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.

The B. of Sarisburie.

Euery parte hereof is largely answeard in my Former Replie to M. Har∣dinge. True it is, the faulte, that Iulius here findeth in Dippinge, and Mini∣string the Sacrament, agréeth not fully with the present disorders of the Churche of Rome. Yet notwithstanding, in condemning the one, he muste néedes condemne the other. Ye saie, wée leaue out these woordes, Intinctam porrigunt Eucharistiam populis: They dippe the Sacramente, and deliuer the same vnto the people. And againe these woordes, Pro complemento Communionis: For the accomplishemente of the Communion. The more matter wée haue leafte out, the more haue wée conceled your faultes: and so mutche y^• more are you beholden to vs. For what meante you, M. Harding, to mention any of al these woordes? What néeded you to burthen your selfe with moe Abuses, and so mutche to bewraie your folie?

Iulius saithe, They dipped the Sacramente into the Cuppe, and deliuered it vnto the people: You dippe the Sacramente, as they did: but vnto the people ye géeue nothinge. Iulius saithe, They meante by dippinge to make it a ful, and a perfite Communion: Contrariewise, you defraude the people of the Holy Cuppe, and deliuer them onely the Halfe Communion, And therefore ye are mutche more blame woorthy, then euer were they, whom Iulius reproued. For they offended onely of Simplicitie: and you of wilfulnesse.

But touchinge the matter it selfe, the faulte, that wée finde with you, and the faulte, that Iulius founde with others your Predecessours, is al one. You dippe the Breade into the Cuppe: & so did they. They brake Christes Institution: and so doo you. And therefore Iulius saide vnto them, Hoc quàm sit Apostolicae, & Euan∣gelicae Doctrinae cōtrarium, & consuetudini Ecclesiasticae aduersum, non difficilè ab ipso Fonte Veritatis probatur, à quo ordinata ipsa Sacramentorum Mysteria processerunt: Howe far contrarie this is to the Apostolical, and Euangelical Doctrine, and to the Custome of the Churche, it is easy to proue by the Fountaine of the Truthe, by whom the Mysteries of the Sacramentes were ordeined, and from whom they firste proceeded.

Ye thinke the mater wel discharged, for that ye deliuer not the Sacramente so dipped vnto the people, but minister it onely vnto your selfe. Here by the waie, it were a mater of skil, to vnderstande, by what Authoritie, either of scripture, or of Councel, or of Doctoure, it maie appeare, that it is lawful for the Prieste so to

vse and receiue the Sacramente,* 1.1 and vnlawful for the people. If the people maie not as safely, and as lawfully so receiue the Sacramente, as maie the Prieste, wherefore thē are these woordes written in your Masse Bookes, euen in y^• Canon, & Secretes of your Masse? Haec Sacrosancta Commixtio Corporis, & Sanguinis Domini nostri Iesu Christi fiat mihi, & omnibus sumentibus salus animae & Corporis, This Holy minglinge of the Body, and Bloude of our Lorde Iesus Christe, be vnto me, and vnto al, that receiue it, the health of Soule and Body. Verily these woordes, Omnibus sumentibus, cannot by any shifte possibly be expounded of One Onely Prieste, but muste néedes be extended vnto the people.

Yée woulde faine tel vs of certaine special Mysteries, that ye haue founde out in y^• Breakinge of the Sacramente,* 1.2 if ye wiste, what thei were. But ye are in case, as somm••time was Nabuchodonozor: Yee are not hable wel to tel vs your own dreame. Sammetime ye saie, The Breade is broken: sommetime ye saie, The Ac∣cidentes remaine alone by Miracle, and they are broken: Sommetime ye saie, Christes Immortal, and Impassible Body it selfe is Broken: Sommetime ye saie, Our eies be deceiued, and nothinge is broken.

Againe (yee saie) the First péece signifieth the Chruche trauailing in the world:* 1.3 The Seconde signifieth the Blessed Sainctes in Heauen: the Thirde signifieth the Soules in Purgatorie.* 1.4 But Pope Sergius, the Father of these fantastes, con∣ueieth his Mysteries an other waie. For the Firste portion, saithe he, signifieth Christes Body after his Resurrection: The Seconde, christes Body vvalkinge on Earthe: The Thirde, Christes Body in the Graue. These, M. Hardinge, be your Holy Significations, & Special Mysteries. With sutche folies, and Mystical vanities ye mocke the world. In Olde times the Breade was not broken, to busie mennes heades with Significations,* 1.5 but onely to be deliuered to the people: as in my Former Replie, I haue declared more at large. S. Augustine saith, Panis benedicitur, & Sanctificatur, & ad distribuendum Comminuitur: The Bread is Bles∣sed, and Sanctified, and broken into peeces, to the ende it maie be deliuered.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Commu∣nion vn∣der One kinde.
• * 1.2

  Daniel. 2 Senten. Lib. 4. Dist. 12.
• * 1.3

  Durandus Li. 4. Cap. 53.
• * 1.4

  De Conse. Dist. 2. Triforme.
• * 1.5

  Artic. 11. Diui. 3. Augu. Epist. 59.