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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
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.
From that place also we believe that Christ shall come again to execute that general judgement, aswell of them whom he shall then send alive in the body, as of them that be already dead.
From that place also wee beleeue that Christ shall com againe to execute that general iudgemēt, aswel of them whom he shall then synde aliue in the bodye, as of them that be already dead.
We believe that the holy Ghost, who is, the third person in the holy Trinity; is very God: not made, not •reat, not begotten, but proceeding from both the Father and the Son, by a certain mean unknown unto men & unspeakable, and that it is his property to mollify and soften the hardness of mans heart, when he is once received thereunto, either by the wholesome preaching of the Gospel, or by any other way: that he doth give men light, and guide them unto the knowledge of God, to all way of truth, to newness of the whole lief, and to everlasting hope of salvation.
Wee beleeue that the holy Ghoste, who is, the third person in the holie Trinitie; is very God: not made, not •reat, not begotten, but proceding from both the Father and the Sonne, by a certain meane vnknowen vnto men & vnspeakable, and that it is his propretie to mollifie and soften ye hardnes of mans heart, when he is once receiued thereunto, eyther by ye holsom preaching of the Gospell, or by any other way: that he dothe geue men light, and guide them vnto the knowledge of God, to al waye of truth, to newnes of the whole liefe, and to euerlastinge hope of saluation.
We believe that there is one Church of God, and that the same is not shut up (as in times past among the Jews) into some one corner or kingdom, but