A defence of the Apologie of the Churche of Englande conteininge an answeare to a certaine booke lately set foorthe by M. Hardinge, and entituled, A confutation of &c. By Iohn Iewel Bishop of Sarisburie.

M. Hardinge.

Ye maie be sure, many men thinke this your homely stuffe not onely weake and slender, but also cor∣rupt, venemous, and lothsome. But nowe by like, ye wil amende your faulte. But how? Surely by going from very euil to as bad or worse, if ye can do worse, then hitherto ye haue donne. Iulius the Pope (saie ye) doth euidently forbidde, that a Prieste in Ministringe the Communion, shoulde dippe the Breade in the Cuppe Nowe verely your former fault of lieing is wel amended. For where before ye best out, cast in, or changed some of those wordes, whiche ye pretende to alleage, nowe ye make euery whit newe of your owne. VVhere hath Iulius these woorde? I speake not of your false alleaging of places in your Bookes margent. I forgeue you the puttinge of Cum enim nemo, in stede of cum omne. These be smal and slipper faulies, which if thei were alone might be wincked at in such slipper merchātes, as ye are. But let vs heare, what Pope Iulius saith. Alios quo{que} audiuimus intinctā Eucharistiā popu∣lis pro complemēto cōmunionis porrigere, VVe haue hearde also of others, who geue to the peo∣ple the Euchariste dipped, or stiped, for makinge vp of the Communion. It is to be vnderstanded, that whereas Christe, gaue the blessed Sacrament of the Aulier to his Apostles, he gaue it vnder both kindes. And when the Priestes in some countries, either for lacke of wine at al times ready, either for somme priuate fansie, vsed to dippe or stipe the sacred body of our Lord vnder forme of Breade in the conse∣crated

bloude,* 1.1 and so to geue it to the people: Pope Iulius findeth faulte therewith, for that neither Christe ordeined so, nor the Apostles lefte sutche order to the Churche. So that Iulius meaneth nothinge els, but to reproue and reforme that vse of dippinge or stiping the one kind in the other in the Admi∣nistration of the Communion vnto the people. Reade the place, who listeth, he shal finde the same sense more largely vttered a litle after.

But what sense make these Defenders a Gods name? They saie, Iulius forebiddeth the Prieste, ne dum peragit mysteria, panem immegat in Calicem, that in ministringe the communion, (so the lady tourneth) he shoulde dippe the Breade in the Cuppe. There is no sutche word in the wholde decree. Iulius nameth Eucharistiam: they cal it Breade. Iulius hath,‡ 1.2 intinctam porrigere populis, that no Prieste ‡ geue the Sacrament dipped to the people: they, leauing out, geuing it to the people, saie he for∣bad the Prieste to dippe it. They leaue out also the chiefe cause of the whole, whiche is pro comple∣mento communionis, for making vp of the communion. For he for ebiddeth to geue vnto the people onely the cōsecrated hoste dipped in the Chalice, as though it were the whole Cōmunion, nolesse then if the Bloude were geuen aparte. These men (saie they) contrary to the decree of Pope Iulius, diuide the Bread, and dippe it in the wine. VVe in the Masse breake the hoste in three partes, not without* 1.3 signi∣fication of a Mysterie: two we receiue aparte: the thirde we put into the Chalice, and receiue it togea∣ther with the bloude. VVhal haue ye to saie againste this?

Notes

• * 1.1

  Commu∣nion vn∣der one kinde.
• ‡ 1.2

  A fonde Vani∣tie. For if he for∣bidde the Prieste to dippe the Sa∣cramente, and to deliuer it, then he forebid∣deth the Prieste to dippe the Sa∣cramente.
• * 1.3

  These Mystical Significations, be Mystical fo∣lies. Reade the Ansvveare.