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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 6
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18. VERY elegant, and to our times, most seasonable are the Words of St. Jerome, 1As often (saith he) as the Devil lulls any a sleep with the sweet Blandishments of his Sirens, the the Holy Scriptures never fail to awaken them with a Surge qui dormis,2 elevare, & illuminabit te Christus. Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the Dead, and Christ shall give thee Light. At the coming of Christ, and of the Word of God, and of the Ecclesiastical Doctrine; when the time of the Ruin of Nineveh, that beautiful Harlot is come; then shall the People awake, which had before been lulled a sleep under their former Teachers, and shall pass to the Mountains of the Scriptures; there shall they find the Mountains of Moses and Joshua the Son of Nun; the Mountains of the Prophets, and the Mountains of the New Testament, the Apostles and Evangelists; and when the People have fled to these Mountains, and are exercised in the reading of them, tho they find no Teacher (for the Harvest shall be great, and the Labourers few) yet the Industry of the People shall be approved, in that they have fled to these Mountains, and the Negligence of their Teachers shall be reprehended. Thus hath St. Jerome written so very plainly, that here is no need of an Interpreter; and with so great a Congruity to the Events which have happened in our Times, that it looks as if he had designed to foretell and describe to us, with a Prophetic Spirit, the whole State of our Times, the Ruin of that richly adorned Babylonish Harlot, and the Reformation of the Church of God, the Blindness and Negligence of the Bishops, and the Alacrity and Zeal of the People. For who can ⟨p. 132⟩be so blind, as not to see that these were the Masters, who, as St. Jerome saith, led the People into Error, and stupefied them in it; or that Rome, their Nineveh, which was once painted with the most lovely Colours, is not now better known and less valued; or that pious Men being now as it were awakened out of a deep Sleep, have not betaken themselves to the Mountains of the Scriptures, the Word of God, and the Light of the Gospel, without ever expecting the Councils of such Teachers as these?
18. VERY elegant, and to our times, most seasonable are the Words of St. Jerome, 1