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cause_n	bishop_n	ecclesiastical_a	judge_n	1,591	5	7.2679	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01175	The restorer of the French estate discouering the true causes of these vvarres in France & other countries, and deliuering the right course of restoring peace and quiet to all Christendome: wherein are handled these principall questions touching religion, policie, and iustice: whether it be lawfull to sweare, and keepe promise to heretikes, to force mens consciences for religion sake, to liue with, and dwell nigh heretikes, to breake the order of succession to the Crowne bycause of religion, or no. Who be schismatikes; and of the chiefe poincts of religion. How we are to iudge of the schisme in Christendome at this day. Lastly, the conclusion conteining notable admonitions to the clergie, nobles, magistrates, people, and King of France. Translated out of French. Ecclesiæ & reipub. D.	Hurault, Michel, d. 1592, attributed name.	1589 (1589)	STC 11289; ESTC S102588	139,883	174

patrimonie Gods demain As for Popes most of them haue clymbed vp to the holy See by lyes hypocrisie guiles and deceipt by money armes massacres sackings poysonings and Magicall arts There is no kind of impietie Atheisme idolatry enchauntements heresie schisme but ye shall commonly read it in their stories View the the life of Siluestre the second Misnia and after the death of Hebert being still wedded to his owne selfe will and stubborne opinion against God who brought all these Emperors being the Popes creatures to confusion he gaue the Empire to Henrie the fift the sonne of Henrie the fourth who was yet liuing allowed and acknowledged of all men for Emperor except the Pope and his adherents Histories are full of such contempts we learne by them that Emperors during foure hundred yeeres and vpward were tossed and troubled by th' iniuries and oppressions of the Pope that such stormes and tempestes neuer tooke end till after th' Emperors had quitt to the Popes the greater part of their possessions and rights and had subiected to them their persons dignities The Pope tooke the Crowne from Childerik gaue it to Pepin took it from Lewis the meek gaue it to his sonne which is a story as lamētable as that of th' Emperor Henry the fourth there was no let in him that he disposed not our Crowne more often Boniface when he had excōmunicated Philip the Faire gaue the Realme to Albert king of the Romanes it passeth all account to tell how many times he hath excommunicated our kings hath exposed our kingdome in pray hath adiudged it to him that first could seize on it and by dispensation hath discharged the Subiects of their othe to turne them from their fidelitie and allegeance How oft and how long he hath put and held the Realme of England in interdiction is knowen By this gate of iniustice hath the Spanish tvrāt inuaded the kingdome of Nauarre this is all the iust and lawfull title he hath there to It is knowē how the Pope hath played with the Realm of Naples and Sicile He tooke it from the Germaines to geue it the French and after from the French to geue it the Spaniardes a very long time hath he made faire shew to these two Nations crossing or fauouring the hopes now of th' one then of the other he let it be taken from Conradin he opposed himself against Maufred made war on him calling this war holy which touched th' estate of Religion in nothing but only the ease securitie profite enuie and grudge of his holinesse he called thither the Earle of Aniou he condemned and put to death Conradm by the hand of the hangman and a douzen or fiftene great Lords with him for no other cause than his owne priuate hatred after that he fauoured the Earle of Aniou against the house of Arragon a great while but at last in fauor of the house of Arragon he tooke from Charles of Aniou and his successors that which he had geuen them Briefly there hath bene no quarrell nor iar betwene the Lords of Christendome which hath not bene kindled by him wherof he hath not taken intelligence wherein he hath not demaunded the obedience of both parties He hath stirred vp the French against the Greeks and Lombards the Germaine against the French the French against the Germaine the Italiā against the Germain the French against the Italian the Italian against the French and againe the Spaniard against the French all Christen dome against the English the French against th'Arrogomans the Spaniard against the Nauarreans He hatched the diuision of th'Vrsins and Columnas of the Guelfs and Ghibelins the warre betwixt the Genoans and Venetians It is impossible to discourse of al these in particular I cannot abide to stand vpon them their remembrance is so grieuous In like maner the diuisions that Popes haue made in the Church the schismes of two or three Popes at once the sects of Monkes Friers and Nunnes require so long a processe that I may not vndertake to recite them at this present But what is said sufficeth to shew that the Pope despiseth gouernments and maketh diuisions It is written that Antichrist shal be an aduersarie 2. Thes 2. the true significatiō of this word Antichrist is as much to say as against or contrary to Christ now let vs compare the least actions doctrine of Popes to that of Iesus Christ and his Apostles and ye will iudge that nothing is more contrary Our Sauiour had no place where he might rest his head Math. 8. Luke 9. Popes and Bishops do possesse the most delightfull and rich places vpon earth Our Lord Iesus Christ refused to iudge and deuide an inheritance betweene two brethren Luke 12. and whereas one of them praied him to do it he sent him away saying who hath made me a iudge or a diuider ouer you The Pope hath vsurped secular iurisdiction of all thinges among all persons without speaking of the spirituall whereof he maketh none partakers In so much that in the reigne of Philip Valois the court of Parlement and other iudges royall were enforced to complayne to the King They declared to him how all the iurisdiction belonging to the Iudges Royall flowed away from the kings Benches to th'Ecclesiastical courts and that farre mo profane or ciuil causes were iudged by Bishops their Officials and other Officers of the Church then by the kings Iudges that he which for the least occasion would not obey and abide the censures and sentences of the Ecclesiasticall should forthwith be excommunicated depriued of the Sacraments and that there power and auctority was come to this passe that for a simple debt a man vnable to pay was interdicted that they had vsurped the imprisoning deteyning of all malefactors with the notice triall of their crimes Poore de Cugneres was diffamed for hauing too truly pleaded on this declaration And yet at this day ye retaine the proceedings which ye call the Chicanerie of the Popes court he did you that good while he aboad at Auimon Ye iudge the most part of your processes by the Popes ordinances There is no company of iudges where the Pope hath not brought in his Lieutenants the courtes where your goods your life and honour are iudged euen the courts of Parlement do partly consist of persons Ecclesiasticall Chanons Abbats Bishops and Archbishops the great and goodlier processes th' affaires of the Royall reuenues Eschequer and Estate are iudged and determined by them in the great counsell in the priuie counsell in the counsel of the Finances in the counsell of Estate and in the most Secrete counsell they are Peeres and soueraigne Iudges of this Realme are Princes therein Th' imperiall dignitie is adiudged giuen by the Popes after the iudgement electiō of Bishops and Archbishops which also iudge all the affaires of the Empyre Ouer and besides this the Pope chalengeth and reserueth from all others priuatly