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A16774	An admonition to the nobility and people of England and Ireland concerninge the present vvarres made for the execution of his Holines sentence, by the highe and mightie Kinge Catholike of Spaine. By the Cardinal of Englande; Admonition to the nobility and people of England and Ireland concerninge the present warres made for the execution of his Holines sentence, by the highe and mightie Kinge Catholike of Spaine.	Allen, William, 1532-1594.	1588 (1588)	STC 368; ESTC S120636	32,181	61

his custodie annointed and crouned him kinge and caused immediately the pretensed Queene to be slaine with her fautors at the courte gate not withstādinge they cried TREASON TREASON as not onely iuste possessors but wicked vsurpers vse to doe this loe is the ende of iniuste titles this is the zeale authoritie of preistes for the maintenāce of righteousnes religion Achab and ●esabell 3. Reg 18 19. No man can be ignorante with what courage and constancie Elias being sought to death by Achab Iesabell that ouerthrewe holie aulters and murthered the true religious of the lande told them that they and their hous● were the subuersion of Israel and slew in his zeale all the Queenes false prophets foure hundrethe at one time and so sett vp holie alters againe He spared 4. Reg. 1. not the Idolatrous kinge Ochosias his capitains and messengers but destroied them by fier from heauen till the third capitain was forced to humble 4. Reg. 9. himfelf vpō his knees vnto him Elizeus also caused Iehu to be cōsecrated kinge the house of Achab to lose their right to the kingdom and his sonne Iorā to be slaine by whose cōmaundment cursed Iesabell was afterward throwne out of her chāber window in to the courte and after eaten of dogges in the very same place where she had comitted crueltie and wickednes before This Iesabell for sacrilege cōtempte of holie preistes rebellion against God crueltie dothe so muche resemble our Elizabethe that in moste forrein cuntries and writinges of strāgers she is comonly called by the name of Iesabell I know not whether God haue appointed her the like or a better ende Maacha 2. Par. 15. Queene Maacha mother to good kinge Asaa was as ours is an apostata from the true faithe and in fleshly lust not vnlike for she erected opēlie and worshiped the filthy Venerius statua of Priapus and replenissed all her courte cuntrie with effeminate and amorous persons and therfore was deposed from her regalitie by her owne sonne which the holie scriptures muche commende in him and the land purged of her whorishe abhomination By all which we lerne what crimes deserue in a prince deposition And howe preistes and prophetes haue bene principall workers and Gods ministers in there depriuatiō VVhearin the prophet Ely was so notorious that to his honor it is thus said of him in holie writ He cast downe kinges Eccle. 48 and destroied them and plucked the honorable from theire seates And of Elizeus in the same place thus He neuer feared prince nor could of no man be ouercum And thus it was in the olde testamēt Nowe in the newe testament where the preistes haue muche more soueraigne authoretie the prince far strairer charged to obeye loue and cherishe the Churche the cause for vs is muche more cleare of which Churche it is said Kinges Isa 49. ●2 Isa 60. Psal 2. shal be thy fosterfathers and Queenes thy nurces And againe Kinges brests shall nurishe the and euery kingdome that serueth not the shall vtterly perishe In this Churche without faile is the supereminent power of Christes preistehood who with his irō rod bruseth like a potsheard the pride Ier. 1. of princes that rebell against his holie spouse and hathe righte in his Churche ouer all kingdoms to plante and to plucke vp to buyld and destroie afore whom all kinges shall fall doune all nations shall do him seruice Matt. 16. Now is Christes preistly prerogatiue in moste ample and exacte termes comunicated to the chefe preist and pastor of our soules in other manner of clause then our pretensed monstrous spirituall gouernesse can shew for her self fie on that secular pride and wilfull blinde heresy that so repugnethe to Gods expresse ordinaunce and yet is wickedly vpholden of her flatterers though reproued both at home and abrode by the most notorious heretikes sect-masters of all sorts Now all Christes sheepe without exceptiō be they princes be they poore mē if they be Christiā men are put to Peters feadinge I●an 21. Matt. 1● and gouernment now the keyes of heaue giuen to Christs vicarr to let in to locke out to bynde to loose to pardon to punishe Nowe we be commaunded euery one be we Hebr. 13. kinges be we