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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…
An apology, or answer in defence of the Church of England concerning the state of religion used in the same. Newly set forth in Latin, and now translated into English.An apologie, or aunswer in defence of the Church of England concerninge the state of religion vsed in the same. Newly set forth in Latin, and nowe translated into Englishe.
Londini: printed by Reginald Wolf, 1562
The Apology of the Church of England.The Apologie of the Churche of Englande.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1But Lord, what men, trow ye, be these that find fault with dissensions amongest us? Do they all agree amongst themselves? Hath every one of them well advised ⟨p. 21⟩himself what way to follow? Was there never no dissensions, no brawls amongst them? How happeneth it then that the Scotists and the Thomists do agree no better about merits of conveniency,2 and merits of duty: about original sin in the blessed virgin, about a solemn and a simple vow? why do the Canonists say, that ear confession is ordained by humane & positive law, and the Schoolmen contrary, by gods law? Why doth Albert Pighius dissent from the Cardinal of Caieta, Thomas from Lombard, Scotus from Thomas, Occam from the Scot, Alliensis from Occam, the Nominals from the Reals? And although we pass over the infinite dissensions of Friars and Monks, whereof some of them do appoint their holiness to be in fish, some in herbs, some in shoes, some in slippers, some in a linen garment, some in a woollen, some go in white, some in black, some are shaven broader, some narrower, some are shod, some are barefoot, some girded, some ungirded: yet they ought to remember that there be some among them that say. the body of Christ is present in the supper naturally:3 again there be some even of their own company also that deny it: that there be some that say the body of Christ in the holy Communion is torn and crushed with teeth:4 again there be some that deny it: that there be some that write that the body of Christ in the sacrament hath quantity and bigness, on the other side there be some that deny it: that there be some that say, Christ did Consecrate by a certain power of divinity, some it by blessing, some by five specially prescribed words: some by repeating of the self same five words, some also that in those five words, by the Pronoun demonstrative, ⟨image 22⟩Hoc, that is to say, This, think that the bread of wheat is pointed to:5