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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 2 › M. Harding. The first Division.Article 2 › M. Hardinge. The first Diuision.
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M. Harding. The first Division.
M. Hardinge. The first Diuision.
This being a Sacrament of Unity, every true Christian man ought in receiving of it to consider, how unity may be achieved and kept, rather then to show a straitness of conscience about the out ward forms of Bread and wine, to be used in the administration of it: and that so much the more, how much the end of every thing is to be esteemed more, then that, which serveth to the end. Otherwise herein the breach of unity is so little recompensed by the exact keeping of the outward Ceremony, that according to the saying of S. Augustine, who so ever taketh the Mystery of unity, and keepeth not the bond of peace, he taketh not a Mystery for him self, but a testimony against him self. Therefore they have great cause to weigh with them selves, what they receive in this Sacrament, who moved by slender reasons made for both kinds, do rashly and dangerously condemn the Church, for giving of it under one kind, to all, that do not in their own persons Consecrate and offer the same in remembrance of the Sacrifice once offered on the Cross. And that they may think the Church to stand upon good grounds herein, may it please them to understand, that the fruit of this Sacrament, which they enjoy that worthily receive it, dependeth not of the outward forms of Bread and Wine, but redoundeth of the virtue of the Flesh and Blood of Christ. And where as under either kind, 461 whole Christ is verily present (for now that he is risen again from the dead, his Flesh and Blood can be sundered no more, because he dieth no more) this healthful Sacrament is of true Christian people with no less fruit received under one kind, then under both. The Sacramentaries that believe not the truth of Christs Body and blood in this holy Sacrament, I remit to sundry godly treatises made in defence of the right faith in that point. I think it not necessary here to treat thereof, or of any other matter which M. Ivel hath not as yet manifestly touched in his sermon.