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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. 3. Division. 1.Part 3 › The Apologie, Cap. 3. Diuision. 1.
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The Apology, Cap. 3. Division. 1.
The Apologie, Cap. 3. Diuision. 1.
Where they say, that we have fallen into sundry Sects, and would be called, some of us Lutherans, & some of us Zwinglians, & cannot yet well agree among our selves, touching the whole Substance of our Doctrine, what would these men have said, if they had been in the first times of the Apostles, and Holy Fathers: when one said, I hold of Paul: and other, I hold of Cephas: an other, I hold of Apollo? When Paul did so sharply rebuke Peter? When upon a falling out, Barnabas departed from Paul? When, as Origen mentioneth, the Christians were divided into so many factions, as that they kept no more, but the name of Christians in common among them, being in no manner of thing else like to Christians? When, as Socrates saith, for their dissensions, & sundry Sects, they were laughed, & jested at openly of the people in their stages, & common game plays? When, as Constantine the Emperor affirmeth, there were such a number of Variances, & brawlings in the Church, that it might justly seem a misery far passing all y• former miseries? When also Theophilus, Epiphanius, Chrysostom, Augustine, Ruffine, Hierome, being all Christians, being all Fathers, being all Catholics, quarrelled one against an other, with most bitter, and most remediless contentions without end? When, as saith Nazianzene, the parts of one Body were consumed and wasted one of an other? When the whole East part of the Church was divided from the West, only about leavened Bread, and only for the keeping of Easter day: which were in deed no great matters to be strived for? And when in all Councils New Creeds, and New Decrees continually were devised?