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A04483	A viewe of a seditious bul sent into Englande, from Pius Quintus Bishop of Rome, anno. 1569. Taken by the reuerende Father in God, Iohn Iewel, late Bishop of Salisburie. Wherevnto is added a short treatise of the holy Scriptures. Both which he deliuered in diuers sermons in his cathedral church of Salisburie, anno. 1570	Jewel, John, 1522-1571.; Garbrand, John, 1542-1589.	1582 (1582)	STC 14614; ESTC S107782	85,989	232

Scriptures In them yée shall learne to know me and howe you should worship me in them you shal finde euerlasting life the wordes of the Lord are pure words as the siluer tryed in the fornace ther is no filth nor drosse remaining in them They are the store-house of wisdome and of the knowledge of God In respect whereof all the wisedome of this world is but vaine foolish Numa Pompilius King of the Romanes Lycurgus King of Lacedemon and Minos King of Creta were wise men of great gouernment they deuised lawes to rule the people and bare them in hande that they were taught by reuelatiō that so their ordinances might win the more credite and be established for euer But where are they nowe Where is Numa Minos or Lycurgus where bée their Books What is become of their Laws They were vnwise and had no knowledge nor vnderstanding of God they and their Laws are dead their names forgotten But the lawe of God came from Heauen indéede GOD wrote it with his finger it is the fountaine of al wisedome and therefore shal it continue for euer and neuer haue an ende Here let vs beholde the great power and worke of God When Moses receyued the Law God hymselfe came down in person wyth thousande thousande of Aungels the Aire was darkened at hys presence the Moūt stoode al couered with fire the earth shooke the heauens thundered the people stood a farre off and fled for feare and said vnto Moses talke thou with vs we wil heare but let not God talk with vs least we die This was the first proclayming publishing of y e law such force and credite God gaue to his word warrāted himselfe to be y ● Lord. Since that time so manye thousande yeares are already passed In the meane time y e people of Israel were oppressed by Tyrantes were spoiled and chased out of their Countrie Firste by Nabuchodonosor into Babilon after that by Antiochus into Syria and lastly were as vagabondes driuen from countrie to countrie Thyir Citie Ierusalem was sackte their houses ouerthrowne their Temple razed and not a stone lefte vppon a stone theyr Librarie destroyed theyr Bookes burnte the tabernacle loste the couenaunt broken No vision no reuelation no comforte for the people left nor prophet nor priest nor any to speake in the name of the Lorde In all those times of decayes of sackings of darkenesse of miserie what was done with the word of God It was wickedly burnt by Ioachim King of Iuda and Antiochus burnt the Bookes of the Lawe and cutte them in peeces● No man durste be knowen to haue them and auouche the hauing So thought they vtterly to deface the glorie of God and abolish al remembraunce of his Lawes Then came the Phariseis they drowned the worde of God with their traditions they tooke away the key of Knowledge and entred not in them selues but forbade them that came in After them came Heretiques they denyed some one parte and some an other parte of Scriptures They razed blotted corrupted and altered the word of God of the word of God they made it their own word or which is worse they made it the word of the Diuel By the space of so many thousād yers the word of God passed by so many dangers of Tyrants of Phariseis of Heretiques of fire and of sworde and yet continueth and standeth vntill this day without altering or chaunging one letter This was a wōderful work of God that hauing so many so greate enimes and passing thorough so many so greate daungers it yet continueth stil without adding or altering of any one sentence or worde or letter No creature was able to doe this it was Gods worke He preserued it that no Tyrant should consume it no Tradition choake it no Heretike malitiously should corrupt it For For his names sake and for the elects sake he would not suffer it to perish For in it God hathe ordained a blessing for his people and by it he maketh couenant with them for life euerlasting Tirants and Phariseis and Heretiques and the enimies of the Crosse of Christe haue an end but the worde of God hath no ende No force shall be able to decay it The gates of Hel shal not preuaile against● it