had a hollowe heart to his Prince Will wee see him vnder the hatches I will driue thee saith God by the prophet out of thy place before O thou man the Lorde shall carrye thee away into captiuity and shal surely couer thee with confusiō God in Sobna his cause speaketh to all hypocrites like to him of what state soeuer God hath a day for thē as he had for Sobna Bee not deceiued God is not mocked saieth Paul Ga. 6. Hypocrisie is mockerie in the sight of God Psal 2. hee that dwelleth in heauen will laugh them to scorne giue them their portion with hypocrites There may no hypocrite come before him as Iob saith Of what value is salte when it hath lost his sauour saltnesse wherto serueth it Mat. 5. but to be cast out of dores and to be troden vnder the feet af men Beware therfore we be not the vnsauery salt or like painted graues as our Sauior calleth the Pharisees parieted walles as Paul calleth Ananias Mat. 23. Act. 23. 3. Reg. 18. Reue. 3. or such as halt on both sides whom the spirite of God sharply rebuketh by the Prophet Elie or suche as are neither hot nor colde but luke warme as the Laodiceans were whom God threatneth to spue out of his mouth Though he suffreth such to play their parts as painted pageants for a while yet if they repent not sodainly he will haue a time for them Ekibolius the Zophist of Constantinople before Iulian was Emperor Ekibolius the Zophist carried himself as an earnest Christian vnder Iulian he became a cruell Apostata and Panim as Socrates reporteth and after Iulian he would be a Christian againe Socrates eccle hist lib. 3. ca. 13. And his own conscience accusing him to be vnsauery salt he cast him selfe flat on the ground before the Church gate as the people should passe and cryed Calcate me salem insipidū Tread on me that am vnsauerie salt Adeo leuis mobilis saith Socrates ante post Iulianum fuit So light fickle saith he both before and after Iulian hee was If this fickle and flitting wee waxe in religion there will bee a time for conscience to crie If wee bee not vtterly cut off from God and as a dead thing voide of life and if wee beginne once to feele the spurre of conscience though we cast not our selues downe at the Churche dore as he did for the people to treade on yet it is high time to cast our selues downe in the inner temple of our conscience before God with heartie repentance and humble confession vnto him least if wee make no account of conscience and reconciling our selues to him sodainlie hee cast vs out as the vnsauerie salt For as he hath a time of mercy sufferance so hee hath a time also of casting out Valens Vrsacius Valens and Vrsacius Bishops and Captaines of the Arrian heresie followed the sway of the time as Socrates noteth and that part that had the masterie And after that by the great councell of Sardica where 300. Bishops of the West Church were assembled and by vertue of letters sent from Constantius the Emperor Athanasius the Bishop of Alexandria remoued from his Sea before by practise of the Arrians was restored to his former estate and place Valens and Vrsacius not only recāted and offered their recantation to Iulius the bishop of Rome Socrates eccle hist lib. 2. cap. 24. but wrote to Athanasius also that they would ioin thēselues in cōmuniō with him But with relapsing cloaking their heresy they haue left their memorie in reproch in the church of God Euseb the bishop of Nicomedia Euseb Nicomediensis after of Constantinople gaue coūtenāce to Arrius heresies so far as hee dared secretly wrought vnderhand but cloaked outwardly wold not be accoūted to be of Arrius sect as in the epistle of the coūcel of Antioch Socrates eccle hist lib. 2. ca. 10. he with other his consorts wrote Nos neque Arrii assectatores sumus Neither we say they are folowers of Arrius for how being Bishops should wee bee led of a priest And after he with others had wrought his wil on Athanasius he wrote to Iulius Bishop of Rome to bee iudge in Athanasius his cause Thus though he vsed cunning cloaking with men as hypocrites haue many colours yet God iudgeth the cause For shortly after the Councell of Antioch where Eusebius then Bishop of Constantinople was chiefe this Eusebius died Socrates eccle hist lib. ◠cap. 10. And the Citie of Antioch where the Councell was holden was shaken torne with earthquakes by the space of one yeere Eudoxius Eudoxius Bishop of Germanicia and after of Constantinople being of the Arriā sect likewise carried himself in cloudes of hypocrisie to keepe the countenaunce of his estate Theodoritus eccle hist lib. ◠ca. 17. And when by Constantius the Emperor he was pressed hee renounced certaine Arrian termes as grounds of that heresie when he saw that hee was like to bee set on grounde touching his estate But after