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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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12. BUT you will say the Boors of Germany fell into Tumults and Insurrections upon the first preaching of this Doctrine. Be it granted, but then Martin Luther, the first Divulger of it, did with great vehemence and sharpness write against them, and reduced them to their Allegiance and Duty.
13. AND whereas some ignorant men have objected that the Switzers murdered Leopold the Arch-Duke of Austria, and changing the State, erected a Common-wealth, and so freed their Country; this was done, as appears by all Histories, above two hundred and sixty years since, under Boniface the 8th. when the Papal Power was at the highest, about two hundred years before Huldericus Zuinglius began to preach the Gospel, or indeed was born. But from that time to this, all things there have been in the greatest Tranquility and Quiet that was possible, not only in relation to foreign Wars, but intestine Commotions; ⟨p. 59⟩so that if it were a sin to deliver their Country from a foreign Dominion, which oppressed them with great Insolence and Tyranny, yet it is unjust and absurd to load the Reformation with the Crimes of others, or them with those of their Fore-fathers.
13. AND whereas some ignorant men have objected that the Switzars murthered Leopold the Arch-Duke of Austria, and changing the State, erected a Common-wealth, and so freed their Country; this was done, as appears by all Histories, above two hundred and sixty years since, under Boniface the 8th. when the Papal Power was at the highest, about two hundred years before Huldericus Zuinglius began to preach the Gospel, or indeed was born. But from that time to this, all things there have been in the greatest Tranquility and Quiet that was possible, not only in relation to foreign Wars, but intestine Commotions; ⟨p. 59⟩so that if it were a sin to deliver their Country from a foreign Dominion, which oppressed them with great Insolence and Tyranny, yet it is unjust and absurd to load the Reformation with the Crimes of others, or them with those of their Fore-fathers.