Cities shal fal Kingdoms shall come to nothing Empires shal fade away as the smoake but the trueth of the Lord shall continue for euer Burne it it will rise againe kill it it wil liue againe cut it downe by the roote it wil spring againe There is no wisedome neither vnderstāding nor Counsel against the Lord. Let vs behold the nations kingdoms which somtimes professed Christ are now heathnish I●●yricum Epyrus Peloponnesus Macedonia others Againe let vs behold such kingdomes countries whiche wer in times past heathnish knew not God As England Ireland Rome Scotland diuers other They were al without y ● Gospel without Christe without God without hope of life They worshipped Idols euen y e work of their own hands To them they appointed Priests for their seruice dayes and places for the people to resort togither to worship thē Here in Englād Paules Church in Londō was the Temple of Diana Peters Churche in Westminst was the Temple of Apollo In Rome they had y e Temple of the great God Iuppiter in Florence y e Temple of Mars and in other places they had Temples dedicated to other Idols Iupiter Mars Apollo Diana wer vncleane spirites filthie Diuels yet gaue they thanks to them for their peace and prosperitie prayed to them in war in miserie commended vnto them their wiues their children themselues y e safe keping and custody of their soules They built gorgeous Churches Chappels set vp images of siluer gold to thē prayed lifted vp their hāds did sacrifice offred vp their children to thē A horrible thing to say yet true it is y e darkenesse of those times were such that mē slew their own offered them vp to Idolles They saide greate is Iupiter greate is Apollo and greate is Diana of the Ephesians These are the Gods of our Fathers our Fathers trusted in them they made vs and haue defended vs and haue giuen vs victorie againste our enimies Whosoeuer denyed thē were thought worthy to die Thus were the Kings and the Princes and the people persuaded And so cōtinued they by the space of some thousand yeares without controllment or contradiction They had greate proppes of Antiquitie Vniuersality and Consent Antiquitie of all times Uniuersalitie of al places consent of al the people So strongly and so mightily were they foūded Who woulde thinke suche a religion so auntient so vniuersall and so defended by common consent should euer possibly be remoued But when the fulnesse of time came God sente forth his worde and al was changed Errour fell down truth stode vp mē forsooke their Idols and went to God The Kings and Priestes and

O monster in the likenesse of man He imagineth that hir Maiestie preacheth in the Pulpittes that she administreth the Sacraments that she sitteth in the Consistories and heareth all spirituall causes Whiche if she doe she dothe more than the Pope doth It were monstrous to sée the Pope in a Pulpit And it is monstrous to sée Antichriste sitte in the Temple of God to sée a Bishoppe girded with both swords to sée a Priest take vppon him the rule of Heauen and Earth the seruant of seruants aduanced aboue all the Princes of the worlde and to sette his foote vppon their neckes a wretched man to claime auctoritie ouer the Angels of God and a sinfull creature to suffer himselfe to be called by y ● name of God This is a mishapen wonder a monster in nature Let the Pope therefore looke vpon him self and know what supreme authoritie and iurisdiction and ouer whome he taketh it vpon him monstrously Queene Elizabeth doth not any thing monstrously She preacheth not she ministreth not y e Sacraments she doth neither excōmunicate nor absolue frō excōmunication shee sitteth not to giue sentence in spirituall causes she chalengeth not the dispensation of the Keyes of the kingdome of Heauen She doth nothing but which she may lawfully do nothing but wherevnto the Lord God hath giuen hir especiall warrant Hir Maiestie is supreame Gouernour ouer hir Subiectes The Bishoppes within hir Realme are subiects to hir Shée gouerneth they yéeld obedience When occasion is offered to dispose of any thing specially appertaining to the seruice of God or to iudge of any controuersie arising in Spirituall causes She commendeth and giueth to hir learned Diuines the due consideration thereof All other pleas suites shée causeth to be ended at home suffereth no appeales to flie to Rome Which is done for the ease and quietnesse and wealth of hir good subiectes For wherein grew more extremitie against plaine dealing simple and honest pore menne Whereby were they