25 September 2015 A.D. Jewel’s “Apology”—Rome accuses English Reformers of plucking the “sword and sceptre out of kings’ hands” and that “we be men of trouble,” p.75.

25 September 2015 A.D. Jewel’s “Apology”—Rome accuses English Reformers of plucking the “sword and sceptre out of kings’ hands” and that “we be men of trouble,” p.75.

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.

Besides all these matters wherewith they charge us, they are wont also to add this one thing, which they enlarge with all kind of spitefulness: that is, that we be men of trouble, that we pluck the “sword and sceptre out of kings’ hands;” that we arm the people: that we overthrow judgment places, destroy the laws, make havoc of possessions, seek to make the people princes, turn all things upside down: and, to be short, that we would have nothing in good frame in a commonwealth.  Good Lord, how often have they set on fire princes’ hearts with these words, to the end they might quench the light of the Gospel in the very first appearing of it, and might begin to hate the same ere ever they were able to know it, and to the end that every magistrate might think he saw his deadly enemy as often as he saw any of us!