God And from suche Princes to all Princes indifferentlie to gather the like praeeminence in al points were no sure and sound gathering and collection Els if you wil haue your examples to proue and coÌ„firme then as Iosue circumcided so let the Prince baptise and as Iosue sacrificed vpon an Aulter so let the Prince in Cope and Surplesse celebrate your holy Communion Whiche two things as peculiar offices of Bisshops and Priestes M. Nowel excludeth flatly al Princes from yea and saith they oughte to be vntouched of Prince or other person Thus againe either ye iumble and iarre one from an other or els your Argument falleth downe right Choose whiche of both ye will M. Horne The .13 Diuision Pag 9. a. Dauid vvhom God appointed to be the pastour that is the King ouer Israel to feed his people did vnderstand that to this pastoral office of a King did belong of duetie not onelie a charge to prouide that the people might be gouerned vvith iustice and liue in ciuil honestie peace and tranquillitie publique and priuate but also to haue a speciall regarde and care to see them fedde vvith true doctrine and to be fostered vp in the Religion appointed by God him selfe in his lavve And therefore immediatlie after he vvas vvith some quietnes setled in his royall seat the first thing that he began to refourme and restore to the right order as a thing that appertained especially to his princelie charge and care vvas Gods religion and seruice vvhich had ben decayed and neglected long before in the time of King Saul For the better perfourmance vvhereof as the Supreme gouernour ouer al the estates both of the laitie and of the Clergie .41 in all maner of causes after consultation had vvith his chiefe Counsailers he calleth the Priestes and Leuites and commaundeth appointeth and directeth them in all manner of things and causes appertaining to their ecclesiasticall functions and offices He prepareth a semelie place for the Arke in his ovvne Citie He goeth vvith great solemnitie to fetch the Arke of the Lord. He coÌ„mauÌ„deth Sadâ—c aÌ„d Abiathar the Priests and the chief amoÌ„g the Leuites to sanctifie them selues vvith their brethren and than to carie the Arke vppon their shoulders vnto the place apointed He comptrolleth theÌ„ that the Arke was not caried before on their shoulders according to the lavv and therfore laieth to their charge the breach that vvas made by the death of Vsa He coÌ„maÌ„deth also the chief of the Leuits to apoint amoÌ„g their brethreÌ„ MusiciaÌ„s to play on diuers kinds of instâ—umeÌ„ts and to make melody vvith ioyfulnes He sacrificeth burnt aÌ„d peace offerings He blessed the people in the name of the Lord. He appointeth certain of the Leuites to minister continually before the Arke of the Lord to reherse his great benefits to the honour and praise of the Lord god of Israell And for that present time he made a psalme of gods praise and appointed Asaph aÌ„d his brethren to praise god thervvith He ordained the priests Leuites singers and porters and in some he apointed and ordered al the officers and offices required to be in the house of the Lord for the setting foorth of his seruice and religion The .11 Chapter concerning the example of Dauid BOTH M. Dorman and M. Doctor Harding affirme that the proceedings of King Dauid are nothing preiudiciall to the Ecclesiasticall authoritie in redressing of disorders before committed or doing suche things as are here rehersed No more then the reformatioÌ„ of Religion made by Quene Marie as M. D. Harding noteth which ye wot wel imployeth in her no such supremacie Beside that it is to be considered as M. D. Harding toucheth that he passed other Princes herein because he had the gift of prophecie So that neither those thinges that the Apologie sheweth of Dauid or those that yee and M. Nowell adde thereunto for the fortification of the said superioritie can by any meanes induce it The scripture in the sayed place by you and M. Nowel alleaged saith that Dauid did worke iuxta omnia quae scripta sunt in lege Domini according to all things writen in the lawe of God Wherevnto I adde a notable saying of the scripture in the said booke by you alleaged concerning Dauids doings by you brought foorth touching the Priestes and Leuites vt ingrediantur domum Dei iuxtaritum suum sub manu Aaron Patris eorum sicut praeceperat Dominus deus Israel Kinge Dauids appointmente was that the Leuites and Priestes shoulde enter in to the house of God there to serue vnder the gouernment Of whom I pray you Not of King Dauid but vnder the Spiritual gouernmeÌ„t of their spiritual father Aaron aÌ„d his successours The gouernour of them then was Eleazarus Where we haue to note first that Dauid appointed here to the Leuites nothing of him self but sicut praeceperat Dominus Deus Israël as the Lord God of Israel had before apointed Secondlye that King Dauid did make appointment vnto them of no strange or new order to be taken in Religion but that they should serue God in the TeÌ„ple iuxta rituÌ„ suuÌ„ after their owne vsage custome and maner before time vsed Thirdly and last King Dauids appointment was that they should serue in the house of God sub manu Aaron patris eorum as vnder the spirituall gouernmente of their Father Aaron and his successours the high Priests The whiche wordes of the scripture doe so wel and clearly expres that King Dauid did not take vpon him any spirituall gouernement in the house of God namely such as you attribute to the Quenes Ma. to alter Religion â–ª c. that I can not but very much muse and maruel why ye shoulde alleage King Dauid for any example or proufe in this matter But most of al that ye dare alleage the death of Oza Whiche is so directly against our lay men that haue not onely put their hands to susteine and staye the fal of the Arke as Oza did for which attempt notwithstanding he was punished with present deathe but haue also of their owne priuate authoritie altered and chaunged the great and weightie pointes of Christes Catholike Religion and in a maÌ„ner haue quite transformed and ouerthrowen the same and so haue as a man may say broken the very Arke it self al to fitters Let them not dout but that except thei hartely repeÌ„t they shal be plagued woorse then Oza was if not in this worlde yet more horribly in the world to come As for that you alleage of Dauid that he made Psalmes ordeined Priests Leuites fingers and porters c. thinke you he did al this and the rest of his owne authority because he was King of the people So you would your Reader to beleue But the holy Ghost telleth vs plainly that Dauid did all this because God had so commaunded by the hands of his Prophets And thus you see that by the declaration of the Prophetes Gods Ministers then as
a notorious enemy to the See Apostolike namely to Nicolaus the first going drunke to bed was miserably slayne by his beds syde forsaken of al his freÌ„ds And thus much of the Greke Emperours and of the East Church only Valentinian excepted The first of al the Germain Emperours that notoriously disobeyed the See of Rome and that was therefore by the Pope excommunicated openly was Henry the .4 whome Gregory the seueÌ„th otherwise called HildebraÌ„d excoÌ„municated His end was as it hath before ben declared that being first deposed of his own son after much resistance and misery appealiÌ„g but to late to the See of Rome seing hiÌ„self forsaken almost of al the states of the Empire in affliction and extreme persecution died Friderik the first called Barbarossa a man that many yeres persecuâ—ed the Church of Rome aÌ„d therfore worthely excoÌ„municated of AlexaÌ„der .3 to whoÌ„ also he was forced at leÌ„gth to submit himself though against his wil afterward in Cicilia being strong and mery sodenly bathing him selfe in a ryuer he was loste Philip an Emperour made against the consent of Pope InnoceÌ„tius .3 and a persecuter therefore of the Pope in the towne of Bromberge reposing him selfe after diner in his pryuey chamber was slayne of the Countie Palatyne Otho the fourth deposed and excommunicated of the Pope for his enormious cruelties and iniuries coÌ„mitted in many places of Italy was of Philipe the French king assaulted in these lowe countries and put to flight and shortly after in Saxony died as a priuat man Frederike the second a prince brought vp in the Court of Rome and set in the Empire by the procuremeÌ„t of pope Innocentius the .3 became yet afterwarde a most cruel aÌ„d tyraÌ„nical persecutor not only of that See but of al the Clergy vnder his dominions This man being excommunicated of Innocentius .4 was poysoned in Apulia as some write or strangled as other write by his bastarde sonne Manfredus Not onely this Emperour him selfe but al his stocke after him perished by violent deathes or imprisonmeÌ„t His sonne and Heyr Conradus being excommunicated also of Innocentius .4 for the great outrages and oppressions by him commytted against the Church by the meanes also of the sayd Manfredus was poysoned in Apulia This Manfredus commyng by these trayterouse meanes to the kyngdomes of Apulia and Sicilia and afflictinge the Churche of Rome as his father and brother had done was excommunicated by Alexander the .4 and after of Charles the Frenche kynges broother whome Vrbanus the fourth made kyng of Sicilia and Apulia he was vanquished and slayn in the fyeld Conradinus sonne to Conradus and clayming after his fathers Titles was of this Charles also vanquished and put to death Entius likewise an other sonne of Friderike the .2 and one that had longe and many yeres in his fathers warres done great myschief to the See of Rome was at length takeÌ„ in battayle of the Bononyans and committed to perpetual prison Thus al the stock of this Frederike the .2 who had so greuously persecuted the Church of Rome was in few yers vtterly extinguished Which thing al historiaÌ„s do worthely note though some more sharply them other yet al herein agreing that for their desertes God plaged theÌ„ so notoriously in this worlde Lewys the fourth the last Emperour by maister Horne alleaged being excoÌ„municated twise of the See of Rome first of Iohn the .22 and after of Clement the .6 vnder whoÌ„ and in whose fauour those poetes and oratours Petrarcha and Dante 's Marsilius and Ockam the scholeman wrote against the Popes temporalties as he was a hunting was taken with a soden palsey fel from his horse and died Such endes had they in this life that most practised the supreme gouernement by M. Horn here defended And his best exaÌ„ples and proufes to proue his strange primacy haue bene drawen from the doyngs of these forenamed Emperours And verely like as in the old lawe Saul Achab IoraÌ„ Ochozias Ioas Amasias Ozias and Achas kynges of Iuda and Israel died al by violent and miserable deathes for disobeying the prophetes and priestes of God Samuel Elias Elizeus Micheas aÌ„d Esaie aÌ„d as their such deathes were manifest argumentes of Gods indignation and recounted for suche in holy scripture so these forenamed Emperours aÌ„d princes in Christes Church Constantius Mauritius ValeÌ„s Anastasius Constans Michael Henry the fourth Friderike Barbarossa Philip Otho .4 Friderike the second CoÌ„radus Conradinus Manfredus aÌ„d Lewys the .4 hauing such violent and miserable endes vppon their notorious disobedience to Christes vicaires in earth the bishoppes of the See Apostolike Liberius Gelasius S. Gregory the firste Martinus the firste Nicolaus the firste Gregory the .7 Alexander .3 Innocentius the .3 and .4 Alexander the .4 Iohn the â—2 and Clement the .6 are vnto vs professing the faith of this Church vndoubted argumentes of Gods iuste indignation and plage in their behalfes and may well serue for holsome presidentes to other Christen princes not to attempt the like But nowe to returne to M. Horne and to treade as he leadeth vs haue out of Germany into France an other while M Horne The .135 Diuision pag 81. b. In Fraunce king Charles .443 denied the Pope the tenthes of his Clergie But Philip de Valois that follovved reformed and tooke avvay many late vpstart Ecclesiasticall abuses in the Clergy and Prelates in his Realme of the vvhich diuerse complaints being made vnto the kinge he caâ—led a couÌ„cel at Paris and summoned thither the bishops as appeareth by his letters vvherein he complaineth that they haue enchroched from him and his officers a great many of rightes bringing in their nouelties not due and vnwonted grieues vnder the pâ—etence of Ecclesiastical causes whereby they haue broken the concorde of the Clergy and the Laity and therfore willing to prouide so much as he can by Goddes help an healthful remedy He requireth and neuerthelesse commaundeth them to appeare before him at Parys personally c. The Prelates appearing at the day assigned before the kinge in his Palayce Archebisshoppes Bisshoppes and making reuerence to the kinges maiestie being set down with his councel and certein Barons assisting him a certeine knight of the kinges councell spake publykely for the kinge in the presence of them al taking for his theme this texte Geue that vnto Caesar that belongeth to Caesar and that vnto God that is due vnto God c. The kinges admonition being made a great many complaintes vvere put vp vnto the king by his nobles and officers againste the Clergies vsurpation in medling vvith contractes of mariages in their priuileges of â—lerkes In citations to their Courtes in their excommunications in vvilles and hereditamentes in calling of prouinciall councells in making synodall Decrees aÌ„d statutes in medling vvith realties in pereÌ„ptory vvrites in examinations of mens beleues in enioyning of money penaunces In shauing of childreÌ„ and vnlauful persons making them Clerkes in vvhoordome and
