposely of the lives of the Bishops of Rome before him, ever made any mention, either of such Epistles, or of any such Decrees: which they would not have dissembled, if there had been any such extant or known in their time. Thus have I briefly given a taste of these Decretal authorities, that the reader may the better understand, of what credit they ought to be.
Anacletus that was next after Peter,1 willeth and straitly commaundeth, that al Bishops once in the yere,2 doo visite the entrie of S. Peters Churche in Rome, whiche they cal Limina Petri. Yet was there then no Churche yet builte there in ye name of Peter.