by his other his consorts Arriās of Cōstantius the aforesaid Syluanus other faithful Bishops were priued of their estates and he and his complices were a floate Iulian the Apostata Iulian the Emperour called the Apostata for his reuolting from the faith of Christ was mōtrous in hypocrisie Before he was Emperor he would seem to betake himself to an extraordinarie strait kinde of life He tooke on him as a monke and was shauen to the skinne as Socrates witnesseth and was made a reader in the Church of Nicomedia Socrat. Eccle. Hist lib. 3. cap. 1. And though he had sucked vp the poyson of Panims yet with such maskes he deluded the world that after he was Emperour he played his pagentes of Hipocrise still He called home from exile faithfull Bishoppes which vnder Constantius the Emperour his predecesser by practise of Arrians had beene banished Neither yet ment he good faith to thē only he vsed it as a gase to serue his turne for hee betrayed the Churches of Christ to Panims But Christ with whom he had cloaked and counterfeited longe sodenly mette with him When he thought of great victorie and triumph in his warres against the Persians Socrat. Eccle. Hist lib. 3. cap. 21. sodenly hee came to his deathes wound hee wist not from whence or whom and euen then with his blasphemous mouth he yeelded victorie to Christ and said Thou man of Galeb so he called Christ in reproch thou hast the victorie And as Christ shewed his dreadfull iudgment on the person of this Emperour who out of the cloudes of hipocrisie brake out to be a persecuting Panim So likewise he executed dreadfull iudgment on the bodies and the very bowels of two graund Captaines of hypocrisie Arrius of whom the Arrian heresie hath name Iudas that betrayed him and on both in manner much of one sort When
Gregorie the seuēth famous sorcerers and inchaunters were Bishops of Rome and that there was striefe betweene Syluester the seconde disciples in the diuelish art who shoulde succeed in the place This Gregorie the 7. was reputed also in the Brixian Councell Brixian coūcell to bee a Negromancer to worke by a Familiar And before him as Otto the aforesaide Bishop saide hee neuer could reade that any Romane Bishop did excōminge and curse the Romane Emperor and King Otto Frisin Episc So that this practise of Popes against christian Emperours and Princes according to his vouching beganne much about that time when Sathan was loosed from his chaine out of the bottomlesse pit to goe about to deceiue the people in the foure quarters of the earth he took possession about that time in Bishops of Rome in the Sea of Rome which were Negromancers and Sorcerers as Syluester the seconde and other his successors amongest them and about those times was Gregorie the seuenth Grego 7. who was the first as Otto pronounceth of his experience in the Romane stories that excōminged and cursed a Roman Emperor and king and priued him of his kingdome Yet notwithstanding Henrie the 4. thus excominged and cursed af Gregorie the 7. raigned about 50. yeeres sawe Greg. the aforesaid cut off with his curses Vrban the second likewise that followed him Thus about that time the Diuell let loose raged in the Romane Sea and Bishops against Christian Emperors Princes with cursing and banning of them and priuing thē of their Empires forgetting that they call themselues his Vicars whose kingdome as Gagwin the deuout father and writer of their owne side said was not of worldly things but heauenly things Then followed such diuision and discord in Christendom and such outrage of rebellion warres and bloodshed as Bishop Otto greeuing at the very rehearsall thereof saith Otto Frisin Episc ana li. 6. cap. 36. that a certain Ecclesiasticall writer compareth those times to the most vglie darknes of Egipt And the Abbat of Vrsperg saith that vnder Hildebrand the Monke called Gregorie the 7. Ab. Vrsperg in Chron. in an 1072. who excomminged and cursed first Henrie the 4. Romana respulbica omnis ecclesia nouis inauditis scismatum erroribus periclitari caepit The cōmon wealth of Rome and the whole Church began to be plūged in perils and errors of new scismes such as were neuer heard of before And the bishoppes that were present in the Councell of Wormes The councell of Wormes charge him with abuse of noueltie What maruaile when he was the first in Bishop Otto his iudgement which took on him to excomminge curse a Roman Emperor to priue him of his kingdome And whereas it belonged to the right of the Emperours to confirme the Roman Bishop after he was elected before the Emperors confirmation ratifiyng the election he was not coūted right Bishop of Rome as Cusp saith speaking of Grego Io. Cuspin in vita Henr. 4. the 7. his time Mos enim tū erat Pōtifices ab Imperatoribus