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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 6 › The Apology, Cap. 19. Division. 1.Part 6 › The Apologie, Cap. 19. Diuision. 1.
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The Apology, Cap. 19. Division. 1.
The Apologie, Cap. 19. Diuision. 1.
But marvellous notable, & to very good purpose, for these days, be S. 1Hieromes words: Whom so ever (saith he) the Devil hath deceived, and enticed to fall asleep, as it were with the sweet, and deadly enchantments of the Mermaids the Sirens, those persons doth God's Word awake up, saying unto them:2 Arise thou that sleepest, lift up thee self: and Christ shall give thee light. Therefore at the coming of Christ, of God's Word, of the Ecclesiastical Doctrine, and of the full destruction of Nineveh, and of that most beautiful Harlot, then shall the people, which heretofore had been cast in a trance under their Masters, be raised up, and shall make haste to go to the Mountains of the Scriptures: and there shall they find hills, Imeanemoses, and losua the Son of Nun: other Hills also, which are the Prophets: and Hills of the New Testament, which are the Apostles, & the evangelists. And when the people shall flee for succour to such Hills, and shall be exercised in the reading of this kind of mountains, though they find not one to teach them (for the harvest shall be great, but the labourers few) yet shall the good desire of the people be well accepted, in that they have gotten them to such Hills: and the Negligence of their Masters shall be ⟨p. 717⟩openly reproved. These be S. Hieromes words, & that so plain, as there needeth no Interpreter. For they agree so just with the things, we now see with our eyes, have already come to pass, that we may verily think, he meant to foretell, as it were, by the Spirit of Prophecy, and to paint before our face, the Universal state of our time: the fall of the most gorgeous Harlot Babylon: the repairing again of God's Church: the blindness, and sloth of the Bishops, and the good will, & forwardness of the people. For, who is so blind, but he seethe, these men be the Masters, by whom the people, as saith S. Hierome, hath been lead into error, & lulled a sleep? Or, who seeth not, that Rome, that is their Nineveh, which sometime was painted with fairest colours, now, her visor being pulled of, is both better seen, and less set by?