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A68128	An ansvver to Pope Vrban his inurbanity, expressed in a breue sent to Lowis the French King, exasperating him against the Protestants in France. / VVritten in Latine by the Right Reverend Father in God, Ioseph Lord Bishop of Exeter. ; Translated into English by B.S.; Inurbanitati pontificiae responsio Jos. Exoniensis.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.; Urban VIII, Pope, 1568-1644.	1629 (1629)	STC 12641; ESTC S103615	12,206	46

the doting age of the world in which a certaine new off-spring of Articles haue begun to spring it is capitall to vs and to bee corrected with no lesse punishment then the continuall torments of hell Consider this all ye Christians that liue in any place of the earth how farre is it from all Justice and Piety that a new faith can be created in after time by humane judgement vnheard of in antient ages which may adjudge Posterity to hell for not beleeving that which the first Christians never heard of and yet went to heaven These greene fresh witts of a Politicke Religion are in truth the men which most outragiously perplex the world wherever the name of Christ is heard of These are they who set at variance among themselues the Kings of the earth who otherwise it is like would bee peaceable These rent Kingdomes distract people dissolue societies nourish seditions lay waste the most flourishing Countries and lastly doe bring the richest Cities to ashes and confusion But ought these things thus to be done Doe wee thinke that this will bee found a just cause of deadly warre or of a Massacre at the tribunall of the great Iudge Awake oh ye Christian Princes and thou especially King Lowis into whose eares those mischiefs are so vncivilly cruelly whispered awake at length and see how cursed fiercenesse deviseth to put it selfe vpon your Maiestie after the most mischievous manner vnder a pretence of piety They are your natiue subiects whom these forreiners require for the slaughter yea they are Christs and what would you bath your hand or sword in the blood of those for whom Christ shed his who lavished most freely for you and your great Parent their owne Heare SIR I beseech you whose stile is among your subjects LEVVIS THE IVST If we did worship any other God any other Christ then yours if we aspired to any other heaven if we held any other Creed or Baptisme if in a word wee did make profession of a new Church leaning vpon other foundations there would be cause verily why you shold destinate such hereticks remaining in France to revengefull flames If your people haue violated any thing established by the God of vs all or lawfully appointed by your selfe we verily craue no pardon Let them smart who haue deserved stripes it is just But make not havocke of the servants of your owne God and of your owne subiects whom Religion it selfe makes faithfull vnto you Suffer not for a few yesterdayes and superfluous patches of humane invention and will-worship added to the Christian religion that they perish who haue beene willing to redeeme your and your Fathers safety and renowne vvith the greatest hazard of their owne liues suffer them to liue by you by whom you now raigne But if they were not yours yet remember that they are Christians vvith vvhich title your subiects are vvont superlatiuely to honour you as most Christian and that you are washed in the same Font bought with the same blood and renued by the same Spirit and in a vvord vvhatsoever vaine furie thundereth out to the contrarie they are the Sonnes of the Spouse and the Brothers of the heavenly Bridgegroome But these doe erre from the faith From vvhich faith I pray Not from the Christian but the Romish Novv vvhat a prodigious thing is this Christ condemnes not these yet the Pope doth If your great Chancellor of Paris vvere novv aliue hee vvould freely teach his Sorbôna vvhich of olde he did hovv that the Pope hath not power that I may vse his ovvne vvord to hereticate any Proposition Yea but an vniversall Councel hath condemned thē Which Councell vvas that The Trent I am deceived if that Councell as yet hath beene received and approved in your Dominions Consult vvith your antient Authors of best credit they vvill tell you hovv vniust a Councell it vvas yea hovv it vvas No Councell at all that vvhatsoever vvas done or established by that Company being enthralled to seven-headed Rome vvas but the act of one Bishop Lastly consider I beseech Your Maiestie hovv the Reformed are not in some kinde to the Papists as the Papists are to the Reformed Heresie is alike sharplie vpbraided on both sides But doe vve deale so roughlie vvith the professours of the Romish Religion Did vve ever rage vvith fire and sword against the Papall faith See vvas ever the crime of a conscience miserablie misled accounted capitall It may be You may finde yet verie seldome perchance some impudent Masse-priest a despiser of publick lawes a sower of sedition to haue received his condigne punishment But no Papist I speake confidentlie vvas ever put to death meerelie for the cause of Religion or losse either of head or limbe Why doest not thou then oh sonne of most milde and clement HENRY carrie thy selfe alike tovvard thy faithfull subiects vvho innocentlie professe the reformed religion why doth not Your Maiesty take order that it may be a trap for no man to haue worshipped God according to the Scriptures and the practise of the antient Church and that it may be lawfull for Your subjects to be trulie pious And thou Pope Vrba● at last come to thy selfe and consider how well this cruell sentence becomes thy Purple robes It becomes not him to carrie a sheepe-crooke but a sword that will furrow vp that field Nor is this net belonging to fishing but rather to the fencing schooles of the ancient Romish Gladiators Beautifull are the fee●e of them that preach peace saith the Prophet we may say now of thee farr otherwise Hatefull are the hands of them that preach warre If thou hadst anie portion in the Gospell of Christ thou mightest easilie judge that all things there sound peace gentlenesse meekenesse concord This revenging spirit was not sent but from hell Not the least sound of an hammer is heard in Gods Temple but You good man will haue the holie Church of God filled with the clangor of trumpetts and the clashing of semiters and the groanes of men ready to dye Therefore open thy eare at length ô thou who proudlie scornest the judgements of all mortall men That which heretofore our holie and learned Robert Bishop of Lincolne is reported to haue done to thy Predecessour that doe I now to thee Let it be lawfull for me now to summon thee to the fearefull tribunall of Almightie God to which thy trembling and fearefull Ghost shall shortlie be brought to render accompt of that thy bloody advice In the meane while if thou hast anie care or thought to flie from the vvrath to come and escape eternall vengeance REPENT A BREEVE OF OVR HOLY FATHER THE POPE TO THE KING Vpon the taking of Rochell Printed at Paris in St. James street by Edmond Martin lying at the Golden Sunne 1629. With allowance from authority Pope VRBAN the eight OVR most deare sonne in Christ vve send You greeting and Apostolicall benediction the voice of reioycing and salvation is in