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cause_n	authority_n	pope_n	rome_n	1,420	5	6.5231	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12577	A briefe and learned treatise, conteining a true description of the Antichrist, who was foretold by the prophets and apostles And an evident proofe that the same agreeth vnto the Pope. Written in Latin by M. George Sohn Doctor of Diuinitie, and publike professor thereof at Heidelberg, and translated into english.	Sohn, Georg, 1152?-1589.; N. G., fl. 1592.; Grimald, Nicholas, 1519-1562, attributed name.	1592 (1592)	STC 22891; ESTC S114124	33,734	90

necessarie to saluation Cap. super gentes extra de consuet The Bishop of Rome is appointed by the Lorde aboue all nations and kingdomes Cap. si Imperatore dist 96. Gods will is that the powers secular should be subiect vnto the Church or the Priests Cap. nunquam eadem dist 96. It is a custome that princes shoulde submit their heads vnto the Bishops girdle and not iudge of their liues Cap. solita de maiorit obed God made two great lights in the firmamēt the greater light to rule the day the lesse light to rule the night both of thē great but the one greater Therefore hath God made two great lightes for the firmament of heauen that is the vniuersall Church to wit he hath appointed two high states or dignities which are these the authority of the Pope the power of the king But that which ruleth the day that is in matters spiritual is the greater that which gouerneth carnall affaires that is the lesse That it may appeare that looke what difference there is betwixt the sunne the moone so great oddes there is betwixt Popes Kings C. fundament de elect in 6. Papa nulli homini subest Finally the Emperour is bound to take an oath of alegiance obedience vnto the Pope the forme whereof is extant cap. 1. de jurejurando c. tibi domino dest 63. clement vnica de jurejurando And so it is said lib. 1. ceremoniarum Pontificialium cap. 7. The Pope in the night of the birth of our Lorde doeth hallowe the sword which he afterward giueth vnto some Prince in token of the infinite power which is giuen vnto the Pope according to that saying All power is giuen vnto me in heauen in earth that also He shal rule frō seato sea frō the riuer to the ende of the earth So it is also in the Glosse of the Canon law to wit that the Pope is al things aboue all thīgs that he is the lord of lords hath the right of the king of kīgs ouer his subiects that he may turn roūd into square that he is the cause of causes therfore no inquirie is to be made into his authoritie because there is no cause of the first cause that the whole world is the Popes diocesse that his authority extēdeth vnto things in heauen earth and vnder the earth that he may command the Angels that he hath so great power both in Purgatorie also in hell that hee can by his pardons deliuer as many soules as hee will which are in those places place them presently in heauen in the seats of them which be blessed as it is saide in the Bull of Clement the sixt that hee hath such power in heauen that hee may canonize whome hee will that is dead for a saint though all Byshops and Cardinals were against it And who can recken vp all his blasphemies To conclude Sixtus quintus to omit the rest doth at this day thus begin in one of his Bulles The authoritie graunted to blessed Peter and to all his successours by the infinite power of the everlasting King excelleth the power of all earthly kings and Princes Secondly for that he will be accounted the highest iudge who neither can erre in making decrees concerning faith or lawes concerning manners neither yet ought to be iudged of any And for that hee setteth vp himselfe aboue all euen the generall councels and ordaineth new sacraments and transformeth and altereth those which Christ did institute He imposeth new lawes vpon mens conscienees as for those which Christ made hee doeth ratifie and repeale at his pleasure as Cap. nunc autem dist 21. The chiefe seate that is the chayre of Rome is not indeede of any Can. si Papa dist 40. If the Pope should drawe by heapes innumerable people with him into hell no mortall man presumeth or taketh vpon him to reprehend his faults for that he is to iudge all men and himselfe to be iudged of none Can. cuncta seq 9. q. 3. Euery Church in the worlde knoweth that the holy Church of Rome hath authoritie to iudge of all persons no man may censure her iudgement Can. nemini 17. 4. It is permitted to no man to iudge of the Apostolicall seat or to retract that sentence because of the primacie of the Church of Rome cap. proposuit de concept praebend According to the largenes of our authority we may dispense with aboue law cap. significasti de elect elect potest Al councils both are called haue their strength by the authoritie of the Church of Rome the authoritie of the Bishop of Rome is manifestly excepted in their cōstitutiōs cap. regula dist 17. No council is or shal euer be established which shall not be cōfirmed supported by the Popes authority And so the Glosse saith again that the Popes pleasure is heauenly and for this cause he may chāge the nature of thigs by applying those things which are substantial in one thing vnto another That he hath allaws in the closet of his brest that he hath the same consistory which God hath and the same iudgement seat with Christ that he can make any thing of nothing and make that to be a sentence or iudgement which is none that in what so euer he pleaseth his will is to him in steade of reason and yet no man may say Why dost thou thus that he may dispense beyond law make iustice of iniustice by concealing and altering the laws that he can do all things sinne excepted whatsoeuer God himself cā do that he must be iudged of none that if he should throw downe heaps of soules into the hels yet none may demand of him Why doest thou it that he may dispense against both Apostle and Apostolicall Canon that he is aboue lawe that what soeuer is done of the Pope is to be supposed is done of God that he is all and aboue all that hee may doe all things aboue law contrarie to law and without lawe ad cap. quanto de translat Episcopi cap. proposuit de concess praeb and else where c. Thirdly for that he taketh and vsurpeth power authoritie to transferre kingdoms which is the onely worke of God as Clement vnica de jureiur ando in priu The Romane Emperours haue the approbation of the B. of Rome for the person which is to be preferred vnto the dignity of the Emperiall M ie as also the anointing cōsecratiō the crown of the Empire Clem. Past. de sent re iudic in fine The Pope hath superiority ouer the Empire whē the Empire is void succee deth the Emperour C. venerabilē de elect The right authoritie to choose a king to be Emperor appertaineth vnto the Bishop of Rome cap. 2. de sent re iudic in 6. The Pope may depose the Emperour Can. alius 15. quaest 6. Zacharie the Pope deposed the French king from