oftener shifted off and put from the right of their suite thā by such appeales when after they had bene haled thorough all the Courtes in theyr owne Countrey they were driuen to followe the matter 1500. miles at the Popes Courtes in Rome To be short Queene Elizabeth doth as did Moses Iosua Dauid Salomon Iosias Iehosaphat as Constantine Valentinian Gratian Theodosius Arcadius Honorius and other godly Emperors haue done God hath giuē charge to hir of both Tables In the firste she hath charge of Religion in the other of Ciuill causes By the Prophet Esay God promiseth to his Church Kings shall be thy noursing Fathers and Queenes thy Nursses And Dauid saith Be wise therfore ye Kings be learned ye Iudges of the earth serue the Lord in feare Upon which place the learned father Augustine saith Quomodo ergo Reges seruiunt Domino in timore nisi ●a quae contra iussa Domini fiunt religiosa seueritate prohibendo atque plectendo aliter enim seruit quia homo est aliter quia rex est Quia homo est ei seruit viuendo fideliter quia verò etiam rex est seruit ei leges iusta praecipientes contraria prohibentes conuenienti rigore sanciendo sicut seruiuit Ezechias c. Howe then doe Kings serue the Lord in feare but in that they doe forbidde and in a religious seueritie punish suche things as are done againste the Lordes commaundementes for hee serueth after one maner as a man and after another as a Prince as a man he serueth the Lord in liuing faithfully but in that he is also a King he serueth hym by making Lawes which commaunde the thinges that are right and whiche with conuenient rigour forbid the contrarie as Ezechias serued the Lord when he destroyed the Woodes and Temples of Idolles and those highe places whiche were builte againste the commaundements of God as IOSIAS serued doing also the like as the King of Niniute serued gathering togither al his Citie to appease the wrath of the Lord as DARIVS serued giuing auctoritie to DANIEL to breake the Idol and casting his enimies into the Lions as NABVCHODONOSOR serued of whome we spake before who by a terrible Lawe forbad al within his kingdome to blaspheme God In ho● ergò saith he seruiunt domino Reges quando ea faciunt ad seruiendum illi quae non possunt facere nisi Reges Herein therefore do Kings serue the Lord whē they do those things to serue him which none may do but Kings The Pope therefore writeth vnaduisedly We know not anye so mōstrous vnlawful doing It is hir office it is hir dutie I trust God will giue hir grace to discharge the same to his glorie Regium concilium e● Anglica Nobilitate conflatum diremit Shee hath remoued the Noble men of Englande from the Kings Councel The Poets had a fonde deuise of their great God IVPITER that he helde a golden Chain in his hād and tied to the ende of it both the Lande and Sea and coasts of the whole world and so might tosse and turne and sette them higher and lower at his pleasure Pope Pius bestirreth himselfe as though he were in Iupiters place and mighte by his Bulles and cursses set higher and lower place and displace appoint who shall againe who shall not be in Princes Councels Nothing may be done but by his sufferance Such a practise he hath to make himselfe King of Kings and the God of this worlde For when hée may rule the Councell he maye rule the King and being able to rule the King he maye rule the people throughout the worlde Hée saieth Queene Elizabeths Conncell is not to my liking She hathe put those from the Councel which were of the Nobilitie of Englande Thus he goeth on and increaseth hys follie He singeth by reportes and speaketh he wotteth not what Hath hir Maiestie remoued all the Nobilitie Who would thinke the Uicar of Christ wold be so vaine You which haue liued in countenaunce and haue béene at the Court and haue these many yeares knowne the state of our Countrey you knowe well that this is false The Nobilitie are all in England and in Courte and in Councel as before I doe not speake of suche as became Traitours You knowe what vnnaturall attempts were lately made Their guiltie conscience did make some to flie I speake not of one in duraunce I dispute not his case A Prince oughte to be verye carefull and iealous for hys preseruation It toucheth not himselfe onely but the welfare of his people Of these I speake nothing Yet when thys Bull was stamped at Rome all were at libertie Marke the date the fifth of the Calends of March in the yeare paste at which time they were al at libertie and of the Councell or at leaste in good fauor Since which time what hath bin wroughte by this Bull I praye you consider Remember what ensued the Sommer following The coales were kindled here but the bellowes whiche gaue

