The B. of Sarisburie.
I marueile, M. Hardinge, that ye can publishe so manifeste Vntruthe without blusshinge. Ye saie, that before these fewe late yeeres, there was but one Fourme of Faithe throughout the world. Yet beinge learned, & hauinge trauailed through the Auncient Writers, you muste néedes haue séene the Apostles Creede: the Ni∣c••ne Créede: S. Basiles Créede: Damasus Créede: S. Hieromes Créede: S. Cypriās. or Rufines Créede: Gregories Créede: the Créede called, Quicun{que} vult, written, as some thinke, by Athanasius, as some others, by Eusebius Vercellensis: the Créede conteined in the Hymne called, Te Deum, whether it were written by S. Augustine, or by S. Ambrose: euery of these vnder seueral, and sundrie fourmes. You knowe, that in diuers of the Oldest Councelles, as occasion was offered, so somewhat was either added to the Creede, or diminished, or altered: as it may ap∣peare by Eusebius, Socrates, Theodoretus, Sozomenus, Euagrius, Nicephorus, and others. You know, that S. Augustine vnto Laurentius, S. Hierome vnto Cy∣rilius, S. Ambrose vnto the Emperour Gratianus, and others moe in declaration of the Christian Faithe, haue not alwaies vsed one precise fourme of Woordes: and that the Emperoure Constantine maketh open Protestation of his Faithe, as it is recorded in your Countrefeite Donation, in Sense, & Substance agréeing with al others, that were Catholique: but in Woordes, far disagréeinge from al others, and peculiar onely to him selfe. To be shorte, you knowe, that betwéene your Masse Créede, & the peoples Common Créede, as touching the Woordes, there was greate difference. It were too longe, to rehearse al. Neither was it necessarie, to say so mutche, sauinge onely to shewe the manifeste vanitie of your talke. To expresse one Substance of Faithe in sundrie Fourmes of Woordes, I neuer heard, it was forbidden, sauinge onely nowe at the laste by this late Decrée of M. Hardinge.
Where you saie, the whole people before these fewe late yéeres had one Faithe, ye shoulde rather haue saide, they were al taught by you in a straunge vnknowen Tongue, to pronounce, as they could, a strange vnknowē Fourme of Faithe. For, God knowethe, they vnderstoode not one woorde, what they saide, nor scarcely one Article of theire Beléeue. S. Hilarie saithe, of the people deceiued by the Arians, as