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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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And must all these, and other your like tales, M. Harding, pass under the name of Lies, and Follies?
And muste al these, and other your like tales, M. Hardinge, passe vnder the name of Lies, and Folies?
This Gentleman, ye say, was not so fast bound as we imagine: but fell down meekly, ⟨p. 417⟩and Willingly of himself. 1No doubt, M. Harding, who so knoweth an Italian courage, will soon believe that Francis Dandalus, a Gentleman of such Nobility, and the Ambassador of so Noble a Common Wealth, was soon, and easily, and willingly won, to come creeping with a iron chain on his neck, and to wallow under the Popes Table, as a Dog, to his own immortal shame, and to the Everlasting dishonour of his Country. Verily he would never have yielded him self to such Villainy, had it not been to avoid some other greater villainy. For, I beseech you, whether is it more cruelty, for you to run upon a poor man with sword drawn, and to strike him through, and so to kill him: or else to force him to lay cruel hands upon his own body, and to kill him self? S. Chrysostom saith, A poor man oftentimes is content to wound, or fester his own flesh, to the end, to move the rich man to some pity: Alij Capiti suo clavos acutos infigunt: alij per ipsum gelu nudo Corpore mendicantes petunt: 2Alij hisce etiam graviora ferentes, miserabile de se praebent spectaculum. At dices, Nos illorum Capita non configimus. Utinam verò tu configeres. Non enim tam gravis fuisset calamitas. Nam qui alium interimit, longè leviùs peccat, quàm is qui jubet aliquem seipsum interficere: Somme there be, that stick nails in their own heads: Somme other go begging with naked bodies in the cold frost: Somme others suffer other things of greater cruelty, and show them selves miserable to behold. But thou wilt say, we stick not these nails in their heads. Would God, thou stickedst them in. For then their misery were not so grievous. For he, that with his own hand killeth an other, committeth a great deal less fault, then he that forceth a man to kill him self.