confirmari vt superius saepe annotauimus For the custome then was that Bishops of Rome shuld c yet this Gregorie the 7. The Imperiall right to confirme the Bishop of Rome elected contrary to custome right of the Emperors rushed into the Roman sea wtout confirmatiō of the Emperor but assoone as he was warm in the sea hee began to curse ban the Emperor whose confirmation he should haue had to haue been the right bishop of the sea Therof began to spring spread great scismes diuisions in Christendome when not only the right of the Emperors was violently encroched of the Bishop of Rome but also he fell a cursing and banning the Emperor whose confirmation he should haue had What did the Diuell about the time loosed out of the bottomlesse pit more desire The Diuell raged by disobedience in the Bishops of Rome then to tread vnder feet the ordinance of God by wilfull disobedience outrage against Christiā Princes by cursing thē for whom they shoulde pray by stirring rebellions ciuill warres against them setting their owne subiects to be contrary to them to take a contrarie course to the ordinance of God Thus after 1000. yeeres the Diuell did rage in the Roman Bishops against the supreame soueraignties states in christēdom shewed himself directly contrary in them to the great ordinance of God If it were the ordinarie right of the Empire to confirm the bishops of Rome as the continual course continuance therof in such a number of his predicessors bishops of Rome the witnes of their own writers is plain euidēce therof wherfore should Hildebrand called Gregorie the 7. Gregorie the 7. an intruder without confirmation of the Emperor of a Monk Archdeacō before intrude himselfe into the sea of Rome wtout confirmatiō of Hen. the 4. Emperor not only rent away the vsuall right of the Empire but also rent the Empire and Christendome with rebellions ciuill warres bloodshed treasons and such like outrages and rent the Emperor himselfe from his Empire life also by cursing and banning him and stirring vp his own subiects to rebel against him and of his life and Empire to bereaue him Thus the Romane Bishop or rather the Diuell raging in the Romane Bishop turneth the regiment and state of Christendome vpside downe and began a contrary course to the right of the Emperiall regiment and custome of confirmations heretofore For to Henry the 4. by his imperial right the confirmation of Gregorie the 7. to be Bishop of Rome did appertaine Gregorie the 7. so far is from recognising that right to which so many his predecessors stouped Gregorie the 7. summoneth Henrie the 4. to apparance and answere that as Lucifer mounting about all estates not onely he shaketh his necke out of the collor but imperiouslie citeth and by presumptuous processe calleth for the Emperor to make his apparance before him to put in answere to causes to be obiected to him els vnlesse he stoupe to his commaunds to whose confirmation hèe should haue stouped himself he shuld be cursed and priued of the Empire This was so vnquoth and strange attempt that Otto freelie confesseth hee neuer read the like by any Romane Byshop doone to the Romane Emperor and king before Ab. Vrsperg in an 1072. The Abbat of Vrsperg saith that because without consent of the king hee pressed to bee Pope by fauour of the Romanes some held that hee was not lawfullie placed but that like a tyrant he vsurped Thus the Abbat himselfe mentioneth the great gall of Gregorie the 7. his proude Popedome which began with presumption proceeded to cursing ended with great bloodshed in christendome Cuspinian also reporteth the same Plerique saith hee illum sine regis consensu non agnouerunt legittime electum Io. Cusp in vita Hen. 4. after he had
Churches according to the right imperiall before to Henry the 5. Gerhardus Bishop of Engelesme and Legate in Aquitania saide Ab. Vrsperg in Chro. anno 1112. that this inuesting by Emperours and Princes was against the holy Ghost and canonical institution the Councel there consenting to it At what time Pope Paschal there did recant and retract the release that he had made thereof to Henry the fifth before and he prayed pardon for it and prayed them to praye for him Such conscience he made for releasing of the imperiall right to the Emperour But where was this conscence in their predecessours time vnder 36. Bishoppes from the time of Charles the great Was it then counted against the holy Ghost and simonicall heresie Wherefore is now the case thus altered Because as Cusp toucheth the quicke post vero pontifices sanxerunt Io. Cusp in vita Henr. 5. But after the Bishops of Rome haue decreede so that it is not lawfull for any to be inuested of any lay man they were excomminged that were inuested of thē So as Popes rule cases herisies