A46876:388
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
Letter: AN EPISTLE Written by the Reverend Father in God JOHN JEWEL, Lord Bishop of SARUM, TO S…
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33. THAT which Pope Gregory the First wrote about these Affairs please me; and the more because he wrote about the Institution of the English Churches to Augustin Bishop of the English. He exhorts him then, not that he should refer things ⟨p. 191⟩to a Council, but that according to his Discretion, he should appoint such things as he saw did most tend to the increase of Piety. You know (saith he) my Brother, the Custom of the Church of Rome, in which you were brought up; but I am best pleased with this Course, that where-ever you find any thing which is most pleasing to Almighty God, whether it be in the Church of Rome, or that of France, or in any other Church, you would carefully pick and choose the principal things, and settle them in the Church of England, which is yet new and to be settled in the Faith, and that in the Constitution thereof, you should instill those things which you have thus collected from many several Churches • for Customs are not to be loved for the sake of the Places, but the Places for their Sakes.
33. THAT which Pope Gregory the First wrote about these Affairs please me; and the more because he wrote about the Institution of the English Churches to Augustin Bishop of the English. He exhorts him then, not that he should refer things ⟨p. 191⟩to a Council, but that according to his Discretion, he should appoint such things as he saw did most tend to the encrease of Piety. You know (saith he) my Brother, the Custom of the Church of Rome, in which you were brought up; but I am best pleased with this Course, that where-ever you find any thing which is most pleasing to Almighty God, whether it be in the Church of Rome, or that of France, or in any other Church, you would carefully pick and choose the principal things, and settle them in the Church of England, which is yet new and to be setled in the Faith, and that in the Constitution thereof, you should instill those things which you have thus collected from many several Churches • for Customs are not to be loved for the sake of the Places, but the Places for their Sakes.