against the foorme of the Popes letters all the Bisshoppes of Aegypt of Asia of Illiricum Ponthus and Thracia very hotlye resisted affirming that the definition was otherwise perfect enoughe Which the Romaines and certaine of the Easte Bisshppes as earnestly denied Herevpon the iudges to make the matter come to an agrement made first a Committy in this sorte that of all the foresaide prouinces three should be chosen and they togeather with the Romaynes and six of the Easte Bisshoppes shoulde conferre a parte But this order beinge misliked and the greater nomber of Bisshoppes stil crying to haue it passe as it was first conceiued not passing vpon the forme conceiued in the Popes letters the iudges asked those that so cried whether they allowed the letters of Pope Leo or no When they answered Yea and that they had alreadye subscribed thereunto the Iudges inferred Lette then that be added to the definition which is in those leters coÌ„prised The Bisshops of Aegipt and other crying alwaies to the contrarye the debate was signified to the Emperour The Emperour sent back againe that they shoulde take the order of Committye appointed or yf that liked them not then they should make an other CoÌ„mittye by their Metropolitanes and euerye man declare his mynde that so the matter might come to an ende But saith the Emperour yf your Holynes will none of this neither then knowe you certainelye that you shall come to a Councell in the west partes seing you will not here agree And this also was that the Popes Legates before required And the Bisshoppes of Illyricum as excusing them selues cried Qui contradicunt Romam ambulent These which doe not agree let them walke to Rome Had Maister Horne and his fellowes bene in that case they woulde haue cryed what haue we to doe with Rome or with that forayne Prelate the Pope But the Bisshoppes and Fathers of those dayes knewe a better obedience to the See Apostolike And therefore in the ende the Popes Legates with a fewe other of the Easte preuailed against al the reste of Aegypt and Asia of IllyricuÌ„ Pontus and Thracia and endited the forme of their definitioÌ„ of the faith according to the tenour of Pope Leo his letters inserting his very words to their definitioÌ„ Otherwise as the Emperour and the Popes Legates before threatned they should al haue trotted to Rome and there haue finished the Councel Such was the Authority and preeminence of that Apostolike See of Rome and so wel declared in this fifte Action out of which M. Horne concealing the whole yssue order and cause of the debate thought only by a simple commyttye to proue his Supreme Gouernement in the prince Thow seest nowe gentle Reader that by the prince his owne confession by the Legates protestation and by the ende and yssue of the whole Action the Superiority rested in the Church of Rome and in a Councel to be had there in case they would not presently agree So harde it is for Maister Horne to bring any one Authority that maketh not directly against him and manifestly for vs. M. Horne The .53 Diuision Pag. 33. a. The Emperour cometh into the Synode place in his ovvne persone vvith Pulcheria his nobles and Senatours â–ª and maketh vnto the Synode an oration of this effect He careth for nothing so much as to haue all men rightly persuaded in the true Christian faith He declareth the occasions vvhy he sommoned the Synode He coÌ„maundeth that no man be so hardy hereafter to hold opinion or dispute of the Christian faith othervvyse than vvas decreed in the first NiceÌ„ couÌ„cel he chargeth theÌ„ therefore that all partaking coÌ„tenâ—ioÌ„ and couetousnes laide apart the onely truth may appeare to al men He declareth his coÌ„ming into the Synod to be for none other cause theÌ„ .151 to confirme the faith and to remoue from the people in tyme to come all dissention in Religion And last of al he protesteth his vvhole care and study that al people may be brought into an vnity and vnifourme agreement in pure religion by true and holy doctrine The chief Notarie humbly asketh of the Emperour if it vvil please him to heare their definition redde The Emperour vvilleth that it should be recited openly he enquireth of them al if euery man consented thereunto they ansvvere that it is agreed vppon by al their consentes VVhereunto they adde many acclamations commendâ—ng the vvorthines of his Emperial gouernmeÌ„t coÌ„cluding By the O worthy Emperor the right faith is confirmed heresies banished peace restored and the Churche refourmed After these acclamations the Emperour doth openly declare vnto the Synode a statute vvhich he maketh to cut of and put avvay from thencefoorth al maner occasion of contention about the true faith and holy Religion The vvhole Synode desireth the Emperour to dissolue the councel and to .152 geue theÌ„ leaue to departe vvhereunto the Emperour vvould not consent but .153 commaundeth that none of them depart Stapleton Here is nothing whervpon ye shoulde frame any conclusion of Supremacy Concerning Marcians oration we haue spoken somwhat before and nowe ye geue vs more occasion especially to note your true and accustomable faith in the true rehersal of your Authour For yf ye hadde not here maimed and mangled your owne allegation ye had made your self a ful answere for al this your bible bable to proue the Emperours supremacy for that they called or were present in the Councels We saieth this noble Emperour are come into this present Councel not to take vpon vs or to practise any power therein but to strenghten and confirm the faith therin following the example of the religious prince Constantine By which woordes he declareth that the Emperours authority and powre taketh no place in the Councel to determyn or define any thing which neither is founde of the doings of Constantine or this Marcian or of any other good Prince but only by ciuil penalties to confirme and strenghthen the decrees as did CoÌ„stantine and as this Emperour did also as appereth by his woordes spoken to the Synode in this sixt action by yow recited These woordes of Marcian ye haue cut from the residue of the sentence least otherwise it should haue by Marcian him selfe appeared that ye were but a glosar a Popes glosar I say as your brother Mollineus is when ye wrote of the fiue Bishops that otherwise must haue bene deposed CoÌ„cerning the staiyng of the Fathers that would haue departed whiche ye inforce as a thing material if ye had not followed your accustomable guise of dismembring your Author ye should haue found a small matter Ye haue saith Marcian to the Fathers ben much weried by your iourney and haue taken great paines Yet beare you and staye you for iij. or .iiij. daies loÌ„ger And our honorable Iudges being present moue you what matter your hart desireth and ye shal not faile of coÌ„uenient comfort But let no man depart til all
other that among other heresies recite some of those that you openly and your fellowes maintaine Yf ye will reiect the poore Catholiques S. Augustine and Epiphanius also yet I trust you will not be against your owne famouse Apologie whiche saith that Epiphanius nombreth fourscore Heresies of the which it is one for a man after the order of Priesthode to marie and S. Augustine a greater nomber and so concludeth you and the residue to be heretikes If ye wil denie ye mainteine any of those heresies your preachings your teachings and writings beare full and open testimony against you What then haue you to iustifie your cause You wil happely forsake and abandon S. Augustines authoritie withal the olde Canons and Councels and flye vnder the defence of your brickle bulwarke of Actes of Parliament O poore and sely helpe o miserable shift that our faith should hang vppon an acte of Parliamente contrary as wel to all actes of Parliament euer holden in Englande before as to the Canons and Fathers of the Catholike Churche A strange and a wonderfull matter to heare in a Christian common welth that matters of faith are Parliament cases That ciuill and prophane matters be conuerted into holie and Ecclesiasticall matters Yea and that woorse is that Laie men that are of the folde onely not shepheards at all and therefore bounde to learne of their Catholique Bisshoppes and Pastours may alter the whole Catholique Religion maugre the heades of all the Bishoppes and the whole Conuocation This is to trouble all things this is as it were to confounde togeather heauen and earth But yet let vs see the prouidence of God These men that relinquishing the Church would hang only vpoÌ„ a Parliament are quite forsaken yea euen there where they loked for their best helpe For I praye you what warrant is there by acte of Parliament to denie the Real presence of Christes bodie in the holie Eucharistia Is it not for anye Parliament as well heresie nowe as it was in Quene Maries King Henries or anye other Kinges dayes What can be shewed to the contrarie Doth not Luther your first Apostle and his schollers defie you therefore as detestable Heretiques Nowe concerning Transubstantiation and adoration is it not well knowen thinke you that in King Edwardes dayes there was a preaty legerdemaine played and a leafe putt in at the printing which was neuer proposed in the Parliamente What Parliamente haue your Preachers to denye free will and the necessitie of baptizing children Againe I pray you is there any Acte to confirme your vnlawful mariage Doth not in this point the Canonicall Lawe stande in force as well nowe as in King Henries daies And so doth it not followe that yee are no true Bishoppe Beside is it not notoriouse that yee and your Colleages were not ordeined no not according to the prescripte I wil not say of the Churche but euen of the verye statutes Howe then can yee challenge to your selfe the name of the Lord Bisshoppe of Winchester Whereof bothe the Municipall and Ecclesiasticall Lawe dothe woorthelye spoyle you Wherefore as I sayed let vs dashe out these wordes and then no reasonable man shall haue any great cause to quarell against the Title of M. Fekenhams Treatise The .2 Diuision M. Horne The booke by you deliuered vnto mee touching the Othe was writen in the Tovver of London as you your selfe confessed and the true title therof doth plainly testifie in the time of the ParliameÌ„t holden Anno quinto of the Q. Maiestie Ianua 12. at which time you litle thought to haue soiourned with me the winter follovving and much lesse meant to deliuer me the scruples and staies of your coÌ„science in writing to be resolued at my hands And although you would haue it seeme by that you haue published abroade that the cause why you wrot was to be resolued my hande yet the trueth is as you your selfe reported that you and your Tovver fellovves hearing that the Statute moued for the assuraunce of the Queenes royall povver would passe and be establissed did conceiue that immediately after the same Session Commissioners shoulde be sente vnto you to exact the Othe VVhereuppon you to be in some readines to withstande and refuse the duetie of a good subiecte .8 not without helpe of the reste as may be gathered deuised the matter conteyned in the booke committed the same to writing and purposed to haue deliuered it for your ansvvere touching the Othe of the Supremacy to the CoÌ„missioners if they had come This may appere by the Title of that booke that you first deliuered to me which is worde for worde as follovveth The answere made by M. Iohn Fekenham Priest and prisoner in the Tower to the Quenes highnes Commissioners touching the Oth of the Supremacie In this Title there is no mencion of scruples and stayes deliuered to the Bisshoppe of VVinchester but of aunsvveare to the Queenes Commissioners I am not once named in the â—itle ne yet in the looke deliuâ—â—â—â— to mee neither is there one worde as spoken to me although in the 〈…〉 abroad you turne all as spoken to me â—n your booke published aâ—e 〈…〉 kinds of speaches To the L. Bishop of VVinchestâ— VVhen youâ— L. shal be able c. I shall ioyne this issue vvith your L. c. But it is farre othervvise in your booke deliuered to me namely To the Queenes highnes coÌ„missioners VVhen ye the Queenes highnes coÌ„missioners shal be hable c. I shal ioine this issue vvith you that vvhen any one of you the Queenes hignes coÌ„missioners c. From October at what time you were sent to me vnto the end of Ianuarie there was daily conference betvvixt vs in matters of Religion but chiefly touching the foure pointes which you terme scruples and stayes of conscience and that by worde of mouth and not by any writing In all which points ye vvere .9 so ansvvered that ye had nothing to obiect but seemed resolued and in a maner fully satisfied VVhervpon I made aftervvard relation of .10 good meaning tovvards you to certain honorable persons of the good hope I had coÌ„ceiued of your conformity At whiche time a certaine friend of yours standing by and hearing what I had declared then to the honorable in your coÌ„medacion did shortly after .11 reporte the same vnto you which as it seemed you did so much mislike doubting that your confederates should vnderstand of your reuolt .12 which they euer feared hauing experience of your shrinking froÌ„ them at .13 VVestminster in the coÌ„ference there the first yere of the Q. Maiestie that after that time I founde you alvvaies much more repugnaÌ„t and coÌ„trary to that wherin ye before times seemed in maner throughly resolued And also to goe from that you before agreed vnto By reason vvhereof vvhen in debating betvvixt vs you vsinge manye shiftes amongst other did continuallie quarell in Sophistication of vvordes I did vvill you to