are made That vnder so many Bishops of Rome was yeelded as the lawfull imperiall right now is said to be against the holie Ghost and flat heresie Henriciana haeresis Wig bertina Abbas Vrspergensis in chro in an 1106. Wigbert Archbishop of Rauenna And because they would bring the Emperors name into publike hate they call it haeresis Henriciana Henries heresie they call it also haeresis Wigbertina Wigbertes heresie Because Wigbert Archbishoppe of Rauenna after Gregory the 7. was hunted out of Rome by the Emperour for his cursing of him at the request of the Romans was made Bishoppe of Rome for him and by the name of Clemens with great solemnitie of many Bishoppes inthronised But because he was placed by the Emperour they haue deuised an heresie after his name Ab. Vrsperg in Chro. in an 1080. to bring his name also in hate which they call Wigbertina So that maketh not on their side for maintayning their kingdome is called heresie What intollerable tyranny and monstrous presumption is this of Bishoppes of Rome as Lucifer mounted in pride Princes praerogatiues made heresie of Popes to take on them to curse and priue Emperours for keeping their auncient right and imperiall prerogatiue and to make heresie as pleaseth them where as they swallowe vppe such a number of Idolatrous heresies of theirowne and they call the doctrine deliuered to vs out of the liuely worde of God heresie and light darkenesse darkenesse light are therfore vnder the curse of God Esai 5. as the Prophet Esay witnesseth But though they call light darknes truth error prerogatiues of Princes heresies their followers daunce after their pipe as those that are bitten of the venemous spider of Italie called Tarantula because by Tarentū there is store of thē so soone as they heare the pipe or minstrel Tarantula they fall a daūsing and cannot leaue till they haue by daunsing digested the poyson which vaporeth out by sweetes as Matheolus thinketh Mathe. in Com. in Dios lib. 2. cap. 57. so they that are bitten with the venemous Spider of Italie the Tarantula of Rome cannot but daūce after the Popes pipe and cannot giue vp and digest the poyson of Poperie vntil God renue them by special grace as it were new make and alter them Thus for what cause Gregorie the 7. and other Popes after excōminged and cursed Henry the 4. Because the Pope of such pretenced quarrel cursed the father therfore should the son rise in armour rebel against his own father God hath made the son himself iudge in the cause for euē for the same cause that the father was cursed on pretence wherof he took on him the treason rebellion against his father he also was cursed of 3. popes after And touching the setting on of the son against his father The setting on of the son against the father the trūpet of pietie was blowen vp before the son because he vndertook the treason in the Popes cause and for executing the Popes curse on his own father Therefore as such impiety outrage against his own father against the ordinance of God is blazed out as pietie to the Pope mother church of Rome So vnder the pretence and visard of pietie religion the treason and rebellion of the son is disguised Alber. Krāz. Saxoniae lib. 5. cap. 16. Albert Kranz saith of him Multis persuasit filius sola se pietate in deū terreni patris ad tempus oblitum esse The sonne saith he persuaded many that only in respect of piety to god he had forgotten for a season his father on earth Otto Frisin Epis lib. 7. cap. 8. Otto Bishop of Fris saith Rebellionē sub specie religionis eò quod pater eius a Rom. pontificibus excōmunicatus esset aggreditur Vnder color of religion he attempteth rebelliō because his father was excomminged of the Roman Bishops The Abbat of Vrsperg saith vnder colour of religion Patrem excōmunicatū priuauit regno He priued his father of the Empire being excōminged before Ab. Vrsperg in chro in an 1124. Let vs heare how of the Popes clergie he is magnified set a gog to this vnnaturall treason and rebellion vnder pretence of pietie religion After that he shrunk from his fathers side as Vrspergensis telleth and raysed rebellion against him Abbas Vrsperg in chro in an 1105. there hee professed saith he obedience to the sea of Rome though with treason he rent the Empire and the bowels of nature in his owne father that begat him it is not treason or rebellion any more but Religion and pietie He condēneth the heresie afore mentioned which they forged against his father for the which he after the death of his father was cursed of Popes also Hee withdrawed himselfe into Saxonie which then was a fitte place for mutenie and rebellion against his father Alb. Cranz Saxo. lib. 5. cap. 17. And at Northuson in Saxonie was a meeting appointed of the nobles and people as Albert