23 September 2015 A.D. Jewel’s “Apology”—Rome has “put to death infinite numbers of our brethren,” p.73
23 September
2015 A.D. Jewel’s “Apology”—Rome has “put to death infinite
numbers of our brethren,” p.73
Jewel, John. “The Apology of the Church of England.”
Project Gutenberg. 5 Aug 2006. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17678/17678-h/17678-h.htm. Accessed 1 Aug 2015.
They have put to death infinite numbers of our
brethren, only because they believed truly and sincerely in Jesu Christ.
But of that great and foul number of harlots, fornicators, adulterers, what one
have they at any time (I say not killed, but) either excommunicated, or once
attached? Why! voluptuousness, adultery, ribaldry, whoredom, murdering of
kin, incest, and others more abominable parts, are not these counted sin at
Rome? Or, if they be sin, ought “Christ’s vicar, Peter’s successor, the
most holy father,” so lightly and slightly to bear them, as though they were no
sin, and that in the city of Rome, and in that principal tower of all holiness?
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