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A04458	An apologie, or aunswer in defence of the Church of England concerninge the state of religion vsed in the same. Newly set forth in Latin, and nowe translated into Englishe.; Apologia Ecclesiae Anglicanae. English	Jewel, John, 1522-1571.; Parker, Matthew, 1504-1575.	1562 (1562)	STC 14590; ESTC S107763	88,955	140

time For we haue ouerthrowne no kyngdome we haue deminished no mans rule or right of possessiō we haue disordered no cōmon welth They remayne yet in their place and in their auncient dignitie The kynges of our country of England of Scotlande of Denmarke of Suetia the Dukes of Saxonie the Erles of Palse the Marqueses of Brandeburgh the Lantgraues of Hess the common weales of the Heluetians and of the Grysonnes the free cities Strausborough Basile Francforde Ulme Anguste Norinberge all these I say remayne in the same right in the same state wherein they were before or rather by rayson that for the gospels sake they haue the people more obediēt in a much better estate Let them goe hardely into those places whereas nowe through the goodnes of God the gospell is hearde where is more Maiestie where is lesse ostentatiō and tiranny where is the prince more honored where doth the people lesse ryse into vprores and tumultes where was there euer anye common weale where any Churche more calme and quiet But you will say that at the beginning of this doctrine the husbande men of the country beganne to rage to make vprores in Germany Admit it were so But Martine Luther y e setter forthe of this doctrine wrote vehemently and sharply many thinges agaynst them and brought them againe to peace to dewe obediens Now as to that that is wonte to be sometimes obiected of men not well acquaynted with matters of the world touchyng the alteratiō of the state of Suycherlande and the killynge of Leopolde duke of Austria and restorynge of theyr countrye into libertie all this was done as it is euident ynoughe by all the Histories towe hondred and threscore yeres past vnder pope Boniface the eight at what tyme the Popes authoritie dyd chiefly florishe the whiche was aboute towe hūdred yeres before Hulderichus Zuinglius either begāne to teache the gospel or yet was borne From that time hetherto they haue euer kepte all thinges in reste and peace not only frō outward enemies but also frō ciuile warres and vprores at home But admit it were an offence to deliuer their coūtrie from the rule of straungers specially when they were arrogantly and tirannously ouerpressed yet were it agaynst all right and rayson eyther to burden vs with faultes that appertayne nothing vnto vs or thē with the offences of theyr forefathers But o merciful God will the Bysshop of Rome accuse vs of trayson wil he teache y e people to be obediēt subiect vnto magistrates or hath he any regarde to magistrates at al why thē doth he at this day y e which thyng none of the aūcient bysshops of Rome euer did suffer himself euē as though he would haue at Kinges and Princes whosoeuer or where so euer thei be to become his seruātes of his parasites and hierlinges to be called lord of lordes why doth he auaunt himselfe to be king of kinges and that he hath ouer them as his subiectes a kinges authoritie Why dothe he compell all Emperours and princes to promise by their othe true obedience vnto him why doth he boaste that the imperiall maiestie is a thousandfolde inferior to his estate grounding him self chiefly vpon this rayson that God made twoe lightes in Heauen and bicause heauen and earth were not in twoe beginninges but in one wherfore hath he and all of his marke like to the Anabaptistes and Libertines to the intent they might the more losely and safely range in al mischief shakē of the yoke of obedience and exempted themselues from vnder all ciuil authoritie wherefore hath he his legates that is to saye most crafty spies to lie as it were in a waite in the courtes in the councels in the chambers of all kinges Wherefore dothe he when it liketh him set christian princes together by the eares and to serue his owne luste turmoileth the whole wolrd with seditiōs why dothe he excommunicate and commaunde him to be takē for an Heathen mā and a Pagane if any Christian Prince doe refuse to obeye him and moreouer promiseth so liberalli his Purgatory pardones to any man that by any meanes dothe kill his enemie Doth he I pray you mainteine Empires and Kingdomes or hath he any desire at al that common weales shold be at reste and quiet Thou must pardon vs good reader if we shal seeme to vtter these thinges with more vehemencie and bitternes then should become diuines For the matter of it self is so shamefull and the desire of dominion is so great and outrageth so farre in the Pope that with other wordes it can not be vttered or after any more quiet maner For he was not afrayd to say in open Councell that the whole poure of all kinges depēded altogether vpō him He through ambition and desire of dominion hath plucked the Romane Empire in sondre and hath tossed and torne into peces al christendome