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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. 6. Division. 1.Part 3 › The Apologie, Cap. 6. Diuision. 1.
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The Apology, Cap. 6. Division. 1.
The Apologie, Cap. 6. Diuision. 1.
They were best therefore to go, and set peace at home rather among them selves. Of a truth, Unity, and Concorde doth best become Religion: Yet is not Unity the sure & certain mark, whereby to know the Church of God. For there was the greatest Unity, that might be, amongest them, that worshipped the Golden Calf, and among them, which with one voice jointly cried against our Saviour Jesus Christ, Crucify him. Neither, because the Corinthians were unquieted with private dissensions: or because Paul did square with Peter, or Barnabas with Paul: or because the Christians upon the very beginning of the Gospel, were at mutual discord, touching some one matter, may we therefore think, there was no Church of God amongest them. And, as for those persons, whom they upon spite call Zwinglians, & Lutherans, in very deed they of both sides be Christians, good Friends, & Brethren. They vary not betwixt them selves upon the Principles, & Foundations of our Religion, nor as touching God, or Christ, or the Holy Ghost, or the means of Justification, or of everlasting life, but upon one only question, which is neither weighty, nor great: neither mistrust we, or make doubt at all, but they will shortly be agreed. And if there be any of them, which have other opinion, than is meet, we doubt not, but ere it be long, they will put apart all affections, and names of parties, & that God will reveal the truth unto them: so that by better considering, and searching out of the matter, as once it came to pass in the Council of Chalcedon, all causes, and seeds of dissension shall be throughly plucked up by the root, and be buried, and quite forgotten for ever. Which God grant.