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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 4
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7. FOR as for us, we retain and use our ancient Paternal Laws; and administer Church Discipline seriously and diligently as far as we possibly can, in so much Corruption of all things, both as to Manners and Times; we have no Stews nor Herds of Harlots and Concubines; nor do we prefer Adulteries before Marriage, nor do we exercise Pimping, nor raise Money from Whorehouses; neither do we suffer Incests and flagitious Lusts; our Aloise's, or our Casa's, or our Parricidical murdering Diasio's do not go unpunished; for if these things had pleased us, there had been no occasion of separating from the Society of those Men, where these (rare) things flourish and are in great ⟨p. 54⟩esteem, and so we had also escaped the Hatred of Men, and the apparent Dangers we have run into by our Departure from them. It is not many months since Paul the IV. had some Monks of the Augustine Order in Prison at Rome, 1and many Bishops, and a vast number of pious Men for the sake of Religion; he exercised his Tortures and his Racks, and left nothing untried, and at the last, how many Adulterers, how many Sodomites, how many Fornicators, how many Incestuous Men did he find amongst them? Blessed be God, tho we are not what we should be, nor what we profess to be, yet what ever we are, if we be compared with these, our very Lives and Innocency will easily confute all these Slanders For we excite the People, not only by Books and Sermons, but by Example and good Manners, to all sorts of Virtues and good Works. We teach that the Gospel is not an• Ostentation of Knowledge, but a Law of Life; and that as Tertullian expresseth it, • Christian should not speak great things, 2but live them, and that not the Hearers, but the Doers of the Law shall be justified before God.
7. FOR as for us, we retain and use our ancient Paternal Laws; and administer Church Discipline seriously and diligently as far as we possibly can, in so much Corruption of all things, both as to Manners and Times; we have no Stews nor Herds of Harlots and Concubines; nor do we prefer Adulteries before Marriage, nor do we exercise Pimping, nor raise Money from Whorehouses; neither do we suffer Incests and flagitious Lusts; our Aloise's, or our Casa's, or our Parricidical murthering Diasio's do not go unpunished; for if these things had pleased us, there had been no occasion of separating from the Society of those Men, where these (rare) things flourish and are in great