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A03718	The brutish thunderbolt: or rather feeble fier-flash of Pope Sixtus the fift, against Henrie the most excellent King of Nauarre, and the most noble Henrie Borbon, Prince of Condie Togither with a declaration of the manifold insufficiencie of the same. Translated out of Latin into English by Christopher Fetherstone minister of Gods word.; P. Sixti fulmen brutum in Henricum sereniss. Regem Navarrae & illustrissimum Henricum Borbonium, Principem Condaeum. English	Hotman, François, 1524-1590.; Fetherston, Christopher.; Catholic Church. Pope (1585-1590 : Sixtus V). Declaratio contra Henricum Borbonium. English.	1586 (1586)	STC 13843.5; ESTC S117423	154,206	355

a band-dog or Cerberus than this But as I haue alreadie said this boldnes of the pope against the king of Nauarr is not greatly to be woondered at séeing such was his vnbridled furie against the most mightie king of France Wherefore let vs heare rather other testimonies of like and the same pride for it is not for man to contend with satan in railing spéeches and it shall be sufficient to vse that curse of Michael the archangell The Lord Jude 1. 9. rebuke thee Therefore to returne to our purpose we must not passe ouer that testimonie of the same popish seruice which is reported touching the same Boniface who in the yéere 1300. when there was great concourse of people at Rome by reason of the Iubilie in the first solemne day the pope shewed himselfe to the people in his Pontificalibus the day following hauing on the attire of the emperor he commanded a naked sword to be borne before him crieng with a lowd voice I am the pope and emperor and I beare rule in earth and heauen And a few daies after hée proudly reiected Albertus created emperor by the electors of Germanie when he came to craue his confirmation denieng that the election had without his authoritie ought to be counted firme séeing he alone had the authoritie of both swords After some good space he confirmed him vpon condition that with al expedition he shuld make war against the French king whose kingdome he gaue him for a pray and reward of his victorie Which things are witnessed by Cuspianus in the life of Albertus in the chronicle of Vsperge and by the writers of the French chronicles But to what end do we prosecute these light and trifling things We haue before declared that the pope of Rome doth claime by the donation of Constantine the empire of al the west parts These be but bare words Wherefore let vs looke into the thing it selfe For we denie that there is any king in the west I meane of France Spaine Aragon Portugal Hungarie Bohemia England Scotland Denmarke Sueueland Ruscia Croatia Dalmatia whom the papacie of Rome will not haue to be vassall and feudatarie to it as if he had receiued his kingdome from him as a fée and benefit and ought for that cause to ow allegeance and to do homage to him It is much that we say and almost incredible to be spoken but the truth shall appéere by instruments that we wil bring to light and by testimonies that we will vse For we wil touch euery realme according to the order of the letters Of that of England AVgustine Steuchus the maister of the popes librarie doth witnes in his book of the donation of Constantine that in 2. pag. 138. that librarie of the popes there is extant a register of pope Alexander the 3. wherein is found an epistle to William king of England For as we vnderstand by that booke of Steuchus the maister of the librarie all the actes of euerie pope are written in seuerall registers to the which what credit we ought to giue the verie rule of the law doth show wherein it is said that a priuate writing must be beléeued but onely against the writer himselfe Therfore this was Alexander his epistle Your wisedome knoweth that the kingdome of Englande sithence the time that the name of Christ was there glorified hath bin vnder the hand and tuition of the chiefe of the Apostles For as you know full well the Englishmen were faithfull and in respect of godly deuotion and knowledge of religion they gaue a yeerely pension to the apostolike sea wherof some part was giuen to the bishop of Rome some part to the church of S. Marie which is called the schoole of the Englishmen to the vse of the brethren These things are cited out of Steuchus But I finde these testimonies in other places besides Steuchus Flauius Blondus in his 6. booke Decad. 