M. Hardinge. The .4. Diuision.
First, that the Common people of al sortes, and degrees, ought of necessitie to reade al the holy Scriptures in their owne tongue, they saie, they could neuer finde it hitherto in the same Scriptures. Ire∣neus writeth,* 1.1 that the Apostles preached to the Aliantes, and ••arbarous people the Faith of Christe, euen to those, that were aliantes, and Barbarous in language, and saith, that hauinge heard the Gospel preached, they beleeued in Christe: and kepinge the order of Tradition, whiche the Apostles deliuered vnto them, had their saluation, and Faith written in their harte without printe, penne, or inke, and vtterly without letters. And further he sheweth, that if the Apostles had lefte to vs no Scriptures at al, yet we should be saued by the tradition, whiche they lefte to them, whom they committed their Churches vnto, as many nations of aliantes be saued by the same.
Hilarius likewise declaringe,* 1.2 that the mysterie of Gods wil, and thexpectatiō of the blessed King∣dom, is most and ••hiefly preached in the three tongues, in whiche Pilate wrote on the Crosse, our Lord Iesus Christe to be kinge of the Iewes: confesseth notwithstandinge, that many Barbarous nations haue atteined, and gotten the true knowledge of God by the preachinge of the Apostles, and the Faith of the Churches remaininge amongest them to that daie. VVhereby he doeth vs to vnderstande, that the vnlear••••d Barbarous people had their Faith without letters, or writinge, whereof they had no skil, by tradition, and preachinge, as wel as the other nations, who were holpen by the benefite of the learned tongues, Hebrewe, Greeke, and Latine.