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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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The B. of Salisbury.
The B. of Sarisburie.
The best defence to colour disobedience, is to improve God's Commandment. Therefore saith M. Harding, The half Communion is no breach of Christs Institution. For Christ never commanded, that the whole Communion should be ministered unto the people in both kinds. And that (saith he) the Church knoweth better, then Luther, or Cranmer, or such others. What so ever ordinary light the Church hath, she hath it not of her self,1 but of God's holy Word, that is a lantern unto her feet. And it is no Christian modesty,2 to make such boasts of the gifts of God. God's holy Spirit bloweth where it thinketh good.3 Daniel alone saw the innocency of Susanna:4 the Judges and Elders saw it not. Paphnutius alone was heard against all the rest of the Nicene Council. S. Hierome alone is received against all the whole Council of Chalcedon.5 And for as much as M. Harding delighteth him self with odious comparisons without cause,6 why might not a man likewise say, The Primitive Church in the time of the Apostles, and other Catholic Doctors, and old Councils, that ministered the whole Sacrament unto the people in Both kinds, understood Christs Institution, as well as did afterward the Council of Constance, in which Council holden fourteen hundred years after Christ and more, it was determined, that the Laity should content them selves only with the half Communion in One Kind. But therefore hath God given his holy Scriptures, that the Church should be directed, and never err.