Cesars to obeie our prelates pastors and to be subiecte what Christian prince can excepte himself to thē as to those that must make accompte for our soules Nowe they haue 1. Cor. ● 2 Iohn 2 ad ●●t 3. authoritie to forbid vs the cumpany of heretikes idolaters blasphemers not so muche as to salute them muche more not to obeie thē Act. 5. Nowe we finde by the experience of the Apostles practises and exāple of their vsage that not onely our soules but our bodies goodes be in our pastors subiectiō so farr as is expediēt to our soules healthe and the Churches vtilitie which the very order and course of nature requireth Nowe S. Peter for Sacralege and simulation strooke starke dead bothe man and wyfe by his worde Now did S. Paule strike blinde Elimas Act. 13. the sorcerer for resistinge Gods truthe Now 1. C●r 4. 1. Cor. 5. did he threaten to cum to his cōtemners in rodd of discipline Now did he excomunicate a notable personage at Corinthe for inceste Not all onelie by spirituall punishement but by bodely vexation giuinge him vp to Satans chastismēt Now he also by excomunication corporally molested by an euill spirite for heresie and blasphemie 1. ad Timo 1. 2. Cor. 10 Himeneus and Alexāder Nowe he hathe authoritie to reuenge all disobedience and to bringe vnder all loftie spirites to the obedience of Christe Apostolicall povver Suche loe now is the Apostolicall force and power of Christes Preistehood in the new testa mēt so farr aboue the authorety of earthly kinges as the sun is clearer then the moone heauen aboue the earthe the Soule of man better then his body and the comō weale of the Catholike Churche formed by Christe more excellēt then any secular societie ordeined by man VVhere were then these disordred lawes and statutes that make the Apostles yea Christe him self and all his preistes that be borne out of Englād to be forren powers it was fiftene hūdred yeares before kinges euer conceiued suche wickednes muche lesse to chalenge this mōstrous spirituall regiment for laie men children and verie women But this was then enacted this lawe stoode thē firme and bindeth the highest potentate of the world if he beare the name of a Christian aswell as the poorest person in earthe This I saie yfhe obeie not or heare not the Mat 18. Churche let him be taken for an Ethnike Strugglinge of princes against spirituall povver Yet such is the miserie and peruersnes of men that in a cause so plaine as this is some kinges haue bene founde to struggle against the ordinaunce of God and now oflate haue had flaterers to

saie yea and some so simple as to thinke that they whom Christe at his departure hence did endue with most ample commission and Iohn vlt. sent foorthe with that auctorety which his father had geuen vnto him haue no power to denounce or declare when princes be heretikes or violaters of Gods lawes Nor right to excomunicate them nor to discharge the people of their othe and obedience towardes suche as no Christiā man by lawe of God or nature may lawfully obaie In which necessarie pointe euery studious and reasonable mā may reforme him self aswell by the forsaid as by the histories of the Churche since Christes time And heire thow shalt finde straight vpon the first cōuersion of kinges to the faithe how they coulde not withdrawe them selues from the Churches discipline thoughe bothe heretikes and other of wicked lyfe haue alwaies muche repined but euer were either driuen to order obedience or in fine confounded Almoste thirtene hundrethe yeares agoe Babylas bishop of Antioche excommunicated the onely Christian Kinge or Emperoure that Chrisost in vita Babilae then was as sum counte Numerius as others Phillip for executinge a prince that was put to him for an ostage VVhervpon as ill Kinges vse to doe he martired his Bishop whom for that S. Chrisostom and others recken for the most famous martire of that time VVherby all true Bishops may lerne that it is their dutie to chastise and excommunicate disobedient tirants whatsoeuer fall to their persons therfore Afterwarde holie Fabianus the Pope pursued the same Emperour by like excomunication and other meanes till at the lenghte he brought him to repentance Ser. li. 7. cap. 24. Afterwarde S. Ambrose Bishop of Milan with notable courage excōmunicated the elder Theodosius Theod li. ● ● 17 19. Am●●l● 5 ep● 28. Aug. de Ciu●●at Dei lib. ● cap. 26. the Emperour put him to eight monthes penance and in the ende forced him to make a lawe or prouisiō against the like crime for which he was excomunicated This was an other world most deare cuntrymen maruelous courage and zeale for Gods cause was then in preists great humilitie and obedience in princes Then was