2. Then saith he Iohn king of England fearing that he was not of sufficient force to deale with the French king fled to the mercy of Innocentius the third pope of Rome for making England and Ireland feudataries to the church of Rome by league he promised to pay for either Iland an hundred markes in gold yeerely Antonie of Florence saith * Iohn king of England of his own accord Hist. part 3. tit 19. §. quinto anno 1223. by the counsell of his princes offered and did freely grant to God and his most holie Apostles Peter Paul and to the holie church of Rome and to the lord Innocentius the third being pope all the kingdome of England and also of Ireland with all their rights and appurtenances and he hath done and sworne homage for the same kingdomes to the saide Innocentius the pope that he should hold them hereafter as a feudatarie of the said pope and his successours Whereof also Polidore Virgill maketh mention in his 15. booke By this instrument of the pope if as I said we may giue credence to a priuate writing the realme of England is feudatarie to the pope Go to let vs sée the rest Of the kingdome of Arragonia STeuchus in the selfe same booke * saith Pag. 193. Peter king of Arragonia in the third yeer of the L. Innocentius the third being pope came to Rome to the same Innocentius and he receiued from him solemnely an honorable knighthood and he offered willinglie to S. Peter and to the holie church of Rome his whole kingdome and there he had for his fee the same kingdome Also he appointed to pay a certaine summe of money for the kingdome of Sardinia Of the kingdome of Croatia and Dalmatia STeuchus in the same booke * in the register of Gregorie the seauenth we reade thus In the name of the lord of the holie Pag. 191. and indiuisible Trinitie in the yeere of the Lords incarnation one thousand seuenty sixe in the 14. indiction of the moneth of October I Demetrius which am also called Suinumir by the grace of God duke of Croatia and Dalmatia being made and constituted by thee L. Gebizus hauing the power of Pope Gregorie by the ambassage of the apostolike sea by the synodall and generall election of the whole cleargie and people in the Solantine church of S. Peter and being inuested and appointed king in the gouernment of the kingdome of the Croatians and Dalmatians by the banner sword scepter and crowne to thee I vowe and promise that I will vnchangeably fulfill all things which thy reuerend holines shall inioine me that I may keepe mine oth to the Apostolike sea in all things and that I may keepe irreuocably whatsoeuer as well the sea apostlike as the legates thereof haue or shall establish in this realme that I may execute iustice and defend the church also I appoint to pay to S. Peter yeerely in the resurrection of the Lord the tribute of two hundred Bizanties of al my consulships and primacies for the kingdome granted to me Furthermore seeing to

arme his hallowed hands that are yet hot with working at the altar against the Lords familie that with a mind more thā murderous he shuld seeke to put out the top of the christian name namely a most christian king in the blockish world and that he should somtimes shake that mysticall sword edgeling and foyningly in his angrie purpose as we thinke that he should sometimes borrow of Mars that bloudy speare or iauelin and should also seeke to put those to death whom with cruell curses he had cast down which peraduenture did turne vpon him Lo what hands what feet thou dost willinglie kisse from which thou oughtest to plucke backe thy mouth though bloudie and polluted O wretch that thou then art Iulius and carried with distemperature which thoughtest that thou oughtst to obey thy blind anger so far forth that thou wast carried with furious blindnes of minde and not to respect either thy selfe or the comelines of most blessed maiestie through hatred but carrieng headlong with thee against their will for the most part and euen murmuring against thee that most honourable order that reuerend senate being famous with chiefe reuerence the glorie of Libanus thou shouldest seeke to oppresse vs with the fall of the tower of the church and so consequently thy selfe that thou shouldest also change in a maner the whol world being shaken with those thunderbolts which thou hast raysed and shot against it that thou shouldest behold vs with these firie eies which are inflamed with hatred and enuie and also burne with fire shouldest not now cease but fall vpon our king as he did burne thou hauing obtained thy purpose O immortall God! was it lawfull for wickednes perswading euill things to throw downe by right or wrong from the top of the sanctuarie so great a man being euen stung with the waspe of reuenge more than that of Atrius that he should hasten to destroy euen his bodie and soule in the graue of his enimies Was it not sufficient for his most furious wrath to haue driuen vs backe againe into our owne coasts being terrified with a thunderbolt departing from the possession of Italie which we deadlie loued and that with griefe and sorrow vnlesse he should moreouer haue made vs fight for our altars and fires as they say and finallie to feare most extreme examples When as in the meane