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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
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Gabriel Biel saith, the Church of Rome thought it good, to use common Leavened ⟨p. 347⟩Bread at y• Ministration of the holy Mysteries, lest in using unleavened Bread,1 they should be thought to follow Ebion the Heretic. Tertullian reasoneth vehemently, 2that a Christian man ought not to go with a Laurel Garland upon his Head: and that for none other cause, but only for that the Heathens used so to go. Whereupon Beatus Rhenanus giveth this note: Non solùm ab his temperandum fuit,3 quae manifestam prae see ferrent impietatem, sed etiam ab illis, quae possent indifferentia vocari, hoc est, quae essent, neque Bona, neque Mala: partim, ne quisquam infirmior ex Christianis offenderetur: partim, ne Ethnici in suis erroribus confirmarentur, dumb rectius putant esse, quod etiam Christianos obseruare vident: It was meet for them to refrain, not only from such things, as have a manifest show of wickedness, but also from such things, as might be called indifferent, that is to say, neither Good, nor il: partly, lest any of the weaker Christians should be offended: partly also, lest the Heathens should be encouraged in their errors, thinking that thing, for that the Christians them selves do it, to be the better. 4Again Tertullian saithe, De hoc primo consistam, An cum ipsis quoque Nationibus Communicare in huiusmodi Seruus Dei debeat: sive habitu, sive victu, vel quo alio genere laetitiae eorum: Herein will I first stand, whether it be lawful for the Servant of God, to Communicate with whole Nations in such things: either in Apparel, or in Diet, or in any other kind of their Mirth. And S. Basil saith, [Greek or Hebrew]: Let needless, 5and superfluous things be put to Silence in the Church of God. To be short, Origen saithe, Quaerendum est, quid hoc sit, quod sequitur, Non fiant ei reliquiae: Ne aliqua, inquit, rescindatis Chaldaeorum, aliqua reseruetis. Ob id jubet, ne pusillum quidem relinquatur in ea: We must examine, what is meant by this, that followeth, Leave her no manner of remnant. The meaning is this, Abolish not certain of the Superstitions of the Chaldees, reserving certain: Therefore he commandeth, that nothing be least in her, be it never so little. How be it, I take not upon me to enter into the Conscience of others: