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A09567 A famouse cronicle of oure time, called Sleidanes Commentaries concerning the state of religion and common wealth, during the raigne of the Emperour Charles the fift, with the argumentes set before euery booke, conteyninge the summe or effecte of the booke following. Translated out of Latin into Englishe, by Ihon Daus. Here vnto is added also an apology of the authoure.; De statu religionis et reipublicae, Carolo Quinto Caesare, commentarii. English Sleidanus, Johannes, 1506-1556.; Daus, John. 1560 (1560) STC 19848A; ESTC S115937 985,386 980

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out of the house where he lodged did so wtout fail for it was in the same market place Bucer who was sēt for to Auspurge came at the last to thelector of Brādēburge And now was the boke finished which I shewed you before was cōpiled of religiō which the marques deliuereth to Bucer desireth him to subscribe Whē he had red it ouer for that he saw the bishop of Romes doctrine therein established he said he could not allow the same Thelector toke this displesātly was much of fēded with him iudged the wryting moderat for so had Islebie perswaded hī Granuellā also vrged Bucer by messēgers if he wold subscribe promised hī ample rewards whē he might not preuail by large promises he begā to threatē him so he returned home not wtout dāger sor throughout al the lād of Wirtemberge were bāds of Spaniardes as before is said In the month of Aprill tharchbishop of Collō lately made priest sāg his first masse as they term it Wherat were themperor king Ferdinādo and of other Princes a great nōbre After he maketh them a moste sumpteous dinner About this time also came to Auspurge Muleasses king of Tūnes whome the Emperour .xiii. yeres paste had restored to his kingedome and expulsed barbarous as I shewed you in the ninth boke Now had his eldest son put out both his eies vsurped the crown wherfore like a miserable exile he came hither to themperor out of Barbarie And not lōg after came thither also his secōd sōne The boke cōpiled of religiō treateth first of the state of mā before after his fal of our redēptiō by Christ of charity good works of the cōfidēce in the remissi● of sinnes of the church of vowes of authoriti of the ministers of the church of the high bishop of the sacramēts of the sacrifice of the masse of the memorial inuocatiō intercessiō of saintes of the memorial of such as haue died godly of the cōmunion to be annexed to the sacrifice of ceremonies vse of sacraments And these things amongs others are taught that those workes which besides the cōmaūdemēt of god are godly honestly wrought which are cōmōly called the works of superogatiō are to be cōmēded y● mā cānot wtout distrust of his imbecillity beleue that his sins be forgeuē how the church hath autority to interprete the scriptures oute of the same together setforth doctrins power to minister the law to iudge of doutful matters by a general coūsel to make lawes and that ther is one high bishop which is aboue al y● residue for the prerogatiue graūted to Peter vnto whō the gouernment of the vniuersall church was committed of Christ yet so as other bishops also haue part of the cure euery mā in his own church that by cōfirmatiō chrisme is receiued y● holy gost so that they may resist the deceits of the deuil the flesh the world that the bishop only is minister of this sacramēt how the sins must be rehersed to the priest such as come to memory That by satisfactiō which cōsisteth in the frutes of repētāce especially through fasting praying almosgeuing are cut of the causes of sinnes temporal punishment ether taken away or mitigated that holy vnctiō hath bene in the church since the time of the Apostles that ether it might help the body or the mind it self against the firy darts of the deuil wherfor it must be vsed what time the hour of death apeareth to draw nere how mariage contracted wtout the cōsēt of the parēts ought to be ratified but yet are the childrē to be admonished in sermons that they folow thaduise of their parēts how christ at his last supper did institute the sacramēt of his body blud first that the same might be receiued of the faithful as the holsom meat of the soul secondli that it might be offred vp in memorial of his death For ther be in al .ii. sacrifices of christ the one blody vpō the crosse thother wherin vnder the form of bread and wine he him self offred vp vnto his father his body blud after deliuered y● same to his apostles successers to be don in