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.

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Title: 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.
Author: Jewel, John, 1522-1571.
Publication: Imprinted at London :: In Fleetestreate, at the signe of the Blacke Oliphante, by Henry VVykes,; Anno. 1565.
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Subject terms: Harding, Thomas, 1516-1572. -- Answere to Maister Juelles chalenge.; Catholic Church -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.; Catholic Church -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800.
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M. Hardinge. The .38. Diuision.

89.* 1.1 The Nations that haue euer had their Seruice in the Vulgare Tongue, the people thereof haue continewed in Schismes, errours, and certaine Iudaical obseruances, so, as they haue not beene reke∣ned in the number of the Catholike Churche: As the Christians of Moschouia, of Armenia, of Prester Iohn his lande in Ethiopia.* 1.2 Bessarion askinge by waie of a question of the Greekes his coun∣trie men, what Churche that is, againste the whiche Hel gates shal neuer preuaile: answeareth him selfe and saithe: Aut Latina, aut Graeca est Ecclesia: tertia enim dari non potest. Siqui∣dem aliae omnes haeresibus sunt plenae, quas sancti Patres, & Generales Synodi condemna∣runt. Either it is the Latine, or the Greeke Churche: for there is no thirde that can be graunted. For al other Churches be ful of Heresies, whiche the holy Fathers, and General Councels haue condemned.

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Wherefore of these Churches no example ought to be taken for Seruice in the Vulgare Tongue: as neither of the Churches of Russia, and Morauia, and certaine other, to whome aboue sixe hun∣dred yeeres paste, it was graunted to haue the Masse in the Sclauons Tongue, throughe special licence thereto obteined of the see Apostolike, by Cyrillus and Methodius that firste conuerted them to the Faithe. VVhiche manner of Seruice, so many of them as be Catholike, for good causes haue leafte, and vsed the Latine, as other Latine Churches doo. Concerninge the reaste yet keepinge their Sclauone tongue, biside other errours and defaultes, for whiche they are not herein to be esteemed woorthy to be folowed, we maye saie of them, the woordes of Gregorie Nazianzene. Priuile∣legia paucorum, non faciunt legem communem: The Priuileges of a fewe, make not a thinge lawful in common.

Notes

* 1.1

The .89. vntrueth. For the Seruice in the vulgar•• Tongue neuer vvas cause of Schisme, or Heresie.

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* 1.2

In epistola ad Graecos.

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