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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.
Whose learned Answers as well in maintenance of his Challenge, as in defence of his Apology (whereof more hereafter) contain in them such a Magazine of all sorts of Learning, that all our Controversors since that time, have furnished themselves with Arguments and Authority from it.
Whose learned Answers as well in maintenance of his Challenge, as in defence of his Apology (whereof more hereafter) contain in them such a Magazin of all sorts of Learning, that all our Controversors since that time, have furnished themselves with Arguments and Authority from it.
THUS far that Learned man has discoursed the event of this famous Challenge with so much brevity and perspicuity, that I thought it better to transcribe his words, than to do it much worse my self.
WHEN Queen Mary died, Paul the Fourth was Pope, to whom Queen Elizabeth sent an account of her coming to the Crown, which was delivered by Sir Edward Karn her Sisters Resident at Rome; to which the angry Gentleman replied,1 That England was held in Fee of the Apostolic See, that she could not succeed being illegitimate; nor could he contradict the Declarations made in that matter by his Predecessors Clement the Seventh, and Paul the Third: he said it was a great boldness in her, to assume the Crown without his Consent; for which in reason she deserved no favour at his hands; yet if she would renounce her Pretensions, and refer her self wholly to him, he would show a fatherly affection to her, and do every thing for her that could consist with the dignity of the Apostolic See. Which answer being hastily and passionately made, was as little regarded by the Queen. But he dying soon after, Pius the Fourth an abler man succeeded; and he was for gaining the Queen by Arts and Kindness; to which end he sent Vincent Parapalia Abbot of St. Saviours with courteous Letters to her, dated May the fifth 1560. with order to make large proffers to her under hand; but the Queen had rejected the Popes Authority by Act of Parliament, and would have nothing to do with Parapalia, nor would she suffer him to come into England. In the interim the Pope had resolved to renew the Council at