the memorial of him vnto the worlds end by the first was mākind reconciled to god the father but through this same that is not blody Christ is represēted to his father not that we shuld agaī deserue that remissiō of sins but that we might apply vnto our selues y● recōcilemēt prepared by the death of Christ and that in this sacrifice wherin we celebrate the death of Christ the morial of saints must be renued that they may make intercessiō for vs to god the father help vs by their merits we must also remēber the dead cōmend thē to almightye God After this is prescribed that the old ceremonies accustomably vsed in baptisme be stil obserued the xorsisme renouncing cōfession of the faith Chrisme Moreouer that in the ceremonies of the masse ther be nothing chaūged that in al towns great churches ther be saide daily .ii. Masses at the least in the country villages one especially on holy daies and that in the canō of the inasse nothing at all be altered and that al the rest be obserued after thold vsage yet if any thing be crept in that may geue occasiō to superstitiō let it be takē away Let vestments ornaments vessels crosses altars cādels images be kept stil as certein monumēts let not those ordinari praiers godly singing of Psalmes be abrogated wher they be takē away let thē be restored let the obits for the dead be kept after the maner of thold church also sainctes holy daies yea let thē be worshipped also vnto whō it is decreed that supplicatiō shuld be made The day before Easter Witsontide let the water in the fōtstone be hallowed after a solēne maner let riot be refrained to thintent to stir vp the mind to godly exercises certen daie● let mē fast abstain frō flesh finally though it wer to be wished that ther be diuers many ministers of the church foūd that would liue chast yet for that many haue wiues euery wher whiche they will not forsake nether can this now be altred without a great tumult therfore must we tary herein for a decre of a generall counsel likewise are we cōtēted to bear with thē that receiue the Lords supper vnder both kindes yet so as they shal not reproue others that do the contrary For vnder ether kind the body bloud of Christ is conteined wholy After this sort was the boke setforth at the last as after you shal heare but not so pēned at the beginninge For it was oft corrected the copy that Bucer saw was somwhat purer Wherfore after it had ben tost lōg much among the states of thempire it was sēt also to Rome
Germany bare of money and keptmen in great bondage which they said plainely they would no longer suffer but in case they were not reformed with spede they wold seke a redresse thē selues Concernyng the tribute of the Clergie thus it was Amonges other meanes to gather vp money this was one that Byshoppes and other spirituall parsons shoulde paye to the Byshoppe of Rome after the rate of the benefice a certeine summe of money commonly called fyrste fruites and tentes Some do ascribe this deuice to Iohn the .xxij. others vnto Boniface the .ix. The pretēse was fayre and goodly that ther might be Treasure ready at all times against the Turkes and Saracenes And for as much as at that time the aucthoritie of the Bishoppes of Rome was growen great and estemed holy it was easely graunted Englishmen only refused to pay namely for theyr smal benefices This continued till the counsel of Basil where it was put downe brought vp againe by Eugenius the fourth who made that counsell frustrate and so hath continued euer syns but yet not with out much repining For in the yere of our Lorde a thousande and fine hundred what time the Emperor Maximilian held a counsell at Aus●●rge about the Turkishe warre it was decreed that Ambassadors should be sent to Alexander the sixt that he should aide the common wealth And geue those yerely reuenewes vnto this vse that were graunted for the same purpose But tharchebishops or Metropolitanes receane of him a certein signe of honor and dignitie made of Flaxe wolle they call it a Palle For the which they must paye a great piece of money to the Byshoppe of Rome and that in a short space For he maye admit none other Byshoppe till he haue receiued his Palle whiche he weareth alwayes at Masse but before it be deliuered to him he must take his othe to owne him his faith and obeidience And the sixte day of Marche the Princes at Norinberge set forthe a writinge of the thinges before mentioned charging all men to obserue the same vnder a great penaltie whiche decree was published in the Emperours name For he had establisshed the Senate and