of Rome But howe will they excuse the slauish seruitude wherunto they brought the greatest princes Saint Iohn offered to fall downe before the Angell but the angell would not suffer him to worship him I am saith he thy fellow seruant worship God But these vile wretches will suffer kings and emperours to kisse their feete Constantine the pope was the first that euer accepted of this honour done to him by Iustinian the emperour And then Stephan the second whose feete Pipin the french king did kisse But afterwards this grew to be so ordinarie a matter that the kissing of an old fooles foule feete is the greatest honour that can be done to the greatest prince at Rome And Pope Steuen hauing gotten into his handes the exarchie of Rauenna whereby he became great in Italy and al by the meanes of the said Pipin whom he also rewarded by making him king of Fraunce thrusting Childrick the true lawfull king into a monastery and intruding Pipin in his roome he now in triumphing manner is carried vpon mens shoulders And he is the first that I knew of any of the popes that thought the earth too good to beare so wicked a lumpe as himselfe was For I trust hee thought it not too base to touch his sacred feet Well the reason of his doings is not for vs to search but he was first carried of mens shoulders Neither will I here inquire of the cause of deposing the right king of Fraunce whether it were iust or not although no cause could make it a iust fact in him that had nothing to doe with it Onely this will I say that where master Bellar. would make the insufficiencie of the French kings to be the cause why either Zachary or Steuen that was next after him did depose the French king from his rightfull crowne yet Platina whose words I rather beleeue then master Bellarmine confesseth that Pipin being greedie of a kingdome sent his embassadours to the pope that he would by his authoritie confirme vnto him the kingdome of Fraunce Whereunto the pope agreed in respect of such former good turnes as hee had receiued of that house And so by the popes authoritie the kingdome of Fraunce is adiudged to Pipin the yeare of our Lord seuen hundred fiftie and three Thus much Platina Whereby it appeareth that the ambition of Pipin and wrong dealing of the bishop of Rome was a cause that Childerick was deposed But to returne to my matter againe we see what pope it was that was first so proude that he could not let his owne legs carrie him But it was set downe afterwards for a lawe vnto which the emperour must be also obedient if he will not be rebellious to the decrees of the church And it is decreed that the emperour himselfe if he be by must helpe to carry that loytring lubber For thus I reade it cited out of their owne booke of ceremonies Although the emperour or any other be he neuer so great a personage be by hee shall carry vpon his shoulders a litle while the chaire and the pope And againe it is decreed in the same place that the most noble lay man shall carry the end or traine of the pluuiall that the pope weareth be it the emperour or any king What a slauerie is this that he by his vngodly and wicked ordinances doth tie princes vnto as though they were his very staues Why should he looke that emperours should be his hacknie horses to cadge him vp and downe Or what reason hath he what warrant out of the scripture What example in Gods booke or of any good man so to disgâ—ace and deface the anointed of the Lord whom he as well as others should seeke by all meanes to honour and reuerence Yet let vs see what more reuerence these proud prelats can suffer to be done vnto them Pipin the new made Frence king did teach the pope a very euill vse For he slattering the pope that hee might make him more frendly to him in assuring him of his kingdome meeting him three miles from his lodging alighteth from his horse and leadeth the popes horse all the way not leauing him vntill he had brought the pope to his lodging It is also recorded that another time the king of England on the one side and the French king on the other performed him that seruice But what neede I seeke for the particular examples This is also a booke case It is alreadie ordered That the emperour shall leade his horse and kings shall goe before him as performing their seruice to this earthly God or God on earth But yet we haue not seene his