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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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M. Harding.
M. Hardinge.
As ye confess your departing, so would God ye understood your guilt.
As yee confesse youre departinge, so woulde God yee vnderstoode youre gylte.
Those reverent Fathers, and Godly learned men, whose rooms ye hold wrongfully, whom it liked your interpreter to call Ringleaders, resist not the Gospel, but suffer persecution for the Gospel. Your Gospel, that is to say, your vile heresies and blasphemies, worthily they detest. Your new truth, that is to say, your false and wicked lies, they abhor. Neither ever departed they from any part of the duty of Catholic men,* by their own accord and good will, as ye say.* But wherein they slept aside, they were compelled by such fear, as might happen to a right constant man, I mean the terror of death, which, as Aristotle saith, of all terrible things is most terrible. Now because yet they find the terror of a guilty conscience, more terrible then death of their persons, they intend by Gods grace assisting them, never so to steppe aside again, but rather to suffer what so ever extremities. Whose blood, or the blood of any of them, if God to his honour shall at any time permit