A04468:2570
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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The B. of Salisbury.
The B. of Sarisburie.
Here is profound stuff, M. Harding, for a Doctor of Divinity. To answer you with your own vain words, in deed ye spend your words in vain.
Here is profounde stuffe, M. Hardinge, for a Doctour of DIuinitie. To answeare you with your owne vaine woordes, in deede ye spende your woordes in vaine.
The Apology, Cap. 4. Division. 2.
The Apologie, Cap. 4. Diuision. 2.
Forty years ago, and upward, it was an easy thing for them to devise against us these accursed speeches, & other too, sorer then these: when in the middest of the darkness of that age, first began to spring, and to give shine some one glimmering beam of Truth, unknown at that time, and unheard of: when also Martin Luther, and Hulderike Zwinglius, being most excellent men, even sent of God, to give light to the whole world, first came unto the knowledge, and preaching of the Gospel: when as yet the thing was but new, and the success thereof uncertain: and when mens minds stood doubtful and amazed, and their ears open to all slanderous tales: and when there could be imagined against us no fact so detestable, but the people then would soon believe it, for the novelty and strangeness of the matter. For so did Symmachus, so did Celsus, so did Julianus, so did Porphyrius the old foes to the Gospel, attempt in times past to accuse all Christians of Sedition and Treason, before that either Prince, or people were able to know, who those Christians were, what they professed, what they believed, or what was their meaning.