A46876:91
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.
IT very well deserves the Character Mr. Humphrey has given of it, whose words are these. 1It is so drawn, that the first part of it is an Illustration, •and as it were a Paraphrase of the Twelve Articles of the Christian Faith (or Creed) the second is a short and solid Confutation of whatever is objected against the Church; if the Order be considered, nothing can be better distributed; if the Perspicuity, nothing can be fuller of Light; if the Stile, nothing more terse; if the words, nothing more splendid; if the Arguments, nothing stronger.
IT very well deserves the Character Mr. Humfrey has given of it, whose words are these. 1It is so drawn, that the first part of it is an Illustration, •and as it were a Paraphrase of the Twelve Articles of the Christian Faith (or Creed) the second is a short and solid Confutation of whatever is objected against the Church; if the Order be considered, nothing can be better distributed; if the Perspicuity, nothing can be fuller of Light; if the Stile, nothing more terse; if the words, nothing more splendid; if the Arguments, nothing stronger.
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THE good Bishop was most encouraged to publish this Apology by Peter Martyr (as1 appears by Martyr's Letter of the 24th of August) with whom he had spent the greatest part of his time in Exile. But Martyr only lived to see the Book which he so much longed for, dying at Zurick, on the twelfth day of November following,2 after he had paid his thanks for, and expressed his value of this piece in a Letter which is subjoined to this Book in all the following Prints. And Mr. Camden also in his Annals expressly saith, this Apology was printed first in the year 1562.