An apology, or answer in defence of the Church of England concerning the state…An apologie, or aunswer in defence of the Church of England concerninge the state…

in so much that he was driven of necessity to write unto the Galatians, whom he had before instructed, after this manner: I am afraid, least that I have laboured amongest you in vain: & that in vain you have heard the Gospel.¹ My little Children, in whose birth I travail again, until Christ be formed in you: for as touching the Church of the Corinthians, how filthily it was defiled, it is not needful to speak of. Now I pray you then, might the Churches of the Galatians and the Corinthians fall from the faith, and only the Church of Rome may neither err nor slide away?² Doubtless Christ touching his Church, pronounced so long aforehand that the time should come,³ when that desolation should stand in the holy place. And Paul sayeth, that Antichrist in time to come, should set his chair of state in the temple of God.⁴ And that it should come to pass, that men would not endure to hear sound doctrine: but even in the very Church, men should turn their ears to the hearing of fables.⁵ And Peter saith, that in the Church there shall be masters of lies.⁶ And Daniel the Prophet speaking of the last days of Antichrist, saith that in those days truth shall be overthrown, and trodden down to the ground.⁷ And Christ saith, that misery and confusion amongest men shall be so great, that even the elect if it were possible, should be led away in to error. And that all these things should come to pass, not amongst ⟨p. 36⟩the Pagans or Turks, but in the holy place, in the Temple of God, in the Church, in the Congregation and fellowship of them that shall profess the name of Christ.

in so much that he was driuē of necessite to write vnto the Galathians, whom he had before instructed, after this māner: I am afraid, least yt I haue labored amongest you in vaine: & that in vain you haue heard ye Gospell.