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Certain frivolous objections against the government of the Church of England answeredCertaine frivolous obiections against the government of the Church of England answeared
Certain frivolous objections against the government of the Church of England answered by John Jewel ...Certaine frivolous obiections against the government of the Church of England answeared by John Jewel ...
London: printed by T. Cotes, 1641
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.
The Third Reason.
1Where the substance of any thing is most perfect, there the accidents be most perfect: But the substance of true Religion was most perfect in the Primitive Church, and yet there was then no Arch Bishop. Ergo.
1Where the substance of any thing is most perfit, there the accidents be most perfit: But the substance of true Religion was most perfit in the Primative Church, and yet there was then no Arch Bishop. Ergo.
- 1Tertia ratio.
Bishop Jewels Answer.
Bishop Jewels Answere.
First, this Maxim is not proved, for it may well be doubted whether the most perfect substance hath evermore most perfect accidents, And again, the substance of Religion is the same now, that it was then: The difference, (if any be) standeth in the accidents, and not in substance.