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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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What opinion ye have had of Saints departed, I need not here to remember. Cardinal Bembus, in an Epistle unto the Emperor Charles. 5. calleth the Blessed Virgin, 1Dominam Deam nostram: Our Lady and Goddess. Your great Hercules, Lipomanus, crieth out in his marginal agony, Ecce quàm potentissima est sancta Dei Genitrix: & quomodò nullus saluus fieri possit nisi per eam: Behold, how mighty is the holy Mother of God, and how no man may be saved, but by her.
What opinion yee haue had of Sainctes departed, I neede not here to remember. Cardinal Bembus, in an Epistle vnto the Emperour Charles. 5. calleth the Blessed Virgine, 1Dominam Deam nostram: Our Lady and Goddesse. Youre greate Hercules, Lipomanus, crieth out in his marginal agonie, Ecce quàm potentissima est sancta Dei Genitrix: & quomodò nullus saluus fieri possit nisi per eam: Beholde, howe mighty is the holy Mother of God, and howe noman maie be saued, but by her.
- 1Epiphani. contra Collyridian. Bembus in Epis. ad Carolum 5. Lipomanus. Pag in 289.
It seemeth, this Error began to spring long sithence, even in the time of the Old Fathers: and that hereof Faustus, the Heretic, took occasion thus to charge the Catholics for the same. 1Idola vertistis in Martyrs: Ye have changed the Heathen Idols into your Martyrs. Further, ye say, the Reverence, that ye give unto Saints Images, is no Idolatry. Yet Polydorus Vergilius, speaking hereof, saithe thus: Quia Sacerdotes populum non docent, & vulgo ex usu suo tacere putantur,2 idcirco' eo' insaniae deventum est, ut haec pars Pietatis parùm differat ab Impietare: For that the Priests instruct not the people, and are thought to hold their peace for gains sake, the matter is brought to such a dotage, that this part of Devotion differeth but little from Extreme Wickedness. And Ludovicus Vives saith, he seeth no great difference between many Christian men worshipping their Images,