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Bishop John Jewel’s Apology of the Church of England is a comprehensive statement of faith, as well as an important political and historical document of Elizabethan England. It was also intended as a Protestant answer to the Roman Catholic accusations of heresy. Bishop Jewel emphasizes the continuity between the Reformers’ thought and the truth of the Scriptures, the apostles, and church fathers...

and New Testament, did use to pray themselves, and taught the people to pray too: lest, as Augustine saith,* “like parrots and ousels9 we should seem to speak that we understand not.” Neither have we any other mediator and intercessor, by whom we may have access to God the Father, than10 Jesus Christ, in whose only name all things are obtained at his Father’s hand. But it is a shameful part, and full of infidelity, that we see everywhere used in the churches of our adversaries, not only in that
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