season vnder that bloudie fenser almost all this whole countrie did fight with vs with a most deadlie enuious minde where was then that zeale of the Lord which is iust anger reuenging the maiestie of God being hurt or diminished For it is lawfull for the holie armies to go into the battell with this standerd-bearer alone if at anie time it be lawfull Did he then I praie you fet aide out of that tower of Loue or chappell of Faith or crossed standerds Was he anie whit ashamed to call himselfe the Seruant of the Seruants of God when as he did boast that he made France which was alwaies the beautie of Christians and temple of the popes and fortres of religion famous with the graues of french men Seeing that a priest being seauentie yeeres of age the ambassadour of Christ the authour and parent of peace did offer sacrifice to Bellona the goddesse of war to whom he stroue to offer sacrifice with great losse of mankinde And euen at such time as the profane multitude did make their praiers before the altars of peace and concorde with a pitifull shew Surely a spectacle woorth the beholding To see a father not onely most holie but also reuerend in respect of his age and white haires stirring vp his soldiers whom he had called out with the fame of Bellona as it were to procure tumult in France not reuerently attired in his kirtle and carrieng his gorgeous armes not holie with his pontificall mace or scepter but clad with a mantell and in barbarous attire but girt with furious boldnes that I may so call it glistering with these beastly and vaine thunderbolts hauing the crueltie of his spirits appeering in his sterne countenance and apparell Vndoubtedly we haue seene in a few yeers manie things which our posteritie will thinke to be incredible The ioints of ecclesiastical authoritie and discipline being dissolued in this winde and tempest how should the right faith haue continued vnlesse it had been fastened with the iron and eternall pins and vnlesse it had once been affirmed and established in the holie moniments Thus far goeth Budeus a man as I said before that loued his countrie and which deserued al praise Who though he knew not as yet fully what difference there was betwéen Christ and Antichrist yet could he not being inforced with loue of his countrie but set downe in writing that crueltie and barbarous fiercenes of the pope to the eternall reproch of the papacie that al posteritie might vnderstand with how enuious and rebellious a mind our * Alastor was the companion of Sarpedon king of Lycia whome Vlisses slew at Troie Alastores wer also certaine fiends that did sowe plagues famin and calamitie among men Alastors raged in the time of Budeus in France Go to let vs heare another testimonie of the same rebellion against the kings of France being not a little more ancient No man is ignorant that almost halfe the realme of France was in times past in the possession of the kings of England for the space of more than thrée hundred yéers When as king Philip who was afterward sirnamed Augustus did séeke to recouer that region in war it cannot in words be expressed how prowdly and furiously pope Innocentius the third did set himselfe against him We do not thinke that any man is so void of humanitie that he is ignorant that in times past this was the policie of the Romans to bring vnder them other nations that if they did perceiue any contention to be risen amongst neighbors or kings or people they did carefully nourish the same and did offer friendship felowship to the one partie by the most honorable decrées of the senate and did also promise that partie aide against the other After that by these shifts they had ouercome and subdued the one side they found afterward within short time very easie opportunitie to opprèsse the other Our people saith M. Tullius De Repub. hath now gotten the whole world by defending their companions The popes following this selfe same way of their ancestors that is as Iohn the munke a noble Canonist doth interpret it the way and footesteps of rouers and murderers so soone as they know any discord arise among kings and princes that were neighbors they began to increase and nourish the same by their messengers the cardinals and also to couenant with the one of them that if by their meanes they could obtaine the kingdome of their aduersarie then they should confesse that the sea of Rome was the author of so great a benefit and that they should be sworne to them to