in his hande and call his neighbours togither and with godly speeches water the minde both of himselfe and the congregation that so wee maye escape the snares of the diuel and reape much fruit by our fasting and be partakers of the mercy of God Thus farre Chrysostome Nowe what if some fewe be wanton and neglect the wholsome vse of Fasting What if godly Preachers exhorte the people to putte away the abuse and doe teache them out of the word of God and the auntient writings of holy Fathers the true order and vse of Fasting should Pope Pius therefore vntruely charge hir Maiestie that she hath abolished Fasting dayes You knowe the Lawes stand in force whiche are made for that purpose and moreouer that common Prayers and an order for publique Faste to bée vsed in time of contagious sicknesse and other troubles and vnquietnesse haue bene set foorthe by the Queenes Maiesties speciall commaundement You knowe the maner and fourme of that generall Faste was first that it shoulde be kepte in euery wéeke vpon the Wednesday secondly by all persons betwéene sixetéene yeares of age and thréescore sicke folks and laborers c. excepted that it appointed but one onely competent and moderate meale that it leaueth it indifferent in the same meale to eate fleshe or fishe so that the quantitie be small and fit for sober and spare diet wythout varietie of meate spices confections or wines but onely suche as maye serue for necessitie comelinesse and health and that men of wealth and habilitie who by this order did abate the costlinesse of their fare should encrease their liberalitie towards the pore with that wich they spared thē that the same day ought to be bestowed in Prayers studie reading or hearing of the Scriptures or good exhortations and other godly exercises but no parte therof to be spent in plays pastimes or idlenesse much lesse in lewd wicked or wāton behauiour This Faste was commaunded and sette foorth in print thys Fast we obserued and taught the people that they should aunsweare before God if in suche godlye exercises they eyther shoulde contemne publike order or dissemble with God pretending abstinēce and doing nothing lesse Let Pope Pius shewe what Lawe of this Realme hathe forbidden or what doctrine of ours hath condemned Fasting We commende it and shewe the necessarie vse thereof Again She hath abolished all choice of meates I pray you where did God euer commaunde the choice of meates Paule saieth Lette no man condemne you in meate and drinke and to the Corinth Meat maketh vs not acceptable to God And Christ saith That which goeth into the mouth defileth not a man What if some eate flesh whose weake stomackes can not be nourished wyth fishe Doe they not kill and eate fleshe in the Citie of Rome Doth not Pope Pius for mony sell licence to eate what a man listeth The thing is not made holy because hée selleth it nor vnholy bicause it commeth fréely This might be sufficient for aunswere But yet because he maketh him selfe so priuie to our doings and doeth so precisely charge vs with his vayne accusations lette him consider that we to whome he maketh this reporte and sendeth ouer this tale are Englishemen acquainted better than he séemeth to be with the lawes of our countrey What one fishe daye is chaunged thorough the whole yeare What Lenten Ember Saturday Friday or other vsuall Fasting day Our Law sayth It shall not be lawful to any person or persons within this Realme to eate any fleshe vpon any dayes nowe vsually obserued as Fish dayes Nay besides those dayes whiche our forefathers kept we haue appointed that Wednesday in euery wéek through out the yeare be kept fishe daye and that no maner of person shall eate anye fleshe on the same day Wherby we haue made nigh fiftie fish dayes more than haue bin obserued heretofore by the lawes and customes of this realme We cannot heare of the like encrease of fasting dayes procured by the Pope and kept in the Coūtreys of Spaine Fraunce Italy or in hys owne Citie at Rome It maye bée hée is angrye wyth the Prouisoe in the sayde Statute Because no manner of person shall misse-iudge of the intente of thys Statute limiting orders to eate fish and forbeare the eating of fleshe but that the same is purposely intended and meant politiquely and not for any superstition to be maintained in the choice of meates bee it