telleth and the Clergie kept a Synod there Then after he had displaied his banner of treason and rebellion against his father the Popes Clergie flocked vnto him and hanged about him and rebellious Ruckard Archbishoppe of Mens Ruchard Archbishop of Mens and Geberhardus Bishoppe of Constans helde a great councell of Clergie at Northuson a fit councell for such a practise This Ruckard as Otto calleth him sometime Archchbishop of Mens was bānished of Henry the fourth for his disloyalties in Saxonie hee had made mutenies and conspiracies against him and being an Archrebell and traytor is now become president of this councel whom Henry the 5. by force would haue restored to his sea againe as Bishoppe Otto telleth but that his father was gotte within the towne with his garrison Otto an a. lib. 7 cap. 8. In this councel to
father The Abbat of Vrsperg with too much partialitie and bitternesse against Henry the 4. Io. Cusp in vita Henr. 4. corrupteth the storie and therefore of Cuspinian one of their owne religion is reproued as also Hermānus Contract Hermānus Blondus Platina Merula Mouthie Merula and such others The Italian wryters of stories as Blond Plat. such others are 2. great pleasers of Popes and deliuer not the storie with such indifferencie between Emperours and Popes as they should doe because of the partialitie of religion and of their Countrie and their intertainment following after Popes The freshe fountaine Arethusa of Sicilie by the salte Sea is counted a strange thing in nature Italian wryters of stories Arethusa the foūtaine And in writing of stories it strange for an Italian writer of stories to be free from partialitie of Popes being so neere them and eftsoones appertayning to them as Platina and Blondus and such others Therfore with good iudgment they must be red to sifte the corne from the chaffe the storie from the partialitie of Popes But the Abbat of Vrsperg though he be not of the Countrie of Popes yet because he hath a Pope in his conscience as rolled on the groundes of Poperie runneth thicke with dregges of partialitie to Popes Abbas Vrsperg in chr in an 1106. and so corrupteth the clerenesse of the storie No maruaile though hee call Henry the 4. thus cursed of the Popes an Arch-pirate and Arch-heritike Nabucodonezer and Iulian. Iohn Cuspinian who was of Maximilians councell and of their owne religion Io. Cusp in vita Hen. 4. prayseth Henry the fourth for an eloquent liberall and godly Prince sharpe of wit and warlike and luckie in the warres that fought moe battailes in his owne person then either M. Marcellus or Iulius Caesar the famous warriers in the stories Thus Cuspinians prayses of him Otto Frisin Episc ann lib. 7. cap. 11. Bishoppe Otto reporteth the opinions of others touching his almes deedes and many workes of mercie donne by him in respecte whereof they think he merited of God as out of the humors of the darkenesse of that time they speake to haue the wanton conuersation of his youth wholie he was aliue to bee punished with such afflictions in this present world Thus Bishoppe Otto deliuereth the iudgmentes of others of him Albert Deane of Hanburg and deuout of their side Alber. Kranz Saxo. Lib. 5. cap. 24. yet can not bury in silence his condigne prayses he sayeth hee was a noble a learned a valiant Prince of goodly personage fit for a king and that by the space of 50. yeeres kept the soueraigntie of the publike state yet hee inspergeth him with great vices and pride that would not stoupe Thus Alberts report of him Touching Pope Gregorie the 7. that first cursed him Abbas Vrsperg in chr in an 1800. Brixiense Con. he is charged in the councell of Brixia with haynous crimes and that he is a Necromansier and that dealeth with a familiar And the Bishoppes in the councell of Brixia referre themselues to the authoritie of a councell at Mens holden against him before Ab. Vrsperg in an 1076. Worma concil And in the councell of Wormes hee is likewise charged with great infamies Otto Fris Epis lib. 6. cap. 35. Bishoppe Otto sayeth that hee was the first of his knowledge in the Roman stories that tooke vpon him to excommunicate and curse a Roman Emperour or king The Abbat of Vrsperg saith Ab. Vrsperg in an 74. that vnder him the whole Church began to be turmoild with new errors of schismes that neuer were hard before In the coūcel of Wormes likewise he is charged that the Church of God through the abuse of his nouelties is indaungered with so sore a tempest Abbas Vrspergensis in an 1076. Thus the Bishoppe of his owne religion and wryters of his own side reporte of him and of the strange euils of schismes and diuisions neuer heard of before and of the abuse of his nouelties No marueile then though he were the firste that vndertook the