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A68160	A copy of the letters, wherin the most redouted [and] mighty pri[n]ce, our souerayne lorde kyng Henry the eight, kyng of Englande [and] of Frau[n]ce, defe[n]sor of the faith, and lorde of Irla[n]de: made answere vnto a certayne letter of Martyn Luther, sente vnto him by the same and also the copy of the foresaid Luthers letter, in such order, as here after foloweth.; Literarum, quibus invictissimus princeps, Henricus octavus, rex Angliae et Franciae, dominus Hyberniae, ac fidei defensor respondit, ad quandam epistolam Martini Lutheri, ad se missam. English	Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547.; Luther, Martin, 1483-1546. Epistola ad Henricum Octavum Angliae et Franciae regem. English.	1527 (1527)	STC 13086; ESTC S106085	31,003	102

¶ A copy of the letters / wherin the most redouted mighty prīce our souerayne lorde kyng Henry the eight / kyng of Englande of Fraūce / defēsor of the faith / and lorde of Irlāde made answere vnto a certayne letter of Martyn Luther / sente vnto him by the same / and also the copy of the foresaid Luthers letter / in such order / as here after foloweth ¶ Fyrst a preface of our soueraygne lorde the kynge / vnto all his faithfull and enterely beloued subiectes ¶ Copye of the letter / whiche Martyne Luther had sent / vnto our sayd soueraygne lorde the kyng ¶ The copye of the answere of our sayd souerayne lorde / vnto the same letter of Martyn Luther ¶ Henry the eight by the grace of god / kyng of Englande of Fran̄ce / defēsor of the faith / and lorde of Irlande vnto all his faythfull and welbeloued subiectes / gretyng IT hath semed to vs alwayes / our entirely be loued people / that lykewise / as it apperteyneth to the offyce and estate of a kyng / dilygently to procure the tēporall welth / and commodyte of his subiectes So dothe it of dewtie / more especially belonge to the parte and offyce of a christen kynge / ouer and besydes / his labour / payne / and traueyle / bestowed vpon the prouysyon of worldly welth and quyete for his people farre yet more feruently to labour / trauayle and studye / by all the meanes and wayes to hym possible / howe he maye surely kepe / establysshe and cōfyrme / and spyritually set forthe and forther / the hertes and myndes of his subiectes / in the right relygion of god / and trewe faythe of Christ / by whose highe prouydence especiall bounte / they were for that purpose / chefely cōmytted vnto his gouernaunce For albeit so / that our sauyour Christ hath in his ecclesyasticall hierarchy moost ordinately set prouyded / and apoynted the spyrituall fathers and curates / most especially to solycite / procure / and haue in charge / those thyngꝭ that apperteyne by faithe or other spyrituall vertues / to the weale and saluation of his chosen chyldrē / whiche ben christen men yet is there no man but he well wotteth / that the temporall princes / concurryng with them and setting their handes therto / and ouerseyng and orderynge them to execute the charge / whiche god hath elect them to / euery prince in his owne realme / the mater shall bothe moche better moche faster come forwarde The profe wher of / hath euydently appered in tymes past / for soone after the begynnynge of Christes churche / the conuersyon of kynges to the faithe / breuely tourned all their realmes with thē And where the opposyte was vsed / there neither grace / vertue / nor other gode worke coude florisshe or encrese / but alwayes where lacked faythe / there raigned heresies / sēsualyte / voluptie inobedyence / rebellyon / no recognytion of superiour / confusyon / and totall ruyne in the ende Whiche thynges / by the great wysedome of oure noble progenitours well parceyued / they haue of their vertuous mynde and princely corage / as well by the makyng of good and sharpe lawes / requisite for that entent / as by due executyon of the same / nat without the puttyng of their owne bodies / somtyme in the auenture of bataile / done their effectuall deuoyre to withstande and represse from tyme to tyme / the pernicious errours and heresyes / that els had of lykelyhode / as well by wycclyffe / as other abhomynable heretikes / ben depely roted in this realme And surely we for our parte nothing so moche desyre / as the fortheraunce of you our welbeloued people / in the honour and seruyce of almighty god and nat onely to folowe and ensue the frutefull examples of our noble progenytours / but also to putte our selfe in deuoyre in that poynt if we may to passe them / especially