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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 .5. Division.Article 2 › M. Hardinge. The .5. Diuision.
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M. Harding. The .5. Division.
M. Hardinge. The .5. Diuision.
Thus our adversaries have nothing to bring out of the Scriptures against the use of the Catholic Church, in ministering the Communion under one kind. And yet they cease not crying out upon the breach of Christs express commandment. And M. Ivel for his part in his first answer to D. Cole, sayeth, that the Council of Constance pronounced openly against Christ him self. But for as much as they are so hot in this point, I will send them to Martin Luther him self their Patriarch, that either by his sobriety in this matter they may be somewhat colded, or by his, and his Scholars inconstancy herein, be brought to be ashamed of themselves. Though the places be well known, as oftentimes cited of the Catholic writers of our time against the Gospellers, yet here I think good to rehearse them, that the unlearned may see, how them selves make not so great a matter of this article, as some seem to bear the people in hand it is. Luther writeth to them of Bohemiae these very words. Quoniam pulchrum quidem esset, utraque specie Eucharistiae uti, & Christus hac in re nihil tanquam necessarium praecepit: praestaret pacem & unitatem, quam Christus ubique praecepit, sectari, quàm de speciebus Sacramenti contender. Where as it were a fair thing (sayeth he) to use both kinds of the Sacrament, yet for that Christ herein hath commanded nothing, as necessary, it were better to keep peace and unity, which Christ hath every where charged us with all, than to strive for the outward kinds of the Sacrament. Again his words be these in a declaration that he wrote of the Sacrament. Non dixi, neque consului, neque est intentio mea, ut unus aut aliquot Episcopi, propria authoritate alicui incipiant ⟨p. 106⟩utramque speciem porrigere, nisi ita constitueretur & mandaretur in Concilio generally. Neither have I said, nor counselled, nor my mind is, that any one, or moe Bishops, begin by their own authority, to give both kinds (of the Sacrament) to any person, onlesse it were so ordained, and commanded in a general Council.