14 October 2015 A.D. Jewel’s “Apology”— “…these men [Romanists] alway abhor and fly the Word of God, even as the thief flieth the gallows
14 October 2015 A.D. Jewel’s “Apology”— “…these men [Romanists] alway abhor and fly the Word of God, even as the thief flieth the gallows…even so these men well see their own matter is damned and destroyed in the Word of God, as if it were in poison,” p.104 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. But, forsomuch as these men avouch the universal possession of the Catholic Church to be their own, and call us heretics, because we agree not in judgment with them, let us know, I beseech you, what proper mark and badge hath that Church of theirs, whereby it may be known to be the Church of God. I wiss it is not so hard a matter to find out God’s Church, if a man will seek it earnestly and diligently. For the Church of God is set upon a high and glittering place, in the top of a hill, and built upon the “found...