Secretarie to the Quenes highnes at Westminster in the canon rewe The third daie was at the white Friers in the house of Syr Iohn Cheke Knight In al the which conferences and disputations with manie learned men he was the truth to confesse muche made of and most gently vsed And this disputation so begunne at London did finishe in Worcester shiere where he was borne and had also a Benefice by the meane whereof and by the special appointmēt of Syr Phillipp Hobbie he came before M. Hooper then taken as Bishoppe of Worcester where he charginge M. Fekenham in the Kinges highnes name to answere him he kept foure seueral and solempne disputations with him beginning in his visitatiō at Parshor and so finished the same in the Cathedral Church at Worcester Where amongs many other he founde M. Iewell who was one of his apponents The said M. Hoper was so answered by M. Fekenham that there was good cause why he should be satisfied and M. Fekēham dismissed from his trouble As he had cause also to be satisfied by the answeres of M. Henrie Iolife Deane of Bristow and M. Robert Iohnson as may appeare by their answeres now extant in print But the finall end of all the foresaid disputations with M. Fekenhā was that by the foresaid Syr Phillipp Hobbey he was sent backe againe to the Tower and there remained prisoner vntill the firste yeare of Queene Marie And here nowe may you perceiue and see M. Horne how ye are ouertaken and with how many good witnesses in your vntruthe concerning M. Fekenhams dimissing out of the Tower A rablement of your vntruthes here I wil not nor time will serue to discusse as that Monasteries were surrendered with the Monks goodwil whiche for the moste parte might sing volens nolo that their vowes were foolishe and that they had many horrible errors Marie one thing you say that M. Fekenham I thinke will not denie that he set foorth this Supremacy in his open sermons in King Henries daies which was not vpon knowledge as you without all good knowledge doe gather for knoweledge can not matche with vntruth but vpon very ignorance and lacke of true knowledge and due consideratiō of the matter being not so wel knowē to the best learned of the Realme then as it is now to euery mā being but of mean learning For this good lo at the least heresy worketh in the church that it maketh the truth to be more certainly knowen ād more firmly and stedfastly afterward kept So as S. Austine saith the matter of the B. Trinitie was neuer wel discussed vntil Arriās barked against it The Sacramēt of penāce was neuer throughly hādled vntil the Nouatiās began to withstand it Neither the cause of Baptism was wel discussed vntill the rebaptising Donatists arose and troubled the Church And euē so this matter of the Popes Supremacy ād of the Princes was at the first euē to very learned mē a strāge matter but is now to meanly learned a well knowen and beaten matter Syr Thomas More whose incōparable vertue ād learning al the Christian world hath in high estimatiō and whose witte Erasmus iudged to haue ben such as England nor had neither shal haue the like ād who for this quarrel which we now haue in hād suffred death for the preseruatiō of the vnitie of Christes Church which was neuer nor shal be preserued but vnder this one head as good a man ād as great a clerk and as blessed a Martyr as he was albeit he euer wel thought of this Primacy and that it was at the least wise instituted by the corps of Christēdome for great vrgēt causes for auoiding of schismes yet that this primacy was immediatly institute of God which thing al Catholiks now specially such as haue trauailed in these late cōtrouerses do beleue he did not mani yeres beleue vntil as he writeth himself he read in the mater those things that the Kīgs highnes had writē in his most famous booke against the heresies of Martin Luther amōg other things he writeth thus Surely after that I had read his graces boke therin and so many other things as I haue sene in that point by the continuance of this seuē yeres sins ād more I haue foūd in effect the substāce of al the holy Doctors froe S. Ignatius Disciple of S. Iohn vnto our own daies both Latins ād Grekes so cōsonāt and agreīg in that point and the thing by such general Gouncels so confirmed also that in good faith I neuer neither read nor heard anye thinge of suche effecte on the other side that euer coulde lead mee to thinke that my conscience were well discharged but rather in right great peril if I should follow the other side and denie the primacie to be prouided by God It is the lesse meruail therfore if at the first for lacke of mature and depe consideration many good wel learned men otherwise being not resolued whether this Primacie were immediatly instituted by God and so thīking the lesse dāger to relēt to the Kings title especially so terrible a law enacted against the deniers of the same wer ād amōg them also Maister Fekenham caried away with the violence of this cōmon storm and tempest And at the first many of the cōuocation grāted to agnise the Kings supremacy but quatenus de iure diuino that is as far as thei might by Gods law Which is now knowen clearly to stand against it And although the Popes Primacie were not groūded directly vpon Gods worde but ordeined of the Churche yet coulde it not be abrogated by the priuate consente of any one or fewe Realmes no more then the Citie of Londō can iustlye abrogate an act of Parliament But whereas ye insult vpon M. Fekenham for that he was ones entangled and wrapped in this common error and would thereof enforce vpon him a knowledge of the said error and woulde haue him perseuere in the same and ones againe to fall quite ouer the eares into the dirtie dong of filthie schisme and heresie ye worke with him both vnskilfully and vngodlye And if good counsaile might finde any place in your harde stony hart I would pray to God to mollifie it and that ye would with M. Fekenham hartilie repēt and for this your great offence schisme and heresie as I doubt not he doth and hath done followe S. Peter who after he had denyed Christ Exiuit fleuit amarè Went out and wepte ful bitterlie For surely whereas ye imagine that ye haue in your cōference proued the matter to M. Fekenhā so that he had nothing to saye to the contrarye it is nothing but a lowde lewde lye vppon him and that easelye appeareth seeinge that after all this your long trauaile wherein yee haue to the moste vttered all your skill ye are so farre from full answering his scruples and staies that they seeme plainlye to be vnaunswerable and you your selfe quite ouerborne and ouerthrowen
put in practise wheÌ„ this of .71 Psalm should be fulfilled and al the kings of the earth shal worship Christ and all nations shall serue him c. As yet in the Apostles time this prophecy saith he was not fulfilled and now ye Kings vnderstand be learned ye that iudge the earth and serue the Lorde in feare with reuerence VVhen the Christian Emperours and Princes saith this Catholique Father shal heare that Nabuchodonozor after he had seene the marueilouse power of almighty God in sauing the three yong men from the violence of the fire walking therin without hurte was so astonied at the miracle that he him selfe beinge before this but a cruell Idolatour beganne forthwith vpon this wonderous sight to vnderstand and serue the Lorde with reuerent feare Doo not they vnderstande that thâ—â—e thinges are therefore writen and recited in the Christian assemblies that these should be exaÌ„ples to themselues of faith in God to the furtherance of Religion These Christian rulers therefore minding according to the admonition of the Psalme to vnderstand to be learned and to serue the Lord with reuerent feare do very attentiuely giue eare and marke what Nabuchodonozor after said for he saieth the Prophet made a decree or statute for al the people that were vnder his obeissaÌ„ce that who so euer should after the publicatioÌ„ therof speak any blasphemy against the almighty they should suffer death aÌ„d their goods be coÌ„fiscate Now if the Christian Emperours aÌ„d Kings do know that Nabuchodonozor made this decree agaiÌ„st the blasphemers of God surely they cast in their miÌ„des what they are bouÌ„de to decree in their kiÌ„gdoms to wit that the self same God and his SacrameÌ„ts be not lightly set by and coÌ„temned Thus farre S. Augustin By vvhose iudgement being also the iudgement of the catholik Church it is manifest that the order rule and gouernment in Ecclesiastical causes practised by the Kinges of the olde Testament being figures and prophecies of the lyke gouernment and seruice to be in the Kinges vnder the nevv Testament is the order of gouernment that Christ left behinde him in the Ghospel and nevv Testament and so directly confuteth your .52 erroneous opinion Stapleton Lo nowe haue we moe testimonies of S. Augustine to proue that for the which he hath alleaged many things out of S. Augustin alredy and the which no man denieth For what els proueth al this out of S. Augustine both now and before alleaged but that Christen Princes ought to make lawes and coÌ„stitutions euen as M. Horne him self expoundeth it fol. 12. b. for the furtherance of Christes Religion This thing no Catholike denieth And for my parte M. Horne that you may not thinke I haue now ben first so aduised vppon sight of your booke I haue forced that argument with many ExaÌ„ples of Godly Emperours and Princes in my dedicatory Epistle to the Quenes Maiesty before the translated history of venerable Bede Briefly al S. Augustins words force nothing els but that ChristeÌ„ Princes may make lawes to punish heretikes for that in dede was the very occasion why S. Augustin wrote al this and ought to fortifie the decrees of the Priests with the executioÌ„ of the secular power when obstinat heretickes wil not otherwise obey Thus it serueth our turne very wel But nowe that Maister Horne may not vtterly leese all his labour herein lette vs see howe these matters doe truely and trimly serue against his deare brethern and M. Foxes holy Martyrs to We saye with S. Augustin that Princes may punishe wicked deprauers of religion And we further say that ye are those We say with saint Augustine that Christian Princes may make a decree yea of death as did Nabuchodonosor against the blasphemers of God and carefully prouide that God and his sacrameÌ„ts be not lightly coÌ„teÌ„ned We say ye are as great blasphemers as euer Christes Church had we say ye be they that haue conteÌ„ned Christes Sacramentes making of seueÌ„ two and vsing those two after such sorte that the olde prouerbe may the more pitye in a maner take place as good neuer a whit as neuer the better We say further