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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 .4. Division.Article 2 › M. Hardinge. The .4. Diuision.
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M. Harding. The .4. Division.
M. Hardinge. The .4. Diuision.
And this understood they which above one hundred years past, 501 changing the old custom of the Church of receiving the Communion under one kind by their private authority, would needs usurp the Cup also. For seeing them selves not to have sufficient proof, and warrant for their doing,2 of these words, drink ye all of this, the better to bolster up their new fangled attempt, they thought it better to allege the words of Christ in S. John. Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye shall not have life in you: which words, for all that our new Masters of forty years paste, will to be understanded of the spiritual, and not of the Sacramental eating, as it may be, and is taken for both, of the Doctors, viewed a part: Yet in all that Chapter, there is no mention of the Cup, nor of Wine at all. Wherefore they that cry so much on the institution and commandment of Christ, cannot find in all the Scriptures neither commandment, where he gave charge, the Sacrament so to be given, neither so much as any example, where Christ gave it under both kinds to any other then to the Apostles. Where as contrariwise it may be showed of our part, that the Sacrament was given under one kind only to the two Disciples, that went to Emmaus.3 For that the Bre•de, which Christ there took, Blessed, Brake, and gave to them, was not simple and common Bread, but the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ. For so