11 October 2015 A.D. Jewel’s “Apology”— Greece and Asia complain how the bishops of Rome, with the marts of their purgatories and pardons, have both tormented men’s consciences and picked their purses," p.101

11 October 2015 A.D. Jewel’s “Apology”— Greece and Asia complain how the bishops of Rome, with the marts of their purgatories and pardons, have both tormented men’s consciences and picked their purses," p.101

I know well enough the authority of these foresaid persons is but lightly regarded among these men.  How then if I call forth those for witness, whom they themselves have used to honour?  What if I say that Adrian, the Bishop of Rome, did frankly confess that all these mischiefs brast out first from the high throne of the Pope?  Pighius acknowledgeth herein to be a fault, that many abuses are brought in, even into the very mass, which mass otherwise he would have seem to be a reverend matter.  Gerson saith, that through the number of most fond ceremonies, all the virtue of the Holy Ghost, which ought to have operation in us, and all true godliness, is utterly quenched and dead.  Whole Greece and Asia complain, how the bishops of Rome, with the marts of their purgatories and pardons, have both tormented men’s consciences and picked their purses.