enacted that whosoeuer shall by preaching teaching writing or open speache notifie that any eating of Fishe or forbearing of fleshe mentioned in this statute is of any necessitie for the sauing of the soule of man or that it is the seruice of Cod otherwise than as other politique laws are and be that then such person shall be punished as Spreaders of false news are or ought to be Why doth he laye it againste hir Maiestie that she hath abolished al difference of meates we professe as doth S. Augustine In nostro i●●unio nihil melius est quam vt non manducans manducantem ne iudicet In our Fasting there is nothing worthy better accompt than this that hee whiche eateth not doth not condemne another whiche eateth We warne the people in times of abstinence to liue in the obedience of such order as the Lawe and Magistrates haue appointed and that whiles they forsake a common and necessarie diet of flesh they féede not their fantasie wyth such costly sortes of fish or suche daintie banqueting and iunquets whereby they should giue force to the lustes of the flesh in the day of their Fasting It followeth Shee hath abolished single life in Priests and Ministers Is it not lawfull for a Minister to be single you are witnesses to the contrarie you know some vnmarried and againe you knowe some that haue wiues and are married They which marry do wel God grant they do no worsse which doe not marry The Apostle saith Marriage is honourable among all and the bed vndefiled but Whoremōgers and Adulterers God wil iudge All haue not the gift of Chastitie saue they to whom it is giuen for euerie man hath his proper gifte one after this manner and an other after that The holie Patriarks the Prophets and the Apostles of Christe Peter Paule Iames Philip and others had Wines they liued in Marriage Eusebius reporteth out of Clemens Alexandrinus that Peter when he sawe his wife lead away to execution called hir by hir proper name and sayde O wife remember the Lord. Hierome saith if he shoulde name seuerally all the married Bishops they woulde be more in number than all the multitude of the Councell of Ariminum And in another place quasinon hodie quoque plurimi Sacerdotes habeant Matrimonia As though at this day many Priests hadde not their wiues We heare of the Bishoppes in Aethiopia that they are at this day married It is not long sithence Priests were marryed here in Englande and in Fraunce

the wind lay at Rome and ther sate he which made the fire At what time he wrote this Bul she had displaced none neither Lord Baron nor Earle nor touched thē in their liues bodies goodes or landes Indéede Pope Paulus 4. cast Moronus into prison and there kept him al the time of his papacie Pius 4. tooke Caraffa a chief Cardinal he caste him into prison and in the midnight sent a slaughterman to put him to death Pope Vrbanus tooke sixe Cardinals and knit them in bags threw thē into the sea Hir milde gratious merciful nature hath neuer béen distained by any the like crueltie neyther haue any of hir Noble men béene so by hir dishonored Againe Hominibus obscuris compleuit Shee hath made hir Councell of poore darke beggarly fellowes and hath placed them ouer the people What hathe Pope Pius to doe with the Councell of Princes Maye not a King choose a Councellour vnlesse he allow of hym Men take their owne eyes to choose ther wiues and Princes take their owne heartes to choose their Councellours As wel he might say No King shal haue any Secretarie any Iudge or Iustice or Sergeant or Attorney or Solicitour or man at Law any Captain for wars any Garde to his person any Phisition to his body any Sewer or Taster but by his appointment Oh what a charge this man taketh He calleth hir honourable Councellours darke and obscure and beggarly What if they had bene such Maye not Princes haue any other Councelloures than Dukes and Earles Cardinall Woolsey was able to doe something in this realm in the late time of King Henrie Of what noble house came he Of what noble house came B. Heth Stephen Gardner Iohn Bourne and M. Boxall Of what honorable Parentage of what noble bloud came they They were of the Councel yet who was their Father Grandfather what Duke Earle Lord Barō or Knight I speak not this in dispite of their persōs let no mā so mistake me som of thē ar yet aliue I pray for thē for my selfe God direct them to do those things which may be for his glorie Hée is noble whiche is the childe of God which is borne from aboue he is honourable he is noble But what are they who are nowe in