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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01567	A declaration made by the Archbishop of Collen, vpon the deede of his mariage, sent to the states of his archbishoprike VVith the letter of Pope Gregorie the. 13 against the celebration of the same mariage, and the Bishops aunswer therevnto. According to the coppie imprinted at Collen. 1583.	Gebhard, Truchsess von Waldburg, Archbishop and Elector of Cologne, 1547-1601.; Deloney, Thomas, 1543?-1600.; Gregory XIII, Pope, 1502-1585.	1583 (1583)	STC 11693; ESTC S102953	12,394	38

of our Apostolique cōfirmation by reason whereof we are persuaded that there is none which ought to beare greater reuerence to the holie seate of Rome nor that ought to be a greater obseruer of the ecclesiasticall discipline then you hoping that we should haue had great helpe through your constancie fidelitie But it doth greatly displease vs and merueilously grieue vs that our hope therein is not onely weakned and made lesse but also vtterly lost And further we vnderstand from day to day by the letters of many and the report of diuerse such thinges of you so vnworthy the dignitie degrée wherein you are that without great shame we are not able to expresse it And although verilie we haue oftentimes refused to beléeue such vnworthy reportes yet the daylie clamor hath constrained vs greatlie to doubte thereof being afraid of your fall which now we wil no lōger dissemble wherfore we doo admonishe you that you would haue a regard and a foresight to your honour and saluation while it is time and if possible you haue gone any further then reason required spéedilie withdraw your selfe that those things which heretofore hath béen declared of you may be proued false which is our onlie desire that you will openly manifest your mind ful intent inwardlie cōceiued in your hart to y e end that your good name princelie parentage the ecclesiasticall order be not by your means for euer stained w t ignominius reproch by y e aduersaries of our honor Againe consider your duty towards God which hath raised you to the dignitie and degrée of the sea Apostolique which you should cherish with singuler affection and fauour and for the same it is that you ought to spend your blood in all christian profession For by how much the more you are of hie calling and honourable estate by so much the more is your fault greater then any others when you fall from any parte of your duety And by so much the more wil your fault be greater as you were of honour and dignitie in the church of God and in great aucthoritie with the Princes of the Empire Consider then what troubles and daūgers procéedeth from such new remoouings of thinges and how héedfull the prudent and godlie man ought to be from hazarding so lightly his honour state dignitie and his soule whereof there hath béen so many straunge and wonderfull examples in our time which may make vs to be better aduised in our dealings but if we haue possible suffered somewhat to much in former time attribute the same to our affection towards you and to the desire we haue had of your honor and dignitie Neither doo we any thing doubt but that this our fatherly kindnes shall be receaued of you with that effect which it ought to be for many good reasons and iust causes and that you will not forgette to shew due reuerence towardes this holy seate that we maye acknowledge you for our déere and beloued sonne as heretofore we haue done which wil be an occasion to vs greatly to reioyce and because we haue not thought it sufficient to send our letters onely we haue sent our reuerend Brother the Archbishop of Treues to take his iourney towardes you to conferre more at large of these our affaires who shall more cléerelye discouer vnto you our will counsayle and intent to whome we are assured that you will giue both faith and credite Giuen at Rome at saint Peters in the yéere of our Lord 1582. the 17. day of December and in the 11. yéere of our Pontificalitie Io. Baptista Canobius To Pope Gregorie the .13 Ghebbard Archbishop of Collon Prince and Elector of the Empire sendeth greeting I Haue vnderstood by your letter your fatherlie affection and worthinesse of such a Prelate but in this principally that you will not lightlie giue place to vntrue tales neither faith to the euill reports spread abroad of my actions and déeds For if it were sufficient to accuse who should be in these corrupted dayes excused wherein the most godliest men are assailed with enuie ● and what is he that can defend himselfe against the conspiracies of euil willers I acknowledge you as a good father exhorting me to perseuere in the faith integrete good discipline and obedience vnto the Chatholique Apostolique and true beléeuing Church Giuing me aduertisement of the great and manifold daungers falling on those which are desirous of nouelties which folowing their disordinate lustes and affections are drawne from the company of the Apostolique church Wherefore my duty is to accept of your charitable holie admonitions knowing that which is said by Salomon that he which refuseth discipline hath no regarde of his owne soule but he that harkeneth to correction shall obtaine knowledge I must néedes confesse that I haue béene ouer slacke and negligent in thinges appertaining to the saluatiō of my soule the rest of my conscience and the duetie I owe to the glorie of God and the dignitie of the Church But your letters hath serued me as a spurre pricking me forward greatly prouoking me y t all dissimulation laid aside all superstition by me reiected I am minded openly to declare euen as you haue admonished me y t which I haue conceaued in my heart considering the faith I owe vnto GOD that hath called me to this his degrée that which I owe to the church Apostolique to my countrey the publique wealth thereof and also to my selfe knowing the saying of that great and holie man Augustine to be true and worthy to be had in memory that there is none that doth more harme to the flocke of Christ then such as coūterfetteth the lambe in the roome and office of the ministerie the same is cited 83. distinction the second cannon For as much then I am come to the age wherein I am able without the aduice of others to gouern my selfe and by the onely will of our Lord Iesus Christe which hath vouchsaued to call me to the great charge of an Archbishop and as it is a thing proper to the nature of a christian man to inquire and followe after the trueth I am setled in the furtheraunce of this good worke without musing at all on any custome or humaine authority finding by the holie scriptures and amōg the ecclesiasticall histories y t this which we haue commaunded to be done becōmeth him which is the child of God and which is also required in the office himself hath already established y t is to say Iesus Christ which is y e only way the trueth and the life in whose name as also with the Father and the holie Ghost we are baptised to whome appertaineth y e catholique church hauing redéemed y e same by his precious blood Upon this foundation is the church sustained being also beautified and inriched with most excellent tytles which he hath giuen by S. Paule in the first to Timothy the third chapter calling her the house of y e