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 Apology for the Bible," meaning
its defence against those who questioned its authority. This Latin book
of Jewel's, _Apologia Ecclesiae Anglicanae_--written in Latin because it
was not addressed to England only--was first published in 1562, and