syth there neuer was in any of their tymes / so moche nede therto / as to our great grefe displeasure and heuynesse / it is now For we doute nat / but it is well knowen to you all / that Martyn Luther late a frere Augustyne / and now ron out ī Apostasy and wedded / hath nat onely scraped out of the asshen / and kyndeled agayne / almost all the embres of those olde errours and heresyes / that euer heretyke helde sythe Christ was borne hytherto but hath also added some so poysoned pointes of his owne / so wretched / so vyle / so detestable / prouokynge men to myschefe / encoragyng the worlde to syn / preachyng an vnsaciat lyberte / to allecte them with all / and finally / so farre against all honesty / vertue and reason / that neuer was there erst any heretyke so farre voyde of all grace and wyt / that durst for shame speke them We therfore seyng these heresies sprede abrode / and inwardly sorowynge so many christen soules to ron to ruyne / as hath done ī other regions / by the occasyon of suche pesty lent errours / entendyng for our ꝑte / somwhat to set hande therto / wrote after our meane lernyng / a lytell tretyse / for the assertyon and probatyon of the holy sacramentes In whiche we reproued / and as we trust sufficiently refuted and conuinced the most parte of the detestable heresies of the sayde Luther / contayned in his abhomynable boke / entytuled de Babilonica Captiuitate For angre and furye wherof / vpon two yeres after / Luther wrote and sent oute agaynst vs a boke / nothyng answeryng to the mater / but all reason sette asyde / stuffed vp his booke with onely furious raylyng / whiche his boke we regardynge / as it was worthy / cōtempned and nat wolde vouchesafe any thing to reply / reputyng our selfe in Christes cause / nat to good with a ryght meane man to reason or cōtrary / but nothing metely frutelesse with a leude Frere to rayle So came it than to passe / that Luther at laste / parceyuyng wyse men to espye hym / lerned men to leaue hym / good men to abhorre hym / and his frantyke fauourers to fall to wracke / the nobles and honest people in Almaygne / beynge taught by the profe of his vngratyous practyse / moche more hurt myschefe to folowe therof / than euer they loked after / deuysed a letter to vs written / to abuse them and all other natyons / in suche wyse / as ye by the cōtentes therof / herafter shal well ꝑceyue In whiche he fayneth hym selfe to be enformed / that we be tourned to the fauour of his secte And with many flateryng wordes / he laboreth to haue vs content that he myght be bolde to write to vs in the mater / and cause of the gospell And thervpon without answere had from vs / nat onely publysshed the same letter and put it in print / of purpose that his adherentes shulde

nat onely bycause of that your kingly clemēcy / whiche is daylye so moche tolde of vnto me / bothe by wordes writyng / of very many men / that seing you be your selfe mortall / I can nat thinke you wyll beare enemyte immortall but also for as moche as I haue by credyble ꝑsones ben enformed / that the boke made out agaynst me in the name of your highnesse / is nat the kynges of Englande as crafty Sophisters wolde it shuld seme whiche / whan they abused the name of your highnesse / cōsydred nat in what peryll they put them selues / by the sclaundring of a kyng / and especially aboue other / that monster cōmen hate of god and men / the car-Cardynall of yorke / that pestylence of your realm Wherfore / I am now so sore ashamed / that it yrketh and abassheth me to lyfte vp myne eyen afore your highnesse / whiche haue suffred my selfe to be with suche lyghtnesse moued agaynst suche so great a kynge by those workes of wyckednesse / namely being my self but dregges and a worme / whiche had ought onely by contempte / to haue been eyther ouercomyn or let alone Also an other thyng is / whiche seriously caused me beyng neuer so vyle / yet for to write / bycause your highnesse begynneth to fauour the gospell / and wexe nat a lytell wery of that sorte of vngratious folkes Verily that was gospell in dede / that is to say / gladde tidynges vnto my hert wherfore I prostrate my selfe with these letters / vnto the fete of your highnesse / as hūbly as I can deuyce / and beseche for the crosse and honour of Christ / that your highnesse wolde vouche safe to enclyne some thyng / and pardon me / in whatsoeuer I haue offended your highnesse / lyke as Christ prayed and cōmaunded vs also / one to forgyue another his dettꝭ Moreouer / if your highnesse thynke it nat to be refused / that