The B. of Sarisburie.
Marke (gentle reader) how smal occasions this man taketh holde at, con∣trary to his promise, to serue his intemperate humour of speakinge euil. What, thinketh he, that al folke are Heretiques that name the dayes otherwise, then they be named in his Portuise? So may he soone condemne the Gréekes, and (the Churche of Rome onely excepted) al other Christians throughout the worlde: who, as I recken, neuer had the name of Passion Sonday in their Calender, or vse of speakynge. So may he condemne al such as cal Parasceue Good fryday, or the Italians, that contrary to the Portuise cal the first wéeke in Lente the Carne∣uale. In déede the Portuise calleth that day not onely Passion Sonday, but also the Sonday, Iudica,* 1.1 and taketh the one name to be as Catholike, as the other. God be thanked we are not ashamed of Christes Passion, as hauinge nothinge to glorie in but onely the Crosse of Christe,* 1.2 and his Passion: neyther dooe wée refuse your fantasies bicause they be Catholike, as you surmise, but bicause they be your own, diuised by your selfe of late daies, many of them contrary to Gods holy woorde, and are not Catholike.
Inuectiues I made none, neither dooe wée vse the Pulp••••e to that purpose, but soberly, and farre otherwise, then M. Hardinge séemeth to vse his penne. I spake of the abuses of Christes last Supper, hauinge thereto occasion of these woordes of S. Paule:* 1.3 The thinge that I receiued of the Lorde, the same haue I deliuered vnto you, who in his time séemeth to fynde faulte with the Corinthians for the same. Nei∣ther is the Supper of Christe so priuileged,* 1.4 but it may be abused, as appeareth by the very confession of our aduersaries, who denie not, but that there be abuses and errours cropen into the priuate Masse.