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A04459	An apologie or answere in defence of the Churche of Englande with a briefe and plaine declaration of the true religion professed and vsed in the same.; Apologia Ecclesiae Anglicanae. English	Jewel, John, 1522-1571.; Bacon, Anne Cooke, Lady, 1528?-1610.; Parker, Matthew, 1504-1575.	1564 (1564)	STC 14591; ESTC S101072	92,781	278

sit at home and leaue our whole cause to Gode then to iorney thither whereas wee neyther shall haue place nor bee able to dooe anye good whereas wee can obtaine no audience whereas Princes Embassadours be but used as mockyng stockes and whereas also all wee be condemned alredy before trial as though y e matter were a forhād dispatched and agreed vpon Neuertheles we can beare pacientlye quyetely our owne priuate wronges but wherfore do they shut out Christian kynges and good Princes from their Conuocation why do they so vncourteously or with such spite leaue thē out as though they were not either Christen menne or els could not iudge will not haue them made acquaynted with the cause of Christian Religion nor vnderstand y e state of their own Churches Or yf the sayd kynges Princes happen to entermedly in suche matters and take vpon them to do that they may do that they be commaunded to doe and ought of duty to do the same thinges that we know both Dauid and Salomon and other good Princes haue don that is yf they whiles the Pope and his Prelates slugge and sleepe or els mischevouslye withstande them doe bridle the Preistes sensualitie and driue them to do their dewty and kepe them still to yt yf they do ouerthrow Idols yf they take away superstition and set vp again the true worshiping of God whye do they by and by make an out crye vpon them that suche Princes trouble all and presse by violence into an other bodyes office and do therby wickedly and malepartly What scripture hath at any time forbidden a Christiā Prince to be made priuey to such causes Who but themselues alone made euer any suche lawe They will saye to this I gesse Ciuell Princes haue learned to gouerne a common welth and to ordre matters of warre but they vnderstande not the secret mysteries of Religion Yf that be so what is the Pope I praye you at this day other thē a Monarche or a Prince or what ●e the Cardinals who must be no nother now a days but Princes and kyngs sonnes What els be y e Patriarches and for the most part the Archebysshops the Byshops y e Abbots what be they els at this present in y e Popes kingdome but worlikely Princes but Dukes and Earles gorgiously accompanied w t bandes of men whither soeuer they go Oftentimes also gaylye arayed wyth theynes collers of golde They haue at times to certeine ornamētes by them selfes as Crosses pillers hattes miters and Palles which pompe the auncient Bysshops Chrysostom Augustine and Ambrose neuer had Setting these thinges aside what teache they what say they what doe they how lyue they I saye not as maye become a Byshopp but as may become euen a Christian man Is it so great a mater to haue a vaine title and by chaunging a garment onely to haue the name of a Byshop Surely to haue the principall staye effecte of all maters commited wholy to these mennes hands who neyther know nor will know these thinges nor yet set a iote by any poinct of Religion saue y t which concernes their belly and Ryot to haue them alone sit as Iudges and to be set vp as ouerseers in y e watch tower being no better then blynd spyes of the other side to haue a Christian Prince of good vnderstanding and of a right iudgement to stande still like a blocke or a stake not to be suffred nother to giue his voice nor to shewe his iudgement but onely to wayt what these men shall well and commaund as one whiche had neyther eares nor eyes nor wytt nor hearte and whatsoeuer they giue in charge to alowe it without exception blindly fulfilling their commaundementes be they neuer so blasphemous and wicked yea although they commaunde him quite to destroye all Religion to crucifie again Christ him selfe This surely besides that it is proud and spitefull ys also beyond all right and reason and not to be endured of Christiā and wyse Princes Why I praye you may Cayphas and Annas vnderstand these matters and may not Dauid and Ezechias do the same Is it laufull for a Cardinall being a man of warre and delightius in bloud to haue place in a Councell is it not lauful for a Christian Emperour or a kynge wee truely graunt no further libertie to our Magistrates then that we know hath both ben giuen thē by the word of God and also confirmed by the exāples of the very best gouerned cōmon welthes For besids that a Christian Prince hath the charge of both Tables cōmited to him by God to thende he maye vnderstande that not temporall matters only but also Religious ecclesiasticall causes pertaine to his Office Besides also that God by his Prophettes often and earnestly cōmaundeth the king to cut down the groues to breake downe the Images and aultres of Idoles and to write out the boke of y e law for him selfe and besides that the