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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 1 › The Apology, Cap. 6. Division. 1.Part 1 › The Apologie, Cap. 6. Diuision. 1.
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The Apology, Cap. 6. Division. 1.
The Apologie, Cap. 6. Diuision. 1.
But because he hath already so noted us openly, lest by holding our peace we should seem to grant a fault, and specially because we ⟨p. 42⟩can by no means have audience in the Public assembly of the General Council, wherein he would no creature should have power to give his voice, or to declare his opinion, except he were sworn, and straightly bound to maintain his Authority: For we have had good experience hereof, in the last Conference at the Council of Irident: where the Ambassadors & Divines of the Princes of Germany, and of the free Cities, were quite shut out from their company. Neither can we yet forget, how Julius the third, above ten years past, provided warily by his write, that none of our fort should be suffered to speak in the Council, except that there were some man peradventure, that would recant, & change his opinion. For this cause chiefly we thought it good, to yield up an account of our Faith in writing, & truly and openly to make answer to those things, wherewith we have ben openly charged: to the end the world may see the parts & foundations of that Doctrine, in the behalf whereof so many good men have little regarded their own lives. And that all men may understand what manner of people they be, & what opinion they have of God & of Religion, whom the Bishop of Rome, before they were called to tell their tale, hath condemned for Heretics, without any good consideration, without any example, and utterly without Law or right: only because he heard tell, that they did dissent from him and his in some point of Religion.