that not onely the generall Councell of Trente but that the whole Churche hath condemned your opinions by general and national Councelles manye hundred yeares synce And that Christian Emperours Christian Princes as well in other countries as in Englande especiallye the noble and worthye Kinge Henrye the fyfte haue made many sharpe lawes yea of death against heresies We do not nor neuer did disalowe these their doinges as repugnante either to the olde or new Testamente Why then cal you for this respecte the Catholykes Popishe Donatistes But will ye know Maister Horne who be in this point in very dede the Doltishe Deuelishe Donatists Hearken on well and ye shall heare The Donatistes as S. Augustyne reporteth sayde It was free to belieue or not to belieue and that faith shoulde not be forced Was not this I pray you the coÌ„moÌ„ song of the Luterans in Germany and Englande at their beginning Was not this your Apostles Luthers opinion that no man should be compelled to the faith And as there are many dissensions diuisions schismes betwixte you the Sacramentaries and the Lutherans so are you diuided also in this pointe For your M. Caluin writeth that a maÌ„ may laufully and by Gods law be put to death for heresie as he practised himself also burning Seruetus the Arrian at Geneua But al Luthers schollers in Germany are not so forward Yea some of your holy martyrs auouche that the King caÌ„ make no law to punish any maner of crime by death aÌ„d that al such lawes are contrary to the Gospel This was the opinioÌ„ of Sir Thomas Hytton priest and yet is he a blessed martyr in M. Foxe his holy KaleÌ„der aÌ„d we must kepe his feast the x. of March by M. Foxe Yet in a book of praiers set foorth by the brotherhod anon vpon his death he is appointed to the .23 of February and so either M. Foxe or they misse the marke Except the one day be of his Martyrdom and the other of his TranslatioÌ„ And whereas M. Fox saith that there remaineth nothing of the saide Sir Thomas in writinge but onely his name which is a lye and more to by a syllable and that I heare saye he is busye to sette forthe a freshe in printe yet ons againe his huge monstruous martyrloge I wil doe so much for him as minister him plenty of good stuffe I warrante you to set forthe and adorne at his next edition this worthy chaÌ„pioÌ„ withal I do therfore remit M. Foxe to Sir Thomas Mores books There lo is matter inough for M. Fox aÌ„d to much to for eueÌ„ by your own coÌ„fessioÌ„ he is no secret but an opeÌ„ daÌ„nable heretik aÌ„d a Donatist aÌ„d so I trowe no martyr but yet good inowgh aÌ„d as good as the residew of this worthy KaleÌ„der But now hath M. Foxe a
books vnder paine of deathe dothe not iustifie this supremacie by you imagined This was but an outewarde execution of ciuile punishmente in the assisting of the Nicene Decrees Nowe touching that you tell vs howe Constantine licenced the Fathers to departe if he saied Gramercy moste reuerend Fathers for your great paines and trauail nowe may you in Gods name resorte to your cures and flocke God speede you God prosper your iourney And if he bare their charges too that were poore Bisshoppes as he did in case he woulde not suffer them to depart till all matters were throughlye and finallye discussed What then What supremacy maketh al this Or how is this any thing like to the Supremacy now sworen vnto M. Horne The .38 Diuision pag. 24. b. Arius countâ—â—feiting a false and a feined confession of beliefe like an hypocrite â–ª pretending to the Emperour that it vvas agreable to the faithe of the Nicene Councel humbly beseching the Emperour that he would vnit and restore him to the .96 mother Churche and therefore hauing friends in the Emperours Court as suche shall neuer vvante fautours about the best Princes vvas brought into his presence vvhom the Emperoure him selfe examined diligentlye and perceiuinge no disagreement as he thought from the agrement made in Nicene Councell .97 absolued and restored him againe vvhervnto Athanasius vvho knevv Arius throughly vvould not agree and being accused therfore vnto th'Emperour vvas charged by letters from him that he should receiue Arius vvith these threates that if he vvould not he vvould .98 depose them from his Bisshoprike and commit him to an other place The Arrians heaped vp many and horrible accusations and slaunders vpon Athanasius vvhervpon the Emperour doth summon a Councell at Tyre and sendeth commaundement by his letters â—o Athanasius that vvithout all excuse he should appeare there for othervvise he should be brought vvhether he vvould or no. He vvriteth to the CouÌ„cel his letters vvherin he declareth the causes vvhy he called that CouÌ„cel He shevved vvhat he vvould haue and vvhat they ought to do aÌ„d prescribeth vnto theÌ„ the form aÌ„d rule wherby thei shuld iudge aÌ„d determin in that Synod Athanasius appeared appealed fled to the Emperour and declared the iniuries offered against him in that Councel The Emperour tooke vpon him the hearing of the cause sent his letters to the vvhole Synod commaunding them vvithout al excuse or delay to appeare before him in his palaice and there to shevv hovv vprightly and hovve sincerely they had iudged in their Synod as I haue shevved .99 before VVherein obserue diligently that the Emperor taketh vpoÌ„ hiÌ„ and no fault found thervvith to examine and iudge of the doings of the vvhol CouÌ„cel Thus far of CoÌ„stantine and his doings in the executioÌ„ of his ministerie and especially in perfourming that part vvhich he called his best part that is his gouernement and rule in Ecclesiastical matters vvherein it is manifest that by the practise of the Catholique Churche for his time approued and commended by all the Catholique Priests and Bishops in the Nicene Councell the supreme gouernment authority and rule in ,100 all maner causes both Ecclesiasticall and Temporall vvere claimed and exercised by the Emperour as to vvhom of right suche like povver and authority belonged and appertained Stapleton Beholde nowe an other Argument of M. Hornes imagined Supremacie Arius hypocriticallye dissemblinge his heresie and pretending his faithe to be agreeable to the Nicene faith humbly besecheth Constantine to vnite and restore him to the Mother Churche And so he was absolued and restored Truely here had ye hitte M. FeckenhaÌ„ home in dede had there bene any such thing in your Authour as in dede there is not nor can be onlesse Constantine had bene also a Priest In dede he released him from exile being before circumuented by a crafty Epistle of his and Euzoius together which in wordes semed to agree with the Nicene Councell but in meaning farre disagreed Yf ye call this vniting to the Mother Church your Mother hath a faire Childe and a cunning Clercke of you And yet were ye much more cunning if ye could finde any such disordinate and folish false phrases in any mans penne sauing your owne Neither can I tell in the worlde where to find or where ye found this peuish hereticall fond phrase onlesse it were of Arius him selfe of whome ye seme to take it And yet durst not he as starke an heretik as he was to hasard so farre as ye haue done In deede in his craftie and subtile letter so ambitiously and coulourably penned that Constantine supposed it agreed very well with the very definition of the Nicene Councell in the ende thereof he made sute vnto Constantine to be receiued againe into the Catholique CoÌ„munion in these wordes speaking for him selfe and Euzoius his mate Quapropter rogamus vntri nos per pacificam Dei cultricem pietatem tuam matri nostrae Ecclesiae iubeatis Wherefore we beseche your honour being a peaceable Prince and a true worshipper of God to commaund that we may be vnited to our Mother the Church Ye see good Reader if M. Horne hath any Author who and of how good credite he is euen no better then Arius him selfe And yet in this pointe is M. Horne worse then he and corrupteth and wresteth not onely the Catholique writers but Arius wordes too For Arius doth not desire Constantine to restore him as M. Horne faineth but to geue out his commaundemente that he might be restored and by whome was that M. Horne but by the Bishoppes And this thing Constantine him selfe well vnderstode and therfore though glad to see them as he thought to haue changed their minde yet not presuming as Sozomen writeth to receiue them into the Communion of the Churche before the iudgement and allowance of mete men according to the Lawe of the Churchâ— he sent them to the Bishops assembled then for an other matter in Councell at Hierusalem that they shuld examine his and his coÌ„panions faith Et clementem super eis sententiam proferrent and that they shoulde geue a merciful iudgement vpon them yf they did truely repent Ruffine also writeth agreable vnto this adding so that Alexander the Bisshop did therto assente Eusebius and other dissembling Catholik bisshops which were in hart Arians stil as it did afterward appere forthwith in the Councel receiued Arius into their communion But when he came to Alexandria he could not ther be receiued The Catholike bisshop Alexander of Alexandria yet liuing would not admit him Then remayning there a long tyme as excommunicated he desired saieth Theodoret to be by some meanes restored again and beganne to counterfeite the Catholike But when Alexander his bisshop and Athanasius his successor could not be so circumuented he attempted ones again the Emperours fauour And so by the means of Eusebius of Nicomedia an ArriaÌ„ bisshop in hart he was brought to the Courte
Ipsos interpretes cōstituit sacerdotes Behold what the Christiā Emperor hath appointed He would not doe iniury to the Priestes He hath appointed the Priests them selues to examine the matter Was it not this Theodosius the great M. Horne Yes surely it was he Was it not Theodosius to whome Saint Ambrose enioyned penance which he most humbly obeied Where was Theodosius Ecclesiasticall supremacye then Is it not Damasus the Pope that calleth these Bisshops assembled at Constantinople euen to Rome there to aide and assist him in keping of a Councel What Saied they to him Syr we haue nothing to doe with you ye are a forrain Bishop to vs of the East Nay nay they confesse that he called them as his members thē must he needs be the head to the Councell at Rome Yea they confesse that by his letters they came to the Councel at Constantinople they declare their good wil and readines to come to Rome too but for their excuse they alleage many reasonable causes none of those that the Protestants alleage at this day And finally in the name of the whole thei send certaine of their Bishops thither Now further doe not these Fathers decree at this their general Councel that the Church of Cōstantinople shoulde be the first and chiefe of al other after Rome Do they not then therin acknowledge the Popes Primacie It is writen M. Horne Sapientis oculi in capite eius stultus in tenebris ambulat The eies of a wise man are in his head alwaies opē and in a readines to direct him in his way whereas the folish man walketh in darcknesse being vncertaine and vnsure which way to take or to goe Now whether your eyes priyng and seking forth this story of Theodosius were opened or shutte I leaue the iudgement to the indifferent Reader But this dare I firmely auouche that these things whiche I haue nowe last rehearsed beside other that I willingly omitte drawe much nearer to make the Pope supreme head of the Churche then anye thinge ye haue broughte foorth for the doinges of Theodosius to make him Supreame Head Which when ye haue al sayde and done be nothing agreable to the articles in question betwene vs concernyng our princes regiment And therfore yf the matter were much stronger of your side touching Theodosius yet did ye nothing touche that ye owght to touche M. Horne The .42 Diuision pag. 27. b. Theodosius left his tvvoo sonnes Emperours of the vvhich I vvil say but litle yet vvherein it may moste .116 manifestly appeare that the supreme gouernement in causes Ecclesiastical belonged to the Emperours Archadius the Emperour vvhen Nectarius the bishop of Constantinople vvas dead and so the sea vacant .117 vvas certified thereof he causeth Iohn