of the matter as that the Catholiks being in possession of the truth froÌ„ time to time in the Churche continued and obserued were yet notwithstanding disuantaged and put to the prouf with much more iniury then if a man that had an huÌ„dred years and more quietly enioyed his LaÌ„ds should sodeÌ„ly be disturbed aÌ„d dispossessed thereof vnlesse he could proue his possessioÌ„ to hiÌ„ that had no right or interest to claime the same Which I say not for that the catholiks had not or did not shewe sufficient euidence but for the maner of the ordering and dealing therein the Catholiks being very much straited for shortnes of tyme beside that it was a fruytlesse and a superfluose enterprise For in so many great and weighty matters as now stande in controuersie and debate to what ende and purpose was yt to debate vppon these 3. matters only whether the seruice may be in the mother tong whether any one realme may alter and chaunge the rites and ceremonies in the Churche and make newe whether the masse be a sacrifice propitiatory seing that the first and the secoÌ„d question be no questions of faith and the .3 dependeth vpon the questions of transsubstantiation and the real presence which ought first to haue bene discussed and then this as accessory thereunto Againe what presidente or example can be shewed of such kinde of disputation to be made before the Laye men as Iudges Suerly howe daungerouse this matter is beside many folde recordes of Antiquity the miserable examples of our tyme doe sufficiently testifie especially at Monster in Germany Where by these meanes the Lutherans thrust oute the Catholiks and where euen by the very same trade ere the yeare wente abowte the Lutherans them selues were thrust owte by the Anabaptistes And then within a while after followed the pytiful tragedy plaied there by the sayd Anabaptists the worthy fruit of such disputatioÌ„s Now albeit these disputatioÌ„s were nothing neadful at al and much lesse for that in the parliameÌ„t time when this coÌ„ference was had the whol clergy whose iudgemeÌ„t should haue bene in this case of chieffest importaÌ„ce vniformly agreed aswel vpoÌ„ the real preseÌ„ce as traÌ„substantiatioÌ„ aÌ„d the sacrifice also with the supremacy of the Pope and made their huÌ„ble petitioÌ„n as became their vocatioÌ„ that the auÌ„cieÌ„t relligion might not be altered in the parliameÌ„t although they could neuer obtaine that their petition might there be read yet if they woulde nedes haue gonne forward with their disputations reason had ben that they should haue begonne with the chief and principal points and not with the dependant and accessory meÌ„bers or matters nothing touching faith and withal to haue suffred the Catholiks to haue replied to their aduersaries whiche they could not be suffered to doe least their aduersaries weaknes shuld as it would haue done in dede and now daily doth God be praised euidently and openly haue bâ—ne disciphered and disclosed Wherin whether the Catholiks were indifferently dealt withall I reporte me to all indifferent men Surely among all other things concerning the supremacy of the prince in causes Ecclesiastical the denial wherof is more extreamely punished by the law then any other matter of religion now in controuersy ther would haue ben much more mature deliberatioÌ„ especially considering that aboue .x. hundred yeares past in disputations of matters of faith whereto the Catholikes were prouoked in Aphrica the said Catholikes required that at the said disputations should be presente the Legates of the See of Rome as the chief and principal See of ChristeÌ„dom But let vs now returne to M. Horne M. Horne The .3 Diuision pag. 3. a. After this in February follovving certaine persons of vvorship resorted to my houâ—e â–ª partly to see me and partly to heare somevvhat betvvixt me and you And after that vve had reasoned in certaine pointes touching Religion vvherein ye seemed openly to haue little matter to stande in but rather did yelde to the moste in substance that I had saied neuer the lesse being after vvithdravven in some of their companies although yee did seeme openlye to consent and agree vvith me in that I had said Yet said you the matter it selfe is grounded here pointing to your breast that shall neuer goe out VVhiche being tolde me I did vehemently then challenge you for your double dealing and colourable behauiour saying that I thought you did not that you did of any conscience at al and therefore compted it but lost labour further to trauaile vvith such a one as had neither conscience nor constancy But you to shevv that ye did al of conscience shevved me both vvhat yee had suffred for the same in diuers manners and also hovv the same vvas grounded in you long before For proufe vvhereof ye offred to shevve me a booke of yours that ye had deuised in the Tovver and the same shortly after did deliuer vnto me not as your scruples and doubtes to be resolued at my hande vvherein ye seemed in our conference before had .14 resolued but only to declare that the matter had bene long before setled in you and this vvas the only and mere occasion of the deliuery of the said booke vnto me entituled as is before declared and not othervvise But as you haue cast a mist before the eyes of the readers vnder the speach of a deliuery in vvriting vvithout noting of any circumstance that might make the matter cleere vvherein you shevve your self to haue no good meaning euen so haue you set foorth resolutions of your ovvne deuise vnder my name because you are ashamed to vtter mine vvherevnto you yelded and vvere not able to ansvvere Stapleton How vnlike a tale this is that M. FekenhaÌ„ should either be resolued by M. Horn or being resolued should theÌ„ geue vp his matter in writing for none other cause theÌ„ M. Horn reporteth I durst make any indifferent man iudge yea a nuÌ„ber of M. Hornes own sect there is no apparance there is no colour in this matter And therefore I wil be so bold as to adde this to his other vntruthes where vnto I might set an other more notable straight waies ensuing that M. Fekenham should set forth resolutions of his owne deuise vnder M. Hornes name sauing that I leaue it to a place more appropriate where the matter shal be more conueniently and more fully discussed The 4. Diuision Pag. 3. b. M. Fekenham For asmuch as one chief purpose and intent of this Othe is for a more saulfgard to be had of the Quenes royal person and of her highnes most quiet and prosperous reigne I doe here presently therfore offer my selfe to receiue corporal Othe vpon the Euangelistes that I doe verely think and am so persuaded in my conscience that the Queenes highnes is thonly suprem gouernour of this realme and of al other her highnes DominioÌ„s and Countries according as thexpresse words are in the beginning of the said Othe And further I shall presently
wherin Christ wil haue no cōpartener Surely we make no God of the Pope and sometimes perhappes no good man neyther And yet we reuerence him for his office and authoritie that Christe so amplie and honorablie gaue him for preseruation of vnitie and quietnes in his Church Your wisedome with like truth also appeareth in that you call the Pope the Archeretike of Rome naming no man And so your woordes so liberallie and wantonly cast out doe as wel comprehend S. Peter S. Clement and other holy Martyrs and Bishops there as anye other I promise you a wel blowen blast and hansomly handeled With like finenesse you call him Archeretike that is the supreme Iudge ouer all Heretikes and heresies too and that hath already iudged you and your Patriarches for Archeritikes I wisse as well might the fellon at the barre in Westmynster hall to saue his life if it mighte be call the Iudge the strongest theef of all and doubtles had he a Prince on his side his plea were as good as youres is Now where ye say we would haue the Pope to raigne here in the Quenes place procedeth frō your lik truth ād wisedom For albeit the Popes autority was euer chief for matters eccleastical yet was there neuer any so much a noddie to say ād beleue the Pope raigned here The Pope and the King beīg euer two distinct persons farre different the one from the other in seueral functions and administrations and yet wel concurrant and coincident togeather without any◠imminution of the one or the others authoritie Wel ye wil perhap say that albeit M. Gilbie misliketh this title in the Prince yet he liketh wel the religiō especially such as now is and such as was in King Edwards daies which is all one Herken then I pray you what his censure and iudgement is therof I will name saith he no particular thinges because I reuerence those dayes meaninge of King Edwarde sauing only the killing of both the Kings vncles and the prisonment of Hoper for Popes garmentes God graunt you al repentant hartes For no order or state did anye parte of his duetie in those daies but to speak of the best wherof you vse to boast your Religion was but an English Mattins patched foorth of the Popes Portesse many things were in your great booke superstitious and foolish All were driuen to a prescript seruice like the Papists that they should think their dueties discharged if the number were sayed of Psalmes and Chapters Finallye their coulde no discipline be brought into the Churche nor correction of manners I trust nowe M. Horne that you will somewhat the more beare with the Catholikes if they can not wel beare the seruice and title which your companions so yll liketh Yet because ye are so harde maister to M. Fekenham and his fellowes to haue their doing a preparation to rebellion against the Quenes person for defēding Ecclesiastical authority which nothīg toucheth her person or croun as without the which it hath most honorably continued and florished many hūdred yeres and shal by Gods grace continew full well and full long againe when it shall please God let this title and iurisdiction Ecclesiasticall goe which al good Princes haue euer forgon as nothing to them apertaining Let vs come to the very temporall authoritie and lette vs consider who make any preparation of rebellion the Catholikes or the Protestants Who are they I pray you that haue set foorth deuises of their owne for the succession of the crowne withoute the Princes knowledge Surely no Catholikes but the very Protestants them selues Who blewe the first blast of the trompet I pray you Who are those that haue set foorth in open printed bookes in the English tongue that neither Queene Marie nor this our gracious Quene were lawfull inheritours of the Croune And finally that it is againste the Lawe of God and nature that anye woman shoulde inherite anye principalitie or Kingdome No Catholique I warrante you but your holye brethren so feruente in the woorde of the Lorde Yea amonge other M. Iohn Knoxe the new Apostle of Scotlande It is not birth onely saith he or propinquitie of bloud that maketh a King lawfully to reigne aboue the people professing Iesus Christ and his eternal veritie but in his election muste the ordināce which God hathe established in the election of inferiour Iudges be obserued Loe this Apostle excludeth al succession as well of men as women and will haue the Kingdome to goe by election that in case there be founde any Prince that fansieth not this newe Apostle that then he may be lawfullye deposed and a newe brother in his roome placed And therefore I feare not saith he to affirme that it had been the dutie of the Nobilitie Iudges Rulers and people of Englande not onelie to haue resisted and against standed Marie that Iesabell whome they call their Queene but also to haue punnished her to deathe with all the sorte of her Idolatrous Priestes togeather with all suche as shoulde haue assisted her Ye shall nowe heare the verdit of an other good man a zealous brother of Caluins schole I knowe saieth he ye will saie the Croune is not entailed to the heires Males onelie but appertaineth as well to the daughters And therefore by the lawes of the Realme yee coulde not otherwise doe But if it be true yet miserable is the answeare of suche as hadde so longe time professed the Gospell and the liuely word of God If it had bene made of Paganes and Heathens whiche knewe not God by his woorde it mighte better haue bene borne withall but amonge them that bare the name of Gods people with whome his lawes shoulde haue chiefe authoritie this answeare is not tolerable And afterwarde If shee had bene no bastarde but the Kinges daughter as laufullie begotten as was her Sister that godlie Ladie and meeke lambe voide of all Spanisshe pride and straunge bloude yet in the sicknes and at the deathe of our lawfull Prince of Godlye memorie Kinge Edwarde the sixte that shoulde not haue bene your firste counsell or question who shoulde be your Queene but firste and principallye who had bene moste metest amonge your brethren to haue hadde the gouernemente ouer you and the whole gouernemente of the Realme to rule them carefullye in the feare of God After this he sheweth his minde more expresselye A woman saieth he to reigne Gods lawe forbiddeth and nature abhorreth whose reigne was neuer counted lawefull by the woorde of God but an expresse signe of Gods wrathe and a notable plague for the sinnes of the people As was the raigne of Iesabell and vngodlie Athalia especiall instrumentes of Sathan and whippes to his people of Israell I dooe here omitte a Sermon made by one of your Prelates that bothe Queene Marie and our graciouse Queene Elizabeth were bastardes And they saye that your selfe Maister Horne did the same at Durham Howe lyke yee this Maister Horne Is this a preparation of
Bales or some such like but as for the olde ordinary Latin Glose I am right sure M. Horn it hath no suche thinge This therefore may wel stande for an other vntruthe As also that which immediatly you alleage out of Deuteron 13. For in al that chapter or any other of that booke there is no such worde to be founde as you talke of And thus with a ful messe of Notorious vntruthes you haue furnished the first seruice brought yet to the table cōcernīg the prīcipal matter How be it perhaps though this be very course yet you haue fyne dishes and dayntycates coming after Let vs then procede The .11 Diuision Pag. 8. b. M. Horne The beste and most Godly Princes that euer gouerned Gods people did perceiue and rightly vnderstande this to be Gods vvil that they ought to haue an especiall regarde and care for the ordering and setting foorth of Gods true Religion and therefore vsed great diligence vvith feruent zeale to perfourme and accomplishe the same Moyses vvas the supreme gouernour ouer Gods people and vvas .38 not chiefe Priest or Bisshop for that vvas Aaron vvhose authority zeale and care in appointing and ordering Religion amongest Gods people prescribing to al the people yea to Aaron and the Leuits vvhat and after vvhat sorte they should execute their functions correcting and chastening the transgressours is manifestly set foorthe in his booke called the Pentateuche The 9. Chapter concerning the example of Moyses MAister Horne willing to seame orderly to procede first bringeth in what scripture commaūdeth Princes to doe and then what they did But as his scripture towching the commaundemēt by him alleaged nothing reacheth home to his pretensed purpose but rather infringeth and plainely marreth the same as I haue saide and fully standeth on our syde So I dowbte nothing yt wil fare with his examples as of Moyses Iosue Dauid Salomon Iosaphat Ezechias Iosias and that they al come to short and are to weake to iustifie his assertion But here am I shrewdly encombred and in a great doubte what to doe For I coulde make a shorte but a true answere that these examples are fully answered alredy by M. Doctour Harding and M. Dorman and referre thee thither to thyne and myne ease gentle reader and to the sparing not onely of penne ynk and paper but of the tyme also whiche of al things is most preciouse But then I feare me woulde steppe forth yf not M. Horne a good simple plain man in his dealings yet some other iolye fyne freshe pregnant wytty fellowe yea and bringe me to the straits which way so euer I did tread Yf I shuld as I said sende the reader to them then should I heare a foole a dolte an asse that can say nothing of his own Then shoulde the cause be slaundered also as so poore and weake that it could beare no large and ample treatise yea with all that their answeres were such as I was asshamed of them and therefore wilylye and wiselye forbeared them with manye suche other triumphant trieflinge toyes Againe yf I shoulde repete or inculcate their answeres then woulde Maister Nowell or some other rushe in vppon me with his ruflynge rhetorike that he vseth againste Maister Dorman and Maister Doctour Hardinge withe a precise accompte and calculation what either Maister Dorman or Maister Doctour Hardinge borowed of Hosius or either of them two of the other And what I haue nowe borowed of them bothe or of either of them And I shoulde be likewise insulted vppon and our cause as feble and very weake slaundered also But on the one syde leaste any of the good bretherne shoulde surmise vppon my silence anye suche distruste I will compendiously as the matter shall require abridge their answeres and that Maister Horne shall thinke that our stuff is not al spente I shall on the other syde for a surplussage adioyne some other thinges to owre opponent accommodate So that I truste either answere shal be sufficient to atchieue our purpose againste Maister Horne Then for Moyses I saye with Maister Doctour Hardinge and Saint Augustyne that he was a prieste aswell as a Prince I say the same with Maister Dorman with Philo Iudeus with Saint Hierom and with Saint Hieroms Maister Gregorie Nazianzene And so consequently Maister Horne that Moyses example serueth not your turne onlesse ye will kinge Henry the eight and his sonne king Edward yea and our gracious Quene to be a priest to but rather quite ouerturneth your assertion And thinke you Maister Horne that the Quenes authority doth iumpe agree with the authority of Moyses in causes ecclesiastical Then maye she preach to the people as Moyses did Thē may she offer sacrifices as Moyses did Then may she cōsecrate Priests as Moyses did cōsecrate Aaron and others Then may it be said of the imposition of her hands as was said of Moyses Iosua the son of Nun was ful of the sprite of wisedom for Moyses hadde put his hand vpon him It must nedes therfore follow that Moyses was a priest and that a high priest which ye here ful peuishly deny I say now further with M. Dorman that put the case Moyses were no priest yet this example frameth not so smothely and closely to your purpose as ye wene For Moyses was a prophet and that such a prophet as the like was not agayne Geue me nowe Maister Horn Princes Prophetes geue me Princes and Lawe makers by speciall order and appointmente ordeyned of God to whose woordes God certainly woulde haue geuen as greate authority as he wolde and commaunded to be geuen to Moyses and then perchaunce I will say that ye saye somewhat well to the purpose Agayne Moyses was suche a speciall Prophet and so singularlye chosen of God to be heard and obeyed in all thinges that he is in the holy scripture euidentlye compared to Christ him selfe compared I say euen in the office of teaching and instructing Moyses in the Deuteronom foretelling the Iewes of a Messias to come saieth The Lorde thy God wil rayse thee vp a Prophet from among thy own nation and of thy brethern such a one as my self him thou shalt heare And this so spoken of Moyses in the olde Lawe is in the new testamēt auouched ād repeted first by S. Peter the chief Apostle and next by S. Stephen the first Martir and applied to Christ. If thē Christ must so be heard and obeied of vs as was Moyses of the Iewes no doubt as Christ is a Kinge a Prophet a Priest and a Bisshop to vs so was Moyses to thē a Prince a Prophet a Priest and a Bisshop As Christ is of vs to be heard and obeyed as wel in al matters Ecclesiasticall as Temporal for no temporal Lawe can haue force against the Law of Christ amonge Christen men so was Moyses to be heard and obeyed of the Iewes in matters and causes as well temporall as spirituall For why The Scripture is plaine Tanquam me
