An apology or answer in defence of the Church of England with a brief…An apologie or answere in defence of the Churche of Englande with a briefe…

Now then since it is manifest and out of all peradventure, that these men are fallen from y• Greeks, of whom they received the Gospel, of whom they received the faith, the true Religion and the Church, what is the matter why they will not now be called home again to the same men, as it were to their originals & first founders? And why be they afraid to ⟨image 94⟩take a pattern of the Apostles and old Fathers times, as though they all had ben void of understanding? Do these men, ween ye, see more or set more by the Church of God, then they deed who first delivered us these things?

Now then synce it is manifest and out of all peraduenture, that these men are fallen from y• Grekes, of whom they receiued the Gospell, of whome they receiued the faith, the true Religion and ye Church, what is ye mater why they will not now be called home again to ye same men, as it were to their originals & first founders? And whye be they afraide to ⟨image 94⟩take a paterne of the Apostles and olde Fathers tymes, as though they all had ben voyde of vnderstanding? Do these menne, wene ye, see more or set more by the Church of God, then they dede who firste deliuered vs these thinges?

We truly have renounced that church wherein we could neither have the word of God sincerely taught, nor the Sacraments rightly administered, nor the name of God duly called upon, which Church also themselves confess to be faulty in many points: And wherein was nothing able to stay any wise man, or one that hath consideration of his own lavetie. To conclude, we have forsaken the Church as it is now, not as it was in old time, and have so gone from it, as Daniel went out of the Lyons den, and the three Children out of the furnace: and to say truth, we have ben cast out by these men (being cursed of them, as they use to say, with book, bell, and candle) rather then have gone away from ⟨image 94⟩