7 September 2015 A.D. Jewel’s “Apology”—Christ the “only mediator and intercessor” and invocation of saints “full of infidelity,” p.51
7 September 2015 A.D. Jewel’s “Apology”—Christ the “only mediator and intercessor” and invocation of saints “full of infidelity,” p.51
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.
Neither have we any other mediator and intercessor,
by whom we may have access to God the Father, than Jesus Christ, in whose only
Name all things are obtained at His Father’s hand. But it is a shameful
part, and full of infidelity, that we see every whore used in the churches of
our adversaries, not only in that they will have innumerable sorts of
mediators, and that utterly without the authority of God’s word (so that, as
Jeremy saith, “The saints be now as many in number, or rather above the number
of the cities;” and poor men cannot tell to which saint it were best to turn
them first; and though there be so many as they cannot be told, yet every one
of them hath his peculiar duty and office assigned unto him of these folks, what
thing they ought to ask, what to give, and what to bring to pass): but besides
this also, in that they do not only wickedly, but also shamefully, call upon
the Blessed Virgin, Christ’s mother, to have her remember that she is the
mother, and to command her Son, and to use a mother’s authority over Him.
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