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2 October 2015 A.D. Jewel’s “Apology”— do the English Reformers “disorder realms,” “set up or pull down kings,” “translate governments,” “give our kings poison to drink,” require “our feet to be kissed,” or “opprobriously triumphing over them, leap into their necks with our feet”? p.85

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2 October 2015 A.D. Jewel’s “Apology”— do the English Reformers “disorder realms,” “set up or pull down kings,” “translate governments,” “give our kings poison to drink,” require “our feet to be kissed,” or “opprobriously triumphing over them, leap into their necks with our feet”?  p.85 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. All these notwithstanding were Popes, all Peter’s successors, all most holy fathers, whose several words we must take to be as good as several Gospels.  If we be counted traitors which do honour our princes, which give them all obedience, as much as is due to them by God’s word, and which do pray for them, what kind of men then be these, which have not only done all the things before said, but also allow the same for specially well done?  Do they then either this way instruct the people, as we do, to reverence their magi...