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.

M. Hardinge. The .13. Diuision.

As for the place he allegeth out of S. Augustine vpon the Psalmes, it maketh nothinge for his pur∣pose. S. Augustines woordes be these, otherwise then he reporteth thē.* 1.1 Quid hoc sit, intelligere debe∣mus, vt humana ratione, nō quasi auiū voce, cantemus. Nā & merulae, & psittaci, & corui, & picae, & huiuscemodi volucres, saepe ab hominibus docentur sonare, quod nesciunt. Hauinge prayed to God (saithe S. Augustine) that he make vs cleane of our priuie sinnes &c. We ought to vnderstande,* 1.2 what this is: that we may singe with mans reason, not with voyce, as birdes doo. For Owselles, Popiniayes, Rauens, and Pies, and suche the like birdes, oftetimes be taught of menne to sounde, they knowe not what. These woordes are to be taken of the vnderstandinge of the sense, not of the tongue, whiche the seruice is songue in. For the people of Hippo, where he was Bishop, vnderstoode the Latine tongue meanely. VVhiche sense can not rightly, and safely be atteined of the common peo∣ple, but is better, and more holesomely taught, by the preachinge of the learned Bishoppes, and Priestes.

Notes

• * 1.1

  In Psal. 18. in ex∣positione secūda.
• * 1.2

  A bare glose. For S. Augu∣stine spea∣keth of prayeinge, and not of preaching.