The B. of Salisbury.The B. of Sarisburie.

The B. of Salisbury.

The B. of Sarisburie.

THERE appeareth small hope that M. Harding will deal plainly in the rest, that thus maketh his first entry with a cavil.

THERE appeareth smal hope that M. Hardinge wil deale plainly in the rest, that thus maketh his first entrie with a cauill.

For where as the matter is known, and agreed upon, it is great folly to pike quarrel upon the word. Every Mass (saith he) is common, and none private. If it be so, then hath he already concluded fully on our side. For if there be no private Mass at all, then was there no private Mass in the primitive Church, which was my first assertion.

For where as the mater is known, and agreed vpon, it is great folie to pyke quarell vpon the woorde. Euery Masse (saith he) is common, and none priuate. If it be so, then hath he already concluded fully on our syde. For if there be no priuate Masse at all, thē was there no priuate Masse in the primitiue Church, which was my fyrst assertion.

But M. Harding, as may be gathered by his manner of proofs, is not yet well resolved, neither what is private, nor what is Mass. For in the .22. article of his book, entreating of the accidents of bread and wine, to th'intent to avoid the gross absurdities that follow Transubstantiation,¹ he sayeth, These matters were never taught in open audience, but privately disputed in the schools, and set abroad by learned men in their private writings. There he calleth y thing private, that is disputed in open audience, in the hearing of five hundred, or moe, and is set abroad to the knowledge of the world: And here the thing that is done by the priest and his boy alone in a corner, he calleth common. Thus he maketh words to sound what him listeth,