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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01161	The historie of France the foure first bookes.; Histoire de France. Book 1-4. English	La Popelinière, Lancelot-Voisin, sieur de, 1541-1608.; Hoby, Edward, Sir, 1560-1617.	1595 (1595)	STC 11276; ESTC S121258	361,950	276

person hee sent out men of worth and reputation all Cardinals for his Legates to all Princes Now albeit this beginning had bred in the hart of euery one a great hope of a laudable conduct and mo●● happy end to ensue the whole plat yea after the Truce was accepted of among them which shewed themselues with great vaunts and mighty words ready for the execution of such an enterprise yet each one finding very vneasie the conduct of a matter so greatly important the euent vncertaine farre distance and more appertayning to the estates of the one then the other and which asked a farre longer time to compasse among themselues so vniuersall an vnion and affection as was requisite to this action the priuate interests and commodities cleane carried away the consideration of the publique In such sorte that these practises were not onely not brought to any assured hope of to come but were handled lightly and almost in a kinde of ceremonie each one to acquite himselfe so of his duetie according to the nature of men to whom things in the beginning seeming most terrible doe so diminish day by day and vanish by little and little in such sorte that without a chaunce of new accidents which may renew their feare they yeelde themselues but too soone assured of what may afterwards betide them so as this negligence of the publique cause immoderate affection of some particular was the more confirmed by the death of Selim whose long sicknes had delaied and his death after cleane broken the preparations of the warre who left so great an Empire to his sonne Soliman yong of age but accounted of a milde spirite and little courage though his effectes after shewed the contrary that the Christians not esteeming him borne for armes soone enough freed themselues of the feare which they had had of the actions passed Notwithstanding before the death of Selim and during the occasions as yet they had to feare the Turke the Emperour assigned a day at Ausbourge whether all the Princes christned were summoned to answere And to that end Pope Leo sent his Bulls of great pardons throughout all Christendome with promise of remission of sinnes and kingdom of heauen to all such as would help the Church with a certain summe of monie and as well to aduance forward his Indulgences as to animate the Christians to this warre he dispatched Thomas Caietan his Legate into Germanie Heereupon the quicke and prompt spirite of Luther who as the most renowmed of his owne profession had already read many sortes of Bookes in the most famous Vniuersitie of Germanye found the preachinges and cariadges of these Questors very strange Afterwards comming to doubt of the vertue of pardons because hee saide that hee neuer remembred he found in his bookes that one ought to make traffique of the sinnes of men and least that they could be redeemed with any monie but the bloud of Christ since that the Cannon did teach sinnes could not be remitted by pardons no more then that the Preachers ought to sell license to eate Egges Milke Flesh and Cheese vpon daies forbidden promising besides to forgiue all sinnes how great soeuer yea and to come sent out his letters in October 1517. to certaine Prelates of Germany praying them to take order therein to refourme the preachinges and imprinted bookes of those Questors and since sent ninety fiue propositions a little before published at Witemburge in manner of a scholasticall desputation of Purgatory Penance duetie of Charitie Indulgences and pardons to search out saide hee the truth and not to resolue protesting that he would affirme nothing therein but submit all to the iudgement of the holy Church Now he first addressed himselfe to the Archbishop of Mayence for the reasons which ensue Albert of Brandebourge hauing bene lately by Pope Leo created Archbishop of Mayence seeing that the Chaptre and Cannons excused themselues by reason of their former charges not to bee able to furnish him with monye to buye his Episcopall mantle which will cost aboue thirtye thousand Crownes before it bee brought home found meanes by accorde with the Pope to sende Iohn Tekel a Iacobin to preach pardons alreadye published else where throughout all his Diocesse and to set forth their vertue to all such as would disburse monye with charge that halfe the gaine should returne to Rome for the building vp of the Church of S. Peter for in as much as the Foucres of Germanie had imprest their monie there could not be a better meanes then this found to repaire them Such was the first howsoeuer the most apparant beginning of our euils drawne from a thrid of wooll which since hath been by so many people in so many places and so strongly winded and writhed as many millions of men haue bene thereby hanged and strangled Now beit for feare of censures or thunder of excommunication which these Questors caried about with them no man durst lifte vp his head to bande against them but Luther many Diuines and Lawyers to apease the murmures shut his mouth began to inueigh against him by a form of answer to his solate and hardye propositions among the rest Iohn Tekel published certaine theames cleane contrary at Frankfort on the Viadre in the seignorie of Brandebourghe praising therein aboue all the authoritie of the Pope the profit of pardons and the woodden Crosse which the Pope had caused to be set vp in all Temples comparing it to Iesus Christ as Leo to S. Peter whereupon Luther taking occasion to manifest himselfe sent the explication of his owne to sundry and euen to Leo himselfe in Iune 1518. declaring vnto him what follies his Questors had taught and their pickerie of the simplier people trusting vpon or abusing his authoritie and for that hee doubted he might be accused towards him he besought him to giue no credit to their calumnies considering that Frederick the Elector the vniuersitie of Wittenberge nor so many other would haue approued his actions if there had bene any impiety in them In summe hee submitted his writinges his life and his health to his good pleasure accounting whatsoeuer should proceede from him as from Christ not refusing to haue his head strooke of if he would so ordaine it Hereupon Iohn Eccius a Diuine published to the contrary a Booke entituled Les Effaceurs to cote the faultes of Luthers writings But he that most of all animated him was Siluestre Prieras Iacobin master of S. Pallaies by a booke where hauing set downe the Pope aboue the Councell yea and the scripture it selfe which said he had no vertue and authoritie but from the Church and Pope of Rome hee seemed to take occasion to digresse vpon the great vertue of Indulgences for Luther setting himselfe to answere it said that it was a booke so full of horrible lyes and blasphemies against the diuine name that there is great apparence that Sathan was the very author that if the Pope saith he