Chrysostome to be called from Antioch he commaundeth the other bishoppes collected into a Synode that they admonish Chrysostome of Goddes graces and vvhat belongeth to suche a chardge and that they choose and order him to be the bishop of Constantinople In which dooinge saith Theodoretus the Emperour declared what careful endeuour he had about the holy .118 Churche matters But this supreme authoritie to care appoint and procure vvoorthy and good Pastours or bishoppes vvhen the seas vvere vacant appeareth more plainly in Honorius the Emperour brother to Archadius vvhome the bishop of Rome him selfe in his decrees and his Glosars on the same cōfesse and acknovvledge to haue the ouersight rule and gouernement in the elections and orderinge of bishops yea 119. ouer the bishoppe of Rome him selfe After the death of Pope Sozimus vvere tvvoo Popes choosen at ones in a great Schisme the one Bonifacius primus the other Eulalius vvhereof vvhen the Emperour Honorius had notice beinge at Millayne he caused them bothe to be banished Rome But after seuen monethes Bonifacius vvas by the Emperours cōmaundement called againe and cōfirmed .120 by his authoritie in the Apostolicall sea This Bonifacius beinge novve settled in the Papacy by humble suite to the Emperour prouideth a remedie against suche mischiefes in time to come The case vvas this saith the Glosator Boniface the first did beseeche Honorius the Emperour to make a Lawe whereby it might appeare what were to be done when twoo Popes were chosen at ones by the vndiscreetnes of the Electours contendinge amōgest them selues Honorius did than constitute that neither of those twaine shoulde be Pope but that in a newe Election a thirde shoulde be chosen by cōmon cōsente If twoo saithe the Emperour in his Lavve made at the humble sute of Bonifacius by chaunce againste righte be chosen thorough the vndiscreete cōtention of the Electours wee permitte neither of them to be Priest or Pope but wee iudge him to remaine in the Apostolike sea whom the diuine iudgemente and the common consente dothe appointe frō amongest the Clergy in a newe Election Vppon this vvoorde vvhere the Emperour saithe wee permitte the Glosar saith and so the Emperour dothe not onely abrogate the clayme of bothe those that be chosen in the contention but dothe make them bothe for that time vnable and dothe decree an other to be takē out of the Clergie for that time Againe the Glosar interpretinge this the diuine iudgement saithe this is the meaninge that the Emperours wil and election muste stande the Clergy and the whole people acceptinge with thankefull minde whome the Emperour doth choose For the Emperours were called in those daies holy and their rescriptes and iudgementes Diuine Here you see by the .121 Popes decrees and Glosars that the Emperour had the supreme rule and gouernement in Churche causes and this vvas the .122 continual practise of the Churche for the most parte yea euen the bishoppes of Rome before they vvere ordered and consecrated had their election ratified and confirmed by the Emperours their Lieutenant or other Princes The .8 Chapter Of the Sonnes of Theodosius Honorius and Archadius Stapleton NOwe folowe in rew Theodosius his sonnes Archadius and Honorius of whome M. Horne sayeth he wil say but litle belike because he hath said to much of they re father alredye and more then he can iustifie or for that he wil make vs a shorte tale but yet a sweete And wherein it shal most manifestly appere that the supreame gouernement in causes ecclesiastical belonged to the Emperours Al Archadius doings here stande in appointinge S. Iohn Chrysostome to be bishop of Constantinople a most worthie man who dowbteth And I woulde to God as this his firste dealing with Chrysostome was to his worthy prayse so he had not by his after dealinge blotted and blemished the same As for this election first Archadius did it not of his own Supreme authoritie but the fame of Iohn Chrysostom being great and after some debate aboute the election Intra modicū tēpus cōmuni decreto omniū clericorū laicorū Imperator Archadius euocauit eum Within a litle while saieth Socrates by the common decree
In these wordes orderly laied out as the Kinge spake them thou seest gentle Reader first that the King talketh not of this charge as M. Horn vntruly reporteth him meaning a charge ouer religion for the King expressely speaketh of the charge of his kingdome declaring that as he for negligence in his charge so the bisshoppes for negligence in their charge shal both increase the wrath of God Also that without his admonition which woordes M. Horne nipped quyte of in the middest the bisshop hath to preache to rebuke to punish and correct the transgressours of Gods lawe Such patched proufes M. Horne bringeth to pricke vp the poppet of his straunge fantastical primacye M. Horne The .65 Diuision pag. 37. b. After the death of Anastasius theÌ„peror Iustinê° reigned alone a right catholike Prince vvho immediatly sent messengers vnto the bishop of Rome who should both coÌ„firm the autority of the sea aÌ„d also shuld prouide peace for al churches so much as might be with which doings of theÌ„peror Hormisda the bishop of Rome being moued sent vnto theÌ„perour with coÌ„sent of Theodoricus Legats 178 Martinus Penitentiarius telleth the cause of this legacy vvas to entreate theÌ„peror to restore those bishops vvhich the vvicked Anastasius had deposed This godly emperor Iustinus saith Martin did make a lavv that the Churchs of the heretiks should be coÌ„secrated to the Catholik religioÌ„ but this Decree vvas made in Iohn the next Popes daies The vvhich edict vvheÌ„ the King Theodoriche being an Arian saith the same Martin and King of Italy herd he sent Pope Iohn saith Sabellicus vvith others in embassage vnto theÌ„peror to purchase liberty for the AriaÌ„s Iustinus receiued these Ambassadours honorably saith Platina and theÌ„peror at the leÌ„gth ouercome vvith the humble suit of the Pope vvhich vvas sauced vvith teares grauÌ„ted to hiÌ„ and his associats that the Arians shuld be restored and suffred to liue after their orders In this history this is not vnvvorthy the noting that the Pope did not only shevv his obedience and 180 subiectioÌ„ to the godly Emperor but also that the secular Princes ordeyned 181. Lavves ecclesiastical vvith the vvhich the Pope could not dispeÌ„ce For al this busines arose about the decree vvhich theÌ„peror had made in an 182. ecclesiastical cause or matter If the Popes authority in these causes had bene aboue the Emperours he needed not vvith such lovvlynes and so many tears to haue besought the Emperour to haue reuoked his decree and edict The 18. Chapter Of Iustinus themperour and Iohn the Pope Stapleton NOw hath M. Horn for this turne left FraÌ„ce and is returned to theÌ„perours again but so that he had ben as good to haue kept hiÌ„ selfe in FraÌ„ce stil. For though he decketh his margeÌ„t with the Pope is the Kings Ambassadour and again The Popes huÌ„ble sute for the ArriaÌ„ heretiks which yet is a stark lie as we shal anoÌ„ declare yet by that time the whole tale is told wherof this maÌ„ maketh a coÌ„fuse narratioÌ„ neither he nor his cause shal winne any worship or honesty thereby I wil therfore opeÌ„ vnto you geÌ„tle reader the whole story truly and faithfully and that by his owne authors Platina Sabellicus aÌ„d Martinê° This Anastasius was a wicked Emperor as M. Horne here coÌ„fesseth And yet two leaues before he made a presideÌ„t of his doiÌ„gs for deposing of bishops He defended Iohn the patriarch of CoÌ„staÌ„tinople a great heretik who by his assistaÌ„ce most iniuriously aÌ„d spitefuly haÌ„dled the Legats that Pope Hormisda sent to hiÌ„ exhorting hiÌ„ to forsake aÌ„d renouÌ„ce his heresy The said heretik Emperor Anastasius sent answere by the Legats to Pope Hormisda that it was theÌ„perours part and office to coÌ„mauÌ„de and not the Popes and that he must also obey theÌ„peror Surely a fair exaÌ„ple for your new supremacy After the death of this Anastasius strikeÌ„ with lightniÌ„g froÌ„ heaueÌ„ for his wiked heresy aÌ„d disobedieÌ„ce succedeth this Iustin a right Catholik priÌ„ce by M. Horns own words aÌ„d coÌ„fesioÌ„ who iÌ„coÌ„tineÌ„tly sent to Rome his ambassadours which should shew dew reuereÌ„ce of faith to the see Apostolike Or as Platina in other woords writeth qui sedis Apostolicae authoritatem confirmarent That shoulde confirme the authority of the Apostolike See And what was that I pray you M. Horne but to confirme the Popes primacy so litle set by before of the wicked Anastasius and the heretical bisshop Iohn of Constantinople And therefore gramercye that forsakinge Fraunce ye haue browght vs euen to Constantinople and to the Emperour there sending his ambassadour to Rome to recognise the Popes most highe authority Yow tel vs yet farder that the Pope Hormisda sent Legates to Iustinus And there you breake of sodeÌ„ly But what folowed Forsoth immediatly it foloweth in the very same senteÌ„ce which Iustinus receiued honorably the Popes Legats sendiÌ„g forthe to mete theÌ„ the more to honour theÌ„ a great multitude of MoÌ„ks and of other Catholik aÌ„d worshipful meÌ„ the whole clergy of CoÌ„staÌ„tinople and Iohn their bisshop coÌ„gratulating also At whose coming the Emperour thrust out of the City and the Churches the schismatikes called AcatiaÌ„s of their Author Acatius whome Pope Felix had excoÌ„municated Nowe goe forth Gods blessing of your heart God send vs many moe such aduersaries And to say the truth M. Iewel and your fellowes are not much worse to vs. But yet goe forward for I hope we shal be more deaply bound to this good Catholike Emperour anon and to you to for bringing to our haÌ„d without our farder traiuail such good and effectual matter for the Popes superiority This godly Emperor made a law say you that the Churches of heretiks should be coÌ„secrated to the Catholik ReligioÌ„ What did he M. Horn Happy are ye that he is fair dead and buried many years agoe for feare lest if he were now liuing your teÌ„ples aÌ„d synagogs would be shortly shut vp as they are nowe in Antwerpe and in al Flanders here God be praised But who telleth this Forsoth say you Martinê° PoeniteÌ„tiarius But lo how wisely this tale is told as though both Sabellicus aÌ„d Platina the Authors of your narratioÌ„ did not write the like King Theodoricke tooke not in good parte but eueÌ„ to the very harte these doings of Iustine And why M. Horne Because as ye say now like a true maÌ„ he was an ArriaÌ„ Say ye so M. Horne Doth the winde wagge on that side now For Theodoricus was not two leaues before The most honourable King Theodoriche and the Supreame Head of the Church of Rome to But who saith M. Horne that he was an Arrian Forsoth say ye Martin and forsoth say I the matter is ones againe fitly and clerkly handeled For not onely Martin but Platina and Sabellicus from whome ye fetche your storie write it also This Theodorike sendeth his Ambassadours to Iustine yea he sendeth Pope Iohn him selfe who with most humble suite sauced as you
