A04468:2701
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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M. Harding.
M. Hardinge.
The Finds of Hell were not yet let loose, that begat Lutherans, Zwinglians, and Calvinists. And hereof we understand the youth of your Church, which having divided it self from the old and Catholic Church, is no other but the malignant Church, and Synagogue of Satan.
The Findes of Hell were not yet let loose, that begate Lutherans, Zwinglians, and Caluinistes. And hereof we vnderstande the youthe of your Churche, whiche hauinge diuided it selfe from the olde and Catholike Churche, is no other but the malignante Churche, and Synagoge of Satan.
To answer your demands. Who so ever they were, that poisoned these great personages, (if they were poisoned at all) good men were they not, neither the doers, nor the counsellors. Henry of Luxenburg it was, who was poisoned by report. Whom your Latin Book printed among the Huguenots calleth Henry the seventh, M. Doctor Haddon in his answer to Osorius, accounteth him the fourth, in both your English translations (that I have seen) he is called only Henry. As he laid siege to the City of Florence, and had now brought the Citizens to despair of their safety: when manly courage might not serve, they betook them to cowardly malice. First they poisoned (as it is said) the mind of a friar Dominican with Gold, that afterward he should adventure to poison the Emperors body with Venom. Paulus Aemilius saith, that he died of a sickness, which he fell into at Bonconuento,