iudgement before he retorned into Spaine And Fridericke Countie Palatine was his deputie in that assemblie About this tyme were taken at Bruxels two Monckes of S. Austens order Iohn and Henry Hogostrate a Frere Dominicke had thē in examination They were asked what they beleued They made answere howe they beleued the bokes of the Olde and New testament and the Crede of the Apostles that conteined the Articles of our faith Againe whether they beleued the decrees of the Counsels and of aūcient fathers Such of them as are agreable to the Scriptures Whether they thinke it deadly synne if a man breake the decrees of the fathers and of the Bishoppe of Rome It is only ascribed to Gods commaundementes to condemne or saue Whē they perseuered herin they were condemned to dye But they gaue thankes to God that they should suffer for the glorie of his name When they were brought forth to suffer all men marueyled to beholde theyr constancie so were they burnt the fyrst day of Iuly But before they wer executed they were disgraded which thing is done vnto priestes onely For beynge condemned Heresye by an Ecclesiasticall Iudge he hath put vpon him an albe and a Uestement and deliuered into his handes a Chalice with wine and water also the gilt Patent with a singing Cake And so knelyng vpon his knees the Bishoppes deputie taketh from him the thynges before named commaundynge hym that he shall no more saye Masse for the quick and the dead And with a piece of glasse he skrapeth his fingers in ioyninge him that he neuer herafter halowe any thing After he taketh the rest of the thinges from him with certein curses ioyned therunto Whan he is exempted thus out of the numbre of Priestes he is also put from the rest of the ordres by the which he came vnto priesthod Then he is he torned naked and decked againe with a laymans apparell and so deliuered to the magistrate whom the bishoppes chaunceloure entreateth that he wold determine no harme against his life nor body for they vse this Ceremony lest they beynge holy men shoulde seme to be the Aucthors of death or bloudshed Whan the decree of the Empire made at Norinb was of many taken diuersely of some also cōtemned Luth. Writinge his letters to the Princes doth aduertise them that he hath read it reuerently with great pleasure First where they cōmaunde the gospell to be taught after the interpretatiōs approued by the church some in dede vnderstād it to be after the accustomed maner of Thomas of Aquine Dūse suche others as the Bishops of Rome haue allowed but he taketh it to be mont of more aūcient writers as Hilary Cypriā Austē such others And yet not so much credit to be giuē vnto thē nothing like as to the scripture Thus he doubteth not but they mēt it so doth he take it which is the cause that certen of the chiefest nobilitie wold not subscribe to it nor suffer it to be proclamed in theyr coūtreis Secondly where bishops should appoint mete mē to be present at sermōs which should geue gentle admonition if any thing were a misse he saith the decre is good but that the Bishops though they wold can not obserue the same for that they wāt learned men haue no other but suche as haue learned nothinge elles but sophistrie And where they prohibite that no bookes be printed before learned mē appointed therunto haue first perused thē he wil not be against it so that it cōcerue no bokes of scripture which in no wise oughte to be inhibited Finally where they haue decreed that priestes which mary wiues or forsake their order shal be punished according to the Canon law that to be to ouer hard a thig For as they cōfesse if the gospel be preached sincerely thā must the Canō law be much qualified Afterwarde he bewalleth the miserie frowardnes of our time that in so clere a light of the gospel that extreme law that prohibiteth mariage is not abolished which hath geuen thoccasion of so many great euils yet are they much to be praised which are content with the punishmēt prescribed in the Canon law but such as wold kill the priestes that marie or leaue their ordre after they haue by prison all kind of punnishement tormented thē are greatly to be abhorred Wherfore he besecheth the Princes that for so muche as theyr aduersaries will not obeie the decre which they mighte and ought to obserue the pore priestes might be pardoned for that thinge ●ech not in their power to performe for euery man hath not the gift of chastitie and the vowes made be foolishe After this he set forth a boke of ordeining of ministers to the Senate of Prage and ioyneth with it a writynge wherein he