The B. of Sarisburie.
In déede Christe hath ordeined Apostles, Prophetes, Euangelistes, Pastours, & Teachers, for the gouernmente of his Churche: notwithstandinge y• same be not alwaies allowed to sitte in Councelles, nor be alwaies knowen by Rochetes, or Miters. If God had not prouided other Pastours, & Feeders, bisides your Prelates, the whole Churche might sterue for hunger. S. Paules Woordes be true: but your idle Constructions are vntrue. Wée finde not faulte with Goddes Ordinance: but wée reioice in Goddes Mercie, for that it hath pleased him, to visite his people, and to discouer the multitude of these Vanities, wherewith you haue so longe, and so vncourteously beguiled the worlde. Therefore wée correcte not Magnificat, M. Hardinge, as you saie: but rather wee humbly singe, Te Deum laudamus, and reioice in God our Saueoure. The right, & onely waie of buildinge Goddes House, is, to laie the Fundation thereof vpon y• Euerlastinge vvoorde, and vvil of God.* 1.1 S. Paule saithe, Other Fundation noman can laie, but the same, that is saide al∣ready: whiche is Christe Iesus, The Prophete Esaie saithe, To the Lavve (of God) and to the Testimonie. If they speake not accordinge to this Woorde, they shal haue no morninge Lighte. Therefore S. Hilarie saithe, as it is alleged in the Apologie, Aliter extruenda,* 1.2 aliter custodienda Ecclesia est: Fundamentum eius super Prophetas, & Apostolos collocandum est. Ecclesia ita à Deo, id est, Doctrinis Dei aedificata, non concidet: Otherwise muste the Churche be builte, and otherwise muste it be keapte. The Fundation of it must be saide vpon the Apostles, and Prophetes. The Churche beinge thus builte by God, that is to saie, by the Doctrine of God, shal neuer false.