auctoritie whome Pius calleth so poore and beggarly I will not name them I cannot flatter it were vnséemly I shold You knowe them and are thankefull to God for them There is none of them which hath not bin at the least a Knight or worthy of that degrée aboue these xx yeares so wise learned vertuous and godly so carefull of the Commune weale as euer were bredde vppe in thys Realme They haue euer béene in credite in the countenance and knowledge of the worlde As Pope Pius complaineth now of the Councellors of England so did the Wolf sometimes make complaint to the shéepheard against his Dogges Thou haste two vile ill fauored Curres they iette vp and downe they barke and howle and trouble thy flocke which can not bée quiet nor féede for them Remoue them away tie them vppe braine them hang them what do they here the Shéepehearde aunsweareth would you so nay I may not spare my dogges they do me good seruice Spaniels and Greyhounds are faire and daintie yet they neuer do me so much good these watche when I sléepe they ease me muche paine and saue my flocke If I should tie them vp thou wouldest be bold with me and take thy pleasure I shall not néede to applye this The Queenes Maiestie is oure Shéepehearde we are left by God to hir safe kéeping The faithfull Councellors are like the watchful Mastiffs they take paines they ease our Shéepeheard they saue the flocke Nowe you maye soone iudge who is the Woolfe If Pope Pius coulde place his Pilot in our Ship he would make vs arriue at what Porte he listed Séeing Pius hath vpon ghesses or vain reports after this maner vnséemely delt with the Péeres and honorable estate of our Countrie let vs looke somewhat abroad and sée what worthie wightes the Pope hathe placed in the Councelles of Kings And so lette vs be aduised by the harmes of our neighbors Didde he not place one Dauid Retchio so high in Scotlande that he tooke vppon him to rule the Queene there and sought al meanes to disgrace and disquiet the Nobles and to vndoe that Country and therefore was slaine in the Queenes presence Was not the Cardinal of Lorraine the highest Councellour in Fraunce Did not Cardinall Granvele beare the whole swaye in Flaunders they were appointed by Pope Pius they were endewed with his spirite they wente from his side they knewe what he would haue done Haue not they spoiled and wasted those two noble Countries and brought them to suche vilanie and miserie as they neuer felt before the King of Spaine suffereth Monkes and Friers to gouerne him and his Countrie It is well known what good they haue done him By these fewe you may sée what Councellors the Pope alloweth and for what purpose Yet that we maye the better marke the order of their gouernment and what good Cardinalles worke in Princes Councels one telleth vs Legati Romanorum Pontificum sic bacchantur in prouincijs acsi ad flagellandam Ecclesiam Satan egressus sit à facie Domini The Popes Legates keepe such reuels in Kingdomes and Countries as if Satan were sent abroade from the face of the Lord to scourge the Church He was wise and did sée what was done If wée open our eyes and beholde the storie and present course of their doings wée maye finde the like What Prince soeuer receiueth them receiueth traitors and enimies to his estate They alwayes bréed suspition stir vp dissention encrease hatred betwéene Prince and Prince and set the one against another they séeke to aduance their maister y e Pope they spoile al Churches to furnish one they be y e very plagues and decay of Countries Let not Pope Pius complaine of the Councellors of England no Prince in Christēdome this day hath better God graunte them the spirite of vnderstanding and of counsel God continue them in his feare and direct them in his glorie If Pope Pius had but one so wise a Councellour hée neuer woulde haue sente suche Bulles and Bables about the worlde Againe hominibus haereticis compleuit The Counsailours are not onely pore and beggarly but also Heretiques The accusation of Heresie is heauie shoulde not be laid vpō any but after due proofe Paule the Apostle was accused for Heresie but he aunswered After that waye which they call heresie worshippe I the God of my Fathers beleeuing al things which are written in the Lawe and the Prophets The high Priestes and Phariseis called our Sauiour a Deceiuer All the Christians of the Primitiue Church were called Heretiques Misistis per omnē terram qui circumirent dicerent impiam haeresim surrexisse Christianorum You haue chosen saith Iustine the