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. 311.

If Christ only be the mediatour of Saluation, vvherefore do you thus cal vpon the blessed virgin Christes mother, Salua omnes, qui te glo∣rificant? Saue thou al them that glorifie thee. Here ye intrude vpon Christes office.

Harding.

A Wrangler wil neuer lacke wordes. Whereas you know by our doctrine, and profession, that we be∣leue, not the blessed Virgin, but only Christ to be our mediatour, what fishe you for wordes to trappe vs in them? When we saie to the Virgin, saue vs, we meane thus: praye for vs to God, that we may be faued. And herein we speake, as S. Paule did speake, who saith to Ti∣mothee: doing thus (that is to saie, preaching, and geuing good example of life) & teipsum saluum facies, & eos qui te andiunt. Thou shalt saue bothe thy selfe, and those that heare thee. What? Doth S. Paule make Timothee a me∣diatour and Sauiour in these wordes? They are thus wel meant: Thou shalt be a meane to saue thy selfe, and o∣thers, that is to saie, whereby the sooner saluation may freely for Christes sake be geuen of God to thee, and to others. Euen so, saue vs virgin, is to saie, O virgin praie to God, and to thy sonne Iesus, that through his death salua∣tion may be geuen vnto vs. I might bring many such spea∣ches out of the holy Scriptures, if I thought this might

not suffice. He is a contentious wrangler, who knowing our meaning, doth pike quarels of dissensiō vpon wordes only, taken in euil sense, the good sense dissembled.

Notes

• Saue vs o blessed virgin, in vvhat sense is i•• taken.
• 1. Tim. 4.