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The Apology of the Church of England
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Title: The Apology of the Church of England
Author: John Jewel
Editor: Henry Morley
Release Date: February 5, 2006 [eBook #17678]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
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Transcribed from the 1888 Cassell and Company edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
THE APOLOGY OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.
BY JOHN JEWEL,
Bishop of Salisbury.
CASSELL & COMPANY, LIMITED: LONDON, PARIS, NEW YORK & MELBOURNE. 1888.
INTRODUCTION.
The great interest of Jewel's "Apology" lies in the fact that it was written in Latin to be read throughout Europe as the answer of the Reformed Church of England, at the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's reign, to those who said that the Reformation set up a new Church. Its argument was that the English Church Reformers were going back to the old Church, not setting up a new; and this Jewel proposed to show by looking back to the first centuries of Christianity. Innovation was imputed; and an Apology originally meant a pleading to rebut an imputation. So, even as late as 1796, there was a book called "An Apolo