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cause_n	adultery_n	husband_n	wife_n	1,526	5	7.7220	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68462	The right, and prerogatiue of kings against Cardinall Bellarmine and other Iesuites. Written in French by Iohn Bede, aduocate in the court of Parliament of Paris, and published by authority. Translated by Robert Sherwood.; Droit des roys, contre le cardinal Bellarmin et autres jésuites. English.	Bédé de la Gormandière, Jean.; Sherwood, Robert.	1612 (1612)	STC 1782; ESTC S113797	80,394	213

of this man of sinne retaineth still the name of the Church of God it is in regard of that it was when hee first thrust himselfe into it for euery corruption hath his degrees nemo repente fuit turpissimus like as when a house is set on fire so long as the floores roofes and walles do stand it is called a house both in name and effect and when it is al● burnt to ashes it hath no more but the bare name when we say there is a house burnt therefore no man will bee so vnwise to bee perswaded hee should dwell in it which hath neither walles to defend nor roofe to couer him though all men should tell him it was called the house of such a one no not though some part of the same yet stood because hee could not bee in safety Also there is not any Iudge so vniust will be so rigorous to a husband that accuseth his wife of adultery as to condemne him to liue with her onely because in pleading he calleth her his wife For seeing that adultery is cause of the dissolution of marriage in that the husband giueth the name of wife to her he pleadeth against it is to shew what she was that he might ground his action and depriue her of her matrimoniall couenants This causeth vs boldly to point out such a man and to maintaine that it is necessary to saluation to separate our selues from him and his Church without feare of being thereby separated from the true Church of God I say from such a one of whom we are forewarned not as of an open enemy such as the Turke is who ruinateth frō his first rising and therefore sitteth not in the Church But it is he that is entred as a Fox and raigneth as a Lyon who cōmeth in sheeps cloathing within is a rauening wolfe who hath hornes like the Lambe but vttereth blasphemy out of his mouth to wit I am God I cānot erre I am the spouse of the Church I rule in heauen and in earth Who will doubt then but that wee ought to refuse such a head seeing the Cardinall establisheth him ouer the militant Church etiám Christo secluso Bel. lib. 1. de Pontifi c. 9. CHRIST IESVS excluded or separated frō it although the vnion of him his Church is euer to remaine hath bene frō the foundaion of the world and seeing also the Cardinall createth him Monarch Temporal and Spiritual And for such a separation no Christian is separate from the Church as I haue handled at large in the discourse of Catholick Vnity Chap. 3. of the Church in chap. 7. tit of Schime where may bee obserued among other three significations of the Church first the materiall building secondly the visible assembly of euery Parish and thirdly the inuisible company of all the faithfull which is the Catholicke Church beleeued by faith and not seene with the corporall sences for vniuersall things are not the obiect of the sences and being one of the Articles of faith there is none but God that knoweth who are his seeing it may so fall out that a whole companie of men making profession to serue God may bee composed of hypocrites in euery particular man thereof Chrysostom hom 46. in Mat. Hither is referred these testimonies first of Saint Chrysostome Hee goeth not out of the Church that goeth out bodily but hee that in minde forsaketh the groundes of Ecclesiasticall truth We haue left with them the foundations of walles they haue left with vs the foundations of the Scriptures Hierom. in Psal 33. And Saint Hierome The Church consisteth not in walles but in truth of doctrine there where is the true doctrine there is the true Church And Saint Hillary Hilar. contra Auxentium The loue of walls hath taken you in vaine ye reuerence the Church in houses and buildings doe yee doubt whether Anti-christ shall sit there mountaines forrests lakes gulfes prisons are more safe vnto mee Psal 2.10 Bee wise now therefore ye Kings be learned yee Iudges of the earth serue the Lord in feare and reioyce in trembling And I will let you see an extract of one or two orations pronounced in the Councell of Lateran by the Popes Clerkes and by Moderne Canonist Doctors seene allowed and Printed by the commandement of Pope Leo the tenth as may bee seene in his Bull in the beginning of the said Councel the fift of May 1515. Yea the words of him Oratio Antonij Puccij Clerici Apostoli 3. Non Maiae 1515. sess 10. that spake to the Pope in presence of the whole Councell Although the aspect of your diuine Maiesty by the resplendent glory whereof the weaknesse of my eyes is dazaled Here is God robbed of his Maiesty we must come to the King saying And as the chiefe Byshop Leo by diuine prouidence hath bene en-registred in the royall race of chiefe Bishops Item As before in thee alone the true and lawfull Vicar of CHRIST of God this prophesie to be againe fulfilled All the Kings of the earth shall worship him Psal 71. all nations shall serue him Then vsurping the title of IESVS a iealous God hee saith Before and now the vniuersall body to wit the Church is acknowledged subiect to one onely head namely vnto thee Item Knowing that to thee alone from the Lord hath bene giuen all power in heauen and in earth that thou maist giue law and iudge not onely Spirituall men but also the earthly powers of this world But that which is most admirable is that any truth should proceed out of the blasphemous mouth of this mā in that he acknowledgeth Rome to be Spirituall Babylon in these wordes After we haue examined all the decrees of the Church and that I come to the Citty it selfe which the Prince of Apostles inspired with the holy Ghost calleth Babilō 1. Pet. 5. c. Behold this heauenly Ierusalem diuine Spouse c. clad in mourning c. which seemeth to be full of teares and discheueled prostrate at the most sacred feet of the cheife Bishop Is it so most sweete Bridegroome that thy onely thy faire thy wel-beloued Spouse which cannot say looke not vpon mee for I am browne c. Where are the Pastors of the flocke which rule rather then profile which scatter and not gather which kill in steed of sauing c. Then in the end this excreable flaterer saith to Leo. Make hast arise compasse about Syon our mother thy Spouse embrace her c. Instruct and frame the hearts of the faithfull And the Citty to wit of Rome first of all that iudgement may beginne at the house of the Lord afterward restore the whole earth by the censure of thy discipline into the puritie of the ancient faith hope and charity Is not this to exalt himselfe aboue that which is called God there is diuine Maiestie Royall race spouse and head of the Church that hath all power in heauen and