the 2. of Paralip the 17. Chapter And as M.D. Harding and M. Dorman haue writen so say I that ye are they which frequent priuate hylles aulters and darke groues that the Scripture speaketh of Wherein you haue sette vp your Idolls that is your abhominable heresies We also confesse that there is nothing writen in holy Scripture of Iosaphat touching his Care and diligence aboute the directing of ecclesiastical matters but that godly Christiā Princes may at this day doe the same doing it in such sorte as Iosaphat did That is to refourm religiō by the Priests not to enacte a new religiō which the priests of force shal sweare vnto Itē to suffer the Priests to iudge in cōtrouersies of religion not to make the decisiō of such things a parliamēt matter Itē not to prescribe a new forme and order in ecclesiastical causes but to see that accordīg to the lawes of the Church before made the religiō be set forth as Iosaphat procured the obseruatiō of the olde religiō appointed in the law of Moyses Briefly that he doe al this as an Aduocat defendour and Son of the Churche with the Authority and aduise of the Clergy so Iosaphat furdered religiō not otherwise not as a Supreme absolute Gouernour cōtrary to the vniforme cōsent of the whole Clergy in full cōuocation yea and of al the Bisshops at once Thus the example of Iosaphat fitteth wel Christiā Princes But it is a world to see how wretchedly and shamfully Maister Horne hath handled in this place the Holye Scriptures First promysing very sadly in his preface to cause his Authours sentences for the parte to be printed in Latin letters here coursing ouer three seuerall chapters of the 2. of Paralip he setteth not downe any one parte or worde of the whole text in any Latin or distinct lettre but handleth the Scriptures as pleaseth him false translating māgling them and belying them beyonde al shame He telleth vs of the Kings visitours of a progresse made in his own person throughout all his contrey and of Iustices of the peace whereas the texts alleaged haue no such wordes at al. Verely such a tale he telleth vs that his ridiculous dealing herein were it not in Gods cause where the indignity of his demeanour is to be detested were worthely to be laughed at But from fonde coūterfeytīg he procedeth to flatte lying For where he saieth that Iosaphat commaunded and prescribed vnto the chief Priestes what fourme and order they shoulde obserue in the Ecclesiastical causes and controuersies of religion c. This is a lewde ād a horrible lye flatly belying Gods holy word thē which in one that goeth for a bisshop what can be don more abhominable No No M. Horne it was for greate causes that thus wickedly you concealed the text of holy Scriptures which you knew being faithfully sette down in your booke had vtterly confounded you and your whole matter now in hande For thus lo saieth and reporteth the holy Scripture of King Iosaphat touching his dealing with persons rather then with matters ecclesiastical In Ierusalem also Iosaphat appointed Leuites and Priests and the chief of the families of Israël that they should iudge the iudgement and cause of God to the inhabitants thereof How Iosaphat appointed the Leuites and priestes to these Ecclesiastical functiōs it shal appeare in the next Chapter by the example of Ezechias Let vs now forth with the Scripture And Iosaphat commaunded them saying Thus you shall doe in the feare of the Lorde faithfully and with a perfect harte But howe Did Iosaphat here prescribe to the Priestes any fourme or order which they should obserue in controuersies of Religion as M. Horne saieth he did to make folcke wene that Religion proceded then by waye of Commission from the Prince onely Nothinge lesse For thus it foloweth immediatly in the text Euery cause that shall come vnto you of your brethern dwelling in their Cyties betwene kinred and kinred wheresoeuer there is any question of the law of the cōmaundement of ceremonies of Iustificatiōs shewe vnto thē that they syn not against God c. Here is no fourme or order prescribed to obserue in controuersies of Religion but here is a generall commaundement of the King to the Priests and Leuits that they should doe now their duty and vocatiō faithfully and perfectly as they had don before in the dayes of Asa and Abias his Father and grandfather like as many good and godly Princes among the Christians also haue charged their bisshops and clergy to see diligently vnto their flockes and charges And therefore Iosaphat charging here in this wise the Priestes and Leuites doth it not with threates of his high displeasure or by force of any his own Iniunctions but only saith So then doing you shal not sinne or offende The which very maner of speache Christian Emperours and Kinges haue eftesones vsed in the lyke case as we shall hereafter in the thirde booke by examples declare But to make a short end of this matter euen out of this very Chapter if you hadde M. Horne layed forth but the very next sentence and saying of King Iosaphat immediatly folowinge you shoulde haue sene there so plain a separation and distinction of the spiritual and secular power which in this place you labour to confounde as a man can not wishe any plainer or more effectual For thus saith king Iosaphat Amarias the priest ād your bishop shal haue the gouernment of such things as appertayne to God And Zabadias shal be ouer such works as appertayne to the Kings office Lo the Kings office and diuine matters are of distinct functiōs Ouer Gods matters is the priest not as the Kings commissioner but as the priestes alwaies were after the exāple of Moyses But ouer the Kings works is the Kings Officier And marke wel M. Horne this point Zabadias is set ouer such works as belong to the Kings office But such works are no maner things pertayning to the Seruice of God For ouer them Amarias the priest is president Ergo the Kings office consisteth not aboute things pertayning to God but is a distinct functiō concerning the cōmon weale Ergo if the King intermedle in Gods matters especially if he take vpon him the supreme gouernmēt thereof euen ouer the priests themselues to whom that charge is committed he passeth the bondes of his office he breaketh the order appointed by God and is become an open enemy to Gods holy ordinance This place therefore you depely dissembled ād omitted M. Horne lest you should haue discouered your own nakednesse and haue brought to light the vtter cōfusion of you and your wretched doctrine Except for a shift you wil presse vs with the most wretched and trayterous translatiō of this place in your common english bibles printed in the yere 1562. Which for praesidebit shal gouerne doe turne is amonge you For your newe Geneuian bibles which you take I doubte not for the more corrected doe translate
that the Bishops would not assemble onlesse th'Emperour would be there personally for feare of seditiō and tumult of Eutyches disciples It was therfore translated to Chalcedo being nigh to Constantinople that the Emperour might be there the more cōmodiously And so that which was done by the good Emperor to assure ād honour th'Eclesiastical authority ye turne it to the hinderance and derogation of it But in the supplicatiō of Eusebius which you haue put so at large in your booke it is a world to see how vntruly you haue dealt partly with nipping of sentences in the midst partly with false translation First you leaue out at the very begīning of the Bishops supplication wherin he shortly declareth the whole effect of his request saiyng The entēt and purpose of your clemency is to prouide for all your subiects and to helpe all that are iniuriously oppressed but especially such as beare the office of Priesthod By this beginning it appereth the Bishop requested onely the Emperours external and ciuill power for redresse and help against iniuries And because this should not so appere you thought good to leaue it quite out Againe in the processe where the sayed Bisshoppe saieth Prostrate we beseech your clemencie that ye will commaund Dioscorus to answere to the matters we shall obiect against him It fololoweth which you leaue out the euidences of his doinges against vs being read in this Councell by which words the bishop required the Councel to be his Iudge not the Emperor and least that shuld appere you leaue it out At the end where the latine hath perferre ad scientiam vestrae pietatis omnia quae geruntur you turne it to make relation of all thin-that are don to be iudged where you haue put in these words to be iudged of your own liyng liberality more then your latine hath and al to persuade that the bishoppe requested here the Emperoure to be the Iudge betweene Dioscorus and him Which if ye had put in the whole wordes of your Author would haue easely appeared nothing so but rather the contrarye as by the places by you omitted and nowe by me expressed the circumspect Reader may sone perceiue Thus like as your doctrine so is your manner of writing false vnperfect and vntrue Againe in all this tale Maister Horne though you tell vs at large howe the Emperoures Marcian and Valentinian sente their letters of Summons to all Bisshoppes commaunding them c. Yea adding threattes and punishmentes to those that refused to come at appointmente Yet you tell vs nothing that the Emperoure firste wrote vnto Pope Leo and obteined his consente and Authoritye And then that in his letters of Summones to al Bishops certified them expressely of the Popes pleasure and last of all that the Popes Legates required the Emperours to be presente personallye at the Councell or els they woulde not come there them selues All this yow lette passe In deede it maketh not for yow But it sheweth against yow and for vs very well and plainely that the supreme summon and citing of the bishops to that general Councel yea and the Emperours owne presence there proceded directlye and principally from the Pope and his Legats It declareth well the Popes supremacy in that affaire as we shal in many other moe pointes decypher vnto yow anon more at large Neyther doth the Emperour vse in his letters of Sūmon the wordes of commaundemente but saith Venire dignemini Vouchesafe ye to come And againe Adhortamur we exhort you to come This was the practise of Emperours as I haue noted before out of Cusanus by the way of exhortation to call Councels not by forceable cōmandement by threates and punishmēt as you vntruely report M. Horne The .48 Diuision pag. 31. b. The Emperour assigneth Iudges and 143. rulers in the Sinode about .24 of the chiefest of his Nobles and Senatours After al the Bishoppes and the Iudges vvere assembled in the councell house vvhiche vvas in S. Euphemies Church the Emperour Martianus vvith Pulcheria entreth in amongst them and maketh an Oration vnto the vvhole Councel to this effecte First he declareth vvhat zeale and care he hath for the maintenance and furtherance of true Religiō Then he shevveth that partely the vanitie partely the auarice of the teachers had caused the * discorde and errour in Religion He addeth the cause vvherefore he chardged them vvith this trauaile And last of all he .144 prescribeth a fourme after vvhich they must determine the matters in controuersy This done the Iudges sate doune in their places and the Bisshoppes arovve some on the right hand and others on the left hande And vvhan that Dioscorus vvas accused and the Iudges vvilled him to vse his lavvfull defence there began to be amōgst the Bisshops vvhote scholes vvanting some modesty vvherefore the Iudges at the first stayed them vvith milde vvordes VVilling them to auoide confusion but being earnest they ouershot the modesty of so graue men vvherefore the honourable Iudges and Senate of the Laity appointed by the Emperour did reproue them saying These popular acclamations neither becommeth Bisshoppes neither yet helpe the parties be ye quiet therefore and suffer all thinges to be rehersed and heard in order with quietnes VVhen the Iudges and Senate had duely examined the causes they gaue .145 sentence to depose Dioscorus and others So that this their iudgement semed good to the Emperour to whom they referred the whole matter The .13 Chapter Of the Chalcedon Councell and how the Emperour with his deputies dealed therin Stapleton WE are now in order come to the Coūcel of Chalcedo the actes whereof being very long and tedious the leaues in the great volume rising to the number of one hundred and more M. Horne hath here and there pried out good matter as he thinketh to depresse the Popes primacie withal Wherein he so handleth himselfe that he semeth to me for many causes neuer to haue read the acts but to haue taken things as they came to his handes ministred by his friends or by his Latine Maisters Ones this is sure that for some of his allegations a man may pore in the booke til his eies dasel againe and his head ake ere he shal find them and in such prolixitie of the matter when he hath found them and well weighed them a man would thinke that M. Horne had either lost his wits or els were him selfe a sleape when he wrote those arguments or els which is worst of al that he was past al shame and grace For as ye saw good Readers the Ephesine so shall ye now see the Councell of Chalcedo by no cleare candle or torche but all in a darke horne Wherein he playeth like a false wilie marchaunte that will not shewe his wares but in a darke shoppe But by Gods helpe I shall bring his naughty marchādise into the bright shining light that al men may openly at the eye see al the leudnes of it
