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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 3
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CHAP. III.
Containing a plain Demonstration of the Causes why, and whence Heresies arose in the Church, with Instances of all sorts, in all Times.
THESE are the horrible Heresies for which a considerable part of the World at this day are condemned by the Pope unheard; it had been better to have entered a Contest with Christ, the Apostles and holy Fathers; for they it was, who did not only give a beginning to these Doctrines, but commanded them; unless they of the Church of Rome will say (as perhaps they will) that Christ did not institute the Holy Communion, that it might be distributed amongst the Faithful; or that the Apostles of Jesus Christ, or the ancient Fathers said private Masses in all the corners of their Churches, sometimes ten, and at other twenty in one day; or that Christ-and the Apostles deprived the People of the Cup; or that That which they now do, and that with that eagerness, that whoever will not comply with them in it, is by them condemned for an Heretic, is not called Sacrilege by one of their own Popes, Gelasius; or that those are not the Words of Ambrosius, Augustinus, Gelasius, Theodoret, Chrysostom, and Origen. That the Bread and Wine in the Sacrament remain what they ⟨p. 39⟩were before; that that which is seen on the Holy Table is Bread; that the Substance of the Bread doth not cease to be, nor the nature of the Wine; that the Substance and Nature of the Bread is not changed; that this very Bread, as to what concerns the Matter of it, goes down into the Belly, and is cast out by the Draught: or that Christ and his Apostles and the Fathers did not pray in that Tongue which was understood by the People; or that Christ by that one Oblation which he once offered, hath not perfected the Work of our Redemption; or that this Sacrifice was so imperfect, that we need another. Either they must say all these things, or else they must aver, which perhaps they had rather say, that all Right and Justice is enclosed in the Cabinet of the Popes Breast; and as one of his Followers and Flatterers once said,