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…

What crake ye of a good part of the World? The greater is the number of those ye have seduced, the more grievous shall be your judgement. There be not yet many years paste, that ye boasted of your poor small flock, alluding to the fewness of the Flock, that lived with Christ in Flesh, and made their fewness an argument of the sincere Truth But now that through your evil teaching, ^*the world groweth more to be dissolute and wicked, ye boast of your number. This is certain, touching grounds of truth, the Church erreth not, as that which enjoyeth Christs promise: and your Congregation teaching the contrary, must therefore be taken for the Children of the Father of Lies. Though ten, or twenty Masses were not said in one day by Christ, the Apostles, or Fathers, as ye scoff, when the Faith was first Preached,^‡ and few believed, no Churches (which here not without profane malice ye name Temples) yet being built: this is no sufficient reason, ⟨p. 327⟩why we may not now,³ where the Faith is generally received, have sundry Masses in one Church in one day. Ye make much a do about both Kinds, and to aggravate the matter ye use the odious term of banishing the people from the Cup. We teach the people for^*