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…

We make our Prayers in that tongue which all our people, as meet is, may understand, to the end they may (as S. Paul counselleth us) take common commodity by Common Prayer: even as all the Holy Fathers, and Catholic Bishops, both in the Old, and New Testament did use to Pray them selves, & taught the people to Pray too: lest, as S. Augustine saith, Like Parrots, and Ouzels we should seem to speak, that we understand not. Neither have we any other Mediator, and Intercessor, by whom we may have access to God the Father, but only Jesus Christ, in whose only name all things are obtained at his Fathers hand. But it is a shameful part, and full of Infidelity, that we see every where used in the Churches of our adversaries, not only in that they will have innumerable sorts of Mediators, & that utterly without the Authority of God's Word: (So that, as Jeremiah saith, the Saints be now as many in number,¹ or rather above the number of the Cities: and poor men cannot tell, to which Saint it were best to turn them first: And though there be so many, as they cannot be told, yet every one of them hath his peculiar duty, & office assigned unto him by these folks: what thing they ought to ask, what to give, and what to bring to pass) But besides this also, in that their do not only wickedly, but also shamefully call upon the Blessed Virgin Christs Mother, to have her remember, that she is a Mother, and to command her Son, and to use a Mothers authority over him.²