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…

Verily, we for our parts, as we have said, have done nothing in altering Religion, upon either Rashness, or Arrogance: nor nothing, but with good leisure, and great consideration. Neither had we ever intended to do it, except both the manifest, & most assured ⟨p. 699⟩VVil of God, opened to us in his Holy Scriptures, and the regard of our own Salvation had even constrained us thereunto. For though we have departed from that Church, which these men call Catholic, and by that means get us envy amongest them, that want skill to judge, yet is this enough for us, & it ought to be enough for every wise, and good man, and one that maketh account of Everlasting Life, that we have gone from that church which had power to err: which christ, who can not err, told so long before, it should err: and which we our selves did evidently see with our eyes, to have gone from the Old Holy Fathers, and from the Apostles, and from Christ him self, and from the Primitive and catholic church of God: & we are come, as near, as we possibly could, to the Church of the Apostles, and of the Old catholic Bishops & Fathers: which Church, we know, hath hitherto been sound, and perfect, and, as Tertullian termeth it, a Pure Virgin, spotted as then with no Idolatry, nor with any foul, or shameful fault: and have directed, according to their Customs, and Ordinances, not only our Doctrine, but also the Sacraments, and the Form of common Prayer.

Verely, we for our partes, as we haue saide, haue donne nothinge in alteringe Religion, vpon either Rashnesse, or Arrogancie: nor nothinge, but with good leasure, and greate consideration. Neither had we euer entended to doo it, excepte bothe the manifest, & most assured