fullnesse in pride For the emperour if he be by when the pope alighteth must hold his stirop So did Frederick Barbarossa the emperour vnto the pope Adrian the fourth although he had no great thankes for his labour For hee chanced to hold the the wrong stirop the pope was so offended thereat that when the bishop of Bamberg in the name of the emperour had by a pithy oration signified his ioy for the popes presence the pope replied that he heard indeede words of gladnesse but he could not by deedes perceaue any such thing And his reason was because the emperour held not his right stirrop The emperour although angry yet smiling answered that he vsed not to hold any bodies stirrop and that made him the lesse skilfull For he was the first whose stirrop he held And for that time they parted neither of them being well pleased But the next day the emperour made amends for his former offence holding the right stirrop And the same emperour Frederick did afterwards also hold the stirrop to pope Alexander the third a cruel and shamelesse enemie to the said emperour as appeareth by a letter which master Fox in his Actes and Monuments aleadgeth out of Roger Houeden and William of Gisborough In which Letter it doeth most plainely appeare not onely that the Emperour did holde his stirrop for the pope confesseth so much in writing vnto the Archebishoppe of Yorke and to the Bishop of Durham and would haue them to reioyce for the good successe of the church for the church is much increased when the popes stirrop is holden by such but also he cause they said to Moses and Aaron that they tooke too much on them seeing all the people were holy howe great then shall their iudgement be that abuse all euen the mightiest Monarchees at their pleasure Doest thou see O Peter thy successour and thou O sauing Christ behold thy vicar Marke well howe farr the pride of the seruant of thy seruants is gone vp saith an Abbat long since and therefore I trust no Lutheran no Caluenist no Hugonot but a flat papist and yet speaketh this in detestation of the pride of popes and namely of pope Boniface the eight who the second day of his Iubilie apparelled like an
these summes which they got by ecclesiasticall liuings they had many other wayes to picke mens purses Purgatorie was a gainfull deuise the fire therof did much good to the popes kitchin Pardons were good to no vse but to make them rich that gaue them or carried them Especially those pardons which Leo the the tenth sent abroad They which caried them made the world beleeue that whosoeuer would giue tenne shillings for a pardon should for the same deliuer what soule soeuer he would out of purgatorie Vnder pretence also of fighting against the Turke and recouering the holy land they gathered great summes What should I speake of licenses qualifications dispensations and such like meanes to get money If I should but out of our English histories paint out the greedie worme of that church of Rome you would thinke it were a gulf vnsatiable both the horsleaches daughters in one that alwayes crieth giue giue and can neuer haue enough It is a bitter and grieuous complaint that Frederick the second emperour of that name maketh against the church of Rome shewing how the fire of her auarice is so kindled that the goods of the clargie not being able to suffice they feare not to disinherit and make to pay tribute to them emperours kings and princes Whose words hee saith are sweete as hony and as soft as oyle but they are insatiable bloudsuckers He doth put our countrimen in rememberance of that which Innocent the third a pope had done swalowing after the Romish fashion with an vntoward gaping whatsoeuer was fattest And with many such words hee setteth forth the miserable estate of England which was saith he the prince of all prouinces He speaketh of the time of king Iohn as himselfe sheweth of the which dayes also did the nobles of England complaine bitterly because he did subiect himselfe to the pope and so brought their land into a miserable slauerie And as it were speaking vnto the pope they charge him that he beareth with king Iohn to the ende that all things might be swallowed vp of the gulfe of the Romish auarice Neither is the pope Honorius the third ashamed to confesse this fault by his Otho For in his letters hee confesseth that there can be no dispatch in