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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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19.1 WE pray (as it is fit we should) in that Tongue our People do all understand, that the People, as St. Paul admonisheth, may reap a common Advantage by the common Prayers; as all the Holy Fathers and Catholic Bishops, not only in the Old, but in the New Testament also did ever pray, and teach the People to pray, least, as St. Augustin saith, We should like Parrots, and other prating Birds, seem to sound Words which we did not understand.
19.1 WE pray (as it is fit we should) in that Tongue our People do all understand, that the People, as St. Paul admonisheth, may reap a common Advantage by the common Prayers; as all the Holy Fathers and Catholick Bishops, not only in the Old, but in the New Testament also did ever pray, and teach the People to pray, least, as St. Augustin saith, We should like Parrots, and other prating Birds, seem to sound Words which we did not understand.
- 1Prayer in our own Tongue.
20.1 WE have no Mediator and Intercessor, by whom we approach to God the Father, but Jesus Christ, in whose name only all things are obtained. But that which we see done in their Churches, is base and heathenish; not only because they have set up an infinite number of Intercessors, without any Authority of the Word of God; so that as Jeremiah saith,2 According to the number of thy Cities, so are thy Gods; so that miserable men know not which to apply themselves to, and tho they are innumerable, yet they have ascribed to each of them their Office, and what was to be obtained, had, and received from each of them; but also because they have not only impiously, but impudently solicited the Virgin Mary, that she would remember she is a Mother, that she would be pleased to command her Son, and that she would make use of the Authority she hath over him.