he trayterously discharged the Romanes and the Italiās and also himself of that othe wherby he ought his allegiāce to the Emperour that remained in Grece and prouoked the subiectes vnto rebellion and called Charles Martel out of Frāce into Italy beginning a newe forme of regimēt made him Emperour He did caste out Chilperiche kyng of Fraunce beyng no euill prince from his kingedome onely bicause he liked hym not and made Pipine king in his place He decreed and iudged the kyngedome of Fraunce vnto Alberte the kynge of Romanes And that Philip should be caste out if his powre mighte haue serued hym thereto He brake the force of the moste florisshynge citie and common welth of Florence his owne coūtry and out of a free and quiet state he deliuered it vppe to be ruled after the luste of one mā He through his setting on brought to passe that all Sauoy on the one side by the Emperour Charles the fyft by Fraunces the Frenche king on the other was miserably torne in peeces so that the poore Duke had seātli one citie left him to repaire vnto I am weary of examples and it would be ouer tedious to reherse all the notable deedes of the Popes of Rome Of what religiō I pray you were thei that poisonned Henry the Emperour in the consecrated breade that poysonned Pope Uictor in the holy Chalyce that poysonned Ihon our king here in Englande in a drinking cuppe Sure I am who soeuer thei were and of what secte so euer thei were thei were nother Lutherans nor Zuinglians Who is it that is content at this daie to lette the greatest Kynges and Monarches of the worlde to come and kisse his blessed fete Who is he that commaundeth the Emperour to holde his horse by the bridel and the French kinge to holde his stirrope when he goeth to horsebak Who was he that toke Fraunces Dandalo Duke of Uenice kynge of Candy and of Cypres bounde him in chaines and threwe him vnder his table there to gnaw bones amongst the dogges Who

was he that at Rome dyd set the crowne vpon the Emperours heade Henry the sixte not with his hande but wyth hys foote and wyth the same foote dyd caste yt downe againe saying withal that he had power bothe to make Emperours and to remoue them Whoe dyd sette Henry the sonne vpon Henry the fourthe his father beinge Emperoure and brought to passe that the Father was taken prysoner of the sonne and that after thei had shorne his crown scornfully abused him was throwen into a monastery where for hunger and sorrow he might pine away to death Who was he that in most shamefull wise did set his feete vpon Frederike themperours necke and as though that had not beene ynough he added moreouer these wordes out of the Psalmes of Dauid Thou shalt walke vpon the Aspis and vpon the Cockatryce and shalt treade downe the Lyon and the Dragonne Such an example of despite and contempt against princely Maiesty as neuer was heard of before in any age except parauenture in Tamerlane the Scithian that sauage and barbarouse man or in Sapor the king of Persia. All these were Popes al successors of Peter all most holy out of whose mouthes euery worde must be vnto us a seuerall Gospell If we be appeached as gilty of treyson whiche doe honour our Princes which yelde ouer vnto them all things so far as it is lawful by gods word whiche do pray for them what I beseche you ar these that haue not only done all these things that we spake of before but also by one assent haue allowed them as thinges right nobly done Trow ye then that either this is y e way to teache the people to reuerence the Maiestrate or that they w tout shame may accuse vs for seditious persons for disturbers of the common peace and despisers of princely Maiesty For we neither shake of y e yoke of oure obedience nor remoue kingdomes from one to an other nor take vpon vs either to make kings or to put them down nor translate Empires nor poison our kings nor offer them our feete to kisse nor triumphe ouer them setting our feete on their necks this rather is our profession this is our doctrine that eueri soule whatsoeuer it be whether it be monke whether it be Euangelist whether it be Prophet whether it be Apostle must of necessite be subiect vnto Kinges and Maiestrates yea and the Pope himselfe onles he will seme to be greater then the Euangelistes then y e Prophets then the Apostels must both acknowledge the Emperour to be his Lorde the which thing the auncient Bishops of Rome when the world was in better estate did neuer refuse and also call him by the name of Lorde Wee teache openly that princes are so to be obaied as men sent of God who that resisteth againste thē resisteth the ordinance of God these be our ordinances and these lessons are euident in our bookes these are in our sermons and these doe shine in y e māners and modesty of our people But as touching that where they say that we haue forsakē the vnite of the Catholike Church it is not only odious but also although it be most vntrue yet hath it some apparance and likelyhode of truth Now amōgest the common people and ignorant multytude not only those thinges that be true in dede and certain are beleued