A04468:1145
A defence of the Apology of the Church of England containing an answer to…A defence of the Apologie of the Churche of Englande conteininge an answeare to…
A defence of the Apology of the Church of England containing an answer to a certain book lately set forth by M. Harding, and entitled, A confutation of &c. By John Jewel Bishop of Salisbury.A defence of the Apologie of the Churche of Englande conteininge an answeare to a certaine booke lately set foorthe by M. Hardinge, and entituled, A confutation of &c. By Iohn Iewel Bishop of Sarisburie.
Imprinted at London : In Fleetestreate, at the sign of the Elephant, by Henry Wykes, Anno 1567. 27. OctobrisImprinted at London : In Fleetestreate, at the signe of the Elephante, by Henry VVykes, Anno 1567. 27. Octobris
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Where you further charge M. Calvin, for saying, The Children of the Faithful are borne Holy, ye should rather herewith have charged S. Paul. For thus he saithe,1 Nunc Liberi vestri Sancti sunt: Now are your children Holy. Ye should have remembered, M. Harding, that these be S. Pauls words, and not M. Calvins. His meaning is, that the Children of the Faithful, notwithstanding by Nature they be the Children of Anger, yet by God's Free Election they be Pure, and Holy. This is S. Pauls undoubted Doctrine: Which notwithstanding, be never neither despised the Sacraments of Christ, nor lead the people▪ as you say, to Mahomete, or Epicure.
Where you further charge M. Caluine, for saieinge, The Children of the Faithful are borne Holy, ye shoulde rather herewith haue charged S. Paule. For thus he saithe,1 Nunc Liberi vestri Sancti sunt: Nowe are your children Holy. Ye should haue remembred, M. Hardinge, that these be S. Paules woordes, and not M. Caluines. His meaninge is, that the Children of the Faitheful, notwithstandinge by Nature they be the Children of Anger, yet by Goddes Frée Election they be Pure, and Holy. This is S. Paules vndoubted Doctrine: Whiche notwithstandinge, be neuer neither despised the Sacramentes of Christe, nor leadde the people▪ as you saie, to Mahomete, or Epicure.
Here at the last, M. Harding, to return, as he saith, to his Keys, first beginneth with the spiteful words, and scornful scoffs, and light Sprite of Sir Defender: which, he saith, he learned in the School of Satan, & now lieth bounds in Satan's fetters.