Emperour desceÌ„deth to make statutes ordinaunces and rules for monastical persons commonly called Religious declaryng that there is no maner of thing which is not throughly to be searched by the authority of the Emperour who hath sayth he receiued from God the common gouernment and principality ouer al men And .212 to shevv further that this principality is ouer the persons so vvell in Ecclesiasticall causes as Temporall he prescribeth orders and rules for them and committeth to the Abbottes and Bisshoppes iurisdiction to see these rules kepte concludynge that so well the Magistrates as Ecclesiasticall personnes oughte to keepe incorrupted all thynges whyche concerne godlynesse but aboue all other the Emperour who owghte to neglecte no manner of thyng pertaynyng to godlynesse I omit many other Lavves and Constitutions that not only this Emperour but also the Emperours before him made touchyng matters and causes Eccesiasticall and doo remitte you vnto the Code and the Authentikes vvhere you may see that al manner of causes Ecclesiasticall vvere ouerseene .214 ordered and directed by the Emperours and so they did the duetifull seruice of Kyngs to Christ In that as S. Augustine sayth they made lawes for Christe Stapleton All this geare runneth after one race and alltogether standeth in the execution of the ecclesiastical Lawes Neither is there any thing here to be stayed vpon but for that he hath furnished his margent wyth hys accustomable note that the prince hath the supreame gouernment ouer all persons in all maner causes Whiche as yt is largely and liberally spoken so is his text to narrowe to beare any such wide talke Yea and rather proueth the contrary if he take the nexte line before with him and stoppeth also his felowes blasphemous railyngs against the holy monastical life The solitary and the coÌ„templatiue life saieth Iustinian is certeinly an holy thing and such a thing as by her owne nature coÌ„ducteth soules to God neyther is it fruitful to them only that leade that life but through her puritye and prayers to God geueth a sufficient help to other also Wherefore themperours in former times toke care of this matter and we also in our Lawes haue set foorth many things touching the dignity and vertue of religious men For we doe followe in this the holy canons and the holy fathers who haue drawen out certaine orders and Lawes for these matters For there is no thing that themperours maiesty doth not throughly search Whiche hath receiued from God a common gouernment and principality ouer all men Nowe thys place as ye see serueth expresly for the Churches principality whose holy Canons and holy Fathers themperour as he sayeth doth followe By whiche wordes appeareth he made no one Constitution of hys owne Authority And therefore hath M. Horne craftely shyfted in this worde Authority which is not in the Latine as though the Emperours Authority were the chief grouÌ„d of these Constitutions whereas it is but the seconde and depending only vpon former Canons and writtinges of holy Fathers Yet hath this ioly gloser placed in his margine a suprem gouernmeÌ„t and principality in al maner causes Which is not to be founde any where in the text but is a glose of his owne making Wherein me thinketh M. Horne fareth as certaine Melancholike passionated doe whose imagination is so stronge that if they begin earnestly to imagine as present ether the sight or voyce of any one that they excedingly either loue or feare by force of theyr imagination doe talke with them selues or crye out sodenly as though in very deede not in imagination only the thinge desired or feared were actually present Verely so M. Horne beinge exceding passionated to finde out this supreme gouernment in al causes by force of his imagination putteth it in his margin as though the text told it him wheÌ„ the text talketh no such matter vnto him but is vtterly domme in that point and hushe This passioÌ„ hath vttered it self in M. Horne not nowe onely but many times before also as the diligent Reader may easely remember M. Horne The .76 Diuision pag. 45. a. Arriamiru King of Spaine 215 coÌ„maunded tvvo Conucels to be celebrated in a Citie called Brachara the one in the seconde yeare of his reigne the other the third yere vvherein vvere certaine rules made or rather renued touching matters of faith touching Constitutions of the Church and for the dueties and diligence of the Clergie in their offices VVambanus King of Spaine .216 seeing the greate disorders in the Churche not onely in the discipline but also in the matters of Faithe and aboute the Administration of the Sacramentes calleth a Synode at Brachara named Concill Brachar 3. for the reformation of the errours and disorders aboute the Sacramentes and Churche discipline The .20 Chapter Of Ariamirus Wambanus and Richaredus Kings of Spaine and of Pelagius .2 and S. Gregorie 1. Popes Stapleton NOW are we gon from FrauÌ„ce and Constantinople to and are come to Spaine and to the CouÌ„cels called of King Ariamirus and King Wambanus But the Fathers at these Councels tell M. Horne for his first greeting and welcome that they acknowleged the authority of the See of Rome and therfore being some coÌ„trouersies in maters ecclesiastical among theÌ„ they did direct them selues by the instructioÌ„s and admonitioÌ„s sent froÌ„ the See Apostolike M. Horne The .77 Diuision pag. 45. b. About this time after the death of Pelagius .2 the Clergy and the people elected Gregory .1 called aftervvards the great But the custom was saith Sabellicus vvhich is declared in an other place that the Emperours should ratify by their consent th'electioÌ„ of him that is chosen Pope And to stay th' Emperors approbatioÌ„ saith Platina he sent his messengers with his letters to beseche th'Emperour Mauritius that he would not suffer th'electioÌ„ of the people aÌ„d Clergy to take effect in the choise of hiÌ„ c. So much did this good maÌ„ saith Sabellicus seking after heaueÌ„ly things coÌ„temne earthly and refused that honour for the which other did contend so ambitiously But the Emperour being desirouse to plant so good a man in that place vvould not condescend to his request but .217 sent his Embassadours to ratifie and confirme the election Stapleton This authority toucheth nothing but th'electioÌ„ of the Pope wont to be confirmed by the Emperour for order and quietnes sake And that but of custom only for the custom was saith Sabellicus not of any Supreme gouernement of the Prince in that behaulfe as though without it the election were not good Yet I coÌ„mend M. Horn that he reherseth so much good coÌ„mendacion of Pope Gregorie that sent hither our Apostle S. Augustine But I marueâ—l how he can be so good a maÌ„ and the religion that came froÌ„ him to England no better then superstiton and plaine Idolatrie as M. Horne and his fellowes doe daily preach and write And ye shall heare a non that he goeth as craftely as
matter to brue by litle and litle first he obteined to .231 be the chiefe ouer al the Bisshops then to couer vice vvith vertue and to hide his ambicion he condemned al ambicion in labouring Spirituall promocion and in the election of Bishoppes vvhere the confirmation before vvas in the Emperours bicause the Emperour gaue him an Iâ—iâ—he he toke an ell bicause he had giuen him a foote he vvould thrust in the vvhole body and tourne the right ovvner out For .232 leuing out the Emperour he putteth in the Princes of the Cities from vvhome he might as easely aftervvardes take avvay as for a shevve he gaue falsely that vnto them that vvas none of his to giue graunting vnto them the allovvance of the election but to him self the authority of ratifying or infringing the same choose them vvhether they vvould allovve it or no. And to shevve vvhat authoritie he vvould reserue to him selfe borovving of the tyrant speaking in the singuler nombre Sic volo sic iubeo so wil I so do I commaunde for the more magnificence in the plurall nombre he princely lappeth vp all the matter vvith volumus iubemus we will and commaunde VVhich vvordes like the Lavve of the Medes and Persians that may not be reuoked if they once passe through the Popes holy lippes must nedes stand allovve or not allovve vvho so list vvith full authoritie the matter is quite dashed But thankes be to God for al this the decre is abolished folovveth immediatly For .233 shortly after Isacius the Emperours Lieutenant in Italy did confirme and ratifie the election of Seuerinus the first of that name for saith Platina The electioÌ„ of the Pope made by the Clergie and people in those daies was but a vaine thing onlesse the Emperour or his Lieutenant had confirmed the same Stapleton WHeras ye say this Bonifacius lefte out the Emperour who had the confirmation of them before in his decree concernyng the election of Bishops and put in the princes of the citie and gaue falslie that to them which was none of his to geue yf ye mark the words of the decree wel the Emperour is not left out but lefte in as good case as he was before Onlesse ye think the Emperour is prince of no city or that all cities were at this tyme vnder the Emperour wheras euen in our Europa the Emperour had nothing to doe in England Fraunce Germanie Spaine no nor in manie places of Italie And I must put you in remembraunce that before this tyme when Iustinian was Emperour king Theodatus did confirme the electioÌ„ of pope Agapetus as you reherse out of Sabellicus Neither did the pope as of him self and of newe geue anie authority to princes in election more theÌ„ they had before But by his decree renewed the old order of electioÌ„ of bishops Which was wont to passe by the coÌ„sent of the clergie prince and people with the popes confirmation afterward Therefore ye say vntruly surmising that the decree of Bonifacius was in this poynt immediatly abolished Verely your example of Isacius the Emperours LieutenaÌ„t litle serueth your purpose who shortly after you say confirmed and ratified the election of Pope Seuerinus For first betwene this confirming of Seuerinus and the deathe of this Bonifacius foure Popes came betwene and wel nere .30 yeres Againe as touching this ratifieng and confirmation that Isacius the Emperours LieutenaÌ„t practised will you see how orderly it proceded Verely by mere violence by spoyling the treasure of the Church of S. Iohn Lateranes At the distribution of which treasure afterwarde so orderly obtayned by the Emperour Heraclius the Saracens fel out with the ChristiaÌ„s because they had no parte thereof with the Greke and Romayn Souldiours forsoke the Emperours seruice got from the Empire Damascus al Aegypt and at leÌ„gth Persia it self and embraced Mahomet then lyuing and his doctrine which synce hath so plaged all Christendome So well prospered the doinges of this Isacius and such holsome examples M. Horne hath piked out to furnishe his imagined supremacy withall M. Horne The .81 Diuision pag. 48. a Sisenandus the king of Spain calleth forth of all partes of his dominions the Bishops to a City in Spaine called Toletum The purpose and maner of the kynges doynges in that councel the Bishoppes them selues set forth first as they affirme They assemble together by the praecepts and coÌ„maundement of the king to consult of certaine orders of discipline for the Church to refourme the abuses that were crept in about the SacrameÌ„tes aÌ„d the maners of the Clergy The king vvith his nobles coÌ„meth into the couÌ„cel house He exhorteth theÌ„ to careful diligeÌ„ce that therby al errors and abuses may be vvypt a vvay clere out of the Churches in Spayn They folovve the kinges .234 directioÌ„ aÌ„d agree vpoÌ„ many holsom rules VVheÌ„ they haue coÌ„cluded thei besech the kiÌ„g to coÌ„tinu his regimâ—t to gouern his peple with iustice aÌ„d godlines And vvheÌ„ the King had geueÌ„ his assent to the rulers of discipline vvhich they had .235 agreed vppon they subscribed the same vvith their ovvn handes The like Synode Chintillanus king of Spaine did conuocate at Toletum for certain ceremonies orders and discipline vvhich vvas confirmed by his precept and .236 decree in the first yeere of his reigne And an other also by the same king and in the same place and for the like purpose vvas called and kept the second yere of his reigne Chinasuindus King of Spaine no lesse careful for Churche matters and Religion than his predecessours .237 appointeth his bisshops to assemble at Toletum in conuocation and there to consult for the stablishing of the faith and Church discipline vvhich they did Reccessiunthus King of Spaine commaunded his Bisshops to assemble at Toletum in the first yere of his reigne and there appointed a Synode vvherein besides the Bisshops and Abbottes there sate a great company of the noble men of Spaine The Kinge him selfe came in amongest them he maketh a graue and verye godlye exhortation vnto the vvhole Synode he professed hovve careful he is that his subiectes should be rightly instructed in the true faith and Religion He propoundeth the fourme of an Othe vvhich the clergy and others of his subiectes vvere vvonte to receiue for the assurance of the Kings saulfty He exhorteth them to ordeine sufficiently for the maintenance of godlines and iustice He moueth his nobles that they vvill .238 assist and further the good and godly ordinaunces of the Synode He promiseth that he vvil by his princely authority ratifie and maineteine vvhat so euer they shal decree to the furtherance of true Godlinesse and Religion The Synode maketh ordinaunces the clergy and nobility there assembled subscribeth them and the Kinge confirmeth the same vvith his .239 royal assent and authority He called tvvo other Synodes in the same place for such like purpose in the seuenth and eyght yeeres of
