The apology of the Church of England, and an epistle to one Seignior Scipio…

10. BUT now, because We are so publicly in this unjust manner noted by him, left by our silence we should seem to confess the Crimes charged upon us, and the rather, because we could in no manner be heard in any public Council; where he would suffer none to have any Suffrage, or propose his Judgment, who was not first sworn to him, and entirely addicted to his Interest (for of this we had too great an experience in the last Council of Trent, when the Ambassadors and Divines of the Princes and free Cities of Germany were totally excluded out of the Council; nor can we forgot that Julius the III. above ten years since, took a mighty care by his Rescript, that none of our Men might be heard in the Council, except it were one that was disposed to recant and change his Opinion.) For these causes (I say) we have thought fit by this Book to give an account of our Faith, and to answer truly and publicly what hath been publicly objected against us, that the whole World may see the Parts and Reasons of that Faith which so many good men have valued above their ⟨p. 13⟩Lives, and that all Mankind may understand what kind of men they are, and what they think of God and Religion, whom the Bishop of Rome has inconsiderately enough, before they had made their Defence, without Example and without Law condemned for Heretics, upon a bare report, that they differed from him and his in some points of Religion.

10. BUT now, because We are so publickly in this unjust manner noted by him, left by our silence we should seem to confess the Crimes charged upon us, and the rather, because we could in no manner be heard in any publick Council; where he would suffer none to have any Suffrage, or propose his Judgment, who was not first sworn to him, and intirely addicted to his Interest (for of this we had too great an experience in the last Council of Trent, when the Ambassadors and Divines of the Princes and free Cities of Germany were totally excluded out of the Council; nor can we forgot that Julius the III. above ten years since, took a mighty care by his Rescript, that none of our Men might be heard in the Council, except it were one that was disposed to recant and change his Opinion.) For these causes (I say) we have thought fit by this Book to give an account of our Faith, and to answer truly and publickly what hath been publickly objected against us, that the whole World may see the Parts and Reasons of that Faith which so many good men have valued above their ⟨p. 13⟩