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A46876	The apology of the Church of England, and an epistle to one Seignior Scipio a Venetian gentleman, concerning the Council of Trent written both in Latin / by ... John Jewel ... ; made English by a person of quality ; to which is added, The life of the said bishop ; collected and written by the same hand.; Apologia Ecclesiae Anglicanae. English	Jewel, John, 1522-1571.; Person of quality.	1685 (1685)	Wing J736; ESTC R12811	150,188	279

Religion as our Author tells us it was because he had no great occasions given him but what he thought of these men will best appear from the Sermon I mentioned above his words are these By whose name shall I call you I would I might call you Brethren But alas this heart of yours is not Brotherly I would I might call you Christians But alas you are no Christians I know not by what name I shall call you For if you were Brethren you would love as Brethren If you were Christians you would agree as Christians So that he could have no good opinion of those whom he every where in that Sermon stiles proud self-conceited disobedient and unquiet men who did not deserve the title of Brethren or Christians What would he have said if he had lived in our days BESIDES confuting some of the Seditious Doctrines of Thomas Carwright who became famous by his Admonition to the Parliament in the year following the Bishop said Stultitia nata est in corde pueri virga disciplinae fugabit illam Which shews he was no encourager of Faction by Lenity and Toleration tho he was a man of great moderation otherwise and expressed a great sense of the Frailties of Mankind in other Instances as appears by his Letter to Dr. Parkhurst when Bishop of Norwich Let your Chancellor saith he be harder but you easier let him wound but do you heal let him Lance do you Plaister wise Clemency will do more good than rigid severity one man may move more with an Engine than six with the force of their hands And accordingly he would often sit in his own Consistory with his Chancellor hearing considering and sometimes determining Causes concerning Matrimony Adultery and Testaments c. not thinking it safe to commit all to the sole care and sidelity of his Chancellor and Officials But tho as a Justice of Peace he often sate in the Courts of quarter-Quarter-Sessions yet judgment were desired concerning some scruple of Religion or some other such-like difficulty So exact was his care not to entangle himself with secular affairs and yet not to be wanting to his duty in any case THO he came to a Bishoprick miserably impoverished and wasted yet he found Means to exercise a prodigious Liberality and Hospitality For the first his great Expence in the building a fair Library for his Cathedral Church may be an instance which his Successor Dr. Gheast furnished with Books whose name is perpetuated together with the Memory of his Predecessor by this Inscription Haec Bibliotheca extructa est sumptibus R. P. ac D. D. JOHANNIS JEWELLI quondam Sarum Episcopi instructa vero libris à R. in Christo P. D. Edmundo Gheast olim ejusdem Ecclesiae Episcopo quorum memoria in Benedictione erit A. D. 1578. HIS Doors stood always open to the Poor and he would frequently send his charitable Reliefs to Prisoners nor did he confine his Bounty to English men only but was liberal to Foreigners and especially to those of Z●rick and the Friends of Peter Martyr BUT perceiving the great want of learned men in his times his greatest care was to have ever with him in his House half a dozen or more poor Lads which he brought up in Learning and took much delight to hear them dispute Points of Grammar-learning in Latin at his Table when he was at his Meal improving them and pleasing himself at the same time AND besides these he maintained in the University several young Students allowing them yearly Pensions and when ever they came to visit him rarely dismissed them without liberal G●atuities Amongst these was the famous Mr. Richard Hooker his Country-man whose Parents being Poor must have been bound Apprentice to a Trade but for the Bounty of this good Bishop who allowed his Parents a yearly Pension towards his maintenance well near seven years before he was fit for the University and in the year 1567 appointed him to remove to Oxford and there to attend Dr. Cole then President of Corpus Christi Colledge who according to his Promise to the Bishop provided him a Tutor and a Clerks place in that Colledge which with a Contribution from his Uncle Mr. John Hooker and the continued Pension of his Patron the Bishop gave him a comfortable subsistence and in the last year of the Bishops Life Mr. Hooker making this his Patron a visit at his Palace the good Bishop made him and a Companion he had with him dine at his own Table with him which Mr. Hooker boasted of with much joy and gratitude when he saw his Mother and Friends whither he was then travelling a Foot The Bishop when he parted with him gave him good Counsel and his Blessing but forgot to give him Money which when the Bishop bethought himself of he sent a Servant to call him back again and then told him I sent for you Richard to lend you a Horse which hath carried me many a mile and I thank God with much ease And presently delivered into his hand a walking-staff with which he professed he had travelled many parts of Germany and then went on and said Richard I do not give but lend you my Horse be sure you be honest and bring my Horse back to me at your return this way to Oxford and I do now give you ten Groats to bear your charges to Exeter and here is ten Groats more which I charge you to deliver to your Mother and tell her I send her a Bishops Blessing with it and beg the continuance of her Prayers for me And if you bring my Horse back to me I will give you ten more to carry you on foot to the College and so God bless you good Richard It was not long after this before this good Bishop died but before his death he had so effectually recommended Mr. Hooker to Edwin Sandys then Bishop of London and after Arch-bishop of York that about a year after he put his Son under the Tutelage of Mr. Hooker and was otherwise so liberal to him that he became one of the learnedest men of the Age and as Bishop Jewel soild the Papists so this Mr. Hooker in his Books of Ecclesiastical Polity gave the Dissenters such a fatal Defeat as they never yet could nor ever shall be able to recover from Nor was Mr. Hooker ungrateful but having occasion to mention his good Benefactor in that Piece he calls him Bishop Jewel the worthiest Divine that Christendom hath bred for the space of some hundreds of years BUT to return to Bishop Jewel he had collected an excellent Library of Books of all sorts not excepting the most impertinent of the Popish Authors and here it was that he spent the greatest and the best part of his time rarely appearing abroad especially in a Morning till eight of the Clock so that till that time it was not easie to speak with him when commonly he eat some slight thing for the support