the court of Rome without great expences and gifts and acknowledgeth that this is an old staine to that church And for to take away this slaunder he his cardinals had deuised a good way as he thought which is that he might haue in euery cathedrall church two prebends and such like of abbeis And this is an other way that the pope hath to inrich himselfe by And very often did the bishoppes of Rome seeke by such means to prouide for their friends or such as would buy their letters So did Innocent the fourth write to the abbat of S. Albans for a kinsman of his for a benefice in Lincolne diocesse belonging to the gift of that church of saint Albans called Wengraue and for the next besides it that shuld fall Yea he did sometime write for children Whereupon there grew a great contention betweene the bishop of Lincolne Robert Grosted and the pope Innocent the fourth whome Alexander the fourth his next successour called the seller of benefices Pope Innocent was so offended with this Bishop of Lincolne for withstanding his lewd and wicked couetousnesse that when he heard that the Bishop of Lincolne was dead hee purposed presently to write to the king of England not to suffer him to be buried in the church but to be cast out thereby to disgrace him as much as he possibly could Besides these they haue yet other wayes to get money They send in their ambassadours or legates which when they are once well setled within the land they send to bishops abbates or such as they knew to be of wealth for so much money as they thought good to get But the least gaine came not to the church of Rome by that vniust decree of Innocent the fourth whereby it was prouided that the goods of clarkes that died intestate should go to the bishop of Rome But it were too tedious a matter to come particularly to euery point of the popes greedines It was a thing generally misliked and spoken against yea this their miserable greedinesse as Mat. of Paris witnesseth was the chiefe cause why the Greeke church departed from the Latine church For an archbishop of the Greeke church comming to pope Gregory the ninth to be confirmed in his archbishopricke by him coulde not obtaine his desire vnlesse he would promise much money He seeing that detesting their greedinesse departed and tolde this to sundry of the nobilitie There were other also that reported as euill or worse of that they had seene and knowen at Rome and so they would haue no more to do with the west church In like manner did the same pope behaue himselfe in hearing the matter betweene Walter elect archbishop of Canterbury on the one side and the king and sundry bishops on the other side And although it were obiected against the archbishop by the king and the bishops that in sundry respectes hee was vnfit namely that hee had defloured a Nunne and gotten children by her and the king was very earnestly bent against him the pope also confessed that he was vnlearned yet coulde not the king and the bishops get the pope to be fauorable in that good cause vntill such time as the kings embassadors fearing lest the pope would make him archbishop of Canterbury that was altogether vnworthy of such a place promised to the pope the tenth of all moueables through England Whereupon the pope being so well hired was content not to place a wicked man in the sea of Canterbury And the pope to shew that it was the reward that made him and that he looked for perfourmance thereof he sent into England to demaund the same and it was graunted according to the promise that was made vnto him These and such other corruptions and extortions of the Bishops of Rome made them so odious to the king of England and his nobles that they thought be defiled and polluted the place where he dwelt And therefore when pope Innocentius the fourth requested the king that hee woulde permit him to lie at Burdeaur in Gascoigne which then belonged to the king of England he and his Nobles thought that it was too neere to England and that corruptions would come thence into England And Robert Grosted B. of Lincolne durst boldly say to the pope and in his hearing O money money how much canst thou doe especially in the court of Rome which as it is said in another place is alwaies gaping alwaies greedie But indeed great sums haue him gathered out of this realme which haue gone to the pope insomuch that king Iohn did affirme to the pope Innocent the third almost threatning him for
