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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11297	An answere to a letter cum priuilegio.	Saint German, Christopher, 1460?-1540.	1535 (1535)	STC 21558.5; ESTC S100189	35,044	126

emperours / kynges princes / with their people / aswell of the clergye as of the lay fee make the catholique church and the clergye but a parte of that church than may the emperoure / kynges prīces with their people expounde it But for as moche as the vnyuersall catholique / people can nat be gathered togyther to make suche exposycion / therfore it semeth that kynges princes whō the people haue chosen agreed to be their rulers gouernours / and which haue the whole voyces of the people / maye with theire counsell spirytuall temporall make exposycyon of such scripture as is doutfull / so as they shall thynke to be the true vnderstandyng of it / and none but they / that theire subiectes be bounden euen by the lawe of god to folowe their exposycion for the goodnesse of oure lorde is suche that he wyll nat leue his people in suche doutes but that they maye haue some meanes whereby they maye come to the knowlege of the trouth so as shal be necessarye to their saluatyon if they wyll dyspose them to it / and that is by obedyence to their princes whom god hathe appoynted to haue rule ouer them / as is afore sayde And here it is to be noted / that there be two maner of powers that kynges and princes haue ouer theire subiectes The one is called / Ius regale / that is to saye a kyngely gouernaunce And he that hathe that power maye with his counsell make lawes to bynde his subiectes / and also make declaration of Scypture for the good order of his subiectes / as nede shall requyre / for appeasyng of varyance The other is called / Ius regale politicum / that is to saye a kynglye and a polytyke gouernaunce And that is the most noble power that any prince hath ouer his subiectes / and he that ruleth by that power / maye make no Lawe to bynde his subiectes without their assent / but by their assent he maye so that the lawes that he maketh be nat agaynste the lawe of God / nor the lawe of reason And this power hathe the kynges grace in this Realme where he by assente of his lordes spirytuall and temperall and of his commons gathered togyther by his commaundement in his parlyamente maye make lawes to bynde the people And of those lawꝭ there nedeth no ꝓclamation / bicause they be made by all the people / for the ꝑliament so gathered togyther / the people representeth the estate of al the people within this realme / that is to say of the whole catholyque churche therof And why shuld nat the parlyament than whiche representeth the whole catholyke churche of Englande expounde scrypture rather than the conuocacyon whiche representeth onely the state of the clergy ouer that me thīketh that no mā ought to pretende that at a generall counsell anye other shulde be iuges but kynges princes suche as they wyll appoynte vnder them to bere voyces therin seynge that they haue the power voyce of the whole people of christendom / which is the catholyque churche as is sayde before and I thynke verily that generall counsels shall do lytell good tyll christē princes wyl knowe their owne power the auctorite that they haue receyued of god ouer his people / and that they set the clergy in such power as they ought to haue by the lawe of god without diminisshīg of it in any maner to se also that they haue no more but as shall be thoughte expedyent for the comenwelth / also for the helth of their owne soules of the people And surely it is greatly to be douted / that the power that bysshoppes of Rome haue claymed in tyme past ouer princes other bysshoppes / haue ben a great occasyon of the desolacyon of manye countreys that nowe be estemed amonge vs latyns as scismatykes desperate persones And therfore it is good that the Emperour and all christē kynges princes the clergy also loke wel vpon the matter and to se whether the seyd countreyes were nat most prīcypally estemed as heretykes scysmatykꝭ bycause they wēt fro the obediēce of Rome / thā for any other cause whether ther was such dilygence charitie mekenesse shewed to haue thē reformed as ought to haue ben shewed or that they were extremely or happely / maliciously hādled by excomunycatyons interdictions as men vnworthy the confort of christꝭ passiō that so wold fall fro the obediēce of the heed of Christes church And yet vndoutedly the saluatyon or dampnatiō of christē men stādeth nat in that poynte / whether Rome be the hed of christes church or nat And I meane all this that I haue said of the Grecyans / of the Suriās of the Iacobytꝭ / of the Nestorians wherof gret ꝑte be now in Percye which is heed enemy to the cursed turkꝭ Of the armins The georgiās that be gret archers and very apte mē to the warre Of the Abasynes otherwyse called Indyans of the Maronytꝭ of these Maronytes Bernard deane of the church of magunce in his boke of his iorney to Hierusalē / writeth that the seyd Maronytꝭ about v. C. yeres were heretykꝭ seperated fro the cōpany of faythfull people but at the last he sayth / that through the inspiracyō of god / they turned to their owne hertes confessīg that they had erred were nōbred agayne in the obediens of the church of Rome returned to the vnite of the catholyke fayth that thervpon though all the bysshops of the Est ꝑtes the chefe prelates of other nacions vse no ringꝭ miters ne bishops staues yet saith he that these Maronites vse thē al as we do ī their diuyne seruyces ministration of the sacramentes And thus were they seyth he reformed but yet it may be douted whether they were natte reformed to more pride than they had before and I beseche oure lorde that all christen princes through the inspyration of god may encourage thē selfe to bringe all the seyde people and vs also to the verye true obedyence of Christ of his lawes / to a true vnderstandyng / and a deuoute folowynge of his scrypture all worldly pompe pride / desyre of worldly honoure / specyally in the clergy / whiche ought to be the lyghte leders of the laye people / vtterly dispysed and set a parte asmoch as in them is than I dout nat but that gret charytie grace shal shortly after appere amōg the people And than forthermore if a man be in doute vpon any thynge concernynge scrypture as is sayde before / and he hathe no counsell to instructe hym therin / or els if there be counsell / the counsell varyeth amonge them selfe as is said before And princes haue no tyme yet to determyne the mater Thā it is good that he so beyng in dout lyfte vp his herte to god / and aske counsell of him and if he do so /