but also such things if any come in place that maye seeme to haue a lykelihoode of truthe Whereupon we se how y t crafty subtill fellowes hauing no truth where with to maintaine their cause haue euer vpholden their matters by those thinges that had a resemblance of truth to the intent y t such as are not able to see the bottom of the matter themselfes might at y e least be entangled with some colour and probalitie of the truthe Thus in times past bicause the Christians our forefathers what tyme they made their praiers vnto God tourned themselues towardes the Easte there were some that said they worshypped the Sunne and tooke hit to be their God And when as they sayde that as touching the euerlastinge and immortall life they liued vpon none other thing but of the fleshe and bloode of that Lambe that had no spott that is to saye of our sauiour Iesus Christe The enuyers and enemies of the Crosse of Christe who sought after nothing els but that Christian religion by any manner of meanes might be euill spoken of perswaded the people that they were wicked persons that they killed men to make sacryfices of them and that they dronke mans bloode Lykewise when they sayde that before God there is nother Male nor Female nor so farre as appertaineth to the attayninge of righteousnesse there is at all noe dyfference of persons and when as amongest themselues euery one called an other brother and syster there lacked not malycious persons to quarell agaynste them that the Christians made no manner of dyfference amonge themselues other of age or of kinde but laye together at aduenture al of them as it came to hande lyke brute beastes And whereas for common praier and hearinge of the Gospel they were oft times fayne to assemble themselues togyther in secrete vauts and hydden places bycause that practisers of conspyracies hathe accustomed sometimes to doe the lyke rumors were openly spread abroade that thei conspired among themselues and practised together other to murder magistrates or to ouertourne the common welthe And furder bycause that in celebratynge the holy mysteries they vsed accordinge vnto Christes institution to haue breade and wine it was supposed of many that they worshipped not Christ but Baccus and Ceres by reason that these counterfeyt gods amongest the hethen were worshipped after their prophane superstition in a lyke ceremony wyth bread and wine These thinges were beleued of many men not bycause they were trewe for what coulde bee more vntrue but bycause they were somewhat lykely and myght well deceyue men wyth the resemblaunce of truthe Euen after the same manner these men slaunder vs for Heretikes and to haue forsaken the Church and the communion of Christ not for that they thinke it to bee true for therof they take no care but bycause that vnto ignoraunt men it myghte paraduenture some way haue an apparance of truthe For we haue forsaken not as Heretykes are wonte to doe the Church of Christe but as all good men are bounde to dooe the contagious infection of lewde men and of Hypocrytes And yet dooe they in thys poynte tryumphe merueilousely sayeng This is the Church this is the spouse of Christ thys is the pyller of truthe thys is the arke of Noe oute of whych no saluation is to be looked for and that wee haue forsakē it we haue torne Christes coate Wee are cutt of from the bodye of Christ and haue abandoned the Catholyke Faythe And when they haue lefte nothinge vnsayde that may bee sayde although falsely and

did sett an order for all the roumes in purgatory and for al kindes of punishment as for the poore vnhappy soules some he assigned vnto punishement some againe for money he toke out by and by at his pleasure also that he toke order for priuate masses that they should be said in euery corner That he whispered the holy misteries wyth a lowe voice and in a strange tonge set vp the Sacrament in all Churches and vpon euery altare caried it whersoeuer he went with lightes and sacring belles before him vpon an ambeling Genet that hee consecrated Oyle Waxe Woolle Belles Chalices Churches Alters with his holy brethe that he solde Iubilees graces licences expectations preuentions Annates Palles the vse of Palles Bulles pardons charters y t he called himselfe the head of the Church the chief Bysshop and Byshop of Bysshops and the only Most holy y t by vsurpation he tooke vpon hym a right and aucthorite ouer other mens Churches exempted himselfe frō vnder all ciuill power y t he made warres set Princes together by the eares and y t hauing his crown garnished w t goldē pendantes his pompous apparell comparable w t the Persians hys royal Sceptre hys golden diademe glyttering with precious stones he rode in a chayre of golde caried vpon noble mennes shoulders these thynges forsoothe dyd Peter when he was at Rome and the very same he deliuered as it were from hande to hande vnto his successours For these thinges be done by the Popes at this daye in Rome and be so done as though nothing else ought to be done Or excepte paraduenture they had rather aunswere thus that the Pope at this