Councils had giuen to the Emperours that authoritie they that followed would not altogether and directly controll the decree of the Councils but more craftily they so handle the matter that by a very generall decree forbidding all lay men to meddle with elections or to inttest the cleargie or rather threatning the cleargie that will receiue anie ecclesiasticall promotion at the handes of anie lay man they imagine that they annihilate that which more particularlie giueth to the Emperour that power And indeed most busie to bring this about was Hildebrand that firebrand of much mischiefe who beeing pope for that is hee that was called Gregorie the seuenth it was almost the greatest sinne that a pope could commit to seeke to haue his election confirmed by the Emperour But before the time of this Gregorie the seuenth his papacie as Pantalcon reporteth Clement the second went also about to debarre the people of Rome for hauing anie thing to doe in electing the Pope And thus the bishoppes of Rome euer repining and grudging that the emperour whose power they feared might bee a bridle vnto them or rather a deserued scourge for their vngodly life or any other lay man should haue anie thing to do in their election at the length did bring to passe that neither cleargie nor people nor emperour should chuse the pope but onely such of the cleargie as were called Cardinals And the first that euer was chosen pope by the Cardinals was Gelasius the second For we reade not of anie so elected before him Paschalis the second who was next after him was as Platina writeth of him despised of the people chosen of the cleargie praised of the Cardinals But of this he saith that hee was chosen by generall consent of the Cardinals and so doeth Rioche a frier an historiographer of our time Well nowe the bishop of Rome hath shaken off his yoke he is now lawlesse and peerlesse he plaieth now the part of an vntaught and vnruly iade that hauing cast his rider striketh at him with his heeles For freeing himselfe from the emperours gouernment he goeth about to bring the emperour to be in seruitude vnder him And therefore first he goeth about to confirme the emperours election as it were not sufficient without his approbation as Innocent the third confirmed the election of Otho Wherin yet by the way y ◠practise of these prelats is to be noted For they would cōmonly intend themselues to medle when by reason of some diuisiō they hoped their taking part wold be acceptable As in this case For there was a diuision about chusing the emperor some inclining to Frederick some to Otho But afterward they came to that boldnesse that we reade that godlesse wretch Iohn 22. or 21. as some reckon did excommunicat Lewes of Bauaria emperor because he tooke vpō him the empire without the approbation of his holinesse which was decreed by Clement that was next before him as Bale out of Marius alleadgeth For although the electours by their election might giue him power to be King of the Romans yet could he not now haue the name of an Emperour but by the pope And thus wee see how vpon a sudden he that but a litle before could not be pope but by the approbation of the emperour is now so great as that the emperour can not be emperour but by his leaue Now hauing gotten thus high his ambition yet had no end his pride had no measure his rage had no bridle For as he had now either fraudulently or violently or rather both waies obtained thus much that he must confirme the emperour before he might haue that title so did he also take vpon him O intollerable presumption soone after to controll him euen this highest maiestie in this worlde if he did but write his name before the pope as Adrian the fourth did Fred the second Thus we see the pope hath set himselfe in Gods seate as Tyrus saieth of her selfe His throne is placed in the cloudes and his nest made very high Now what means haue they vsed to clime vp into the same For you must vnderstand that impotent affections haue driuen them forward so impudently to seek for this honor Which if it do not appeare in that which hath already bin said yet in that that foloweth I trust it wil be as clear as the noone day For many vngodly vnlawfull practise they haue vsed but what doe I giue them such termes as doe nothing