do homage to them and also pay a yéerelie tribute to the sea of Rome for the kingdome newly gotten When this couenant and conspiracie was concluded foorthwith the prince that held on the other side was proclaimed an heretike and schismatike and his kingdome was adiudged to him that did first get possession thereof By which shifts it cannot be told how manie fires the popes haue kindled in all parts of Christendom within these fower hundred yéeres how many kings and princes they haue made vassals tributaries and stipendaries to them and their filthie stinking sea Concerning which matter bicause we haue spoken at large a little before it shall be sufficient to speake of those two kings of France and England Therefore when there arose contention betwéen them pope Innocentius the third sent first from his consistorie into France two legates that they might both terrifie the king with threatening curses and that they might raise his subiects to rebell against him and that they might secretly consult and talke with the bishops and priests of France That done he did so quickly and sharply raise the emperor Otho the fourth and also Ferdinandus earle of Flanders and many other princes of other countries to beare armes against the French king that vnlesse he had happily with a valiant and stout hart contemned those threatenings and beastly buls of that pope he had lost not onely that part of his kingdome but also in a short time all the rest The remembrance whereof is extant not onely in our French chronicles but also in the Canonists * For that decretall shall be a in c. nouit 13. extra de iudic perpetual moniment of the popes hatred and rebellious mind against our kings and countrie Therfore we suppose that it is apparent to all men by these things and other that we haue shewed before what authoritie the orders and Counsellers of the realme of France ought to giue to this declaration of pope Sixtus whom we haue prooued by most manifest testimonies to haue béene not onely accused by the most part of Christendome of most notorious crimes but also to haue béene conuict and condemned But if happily there be anie that dispute that like as bicause two parts of thrée parts of Europe haue put downe the pope the third part must giue him none authority so séeing two parts of thrée parts of France would haue his authority reserued to him it is méete that his authoritie be preserued in France we haue a double answer in readinesse The first bicause out of that number of French men which taketh part with the pope all cardinals archbishops bishops priests innumerable crues of munks and clerks and other sharuebugs of the same sort the popes vassals finally all dogs which licke the popes tribunal seat must be culled out bicause of the rule of the law wherein we saie In what busines soeuer any mans matter is handled bicause in some respect §. sed neque Inst de testam ordi l. nullus 10. D. de test l. omnibus 9. C. eodem l. 1. §. in propria D. quand appell sit it concerneth him he is not a méet witnes in that busines The second is that when as these are culled out of the number no small part of the rest which follow the old custome of religion in France do that not with iudgement and willingly but being compelled with threatenings and terror that they are no more to be numbred amongst the clients of the papacie than as the lawiers say witnesses or Gardans retained in any busines by violence and feare are numbred among fit witnesses and authors of whom Vlpian writeth finely those that are present at any act or l. 1. §. vltim D de tutel l. qui testament 20. §. vlti D. qui testamen fac l. nouiss 7. §. 1. quod fals tutor auctor l. 2. D. de iud busines against their will they séeme to be no more present than if they had béene in that place being asléepe or oppressed with the falling sicknes Finally all men perceiue that if the French men had like libertie to vse and exercise both religions scarce the fourth part of the people of the realme would continue in the religion of the sea of Rome In which place it liketh vs wel to recite that old saieng of Bartholus who in the preface of the Digests * num 14. where disputing about Constantines donation and rekoning vp the opinions of other doctors when he commeth to his owne he saith thus Lo we are vpon earth of the church for he taught at Bononia and therefore I say that that donation was of force Where notwithstanding he writeth many things afterward flatly against that donation And in like sort when the canonistes did dispute that it was not lawfull for the emperor to condemne any man of rebellion that did follow the popes faction Bartholus making mention of the sentence of Henrie the emperor wherein he had condemned Robert king of Sicilia of rebellion and of the contrarie sentence of pope Clement the fift whereby he had absolued the same Robert he sheweth surely that he dare not oppose himselfe against the pope But he dissembleth not to allow the emperors sentence with which Bartholus the canonists were therefore greatly displeased which vse that verse of the pope and Caesar calling the pope their Iupiter Caesar with Iupiter doth diuide The empyre reaching far and wide Moreouer