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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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How often in his books putteth Luther you, and your Captains in the roll of those, that he utterly condemneth, naming roundly together, Infidels, Turks, Epicures, Heretics, Papists, Sacramentaries? And now if he should hear you challenge the name of the one Church of God to you, and deny him and his followers that claimed title: would he not (think ye) stamp and rage, would he not whet his dog eloquence upon you, and call you worse then these above reckoned, yea and if he wist how, worse then some of you be your selves? The like courtesy may ye look for at those other sects, of which every one claimeth the name of this one Church of God.
How often in his bookes putteth Luther you, and your Captaines in the rolle of those, that he vtterly condemneth, naminge roundly togeather, Infidels, Turkes, Epicures, Heretikes, Papistes, Sacramentaries? And nowe if he should heare you chalenge the name of the one Churche of God to you, and denie him and his folowers that claimed title: would he not (thinke ye) stampe and rage, would he not whetie his dogge eloquence vpon you, and cal you worse then these aboue rekened, yea and if he wist how, worse then some of you be your selues? The like courtesie maieye looke for at those other sectes, of whiche euery one claimeth the name of this one Churche of God.
But ye say, that this One Church is not shut up into some one corner, or Kingdom, but that it is Catholic, and Universal, and dispersed through out the whole world. True it is, that ye say,1 what so ever ye think. But the Holy learned and ancient: Fathers, where they call and believe the Catholic Church, they mean (as Vincentius Lirivensis declareth) the Church to be Catholic, that is to say Universal, (for so the word signifieth) in respect of a threefold Universality: of places, which this Defender here toucheth: of times, and of men, which he toucheth not. In the Catholic Church we must have a great care (saith he.) that we hold that, which hath every where, evermore, and of all persons ben believed. If these Defenders prove not the Church, they profess them selves to be of, to have this threefold Untuer salitie, then is their Congregation not this one Church, nor of this one Church of God, but the synagogue of Antichrist.