expresse their doings Many detestable and deuilish deuises they haue had to intrude themselues into that seate and to setle themselues in that throne Yea I may I suppose boldly affirme that a man shal not reade in any histories or finde in any records of any state or sort of men be they neuer so prophane that haue vsed more vile and vilanous wayes to obtaine their desire then the popes haue doone to mount into that chaire It should not be so I confesse but yet it is so The greater is their sinne the more is their shame No man shall take vnto him any honour and especially so great honour but he that is called of God as was Aron And whosoeuer doth not enter in by the doore into the sheepfold but climeth vp another way is but a theefe and a robber And the theefe commeth not but to steale and to kill and to destroie God by his prophet Ieremie doth often complaine of such prophets as would runne when they were not sent and would prophecie although the Lorde spake not to them And therefore that which they said vnto the people was but lies a false vision and the deceitfulnes of their owne heart But the true prophets neuer came but when God sent them And therefore they doe commonly publish and proclaime their commission in these words The word of the Lord came to me which is more common in the sermons of the prophets then that I neede to point vnto the particular places Our Sauiour Christ when hee came was sent of the Father And for that cause the Iewes sent priests and Leuites to Iohn the Baptist to know what he was what calling hee had in the church and by what authoritie he did that which he did And as Christ himselfe was sent of the Father so he sendeth his Apostles As my Father sent me so send I you As for Paule who was then a persecuter when the other Apostles were sent to preach yet when Christ purposed to haue his seruice in the ministery he called him and that not strangely onely saying to him from heauen Saul Saul why persecutest thou me but effectually also insomuch as he afterwards laboured more aboundantly than they all Whereby it is plaine that God would neuer haue the ministery of any in his church but that he called them lawfully thereunto Neither is it enough for a man to knowe that his calling is good I meane his office or function
16. Li. 2. cap. 13. The popes legate taken with falsifying Li. 2. cap. 25. Conc. Afric cap. 5 No appeales to the pope Iohn 6. 27. eph 1 22. matth 17. 5. 1. pet 2. 25. Ioh. 14. 16 17. 1. Pet. 5 3. 1. Sam. 2. Num. 16. 2. Helping the distressed churches in their neede Gen. 28. 1. Sam. 21. 10. Matth. 2. 14. Concil Tom. 1. Ad Hemerium Terracon epum. Concil Tom. 1. Decret Innocen Tom. 1. Concil Epist ad Hefich Tom. Concil â— Their bu◠〈◊〉 of mens 〈…〉 â—â—ences The two first steps to the popes supremacy Conncils against supremacy Constantinople stroue for it Phâ—â—as his decre 〈…〉 The 〈◊〉 step vnto the popes supremacy The fourth step He depriueth the Emperour of hauing any thing to doe in the popes election Ioh Rioche compend Hist Benno a Card. of the life and acts of Hildebrand The profe of the supremacy out of gods woâ—d weake and suspected Phocas his decree they thought a reason scarce homest enough The donation Constantine Ce pontif Rom. Lib. 4. cap. 17. lib. 5. cap. 9. Ibidem Pant. 1. Tit. 8. c. 1. L. 3. of catholike concord Themselues agree not to what pope it was giuen Caus 12. q. 1. ca. faturam Cron. Euseb Impossibilities in the donation Conci Constant 1. cap. 2. Niceph. li. 7. c. 34. Theod. li. 1. ca. 16 The imitation of the emperours court for officers Lib 2. epist 100 Tom. concil 2. concil 6. Act. 4. Epist 2. The sift step to supremacy the debasing of princes Platina in const In Constantin The controuersie concerning images In Greg. 3. Reuel 19. 16. Math. 28. 18. Mark 9. 33. 35. Their practises to keepe them great still Epitom Eron Pcriury to speake truth of the pope Presat in Expos Simbol Apostol Power of the keies Releasing subiects of their duty of obedience Immunities of the clergy Shrift Ignorance What it is in the Romish language to beleeue the church The scriptures ether quite taken away or corrupted Ignorance say they mother of deuotion â— Kings 6 19. Ignorance at this day cause of much euill Pardons and agnus deis Marke 8. 24. Declarat contra Nauar. Conâ—â— A potterne of the holy father of Rome Lib. 2. cap. 31. 