daye doth all those thinges which we knowe Peter did in time paste that he trauaileth heare and there in to all Coūtries preaching the Gospell not only in opē assemblies but also priually from howse to howse y t he plieth his businesse in season oute of season in time out of time that he doth the duty of an Euāgelist accomplisheth the ministery of Christ becommeth a watchman ouer the howse of Israell receiueth y e scriptures and worde of God and as he hath receiued them so deliuereth them againe to y e people that he is the salt of y e earth the light of the world that he fedeth not himselfe but hys flocke that he dothe not entangle hymselfe with worldly buisines appertaining to this life nor vsurpeth no dominion ouer the Lords people y t he seketh not to be serued himself of others but rather himself to serue others that he accoūteth all Bysshops for his fellowes and equalles that he is a subiect vnto Princes as vnto those that are sent of God giueth vnto Cesar that which appertaineth to Cesar and that according as the auncient Byshops of Rome did without exception he calleth the Emperour his Lorde Now onles the Popes doe these thinges at this day and except Peter doe those thinges which we spake of before there is no cause why they should bragge so much of the name of Peter and of this succession and lesse a great deale why they should complaine of our departing cal vs home againe vnto their faith and felowship It is said that a certaine Lacedemonian called Cobilo what time he was sent Embassadour to make a league with the Kinge of Persia and founde by chaunce certaine courtyers playing at the dise by and by without further consideration of his busines retourned home againe and when he was asked wherfore he had so little regarde to the doing of those things which he had in commission by common aucthoritie for to doe he answered that he thought it shoulde haue tourned to the slaunder of the common welth if he should haue made a league w t diseplaiers But if we should dispose our selues to retourn againe vnto the Pope and to his errors and make a league not onli with diseplaiers but also with men of much lewder condition then disers this shoulde be not onely slaunderous towardes our good name but also towardes the procuring of gods wrathe against vs and the oppressyon and vtter ouerwhelming of our owne consciences full of presente myschyefe For wee surelye departed from hym whom we sawe had blynded the worlde nowe manye yeares together from hym that was wonte ouer arrogantelye to auaunte hymselfe that hee coulde not erre and what soeuer he dyd that hee myght not be iudged of any mortall man not of kinges not of Emperours not of the whole clergye not of all the worlde together no not if he shoulde carye with hym a thousande soules to Hell from him that toke vpon him to commaunde not only men but also the Angels of God to goe to come to leade soules into purgatory to bring them back againe when it liked him whom Gregory did most plainly affirme to be the Uaunteurrer and standerdberer of Antichrist and that he had renounced the catholike Faith frō whom not long agoe those countrie men of oures that be the ringleders of such as bende themself against the Gospell and against the knowne truth did of their owne choyse and gladly euery one of them disseuer themself neither yet would they be vnwilling to doe it at this day were it not that that the blemishe of inconstancye and shame and their estimatiō amongst the people did let them To cōclude we haue forsaken him to whom we were not bounde and who had nothing except it were onely a certaine fonde ymagination of preeminence of the place and succession that he coulde saye for hymselfe And yet we of all other nations had most iust cause to departe from him for our Kinges euen those also which most carefully inclined themselfe to obey the Authorite and faith of the Bishops of Rome haue felt sufficiētly now long agoe the yoke tiranny of the Popes kingdome For both from our king Henry the second of that name the Romaine Bysshops did plucke the Crowne from his heade commaunding him all his Maiestye laide a parte and in a priuate arraye to the intent he shoulde be a laughinge stocke to all hys people to present himselfe as an humble petitioner and suter before his legate And also against oure king Ihon armed the Byshops and Monks and some parte also of the nobilitie and discharged all his subiects of the othe of their allegeance wherby thei were bound vnto him and last of all moste wyckedly they spoyled hym by trayterous meanes not onely of his kingdome but also of his lyfe And vpon king Henry the eight of y t name a most noble Prince thei thundered out their curses and lightnings of excommunication and stirred vp against him sometimes the Emperoure somtimes the Frenche king so much as was in them gaue ouer the whole Realme to the praie and to y e spoyle doubtles very madde and foolished men that could beleue that either so great a kyng might be made a gaste with bugges and with clyckets or that so mighty a kingdome might be so easily deuoured as