there no flatterers so shamefull nor no heretike on the earthe so impudent to make temporall Kinges aboue all correctiō of Gods Churche their owne pastors they hauing most nede therof yea aboue all others when they passe the limites of Iustice the lawes of God Nice lib. ●3 c. 14. Georg. Patrtar de vita Chrisost Nere this time againe Innocentius the first excomunicated Arcadius the Emperor his wife Quene Eudoxia for that they disobeyed and persecuted their Bishop S. Chrisostom I will reporte the Iuditiall sentence brefely because it is muche to the purpose and full of maiestie O Emperour the bludd of my brother Iohn Chrisostom crieth to God against the thou hast caste out of his chaire the great Doctor of the whole world and in him by thy wiues that delicate Dalida her persuasions persecuted Christe therfore I though a poore sinfull soule to whom the throne of the great Apostle S. Peter is comitted do excomunicate the and her and do suspende you bothe from the holie sacramētes comaundinge that no Preist nor Bishop vnder paine of depriuation after this my sentence come to their knowledge geue or minister the said sacraments vnto you Thus did this blessed father whome Saint Au gustine excedingly commendethe in his time hādle that Emperor and wicked Queene which was the cause of her husbādes fall and offences and at lengthe brought them to repentance And when by processe of time the Churche became more potent and some Princes were falne to contempte of Religion as it lightly hapneth by heresie or Apostasie and that Excōmunicatiō or other ordinary ecclesiasticall discipline wolde not serue being onely spirituall penalty and now not hauing ordinarely annexed that corporal vexatiō executed by sathan vpon excōmunicate persons therfore so much feared in the Primatiue Churche then aswell the Bishopes godlie persons their owne subiects did craue aide and armes of other Christian Princes against them as also the most holie and aunciente Popes of Rome did with all godly zeale incite the Catholike Kinges to the same that those whom the spirituall rodde could not frutefully chastise might by externall force be driuen doune or to repentance of their disorder There is no warre in the world so iuste or honorable as that which is waged for religion whether it be forren or ciuill nor crime in the world deseruinge more sharpe and zelous pursute of extreme reuenge then falinge from the faithe to strange religions whether it be in the superior or subiectes 2. Parali 15. VVho so euer seeke not after the lord God of Israell let him be stain from the highest to the lowest said Kinge Afa admonished by Azaria the Prophet And againe charge was giuen expresly in Deutronomie to slei all false Prophetes and Cap. 13. their followers were they neuer so neere vs by nature and to destroie vtterly all citties with their inhabitāts that were proued to followe newe strange Gods or religions Princes and rulers no more excepted but muche more punis hable in this case then the people as appeareth by Gods commaundmēt to Moises that he should Num. ●● hange vp all the Princes of Israel vpon gallowes against the sun for communication in sacrifice with the Moabites and the reste of the people euery one by the hand of his neighbor to be put to the sworde for the same faulte As an other time by Moises appointment the faithfull Leuits slewe thirty three thousand of their nert neighbours frendes and brethren for comittinge Idolatrie and forsakinge the true 2. Paral. cap 1● God so iuste a quarrell is the deffence of religiō For which also the Kinges of Iuda as Abia and others fought moste iustly and prosperously against Hieroboam and other Kinges of Israell and iustly possesed the cities which they conquered in the warre as also Edom and Lobna for 2. Par 21. religion euen bicause he forsooke the God of his forfathers did reuolte from Kinge Ioram and could neuer be recouered Iosue 22. VVherin the example also and zeale of the children of Israell was very notable that they wold haue denounced Battell against the tribe of Rubine and Gad for erectinge as they tooke it a Schismaticall alter out of the only place in which God appointed to be worshiped by Sacrifice So did the Christian Armenians Euseb li. 9. c. 8. 9. take armes against Maximinus the Emperour for deffence of their faith So did Constantine againste Maxentius the tyrante By all which it is cleare that what people or person so euer be declared to be rebelious against Gods Churche by what obligation so euer either of kinred frendship loialté or subiection I be bounde to them I may or rather must take armes against them nothinge doubtinge but whē my Kinge or Prince hathe brokē with