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.
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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.
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Jewel, John, 1522-1571.
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Imprinted at London :: In Fleetestreate, at the signe of the Blacke Oliphante, by Henry VVykes,
Anno. 1565.
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Harding, Thomas, 1516-1572. -- Answere to Maister Juelles chalenge.
Catholic Church -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.
Catholic Church -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A04474.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.
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The B. of Sarisburie.
This tale against that godly man Doctour Luther, is scorneful, and sclaunde∣rous,
blased abroade by Pigghius, Hosius, Staphylus the renegate, and suche o∣thers,
onely of wilful malice and hatred of the truthe, and therefore not woorthy to
be answeared. Doctour Luther sheweth what terrible tentations the Diuel laieth
to trappe man withal, takinge occasion sometime of wel dooinge, sometime of euil:
sometime of trueth, sometime of falseheade. And for example he sheweth that the
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Diuel on a tyme assaulted him, not in visible forme, but by dreadful suggestions
in his conscience, as it were thus callinge him to remembrance: These many yeeres thou
hast said Masse, thou hast shewed vp breade and wyne to be woorshipped as God, and yet nowe thou
knowest it was a creature, and not God. Thereof folowed Idolatrie, and thou weare the cause therof.
Al these thinges he sawe to be true by the testimonie and light of his owne consci∣ence,
and therefore confessed he had offended, and yelded him selfe vnto God. The
Diuels purpose was to leade him to despaire: but God mercifully deliuered him.
And this is Doctour Luthers whole and onely meanynge in that place, that no
man of him selfe is hable to withstande such assaultes, and tentations of the en∣nemie,
but onely by the power and mercie of God: This (good reader) is that
Schoole of Satan: this is that woonderful Tragedie whereat M. Hardinge maketh
such horrible exclamations. If he thinke it so haynous a mater for a godly man
to be vexed by the diuel, perhaps he wil also fynde some faulte with Christe, that
was caried by the Diuel into the mounte: or with S. Paule that had the Angel of
Sathan to buffet him: or with a great numbre of his portuise Sainctes, whose le∣gendes
are ful of visions of Diuels, with other like childishe fables. As for Luther,
y• doctrine that he taught in his schoole touching this pointe, is the very Gospel of
Christe, and therefore it increaseth, and entreth into the hartes of men, and the
lyes and sclaunders of the enemies shal neuer be hable to preuayle against it.