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cause_n	ecclesiastical_a	king_n	supremacy_n	2,485	5	10.5338	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20303	A sparing restraint, of many lauishe vntruthes, which M. Doctor Harding do the chalenge, in the first article of my Lorde of Sarisburies replie. By Edward Dering student in Diuinitie. With an answere vnto that long, and vncourteous epistle, entituled to M. Juel, and set before M. Hardings Reioinder	Dering, Edward, 1540?-1576.	1568 (1568)	STC 6725; ESTC S108150	240,683	364

vntruthes It is knowen how vncourteously those reuerend Fathers were entreated their sayings coulde not be heard for the others shamelesse ●issings This commendation of Maister Hardings catholike Doctours is out of season Their learning bicause it is Gods gift I do reuerence their vsage I detest and abhor The rumours of some of their doings are yet hot in Cambridge If I would make base notes in the mergin as Maister Hardings companions do vse where they doe speake slaunderously I could say the truth and make ● Christian mans eares to glowe at their filthynes But God amend them and let the report of their euill be buried with their euill Hardyng ¶ What if God so dispose that nowe also the hart of the Prince detesting the lewdnesse of their liues who professe your Gospell and seing the vntruth of your doctrine and lamenting this vniuersall decay of vertue proceding thereof and the vtter damnation of so many soules be wholy bent to restore the Catholique Religion of the Church and abandon all these wicked new deuises of Geneua What will you then do Dering Now after that Master Harding hath enquired much after Maister Iuells inconstancy and can espy little worthy reprehension in an vncharitable imagination he will néedes gesse what Maister Iuell would doe if he were againe put to his triall And héere with a sighing supposition he doeth féede his Popish veine and asketh What if God so dispose the hart of the Princes c. To this I aunswer that if God should so do his iust iudgement should be vpon the sinnes as well of the Prince as of the people For it is his mercy that we be not consumed But what if God will not so deale with his enheritance What if he wyll not shew his people such heauie things What if the king of Ashur shal ouercome vs no more What if we shall no more be led captiues into Babilon What if the téeth of the wicked are broken What if destructions be come to a perpetuall end Surely if our iniquities doe not turne awaye Gods blessings the hope of the vngodlye is like a thinne fome that is caried awaye with the streame As touching our Princesse hir hart is in the hande of the Lord and though we be no men pleasers yet this is the contentation of our conscience that we sée in hir the expresse tokens of the childe of God and we are witnesses vnto our selues how willinglye we obey hir Dauid was a good king though he would builde God an house thoughe it liked him not that the tabernacle shoulde be couered with Goates heare Ionathas was a good king very zealous though the high places were not taken away Ezechias was a very godly king though when God left him to trie him to knowe all that was in hys hart he found him faultie Iosias was a vertuous yong Prince as euer was in Ierusalem yet he was a feard of Necho king of Egipt Deborah was a good Quéene and is not blamed in the scriptures yet no doubt she was not with out fault and what if our Quéene that hath restored Gods religion should doe something that liked Maister Harding Doth he therfore thinke she will peruert the wayes of the Lorde and set vp againe his Romish Idolatries Their prophecies are now expired and that olde rotten Epistle before the confutation of the Apology is now forgotten From what stomaks such flatteries proceded it is not hard to iudge But peace be vpon Quéene Elizabeth and vpon the Israel of the Lorde For this great decay of vertue wherof Maister Harding complayneth it is not in the worde of God it is our corrupte manners This is an olde obiection made against true Religion S. Paul doth complaine of it that for this cause Gods name was euill spoken of among the gentiles So y e wicked Iewes would complaine Since we left to burne incence to the Quene of heauen we haue ben consumed with the sworde and with famine Yet the leauing off of their Idolatry was no cause of their euills Harding ¶ You did once confesse to mee plainly in Sarisbury when ye came thither in visitation that you neuer lyked the Supremacie of the temporal Princes ouer the Churche of England Did you not tell mee that it stode neither with Scripture nor with Doctours nor with the iudgment of the learned men of Germany Geneua and the parties where you had ben And why then preach you not this Doctrine abroade Dering As touching this priuate talke of Maister Iuell had with Maister Harding at Sarisbury concerning the Quéenes supremacie it is a malicious lye of Maister Hardings vncharitable hart If it were true yet I might well aunswere with the Philosophers that there are .iiii. sorts in whome is singular impudence in a woman that putteth on a mans garment in a gheast that thinketh him selfe as good as his hoste in him that will be talking of Princes wher he hath no occasion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in him that when a thing is tolde him in secrete doth tel it abroad openly Now if this accusation were true yet what witnesse hath Maister Harding to crye out of his impudency But what if it be false What if it be a shamelesse lye A christian man will saye with weeping eyes God amende the euill speakers But Demosthenes sayd to the people of Athens If you sée a Uiper or a byting Spider though they did neuer sting you yet you will kill them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lyke wyse O ye men of Athens when you sée a slaunderer hauing this vipers nature tary not till he sting you but kill him as sone as you se him If this accusation were true the very Gentiles could not abide it if it be false they thinke M. Harding not woorthy lyfe And that it is false his own words are a sufficient witnesse which say he spake after the opinion of the learned men in Germany and other where who do all graunt that their is no authority in the earth next vnder God aboue the authority of a Prince and that in all causes and estates ecclesiasticall and temporall euen as S. Peter sayth Submit your selues vnto all ordinaūce of man whether it be vnto the King as vnto the chiefe or vnto gouernours as vnto them that he sendeth This supremacy which S. Peter graūteth vnto the king the papist wil in no wise acknowledge but will haue the prowde Pope to treade vppon the Emperours neck and Princes to holde his stirrop while he goeth to horsbacke and waite bare foote at his gates to abide his papall pleasure Good Lord how was that worlde droonken with superstition We giue our Princesse hir authority we submit our selues to hir gouernmēt she is the anoynted of the Lord and chosen chiefe ruler of his church of Englande and God graunt hir many yeares to reigne till the fretting enuy be confounded in all flattering stomackes That euer Maister Iuell denied hir supremacy