Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
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
A62185	The papacy of Paul the Fourth, or, The restitution of abby lands and impropriations an indispensable condition of reconciliation to the infallible see, &c.; Historia del Concilio tridentino. English. Selections	Sarpi, Paolo, 1552-1623.; E. A.	1673 (1673)	Wing S700; ESTC R12447	21,600	44

concerneth the Communion of the Cup yet with condition that they should change nothing in the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church until the Decree of the future Diet. And they desiring nothing else were content to contribute readily against the Enemy The Bavarians also desired of their Duke liberty of Religion demanding a free preaching of the Gospel marriage of Priests the Communion in both kinds and to eat flesh every day protesting that otherwise they would not pay the heavy Subsidies and Contributions against the Turks The Duke seeing that Ferdinand had granted his people the Communion of the Cup did likwise grant them that Communion and leave to eat flesh if there were necessity on Fasting daies until the causes of Religion were composed by Publick Authority But the Pope having laid the foundations before rehearsed applying himself to Spiritual matters thought it necessary to gain Credit with the World which could not be done if it did not appear by deeds not by words only that the Court of Rome was reformed Therefore being wholly bent to this in the end of January 1556. he erected a Congregation to which he committed the discussion of all the doubts in matter of Simony which he Printed and sent Copies of them to all Princes and said he had published them that they might come to the knowledg of the Vniversities of general Studies and of every Learned man that all might have occasion to make known their opinions which he would not openly desire because it was not honourable for that See which is Mistress of all to go about and beg them He said that for himself he had no need of the instruction of any because he knew what Christ did command but that he had erected the Congregation that in a matter wherein all are interested it might not be said that he had proceeded of his own head He added that having purged himself and his Court it could not be said to him Physitian cure thy self And that he would make Princes know that there is greater Simony in their Courts which he would take away being Superior to Princes as well as Prelates Some told him that it was necessary to handle such a thing in a General Council which he heard with great indignation and said he had no need of a Council himself being above all And Cardinal Bellai saying that a Council was necessary not to add authority to the Pope but to find a means for Execution which cannot be uniform in all places he concluded that if a Council were necessa●y it should be held in Rome and that it was not needful to go else-where and that he never consented that the Council should be held in T 〈…〉 because it was in the midd'st of the Lutherans that the Council is to consist of Bishops only that other persons might be admitted for Counsel yet only Catholicks ☜ otherwise the Turks also ought to be admitted That it was a great vanity to send into the Mountains sixty Bishops of the least able and fourty Doctors of the most insufficient as was twice done already and to believe that by those the World could be better regulated than by the Vicar of Christ with the Colledg of all the Cardinals who are the Pillars of all Christendom Elected for the most Excellent of all Christian Nations and by the Counsel of the Prelates and Doctors which are in Rome who are the most Learned persons in the World and more in number than by any diligence can be brought to Trent But when news came to Rome of the grant of the Cup made by the Duke of Bavaria to his Subjects he entred into a great rage against him and he put this among other things for which he designed to make provision at once being full of hope that every thing would be easy unto him if the Court were reformed and was not troubled though he saw the number of abuses to encrease For a few daies after the Ambassador of Polonia coming expresly to congratulate his Holiness for his assumption to the Popedom made five demands in the name of the King and Kingdom viz. To Celebrate the Mass in the Polonian Tongue To use the Communion in both kinds The Marriage of Priests That the payment of Annates might be taken away And that they might call a National Council to reform the proper abuses of the Kingdom and to reconcile the variety of opinions He heard these demands with unspeakable impatience and set himself to detest them most bitterly speaking against them one after another with infinite vehemence And for conclusion he said that a General Council in Rome would cause the heresies and bad opinions of many to be known alluding to what was done in Germany Austria and Bavaria And being for these reasons almost resolute in himself or at least willing to seem so that it was necessary to call a Council he told all the Ambassadors that they should signifie to their Princes his purpose to make a Lateran Council like unto that which is so famous And he sent Nuncii to the Emperor and the French King to exhort them to Peace though in France he had a more secret negotiation He gave commission also to treat with them of the Council and said in the Consistory that it was necessary to Celebrate it quickly seeing that besides Bohemia Prussia and Germany which were much infected Polonia also was in danger That in France and Spain they were well affected in Religion but the Clergy were badly used That which he principally reprehended in France was the exaction of the Tenths which the King made the Clergy ordinarily pay But he was more incited against Spain For Paul the Third and J●lius having granted the Emperor Charles the halt and quarter Fruits for a Subsidy of the War of Germany and he having revoked the grant because he was not satisfied with the Recess of Ausburg yet they persevered in Spain and forced the Clergy to pay by Sequestrations and imprisonments He did not forbear to say that the Emperor was an Heretick that in the beginning he favoured the innovators of Germain to depress that holy See and to make himself Lord of Rome and of all Italy that he held Paul the Third in perpetual trouble and that he should not do the like to him He added that although he might remedy all these inconveniences by his own Authority yet not to lay so great a burden upon himself alone he would not do it without a Council that he had called it in Rome and named it the Lateran that he had given commission to signifie it to the Emperor and French King in courtesie but not to have their consent or Counsel because his will was they should obey That he was assured it would please neither of them because it is not for their purpose living as they do and that they will say many things against it to disturb it But he will call it whether they will or no and make known what