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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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But S. Hierome in the place here alleged,1 as he not once nameth the Sacrament, so he speaketh not one word of S. Matthew. Which thing addeth some more distrust to M. Hardinges dealing. S. Hierome only nameth the Gospel of the Hebrews, which (he saith) he him self translated both into Greek and Latin, and is often alleged by Origen.2 But Eusebius accounteth it for no Gospel, but only among the bastard Scriptures.
But S. Hierome in the place here alleged,1 as he not once nameth the Sacrament, so he speaketh not one woorde of S. Matthew. Whiche thinge addeth some more distrust to M. Hardinges dealing. S. Hierome onely nameth the Gospel of the Hebrewes, which (he saith) he him selfe translated both into Gréeke and Latin, and is often alleged by Origen.2 But Eusebius accompteth it for no Gospel, but onely amonge the bastarde Scriptures.
- 1Hieronymus. De Ecclesias•icis scriptoribus
- 2Euseb. lib. 3. ca. 25.
How be it, what so ever the credit of the Book be, thus it is written: Christ took Bread and blessed it, and brake it. Here (saith M. Harding) no man can doubt, but it was the Sacrament. I see well he would fain have it so. Yet is there here neither by the Hebrews Gospel, nor by S. Hierome, any one word spoken of the Sacrament. Neither had S. James vowed, that he would not minister, or receive the Communion, but that he would eat no Common Bread, before he had seen Christ risen again from the dead. As for the blessing of the Bread, it was not a thing peculiar to the Sacrament, but a general manner that Christ observed, when so ever be used God's creatures, as it may appear throughout the story of the Gospels. That Christ should then minister the Sacrament, it is but M. Hardinges guess. No old writer ever saw so much before, no not S. Hierome, that wrote the story. Yet M. Harding, as though he had learned it in the third heaven, saith, It is so plain, that no man may doubt of it.