The B. of Sarisburie.
It maye becomme you, M. Hardinge, as wel to cal the reuerende Ministration of Christes Holy Mysteries, a Toie, as to cal the Gospel of Christe, Erroure, and Heresie. So likewise Libanius the Heathen, although a man, I trow, not of your Profession, saide sommetime, that al the Bookes, either of the Scriptures, or of any y• Christian Fathers,* 1.1 in comparison of Iulianus the Renegates Bookes, were toies. and trifles. Howe be it, Our Toies be the same Toies, that were once vsed, and allowed vniuersally throughout the Catholique Churche of God, before your Masse was euer knowen, and were then thought no Toies.
Touchinge these woordes, Sursum corda, Lifte vp your Hartes, ye saie they were applied in olde times vnto praier, and not onely, or chiefely to the Ministra∣tion of the Sacramente: and that, as ye séeme to saie, by the witnesse of S. Cy∣prian. As for these emptie Woordes, Onely, or Chiefely, ye vse them onely as a false light, to blinde your Reader. For in our Apologie yee founde them not.
Touchinge S. Cyprian, Yée thought it beste to dissemble, and to shifte his woordes, and to commaunde him to silence. For thus he saithe, euen directely a∣gainste the whole practise of your Churche:* 1.2 Sacerdos ante Orationem, Praefatione prae∣missa, parat Fratrum mentes, dicendo, Sursum Corda: vt dum respondet Plebs, Ha∣bemus ad Dominum, admoneatur, nihil aliud se, quàm Dominum, cogitare debere: Before Praier, the Priest with a Preface prepareth the hartes of the Brethren, saieinge vnto them, Lifte vp your Hartes: that, when the People ansvveareth, VVee lifte them vp vnto the Lorde, they maie be put in minde, to thinke of nothing els, but of the Lorde. Where is this order, M. Hardinge, where is this Ecclesiastical Tradition now be∣comme? Throughout your whole Territorie of Rome, in what Churche, in what Chaple is it keapte? Where doothe your people answeare the Prieste at the Com∣mon Praier? Or where dooth the people vnderstande, either the meaning of the Sa∣cramentes, or any thing, that is pronounced by the Priest? Or why are you so vn∣aduised, to allege manifeste Authorities against your selfe?