Bartholus disputeth in the same place that it was so far off that Robert was the popes vassall as the pope auouched against the emperour that he testifieth that when Robert was dead Aloysius his heire did sweare alleagance to the emperor in the name of Sicilia in the city of Pise he being there present Concerning which matter we must repaire to the constitution of Henrie Ad reprimendam Qui dicant rebel and the contrary In Clem. Pastoralis de iud constitution of the pope abrogating and reprochfully reuersing that But if we thinke it méete to speake any thing of the ecclesiasticall rebellion of popes it shal not be amisse to bring to light the testimony of one that was somtime a most famous Senator of Paris called Cosma Guymerius who vpō the preface of the pragmatical decrée writtē at Bituriga the author wherof was king Charles the seuenth reckoneth vp some things which are greatly appertinent to know the madnes of these Romish Alastors About the yeere of our Lord saith he M. cccxxc after the death of Gregorie the eleuenth when the cardinals were to proceed to choose another to succeed they were threatned by the Romanes that they should die if they would not choose some Italian Therfore they chose the archbishop of Bare who was then at Rome making knowne to him that they chose him to auoide danger or rather they did feigne that they did choose him but afterward when opportunitie was offered they did freelie intend to choose another Therefore when they had chosen him that was called

and blood of Christ And in like number Ambrose in the booke of the sacraments acknowledgeth onely two baptisme and the Lords supper But the papacie addeth ouer and besides these fiue more Order Confirmation Vnction Trident. con sess 6. c. 14. sess 14. c. 1. seq Penance and Matrimonie The holie scripture teacheth vs that matrimonie is not onely comly and honorable for al men but also that it is in a maner necessarie to Heb. 13. 1. Cor. 7. auoid fornication * Therfore we read that Peter the apostle had a wife * where mention Mark 1. Matt. 8. is made of Peters wiues mother Moreouer Chrysostom * saith The Apostle Ad Tit. hom 1. stoppeth the mouth of heretiks which slander mariage shewing that it is not a detestable thing but so honorable that with it they may go vp into the holie throne euen of bishops To what end should I vse many words The pope himselfe saith * If any man shall teach In decret dist 28. a priest to despise his owne wife vnder colour of religion let him be accursed Also * Bicause it Dist. 31. is prouided that single life might not be fostered and that he should be sequestred from the communion of the faithful which doth separate himselfe from his wife bicause of ecclesiastical orders Also dist 3. c. si quis nuptias But the same pope doth in the Tridentine Councel so forbid his clerks and nunnes to marrie that he doth euen inforce them when they enter his holie orders to take an oth that they will liue in perpetual single life which Paul sheweth to be a sure 1. Tim. 4. Titus 3. marke of Antichrist The scripture teacheth that we must acknowledge that wée haue saluation and iustification by Iesus Christ from the alone mercie of God Ies 43. I I am he saith the Lord which blot out your iniquities Also Matt. 9. That you may know that the sonne of man hath power to forgiue sinnes vpon earth I say to the sicke of the palsie Arise take vp thy bed and go home But the pope saith thus in Bernardin Rosetus We can demerit eternall life with works Serm. 20. Therefore we ought to presume and hold for a certaintie that after this life we shall assuredly haue eternal life for the reward of good works Also in the Summarie de grat sanct Good works demerit three things namely eternall life increase of grace remission of punishment As if either the chastitie or holines of our flesh could be so great that we should not alwaies be accounted vnprofitable seruants or that we can do those works for our Lord and patron besides those that we of duty owe that we can merit any thing But let vs sée the rest The scripture teacheth that in the Lords supper as wel the bread as the wine must be giuen to those Mat. 26. Mark 14. 