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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
THE APOLOGY OF THE Church of ENGLAND. Written by the very Learned a… › Chapter 2
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4. AND from thence we believe Christ shall return to exercise a general Judgment, as well upon those he shall then find alive, as upon all that are then dead.
5. WE believe that the Holy Ghost, who is the third Person in the Holy Trinity, is true God, not made nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding from both, that is, from the Father and the Son, in a way neither known to Mortals, nor possible to be expressed by them. We believe that it is He who softens the Hardness of Mans Heart, when he is received into their Hearts, by the saving preaching of the Gospel, or by any other way whatsoever; that it is He who enlightens them, and leads them to the Knowledge of God, into all the ways of Truth, into a perfect newness of Life, and a perpetual hope of Salvation.
5. WE believe that the Holy Ghost, who is the third Person in the Holy Trinity, is true God, not made nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding from both, that is, from the Father and the Son, in a way neither known to Mortals, nor possible to be expressed by them. We believe that it is He who softens the Hardness of Mans Heart, when he is received into their Hearts, by the saving preaching of the Gospel, or by any other way whatsoever; that it is He who inlightens them, and leads them to the Knowledge of God, into all the ways of Truth, into a perfect newness of Life, and a perpetual hope of Salvation.
6. WE believe that there is one Church of God, and that not confined as it was heretofore to the Jewish People, in one Angle or Kingdom, but that it is Catholic and Universal, and so diffused or spread over the Face of the whole Earth; that there is no Nation ⟨p. 21⟩which can justly complain that it is excluded, and cannot be admitted into the Church and People of God; that this Church is the Kingdom, the Body and Spouse of Christ; that Christ is the only Prince of this Kingdom; that there is in the Church divers Orders of Ministers, that there are some who are Deacons, others who are Presbyters, and others who are Bishops, to whom the Instruction of the People, and the Care and Management of Religion is committed. And yet that there neither is, nor is it possible there should be, any one man who has the care of this whole Catholic Church, for Christ is ever present with his Church, and needs not a Vicar, or sole and perfect Successor; and that no mortal Man can in his mind contain all the Body of the Universal Church, that is, all the parts of the Earth, much less can he reduce them into an exact Order, and rightly and prudently administer its Affairs. That the Apostles,