An Apology Of The Church Of England

John Jewel was the foremost defender the Church Of England’s catholicity; famously preaching that if anyone could bring one sufficient sentence out of Scripture, the example of the church or the teaching of the Fathers from within 600 years after Christ, in support of any of 27 Romish doctrines, then he would concede.

Three years later, in 1562, he published An Apology Of The Church Of England. Originally written in Latin (for circulation on the continent), this translation was made by Anne Bacon so as to be read throughout England, and became a standard text of the English Reformation.

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