1. Cor. 11. that come thereto * But the pope will suffer the people to haue no more saue onely the bread and forbiddeth them the receiuing Concil Const. sess 13. of the cup and wine * Which inhibition we may so much the more wonder at De consecrat dist comperimus bicause the pope in his Decrées * hath left this in writing We find that certaine hauing taken onely a portion of the holie bodie do abstaine from the cup of the holie blood who vndoubtedly let them either receiue the whole sacraments or else let them be kept from the whole bicause there cannot be a diuision made of one and the same mysterie without great sacrilege The same scripture commandeth all to take eate and drinke But in poperie onely the priests take eate and drinke which notwithstanding is manifestly forbidden in the same decrée * in these words When De cons dist 2. c. peracta the consecration is ended let all communicate which will not want be put from the bounds of the Church for both the Apostles did thus decree and also the holie church of Rome holdeth this The same holie scripture doth appoint that in the Church and assemblie of the godly all things be vttered in the common language that the multitude may easily vnderstande what euery one saith and addeth a reason bicause if anie thing should be vttered in a strange and vnknowen toong the multitude could not giue their consent and answer Amen But in poperie not onely the priests but also the multitude and silly women which mumble vp certaine forms of praiers do say all in latin The scripture teacheth vs that Christ is the onely bishop and priest who did once sacrifice his bodie for mankind according to that * Christ was once 1. Tim. 2. offered that he might take away the sinnes of manie And We are sanctified by the offering vp of the bodie of Christ once made And againe Ephes 5. Heb. 9. 10. By one oblation hath he consecrated for euer those that are sanctified But the pope hath made infinite priests whom he hath commanded that so often as they say masse they should so often sacrifice the bodie of Christ both for the liuing and also for the dead Whervpon commeth that forme of Canon in the masse We pray that thou wilt accept and blesse these gifts these rewards these sacrifices which we offer vp to thee for thy Church Also vpon Easter day in the secrets of the masse Receiue the praiers of thy people with the oblations of the hosts Also out of the masse for the dead The sacrifices we offer vnto thee for the soules of thy seruants and handmaids Also O Lord we offer to thee sacrifices for the soule of thy seruant Also in the booke of the Conformities * As frier Fol. 65. Iohn was at masse and in the eleuation of the Lords bodie as he offered it for the soules of the dead to God the father he saw an infinite number of soules go out of purgatorie as a multitude of sparkles out of a firie fornace and fly to heauen for Christs merits who is daily offered in the most holy host for the quicke and the dead But let these things hitherto be spoken touching the corrupt polluted defiled and filthy religion of the popes only for examples sake For séeing this crime of the papacie hath in many and great books for the space of more than fiftie yéeres togither béen most plentifully declared and handled by the Diuines of Germanie Heluetia France and England and by others also it séemeth more commodious to come vnto the fourth crime of the papacie The crime of Sacrilege HItherto haue we spoken of the second crime of the papacie Hereafter order doth require that we intreate of sacrilege and of that wickednes which commonlie they all Simonie of Simon Magus For it is manifest that at Rome the pope kéepeth two simonie markes of those thinges which they call spirituall One is that wherein benefices are openly sold without any dissimulation and that is the most gainefull

the pope a little vpon their shoulders Also * The chiefe man Sect. 12. ca. 5. of the citie into which the pope shall enter though he were a king shall leade the popes horse by the bridle or if the pope be caried in a chaire or litter he beareth the litter togither with his nobles a little way and then when the pope commandeth him he taketh horse and rideth in his order * But if it so please the pope d. lib. 1 tit 2. that he will not be caried on a horse but in a litter then the emperour or king if any be there must beare the litter vpon his owne shoulders Tit. 2. The emperour must powre water vpon the popes handes at a feast At the popes banquet the emperour or king of the Romanes must beare the first dish in the same 2. Tit. The emperour is bound to sweare to be true and obedient to the pope the forme of which in c. 1. de iureiur c. tibi domino dist 63. oth is extant * Is not the intollerable boldnes of the popes sufficiently conuict by these testimonies Surely it séemeth so specially with those iudges and senatours of the parleament in whom remaineth any feare of conscience and of God especially séeing that euen the canonist doctors do cōfesse the same For cardinal Zabarella who wrote a treatise cōcerning schism about the yéere of Christ 1406. writeth thus in that treatise We must consider vpon doing honor and homage to the pope least men passe measure therein so that they may seeme not so much to honor the pope as God For he must so be honored that he be not worshipped which S. Peter did not suffer to be done to him of whom we read in the Acts. 10. that Cornelius fell downe at his feet and worshipped him but Peter