were there cōdemned for heretyks why do ye not tell vs also who were cheif in that Coūcell whiche were Theophilatius and Stephanus Pope Adriās Legates And here appereth the wretched dealing of the authour of your Apologye for hys duble lye aswell in that he would by thys Synode proue that a generall councell maye be abolished by a national as for saying this Councell did abolishe the Seuenth Generall Councell whereas it confirmed the said Generall Councell with a like Decree And with this the strongest part of your Apologie lyeth in the dust For wheras the chiefe and principall parte of it is to deface the Councel of Trent and to shew that by priuate authority of one nation the publike and cōmon authority of a Generall Councel might be well inough abrogated he could finde no colour of proufe but this your Councel of Franckford which now as ye heare dothe not infirme but ratifie and confirme the .2 Nicene Councell As made for the honoring and not for the vilaining of holy Images M. Horne The .98 Diuision pag. 59. a. Carolus Magnus calleth by his commaundemente the Bisshoppes of Fraunce to a Synode at Arelatum appointeth the Archebisshoppes of Arelatum and Narbon to be chiefe there They declare to the Synode assembled that Carolus Magnus of feruente zeale and loue tovvardes Christe doothe vigilauntlye care to establishe good orders in Goddes Churche and therefore exhorte them in his name that they diligentlye instructe the people vvith godlie doctrine and exaumples of lyfe VVhen this Synode had consulted and agreed of suche matters as they thoughte fitte for that time They decree that their doinges shoulde be presented vnto Carolus Magnus beseeching him that where anye defectes are in their Decrees that he supplie the same by his wisedome If anye thing be otherwise then well that he will amende it by his iudgemente And that whiche is well that he will .306 ratifie aide and assist by his authority By his commaundemente also vvas an other Synode celebrated at Cabellinum vvherevnto he called manye Bysshoppes and Abbotes vvho as they confesse in the Preface did consulte and collecte manye matters thoughte fitte and necesarie for that time the vvhiche they agreed neuerthelesse to be allovved and confirmed amended or .307 dissalovved As this Councel referreth al the Ecclesiastical matters to the 308 iudgement correction disalovving or confirming of the Prince so amongest other matters this is to be noted that it prohibiteth the couetousnesse and cautels vvherevvith the Clergie enriched them selues persuading the simple people to geue their lands and goods to the Churche for their soules helth The Fathers in this Synod complaine that the auncient Church order of excommunication doing penaunce and reconciliation is quite out of vse Therefore they agree to craue the Princes .309 order after vvhat sorte be that doth committe a publique offence may be punished by publique penaunce This Councel also enueigheth against and .309 condemneth gadding on pilgrimage in Church ministers Lay men great men and beggars al vvhich abuses saith the Synode after what sort they may be amended the Princes mind must be knowen The same Charles calleth an other Councel at Maguntia In the beginning of their Preface to the Councel they salute Charles the moste Christian Emperour the Authour of true Religiō and maintenour of Gods holy Church c. Shevving vnto him that they his moste humble seruants are come thither according to his commaundement that they geue Godde thankes Quia sanctae Ecclesiae suae pium ac deuotum in seruitio suo concessit habere rectorem Because he hath geauen vnto his holie Churche a gouernour godlye and deuoute in his seruice who in his times opening the fountaine of godlye wisdome dothe continuallie fede Christes shepe with holye foode and instructeth them with Diuine knowledge farre passing through his holy wisedome in moste deuoute endeuoure the other Kinges of the earth c. And after they haue apointed in vvhat order they diuide the states in the Councel the Bisshops and secular Priests by them selues the Abbottes and religious by them selues and the Laye Nobilitie and Iustices by them selues assigning due honour to euery person it folovveth in their petition to the Prince They desire his assistaunce aide and confirmation of suche Articles as they haue agreed vppon so that he iudge them worthy beseeching him to cause that to be amended which is found worthy of amendmēt In like sorte did the Synode congregated at Rhemes .312 by Charles more priscorū Imperatorū as the auncient Emperours were wont to do and diuers other vvhich he in his time called I vvould haue you to note besides the authority of this Noble Prince Charles the Great in these Church matters vvhich vvas none other but the selfe same that other Princes from Constantine the Great had and vsed that the holy Councel of Mogūtia doth acknovvledge and cōfesse 313 in plain speach him to be the ruler of the Church in these Ecclesiastical causes and further that in al these councels next to the cōfession of their faith to God vvithout making any mention of the Pope they pray and commaunde prayer to be made for the prince Stapleton The calling of Councels either by this Carolus or by others as I haue oft saied proueth no Supremacy neither his confirmation of the Coūcels and so much the lesse for that he did it at the Fathers desire as your self confesse But now Good Reader take hede of M. Horne for he would stilie make the beleue that this Charles with his Councell of Bishops should forbid landes and goodes to be geuen to the Church of any man for his soules helth and to be praied for after his deathe whiche is not so In deede the Councell forbiddeth that men shal not be entised and perswaded to enter into Relligion and to geue their goods to the Churche onely vppon couetousnes Animarum etenim solatium inquirere sacerdos non lucra terrena debet Quoniam fideles ad res suas dandas non sunt cogēdi nec circumueniendi Oblatio namque spontanea esse debet iuxta illud quod ait Scriptura Voluntariè sacrificabo tibi For a priest saieth the Councell shoulde seke the helth of sowles and not worldly gaines and Christians are not either to be forced or to be craftely circunuented to geue away theyr goods For it owght to be a willing offering accordīg as yt is writē I wil willingly offer sacrifice to thee and in the next canon yt is sayde hoc verò quod quisque Deo iustè rationabiliter de rebus suis offert Ecclesia tenere debet What so euer any man hath offred vnto God iustly and reasonably that muste the Church kepe styl Now for prayers for the dead ther is a special Canon made in this Coūcell that in euery Masse there shoulde be prayer made for suche as be departed owte of this worlde And yt is declared owte
morowe As in dede very properlye and truly George the Noble duke of Saxony sayed of the Lutheranes at Wittenberge when yet your Religion was scante out of her swadling clowtes What the faythe of my neighbours of wittenberge is now this yere I knowe But what it wil be the next yere I knowe not Yet you desire M. Feckenham to note here an other thing besides the Authoryty of this Noble Prince Charles the great for so you call him which you say was none other but the selfe same that other Princes from Cōstātin the great had and vsed which in deede is very true for they had none ne vsed none as hath bene proued and yet I maruayle where is then become the priuilege of S. Peters keyes sent to Charles Martell this mans grandefather if he had as you say none other but the selfe same Authoryte that other Princes from Constantin had If it was loste so soone then how is it true that you said before the heyres and successours of Charles Martell kepte these keyes form rusting If it was not lost how had he no more thē other which had S. Peters keyes more then other had But now to your note You will M. Feckenham to note that the holy Councel of Moguntia I am gladde you call it holy for thē you wil not I trowe misselyke with the diuision of the States there that I tolde you of euen now neyther with the Rule of S. Benets Order in that holy Coūcel straightly exacted doth acknowleadge and cōfesse in plaine speache him that is Charles the great to be the Ruler of the Churche in these ecclesiasticall causes Now shewe these laste wordes in these ecclesiastical causes in any parcel or place of the whol Councell in playne speache as you say and then M. Feckēham I dare say wil thanke you for your Note and for my parte I wil say you are a true man of your worde Which hitherto I assure you I haue litle cause to say or to thinke Your lying is almost comparable to M. Iewels Mary you are not in dede as yet so farre in the lashe as he is But if you come ones to Replying as he hathe done you wil be a Pinner I doubte not as well as he and telle your vntruthes by the thousandes For assure your selfe M. Horne as vera veris conueniunt so an vntrue and false doctrine can neuer possiblye be maintayned without horrible lying and mayne numbers of vntruthes M. Horne The .99 Diuision pag. 60. a. Pope Leo .3 as the French Chronicles and Nauclerus vvitnesseth sent foorthvvith after he vvas made Pope Peters keyes the Banner of the City and many other gifts vnto Charles requiring him that he vvold cause the people of Rome to become subiecte vnto the Pope and that by Othe Charles minding to gratify and pleasure Pope Leo there .314 vvas a cause vvherfore sente an Abbot on this busines and assured the people of Rome to the Pope by othe This Leo his streight .315 dealinges vvith the Romayns vvas so hatefull vnto them vvas brought shortly into much daungier of his life but farre more of his honesty Certaine of Rome came to Charles to accuse this Pope Charles putteth of the examination of the matter till an other time promisinge that he vvoulde vvithin a vvhile come to Rome him selfe vvhiche he did after he had finished his vvarres He vvas honorably receiued of the Pope The eight day after his cominge into Rome he commaunded al the people and the Cleargy to be called togeather into S. Peters churche appointing to here and examine the Pope touchynge that he vvas accused of in the opē assembly VVhē the Cleargy and the people vvere assembled the Kinge examineth them of the Popes life and conuersation and the vvhole company .316 beinge vvilled to say their mindes ansvveare that the manner hathe beene that the Popes shoulde be iudged of no man but of them selues Charles being mooued vvith so .317 sore greeuous an ansvveare gaue ouer further examination Leo the Pope saieth Platina vvho did earnestly desire that kinde of iudgement to geue sentence be 318. meaneth in his ovvne cause vvente vp into the pulpitte and holdinge the Gospels in his handes affirmed by his Othe that he vvas guiltles of all those matters vvherevvith he vvas chardged VVhereunto Sabellicus addeth the Popes owne testimonie of him selfe was so waighty as if it had beene geuen on him by other so muche auaileth a mans owne good reporte made of him selfe in due season .319 for vvante of good neighbours This matter if it vvere as the Popes flatterers vvrite thus subtily compassed although Martinus saith flatly that he vvas driuen to purge him selfe of certaine crimes laide to his chardge yet not vvithstanding the kinge toke .320 vpon him both to examine the matter and to determine therein and as appeareth tooke their ansvvere no lesse .321 insufficient than greuous although he vvinked at it bicause he looked .322 for a greater pleasure to be shevved him againe in consecratinge him Emperour promised longe before vvhiche this Pope perfourmed and solemply vvith great acclamations of the people crovvned him Emperour of Rome For saithe Platina The Pope did this to shewe some thāke fulnes againe to him who had well deserued of the Churche Stapleton This processe stādeth in the accusation of Pope Leo the .3 that certayne Romans made againste hym to Charles bearing with yt suche a wonderfull strength for the establishing of the Popes Supremacy that M. Horn may seme to play al by collusiō and to betray hys owne cause For now hath he by hys owne story auaunced the Pope so as he did also before in alleaging the Roman Councell in the tyme of Pope Sīmachus that he may be iudged of no mā For all the clergie and people of Rome make answere to Charles hym self that no mā cā iudge the Pope This writeth M. Horne owte of Platina and Sabellicus ād other writers be of the same lykenes ād agreablenes in writing with thē Howe then M. Horne Where is now your primacy become I trust now at the length ye wil discharge M. Fekēham frō this othe What say yow to your owne volūtarie allegation that no man forced yow vnto but the mightie truth to the bewraying of your false cause and your greate folly Yet leaste his sayde folly and preuarication shoulde be to open he will saye somwhat to yt because he maye seame to worke thowghe not as miraculously yet as wōderfully as euer did thys Leo who his tong being cut of by the roote as some mē write could speake neuerthelesse ād though his fowle lying mouthe against the Popes primacy be stopped by his own true declaratiō yet wil he speake not to any hys owne honour as Leo did but to hys vtter cōfusion ād shame Forsoth sayeth M. Horne Charles toke thys answere no lesse insufficient then greauous Wel sayde and in tyme M. Horne sauinge
Balduinê° noteth almost 600. times by his senteÌ„ce interlocutory to cut of their friuolous elusioÌ„s We haue nowe nead of such an other Marcellinus to be styckler an arbitrer betwen you and M. FekenhaÌ„ Againe the sayd S. Augustine sayd of the Donatistes as Baldwine noteth that he did meruaile if the Donatists had any bloud in their body that being so often taken in manifeste and open lies yet neuer blushed I say then to you M. Horne that this kinge was not the supreame head but the pope who practised his supremacy in this kinges dayes as much as any pope hath done in this realme in our tyme or sithen this king Henries tyme. Was not the Priour of Canterbury deposed by the Pope Were not a nomber of the clergy that helde with the Barons againste the kinge depryued of their Ecclesiasticall lyuinges and fayne to send to Rome for their absolution Was not the Archbisshop of Canterburies election annichilated and frustrated by the pope Did not the Archbishop of Canterbury Edmond goe to Rome for the dispatche of his Ecclesiasticall affayres Were not S. Hewe of Lincolne and the foresayd S. Edmonde S. Richarde bisshop of Chichester and S. Thomas of Canterbury by the popes authority translated in this kings tyme Was not the kinge hym selfe with Pandulphus the popes Legate presente at the sayd translation at Canterbury Did not Octobonus the popes legate make certayne constitutions ecclesiasticall which are euery where to be had in prynt Did not the king hym selfe procure the Popes curse vppon the Barons that rebelled againste hym Was not the Pope the Iudge in controuersy depeÌ„ding betwene the kinge and the Archbisshop of Canterbury Did not the kinge hym selfe procure to be absolued and discharged of his othe by the Pope as supreame Iudge in matters spirituall Did not this kinge send his bisshops to the greate councell holden at Laterane wherof we haue spoken aswell as other princes did Did not this kinge helpe with his money the Pope againste themperour Frederike thowghe he were allied vnto him And shall all this superiority quayle onely for such bare and friuolouse matter as you laye forth But what yf yt be not only friuolouse M. Horne but starke false I maruayle suerly yf this kinge toke away anie priueleges from the Clergy Why M. Horne What kinge was yt thinke yow that gaue the priuileges for the clergy and the commoÌ„s yea and the nobylity to coÌ„teyned in magna charta but this kinge Who caused the bishops of this realme beinge arayed in theyr Pontificalibus solemly to accurse in Westmynster hall the king him selfe and his nobility being present the infringers of the same but this king HeÌ„ry the .3 Who gaue vnto the Church of Poules in LondoÌ„ such priuileges as the city of LondoÌ„ had and least the citie of London should take any domage therby gaue to the city out of his checker an yearely rente of seueÌ„ pounds euer syns vsually payd but this kiÌ„g HeÌ„ry Lo M. Horn you heare of great priuileges gratiously graunted and geuen to the clergy But what priuileges or when any were taken away from theÌ„ I can