The apology of the Church of England, and an epistle to one Seignior Scipio…

that Learned Prelate (saith my Author) was not so unstudied in the nature of Councils,¹ as not to know how little of a General Council could be found at Trent: And therefore he returned an answer to the proposition so elegantly penned, and so elaborately digested, that neither Scipio himself nor any other of that Party durst reply upon him. Which Letter the Reader will find in this small piece new translated. But this was written some time after the Apology was Printed in England.

1. 1Dr. Heylyn Eccl. Rest. p. 349.

IN the year following Bishop Jewel put out The Apology of the Church of England in Latin; ¹which tho written by him, was published by the Queens Authority, and with the advice of some of the Bishops, as the Public Confession of the Catholic and Christian Faith of the Church of England, &c. and to give an account of the reasons of our departure from the See of Rome, and as an answer to those Calumnies that were then raised against the English Church and Nation, for not submitting to the pretended General Council of Trent then sitting.

IN the year following Bishop Jewel put out The Apology of the Church of England in Latin; ¹which tho written by him, was published by the Queens Authority, and with the advice of some of the Bishops, as the Publick Confession of the Catholick and Christian Faith of the Church of England, &c. and to give an account of the reasons of our departure from the See of Rome, and as an answer to those Calumnies that were then raised against the English Church and Nation, for not submitting to the pretended General Council of Trent then sitting.

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