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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16774	An admonition to the nobility and people of England and Ireland concerninge the present vvarres made for the execution of his Holines sentence, by the highe and mightie Kinge Catholike of Spaine. By the Cardinal of Englande; Admonition to the nobility and people of England and Ireland concerninge the present warres made for the execution of his Holines sentence, by the highe and mightie Kinge Catholike of Spaine.	Allen, William, 1532-1594.	1588 (1588)	STC 368; ESTC S120636	32,181	61

saie yea and some so simple as to thinke that they whom Christe at his departure hence did endue with most ample commission and Iohn vlt. sent foorthe with that auctorety which his father had geuen vnto him haue no power to denounce or declare when princes be heretikes or violaters of Gods lawes Nor right to excomunicate them nor to discharge the people of their othe and obedience towardes suche as no Christiā man by lawe of God or nature may lawfully obaie In which necessarie pointe euery studious and reasonable mā may reforme him self aswell by the forsaid as by the histories of the Churche since Christes time And heire thow shalt finde straight vpon the first cōuersion of kinges to the faithe how they coulde not withdrawe them selues from the Churches discipline thoughe bothe heretikes and other of wicked lyfe haue alwaies muche repined but euer were either driuen to order obedience or in fine confounded Almoste thirtene hundrethe yeares agoe Babylas bishop of Antioche excommunicated the onely Christian Kinge or Emperoure that Chrisost in vita Babilae then was as sum counte Numerius as others Phillip for executinge a prince that was put to him for an ostage VVhervpon as ill Kinges vse to doe he martired his Bishop whom for that S. Chrisostom and others recken for the most famous martire of that time VVherby all true Bishops may lerne that it is their dutie to chastise and excommunicate disobedient tirants whatsoeuer fall to their persons therfore Afterwarde holie Fabianus the Pope pursued the same Emperour by like excomunication and other meanes till at the lenghte he brought him to repentance Ser. li. 7. cap. 24. Afterwarde S. Ambrose Bishop of Milan with notable courage excōmunicated the elder Theodosius Theod li. ● ● 17 19. Am●●l● 5 ep● 28. Aug. de Ciu●●at Dei lib. ● cap. 26. the Emperour put him to eight monthes penance and in the ende forced him to make a lawe or prouisiō against the like crime for which he was excomunicated This was an other world most deare cuntrymen maruelous courage and zeale for Gods cause was then in preists great humilitie and obedience in princes Then was there no flatterers so shamefull nor no heretike on the earthe so impudent to make temporall Kinges aboue all correctiō of Gods Churche their owne pastors they hauing most nede therof yea aboue all others when they passe the limites of Iustice the lawes of God Nice lib. ●3 c. 14. Georg. Patrtar de vita Chrisost Nere this time againe Innocentius the first excomunicated Arcadius the Emperor his wife Quene Eudoxia for that they disobeyed and persecuted their Bishop S. Chrisostom I will reporte the Iuditiall sentence brefely because it is muche to the purpose and full of maiestie O Emperour the bludd of my brother Iohn Chrisostom crieth to God against the thou hast caste out of his chaire the great Doctor of the whole world and in him by thy wiues that delicate Dalida her persuasions persecuted Christe therfore I though a poore sinfull soule to whom the throne of the great Apostle S. Peter is comitted do excomunicate the and her and do suspende you bothe from the holie sacramētes comaundinge that no Preist nor Bishop vnder paine of depriuation after this my sentence come to their knowledge geue or minister the said sacraments vnto you Thus did this blessed father whome Saint Au gustine excedingly commendethe in his time hādle that Emperor and wicked Queene which was the cause of her husbādes fall and offences and at lengthe brought them to repentance And when by processe of time the Churche became more potent and some Princes were falne to contempte of Religion as it lightly hapneth by heresie or Apostasie and that Excōmunicatiō or other ordinary ecclesiasticall discipline wolde not serue being onely spirituall penalty and now not hauing ordinarely annexed that corporal vexatiō executed by sathan vpon excōmunicate persons therfore so much feared in the Primatiue Churche then aswell the Bishopes godlie persons their owne subiects did craue aide and armes of other Christian Princes against them as also the most holie and aunciente Popes of Rome did with all godly zeale incite the Catholike Kinges to the same that those whom the spirituall rodde could not frutefully chastise might by externall force be driuen doune or to repentance of their disorder There is no warre in the world so iuste or honorable as that which is waged for religion whether it be forren or ciuill nor crime in the world deseruinge more sharpe and zelous pursute of extreme reuenge then falinge from the faithe to strange religions whether it be in the superior or subiectes 2. Parali 15. VVho so euer seeke not after the lord God of Israell let him be stain from the highest to the lowest said Kinge Afa admonished by Azaria the Prophet And againe charge was giuen expresly in Deutronomie to slei all false Prophetes and Cap. 13. their followers were they neuer so neere vs by nature and to destroie vtterly all citties with their inhabitāts that were proued to followe newe strange Gods or religions Princes and rulers no more excepted but muche more punis hable in this case then the people as appeareth by Gods commaundmēt to Moises that he should Num. ●● hange vp all the Princes of Israel vpon gallowes against the sun for communication in sacrifice with the Moabites and the reste of the people euery one by the hand of his neighbor to be put to the sworde for the same faulte As an other time by Moises appointment the faithfull Leuits slewe thirty three thousand of their nert neighbours frendes and brethren for comittinge Idolatrie and forsakinge the true 2. Paral. cap 1● God so iuste a quarrell is the deffence of religiō For which also the Kinges of Iuda as Abia and others fought moste iustly and prosperously against Hieroboam and other Kinges of Israell and iustly possesed the cities which they conquered in the warre as also Edom and Lobna for 2. Par 21. religion euen bicause he forsooke the God of his forfathers did reuolte from Kinge Ioram and could neuer be recouered Iosue 22. VVherin the example also and zeale of the children of Israell was very notable that they wold haue denounced Battell against the tribe of Rubine and Gad for erectinge as they tooke it a Schismaticall alter out of the only place in which God appointed to be worshiped by Sacrifice So did the Christian Armenians Euseb li. 9. c. 8. 9. take armes against Maximinus the Emperour for deffence of their faith So did Constantine againste Maxentius the tyrante By all which it is cleare that what people or person so euer be declared to be rebelious against Gods Churche by what obligation so euer either of kinred frendship loialté or subiection I be bounde to them I may or rather must take armes against them nothinge doubtinge but whē my Kinge or Prince hathe brokē with