M. Hardinge. The .28. Diuision.
Nowe I referre me to the iudgement of the Reader, of what opinion so euer he be,* 1.1 whether for proufe of the Communion vnder one Kinde, we haue any woorde, sentence, or clause at al, or no: and whether these woordes of M. Iuel in his Sermon be true, or no, where he saithe thus: It vvas vsed throughout the vvhole Catholike Church sixe hundred yeeres after Christes ascension vnder Bothe Kindes vvithout exception. That it was so vsed, yea sixe hundred yeeres, and longe after, we denie not: but that it was so alwaies, and in euery place vsed, and without exception, that wee denie: and vpon what groundes wee doo it, let M. Iuel him selfe be iudge. If some of our allegations may be with violence wrested from our purpose, verely a great number of them cannot, the authoritie of the auncient Fathers, who wrote them, remaining inuio∣lated. Whereof it followeth, that after the iudgement of these Fathers, where as Christe insti∣tuted this Blessed Sacrament, and commaunded it to be celebrated, and receiued in remembrance of his Death, 62* 1.2 he gaue no necessarie commaundement either for the one, or for bothe kindes (biside, and without the celebration of the sacrifice) but lefte that to the determination of the Churche▪ Nowe that the Churche for th••••••idinge of vnreuerence, periles, offences, and other vveightie and important causes, hath decreed it* 1.3 in twoo general Councels, to be receiued of the laye people in one Kinde onely, we thinke it good with al humblenesse to submitte our selues to the Church herein: whiche Churche, Christe commaundeth to be hearde and obeyed, sayeinge: He that heareth not the Churche,* 1.4 let him be to thee, as a Heathen, and as a Publican. In doeinge whereof, we weigh aduised∣ly with our selues, the horrible daunger that remayneth for them, who be authours of schisme, and breakers of vnitie.