not yet fynd No sayth M. Horn can ye not fynd it Why doe ye not then take a litle paynes to reade my authour Polidor to whome I doe remit my reader Yes M. Horn that paynes haue I taken and that shall ye full well vnderstand I wil reherse your own allegation in your authours own words Nowe was saieth he the .1226 yeare of our Lorde God and the .9 yeare of kinges Henries raigne come In the whiche yeare there was an assemble of nobility In this assemble by the consente of the kinge and the nobilitie manie liberties and priuileges were geuen to the order of priesthod and to the commons and many ordinances were made which the kings that followed did so allowe that a good part of the Law is gathered thereof as appeareth in the great Charter and in the Charter of the Foreste Howe say yow M. Horne is there any more bludde left in your body then was in the Donatists of whom S. Augustin complayneth what a Macarian pageante haue ye here played What Thinke yow as Cyrces turned Vlysses companie into hoggs that ye maye so enchaunte all your readers by this your supreame lying supreamacy that they shall be so swinishe as to beleue yow in this poynte or in any other beinge here taken with the maner and as the ciuilians say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 What colourable shifte can ye nowe pretende to saue your poore honesty Is not this the very place that your â—elfe translate out of Polidorus Doth yt not say the quite contrary to that for the which ye alleage yt The matter is so opeÌ„ that I wil refuse no arbitrers no not your owne protestante fellowes It is beside the matter of the story wherin your own author coÌ„demneth you a law matter Cal me therfore a quest of Lawiers Let theÌ„ tel you whether HeÌ„ry the .3 in this couÌ„cel toke away the Charter or made and grauÌ„ted the Charter Yf perchaunce ye wil appeale from theÌ„ to the Grammarians and say that irrogare priuilegia is to take away priuileges which in dede is your extreme miserable refuge against al truth and the words and meaning of your author I am coÌ„tent ye chose a quest of theÌ„ neither therin wil I vse any peremptory challenge but am content to stand to the iudgment of your nigh neighbours in the famous schole of WiÌ„chester or if ye wil of M. Cooper the dictionary maker better acquaynted with these matters theÌ„ perchauÌ„ce your self are But see M. Horn how as accordiÌ„g to the old sayiÌ„g vnum maluÌ„ non venit solum So with yow vnum mendacium non venit solum But that as thowgh there were a game set vp for lying ye adde for the with an other lie Ye saye there was a tribute demaunded of all the clergy by the Legate but yt was denied him Your author saith he demaunded the tenth of the clergie to mainteyne warre against the Saracens and yt was sone graunted him Your authour reciteth also after the minde of some writers that in a conuocation Ottho the Popes Legate demaunded a certayne yerelye paymente which was denied him but he doth improue those that so write And so withal it is not a single but a double or rather a treble vntruth that ye write concerning this tribute For this demaunde yf yt were made was not made at that tyme as you say when that Councel that ye call the solemne Councel was holdeÌ„ and wherin the great Charter was graunted and where as ye most falsly say yt was disanulled but in a conuocation at an other tyme. Now putting the case there were any such payment denied doth that spoile the pope of his supremacy By as good reason ye may conclude yf any thing be denied the King that he demaundeth in the parliament that therefore he is no King This former answere
if it were so that king Philip deposed a Bishop for heresie yet shuld you M. Horne of al meÌ„ take smallest reliefe therby For yf Philip your supreme head were now lyuing and you vnder his dominioÌ„ he might also depriue you and your fellowes for heresie being as I haue before shewed very PateraÌ„s And now you that make so litle of Generall couÌ„cels aÌ„d stay your self and your religioÌ„ vpoÌ„ the iudgmeÌ„ts of lay princes haue heard your coÌ„deÌ„nation not only froÌ„ the notable General CouÌ„cel at LioÌ„s but froÌ„ your new Charles the Emperour Frederike and from your faire King Phillip This this Good Reader is the very handie woorke of God that these men should be cast in their owne turne and geue sentence against them selues And as hotte as ernest and as wilie as they are in the first enterprise of their matters yet in the pursuit of their vngratious purpose to cause them to declare to all the worlde their small circumspection prouidence and lesse faith and honesty Many other things might be here brought for furder aunsweare to M. Horne as that he saieth that this King by the Councell of Aegidius the Romaine Diuine went about the reformation as M. Horne calleth it of matters Ecclesiastical and that Paulus Aemilius should be his Authour therein which is a double vntruth For neither is it true that Aegidius was any counsailer or aider to refourme the Churche or rather defourme it after the order of M. Hornes Relligion nor Aemilius saith it Againe Sabellicus is eyther twise placed in M. Hornes Margent wroÌ„g or he alleageth Sabellicus altogether wroÌ„gfully But this may goe for a small ouersight M. Horne The .132 Diuision pag. 80. b. About the time of this Councel at Vienna the famous scholman Durandus setteth forth a booke vvherin as he reckeneth vppe diuerse great enormities in Churche matters so for the reformation of them he alvvaies ioyneth the King and secular Princes and the Prelates and to this purpose citeth the fourme of the auncient Councelles and many times enueigheth against and complaineth vppon the vsurped .430 authority of the Romaine Bishop vvarning men to bevvare hovv they yeelde vnto him and prescribeth a rule for the Princes and the Prelats to refourme all these enormities not by custome vvere it neuer so auncient but by the vvord of God Stapleton Answere me M. Horne directly and precisely whether Durandus in any worke of his taketh the laye prince for the head of the Church If ye saye he doth not to what purpose doe ye alleage him Yf ye say he doth then his bokes shal sone conuince you And what boke is it I praye you that ye speake of Why do ye not name yt Whie doe you tel vs of a boke no man can tel what The boke there is intituled de modo concilij celebraÌ„di which he made at the commaundemente of the foresayde Clemente Wherein thowghe he spake many thinges for the reformation of the cowrte of Rome yet that aswell in that boke as in all his other he taketh the Pope for the supreame head of the whole Churche is so notoriouse that a man maye iudge all your care is to saye something againste the Pope without any care howe or what ye saye And that ye fare much like a madde dogge that runneth foorth and snatcheth at all that euer commeth nigh him And to geue you one place for all M. Horne that you maye no longer stagger in thys matter behold what thys famouse Scholeman as you call him Durandus saieth of the Popes primacie Illius â—raelatus Papa c. The prelate of the whole Church is called Papa that is to say the father of Fathers vniuersal because he beareth the principal rule ouer the whole Church Apostolicall because he occupieth the roome of the Prince of the Apostles chief Bishoppe because he is the Head of al Bishops c. Lo M. Horne what a ioly Authour you haue alleaged against M. FekeÌ„ham Verely such an aduersary were worth at al tymes not only the hearing but also the hyring But alas what tole is ther so weak that you poore soules in such a desperat cause will refuse to strike withal You must say somwhat It staÌ„deth vpoÌ„ your honors and wheÌ„ al is said it were for your honesties better vnsaid M. Horne The .133 Diuision pag. â—0 b. About this time also the Emperour Henry the .7 came into Italy vvith great povver to reduce the Empyre to the olde estate and glorie of the auncient Emperours in 431. this behalfe And on the day of his coronation at Rome according to the maner of other Romaine Emperours he set forth a Lawe or newe authentique of the most high Trinity and the Catholique faith Stapleton What matter is this M. Horne to enforce M. FekeÌ„ham to denie the popes primacy Wil you neuer leaue your trifling and friuolous dealing If ye wil say any thing to your purpose ye must shewe that he toke not the pope but him selfe onely and his successours for supreame heades of the Church and that in al things and causes which ye shal neuer be able to doe while ye liue neither in this nor in any other Emperour King or prince what so euer M. Horne The .134 Diuision pag 80. b. Nexte to Henry .7 vvas Levves .4 Emperour vvho had no lesse but rather greater conflictes vvith the Popes in his time .432 about the reformatioÌ„ of abuses thaÌ„ any had before hiÌ„ the Pope novv claiming for an 433 Ecclesiastical matter the confirming of the Emperour as before the Emperours vvere vvonte to confirme the Popes About vvhiche question the Emperour sent and called many learned Clerkes in .434 Diuinitie in the Ciuil and CanoÌ„ Lavve from Italy Fraunce Germany Paris and Bononia vvhich al ansvvered that the 435 Popes atteÌ„pts were erroneous and derogating from the simplicity of the Christian religion VVherevppon the Emperour vvilled them to search out the matter diligently and to dispute vppon it and to gather into bookes their mindes therein vvhich diuerse did as Marsilius Patauinus Ockam Dante 's Petrarche c. By vvhom vvhen the Emperour vnderstoode the Popes vsurpation he came to Rome called a Councell and .436 deposed the Pope and placed an other in his roome In vvhich Councel the Romaines desired to haue their olde order in the Popes election ratified by the Emperour to be renevved This Emperour called also a very great Councell at Frankeforth where besides the Spirituall and Secular princes of Germanie the King of .437 Englande and the King of Beame were present where by the greater and sounder parte the Popes aforesaid vsurpation was abolished VVhich sentence the Emperoure confirmed and published vvriting thereof that his authoritie dependeth not of the pope but of God immediatly and that it is a vaine thing that is wonte to be sayed the pope hath no superiour .438 The Actes of this .439 CouÌ„cell against the Popes processe vvere ratified by
the Emperour as appeareth by his letters patentes therevppon beginning thus Lodouike the fourth by the grace of God c. To all patriarches Archebisshoppes Bisshops and priestâ—â— c. And ending thus VVherfore by the Councell and consent of the prelates and princes c. VVe denounce and determine that al such processes be of no force or moment and straightly charge and commaund to all that liue in our Empire of what estate or condition so euer they be that they presume not to obserue the saied sentences and curses of the popes interdiction c. An other Councell he called aftervvards at the same place about the same matter because Pope ClemeÌ„t called it heresie To saie that the Emperour had authoritie to depose the pope which heresie as principall he laid .440 first to the Emperours charg Item .441 that the Emperour affirmed that Christ and his Apostles were but poore Item the .3 heresie that he made and deposed Bisshops Item that he neglected the Popes interdightmeÌ„t c. IteÌ„ that he .442 ioyned certaine in mariage in degrees forbidden he meaneth forbidden by the Popes lavves and deuorceth them that were maried in the face of the Church VVhiche in deede vvas nothing els â–ª but that amongest other Ecclesiastical lavves that the Emperour set forth vvere some for mariages and deuorcements contrary to the Popes decrees The .29 Chapter Of Lewys the .4 Emperour Stapleton WE haue neede Maister Horne of a newe Iudge Marcelline that maie by his interlocutorie sentence bring you as he did the Donatistes from your wilde wide wandering home againe to your matter Let it be for the time if ye will needes so haue it that the Emperours Authoritie dothe not depende of the Pope yea and that Pope Iohn the .22 was also for his owne priuate person an Heretique And then I beseeche you adde your wise conclusion Ergo Maister Feckenham must take a corporall Othe that the Queene is Supreme Heade of the Churche of England Now on the other side if we can proue againste you that euen this your owne Supreame Head Lewys for spirituall and Ecclesiasticall matters agnised the Popes and the Generall Councelles Authoritie to be Superiour to the Authoritie of the Emperoure and of all other Princes and that they all must be obediente and submitte them selues therevnto then shal Maister Fekenham conclude with you an other manner of Ergo and that is that ye and your confederates are no Bishoppes as made contrarye to the lawes and ordinaunces of the Pope and as well of the late Generall Councel at Trent as of other General Councels yea that ye are no good Christians but plaine Heretiques for refusing the Pope and the said Generall Councelles authoritie For the proufe of our assertion that this Emperour albeit he stode against the Pope auouching him selfe for a true and a ful Emperour thowghe he were not coÌ„firmed by the Pope which was the very state of the original controuersie betwixt hym and the Pope and thowghe he procured Pope Iohn as much as lay in hym to be deposed aÌ„d placed an other in his roume belieued yet this notwithstanding that the Pope for spiritual and fayth matters was the Head of the Church which thing is the oÌ„ly matter staÌ„ding in debate betwene you aÌ„d M. FeckeÌ„haÌ„ for prouf I say of this we wil not stray farre of but fetche yt only of your owne authours here named who coÌ„fesse that he appealed to the very same Pope Iohn yl enformed when he should be afterwarde better enformed and withall to a general councel But what nede we seke ayde at Antoninus and Nauclerus hands when we haue yt so redy at your own haÌ„ds For your self say that he placed an other Pope in Iohns stead Ergo he acknowledged a Pope stil aÌ„d as your authour saieth vt veruÌ„ Christi vicarium as the true vicar of Christ. Neither did your Emperour diminishe or blemishe the Popes authority in any poynte sauing that he sayd he might appeale froÌ„ hym to the general couÌ„cel and that theÌ„perour was not inferiour or subiect to hym for temporal iurisdictioÌ„ But with you aÌ„d your baÌ„d neither Pope nor general couÌ„cell taketh place Now theÌ„ that ye are cast eueÌ„ by your own emperour we might wel let goe the residewe of your superfluous talke sauing that yt is worth the marking to see your true honest and wise haÌ„dling of it Your first ouersight aÌ„d vntruth theÌ„ is that ye write that the Pope claimed the coÌ„firmatioÌ„ of theÌ„perour as an ecclesiastical matter In dede he claimed the same aÌ„d so right wel he might do as no new thing by him inueÌ„ted but browght to him froÌ„ haÌ„d to haÌ„d froÌ„ successor to successour by the race and coÌ„tinuance of many hundred yeares And yet if we speak properly yt is no matter ecclesiastical no more theÌ„ the patrimony of S. Peter coÌ„sisting in teÌ„porall laÌ„ds was a matter ecclesiastical and yet bothe dewe to the Pope The one by the gyfte of dyuerse good princes the other either by prescriptioÌ„ of time owt of mind or by special order takeÌ„ by the popes at such time as the pope made Charles the great Emperour of the West or wheÌ„ he traÌ„slated theÌ„pire into Germany and ordeined .7 Princes there to haue the electioÌ„ of th' Emperor or for some other good reason that yf nede be may be yet further alleaged aÌ„d better enforced theÌ„ that al your wytte and coÌ„ning shall euer be able wel to auoyd Nay say ye theÌ„perour had great lerned meÌ„ on his syde experte in diuinity and in the ciuil and canoÌ„ law But wheÌ„ ye come to noÌ„ber theÌ„ ye fynd none but the Poetes DaÌ„te 's and Petrarcha OckaÌ„ the scholeman and the great heretike Marsilius Patauinus And shal these men M. Horne couÌ„teruayle or ouerweighe the practise of the church euer synce vsed to the coÌ„trary and coÌ„firmed by the great coÌ„sente of the catholyke writers and dyuerse general councelles withal Ye write as out of Antoninus or Marius in a seueral and latin letter that the Popes attemptes were erroneous and derogating from the simplicity of the ChristiaÌ„ religioÌ„ But such wordes I fynd as yet in neither of theÌ„ nor in any other of your authours here named And your authour Antoninus saieth that in this point both DaÌ„te 's aÌ„d Ockam with other do erre and that the monarchy of the Empire is subiect to the Church eueÌ„ in matters temporal And wheras your secte wil haue no meane place for any Christians but heauen or hell your Dante 's as Antoninus telleth hath fownde a meane place beside heauen and hel for Socrates Aristotle Cicero Homere and suche lyke Suerly Dante 's for his other opinion towching theÌ„perours subiection is counted not muche better then an heretyke As for Marsilius Patauinus he hath bene aswell long agoe as also of late largely and learnedly answered But as for these writers Marsilius Patauinus Ockam Dante 's and Petrarche with diuerse
