The B. of Salisbury.The B. of Sarisburie.
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The B. of Salisbury.
The B. of Sarisburie.
It standeth well with your Truth, M. Harding, so often to charge us with Lies, & Falsehood. I trust it will appear, ye had no great cause, to keep so great revel upon so poor a Conquest. In deed these words be not found in the third Council of Carthage. Yet are they found in the Council of Hippo, which is the Abridgement of the third Council of Carthage, as it appeareth by the Title of the same: Concilij Hipponensis Abbreviations factae in concilio carthaginensi Tertio.
It standeth wel with your Truthe, M. Hardinge, so often to charge vs with Lies, & Falsehedde. I truste it wil appeare, ye had no great cause, to keepe so great reuel vpon so poore a Conqueste. In deede these woordes be not founde in the thirde Councel of Carthage. Yet are they founde in the Councel of Hippo, whiche is the Abbridgemente of the thirde Councel of Carthage, as it appeareth by the Title of the same: Concilij Hipponensis Abbreuiationes factae in concilio carthaginensi Tertio.
The words of the Council of Hippo, and, for so much, also of the third Council of Carthage, 1be these: Scripturae Canonicae in Ecclesia legendae quae sunt: & praeter quas alia non legantur: The Scriptures Canonical, which are to read in the Church: and besides which nothing else may be read. Here have you, M. Harding, the plain words of the Council of Hippo, abridged out of the third Council of Carthage, That nothing may be read in the Church, but only the Canonical Scriptures. Judge you therefore, how just cause ye had, so unadvisedly, for I vate not to say, so unlearnedly, to charge the Apology with Lies, and Falsehood.
The woordes of the Councel of Hippo, and, for so mutche, also of the thirde Councel of Carthage,