The B. of Sarisburie.
I must needes answeare M. Hardinge,* 1.1 as Cicero sometime answeared his ad∣uersarie: Mimi ergo exitus est, non Fabulae. This geare goeth by gesture, and not by spe••che. S. Cyprian declaringe the order of the Churche in his time, saith: Sacerdos ante o∣rationem, parat animos fratrum, dicendo, Sursum corda: The Priest before the ••raiers, prepareth the hartes of the brethren, saiyng thus vnto them, Lifte vp your hartes.
The Deacons in S. Chrysostomes and Basiles time, vsed to cal vpon the peo∣ple with these woordes. Oremus: Attendamus. Let vs praie: Let vs geue eare: Like as also the Priest in the Heathen Sacrifices, was wonte to commaunde silence, and to say to the multitude, Fauete linguis. This was doone in the Churche of Christe, as S. Cyprian saith, to put the people in remembrance, that in theyr praiers they shoulde thinke of nothinge els, but onely of the Lorde. And therefore Chrysostome saith,* 1.2 The Priest in the holy Ministration speaketh vnto the people, and the people vnto the Priest. But M. Hardinge for ease and expedition, hath diuised a shor∣ter way, to teache the people by a Belrope. He turneth his backe vnto his bre∣thren: and speaketh out twoo woordes alowde Pater noster: and causeth the Sanctus Bel to play the parte of a Deacon, to put the people in remembrance, that now they must pray. If any other man woulde say so muche, he were a scoffer: M. Harding speaketh it, and it is good earnest, and cause sufficient, to auoide Iustini∣ans law.* 1.3 Augustus Cesar warned his sonne in lawe Tiberius, Vt ore, non digito, loqueretur: That he should speake with his mouthe, and not with his finger. And Cato was wonte to say, when he saw twoo Augures méete togeather, He merueiled, that either of them coulde abs••••ine from smilinge: For that theire whole profession, and occupation stoode in mockinge of the people. I wil not apply this to M. Hardinge, notwith∣standinge he séeme to professe the like. God graunte, his Bel may remember him to feare God,* 1.4 least he him selfe be leafte, As a soundinge peece of Brasse, or as a tincklinge Cymbal.