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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 › The B. of Salisbury.Article 2 › The B. of Sarisburie.
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In Melanchthon he misseliketh much the manner of his speech, in that he calleth the Sacrament a Sign: which word (as he saith) is strange, and not the accustomed word of the Church. Saving that he seeketh occasions, and quarrels without cause, as his wont is, otherwise he knoweth, that a Sacrament ⟨p. 110⟩hath been called a Sign in all times,1 and ages of the Church.
In Melancthon he misseliketh much the manner of his speache, in that he calleth the Sacrament a Signe: whiche woorde (as he saithe) is straunge, and not the accustomed woorde of the Churche. Sauinge that he seeketh occasions, and quarels without cause, as his woonte is, otherwise he knoweth, that a Sacrament ⟨p. 110⟩hath beene called a Signe in al times,1 and ages of the Churche.
- 1A Sign.A Signe.
Petrus Lumbardus thus defineth a Sacrament,1 Sacramentum est Signum rei Sacrae. A Sacrament is the Sign of a holy thing. And as it is thought, the very substance and nature of a thing cannot be better known,2 th•n by the Definition. S. Augustine saith, Signa cùm ad res divinas adhibentur, sacramenta vocantur. Signs, when they be applied to godly things, be called Sacraments. And again, writing of the difference that is between the Sacraments of the Old Law,