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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.
It is a world to see these Defenders: They, which have not kept Unity of Spirit in the band of Charity,1 which S. Paul requireth, but have severed them selves from the Body of the Church, tell us now forsooth, they believe, that there is one Church of God. But what may we think this one Church to be? Can they seem to mean any other (what so ever they pretend) then this new Church of late years set up by Satan, through the ministry of Martin Luther and those other Apostates his companions, if it may be named a Church, and not rather a Babylonical Tower? For as touching that Church, whereof* all Christen People hath ever taken the Successor of Peter to be the Head under Christ, which is the true Catholic Church, in their Apology they stick not to say plainly, that it is clean fallen down long ago. And therefore the beginning of Luther's Seditious, and ⟨p. 92⟩Heretical preaching they call Herbam, as much to say, as the green Grass, or first spring (this interpreter nameth it the very first appearing) of the Gospel,3 leaf. F. 7. And in the leaf. F. 8. they say that forty years ago and upward, that is at the first setting forth of Luther and Zuinglius, the Truth was unknown and unheard of, and that they first came to the knowledge and preaching of the Gospel. Likewise in an other place they grant,4 that certain and very strange sects have ben stirring in the world ever since the Gospel did spring, meaning the time when Luther first brinced to Germany the poisoned Cup of his Heresies, Blasphemies, and Sathanismer.