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The apology of the Church of England, and an epistle to one Seignior Scipio…
The apology of the Church of England, and an epistle to one Seignior Scipio a Venetian gentleman, concerning the Council of Trent written both in Latin / by ... John Jewel ... ; made English by a person of quality ; to which is added, The life of the said bishop ; collected and written by the same hand.
London: printed by T. H. for Richard Chiswell, 1685
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HE was a most laborious Preacher,1 always travelling about his Diocese, and preaching where-ever he came; wherein h• laboured to speak to the apprehensions of the People, hating all light jingling Discourse and Phrases, as beneath the Dignity of tha• sacred Place, yet he was careful here too i• the Choice of his Words, and endeavour to move the Affections of his Auditory by pathetic and zealous Applications, avoiding all high-flown Expressions, and using a grave and sedate, rather than sweet way of speaking, and never venturing in the meanest Auditory to preach extempore.
HE was a most laborious Preacher,1 always travelling about his Diocess, and preaching where-ever he came; wherein h• laboured to speak to the apprehensions of the People, hating all light gingling Discourse and Phrases, as beneath the Dignity of tha• sacred Place, yet he was careful here too i• the Choice of his Words, and endeavoure to move the Affections of his Auditory by pathetick and zealous Applications, avoiding all high-flown Expressions, and using a grave and sedate, rather than sweet way of speaking, and never venturing in the meanest Auditory to preach extempore.
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Mr. Humfrys, who was himself a Calvinist, 1(as Mr. Camden informs us in his Annals,) has done what he could to represent Bishop Jewell as a favourer of our English ••••enters; but it is certain he opposed them in his Exile, when they began the Stirs at […]; and the last public Act he did in all his Life, was to reprehend them severely, in a Sermon preached at Pauls Cross, which I take to be the last Sermon, printed in the Collection of his Works in 1609; and to defend the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church against them; both which he mentioned on his Death-bed in these words. My last Sermon at Pauls Cross in London, and the Conference I held with some Brethren concerning the Ceremonies and present State of our Church, was not undertaken to please any Mortal man, or o exasperate or trouble those that thought otherwise than I did; but last […] Party should prejudice the other, and that the love of God through the operation of […] which is given to us, might be shed abroad in […] hearts. To which he wisely subjoins his opinion, that these Contentions were kindled and fomented by the Popish Party; as […] well known now. The truth is, the Schism was then in its Rise, and those great Impostors Coleman, Button, and Hallingham,