prophet Esaias saith a kyng ought to be a patrone and nurse of the Churche I saye besides all these thinges we se by histories and by examples of the best tunes that good Princes euer tooke thadministration of ecclesiastical matters to partain to their duety Moses a Ciuile Magistrat chief guide of the people both receiued from God deliuered to y e People al the order for religion and Sacrifices and gaue Aaron the Byshop a vehemēt and so are rebuke for making the golden calfe and for suffering the corruption of Religion Iosua also though he were no nother then a Ciuil Magistrat yet assone as he was chosen by God and set as a Ruler ouer the people he receiued cōmaundements specially touching Religion and the seruice of God Kynge Dauid when the whole religiō was altogethers brought out of frame by wycked kyng Saul brought home againe the Arke of God that is to say he restored Religiō again and was not onely amongest them him selfe as a counseller and furtherer of the worke but he appoincted also hymnes and Psalmes put in order the companies and was the only doer in setting furth that whole solemne shewe and in effect ruled the preistes Kyng Salomō builte vnto the Lord the Temple which his Father Dauid had but purposed in his minde to do after the finishing ther of he made a goodly oration to the people concerning Religion and the seruice of God he afterward displaced Abiathar the Preist and set Sadock in his place After this when the Tēple of God was in shameful wyse polluted thorough the uaughtines and negligēce of the preists Kyng Ezechias commaunded the same to be clensed from the ruble and filthe y e preistes to light vp candelles to burne Incense and to do their diuine seruice according to the olde allowed custome The same kyng also commaunded the brasen Serpent whiche then the people wickedly worshipped to be taken down and beatē to pouder Kyng Iehosaphat ouerthrew

this presente through Goddes goodnes the Gospell is taught where is there more maiesties where is there lesse arrogancie and tirrannye where is the Prince more honored where be the people lesse 〈…〉 hathe there at anye time the 〈◊〉 wealthe or the Churche beene 〈◊〉 Perhappes ye will say 〈◊〉 the firste beginninge of this 〈◊〉 the common sorte euerye wheare 〈◊〉 to rage and to ryse throughout 〈◊〉 Alowe it were so yet Martin Luther the publisher and setter 〈◊〉 of this doctrine didde write 〈◊〉 behementlye and sharpely against them and reclamed them home to 〈◊〉 and obedience But whereas it is wont sometime to be obiected by personnes wantinge skil 〈◊〉 the Heluetians chaunge of 〈◊〉 and killinge of Leopoldus the duke of Austria and restoringe by force their Countrie to libertie that was donne as 〈◊〉 playtielye by all stories for 〈◊〉 hundreth and threescore yeares past or aboue vnder Boniface the ●ight when the authoritie of the Byshop of Rome was in greatest solitie about two hundreth yeres before Hulderike Zuinglius eyther beganne to teache the Gospell or yet was borne And euer sen●e that tyme they haue hadde all thinges still and quiet not onelye from forreine ennemies but also from ciuell dissension And of it were a sinne in the Heluetians to deliuer their owne countrie from foreine gouernemente speciallye when they were so proudelye and tyrannoullye oppressed yet to burthen vs with other mennes faultes or them with the faultes of their forefathers is against all right and reasone But O immortall God and will the Bysshoppe of Rome accuse vs of treason will hee teache the people to obeye and folowe their Magistrates or hath hee anye regarde at all of the Maiestie of Princes whye doothe hee then as none of the olde Bysshoppes of Rome heretofore euer didde suffre hym selfe to bee called of his flaterers Lorde of Lordes as though hee woulde haue all 〈◊〉 and Princes whoe and what 〈…〉 they are to bee his vnderlinges 〈◊〉 doothe hee vaunte hym selfe to bee 〈◊〉 al kynges and to haue kyngelye 〈◊〉 ouer his Subiectes why 〈◊〉 he al emperors princes to swere 〈…〉 and true obedience Whye 〈…〉 that the Emperours 〈◊〉 is a thowsandfould inferiour to hym and for this reason speciallye bycause God hath made two lyghtes in the heauen and bycause heauen and 〈◊〉 were created not at two beginninges but at on Why hath he and hys comp●tes like Anabaptistes and 〈◊〉 to thende they myght ronne on more licenciouslye and careleslye shakē of the yoke and exempted themselues from being vnder all ●iuell power why hath he his Legates asmuche to saye as most s●●tle spyes lieng in wayte in all 〈◊〉 Courtes Councells and priuey 〈◊〉 whye doth he when he ly●● 〈◊〉 Christian Princes one against an other and at his owne pleasure trouble the whole worlde with debate and discorde why dothe hee excommunicat● and commaund to be taken as a heathen and a Pagan any Christian prince that renounceth his authoritie and why promiseth he his Indulgences his pardōs largely to any that will what way soeuer it be kil any of his ennemies Doth hee maintaine Empires and kingdomes Or dothe hee once desire that common quiete should be prouided for You must pardonne vs good