excōmunicating cursing of a Roman Emperour as Otto voucheth and rent the whole Church with schismes and the ciuill and publike state with diuisions and rebellions Bishoppe Otto when hee commeth to the point of the cause touching the deposing of Henry the fourth from his Emperiall state vppon the Popes curse Bishop Otto suspendeth his iudgment passeth it ouer without interlasing his owne iudgement and opinion of the proceedings thereof and sayeth all which thinges whether they were lawfullye or vnlawfullye done wee doe not determine Thus Bishoppe Otto kepte his iudgment in suspence Otto Frising Episc lib. 7. cap. 11. touching the proceedinges against Henry the fourth by laying downe the storie with profession that hee will not lay downe any iudgement of it May wee not as it were at a loupe and hole see the day So we may sound his iudgment by his profession that hee will giue noe iudgement in the cause If hee had liked the Popes curse and the proceedinges against the Emperour he needed not to be daintie of his iudgment whereof no daunger ensued to him which was so plausible on the Popes side and at which the Popes Clergie as it were clapped their handes But because it was a bone in his conscience to haue such outrage done to Princes vppon the Popes curse hee keepeth his conscience cleere for giuing iudgment in the case though otherwise for his religion right on the Popes side the Monkes of Morimond Abbey among whome he dyed and the order of the Cistertian Monkes which he professed might witnesse Aeneas Syl. in Hist Austral If hee should lay downe his iudgment against the Pope in fauour of Henry the fourth he shuld plucke the Pope and his Clergie vpon him Then Otto one of their owne Bishoppes and a professed Monke of the Cistertians order Heretikes against the Pope Henry the 4. Wigbert Archbishop of Rauenna Wekil Archbishop of Mens Abbas Vrspergensis in chro in an 1085. should be an heretike against the Pope also as Henry the fourth was made an heretke for opposing himselfe against the Pope and Wigbert Archbishop of Rauenna was made an heretike because of Henry the fourth he was promoted to be bishoppe of Rome in the place of Gregorie the seuenth and as Wekil the Archbishop of Mens was called an Arch-heretike in the councell of Quintiligoburg as Vrspergensis calleth it because in holding disputatiō against Geberherdus Archbishop of Salzburg for Henrie the 4. his soueraigne Lord he laid downe his reasons of the preiudicing his Soueraigne by the Pope other Princes and that he being dispoyled of his dominion in Saxoni before Duke Rodolphs rebellion was not lawfully to bee called We kill his disputations for Henry the 4. iudged and condemned They were so netled with the disputation of VVekill the Archbishop of Mens for his Soueraigne that they called an other councel at Quintilingoburg where
Otto Bishoppe of Ostia the Popes Legate was Ab. Vrsperg in chro in an 1086. and there VVekill was made an heretike and called an Arch-heretike This Otto president of this Councel was after the death of Gregory the 7. who died at Salern made Pope in his place and then hee fell a cursing of Henry the 4. as his predecessor had done No maruaile though hee were so apt to coyne heresies and to challenge them to bee Arch-heretikes which helde disputations for the Emperor against the Pope Trowe you what should Otto Bishop of Frising haue bin in their mouthes Wherefore Bishop Otto leaueth his iudgement in suspence if hee had intermedled his iudgement for Henry the 4. against the popes proceedings Would they not haue forgotten his religion his monkerie of Morimond the order of Cistertians whereof hee was professed he should haue been an Arch-heretike as Wigbert and Wekil were Therefore Bishoppe Otto seeing the daunger though he were of the Imperiall house himselfe lappeth it vp in his owne conscience and saith he wil not deale in determining the cause but layeth down the storie Yet hath he left a loupe-hole to loke into his iudgment Thus he qualifieth it with soft words videntur tameÌ„ saith hee culpandi sacerdotes per omnia qui regnum suo gladio quèm ipsi ex regum habent gratia ferire conantur Otto Frisin Episc lib. 7. in Prolog Popes haue receiued their swordes of Princes which they turne on theÌ„ Yet saith he the Priests algates seeme culpable which take in hand to strike the kingdome with their sword which of the grace of Princes they haue receiued Thus Otto And least he should seeme to haue launched to deepe by and by he layeth to a plaster except parhaps saith he they thinke to follow Dauid which first by Gods might ouerthrew the Philistine and after killed him with his owne sword He dare not bide by it least he able for it as the Emperour did Therefore he frameth an excuse for them out of