I make out another booke / and therin vnsay my former writynge / nowe on the contrary syde / honoure the name of your highnesse / please it your maiestie to gyue me some mylde token / there shal be no taryenge in me / but I shall do it most gladly / for though I be a man of no reputation / in cōparison of your highnesse yet myght we trust that no small frute shuld growe vnto the gospell and the glorie of god herby / if I myght haue lyberte to write in the cause of the gospell / vnto the kyng of Englāde In the meane season our lorde en encrease your hyghnesse / as he hath begon / that you may with full spyrite / bothe obey and fauour the gospell and he suffre nat your regall eares and mynde to be holden with the mischeuous voyces of those mermaydes that can nothyng / but crye that Luther is an herityke and it maye lyke yor highnesse to cōsyder what harme can I teche / that teacheth none other thynge / but that we must be saued by the faythe of Iesu Chryste / sonne of god whiche for vs suffred / and was raysed agayne / as witnesseth the gospell and the epystols of the apostels / for this is the heed and foūdatyon of my doctryne vpon whiche aftwarde I buylde and teche charyte towarde our neyghbour / obedyence vnto the heedes and rulers of countrees / and finally to crucifye the body of synne / lyke as the doctrine of Christ cōmaūdeth what yll is in these chapters of doctryne yet let the mater be loked vpon / let it haue hearyng and iugement fyrst why am I condempned / neyther herde ne conuycte Furthermore / where I rebuke the abusion of popes / whiche teche other than these foresayd chapiters / and nat onely other / but also clene contrary / and in the meane tyme leanynge them selfe vpon pōpe / money their belyes / ye / kyngdomes / principalytees / euery mannes rychesse / dothe nat the very cōmen people parceyue this dāpne it / and their owne selues be cōstrayned to confesse it why do they nat amende them selues and teche well / if they wyll be without hate blame Also your noble maiesty seeth / howe great princes in Almayne fauoureth my partie / and thāked be god / wolde I shulde nat be condempned / vnto whose company and nombre / I pray Christ he adde adioyne your highnesse / and seperate you from those tyrannes of soules Nowe / what wonder is it / though Cesar and certayne princes be sore agaynst me Dothe nat natyons murmure agaynst oure lorde and his Christ As the seconde psalme saith people study / kynges of the erthe cōsppyre / and princes come togyder / in so moche / that it is more to be marueyled at / if any prīce or kyng fauour the gospell / and I desyre with all my hert inwardly / that I may ones haue cause to reioyce make congratulatyon of this myracle in your highnesse / and I pray god / by whose fauour and assistēce I write this letter / that he so worke with my wordꝭ / that the kynge of Englande may be made shortly / the perfyte discyple of Christ and professour of the gospell / and finally / most benigne lorde vnto Luther Amen Some answere / if it may lyke your highnesse I loke after / mylde and benigne At wyttemburch / the fyrste day of Septembre / the yere of our lorde / a. M.D.xxv. Most humble subiecte vnto your regall maiesty / Martyn Luther / his owne hāde ¶ The answere of the most mighty noble prīce kyng Hēry the .viii. kyng of Englāde of Fraūce / defēsor of the fayth and lorde of Irelāde / vnto the letters of Martyn Luther YOur letters wrytten the fyrst day of Septembre / we haue receyued the .xx. day of Marche In whiche ye write your selfe / to be sorie and ashamed / that ye folyly hastely / nat of your owne mynde but by the instygation of other / suche as lytell fauoured me / dyd put out your boke agaīst me / with whiche ye knowe your selfe that ye haue sore offended me / And therfore haue cause to be ī drede and shame to write vnto me Nat withstandyng / ye saye that ye be the more bolde nowe to write vnto me / nat only bycause ye parceyue my benignite suche / that cōsydring my selfe a man mortall / I wyll nat beare immortall enmyte but also for as moche / as ye by credible enformation / vnderstāde that the boke put forthe in my name / for the assertyon of the Sacramētes was nat myn own / but fraudulently deuised by false Sophisters / to myn ignominy and rebuke / and specially by the Cardynall of yorke / whom ye call a monster / odious to god man / and the pestylēce of my realme And therfore ye say / that ye be nowe ashamed to lyfte vp your eyen to me / that haue of lightnes so suffred your self to be moued agaynst suche a kynge /