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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02375	The contre-Guyse vvherein is deciphered the pretended title of the Guyses, and the first entrie of the saide family into Fraunce, with their ambitious aspiring and pernitious practises for the obtaining of the French crowne.		1589 (1589)	STC 12506; ESTC S120871	51,697	96

of the time and place they were at Paris amongst their enemies who barked at their liues and were dyed red in the bloud of their seruants yea euen in the time that the Frenchman was the cruell butcher bloody murderer of Frenchmen that the father cut his sons throat that the mother slew the daughter that the brother dispatched the sister one neighbour killed another cruelty triumphed ouer clemencie and rage ouer pitie who then at such a time with a trembling hand would not haue written whatsoeuer his enemies had endited But in such cases the lawes of the Emperors and edicts of the auncient Pretors doo declare all such actions none as if they had not beene for that is not called consent that we force him to doo that is depriued of his power for this cause doth Pope Alexander the 3. will Cap. 1. ext de his quae v●met Abbas Vsperg in Hen. 5. those mē that for feare of death are become Monks to ●ast their weed into the nettles to marry And Pascall the 2. hauing beene forced the right of inuestiture of benefices to the Emperour Hen. the 5. called a councell at Lateran where he made voide all that by force he had bene compelled to doo Likewise Platina de vitis Pont. the dooings of Silla were denounced to be tyranny because that he hauing a mighty army within the walles of Rome established himselfe Dictator as also did Caesar by the law Seruia So that the king of Nauarre and Prince of Condé may iustly disallow the declaration contained in their letters sith that the more force that was vsed the lesse will they had At all aduentures from whence doth the Pope take this authority to excommunicate the goods Kings saith Christ haue dominion ouer the nations but it Math. 20. shall not be so among you Feed saith S. Peter the flocke of Christ not as hauing dominion ouer their heritage but so as you may be an example to the flocke Iustinian Epist 1. c. 5 Nou. 81. also writing to Epiphanius diuideth the ministerie from the Lordship and in an other place forbiddeth the Priests to take vpon them the titles of Lords but of spirituall fathers Yea Balde one of the bucklers of the Romish Priest exalting his power is still forced to put in this bridle In spirituall cases and S. Bernard speaking to Pope Eugenius saith It is euident that the Apostles are forbidden all Lordship how therefore darest thou vsurpe the title of an Apostle in playing the Lord or play the Lord while thou sittest in the Apostolike sea In olde time also the Priests iudged of heresies but not of the punishment of heretikes which was the reason that S. Paule was brought before Festus Act. 25. Theod. lib. 1. cap. 20. Tit. de heret c. 1 lib. 1. De sum trinit L. Placet de sacro Eccles c. the Emperors Lieutenant that Constantine forebad the Bishops of Nicomedia from shewing any fauor to Eusebius and Theognis that Honorius appointed the Prouost Marcellus to be a iudge for the Catholikes against the Donatists and that the Emperors Constantine Gratian Theodosius Iustinian did ordaine grieuous punishments for heretikes Yea in the olde time so farre were the sacrificers and Priests from medling with secular iurisdiction or incroching vppon the authoritie of kinges that in whatsoeuer concerned priestly discipline they bowed to them Salomon deposed Abiathar the high 1. King 2. 1. Chro. 29 Priest and placed Sadoc in his roome Ezechias reformed the order of Leuites and brought them vnto their first puritie Iudas Machabeus deposed the 1. Macab 4 Liuius lib. 1. dec 1. wicked Priests of the law and Numa saith Liuy deliuered in writing and signed a note vnto the high Priest with what cattel vpon what dayes in what temples they should offer sacrifice from whence they should haue the money to furnish such expences Afterward by the law of the twelue tables the whole depended vpon the wil of the Senate who by that authoritie in the Consulship of P. Cornelius Lentulus and M. Bebius Pamphilus did openly burne the bookes of Numa as being repugnant to their religion the like also did Constantine with the Niceph. lib ● ● 18 bookes of Arrius for from time to time the power of holding councels and ordering the churches depended vpon the Emperors as we may gather by the decrees of Constantine Gratian and Honorius written in the first Code of Iustinian who said That he had no lesse care of religion then of his owne life and of whom we read 17. constitutions concerning ecclesiasticall discipline As also our kings vppon the like argument haue builded many goodly decrees namely Charlemaine and Charles the 7. who the 13. of Iuly 1438. published the Pragmaticall sanction at Paris indeed as saith Isidore Emperors and Kings haue the first degree in the Church whose nurses they are according as Esay saith chap. 49. which was the cause that in olde time they had the greatest functions in the Church as commanding of fasts and calling of councels c. That Boniface the 1. besought the Emperor Honorius to ordeine that they might lawfully proceed to the election of the Popes of Rome that Pelagius the 1. sware in the hands of Ruffin Childebert K. of France his embassador that Leo the 4. protested obedience vnto the lawes of Lothair and that Gregory entituleth himselfe the vnworthy seruant of Maurice But since the Popes gat a tast of worldly affaires they haue endeuored to satisfie themselues at the costes of the authoritie of Kinges and Emperours whom notwithstanding that according to S. Paule euery soule ought to bee subiect to them they haue gone about to bring in subiection to the crosse of Rome whereto their enterprises haue had so good successe that they haue made the kings of England Arragon Naples Sicill Ierusalem Poland Sardinia Corsica and the Canaries tributaries to the Pope wherupon the Clergie themselues considering that they had girded too far into temporall iurisdiction that oftētimes their ambitiō opened the gate into sundrie schismes were forced to bridle them and the Emperors to restraine their insolencies as the Patricians were wont to doo at Rome who as witnesseth Liuie Thought good that the Salians and Flamines Liui. lib. 4. should without farther power and authoritie tende to their sacrifices onelie Thus in the yeare 1046. the christiā bishops seing the wound which the church receiued through the ambition of Benet the ninth Abb. Vrsp in Hen. 3. Siluester the 3. and Gregory the sixt Antipopes did canonically depose thē al in a sinode holdē at Rome being supported with the authoritie of the Emperor Henry the third Afterward anno 1076. a councell was holden at Wormes wherein with the consent of all the Germaine Bishoppes except the Saxons Gregorie the seuenth called Hildebrand was excōmunicated as one that brethed nothing but tyranny Abb. Vrsperg in Hen. 4. as appeareth by a letter which the councel wrot