to me by Letters or by Messengers I will discover to man to his Damage I will be a Helper to defend the Papacy of the Church of Rome and the Canons of the Holy Fathers and to retain them against all men Of old when the Priests of Apollo Pythius spoke plainly in favour of Philip King of Macedonia there were some who facetiously said that Apollo began 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Philippize And now we see plainly that nothing is decreed in the Council but by the Will and Consent of the Pope why may we not say that the Oracles of the Councils do 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Papize that is speak nothing but what the Pope please Verres of old acted wisely of whom it is reported that being plainly guilty of many Crimes he would not commit his Reputation and Fame to any but confiding men of his own Flock and Party But yet the Pope is many degrees wiser for he will not have any Judges but such as he knows will not determine any thing against his Will because they have the same Interest he hath and esteem all things by the relation they have to their Pleasures and Bellies and yet if they would they could not do otherwise because they are bound to him by an Oath too indeed they place the Bible in the midst of the Council because they would seem not to act any thing against the Prescription thereof and yet they only look upon it at a good distance but never read one word of it in truth they bring with them a prejudicated Sentence and never attend what Christ saith or determine any thing but as it best pleaseth them 24. AND thus is all that Liberty which ought to be in all Consultations and especially in those which concern holy things and which doth best befit the holy Spirit and the Modesty of Christian Men wholly taken away St. Paul saith that if any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by let the first hold his Peace but these men command him to be forthwith taken and hurried to Prison and burnt who shall but mutter any thing to the contrary as the cruel Death of the two holy and stout men John of Hus and Jerome of Prague is an excellent Witness against them which two men they murthered contrary to the publick Faith and were thereby false both to God and Man So the false Prophet Zedechias when he had made himself a pair of iron Horns smote Micaiah the Prophet of the Lord and said hath the Spirit of the Lord left me and come to thee thus having now excluded all others they reign in Councils alone and have the sole Right of Suffrages and so make and divulge such Laws as the Ephesians did of old Let no man said they who 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wiser than the rest presume to live here upon pain of Banishment and Transportation for these men will hear none of us About ten years since in the late Council at Trent the Ambassadors of the Princes of Germany and of the free Towns who came thither that they might be heard were excluded out of the Assembly and denied the Liberty of Speech for the Bishops and Abbots said they would suffer no free Debate of the Cause nor would they determine the Controversies by the Word of God and that those of our Side were not to be heard except they would recant which if they refused they were to expect no other terms in the Council but to be condem'd for Julius the III. in his Brief by which he call'd that Council publickly declared that if they did not change their Minds they should be condemned for Hereticks without ever hearing their Cause And Pius the IV. who hath now resolved to call again that Council hath by the prejudice of his own single Judgment commanded all those who have made defection from the Authority of the Church of Rome that is the greatest part of Christendom without ever seeing or hearing them to be taken and reputed Hereticks They are wont to say and that upon all occasions that all things are well and that they will not suffer the least part of their Doctrine and Religion to be altered Albertus Pighius saith that without the Command of the Church of Rome the most plain place of Scripture is not to be believed Now is this their way to restore the Church to her Integrity Is this their seeking Truth Is this the Liberty and Moderation which be●its a Council 25. AND altho these things are most unjust and most contrary to the Practice of the ancient Councils and the Usage of modest and good Men in their Deliberations yet it is much more unreasonable that whereas the whole World complains of the Ambition and Tyranny of the Pope of Rome and is perswaded that until he is reduced to a better Order all their Labours for the Reformation of the Church of God will be in vain and nothing will be done yet at last all things are referred to him alone as to the most equal Arbiter and Judge But O good God! to what Man I will not now say any of these things against him that he is an Enemy of the Truth an Ambitious Covetous Proud Man who is already become intolerable to his own But I say that it is the utmost pitch of Folly and Injustice to make him the sole Judge of all Religion who commands all his Dictates to be had in the self same Honour and Esteem as the Words of St. Peter are and saith that in case he should Mislead a thousand Souls and carry them with himself to Hell yet no man ought to reprehend him for it Who saith he can make Injustice to become Justice Whom Camotensis confesseth to have corrupted the Scriptures that he might have a Plenitude of Power And why should I use more words whom his own Companions and Ministers Joachimus Abbas Petrarcha Marsilius Patavinus Laurentius Valla and Hieronymus Savanarola have not obscurly hinted to be the Antichrist To the Judgment and Will I say of this one Man are all things submitted that this very Criminal may be both the Party accused and the Judge of his own very Case that this guilty man may sit aloft upon a Throne and his Accusers stand beneath whilst he gives Sentence for himself for Pope Julius had given us these just and reasonable Laws There is saith he no Council which is valid nor ever shall be unless supported by the Authority of the Church of Rome And Bonifacius the VIII saith that every Creature ought to be subject to the Church of Rome and that as they tender their Salvation And Pope Pascal useth this Expression as if any Councils had given Laws to the Church of Rome when in truth all the Councils have been held and received their Force from the Authority of the Church of Rome and in all their Statutes the Authority of the Pope of Rome is plainly and apparently excepted And another saith