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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

whiche natwithstādynge / ye write that ye be forced and compelled ernestly to write vnto me / bycause that I haue nowe begon to beare fauoure to the gospell / whiche is as ye saye ioyfull tidynges to your herte / wherin ye beseche god to encrese me / that I may with hole hert obey and fauour the gospell And that he suffre nat myn eares to be occupyed with the pestylent voyces of those Serenis / which can nothyng els do / but crye out that Luther is an heretyke ¶ ye write also / that ye wolde I shulde consyder / that there can be no harme in your doctryne / syth ye teche as ye say nothing els / but onely that man must nedes be saued / in the faythe of Iesu Christ And that vpon this foūdation / ye bylde charite to your neyghbours and obeydience to your gouernours / with the crucifyeng of the body of synne And in these ye desyre to be herde / moche marueyling that ye be condempned vnherde and vncōuyct Than after your accustomed maner / ye rayle vpon the churche of Rome bostyng that many princes of Almayne take your parte / that it is no marueyle / though the Emperour some other prīces and people pursue you / but rather were it wondre that any wolde holde with you / for asmoch as alwaye princes and people be as ye say enemyes to Christ wysshinge / that ye myght ones se that myracle / that by god workīg with your good wordes / I might be fully tourned to be one of those that might fauour the gospell / and be a fauourer of yours Requyring and besechyng me in dyuers partes of your letter to pardon you / that ye haue offēded me by your boke / and offrynge your selfe / if it so stāde with my pleasure / that ye wyll write put out another booke to my prayse / recantyng and reuokyng all suche wordes / as ye haue in your other boke written to the contrary / affyrming also / that no litell frute were lyke to growe therof / if ye might haue leaue / at liberte to write to the king of Englande / cōcernyng the gospell of god ¶ These be Luther all thynges / whiche were in your letter contayned In whiche / as we right well ꝑceyue your couert fraudulent purpose / so shall we on the othersyde / after our accustomed playnnesse leste your crafty wayes might abuse gode symple folke to euery poynt gyue you trewe and open answere ¶ where ye write / ye be ashamed of your boke written agaynst me / I am nat very sure / whyder ye saye trewe therin but of one thynge I am very sure / that ye haue good cause to be ashamed / nat onely of that booke / but also of a great meyny mo than that / they beyng suche as they be nothyng els cōtayning / but errours and heresyes / neyther by reason nor lernynge proued / but onely by shamelesse boldnesse affyrmed Alowyng your selfe / to be as good or better authour / than any afore your tyme hath ben / or be nowe And as touchyng your boke written agaynst me / who so solycited or prouoked you to put that forth / rather semed to haue bē your yuell wyller / than myne / your boke being such as the maker coude therof haue but rebuke / and myn therby be moche honoured Against which boke of myn your boke declared / that ye coude fynde no wyse worde to write / nor alledge authour of substaūce agaynst it / whiche thynge is ynough as I thynke for the reders or hearers / to dyscusse / whiche of vs is in the righter faithe And although ye fayne your selfe to thynke my boke nat myne owne / but to my rebuke as it lyketh you to affyrme put out by subtell sophisters yet it is well knowen for myn / and I for myne auowe it and as for the rebuke / though ye dissimule it / yet may all the worlde well ꝑceyue / how moche it fretteth your stomake that nat onely my worke / hathe so highly to myne honour ben approued of many wyse and good men / but specially of that holy see Apostolyke also / of whō saynt Hierome rekened it suffycient / that his faith were approued / in whiche neuerthelesse / if any good thyng be / I do ascrybe it to hym / of whom all goodnesse cometh / and nat to me Howe beit / this delyteth me nat a lytell / that as symple as my boke was for I knowe well inough myn own imbecillyte yet somoche more feble was your cause / that my boke for so farre as it touched that is to wytte / the Sacramentes of Christes churche nat onely clene wyped away / all that euer ye had blasphemusly written agaynst them before but also / all that euer sythens ye ꝑniciously haue written agaynst thē / and droue you to the writyng of that furious boke / by whiche all the worlde well ꝑceyued / that ye were for angre fallen as who sayth in a very fransy In whiche boke / all wytte / lernyng / and honesty forgotten ye nothynge alledge but mere scurrilyte / furious babling braulyng / and conuytious raylyng where as I refelled your erronyous opinyons nat without charyte and labour of your amēdement by effectuall reason and euydent scrypture nat interpreted after myne owne fantasye as ye do by yours but by the olde holy fathers of Christꝭ churche / nat medlīg therin / with any of those whom ye call Sophysters / which be men in dede / good / vertuous / connyng Whom ye therfore call Sophisters / bycause that euery substātyall reason / by which they confoūde your foly / ye wolde were enfamed / vnder the name of Sophistry ¶ And where as your pestilent tong is so leude / to rayle vpon the most reuerende father in god / the lorde Legate / Cardynall of yorke / oure chefe counsailour Chaūceller / it greueth hym lytell I wot well to be rayled vpon / with that blasphemous tōg / that rayleth and rageth against Christes hole churche / his saintꝭ / his apostles / his holy mother / and hym selfe / as it euidently as well by many partes of your pestylent bokes / as by the furious actꝭ of your faction appereth And his fatherhode nowe is shal be so moche in more cordyall fauoure with me / In how moche I parceyue hym to be the depar in the hatered of you / or other suche as ye be whome where ye call / the pestilence of my realme / I purpose to gyue you no reknynge / what manyfolde good frute my realme I receyue by his faythfull dilygence / labour / traueyle and wysedome Howbeit / all other thynges set a parte / it well appereth / that his fatherhode is in this one poynt / to my realme very gode and holsome in that he conformable to my mynde and accordyng to my cōmaūdement / studiously pourgeth my realm from the pestylent contagion of your factious heresyes with