armies came into the fielde in their ovvn persones and fought tvvo cruel and bloudy battailes and so ruled the 380 Schismatical Church vvith Paules vvorde Peters keyes being fast locked froÌ„ theÌ„ both in Christes Churche til theÌ„peror sent Otto the Archebisshop of Collein geuing him ful authority as he should see cause to set in order the Church matters VVhaÌ„ Otto came to Rome vvith this large commission he did sharpely reproue Alexander at the first Because he had takeÌ„ vpoÌ„ him the Papacy without theÌ„perours coÌ„maundement and coÌ„trary to that order which the Law it self and the longe custome also hath prescribed VVhose vvords Nauclerus telleth thus How coÌ„meth this to passe saith he my brother Alexander that coÌ„trary to the maner of old time hitherto obserued and agaiÌ„st the law prescribed to the Romain bishops many yeares agoe thou hast takeÌ„ vpoÌ„ thee the Romain Papacy without the commaundemeÌ„t of the King and my Lord HeÌ„ry and so beginning froÌ„ Charles the great he nameth many Princes by vvhose authority the Popes vvere either chosen coÌ„firmed or had their electioÌ„ ratified and vvhan Le vvas going forvvard in his oratioÌ„ Hildebrand TharchdeacoÌ„ taketh the tale .381 out of his mouth saying in great heat O Archbisshop Otto themperors and Kings had neuer any right at al or rule in the electioÌ„ of the Romain Bisshops Tharchbisshop gaue place to Maister ArchedeacoÌ„ .382 by and by For Hildebrand knevv vvel inough saith .383 Sabellicus that Otto vvould relent easely and agree vvith him In such sort also haue other godly Princes been .384 beguyled trusting ouer much popish Prelats vvith their embassages VVihin a vvhile after vvhan theÌ„perour heard of these doinges he sent streight to Pope Alexander to gather together the Prelats promising that he hiÌ„self vvould come to the councel to .385 set an order in the Church matters that al things might be don in his own presence vvho vsed Alexander very geÌ„tly and frieÌ„dly vvhervvith the Pope aftervvards vvas so moued and savv hovv he hiÌ„self had beÌ„ abused by HildebraÌ„ds instigatioÌ„s against so geÌ„tle a PriÌ„ce that he vvas greatly sory that he had atteÌ„pted to be pope vvithout his assent VVherupoÌ„ saith BeÌ„no whaÌ„ AlexaÌ„der vnderstode that he was elected aÌ„d eÌ„stalled by fraude aÌ„d craft of HildebraÌ„d aÌ„d other theÌ„perors enemies in his sermoÌ„ to the people he plaiÌ„ly declared that he would not sit in the Apostolik sea without the licence and fauour of theÌ„perour and further said openlye in the pulpit that he would sende foorthwith his letters vnto the Emperour for this purpose so greatly he repented him of his vsurpation without the Emperours authority Hildebrande vvho had long avvayted and .386 practised to be Pope impacient of any longer tariaunce immediatly after the death of Alexander gatte to be made Pope and vvas called Gregory the seuenth of vvhose electioÌ„ Abbas Vrspurgens saith â–ª next to Alexander succeded Hildebrande vnder whome the Romain common weale and the whole Church was endaungered and brought in a great perill with newe errours and schismes such as haue not been heard of who climbed vp to this high dignity without the consent of the Prince and therefore there be that affirme him to haue vsurped the Papacy by tyranny and not Canonically instituted for which cause also many did refuse him to be Pope In this election Hildebrande .387 made poste haste for feare â—e had come shorte of his purpose In so much that Nauclerus saith before the exequies of Alexander vvere finished the Cleargy and people that came to the buriall cried out that S. Peter had chosen Maister Archedeacon Hildebrande to be Pope vvhereupon the Cardinalles vvent a side and elected Hildebrande But Benno vvho vvas a Cardinall at Rome the same tyme saith that the selfe same euening and hovver vvhen Alexander died Hildebrande vvas enstalled by his souldiours vvithout the assent of either Priest or people fearing lest delay vvoulde breede peril to vvhose election not one of the Cardinales did subscribe in so much that Hildebrande said to an Abbot that came short to the election brother Abbot yee haue taried ouer longe to vvhome the Abbot ansvvered aÌ„d thou HildebraÌ„d hast made ouer much hast in that thou hast vsurped the Apostolik sea agaiÌ„st the CanoÌ„s thy Maister the Pope being not yet buried By vvhich post hast iÌ„portune clamours and violeÌ„t electioÌ„ it is easie to see hovv Platina and those that follovv him do no lesse 388 lie than flatter in praysing this Pope aÌ„d settiÌ„g foorth so comely a form of his electioÌ„ Nauel protesteth and promiseth in the telliÌ„g of this Popes life to kepe an indiffereÌ„cy and fidelity in the report of the Chronicles and first reporteth the state of the Church vnder this Pope vvord for vvord as I haue rehersed out of Abbas Vâ—spurg .389 and to declare his further vprightnes in the matter he telleth vvhat he founde vvriten in a fine stile amongest the Saxon histories that the Bisshops of Fraunce moued the Prince not to suffer this election vvhich vvas made vvithout his consent for if he did it might vvorke to him muche and greuous daungier the Prince perceiuing this suggestion to be true sent immediatly his Embassadours to Rome to demaunde the cause vvherefore they presumed vvithout the Kinges licence against the custome of their auncestours to ordeine a Pope and further to commaunde the nevve elected Pope to forsake that dignity vnlaufully come by onlesse they vvoulde make a reasonable satisfaction These Embassadours vvere honorably receiued and vvhen they had declared their message the Pope himselfe maketh them this ansvvere He taketh God to witnesse that he neuer coueted this high dignity but that he was chosen aÌ„d thrust violently thereunto by the Romaines who would not suffer him in any wise to refuse it notwithstanding they coulde by no meanes perswade him to take the Papacy vpoÌ„ him aÌ„d to be coÌ„secrate Pope till he were surely certified that both the Kinge and also the Princes of Germany had geuen their assente VVheÌ„ the King vvas certified of this ansvveare he vvas contente and vvillingly gaue commaundement that he should be ordered Pope He also reciteth out of Blondus and other vvriters That the Kinge gaue his consente vnto the Popes election sending the Bisshop of Verselles the Chauncellour of Italy to confirme the election by his authority as the maner had bene the which thing also Platina saith he seemeth to affirme Aftervvardes the Emperour called a .390 Councell vvhich he helde as Sabellicus saith at VVormes vvhereat vvere al the Bisshops of FrauÌ„ce and Germany excepte the Saxons The Churchmen of Rome sent their epistles vvith greuous complaints against Hildebrand vnto this Councel In quibus Hildebrandum ambitus periurij accersunt eundemque plaeraque auarè superbeque facere conqueruntur hocque reiecto alium pastorem postulant VVherein they accuse Hildebrande of ambition and periury complainning that he dothe manye thinges proudly and couetouslye and therefore desire
It is straÌ„ge me thinketh to heare at your haÌ„ds of the Popes holy haÌ„d namely seing your authour Nauclerus speaketh of hys haÌ„d only withowt any other additioÌ„ Belyke there is come vppon yow some sodayne deuotion towards the Popes holines But lo I see now the cause of your deuotioÌ„ The Popes haÌ„d is holy with yow now wheÌ„ he being forced aÌ„d coÌ„strayned deliuereth vppe such priuileges as with his heart he did not deliuer and therfore did afterward in a CouÌ„cel of Bishops reuoke al these doinges Whiche your authour in the nexte leaf as also Sabellicus at large doth declare and what sturre aÌ„d busines the Emperour made for it swearing first to the Pope that he wold vse no violence and that he woulde cause all the Bishops of Germany which had bene made by Simonye to be deposed Who yet afterward brake bothe partes of his Oâ—he Toke the Pope out of Rome with him as prisoner because he would not confirme his symoniacal Bisshops And after long vexation of the Pope and spoiles of the Romaine territorie extorted at the lengthe by fine force his consente thereto which yet after the Emperour being departed he reuoked as I said in a ful Councell And this periurie and violence of this Emperour the Italian Emperours doe witnesse also Briefly al came to this conclusion that Paschalis being dead the Emperour shortly after renounced to the Pope Calistus the .2 all this inuesturing of Bisshops and left to the clergy the free electioÌ„ without the princes coÌ„firmatioÌ„ which was al that Paschalis grauÌ„ted to this Emperour For the grauÌ„t of Paschalis as it is recorded in Nauclere referreth it selfe to the former grauntes of his predecessours made to Catholike Emperours And farder he specifieth his graunt thus That he haue priuilege to geue the staffe and the ring to al Bisshops and Abbats of his dominions being first freely chosen without violence or symonie and to be afterward consecrated or ordered of the bisshop to whom they belong But al this was as I haue said both reuoked of Pope Paschalis and geuen ouer of Henrie the fift But I pray you tell me was your holy hand so vnlustie and heauy that ye could or rather would not set in this also being a parcell of your authors narration and the finall conclusion of this great controuersie Whiche as it was theÌ„ troblesom to the church many yeres so it is troblesom also to your Reader as occupiyng a greate parte of your booke but no part of your principal mater and yet as litle material as it is in fine al agaiÌ„st you And therfore ye shake the ful declaratioÌ„ of the mater from your holy handes as a man would shake away a snake for feare of stinging M. Horne The .115 Diuision pag. 74. b. The next Emperour to Henrie vvas Lotharius vvho so laboured vvith the Pope to retaine the inuesturing of Ecclesiasticall persons and besides that he so trauailed in other Ecclesiastical causes so .396 vvel as Temporal that saith Vrspurg Huius laus est à vindicata religione legibus The praise of this Prince is in that he refourmed Religion and the Lawes Next to vvhom vvas Conradus the Emperour to vvhome the Romaines vvrote supplications to come and chalendge his right in these matters to reduce the fourme of the Empire to the olde state whiche it was in in Constantine and Iustinians daies and to deliuer them from the .397 tyranny of the Pope To vvhom also the Pope vvrote humble supplications to take his cause into his protection against the Magistrates of Rome which toke vppon them to reduce the Pope to the olde order and state of the .398 aunciente bisshoppes of Rome Stapleton Let the Emperour Lotharius labour to retain the inuesturing of Bishops which as ye heard Henrie the .5 resigned before to Calistus let him if ye will needes vse that word reforme the ciuil lawes and religion to the meaning wherof is no more but that he restored the ciuil Lawe the vse therof being discoÌ„tinued many yeres aÌ„d restored Pope InnoceÌ„tius the .2 to his See beiÌ„g thrust out by an Antipope wherof he was called Fidelis Ecclesiae aduocatus a faithfull defeÌ„der of the Church Yet why do you vtter such grosse lyes M. Horne telling your Reader that the Romaines besought th' Emperor to deliuer them froÌ„ the tyraÌ„ny of the Pope Neyther Otho Fringensis nor Nauclerus who rehearseth his words haue any such thing The Romaines at that time would be lusty a Gods name and reduce their state to the old magnificence of the victorious Romaines being proud of a litle victorie whiche they had against the Tiburtines And therefore the Pope complained to the Emperour of their tyrannie not they of the Popes tyrannie Yea they thrusted out the Emperours Praefectus and placed in his roome their owne Patricius And so woulde shake of as well the Emperour as the Pope Foorth then with the storie