tooke him vp saieng Arise I my selfe am a man like to thee Thus wrote Zarabella wherto agréeth that of Iohn Faber * The pope saith he in words in praefat instit calleth himselfe a seruant of seruants but indeed he suffereth himselfe to be worshipped which the angell in the Reuelation did refuse Thus writeth Faber But the popes fet this title and authoritie of so great pride from the benefite of Constantine the great whose instrument is extant first in Latine * and secondly in in dist 96. c. Const. Gréek in Augustine Steuchus the master of the popes librarie in the booke of the Donation of Constantine imprinted at Lyons anno 1547. as followeth that the empire of the west that is of Italie Sicilia Sardinia France Spaine England Germanie be in the pope of Rome his power and that he haue the name like attire like and also greater dignitie maiestie empire and power as Constantine had that he haue also the like troupe of horsemen to wait vpon him so that when he rideth on horse-backe the emperor do for a time go by him as his footeman and wait vpon him some space holding his horse by the bridle Concerning which matter the same Steuchus in his second booke and thréescore and sixt chapter writeth thus * Also that part of the edict wherin Pag. 134. the mightie emperor saith that he held the bridle of S. Syluesters horse being pope of Rome and that he led his horse wherin is knowne the kissing of the feet is prooued to be true bicause the emperors that were successors did the like not long after For as the pope of Rome entred into Constantinople Iustinian hauing his crown on his head did prostrate himselfe and kissed the popes feet Also when pope Stephen went to Pipinus the French king the same king hearing of his comming went with al haste to meet him togither with his wife and children and nobles and he sent his sonne Charles almost an hundred miles to meet him togither with some of his nobles Also he himselfe in his pallace that is called Ponticone almost three miles off alighting of his horse with great humilitie lieng prostrate vpon the ground togither with his wife children and nobles receiued the same pope on whom he waited still as an vsher vnto a little place besides his sell and brought him with glorie to the pallace These things haue I cited word for word out of Iuo Carnotensis he as I thinke out of Anastasius the keeper of the librarie Thus writeth Steuchus the like whereof Platina reporteth of Pipinus and Charles in the life of Stephen the second Now let vs confer with these flattering and glosing words of the pope of Rome the modestie and commandements of Christ whose successor and vicar the pope affirmeth he is You know saith he that the princes of the nations beare rule ouer them and that those that are great do exercise authoritie ouer them But it shall not be so among you but whosoeuer will be great among you let him be your seruant and whosoeuer will be chiefe among you let him be your minister as the sonne of man came not that he might be ministred vnto but that he might minister * I am in the middest of you as he Matt. 20. that ministreth * Therefore so often as he gaue any commandement or committed Luk. 22. busines to his Apostles he did in no place prefer one before another but he made like account of all as being fellowes in office and fellowes in one busines As when he commanded them to go into the world and to preach the Gospell and to confirme that preaching by miracles * Or Mat. 10. 7. 8. Luk. 10. 9. when he forewarneth them that it will come to passe that they shall iudge the twelue tribes of Israell he saith not that some one of them shall sit in the tribunall seat and the rest in lower places * as the Mat. 19. 30. false Constantine writeth I grant to the pope of the church of Rome that the priests haue him to be their head in like sort as iudges haue the king for their head * When the holie Ghost was sent C. Const 96. dist downe vpon the Apostles as they were togither when power to bind and loose was granted to them when they were sent to preach the Gospell to which of them I pray you is any prerogatiue of right or Iohn 20. Mat. 28. Acts. 1. priuilege granted * And surely these are great examples of the popes insolencie pride and hautines but that is somwhat more and more woonderfull which manie historiographers haue recorded touching the emperor Friderike Ahenobarbus and amongst these Helmodus in the eight chapter of Scl. Chronic. 1. Naucler generat 39. Barnus of the life of popes When he and pope Adrian were agréed togither that he should giue to the pope as great reuerence as he could as to S. Peters successor finally that when he did alight he should hold his stirrop it is said that the emperor stood on his right side and touched the right stirrop Wherat the pope was displeased and reprooued the emperor but he