A04468:1552
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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Why speak ye not plainly?1 Be there no moe but two Sacraments? Though ye say not so expressly, yet we judge, that so ye mean. For so your schoolfellow of Geneva Theodore Beza pronounceth in plain terms in the Confession of your Genevian Faith. And so your selves, Defenders, do affirm in the Articles, which ye agreed upon in your Convocation holden at London in the year of our Lord. 1562. Which Articles ye have put forth […] print by the Queens Authority, as ye ⟨p. 211⟩pretend. Now whereas ye acknowledge there be but two Sacraments, why should any man believe you,2 rather then the Germans your first Schoolmasters, who* in their Confession exhibited to Charles the fifth then Emperor at Augsburg in the name of all the Protestants, Anno. 1530. appoint three Sacraments, Baptism, the Eucharist, and Penance? The next year after,‡ Philip Melanchthon in his Apology avouched those three Sacraments: but afterward in the year. 1552. he found out an other, and made up the number of four, by adding the Sacrament of Order to the foresaid three. In Lipsia they receive three: In Wittenberg, which City is not thence far of, they have four. At Magdeburg thereby also Flacius Illyricus, and so many as follow him, will have but two: and the Zwenckfeldians, that spring out of the same stock, care for none at all.
VVhy speake ye not plainely?1 Be there no moe but twoo Sacramentes? Though ye saie not so expressely, yet wee iudge, that so ye meane. For so your scholefelowe of Geneua Theodore Beza pronounceth in plaine termes in the Confession of your Geneuian Faithe. And so your selues, Defenders, do affirme in the Articles, which ye agreed vpon in your Conuocation holden at London in the yere of our Lorde. 1562. VVhiche Articles ye haue put forthe 〈…〉 printe by the Queenes Auctoritie, as ye ⟨p. 211⟩