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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…
An apology or answer in defence of the Church of England with a brief and plain declaration of the true religion professed and used in the same.An apologie or answere in defence of the Churche of Englande with a briefe and plaine declaration of the true religion professed and vsed in the same.
Londini: printed by Reginald Wolfe, 1564
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But because he hath already so noted us openly, least by holding our peace we should seem to grant a fault, and specially because we can by no mean have audience in the public assembly of the general Council, wherein he would no creature should have power to give his voice or declare his opinion, except he were sworn and straightly bound to maintain his authority.
But bycause he hath alredy so noted vs openlye, least by holdynge oure peace we should seme to graunt a fault, and specially bycause we can by no meane haue audience in ye publik assembly of the general Councel, wherein he would no creature should haue power to geue his voice or declare his opinion, excepte he were sworne and straightly bounde to maintaine his aucthoritie.
For we have had good experience hereof in his last conference at the council ⟨image 15⟩at Trident, where the ambassadors & divines of the Princes of Germany and of the free Cities were quite shut out from their company: neither can we yet forget, how Julius the third, above ten years past, provided warily by his writ, that none of our sort should be suffered to speak in the Council (except there were some peradventure that would recant and change his opinion). For this cause chiefly we thought it good to yield up an account of our faith in writing, & truly and openly to make answer to those things wherewith we have ben openly charged, to the end the world may see the parts and foundations of that doctrine, in the behalf whereof so many good men have little regarded their own lives. And that all men may understand what manner of people they be, and what opinion they have of God and of Religion, whom the Bishop of Rome before they were called to tell their tale, hath condemned for heretics, ⟨image 15⟩without any good consideration, without any example, & utterly without law or right, only because he heard tell that they did dissent from him and his in some point of Religion.