Childebertus the King of FraÌ„ce did .489 exact of Pelagius .2 the coÌ„fession of his faith and religion the which the Pope both speedely aÌ„d willingly did perfourme C. Sat agendum 25. q. 1. VVhan I was in Calabria saith Quintinus by chaunce I founde a fragment of a certain booke in Lombardye letters hauinge this inscription Capitula Caroli Then followeth an epistle beginning thus I Charles by the grace of God and of his mercy the Kinge and gouernour of the kingdom of Fraunce a deuout defendour of Goddes holy Churche and humble healper thereof To al the orders of the Ecclesiastical power or the dignities of the secular power greeting And so reciteth all those Ecclesiasticall Lavves and constitutions vvhich I haue vvriten before in Charles the great To al which saith Quintinus as it were in maner of a conclusioÌ„ are these woordes put to I will compell al men to liue accordinge to the Canons and rules of the Fathers Lewes the Emperour this Charles Sonne kept a Synode wherein he forbadde all Churchmen sumptuousnes or excesse in apparaile vanities of Ievvels and ouermuch pompe Anno Christi .830 He also set forth a booke touching the maner and order of liuing for the Churchmen I doubt not saith QuintiÌ„nus but the Church should vse and should be bounde to such lawes meaning as Princes .490 make in Ecclesiastical matters Pope Leo .3 saith he being accused by Campulus and Paschalis did purge himself before Charles the great being at Rome and as yet not Emperour Can. AudituÌ„ 2. q. 4. Leo .4 offereth him selfe to be refourmed or amended if he haue done any thing amisse by the iudgement of Lewes the Frenche Kinge being Emperour Can. Nos si incompetenter 2. q. 7. Menna whom Gregory the great calleth moste reuerende brother and fellow Bishop beiÌ„g now already purged before Gregory is .491 coÌ„maunded a freshe to purge himself of the crime obiected before Bruchinâ—ld the Queene of Fraunce Ca. Menna 2. q. 4. In which question also it is red that Pope Sixtus .3 did purge himselfe before the Emperour Valentinian Can. Mandastis So .492 also Iohn .22 Bisshop of Rome was compelled by meanes of the Diuines of Paris to recante before the Frenche King Philippe not vvithout triumphe the vvhich Io. Gerson telleth in a Sermon De Pasc. The Popes Heresy vvas that he thought the Christian Soules not to be receiued into glory before the resurrection of the Bodies Cresconius a noble man in Sicilia had authoritie or povver geuen him of Pelagius the Pope ouer the Bishoppes in that Prouince oppressing the Cleargie with vexations Can. Illud 10. q. 3. The whiche Canon of the law the Glossar doth interprete to be writeÌ„ to a secular Prince in Ca. ClericuÌ„ nullus .11 q. 3. The Abbottes Bishoppes and the Popes them selues in some time paste were chosen by the Kinges prouision Cap. Adrianus .63 dist And in the same CanoÌ„ Hinc est etiam .16 q. 1. Gregorius wrote vnto the Dukes Rodolph and Bertulph that they shoude in no wise receiue priestes defiled with whoredome or Symony but that they should forbidde theÌ„ froÌ„ the holy Ministeries § Verum .32 dist in whiche place the interpretours doo note that Laimen sometimes may suspende Cleargymen from their office by the Popes coÌ„maundement yea also they may excoÌ„municate whiche is worthy of memory Hytherto Quintinus a learned lavvier and a great mainteinour of the Popes iurisdiction hath declared his opinion and that agreable to the Popes ovvne Lavves that Princes may take vppon them to gouerne in Ecclesiastical .495 matters or causes Stapleton All this processe following tendeth to proue that princes haue a gouernemente in causes and matters ecclesiastical We might perchaunce stande with M. Horne for the worde gouernemente which I suppose can not be iustified by any thing he shall bringe forthe but we wil not For we nede not greatly sticke with him for the terme we wil rather consider the thing yt self First then ye enter M. Horne with an vntruth or two For properly to speake neither were any princes that you here reherse iudges in causes ecclesiastical thowgh they had therein a certain intermedling neither dothe the lawe ye speake of tel of any Bishoppes deposed by the Emperours Arcadius and Honorius but this â–ª onely that if any Bishop be deposed by his fellowe Bishoppes assembled together in councell howe he shal be ordered yf he be fownde afterwarde to attempte anie thing against the common wealth Concerning the doeinges of the Emperour Iustinian in matters ecclesiasticall we haue spoken at large alredie And if he were as ye terme him moste Christian amongest princes and learned in the ecclesiastical disciplines why doe you not belieue him calling Pope Iohn that ye here speake of heade of the Churche and that in the verie place by you alleaged What gouernance in matters ecclesiasticall I praye you was it in Kinge Childebertus if Pope Pelagius to auoyde slaunder and suspicion that he should not thinke wel of the Chalcedon Councell sent to the saied King at his requeste the tenoure of his faythe and beliefe Therefore you doe abuse your Reader and abuse also the woorde exacte whiche signifieth to constraine or compel And that dyd not the Kinge but only dyd require or demaunde Touching the Emperour Charles it is I suppose sufficiently answered alrerdye And if nothing were answered that youre selfe nowe alleage maie serue for a good answere For he maketh no newe rules or Constitutions in Churche matters but establissheth and reneweth the olde and saieth He wil compell all men to lyue according to the rules and Canons of the Fathers Neither doothe he call him selfe heade or Gouernoure of the Churche but a deuoute defender and an humble helper But when he speaketh of his worldlie kingdome he calleth him selfe the gouernour of the kingdome of Fraunce We nede now answere no further for Lewys the Emperour Charles the great his sonne then we haue already answered neither touching Leo the .3 Yf ye say that the Emperour was iudge in the cause of Leo the .4 I graunt you but not by any ordinarie authoritie but because he submitted him selfe and his cause to the Emperours iudgemeÌ„t as it appereth by his own text and the glose And it is a rule of the Ciuill Lawe that yf any man of higher Authority wil submit him selfe and his cause to his inferior that in such a case he may be his iudge But now at length it semeth you haue found a laie person yea a woman head of the Churche and that a reuerend Bisshop was coÌ„maunded to purge him self before her Whie doe ye not tel vs also who coÌ„maunded him It was not Brunichildis the Frenche Queene but Pope Gregorie that coÌ„maunded him And when I pray you Surely when he had purged him self before at Rome before Pope Gregory And why was he I pray you sent to the Queene Surely for no great nede but for to cause his
I haue made proufe vnto you sufficient to remoue .499 your ignorance both of the matter and the vvaie vvherby to knovve confessed by you in your Minor Proposition And this haue I done by the selfesame meanes that you require in your issue I haue made proufe of the Supreame gouernment in Ecclesiastical causes to belong vnto Kings and Princes by the expresse .500 coÌ„maundement of God vvhere he did first describe and set foorth the duety and office of Kings I haue made the same more plaine and manifest by the .501 examples of the moste holy gouernours amongest Goddes people as Moyses Iosua Dauid Salomon Iosaphat Ezechias Iosias the Kinge of Niniue Darius and Nabugodonosor vvho expreste this to be the true meaning of God his commaundemente by theyr practise hereof so hyghly commended euen by the holy Ghost vvhervnto I haue added certaine prophecies forthe of Dauid and Esaie vvherby it is manifestly proued that the holy ghost doth loke for exact and challenge this seruice and .502 Supreme gouernment in church causes at princes handes I haue declared that the Catholike church of Christ did accept and repute these histories of the old TestameÌ„t to be figures and prophecies of the like gouernmeÌ„t and seruice to be required of the Kinges in the time of the nevve TestameÌ„t I haue coÌ„firmed the same by the manifest Scriptures of the .503 nevve TestameÌ„t VVherevnto I haue adioygned the testimonies of .504 auncient Doctours vvith certain exaÌ„ples of most godly emperors vvho being so taught by the most Catholik Fathers of Christs church did rightly iudge that the vigilaÌ„t care ouersight aÌ„d ordering of church causes vvas the chiefest and best part of their ministery and seruice vnto the Lord. I haue shevved plainly by the order of supreame gouernmeÌ„t in church causes practised set forth and allovved in the greatest and best CouÌ„cels both .505 General and Nationall that the same order of Gouernement hath bene claimed and put in vse by the Emperours and allovved and much commended by the vvhole number of the Catholike Bishops I haue made plaine proufe hereof by the continuall practise of the .506 like Ecclesiastical gouernment claimed and vsed by the kinges and Princes euen vntil the time that you your selfe did allovve confesse and preache the same many yeares togeather All vvhiche to your more contentation herein I haue proued by those Hystoriographers that vvrote not onely before the time of Martine Luther least ye might suspecte them of partialitie against you but also suche in dede as vvere for the moste parte .507 partiall on your side or rather vvholie addicte and mancipate to your holy Father as Platina Nauclerus Abbas Vrspurgensis Sabellicus Aeneas Syluius Volateranus Fabian Polychronicon Petrus Bertrandus Benno Cardinalis Durandus Paulus Aemilius Martinus Poenitentiarius Pontificale Damasus Polydorus Virgilius c. all your friendes and vvhome you may truste I vvarrauntâ— you on their vvoâ—rde being the Popes svvorne Vassalles his Chapplaines his Cardinalles his Chamberlaines his Secretaries his Librarie keepers his Penitentiaâ—ies his Legates his Peterpence gatherers his svvorne Monkes and Abbottes as vvell as you and some of them Popes them selues vvhich your friendes saie can .508 neyther lie nor erre from the truth And besides all these the fovver pointes of your issue according to your requeste proued at large for the better reducing of you from vvilfull and malicious ignoraunce to knovve and acknovvlege the inuincible trueth hereof I haue added to your petition a fift pointe vvhiche you tearme a vvoorke of Supererogation For to confirme my proufes vvithall I haue producted for vvitnesses your best learned although othervvise Papishe Ciuilian and Canon lavvyers vvho haue deposed directlie on my .509 side againste you Namely Doctour Tunstall D. Stokesley D. Gardiner D. Bonner D. Thirlbie D. Decius the Glossaries vppon the Lavv D. Petrus Ferrariensis D. Io. Quintinus to vvhome I mighte adde the Ciuilians and Canonistes that vvere in or tovvard the Arches in the last ende of King Henrie and all the time of King Edvvarde vvith all the Doctours and Proctours of or tovvardes the Arches at .510 this time VVherefore you vvill novv I trust yealde herein and recken your selfe vvell satisfied take vppon you the knovvledge hereof and to be readie to testifie the same vppon a booke othe for so haue you promised The conclusion of the three bookes going before with a briefe recapitulatioÌ„ of that which hath bene saied Stapleton NOwe doth M. Horne blow out of his iolye Horne a gloriouse and triumphant blaste to signifie to all the world what a renowned coÌ„queste he hath made vppon poore M. Fekenham He setteth forth his army to the vewe of the worlde wherby he sayeth he hath obteyned this famouse victorie furnished with a number of most holie gouernours amongest Gods people before the comming of Christ as Moyses Iosue Dauid the king of Niniue Darius and Nabuchodonosor furnished with the manifest scriptures of the newe testamente and the examples of the most godly Emperours with generall and nationall councelles with the coÌ„tinuall practise of the Churche with the Popes sworne vassales his chaplaines his cardinalles his chamberlaines his secretaries his librarie kepers his penitentiaries his legates his peterpence gatherers his sworne monks and Abbattes yea to confirme vp his proufes withal with the testimony of Doctour Gardiner D. Tonstal D. Bonner and D. Thirlbie And therfore he trusteth that M. Fekenham will nowe at length yelde and recken hym self wel satisfied and take the othe of the supremacy This is a Royall and a Triumphante conqueste in deede Mayster Horne if it be as you vaunte But yet I would muche soner beleue yt yf I hearde any indifferent man besides your self say as much For thowghe as I heare say you coulde handle your clubbe your buckler and your waster wel and cuÌ„ningly wheÌ„ ye were in CaÌ„bridge wherof ye wil not sticke as yt is reported now and theÌ„ to talke when ye are disposed to bragge of your yowthly partes there played yet to say the truth in this combate with M. Fekenham I see no such manlines in you Neither haue ye plaied so closely but that a man may easely reache you a rappe vppon the head armes or shoulders and cause you there to cratche and claw with your fingers where it ytcheth not Yea ye are beaten quite out of the field with your owne proufes and weapons And as for M. FekhenhaÌ„ ye haue not fastened vpon him as much as one blow What speak I of a blowe No not so much as a good phillip And therfore wheras ye so brauely bragge and so triumphauÌ„tlie vaunt that all is yours when in dede ye haue lost al I thinke good to put you in remembraunce of the great wise man that Atheneus writeth of who as often as any ship came to the haueÌ„ with marchandize would runne thither with al haste and welcome the mariners with great ioye and gratulation reioycing excedinglie and
