A replie vnto M. Hardinges ansvveare by perusinge whereof the discrete, and diligent reader may easily see, the weake, and vnstable groundes of the Romaine religion, whiche of late hath beene accompted Catholique. By Iohn Iewel Bishoppe of Sarisburie.

The B. of Sarisburie.

Christe, as he had shewed his Disciples before, y^t he must goe vp to Hierusalem, and there be Crucified, so beinge at that his last mourneful Supper, he ordeined a Sacrament of his Death, and tooke Breade, and Brake it, and described, and ex∣pressed before theire eyes the whole order, and manner of his Passion: As if he shoulde haue saide, Thus shal my Bodie be Broken: thus shal my Bloude be sheadde. This description of Christes Death so plaine, and so liuely, Hesychius calleth a Sacrifice, that is to saie, an Examplar, or Resemblance of that Sacrifice, whiche he had to offer the daie folowinge vpon the Crosse. And in déede, as the Breade was Christes Bodie, so the Breakinge of the same was Christes Passion. And in this manner of speache the Ancient Fathers seeme to cal Baptisme a Sacrifice. Chrysostome saith, Baptisma Christi,* 1.1 Passio Christi est. The Baptisme of Christe, is Christes Passion. So Ter∣tullian, Tingimur in Passione Domini, We be washte in the Passion of our Lorde. So like wise againe Chrysostome saith,* 1.2 Quod Crux, & Sepulchrum fuit Christo, id nobis Baptismus factus est.* 1.3 That is Baptisme vnto vs, that the Crosse, and Graue was vnto Christe. In this sense Hesychius saith, Christe offered him self at his last Supper: that is to saie,* 1.4 by waie of a Sacrament, and in a Mysterie, but not in deede: to take awaie the sinnes of the Worlde. In like sense the same Hesychius calleth the Birth of Christe a Sacrifice:* 1.5 These be his woordes, Sacrificium Coctum Christi appellat In∣carnationem: The bakte Sacrifice he calleth the Incarnation of Christe.* 1.6

Touchinge this woorde, Sancta Sanctorum, it is not the outwarde Sacra∣ment, that Hesychius calleth by that name, but the very Bodie of Christe it selfe: whiche,* 1.7 as S. Augustine saith, is Res Sacramenti, The Substance, and Mater of the Sacrament. So writeth Origen vpon Leuiticus, Quae est Hostia, quae pro peccatis of∣fertur,* 1.8 & est Sancta Sanctorum, nisi vnigenitus Filius Dei Dominus meus Iesus Christus? Ipse solus est Hostia pro peccatis, & ipse est Hostia, Sancta Sanctorū. What is that Sacri∣fice, that is offered vp for Sinne, and is the Holy of the Holy: but the onely begotten Sonne of God my Lorde Iesus Christe? He onely is the Sacrifice for Sinne: and he is the Sacrifice, of Holy thinges the most Holy. And this he speaketh of the Sacrifice, that Christe made vpon the Crosse. And therfore he addeth thus, Quod vno verbo Apostolus explicauit, cùm dicit, Qui seipsum obtulit Deo. Which thinge the Apostle expressed in one woorde, saieinge thus, VVhich hath offered vp him self vnto God.

How be it, not onely the Sacrament, but also other thinges appointed vnto godly vse,* 1.9 may be called, Sancta Sanctorum. So it is written, and determined by Bonifacius the Firste: Omne, quod Domino Consecratur, siue fu••rit homo, siue ani∣mal,

siue ager, vel quicquid fuerit semel consecratum, Sanctum Sanctorum erit Domino.* 1.10 Euery thinge, that is Consecrate vnto the Lorde, be it Man, or beast, or landes, or what so euer, beinge Consecrate, it is Holy of the Holy vnto the Lorde. Neither dooth he cal the holy Mysteries, Sancta Sanctorum, in that sense, that M. Harding meaneth, for that they are the holiest of al holy thinges, but bicause they are appointed for Holy People. For thus he expoundeth it him selfe,* 1.11 Panis iste, & Calix, Sancta Sanctorum sunt. Vides, quomodo non dixerit, Sancta, tantummodò, sed Sancta Sanctorum. Ac si dice∣re••, Panis iste non est communis Omnium, nec cuius{que} indigni, sed Sanctorum est. Quan∣tò magis hoc & de Verbo Dei dicemus, Hic Sermo non est omnium, nec cuiuscunque, sed Sanctorum est? This Breade, and this Cuppe, are the Holy thinges of the Holy. You see, That he saith not onely, They are Holy thinges: but he addeth bi••ides, Of the Holy. As if he woulde say, This Breade is not common to al men, nor to euery vnworthy: but it is the Breade of the Holy. How muche more may wee say the same of Goddes woorde, This Woorde is not of al men, or of euery Bodie, but of the Holy? Therefore S. Chrysostome saith, The Priest was wonte, to shew foorthe the Bread in the time of the Holy Mysteries, and to say, Sancta Sanctis, Holy thinges for the Holy. And this is the mea∣ning of, Sancta Sanctorum.

As for Clemens of Rome, y^e Apostles Felow, as M. Harding euerywhere cal∣leth him, he saith not, That Christ offered him selfe at his Last Supper: but rather far otherwise. Thus he saith, Propter nos Homo factus, & Spirituale Sacrificium offe∣rens Deo. Christe beinge made Man for vs, and offeringe vnto God a Spiritual Sacrifice.

And in plainer sorte, he maketh this praier vnto God, touchinge the same,* 1.12 Offeri∣mus tibi Regi, & Deo, iux••a Christi institutionem hunc Panem, & hoc poculum: Wee of∣fer vp vnto thee, ô King and God, this Breade, and this Cuppe. He saith not, wee offer vp Really the Bodie of thy Sonne: but this Breade, and this Cuppe. Which also he calleth Antitypa, that is to say, Signa Corporis, & Sanguinis Christi: The Tokens, or Pleadges of Christes Bodie, and Bloud. And so Theodoretus writeth hereof:* 1.13 Ecclesia offert Corporis, & Sanguinis eius Symbola: The Churche offereth the Tokens, or Signes of his Bodie, and Bloud.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Chrysost. in Epi∣sto. ad Hebrae.
• * 1.2

  Homi. 16.
• * 1.3

  Tertullian. de Baptismo.
• * 1.4

  Chrysost. in Epist. ad Roma.
• * 1.5

  Homi. 10.
• * 1.6

  Hesychius in Leui. li. 1. ca. 2.
• * 1.7

  August. in Iohā. tracta. 26.
• * 1.8

  Origen in Leui. Homi. 7.
• * 1.9

  Inter Decre. Bo∣nifac. 1. Decre. 3.
• * 1.10

  12. Quaest. 2. Nulii liceat. Leuiti. 27.
• * 1.11

  Origen. in Le∣uiticum hom. 13.
• * 1.12

  Li. 8. ca. 13▪
• * 1.13

  Theodoret. 〈◊〉〈◊〉Psal. 110.