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.

Yée saie, yée ye neuer sought to quiet mennes Cōsciences by Oile, Water, Palmes, &c. And therefore ye stande vp a tipps toe, and in your familiare manner, crie oute, yee lie. For shorte trial hereof, one example maie suffice, in stéede of many. Au∣gustine Steuchus,* 1.1 one of your special, and woorthy Doctoures, saithe thus, Aquas Sale, & Orationibus Sanctificamus, vt ad earum Aspersum nostra deleātur delicta: We halowe VVater with Salte, and Praiers, that by the Sprinkelinge thereof our sinnes maie be foregeeuen.* 1.2 Reade your owne Pontifical: and ye shal finde in the halowinge of your VVater, your Asshes, your Palmes, your Candels, &c. this clause euer∣more in the ende, Vt sint nobis ad Salutem Animae, & Corporis: That they maie be to vs to the Saluation of Body, and soule.

Whereas in the ende ye vaunte your selfe of your Crueltie,* 1.3 and so pleasantly make Sporte with the Bloude of your Brethern, take it not for il, if I answeare you with the Woordes of Salomon,* 1.4 Viscera impiorum crudelia: The bowelles of the wicked be alwaies cruel. Therein, M. Hardinge, standeth your greateste puissance. If ye were no better armed with Fire, and Svverde, then ye be with Scriptures, and Doctoures, no wise man woulde greately feare your force.

As for vs, wée maie answeare you now, as S. Cyprian sommetime answea∣red the Heathens: Nobis ignominia non est, pati à Fratribus, quod passus est Christus:* 1.5 neque vobis gloria est, facere, quod fecit Iudas: It is no shame for vs, to suffer of our Brethren the same violence, that Christe suffered: neither is it any praise for you, to doo the same thinge, that Iudas did.

Tertullian saith vnto your Fathers:* 1.6 Crudelitas vestra, gloria nostra est: Se∣men est Sanguis Christianorum: Your crueltie is our Glorie: The Bloude of Christians is the seede of the Gospel. I praie God, al that innocente Bloude, that hath benne sheadde in this cause, be not required at your handes in the daie of Wrathe, and at the declaration of the iuste iudgemente of God.* 1.7

Notes

• * 1.1

  Augu. Steuchus in Librum Nu∣meror. Cap. 19.
• * 1.2

  Sinnes fore∣geeuen by Holy VVa∣ter.
• * 1.3

  In Pontificali.
• * 1.4

  Prouerb. 11.
• * 1.5

  Cyprian. Lib. 1. Epist. 3.
• * 1.6

  Tertullian in Apologe••ico.
• * 1.7

  Roma. 2.