A04468:4257
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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If ye will believe none of these, yet your Popes own Legates, in your late Chapter at Trident, speaking of your Priestlike Apparel, saie thus: Nihil à Laic•s, praeterquam in Vestis genere, ac ne in hoc quidem differunt: Our Priests differ nothing from Laymen, saving only in Apparel: nay, in deed they differ not so much from them, as in Apparel.
If yée wil beleeue none of these, yet your Popes ovvne Legates, in your late Chapter at Tridente, speakinge of your Priestelike Apparel, saie thus: Nihil à Laic•s, praeterquam in Vestis genere, ac ne in hoc quidem differunt: Our Priestes differ nothinge from Laiemenne, sauinge onely in Apparel: naie, in deede they differ not so mutche from them, as in Apparel.
Ye say,1 your Bishops are gay, and gallant, attended, and guarded with Princelike routes, both behind, and before: And thereof ye make no small account, specially in respect of our estate, which you call beggarly. In such disdain the Heathens sometime said, That Christ was the Beggerliest, and ⟨p. 641⟩poorest of all the Gods that were in Heaven. 2How be it, our Bishoprics, saving that certain of your Fathers have shamefully spoiled them, are now, even as they were before. Certainly y• Poorest Bishopric in England, as it is reported, is better in revenues, theli some three of your Popes Italian Bishoprics in the Kingdom of Naples. How be it, the Gospel of Christ standeth not by Richesse, but by Truth. In comparison of the one, we make small reckoning of the other.
Yee saie,1