A detection of sundrie foule errours, lies, sclaunders, corruptions, and other false dealinges, touching doctrine, and other matters vttered and practized by M.Iewel, in a booke lately by him set foorth entituled, a defence of the apologie. &c. By Thomas Harding doctor of diuinitie.

Iewel. Pag. 100.

This is a valiant kinde of argument. It holdeth from heauen to earth, from angelles to menne, from God to the Pope.

Harding.

Wel skoffed M. Iewel. It was not for naught, that the Prophete Dauid in the description of a blessed man, saith emong other thinges,* 1.1 that he sitteth not in the chaire of

Mockers, by whiche worde Heretiques are signified, which in deede are very skoffers, and mockers of al good thinges. And weene you good Sir▪ that an argument maie not holde from heauen to earth? Thy wil be donne in earth as it is in heauen. Vpon these wordes, if you list,* 1.2 maie ye not frame an argument, that shal holde from heauen to earth? Now from Angelles to menne: Videte ne con∣temnatis vnum ex his pusillis: dico enim vobis,* 1.3 quia Angeli eorum in coelis semper vident faciem patris mei, qui in coe∣lu est. See ye despise not one of these litle ones: For I saie vnto you, that their Angelles in heauen doo alwaies see the face of my Father, whiche is in heauen. Out of this Scripture, if your good wil, and cunning would serue you, ye maie see an argument plainely made, from An∣gelles to menne. Likewise from God to the Pope. Pe∣tre amas me? Pasce oues meas. Peter louest thou me?* 1.4 Feede (or rule) my sheepe. If your cunning can not compasse suche Argumentes M. Iewel, that are vsed in Scriptures, from heauen to earth, from Angelles to menne, from God to the Pope: yet it were good for you to leaue skoffing at suche argumentes, as are vsed in the very Scriptures.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Psal. 1.
• * 1.2

  Matth. 6.
• * 1.3

  Matth. 18.
• * 1.4

  Iohan. 21.