Reader though wee seeme to vtter these thinges more bitterlye and bitingly then it becommeth Diuines to doe For bothe the shamfulnes of the matter and the desire of rule in the Bysshoppe of Rome is so exceeding and outragious that it could not well be vttered with other words or more mildly For he is not ashamed to say in open assemblie that all iurisdiction of al kinges dothe depend vpon himselfe And to feed his ambitiō greedines of rule hath he pulled in peeces the Empire of Rome and hered and rent whole Christendom 〈◊〉 falsely and trenterouslie also did he release y e Romains y e Italians him 〈◊〉 to of the othe wherby they and hee 〈◊〉 straightly bound to bee true to the Emperour of Grecia and stirred vp the Emperours subiects to forsake him and taking Carolus Martellus out of Frāce into Italie made him Emperour such a thing as neuer was seene before He put Ch●perieus the Frenche king being no euel prince beside his realm only because he fansied him not and wrongfullie placed Pipin in his roume Againe after he had cast out king Philip if he could haue brought it so to passe he had determined apointed y e kingdom of Fraunce to Albertus king of Romaines He vtterly de●●oied the state of y e most florishing cyty cōmō weale of Florēce his own natiue coūtrie brought it out of a free peasable state to be gouerned at y e pleasure of on mā he brought to passe by his procurement y e whole Sauoy on the one side was miserably spoyled by Themperour Charles the fifth and on the other syde by the Frenche kinge so as the vnfortunate duke had scant one Citie left him to hyde his head in Wee are cloyed with exaumples in this behalfe and it shoulde bee very tedious to recken vp all the notorious deedes of the Byshops of Rome Of which side were they I beseche you whiche poysoned Henry Themperour euen in the receauinge of the sacrament whiche poysoned Victor the Pope euen in y e receauing of y e Chalice which poysoned our king Iohn kinge of England in a drinkinge cuppe whosoeuer at least they were and of what sect soeuer I am sure they were neither Lutherians nor Zwinglians What is hee at this daye whiche alloweth the mightiest Kinges and Monarches of the worlde to kisse his blessed feete What is hee that commaundeth the Emperour to goe by him at his horse bridell and the Frenche king to holde his stirrop Who hurled vnder his table Fraunces Dandalus the duke of ●enice Kinge of Creta and Cypres fast bound with chaines to feed of bones amonge his dogges Who set the Emperiall crowne vpon the Emperour Henry the sixthys head not with his hand but with his foote and with the same foote againe cast the same crowne of sayinge withall hee had power to make Emperours and to vnmake them againe at his pleasure Who put in armes Henry the sonne against Themperour his father Henry the fourth and wrought so that the Father was taken prisoner of his owne sonne and beinge shorne and shamfullye handeled was thruste into a monasterie where with hunger sorow he diued away to death Who so ilfauoredlye and monstrouslye put the Emperour Frederikes necke vnder his feet and as though that were not sufficient added further this texte out of the Psalmes Thou shalt go vpon the Adder and corkatrice and shalt treade the Lyon and Dragon vnder thy feete Suche an example of scorninge and contemninge ● Princes maiestie as neuer before this was heard tell of in any remembruance except I weene either of Tamerlanes the kinge of Scithia a wilde and barbarous creature or els of Sapor king of

stewes nor do suffer to escape vnpunyshed incest and abhominable naughtines nor yet such manquellers as the Aloisrans Casiās and Diasiās were For yf these thinges woulde haue pleased vs wee neded not to haue departed from these mennes felowship amongest whom suche enormities be in their chiefe pride and pryce Nother ▪ neded we for leauing them to ronne into y e hatred of menne and into most willfull daungers Paule the fourthe not many monethes since hadde at Rome in prison certaine Augustine fryers manye Bysshops and a greate numbre of other deuout men for Religion sake hee racked them and tormented them to make them confesse hee lefte no meanes vnassayed But in thend how many brothels how many whoremōgers how many adulterers how many incestuous persōs could he find of all those Our God be thāked although we be not y t mē we ought professe to be yet whosoeuer we be cōpare vs w t these men euē oure own life innocencie wil sone proue vntrue condemn their malicious surmises For we exhorte the people to all vertue and well doinge not onelye by bokes and preachinges but also w t oure examples and behauiour We also teache that the Gospell is not a boasting or bragging of knowledg but y t it is y e law of life y t a Christian man as Tertulliā saith ought not to speak honorably but ought to liue honorably nor that they be the hearers of the lawe but the doers of the lawe which are iustified before God Besides all these matters wherewith they charge vs they are wōt also to add this one thinge which they enlarge with all kinde of spitefulnes that is