Dauids example who killed the Philistine with his own sword So they are Dauids in this construction and Princes Philistines which are killed with their owne sworde that they gaue to them But howsoeuer Otto seemeth to houer and not to giue directe iudgement in the Emperours cause for drawing himselfe in suspicion and daunger also And howsoeuer he gloseth this example for them they are Philistines in the right intendment which contrarie to Goddes ordinances strike Dauids and Princes elected of God with the sword that of the grace of Princes they haue receiued Otto pointeth at the sore but feareth to lanche it too deepe in saying that Popes strike Princes with the sword which they haue receiued of them The Primitiue Church was striken with the sworde of Princes for the faith of Christ the Popes Church striketh Princes against the ordinance of Christ with the sworde which they haue receiued of Princes Pope Paschal the second who cursed both the father and the sonne Henry the fourth first Pope Pasc cursed the father and the sonne and Henry the fifth after the death of his father in the councell of Rome saieth the Primitiue Church florished with the blood of martirs before God but not before men After in the ende kinges and Emperours The councell of Rome and Roman Princes were conuerted Qui matrem suam ecclesiam sicut boni filij honestauerunt Who to their mother the Church didde honestie and honour in aduauncing her Abbas Vrsperg in aâ— 1112. And bestowed landes reuenewes and royalties on her as Constantine the Emperour and other the faithfull and the Church began to florish then so well before God as â—â—fore men So farre the wordes of Pope Pachal He confesseth from whom they haâ—â— their principalities and royalties and the sworde of which Otto speaketh which they haue turned vpon Princes of whom they first receiued it Further at the same time Pope Paschal said as Albertus Kranz and the Abbat of Vrsperg reporteth his wordes much like in effect Habeat saith he mater ecclesiae dona principum Let mother Church saith hee haue the giftes of Princes dispence dispose and giue them to whom lawfully she may wil. Thus farre Pope Paschals words It is apparant by their own confession froÌ„ wheÌ„c they haue reuenewes royalties principalities and their worldly countenance and the sword mentioned of Otto before If the donation of Constan as they cal it were true as Laurence Valla a noble Roman with long discourse proueth it to be forged yet from the Roman Emperour they claime it Laurence Valla against the donation of Constant But Gregorie the 7. who cursed Henry the fourth before Paschal the second setteth Pope Paschal to schoole and fetteth his conuayance of Rome from Christ Grego 7. Alb Kranz Saxo. lib. 5. cap. 7. as Alb. reporteth the verse which with a Crowne he sent to Duke Rodolph that by rebellion against Henry the â—â—â—th he should winne the Crowne and wear 〈◊〉 A fit Champion to giue first onset on Emperours as Otto his opinion is to curse them to strike theÌ„ with the sword which they haue receiued of theÌ„ as an vnkind Impe persecuting plaging the Empire out of which it sprang Hederae Anaplexicaulis Mathe. in lib. 2. Dios cap. 75. Theophrast wryteth of Hedera the Iui that is called Amplexicaulis Matheolus citing it because it groweth about trees and girdeth them in so ouergroweth them in the end that the trees decay and it florisheth in the decayes of the trees as he saith Necat exiccat ablato alimento it killeth starueth trees by sucking away their nurrishment from them So Popedom hath been to Thempire it growed first out of Thempire after it hath so ouergrowen girded in continually sucked the Empire that it hath starued in manner Thempire The Church of Rome mounted in the decaies of the Empire Otto Fris Epis lib. 7. in prologo in respect of the former estate therof and florisheth it self in the decayes of it and by the fall of the auncient Empire Emperors it is mounted aloft Bishop Otto saith by the decay of TheÌ„pire the Church is growen to a great mountaine and began to grow in great state and authoritie And before he meÌ„tioneth the opinioÌ„s of some Non desunt saith he qui dicunt deum ad hoc regnum immini volitisse vt ecclesia exaltetur There lacke not saith he that say that therfore God would haue the kingdome to deâ— that the Church should be exalted thus Oâ—to Thei glorie of the exaltation of their Church by the decayes of the Empire and ruines of Emperors whoÌ„ by treasons rebellions and outrage of subiectes against their Princes and of the sonne against his owne father they haue ouerthrowen How doth Antichrist exalt himselfe and lift vp his hornes as Vrspergensis spake of lifting vppe the hornes of the Church of Rome Ab. Vrsperg in Chro. by plucking Henry