Let Pope Lucius .2 make huÌ„ble supplicatioÌ„ to the Emperour Conradus against the Magistrates of Rome coÌ„cerning the ciuil regiment of Rome and their subiection to the Pope in temporalities for that was the matter and no other and yet were they faine shortlye after to submitte them selues to Eugenius .3 the next Pope Let all this be as you tell it not perspicuouslie but couertlie as though the Romaines then woulde haue bene Schismatiques as you are nowe and denied his Authoritie in Spiritual causes as you doe nowe let all this as I saie be graunted vnto you But then I pray you set your conclusion to it that therefore the Prince is Supreme Gouernour in all causes Ecclesiasticall and then shall euery childe sone conclude with you that your Conclusion concludeth nothinge to the purpose For all the strife and contention here was partely about Temporall and Ciuill regiment partely not against the Popes Authoritie absolutelye but against such or suche a Pope whiche thing I woulde haue you wel to note Maister Horne not here onelye but in all these and other quarrellings of Emperours againste Popes That they neuer repined againste the Popes Authoritie as the Pope but they repined against this man or that maÌ„ whom they woulde not agnise for the Pope but some other by them selues elected M. Horne The .116 Diuision pag. 74. b. Next to vvhome follovved the Godly and zelous Emperour Frederike the firste vvho .399 seeing the horrible vices of the Romissh Church commaunded that no Legate of the Church of Rome should be suffered to enter into Germanie without he were called or hyred of the Emperour nor would suffer that any man vnder the name of appellation shuld goe vnto the Court of Rome After the death of Adrian the fovvrth the Cardinals fell out amongest them selues for the Election of a nevv Pope some stryuinge to haue Rovvlande other some contendinge to haue Octauian a man saith Abbat Vrspur in all points honest and religious Herevppon sprang an horrible schisme and great discord Rouland
sent his Legates to the Emperour Fredericus .1 and desired him that he vvould .400 take vppe and end this contention by his authoritie The Emperour commaundeth them both to come vnto him at Ticinum vvhere foorthvvith he summoned a Councell to be holden about this matter .401 minding to examine bothe their causes and by searching to trye vvhose cause vvas the most honest Rouland .402 being afrayed to haue the matter come to this triall getteth to VVilliam of Sicilia the Emperours mortall ennemie and vvithin tvvelue daies putteth on his Cope and nameth him selfe Alexander for he purposed belike to make a conquest of the matter He alleaged his election to be good out of all doubt and that he sent for the Emperours aid and not for his arbitrement and therfore thought not good to bring his case into doubtfull question The Emperour being offended vvith him for that he vvould not obey his appointment sent tvvo Bisshops to cite him to come vnto the Councell by the name of Cardinall and not Pope But Rouland refused confuting their citation vvith this Maxime or Principle Romanum Pontificem à nemine iudicari debere The Pope ought not to be iudged of anye man But vvhen these Legates from the Emperour came to Octauian he straight vvaies obeyed and they brought him to Papia .404 Vspurg saith that Rouland vvas oftentimes monisshed to come and did contemne all those monitions The Emperour faite in the Councel as Radeuicus FrifingeÌ„sis vvho vvrote his actes vvitnesseth â—ad made an oration vnto the Bishoppes vvherein he declareth and that by the example of his auncestours Constantinus Theodosius Iustinianus and of later time of Carolus Magnus and other that the povver and authority to call Councelles vvhere the Churche is trouâ—led vvith any schismes or other perillous distourbance belongeth to the Emperour Notvvithstanding he coÌ„mitted the desining of the coÌ„trouersie to theyr vvisedome and .405 gaue them therevnto authoritie The Councell debateth the cause and consulteth vvith men learned in the Lavve and so concludeth that Octauians election vvas good and adiudgeth him to be the righte Bishoppe of Rome VVheÌ„ they had thus tryed out the matter Fredericus the Emperour saith Platina Confirmat Octauianum Pontificem Confirmed Octauian Pope .406 The Emperour vvithin a vvhile after sente Octauianus nevv confirmed Pope tovvardes Rome vvho dyed in the iourney After vvhose death the Emperour called an other councell at VVirtzberge as Auentinus vvriteth vvherein vvere a great number of Archebishoppes and other Bishoppes aÌ„d also many of the nobles and states of the Empyre In this Councell a statute or Decree vvas made by common consente That from hence foorth none shoulde be Pope onelesse he were created by the consent of the Emperour accordinge as the custome had bene of longe and auncient time This vvorthy Emperour vvhom the Chronicles call Christianissimum moste Christian for his zeale tovvardes Goddes Churche endeuored not vvithout great perill to him selfe and his estate to reteine the iurisdiction due to the Princes and thereby to refourme the horrible disorders that vvere grovven so highe that they ouervvhelmed the Church as in lyke sorte diuers other Emperours end Kinges bothe before and after had attempted but in vayne for the vvealthy pride the fierce povver and .407 trayterous treachery of the Pope and his Prelates vvas so mighty violent and subtile that there vvas no earthly povver able to vvithstande or matche vvith them And therefore Erasmus compteth the Popes of this time and those that folovved to be the Vicars and sâ—ccessours of Iulius Caesar of Alexander the Great of Croesus the ryche and of Xerxes the mighty rather then of Christe the onelye Emperour and gouernour of the Churche Bernarde calleth Eugenius .3 in his great pompe and pride rather the successour of Constantinus the highe Emperour then of Peter the humble Apostle and Abbas Vrspurg vvho lyued at this time vvhen the Popes had spoyled the â—mperour and other Princes vvelnighe of .408 all iurisdiction rulinge all by theyr ovvne Decretalles novve aboute this time set foorth .409 as they listed maketh a lamentable complainte of the horrible pryde and couetousnesse of the .410 vvhole clergy and coÌ„cludeth vvith these vvords Gaude mater nostra Roma c. Reioyce O our mother Rome bycause the seluses of the hidden treasures in the earthe are opened that riuers aÌ„d heapes of mony maye flowe vnto thee in great abundance Be glad of the iniquitie of the sonnes of meÌ„ bicause mony is geuen to thee for the recompence of so great euilles Be mery and iocund for discordes sake which is thy helper bicause she is rushte out of the infernall pit that plentiful rewardes of money might be heaped vpon the thou hast that which thou hast alwaies thyrsted after synge pleasant balades for throughe mennes malitiousnesse not by thy Godlinesse thou hast ouercome the worlde The .18 Chapter Of Frederike Barbarossa and of Alexander the .3 Stapleton MAister Horne good Reader as he hath hitherto so doth he styll playe Cacus parte This Cacus stole Hercules Oxen and because he woulde not haue them espied where they were by the track he drewe theÌ„ into his caue by the tayles backward Whiche thing Hercules seing did nothing mistrust they shoulde be there but yet as he passed by with the droue of his beastes the beasts that were in the denne lackinge theyr company beganne as the maner is to bellowe wherby all this thefte was discried This boke of M. Hornes is the very denne of Cacus into the which by a pretye sleight he conueyeth in hys stories and other proufes as a man maye say by the taile backewarde that is not keeping the righte and customable waie and order in making true and faithfull allegations but craftelie and peruersely cutting and chopping away some parte of them which partely lying in this his Cacus denne and as it were bellowing for his companie bewrayeth all M. Hornes slie dealings So haue ye hitherto found it and so shall ye still good Reader finde it and loe we haue at hande a ready proufe Frederike saith M. Horne seing the horrible vices of the Romisâ—h Church commaundâ—d that no Legate of the Church of Rome should come into Germanie c. First Maister Horne what horrible vices of the Romissh Churche were those you speake of It is verely naughte els tâ—en a horrible lye of your schismatical mouth The beginning of the sentence of the whiche you haue taken the taile onely is this Adrian the .4 our Countrieman and Frederike the first were fallen at great variaunce The Pope complained saith Nauclerus your own Authour that liuing betwene the swordes of the Romaines and William of Sicilie he was forsaken of the Emperoure contrarye to his great promises and so vexed for the Emperours sake that he could not reast at Rome The Emperoure on the other side pretended many things and namely the crowning of William the King of Sicilia Iamque ad id
suffragans as S. Thomas was Againe to omitte other articles there is one that is quite contrarie to the Apostolical doctrine to the canons of Nice and other most auncient general councels finallie to the catholyke doctrin of Christes vniuersal Churche that is for appeales to be made from the Archdeacō to the bishop frō the bishop to the Archbishop ād in case ther be any defect of iustice there the matter to be browght to the king and by his cōmaundemēt to be ended in the Archbishops cowrt without any further proceding without the kinges cōsent wherby not only the popes supreme authority but the authority also of al general coūcels the which are the ordinary and necessary remedies in many cases did stād thē in the kīg of Englād his grace only to be accepted or to be reiected M. Fox reciteth the kings cōstitutiōs but as he leaueth out this ād many other ād reherseth but six of thē so in those six he maketh thre manifest ād opē lies For wher he saith the sayd decrees by him recited were cōdēned by the Pope ther were but thre of thē cōdēned that is the .1 the .3 ād the .4 The other thre the pope did suffer ād tolerat Againe what a decree was this that none that held of the king in capite no nor any of his seruāts shuld be excōmunicated onlesse the kīg were first cōsulted I trow M. Horn hīself ād his fellowes neither kepe this precise order nor wil allow it Well M. Fox full pretely leaueth out this cōstitutiō what cause moueth him I cā not tel Thīk ye nowe M. Fox that for those ād such like S. Thomas had not good cause to mollify the matter with saluo ordine meo saluo honore Dei ād whē that wold not be accepted to gaīsay altogether ād to appeale to the sea of Rome Ye wil say this notwithstāding they were no matters of fayth or religiō or true doctrine and that he is therfor far frō the cause and title of a martyr In dede it was if not wisely yet wilily ād like a crafty Fox done of you to scrape hī out of your blessed kalender For in good fayth place cā he haue none there onlesse all your late stinking martyrs geue place and yelde which are the deuils ād not Gods martyrs ād it were for none other thīg but for the denial of the Popes supreamacy The which supremacy is a necessary doctryne to be holdē of euery Christiā mā where vnuincible ignorāce is not vppō payn of dāmatiō and euerlasting separatiō frō the Catholik Church and the mēbers of the same Beside this there are many takē for blessed martyrs in the Church that died not for the faith or for doctrine beīg thē in any cōtrouersy but for iustice ād truth sake and for theyr vertuouse dealīg as is the good mōke Telemachius that seīg at Rome two swordplayers the on of thē redy to destroy ād kil the other vppō a great zeale came to thē and thought to haue parted thē ād so was slayn of thē him self wheruppō thēperour Honorius reckoned him amōg the martyrs ād made a lawe that there should be no more such kīd of play exercised in Rome The cause also of S. Iohn Chrisostoms troble proceded not directly frō matter of fayth or doctryne but for reprouīg thēpresse Eudoxia I omit S. Quilliā and S. Lābert both takē for martyrs and slayne for rebukīg adultery And to come nearer to our own cōtrey and to S. Thomas tyme S. Alphegius Archbisshop of Canterburie a litle before the