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.

M. Hardinge. The. 6. Diuision.

That it maye further appeare, that these woordes Figure, Signe, Image, Token, and suche other like sometimes vsed in aunciente writers, doo not exclude the truthe of thinges exhibited in the Sa∣crament, but rather shewe the secrete maner of thexhibitinge: amongest al other, the place of Ter∣tullian in his fourthe booke contra Marcionem, is not to bee omitted, specially beinge one of the chiefe, and of moste appearance, that the Sacramentaries bringe for proufe of their Doctrine.

Tertullians woordes be these: Acceptum Panem, & distributum Discipulis suis, Corpus suum illum fecit, Hoe est Corpus meum dicendo, id est, Figura Corporis mei. The Breade, that he tooke, and gaue to his Disciples, he made it his Bodie, in saieinge, This is my Bodie, that is, the Figure of my Bodie.

The double takinge of the woorde (Sacramente) afore mentioned, remembred, and consideration had, howe the Sacramentes of the Newe Testament comprehend two thinges, (191)(* 1.1) the outwarde

(1) Visible formes that be (2) Figures, Signes, and Tokens, and also, and that chiefely, a Diuine thing•• vnder them (3) accordinge to Christes promise (4) couertly conteined, specially this beinge weyed, that this moste Holye Sacrament consisteth of these two thinges, to witte, of the Visible Forme of the out∣warde Elementes, and the Inuisible Fleashe and Bloude of Christe, that is to saye, of the Sacrament, and of the thinge of the Sacrament: Tertullian maye seeme to speake of these two partes of the Sa∣crament iointely in this one sentence.* 1.2 For firste he speaketh most plainely of the very Bodie of Christe in the Sacrament, and of the meruailouse tourninge of the Breade into the same. The Breade (saith he) that he tooke, and gaue to his Disciples, he made it his Bodie. VVhiche is the Diuine thinge of the Sacramente. Then foorthwith he saith, that our Lorde did it by saiynge, This is my Bodie, that is, the Figure of my Bodie. By whiche woordes he sheweth the other parte, the Sacrament onely, that is to saye,* 1.3 that Holye outwarde Signe of the Forme of Breade, vnder whiche Forme Christes Bo∣die, into the whiche the Breade by Goddes power is tourned, is conteined: whiche outwarde Forme is verily the Figure of Chris•••• Bodie present, whiche our Lorde vnder the same conteined deliuered to his Disciples, and nowe is likewise at that Holy Table to the faitheful people deliuered, where the order of the Catholike Churche is not broken.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The .191. Vn∣truthe. Foure vntruethes to∣geather pak•••• vp in one.
• * 1.2

  This is Vani∣tas Vanitatū.
• * 1.3

  Holy outvvarde Accidentes.