but for the dead also And anon after speaking of the sacrifice of the Masse that you denie and shewing what excellencie in vertue the Bishope or priest ought to haue aboue other he saieth that he must in althings excel other for whō he maketh this intercessiō to God so far as it is mete that the ruler passe and exced the subiect For sayth he whē the priest hath called for the holy Ghost ād hath made the sacrifice which we ought most to reuerence and to tremble and feare at handling continually our common Lord I demaund among what states shal we place him How great integrity shal we loke for at his handes How great holines and deuotiō Cōsider what those hādes ought to be that shal minister such things Cōsider what tong he ought to haue that shal speak such words Cōsider finally that his soule ought to be of all other most pure ād holy that shal receiue so great ād so worthy a spirit At that time he meaneth of the cōsecratiō of the blessed sacrifice the angels are present with the priest and al the orders of the heauēly powers do make a shoute the place that is nigh to the alter is for the honor of him that is sacrificed replenished with the companies of angels Which a man may wel beleue by reason of so great a sacrifice as is then made Thus muche haue I shewed you M. Horne owt of that most learned light of the Greeke Church Ioannes Chrisostomus aswell to cause you to vnderstand your detestable heresie againste the priesthod of the newe testamente as that the priestes haue a dignity and a singular excellēt regimente aboue secular Princes They haue their spirituall sword that two edged sword I say that cutteth both bodie and soule and by excōmunication if the party repent not casteth both into the deape dongeon of hel And shall all this be counted no rule nor regiment M. Horne being in dede the cheif and the principal regimēt of al other It is yt is M. Horn the highest gouernmēt of al other and of greatest charge and importance And muche better may yt be said to this euāgelical pastour that was sayd to Agamēnon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It is not mete for him all the night longe to slepe that hath so muche people and suche a charge to kepe Yea ye are forced your self M. Horn to cōfesse yt a spiritual gouernmēt and rule Wherby of necessity followeth the ouerturning and ouerthrowīg of your lay supremacie For these being the chief matters or things Ecclesiasticall as your selfe can not denie and the Prince hauing nothing to doe with them as you also confesse it can not be possible that the Prince should haue the Supremacy in al causes or things Ecclesiastical And so neither M. Fekenham nor any man els may take this othe for feare of euident and open periurie And of all madnes this is a madnes and a most open contradiction to remoue these things from the Prince as ye do and yet to attribute to him without anie exception the supremacy in al things or causes Ecclesiastical Yea and to vrge men by other to confesse the same Which kind of arguing is as wise as if a man woulde affirme God to be the maker of al things the geuer of all things the preseruer of al things and yet by and by to saye God can not geue the effect of grace to externall Sacramentes God can not preserue his owne blessed Mother from al actual or original sinne Whereof will followe that God in dede is not omnipotent or almightie those things being taken awaie from him wherein chieflie his almightie power consisteth For in such miraculous operations surmounting farre al power of men God most proprelie sheweth himselfe a God As in such actes and causes Ecclesiastical as binding and loosing preaching the worde ministring the Sacramēts c. consisteth specially and most proprely the rule and gouernement Ecclesiastical We nede not therfore wrastle with you herein any farther M. Horne seing you can so preatily geue your selfe a notable fall Yet one thing would I faine knowe more of you M. Horne if I may be so bolde and learne what you meane nowe at the length to come in with the supreme Authority and power of the sworde What meane you I say to define vnto vs the one kinde and sorte of gouerning the Churche of God in these wordes by the supreme Authoritie and power of the sword to guide care prouide direct and ayde Gods Church c In all your booke hitherto of such supreme Authoritie and power of the sworde you neuer spake worde Howe chaunceth it then the sworde commeth in nowe Doth the supreme gouernement of the Churche of God consiste in the power of the sworde Then howe was the Church of God gouerned .300 yeres and more before the time of Constantine the Emperour who was the very first as hath bene shewed that by the power of the sworde I saie by the power of the sworde guided cared prouided directed and aided Gods Churche Did the Churche of Christ want a Supreme gouernour all those .300 yeres and more Againe doe the Lawes of the Church take force by the power of the sword You with M. Nowell and with the Acte of Parliament do take away from the clergie the power and Authoritie to make Churche Lawes and Constitutions and you say and swere to that no Conuocation or Councel of Bishops shal or may haue force or Authoritie to decree any Cōstitution Ecclesiastical without the Princes consent licence and supreame authoritie For this purpose also you haue alleaged the practise of so many Coūcels both General and National to make proufe that by the supreame Authoritie of Emperours and Kings Canons and lawes of the Churche haue bene enacted and decreed not by the Bishops and Councels it selfe Wherin how shamefully you haue misreported the whole practise of the Churche I haue sufficiently shewed in the seconde and third Bookes But in all your so long processe you neuer yet openlie said that by the power of the sword suche Canons and Lawes tooke place And come you nowe to saye that all this proceded of the power of the sworde Where is then nowe become the libertie of the Ghospell that your graundsir Luther and all your protestant progenitors of Germany do in al their writings so much extolle maintaine and defende against the Secular swoorde of Ciuill Magistrates Againe you M. Horne that doe force the Scholers of Oxforde to sweare by booke Othe that Scripture onelye is sufficiente to conuince euerye trueth and to destroye all heresies you that will beleue nothing but that as plaine Scripture auoucheth vnto you tell vs I praye you where finde you in all Scripture that the Supreame Authoritie to gouerne the Churche of God is by the power of the swoorde What Did not the Apostles gouerne the Churche of Christe all the time of their abode here in earth And when
saying S. Paule saith to the Heb. that the Lavv hath the shadovv of good things to come c. vvhere he speaketh not .588 generally of the vvhole Lavv but of the ceremonial part and Sacrifices vvhich vvere shadovves of Christ and his Sacrifice aÌ„d not of the Bisshops iurisdictioÌ„ after Christ vnder the Lavv of the Gospel Thus aptly also do your allegatioÌ„s out of thold testameÌ„t serue your purpose for one of the three to wit .29 of Exod. hath no woorde of this iurisdiction only it sheweth the manner of consecrating the Priest and the ceremonies theâ— about In the .24 of Exodus it is saide that vvhen Moses vvente vp into the Mount he said vnto the Elders Tary vs here vntil we retourne vnto you Beholde Aaron and Hur are here with you if any maÌ„ haue ought to doe let him come vnto them that is if any mater of coÌ„trouersie arise in mine absence let Aaron and Hur haue the hearing and deciding of it as I should haue if I vvere present By this place Aaron had no authority geuen vnto him but for a time in the absence of Moyses by commission from Moses the chiefe ruler and gouernour of Gods people and that not alone but hauing Hur one of the Elders an Auncient and a vvise man ioyned in commission vvith him This allegation maketh directly .589 against your conclusion for it shevveth that Aaron had this Authoritie but by commission from Moyses the Prince of the people In the thirde place Num. 27. vvhere God shevved vnto Moses that Iosue shoulde gouerne the people after him it is saied that Iosue should stand before Eleazar the Priest who shal aske Councel for him by the iudgement of Vrim before the Lord and at his word they shal go out and in both he and the people of Israell that is vvhan Iosue standeth in doubt vvhat to do for the better gouernment of the people either in the time of peace or vvarr he shal vnderstand Gods vvil therin by the high Priest to vvhom the Lord vvil miraculously declare his vvil and pleasure by the light or shining of the Vrim and Thumin and according to Gods vvil shevved in the Vrim to the high priest and by him to Iosue he must direct and order his goeing in and out Ergo say you The Bishoppes and Priestes novve in the tyme of the Ghospell haue Iurisdiction by the expresse vvord of God to keepe Courtes to call Councels to make Lavves and forinsecallie to visite refourme order and correcte theyr flockes and cures The moste simple can iudge of this .590 sequele After like sorte it is vvriten Deut. 17. That vvhan hard and doubtful cases come before the iudges or inferiour Magistrates vvhich cannot easely be tried or founde out by them than the inferiour Magistrates shall goe to the highe Prieste and to the chiefe iudge at Hierusalem for the tyme beinge vvhoe shall shevve vvhat is to be doone vvhose sentence and iudgement muste not be disobeyed vnder the paine of death Doe you not aptly conclude thinke you that the Bishopes in the time of the Ghospell ought to haue this Courtly iurisdiction bycause the high Priest and the .591 Temporall iudge did determine doubtfull cases in the time of the olde Testament For the Priest alone did not determine al causes as you seeme to alleage the texe The .8 Chapter Conteyning a Confutation of M. Hornes answer to the Obiections of M. Fekenham layed out of the olde lawe Stapleton IF a maÌ„ that hath an aduersary and such as he wil and must fight withall may first by some prety deuice fynde the meanes that his aduersarie may be caste in prison and when he shal come to the combate may appointe him also his weapon or by a sleight conueye awaye his aduersaries good weapon and in steade thereof geue him some feble weake and rotten staff to fight with then may this crafty false souldier sone be a conquerour It seameth now to me that M. Horne that pretendeth him self to be the prelate of the honourable order of the Garter doth much dishonour him self and sheweth to great cowardnes offering M. Fekenham in this combat to much wrong first procuring by sinister accusations that he was restrayned of his liberty aÌ„d then afterward in this his answere geuing M. FekenhaÌ„ by a prety legerdemaine as it were a poore slender and weke weapon for his inuasiue armure who otherwise had prouided for himself very wel I meane of such argumeÌ„ts as M. Fekenham hath made which M. Horne taketh vpon him to soile and confute after what sorte ye haue partly sene and shal forthwith haue further experience M. Fekenham then argueth after this sorte In the olde Law which as S. Paule saith is a very figure of the new Moyses Aaron and Eleazarus being priests had the chief iudgment of matters Ecclesiastical without any commission from the cyuill magistrat Again al aswel cyuill magistrates and iudges as other were commaunded vpon payne of death to obey the determination of the priest in doubtful matters Ergo the laye Prince is not the supreme head or iudge in al spiritual and ecclesiastical causes Ergo the bisshops may visite and correct their flock without any commissioÌ„ of the Prince This is good reader M. Fekenham his good and stronge inuasiue weapon Ye shal now see howe M. Hornâ— doth slilie and craftely imbecile aÌ„d steale away this armure from him and geueth him as it were a bulrush in his hand and then steppeth forth like a new Gohath against litle Dauid And first ye may note what a profounde diuine he is that maketh yt a straunge thing to heare that S. Paule should take the old Testament for a very figure of the newe And yet this is so sure and so sounde a principle and so easie to be proued by all the new Testament and so throughly and conformably confessed as well of the Catholiks as protestants that I meruaile what Maister Horne meaneth thus to wrangle Nay saith Maister Horne yet S. Paule saith not so he saith in dede that the lawe hath the shadowe of good thinges to come but that perteyneth onelye to Christes sacrifice whereof the olde lawes sacrifices were shadowes and not to the bisshops iurisdiction vnder the ghospel Why Maister Horne is there none other place in S. Paule that may serue M. Fekenhams turne think you but this You know M. Fekenham quoted not this place which you alleage nor any other but being a matter so knowen and coÌ„fessed left it vnquoted Therefore if S. Paule say so either here or otherwhere M. FekenhaÌ„s saying standeth for true What say you then to S. Paul that saith that which was writen in the old law thou shalt not mussel the mouthe of the oxe that treadeth out the corne to haue bene writen for vs and therby proueth that â—he laye men should temporally relieue their spirituall pastours Doth he not here take the old law for a very figure of the new Again doth
ovvn office vvithout any suit made to the Emperour to execute that vvhich belonged vnto them selues Themperour refused to iudge the quarreling accusations of the bisshops assembled at the Nicen Councel one quarreling and accusing an other and referred the iudgement of them to Christ. This vvas his modesty Policy and prudent foresight least by sifting those priuat quarrels he might haue hindred the common cause as I haue said before and is plainly to be .629 gathered of Ruffinus and Nicephorus and .630 not for that he thought his authority might not stretche so farre as to iudge the Priests and their matters as ye vvould haue it to seme for as he him self protesteth this aboue all other things to be the chief scope and ende of his Emperial authority namely that the Catholik Church be preserued in vnity of faith sincerity of loue coÌ„cord in godly ReligioÌ„ and that the diseases therein as Schismes Heresies c. might be healed by his ministery euen so forsoke he no occasion or meane vvhereby to vvork forth this effect of his ministery and office vvhether it vvere at some tyme by relenting and remitting somvvhat of his autority or by exercising the same to the vtmost in al matters and ouer al persones He thought it the best for this tyme by .631 relenting to beare vvith the vveakenes of those fathes thereby the better to encourage theÌ„ to staÌ„d fast and ioyntly against the coÌ„mon enemy for the furtherance of the truth But aftervvad vvhan the CouÌ„cel or Synod vvas assembled at Tyre by his coÌ„mmauÌ„demet aÌ„d that Athanasius had made coÌ„plaint vnto him of the vniust dealing of that councel to deface the truth themperour did exercise the ful authority of his ministery and called al the Bishops vnto hiÌ„ to this end that he by his 632 supreme authority might examine their doiÌ„gs aÌ„d iudge of the vvhole CouÌ„cel vvhether thei had iudged vprightly aÌ„d dealâ— sincerely or not This he did at the suite of the most godly bisshop Athanasâ—ê° vvho vvold not haue attributed this .633 authority to the Emperour if it had not apperteined to his iurisdiction to haue iudged the bisshops and their doinges â–ª vvither vvould the Catholique Fathers of that tyme haue suffered this and many other such like doinges of this most ChristiaÌ„ Emperour to haue passed vvithout some admonition or misliking if they had not acknovvledged the authority in him to be lavvful He commaunded the Bisshops euery vvhere to asseÌ„ble at his appointmeÌ„t vvher and vvhaÌ„ he vvould He sharply reproueth AlexaÌ„der Bishop of AlexaÌ„dria and Arius for the contention stirred vp by them He 634 iudged Cecilianus Bisshop of Carthage to be lavvfully coÌ„secrated and ordered and condemned the Donatistes And these Bisshoppes assembled at the Nicen Councell by his commaundement â–ª of vvhom ye speake acknovvledged the Emperour to haue authority to iudge them and their causes .635 or els they had doone folishly to offer their billes of complaint vnto him vvhome they thought had no authority or might not iudge and determine theÌ„ But in case it vvere true that the Prince might not iudge the Priestes nor their causes vvhat conclude you thereof You can not conclude your purpose for this is no more a good consequent Constantinus vvould not could lavvfully iudge the Priestes assembled at Nicen Councel Ergo .636 Bishoppes and Priests may cal councels make Lavves orders and decrees to their flocke and cures and exercise al maner iurisdiction cohibitiue Then this Yorke standeth but .iij. myles from Pocklington Ergo your pocket is ful of plummes The .10 Chapter Conteyning a defence of three exaÌ„ples brought forth by M. Fekenham touching three Emperours Constantin the greate Valentian the first and Theodosius the firste Stapleton ALthough that which M. FekeÌ„haÌ„ hath alredy layd forth out of holy scripture be sufficieÌ„t to