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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 .25. Division.Article 2 › M. Hardinge. The .25. Diuision.
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M. Harding. The .25. Division.
M. Hardinge. The .25. Diuision.
Though I might bring a great number of other places, for the use of one kind, which after the most common rule of the Church, was the form of Bread: yet here I will stay me self, putting the reader in mind, that the Communion hath been ministered to some persons under the form of Wine only, and hath been taken for the whole Sacrament, specially to such, as for dryness of their throat, at their death, could not swallow it down under the form of Bread. Where as it appeareth by S. Cyprian, and also by S. Augustine,1 that the Sacrament was given to infants in their time, we find in S. Cyprian, that when a Deacon offered the Cup of our Lords Blood to a little maid child, which through default of the Nurse, had tasted of the Sacrifices that had been offered to Devils: the child turned a way her face by the instinct of the divine Majesty (sayeth he) closed fast her lips, and refused the Cup. But yet, when the Deacon had forced her to receive a little of the Cup, the yea•• ⟨p. 139⟩and vomit followed, so as that sanctified drink in the Blood of our Lord, gushed forth of the polluted bowels. If the Sacrament had been given to this Infant under the form of Bread before, she would have refused that no less, then she did the Cup, that the Deacon then would not have given her the Cup. And that this may seem the less to be wondered at,2 Joannes Teutonicus that wrote scholia upon Gratian, witnesseth, that even in his time, the custom was in some places, to give the Sacrament to Infants, not by delivering to them the Body of Christ, but by pouring the Blood into their mouths: which custom hath been upon good consideration, abrogated in the Church of Rome, and kept in the Greek Church, as Lyra writeth upon S. John.