A reioindre to M. Iewels replie against the sacrifice of the Masse. In which the doctrine of the answere to the .xvij. article of his Chalenge is defended, and further proued, and al that his replie conteineth against the sacrifice, is clearely confuted, and disproued. By Thomas Harding Doctor of Diuinitie.

Harding.

Whereas I gather an Argument of a plaine testimonie for the Sacrifice of the Aulter, out of the whole sentēce alleged: M. Iewel pretendeth to his Reader, as though I tooke my chiefe and onely holde of this one worde, Dreadful,* 1.1 which being but one worde in Eusebius, he maketh to sounde many wordes, and saith, that I may not gather by any force of these wordes, that the Sonne of God is really offered vp by the Priest vnto his Father. Whereas in deed I gather it not by force of that woorde, Dreadful (whereof for his aduantage he maketh diuers woordes) onely, nor chiefly: but of the whole saying, and special∣ly of the very expresse name of the Sacrifice of Christes table, and also of that Eusebius saith, we haue bene taught by Christe him selfe to offer them vnto God. Which I ex∣pounde, as they are to be expounded, of these woordes spoken by Christe at his Supper,* 1.2 Hoc facite in meam com∣memorationē, doo ye this in my remembrance, as it is to be sene in my Answere, and he dissembled to haue sene it. As for the Sonne of God really offered vp, they be not my wordes, as the booke is witnesse, they be his, where∣by he thought to take aduantage, though the Proposition in those termes also be true, in a right and due sense.

Bicause therefore he groundeth his Replie vpon that which I say not, and bestoweth many wordes in dispro∣uing that I affirme not, and prouing that I denie not, and maketh a long needelesse talke of the worde, Dreadful,

shewing sundry thinges to be called Dreadful (wherein he telleth some truth) pretending to the Reader there∣by, as though bicause Eusebius is alleged calling this Sa∣crifice Dreadful, thereof specially I had concluded the auctoritie of offering Christe vnto his Father, whiche thing in dede I do not: And forasmuch as this much is vn∣truly attributed vnto me, and therefore may with like fa∣cilitie be denyed, as it is without proufe said, and the whole processe of the rest of this Diuision is vtterly im∣pertinent, and besides the purpose: I thinke this much ynough for answer vnto it, that it is not worth the an∣swering.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Dreadful.
• * 1.2

  Luc. 22.