A defence of the Apologie of the Churche of Englande conteininge an answeare to a certaine booke lately set foorthe by M. Hardinge, and entituled, A confutation of &c. By Iohn Iewel Bishop of Sarisburie.

M. Hardinge.

The Churche that nowe is, and the Churche that was in Olde time, is one Churche, as a man in his olde age is the same man, he was in his youthe.* 1.1 From the whiche Churche no faultes, or un∣perfections can excuse you for youre departinge.* 1.2 Neither haue ye gone from it as Daniel was deliuered out of the Lions Denn••, nor as the three Children out of the Furnesse: but ye haue departed wilfully from the house of God, where touchinge Faithe, al be of one accorde, vnto the Synagog of Antichriste, vnto Babylon of Sectes, where is no order, but confusion, vnto the kingdome of Satan: and there ye remaine as it were in a Denne of Lions, where that roring Lion with his fellowes, lieth in waite,* 1.3 seckinge whom he maie deuoure. Ye haue stepped from the place of Spiritual refrigerie, into the frieinge panne of Schismes and Heresies,* 1.4 and from thence, after that ye haue nowe boyled and fried, in malice and rancoure againste the Churche, excepte ye repent, ye are like to leape into the

Furnesse of Hel, that for euer shal tormente you, and neuer consume you. Complaine not of youre ca∣stinge out of the Churche. To be excommunicate, ye haue deserued. And that kinde of punishement is by a merciful discipline, extended vpon you, partly for your amendement, partly to conserue the reste of the body whole from youre pestiferous contagion.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Vntruth. For God him selfe saithe, Comme foorth from the middes of them, O my people: Apocal. 18.
• * 1.2

  Daniel. 6. &. 3.
• * 1.3

  1. Pet. 5.
• * 1.4

  A hote kinde of Diuinitie.