Iewel. Pag. 96.S. Bernarde, vvithout glose saith plinely:* 1.1 Non sunt omnes amici Sponsi, qui hodie sunt Sponsi Ecclesiae. They be not al the Bride∣gromes frendes, that are this daie the Spouses of the Churche.
Harding.
Denieth S. Bernarde in that place, trowe ye, that Bi∣shoppes are the Spouses of the Churche? Or doth he not rather graunt it, in that he saith, Qui sunt hodie Sponsi Ec∣clesiae, They, that are nowe a daies the Spouses of the Churche? Haue not you the reason to marke what he graunteth, and what he denieth? He denieth, that al they were the Bridegromes frendes, that were at that time Spouses of the Churche, Ergo, there were some, that were bothe the Bridegromes frendes, and also Spouses of the Churche.
What il lucke haue you, alwaies to allege the Fa∣thers to your owne ouerthrowe? As strange as you make, that any man should be called, the Light, the Life, the Sauiour, and the God, yet certaine of these haue ben attributed in Scripture (as lothe as you be to heare of it) to menne, that were Headdes vnder Christe.* 1.2 The Apo∣stles pardy are called the light of the worlde. Moyses is called by God, the God of Pharao.* 1.3 Rulers are cal∣led Goddes. Confitemini Deo Deorum. Ego dixi Dij estis. Ioseph is called a Sauiour of the worlde.