The B. of Sarisburie.
M. Hardinge firste hauinge diuided the whole worlde into twoo Churches, the Gréeke and the Latine, afterwarde maketh offer to prooue his purpose. Whereof it may be geathered, that he hath hitherto prooued nothinge. This diuision of the Churche,* 1.1 neither is greately material, nor of our parte muche denied: albeit many waies if séemeth vnperfite. For the greate Churches of Ethiopia, India, and Scy∣thia, planted by S. Matthew, by S. Thomas, and by S. Andrew: bisides Arabia, Syria, Persia, Media, Armenia, and a great number of other Countries, whiche neuer were neither of the Gréeke Churche, nor of the Latine, are here quite leafte out. Twoo propositions M. Hardinge hath here chosen to prooue. The one is, that al the Greeke Churche had the Common Seruice wholy and throughly in the Gréeke tongue. The other is, that some whole countries in the Gréeke Churche, vnderstoode not the Gréeke tongue.
If bothe these propositions be prooued soundely, and substantially, without sur∣mise, or gheasse, then it behooueth me to yéelde. But, good Reader, marke them wel bothe, and consider the proufes. For if he faile in either of these, he prooueth no∣thinge: as, I hoape, it wil appeare.