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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
Part 3 › The Apology, Cap. 1. Division. 3.Part 3 › The Apologie, Cap. 1. Diuision. 3.
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The Apology, Cap. 1. Division. 3.
The Apologie, Cap. 1. Diuision. 3.
We, for our part, have learned these things of Christ, of the Apostles, of the Devout Fathers: and do sincerely with good faith ⟨p. 332⟩teach the people of God the same. Which thing is the only cause why we at this day are called Heretics of the chief Prelate (no doubt) of Religion. O immortal God, hath Christ him self then, the Apostles, & so many Fathers, all at once gone astray? Were then Origene, Ambrose, Augustine, Chrysostom, Gelasius, Theodoretus, forsakers of the Catholic Faith? Was so notable a consent of so many Ancient Bishops, and Learned men, nothing else, but a conspiracy of Heretics? Or, is that now condemned in us, which was then commended in them? Or, is the thing now, by alteration only of mens affections, suddenly become schismatic, which in them was counted Catholic? Or, shall that, which in times paste was undoubtedly true, now by and by, because it liketh not these men, be Judged false? Let them then bring forth an other Gospel, & let them show the causes, why these things, which so long have openly been observed, & well allowed in the Church of God, ought now in the end to be called in again. We know well enough, the• the same Word, which was opened by Christ, and spread abroad by the Apostles, is sufficient, both to our Salvation, & also to uphold, & maintain all Truth, & to confound all manner of Heresy. By that Word only do we condemn all sorts of the Old Heretics, whom these men say, we have called out of Hell again. As for the Arians, the Eutychians, the Marcionites, the Ebionites, the Valentinians, the Carpocratians, the Tatians, the Novatians, and shortly all them, which have a wicked opinion either of God the Father, or of Christ, or of y Holy Ghost, or of any other point of Christian Religion, for so much as they be confuted by the Gospel of Christ, we plainly pronounce them for detestable, & damned Persons, and defy them even unto the Devil. Neither do we leave them so, but we also severely, and straitly hold them in by lawful, and politic punishments, if they fortune to break out any where, and bewray them selves.