that we be men of trouble y t wee plucke y e sword and Scepter out of Kinges handes that we ar●●e the people that we ouerthrowe iudgemente places destroy the lawes make hauocke of possessiōs seke to make the people Princes turne all things vpsyde downe and to be short y t we would haue nothinge in good frame in a common welth Good lorde how often haue they sette on fyre Princes heartes with these words to thend they might quēche the light of the Gospell in the very firste apperinge of it and might begin to hate the same or euer they were able to know it and to the end that euery magistrate might thinke he saw his deadly ennemy as often as he saw any of vs. Surely it should excedingly greeue vs to be so malitiouslie accused of moste hainous treason onlesse we knewe that Christe himselfe the Apostles and a numbre of good and Christian men were in time past blamed and enuied in manner for the same faultes For although Christ taught thei should giue vnto Cesar that which was Cesars yet was he charged with sedition in that he was accused to deuise some conspiracie and to couete the kingdome And herevpon they cryed out with open mouth against him in the place of iudgement sayeng Yf thou let this man scape thou arte not Cesars friend And though y e Apostles did likewise euermore stedfastly teach y e Magistrats ought to be obeyed y e euery soule ought to be subiect to the higher powers not onely for scare of wrath punishment but euen for conscience sake yet bear thei the name to disquiet the people and to stirre vp the multitud to rebel After this sorte did Haman specially bring the nation of the Iewes into the hatred of the kinge Assuerus b●cause saide hee they were a rebellious stubborn people dispised the ordinaunces and commaundimentes of princes Wicked king Achab saide to Elie the Prophet of God It is thou that troublest Israell Amasias y e priest at Bethell laid a conspiracie to the prophete Amos charge before kinge Ieroddam sayeng See Amos hath made a conspiracie against thee in the middest of the house of Israell To bee breefe Tertullian saithe this was the generall accusation of all Christians whiles he liued that they were traytours they were rebelles and the ennemies of mankinde Wherefore if now a dayes the truthe be likewise euell spoken of and beinge the same truth it was then yf it be now like dispitefully vsed as it was in times past though it be a greuous and vnkind dealinge yet can it not seeme vnto vs a new or an vnwonted matter Forty yeares agone and vpward was it an easy thing for them to deuise aginst vs these accursed speaches other sorer thē these when in the middest of the darkenesse of that age firste beganne to springe and to giue shine some one glimmeringe beame of truthe vnknowen at that time and vnhearde of when also Martin Luther Hulderike Zwinglius beinge moste excellent menne euen sent of God to giue light to the whole world firste came vnto the knowledge and preachinge of the Gospell wheras yet the thinge was but newe and the successe thereof vncertain and when mens mindes stoode doubtful and amased and their eares open to all slaunderous tales and when there could bee imagined against vs no fact so dete●●able but the people then woulde soone beleeue it for the nouelty and strangenes of the matter For so did Syminachus so did Celsus so didde Iulianus so did Porphirius the olde foes to the Gospell attempt in times past to accuse all Christians of sedition and treason before 〈◊〉 ●epute or People were able to 〈◊〉 who those Christians were what 〈◊〉 professed what thei beleued or what was their meaning But now sithens our very ennemies do see and cannot deny but we euer in al our wordes and writinges haue diligētlie put the people in mynde of their dewtie to obey their Princes and Magistrates ye though they be wicked For this doth very trial and experience sufficientlie teache and all mennes eyes whosoeuer and wheresoeuer they be do well ynough see and wytnes for vs yt was a soule parte of them to charge vs with these thinges and seing they could fynde no n●w and late faults therfore to seke to procure vs enuye only with stale and out worne lyes We geue our lorde God thanks whose only cause this is there hath yet at no tyme been any suche example in all the Realmes Dominions and common weales whiche haue recciued the Gospell For we haue ouerthrowen no kingedome we haue decayed n● mans power or right wee haue disordered no commō welth There continuin thir owne accustomed state and auncient dignitie the Kinges of oure countrie of Englande the Kinges of Denmarke the Kings of Souetia the Dukes of Saxonie the Counties Palatine the Marquesies of Brandeburgh the Lansgraues of Hessia the common wealthes of the Heluetians and Rhe●ians and the free cities as Argentine Basil Frankforde Vline August and Nor●enberge doe all I saye abide in the same authoritie and estate wherein they haue beene heeretofore or rather in a muche better for that by meanes of the Gospell they haue their people more obedient vnto them Lette them go I praye you into those places where at