shew aÌ„d proue that the superiority in al causes ecclesiastical doth not rest in laye princes but in the spiritual rulers yet will he nowe adde and adioyne therunto such a forcible argument that shall beate downe to the ground M. Hornes newe Laicall supremacy M. Horne with al his witte and cunning goeth about to auaunce his new supremacy and to depresse and abolish the other as contrary to scriptures and iniuriouse to the Emperours and princes Nowe to stoppe his lyinge mouth M. Fekenham bringeth forth thre of the worthiest Emperours that euer were and al thre lyuing when Christian religion most florished that by plaine wordes confesse the cleargies superiority in this behalf that is Constantine the great Valentinian the first and Theodosius the great This Constantine at the request of Siluester the pope called the first general councell at Nice where diuerse bisshops being at contention for certain matters offered their complaints to him To whom Constantine answered that where as God had made them priests he had geuen them authority to iudge ouer him And therefore they might well be his iudges But ye sayth he may be iudged of no man Good Lorde how farre discrepant is the iudgment of this our noble contry maÌ„ as our Chroniclers cal him and most worthy Emperour from the iudgement of M. Horn and his fellowes He disclaimeth flatly this newe superiority Yet you nowe after one thousand and almost thre huÌ„dred yeares by preaching and writing yea by premunire and the sword do maintaine the same This answere presseth M. Horne very sore and therefore he seketh euery corner to hide his head in and yet he can fynd no good or quiet resting place And firste he would fain take some holde in a by matter which is that Constantin did not cal the councel at Siluester his request because the councell was not in the tyme of Siluester but of Iulius I deny your argument M. Horne For it must neades be that the bishops reparing to Nice froÌ„ al quarters of Christendome should haue a conuenient time to come thither And Nicephorus writeth that the same Councel dured three yeares and more And then may it wel stand that Syluester died either after the summoning and before the full assemble of the bishops or at least before the end that so some part of it might falle in the time of Iulius notwithstanding that Marcus came betwene who sate in the See litle more then two yeres Neither doth your authours by yowe cited deny that it was called at Syluesters requeste nor any other of the auncieÌ„t writers that euer I read But I say further vnto you that as Constantine did cal it at his request so did he him self cal this councell the one by his spiritual the other by his teÌ„poral authority which in all good princes tyme doth euer serue the other The one as your own Author Cusanus teacheth by force of Authority and coÌ„maundement ouer al bishops ouer whom he is the head The other by way of exhortation of temporall ayde and succour as I haue before at large recited his wordes But to leaue
400. b. 407. b. 468. a. b M. Ievvels Regester 214. a. A Copie of M. Ievvels Rhetorike 142. b 192. b. 246. b. 399. b. M. Ievvel ouerthrovven by his ovvne Charles 240. b. M. Ievvels hipocrisie 407. a. 515. a. The Iesuites 533. a. b. Ignatius for the bisshops Superioritie 525. a. b. Image breakers condemned 223. a. 234. b. 260. b. Inuesturing of bisshops hovve it came to Princes handes and hovve it vvas taken from them 254. a. b. Geuen vp by Henrie the .5 282. b. Graunted by the Pope 389. b. 325. a. Geuen ouer in Hungarie 300. b. Iohn the Pope a Martir 167. b. Iohn the .22 Pope 336. a. b. King Iohn 312. seq Iosaphat 50. 51. Iosias 53. a. Iosue 45. b. Isacius themperour Heraclius his Lieutenant 196. a. Isidorus against the Princes Supreme Gouernement 365. seq Iustinus the elder 166. 167. Iustinian the first 169. and .14 leaues after Iustinian the second 201. a. b. K. S. Peters keyes 226. a. sequentib 242. a. Miracles done by keyes 226. a. VVhat the keyes vvere that vvere sent to Charles Martell 227. a. Knokes against the lineal succession of Princes 25. ◠L. LAnfrancus of Caunterburie 295. a ▪ Laie men in reformation of Ecclesiasticall matters maye not b◠present 131. b. 153. a. VVhie thei are present in Councelles 150. a. 255. b. In vvhat order thei sitte in Councelles 237. b. 238. a. Gods lavves and the Churche lavves 486. b. 487. a. Legates see Pope Leo the Great 133. Proufes for the Popes primacie out of Leo. 134. b. 135. 136. Leo the .3 Pope 240.241.242 Leo the .9 Pope 274 a. Levvys the first Emperour 249. Levvys the fourth Emperour 333.334 seq S. Levvys of Fraunce 324. a. b. Liberius no Arrian 112. a. A complainte for defacing of Libraries 292. a. Licinius the tyran 297. a. Lotharius Emperour 283. a. King Lucius of Britannie 397. seq Hovve king Lucius vvas Gods vicar 400. b. Luther condemneth the Princes Supremacie in Ecclesiastical causes 22 a. 508. Lutherans and Caluinistes at mutuall dissension 432.433.434 M. The Madgeburgenses denie Princes to be heads of the Church 22. a. Manfredus 325 a. Marsilius Patauinu◠an heretike 334. a. b. Martian the Emperour 140. b. 147. a. 251. b. 152. b. Martyrdome vvithout any cause of faithe 308. a. Maximilian the first 362. Hovve Christ and hovve the Priest is a Mediatour 522. a. b. Melanchthon vvil not haue Princes to iudge of doctrine 72. b. Sir Thomas Mores Opinion of the Popes Primacie 38. a. Mortal sinne 536 a. The statute of Mortmaine 327. a. b. Moyses vvas a Priest ▪ 43. b. N. The Nicene Councel 101. sequentib Called by Siluester 491. b. 492. a. Nicolaus the first Pope 257. Nilus of Thessalonica 384. a. b. M. Novvell put to his shiftes by M. Dorman 45. b. Maister Novvels boyishe Rhetorike 46. a. M. Novvels maner of reasoning reproued of M. Horne 402. b. Maister Novvels vvitte commended 481. Maister Novvels vnsauery solution 507. a. O. OEcumenius for the Sacrifice 407. Orders and decrees made by S. Paule beside the vvritē gospel 485. b. 486. a. 488. b. Origine cursed 170. a. b. The Othe 423. and seuen leaues folovving The Othe contrarie to an Article of our Crede 423. b. 24. a. sequent 427. The Othe againe 451.452 and manie leaues follovving Item fol. 509 ▪ and .510 Otho the first 268. sequent Otho the fourthe 311. a. b. Oxforde made an vniuersitie 292. b. P. PApiste Historians 203. a. b. The order of the Parlement aboute the Conqueste 299. b. Pastours 409. a. b. 417. a. Paterani 318. b. 319. b. Pelagius no english Monke 528. b. Penaunce enioined to Theodosius 498. a. b. Peterpence paied in Englande 293. a. Petrus de Corbario 336. b. 337. a. Petrus Cunerius 341. b. 342. a. Petrus Bertrandus 342. a. et b. Petrus de Aliaco 353. a. Philip le beau the Frenche Kinge 329. sequent Philip de Valois 341. sequent Philip the first Christian Emperour 39◠b. sequent Phocas 194.195 Pilgrimage in Charlemaines time 236. b. Pilgrimage to S. Thomas of Caunterbury 309. a. Praier for the dead and to Saintes in Constantines time 87. a ▪ Praier for the dead in Charlemaines time 236. b. Priestes haue Authoritie to expounde the Scripture 41. a. Priesthood aboue a kingdome 73. b. 74. a. Of the vvorde Priest and Priesthood 405. seq 472. a b. Princes Supreme Gouernement in Ecclesiasticall causes condemned of all sortes of Protestants out of England 21. b. 22. a. b. 208. a. Hovve Princes do gouerne in cases of the first Table 71. b. 72. a. Euill successe of Princes intermedlinge in causes ecclesiastical 171. Hovve Princes do strenghthen the Lavves of the Churche 176. b. 179. b. Priuileges graunted to Poules Church in London 322. a. The vneuen dealing of Protestantes 4. a. Protestants cōfounded about the matter of succession 8. a. Protestants like to Arrians 188. a. VVhy Protestantes can not see the Truth 247. b. The Protestants Church compared to the schismaticall temple of Samaria 430. b. 431. a. Polidore foulie falsified by M. Horne 350. a. b. Pope The Popes Primacie instituted by God 38. a. 320. a. Acknovvleadged by the late Grecians 76. b. Confessed by the Emperour Valentinian 81. a ▪ By Theodosius the first 115. b. 120. b. By the seconde Generall Councell 121. a. By S. Hierom. 125. a. Proued out of the third General Councel 129.130 Proued out of the fourth General Coūcel 149.150.152.153.154 a. Proued out of Synodus Romana by M. Horne Authorised 158.159.162 Confessed by Iustinus the Elder 166. By Iustinian the Emperour 175.176 Proued by the Councell of Braccara in Spaine 185 a. By the sixt Generall Councell 209. a. By the seuenth Generall Councell 223. b. By the booke of Carolus that Caluin and Maister Ievvell alleageth 240. b. By the true Charles 241. a. By the eight Generall Councell 259. a. By Basilius the Emperour of Grece 259. b. By Otho the first 268. a. b. 273. a. By hughe Capet the Frenche Kinge 272. a. By Frederike Barbarossa 286. b. Agnised in Britannie before the Saxons 291. a. b. 397. a. b. In England before the conquest 292. 293. By VVilliam Conquerour 294.306 b. By Lanfrancus 295. By the Armenians 303. b. 304. a. By the Aethyopians 304. b. 305. a. By Kinge Steuen 306 a. By Kinge Henry the .2 306.309 a. By Frederike the seconde 319. b. Practised in Englande in king Henrie the third his time 321. b. In Fraunce by S. Levvys 324. b. In Englāde by kinge Edvvard the first 326. a. b. By Philip the French Kinge 330 a. b. By Durādus M. Hornes Author 331. b. By Kinge Edvvarde the thirde 344. b. 345. a. By Charles the .4 Emperour 346. b. 347. a. b. By Kinge Richard the secōde 350.351 a. By Petrus de Aliaco M. Hornes Author 353. a. By Sigismunde the Emperour
catalogo testium veritatis Imo quod deterius est videtur nobis quod pro nihilo habeant Ecclesiam Romanam quia nulli appellationi ad eam factae deferunt Bernard Epist. Platina in Had. 4 Sabel En. 9. lib. 9. * Anno. 1145. Nauclerus Generat 39. pag. 231. Volater Geograph lib. 10. Otho Frising * CoÌ„c Nicen 2. Cap. 32. Theophil in Ioan. 19 Niceph. li. 18. cap. 52. 53. Domianê° Ã Goes de Aethiopum moribus Pontificem Romanum tanquam primum Episcopum pastorem ouiuÌ„ Christi agnosco Nostri certè ab exordio primitiuae Ecclesiae Rom. PontificeÌ„ vt primum Episc. agnoueruÌ„t cui etiam hodierno die vt Christi Vicario paeremus Anno. Dom. 1524. Propterea dico ego humiliter ad terram flexis genibus quòd tu pater meus es ego filius tuus Procul dubio sanctitas vestra Dei est Vicarius Sabel ene 10. lib. 8. Mat. Par. Polychro The .426 vntruthe PolychronicoÌ„ saith no such thing Mat. Par. Fabian The .427 vntruthe This for foloweth not here but of an other matter longe after Seâ— Fabian cap. 237. Fabian VVilliam of Malmesbury Giraldus CambreÌ„sis The King kepeth Councels in IrelaÌ„d by the Popes coÌ„sent King HeÌ„ry coÌ„quered IrelaÌ„d by the Popes consent â–ª Poli. li. 13. In addit ad Neubur M. S. King vvilliaÌ„ the coÌ„querour moued his right first to the Pope ere he coÌ„quered England The doiÌ„gs of Kinge Henry against S. Thomas declared by M. Foxe S. Thomas can not iustlie be accused of stoutnes and stubbournes Ca. 8. de appellatio Si emerserint ab Archidiacono debeÌ„t procedere ad episcopuÌ„ et ad epis ad archie et si Archiepis defuerit in iustitia exhibeÌ„da postremò ad regeÌ„ est peruemenduÌ„ vt praecepto ipsius in curia Archiepiscopi coÌ„trouersia terminetur ita quod non debent vlteriê° procedere absque assensu regis In quadrilogo de vita B. Thomae lib. 5. Vide dict quadriloguÌ„ lib. 5. impress parisijs in 4. An. 1495. in principio Vide foxuÌ„ fol. 48. Cap. 7. Nullê° qui de rege teneat in capite vel aliquis domesticoruÌ„ ministroruÌ„ eius ex communicetur c. nisi prius rex c. A man may be a martyr though it be for no cause of fayth or relligion Niceph. li. hist. eccles 13. cap. 1. Telemachius the martyr Theod. l. 5. cap. 26. Tr. l. 10. c. 2 Niceph. li. 13. cap. 4. cuÌ„ sequeÌ„t Sigeb in chronic a. 697 et 698. VideelegaÌ„teÌ„ disputationem an Alphegus sit martyr inter LanfraÌ„c Cantur Anselmum postea Cant. Archiepiscop apud Edinerum lib. 1. de vita Anselmi Vide Guliel Malmesb. de Pontif. lib. 1. VVat a testimony God hath geueÌ„ to the vvorld for S. Thomas doyngs In Quadrilogo li. 2. c. 16. Vox de coelo elapsa sic contestata est In dicto quadril li. 3. c. vlt. NaÌ„ in loco passioÌ„nis eius vbi ante maius altare pernoctauit humaÌ„dus vbi tandem sepultus est etc. The erle of flaunders aÌ„d the Frenche kinge came to Canterburie in pilgrimage to S. Thomas In quadrilogo lib. 4. cap. 4. Obtulit munera vinuÌ„ videlicet et auruÌ„ aureuÌ„ scilicet caliceÌ„ vini centuÌ„ modios perpetuo ad natalitium dieÌ„ martyris singulis aÌ„nis celebraÌ„duÌ„ in latitia Polidorus in Hen 2. Quadrilogus li. 4. cap. 5. The kiÌ„gs grief for S. Thomas Penaunce enioyned to the kiÌ„g by the popes Legats The kiÌ„gs sonnes rebell to hiÌ„ theire carnal father as he rebelled against his spirituall father the pope and S. Thomas Quadrip histo vitae D. Thom. lib. 4. c. 6. cuÌ„ sequeÌ„t 2. Re. c. 17. Iosephus li. 2. c. 12. de Antiq. Iudaeo His meruelous voluntarie penaunce In dicta quadripa in Gul. Malmesb. Neuburg lib. 2. c. 34. Impr. Cap. 19. M.S. Viro reuerendissimo Rogero scilicet Abbate Bellelandensi refereÌ„te cognoui quod c. Polidorus in HeÌ„r 2. Dict. lib. 4. ca. 8. in quadripart in Neuburg cap. 19. Ipsa naÌ„que die eadeÌ„ etiam diei hora qua missae interfuerat rex Scotorum captus est c. A meruelouse victory that God gaue the king the same hovvre he heard masse at CaÌ„terbury The king ascribeth his victorie to God and S Thomas Rex autem totuÌ„ ascripsit Domino glorioso martyri Ib. cui certiss erat ascr vvhat a madnes is it to make S. Thomas after so manie hundred yeares a traytour The .428 Vntruth Auouched but vnproued Ann 1230. Abb. Vrsp. in vita Henr. 5. Gul. â—irius de bell sac li. 1. ca. 13. Otho â—ris li. 7. ca. 16. Radulph Pisanus in vita Calixti 2. Diuis 117. Naucl. gener 41. pa. 287. 288. Nauclerus The .429 vntruthe This Otho recouered it not but lost the Empire him selfe The .430 vntruthe slaunderous It vvas no vsurpatioÌ„ but lavvful posession The .431 and .432 as shall appeare Nauclerus gener 41. pag. 273. Platina in Inno. 3. Vide Naucler gene 41. p. 274.5.6 7. ConuentuÌ„ principum suae partis celebrauit Norimbergae Polych Fabian The .432 vntruthe No suche vvoordes in Fabian Acts and monumentes fol. 65. A greate vntruthe of M. Fox coÌ„cerniÌ„ge the poysoning of kiÌ„g Iohn An other vntruthe for the chronicles doe not commonly say so M. Foxe him selfe vnwares coÌ„futeth his ovvn fable of the poysoning of kiÌ„g Iohn The Authour of vvhome M. Foxe taketh the residue of his storie coÌ„cerniÌ„g KiÌ„g Iohn maketh against him Ex Chronic Ioan. LoÌ„dineÌ„sis M. Foxes grounde of poysoninge kinge Iohn staÌ„deth vppoÌ„ a lying boke hauing no name of the auctour Vvhat a lying boke this fructus teÌ„poruÌ„ is that M. Fox grouÌ„deth him selfe vppon Parte 1. Parte 5. Vide praefationem Guilielm Nevvbrigensis de Galfridâ— impress An other great vnvntruth of M. Foxes for his authour hath no vvord of this confirmatioÌ„ See thys boke prynted by vvinkin de wordâ— 2502. The .433 vntruth mere Slaunderous The .434 vntruthe Not ecclesiasticall Lavves as shall appeare M. Horne telleth of lavves made by the Emperour hovv heretikes should be ordered but the order he shevveth not The Heretikes that Frederike coÌ„demned vvere coÌ„demned before in the great general couÌ„cell at Lions An. 1215. Platina In Innoc. tertio In Chronographia Vide Decret Grego tit de heretic c. excommunicamus 2. A rascal rablement of monstruous heretiques names Ioan. Gers. part 4. IbideÌ„ titulo de summa Trinit cap. 2. Reprobamus etiam coÌ„demnamus peruersissimum dogmae impij Almarici cuius meÌ„tem pater meÌ„dacij sic excoecauit vt eius doctrina noÌ„ tam haeretica quà m insana sit censenda Vide epistolas Petri de vineis Cancellarij Frederic 2. li. 1. ca. 25.26 et 27. Et nouell Fred. insertas Cod. IustiniaÌ„ The difference betvvene the lavves of Frederike and the Councell Dict. cap. 2. de summa trinitate Et c. excommunicamus 1. 2. de haeretic The maner hovv heretikes should be ordered set forthe as vvell out of the