faith necessary to the Sacraments Thirdly that hee preferred his owne opinions and rauinges before the Scriptures and that hee referred nothing to any councell which hee offred to approue whensoeuer it pleased his superiours Then hee besought the Emperour and the rest of the Magistrates that for the honor of God and defence of a Councels libertye they would receaue his appeale that they would bridle the tirannie of the Pope that they would not account his Bul any manner of way able to touch thē and that they would innouate nothing vntill the cause might be worthely pleaded for all this notwhithstanding the Pope vrged Frederic to burn all his Books and that he should either cut of his head or making him Prisonner deliuer him vp to be punnished in example Frederic praied him not to proceede so eagerlye but to choose good and skilfull Personages to confer of the whole matter amyablye to giue sure safe-conduct to Luther and that his bookes might not bee burned before hee had defended his cause then if he were conuicted by sure testimonies of the scripture he would not approue his enterprise albeit that alreadye hee consented not to his doctrine and though he should not be able to maintain his fact yet hee hoped the Pope would not require at his hands a matter which he could not performe for the rest he hoped by Gods assistance to fulfill the office of a Prince of th'empire and of an obedient Sonne to the Church To which the deputies of Leo hauing in vaine replyed the end of the conference was that necessity pressed them to do according to the contents of the Popes Bull wherfore anon after they burned Luthers bookes then began he much more eagerlye to goe to worke for being aduertised of all this passed hee assembled together all his schollers of Witemberge and in the presence of many learned personages hee publiquely burned the Cannon law togither with the Popes new Bull the 10. of December Afterwards to render reason of his exploite he alleadged these First that it was an ancient custome to fling corrupt bookes into the fire as it is seen in the Acts of the Apostles besides it is his part which is baptized into Christ which is a professor and publique teacher of the Scriptures to combat against false doctrine and propose that which is wholsome for mankinde as touching the Pope and his sequel they are so miserable and accursed that they doe not onely withstand the holy ordinances but condemne the doctrine of Christ and his Apostles to make their owne shine for the brighter from thēceforth he imploied himselfe euer after to write against the excessiue abuses and mischiefes which hee said was in the Court and doctrine of Rome as others on the other side very bitterly maintained the contrary each with many iniuries and reciprocall inuectiues far vnworthy of Christians So as a certaine desire of honor stirred vp by a dutie to the explaining according to his charge of the holye scripture made him become so resolute and stubborne by the peeuish thwarts of his aduersaries that then he became open banker out to the catholicke and romain doctrine so as hauing bene summoned to the Diet of Wormes whither he had the Emperours safe-conduct to render an account of his faith there to be punished or iustified according as he should maintaine he said frankely the 18. of April 1521. that he would not recant one inch except lawfully they made the contrary to appeare vnto him being the cause that the Emperour on the next morrowe sent his letters to the assemblye of Princes in which hee contained that his ancestors who had made profession of Christian Religion had euer obeyed the Church of Rome now since Luther oppugned the same his dutye was to followe the steppes of his Predecessors and to defende Christian Religion in succouring the Church of Rome wherefore hee determined to banishe Luther and his Adherents and vse other remedies fit for the quenching of this fire but because of his faith which he had plighted hee would send him home safe The 24. of Aprill the Archbishop of Treuues and other of the Lords called him to them where after hauing wished him to recant or at the least submit his writinges to the iudgement of the Emperour and of the councell of the Princes and generall councell to come hee would not in any case but that all should be resolued by the authoritie of the holy scripture which Eccius the Lawyer and others saide was not reasonable considering the diuers sence of Scripture which euery man interpreteth after his owne fansie and that further by this meanes should neuer any thing be sure or clearely determined that it was not to be suffered that euery man should aske a reason of euery point as of a matter impossible in nature Breefe that since it was not a thing reasonable to dispute a matter alreadye resolued or condemned by the Church men ought simply and absolutely to holde that doctrine which their good Fathers had left vnto them In summe Charles the 5. of the age of one twenty yeares banished him the eight of May 1521. by his Letters Pattentes by which considering it was his duetye to take order that no filthe should enter into the Empire by the example of his Predecessors hee assembled all the Princes and States of the Empire at Wormes where hee communycated the matter of Luther and diligentlye examyned it Now albeit the lawes forbid to heare a manifest heretique so many times condemned and seperated from the communion of the Church yet to stop the passage to all calumnie he sent him a letter and dispatched his Herald with safe conduct to cause him to come vnto him and render account of his writings afterwardes hauing recited the propositions desseines Luthers answeres and all that had passed at Wormes he said that in case Luther did still defend his errors and wilfully perseuere in them he approued the Popes bul and to witnes that he would maintain it he cōdemned and banished Luther as an author of schism and an obstinate heretique cōmanding al men to hold him for such and after 21. daies which he gaue him of fauour to reclaim himself he charged euery man with all force to endeuour to take him and deliuer him vp into his hands he banished also all such as any manner of way whatsoeuer fauoured him enioyning his bookes to be vtterly abolished with great paines from thence forward for any booke-binders that should sell any of them and ordained that his decree made in the councell of the Princes and all the estates should remaine for euer inuiolable Luther then much spiting at his hauing beene thus condemned and his bookes burnt by the Deuines of Cologne and Louaine after 1521. by those of Paris was at Rome giuen vp to the Diuell the 28. of March 1521. by the Pope togither with all heretiques Pyrates Imposers of new tributes falsefiers of Buls Marchants furnishing the enemies of