13 October 2015 A.D. Jewel’s “Apology”—Bernard: “The bishops,” saith he, “who now have the charge of God’s Church, are not teachers, but deceivers: they are not feeders, but beguilers: they are not prelates, but Pilates...,” p. 103
13 October 2015
A.D. Jewel’s “Apology”—Bernard: “The bishops,” saith he,
“who now have the charge of God’s Church, are not teachers, but deceivers: they
are not feeders, but beguilers: they are not prelates, but Pilates...,” p.
103
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.
And what marvel if the Church were then carried away
with errors in that time, specially when neither the Bishop of Rome, who then
only ruled the roost, nor almost any other, either did his duty, or once
understood what was his duty? for it is hard to be believed, while they were
idle and fast asleep, that the devil also all that while either fell asleep or
else continually lay idle. For how they were occupied in the meantime,
and with what faithfulness they took care of God’s house, though we hold our
peace, yet I pray you, let them hear Bernard their own friend. “The
bishops,” saith he, “who now have the charge of God’s Church, are not teachers,
but deceivers: they are not feeders, but beguilers: they are not prelates, but
Pilates.” These words spake Bernard of that bishop
who named himself the highest bishop of all, and of the other bishops likewise
which then had the place of government. Bernard was no Lutheran: Bernard
was no heretic. He had not forsaken the Catholic Church: yet nevertheless
he did not let to call the bishops that then were, deceivers, beguilers, and
Pilates. Now when the people was openly deceived, and Christian men’s
eyes were craftily bleared, and when Pilate sat in judgment-place, and
condemned Christ and Christ’s members to sword and fire, O good Lord, in what
case was Christ’s Church then? But yet tell me, of so many and so gross
errors, what one have these men at any time reformed? or what fault have they once
acknowledged and confessed?
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