〈◊〉 2. cap. 12. Ephes 1. Lib. 2. cap. 31. Match 23. 9. Vniuersall bish Actione 3. Bellar ans to that we obiect out of the odious name of vninersal bishop Vniuersal bishop an only bishop A reply against that answere Tom 2. anno 187 De bonis operib in part li. 2. c. 24. Most holy Conc. Chale actione 3. obiect Answer The title of Most holy giuen to sundry Li. 5. Nullitate 11 Christs vicor Christ hath many vicars 2. Cor. 5. â—0 The spirit Christ vicat generall Ioh. 14. 16 17. Father Iames 1. 18. 1. Pet. 1. 23. The bridgroome of the church Vbi peticulum de electione in sexto Cap. Quoniam de Immunit m 6. â— Cor. 11. 2. Epist 237. Bellar. answ to that place of Bernard The reply against his answere Ioh. 3. 29. August in Ioh. Tract 13. Hom. 28. Panorm in l. licet de electione extra ex hostiensi The pope and Christ haue one wife make one consistory Seruant of Gods seruants Gen. 9. 25. Why these names are giuen to the Pope The Pope god Extrauag Iob. 22. Dist 96. â— Satic Psal 82 1 6. Caus 11. q. 1. cap. Sacerdotibus Act Rom. pontif Ioh. â—a Popes saucy with God Psal 53. 1. Psâ—l 49. 20. Cono. Trident. li 2. 〈◊〉 1. num 3. Esa 14. 14. 2. Thessal 2. 3. Dist 40. cap. Non nor Ind. expurgat Matth. 23. 8. Iam. 3. 1. The pope teacheth vs of his owne obiection Answere Ioh. 16. 13. What the spirit teacheth The pope controleth gods word Heb 13. 4. 1. Cor. 7. 2. 9. Mat. 26. 52. 53. Killing of princes meritorious in the popes court Interdictum regni franciae p 67. Rioche Compeâ— temporum in Iulio 2. 1. Pet. 3. 11. Mat. 5. 9. Mat. 5. 〈◊〉 Deuter. 12. 32 Doctrines beside the word Matth. 15. 3 6. 9 Psalm 12. 4. Luth. tom 1. Loc. com de eccl Dist 40. c. si pâ—p Leuit. 20. 20. Leuit. 18. 9. Yo' doubt of the popes supremacie is heresie against God In his inuectiue answer to the English Iustice our sins deserue great plagues Iames 2. 1. The pope forgiueth sinnes God onely can pardon sinnes 1. Iohn 3. 4. Tibi soli peceaui Iob. 14. 4. Esa 43. 25. The ministery of â—econciliation Esa 1. 18. Popery a doctrine of licentiosnesse Ioh. 3. 1â— Rom. 3. 28. Plat. in Bonif. 8. Sleid. li. 21. Plat. in Clem. 6 Marke 2. 7. 1. Pet. 1. 18 19. Another abuse The generall promise of pardon Act. Rom. pontif Mart. 5. Pardon to the penitent Esay 48. 22. Luke 7. Luke 19. 8. Matth. 16. 75. Plaeina Num. 33. 55. Funct Cronol an 686. The popes contention with his brethren The Emperours debarred for hauing any thing to do in the election of the Pope Sigeb Cronic â—nno 773. A pope acknowledgeth the emperour to haue supremacie Dist 63. C. Quia sanct Rom. Pope Steuen the fourth abuseth scripture Rioche Compeâ— temporum Dist 63. C Ego Ludouicus The emperor put from their councils by the pope Dist 96. C. Vbinaâ— Dist 28. C. Consulendum Dist 28. C. consuâ—end â—m â—lâ—â—gie not to be iudged by lay men Funct An. 885. Dist 63. in Synodo The emperours tight restored The Romish shifâ— to debar the emperor for maintaining his right in the elections Panta ex blondo Election by Cardinals Plat in Pasch 2. Plat. in Gelas 2. The emperour confirmed by the Pope Plat. in Innoc. 3. A popelike policie Acts Rom. pontif The popes controll emperours Brut â—ulmen ex Nauâ—l Esâ—c 28. â— Many vile means to get the papacy Hebr. 5. 4. None should without calling take any place Ioh. 10. 1 10. Ier. 14. 13. Ier. 23. 21. Ier. 29. 8. Ioh. 6. 38. Ioh. 1. 19 Ioh. 20. 21. Act. 9. 4. 1. Cor. 15. 10. Bald. In 6. l. Impetrata C. Sententiam rescindi non posse Num. â— â—elin in l. 4. de iureiuran extra in principio Dist 79 C. Si quis pecunia Plat. in Nicoâ— Plat. in Damaso Li. 4. oist c. 29 li. 6. cap. 23. Hieron in cron Socrat. hist eccl li. 4. ca. 62. Plat. in Bonif. 1. Sigeb Crou â—asâ—ie tempor Plat. in Syâ— Bergom A king maketh a pope Rioche Plat. in Bonif. â— fascic tempor Bergomates fascicul tempor A pope made by the gouernour Bergomates Stella A lay man made pope Plat. in Steph. 3. Bargom fascic tempor Blat in M. 2. Abbas Vrsp Platina Bergomat Rioche Platina in Leo. 5. Rioche fascic tempor Platina in Serg. Bale ex Petro Premonstratens Rioche fasci tâ—m â—ergom Act. Roman pontif Fasciul temp Bergom Rioche Plat. fascicul temp Platina fascicul temp Popes murthered but not marâ—ired A pope a theefe Rioche fascicul temp Rioche Bâ—rgom Rioche Rioche Bergomateâ— fascicul tempor fascicu tempor Rioche Elections in worldly respects Rioche Bergomates Stella fascicul