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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And we all know their Separation was not upon any scruple of Conscience they had, but in obedience to the Popes Bull.1 The Pope in the mean time did what he did purely out of worldly Interest and Policy, to advance his own Grandeur and Wealth at their cost and trouble. If he could have secured this, the Liturgy and Doctrine of the Church of England should have been owned for Catholic, and have ⟨image 9⟩been confirmed by his Holinesses Authority. But what is this to them? Are they bound to promote his Temporal Interest with their Ruin, and the disquiet of their Country? Or how come they to be more obliged to separate from the Church, than to Rebel against the Crown, seeing the same Pope commanded both, and for the same ends, and is as infallible in the one as in the other?
And we all know their Separation was not upon any scruple of Conscience they had, but in obedience to the Popes Bull.1 The Pope in the mean time did what he did purely out of worldly Interest and Policy, to advance his own Grandure and Wealth at their cost and trouble. If he could have secured this, the Liturgy and Doctrine of the Church of England should have been own'd for Catholick, and have ⟨image 9⟩been confirm'd by his Holinesses Authority. But what is this to them? Are they bound to promote his Temporal Interest with their Ruine, and the disquiet of their Country? Or how come they to be more obliged to separate from the Church, than to Rebel against the Crown, seeing the same Pope commanded both, and for the same ends, and is as infallible in the one as in the other?
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But this is not our only Calamity, about the same time another sort of Men separated too upon direct contrary Pretences; Why 'tis our Antiquity, our Decency, our too great resemblance to the Church of Rome that offends them. We are not sufficiently purged for these Pure Men to join with; we have too little of the Primitive Church cries the one, too much says the other; too few Ceremonies, too much simplicity say the Papists; too many of the first, too little of the latter cry the Dissenters. Thus was truth ever persecuted on both sides, Christ crucified betwixt two Thieves, the Primitive