Conquest that suffred him selfe to be slayne of the Danes rather then he would pille and polle his tenauntes to leauy an excessiue somme of money that the Danes required for his redemption Of whose vertue God synce hath geuen greate testimonie aswell by diuerse other miracles as by preseruinge his body so longe vncorrupted But the cheife and moste aunciente presidente of all in the newe testamente is S. Iohn the Baptiste who died for the lyke liberty and fredome of speache as S. Quillian and S. Lamberte did To these we may set Esaye and the other prophets of the olde testamente Howbeyt as I sayd in S. Thomas his cause is a necessarie doctryne also imployed that was either directly or indirectly blemisshed by these ordinaunces of the king concerning the Popes Supremacy Now what madnes were yt for me or any other to seke by words to sette forth this blessed mans qualities and Martyrdome when that God him self hath by so wonderfull and straunge yea by so certayne and notoriouse miracles aswell in the lyfe of his seruant as afterwarde geuen to the worlde suche a testimonie for him as all the deuills in hell and they re disciples in earth may rather gnashe theyr angrie teathe and enuie at then by any good meanes deny and deface yt True shall yt be also that S. Thomas heard long ere he returned into Englande by a celestiall and heauenlie voyce O Thoma Thoma Ecclesia mea gloriabitur in sanguine tuo O Thomas Thomas my Churche shall glory in thy bloud And true yt is that was writen incontinently after hys death that at the place of his passion and where he is buried paralitici curantur caeci vident surdi audiunt loquuntur muti claudi ambulant euadunt febricantes arrepti à daemonio liberantur à variis morbis sanātur aegroti blasphemi à demonio arrepti confunduntur quod à diebus patrum nostrorum non est auditum ▪ mortui surgunt Palsies are cured the blinde see the deaffe heare the dombe speake the lame walk the agues are healed ād such as are possessed of the Deuill are delyuered and diuers diseases holpen and blasphemers beinge taken and possessed of the deuill confounded and finally as our sayd authour not so muche an eare as an eie wytnes saith that which hath not ben heard of in our fathers dayes dead men are relieued againe These and manie other miracles shewen aswell in England as out of England were so notable and famouse that shortly after S. Thomas his Martyrdome not only the Erle of Flaunders but the Frenche King also came to Cantorburie in pilgrimage to pray at this blessed Martyrs tumbe The kinge of Fraunce offered there a chalice of golde and his graunt in writinge for a certayne quantitye of wyne yerely to be delyuered to the monks ther to be merie withall at the solempnitye or feaste of this blessed Martyr But what shal we say to kinge Henry him selfe what thowght he trowe ye of this blessed mans doings and death This parte of the story of all other is moste notable The king being in Normandy and hearing that S. Thomas was slayne toke the matter so heuely that for forty dayes he kept him self solitary in great mourning and lamentatiō in great abstinence setting a syde al the affayres of his great ād large dominiōs for greif and sorow And forthwith sent his ambassadours to
Eue had continued in state of grace they should neuer haue had children by any carnal copulatiō but otherwise Yea that there should haue bene no difference betwen the Male and the Female kinde Secondly he saied that the blessed Saintes in heauen doe not see the essence of God Whiche errour he learned of Petrus Abailardus againste whome S. Barnarde writeth and of Arnoldus Brixiensis of whome as I suppose Arnoldistae of whom we spake of be called Thirdly he said that the bodie of Christ is no otherwise in the Sacramente of the Aulter then in other bread and all other things Fourthly he said there was no hell Fifthly he denyed the resurrection of the flesh And yet is this Almaricus a worthy Bisshoppe and an holy Martyr in Maister Foxes madde Martyrologe Neither can he finde any matter why he was condemned but for teaching and holding againste Images whiche if it were true as it is false yet were he but a starke stinking Martyr I will nowe vnfolde and rippe vppe the heresies of some other condemned by Frederike that Maister Horne may see his own iudgement geuen against him and his fellowes especially against their hereticall Articles agreed vppon in their Schismaticall Conuocation and nowe after fower yeares offered to the Parliament to be confirmed and ratified geauen I saie not onely by the moste famouse Generall Councell aforesaied but also by his owne Supreme Head the Emperour Frederike and by his owne wordes and confession And here it shall be sufficient to set before yow the Waldenses onely For as a good fellowe ones said whiche had prouided a feast furnished with manye disshes to his friend maruailing at suche plentie but all was but swines fleshe which he had by his iolie cokerie dressed in suche diuersitie So all this rascall rablement of these huge monstruous names and sectes are in effecte nothing but the swinish secte of the Waldenses otherwise called the poore brethren of Lyons taking there their originall of one Waldo their vnlearned and blinde presumptuouse guide Whiche had in diuerse Countries diuerse names whereof some ye haue heard and were commonlie called in England as appeareth by our Actes of Parliamente and Chronicles and in some other Countries also Lollardes Wil ye then knowe what their Relligion and order was in Churche matters I remitte the Latine and learned Reader to Aeneas Syluius and to Paulus Aemilius and the English Reader to Maister Foxe him selfe Who at large to decke and beutifie his holy Canonisation setteth their errours and heresies foorth to his Reader And to be short there shal ye find that our holy English Cōuocatiō borowed their damnable Articles whereof we haue spoken of them and the whole order beside of this their gaie Gospelling Church Of this secte sprang among other the Albanenses whiche otherwise are called Albigenses of the people called Albij in the Countie of Tholous in Fraunce the whiche we haue before rehearsed Nowe the Arnoldistae can not be the schollers and disciples of Arnoldus de Villa noua being at this time and long after vnborne and so it seemeth that they are so called of Arnoldus Brixiensis and withal that as well Maister Horne as his Maister Illiricus from whome he fetched these Epistles of Arnoldus de Villa noua are out of the waye Maister Horne for imagining this Arnoldus to haue liued aboute the time of King Henrie the first And Illiricus for imagining Arnoldistas to be named of Arnoldus de Villa noua and to be condemned before he was borne Him selfe confessing that he liued aboute suche time as we before haue declared Maister Foxe also as greate an Antiquarie as he is as farre as I can learne confoundeth these two Arnoldus and maketh a great sturre for the auauncing of his newe Ghospel of this Arnoldus de villa noua being a false lying Prophet ▪ as I haue before shewed you And yt may be proued both by him and by Illyricus that he was an Heretique if he mainteyned suche errours as they specifie whereof nothing doth appeare in the foresaied Epistles And therfore I suppose yf any of them both mainteyned these errours yt was this Arnoldus Brixiensis Who for theis errours of the Waldenses as it may seme with his disciples is excommunicated by the generall coūcel as I tolde you before Now for the other secte of the Albanenses or Albigenses springinge of the loynes of the holye brother Waldo beside the cōmon and vsuall errours of the Waldenses they cōdēned matrimony ād lyued lyke brute beastes in most filthie and beastlie bytchery Who not withstanding multiplied in such sort and so desperatly suffred al kind of punishmēt ād death to for the maynteyning of theire heresies that they were set vpon and destroyed with an armie And yet are they preciouse martyrs with M. Foxe thoughe him self cōfesse that the chroniclers make them no better thē Turkes and infidelles and wold fayne for the honesty of his new ghospell and hys newe canonisation that men shoulde thinke yt were not so contrary to all the Chroniclers vpon his owne bare woorde as one that doth not nor euer shal be able to shewe any thinge worthye of any credite to the contrarye The desperate rage of theis wilde wodde Waldenses was suche as I haue sayde that they did not shūne but rather couitte deathe to make they re secte in the eies of the worlde more commendable as M. Foxes holye martyrs haue of late donne in Englande and els where and for this cause bothe the councell and themperour calleth them Patarenos For they so called them selues as in the olde tyme the Messalian heretikes called them selues for the like cause Martyrianos as men glorying that for their secte and heresie had suffred martyrdomme Now let Mayster foxe make an accompte of hys holy martyrs and see howe manie he canne fynde that haue not maynteyned the sayd errours of these Albigenses Paterans or Waldenses and he shall fynde his holie cataloge altogether voyde and empted So that the olde martyrs may take they re olde place in the Kalender againe And because Mayster Foxe doth so highlie esteme these men and so lightlye regardeth what so euer either the forsayde moste famous and lerned councell or the late councell of Trente hathe sayde or donne againste the doctrine of his holye Martyrs and wyll not belieue the catholikes when they truelye call them furiouse and madde martyrs let him at the leaste belieue this Emperour Friderike a newe greate Charles as Mayster Horne sayeth and let hym in fewe wordes heare a rownde and a full answere to all his vglie and madde martyrologe He then speaking of the sect of the folishe frontyke and wood Waldo sayeth In exēplum martyrū qui pro fide catholica c. They call them selues sayeth Fridericus as thowghe they followed the example of the Martyrs which died for the catholike fayth Paterans as men prompte and redie to suffer death howbeit these wretched Paterans hauing no
This to be so the Authoritie of Canons doth witnesse This the ecclesiastical history proueth This the holie Fathers confirme Lo you see M. Horne what the iudgement of Isidorus was aboue .900 yeres past howe iumpe it agreeth with the assertion of Catholiques now and how directly it ouerthroweth yours This therfore being so sure a Principle on our parte and so clerelie proued bethinke your selfe now M. Horne how your new Primacie wil be proued by this allegation Touching that you saie This Clergie in King Henries daies was not only of Diuines but also of the wisest most expert and best learned in the Ciuil and Canon Lawes that was or hath ben sence as D. Tonstal D. Stokesley D. Gardiner D. Thirlbie and D. Bonner by the euident falsehood whiche you practise in alleaging these witnesses a man may iudge with what fidelitie you haue handled the rest throughout your whole booke Who is ignoraunte that not one of these Reuerent Fathers did sincerely thinke that to be true which you here impute vnto them For whereas all vpright iudgement shoulde come of a mans owne free choise not stained or spotted either with the hope of priuate lucre and honoure or with the feare of great losse the one of those two things which of all other most forceably carieth men away from professing their owne conscience did stoppe those men from saying and vttering that which otherwise they would most gladly haue vttered sithens as they were put in hope of al promotion if they agreed with the Kings will of which they made I iudge the lesse accompte so disagreeing from the same they were certaine to loose bothe goods and life and also their good name in the shew of the worlde as who shoulde haue bene put to deathe by the name of Traitours whiche is the thing that all true subiectes doe chieflie abhorre Yet you knowe in suche sorte suffered a great many notable both for learning and vertue as D. Fisher Bishoppe of Rochester Syr Thomas More a great number of the Carthusians beside diuerse other of all estates You knowe also the matter then was not so sifted and tryed by learning as it hath bene since And we know they were the secrete snakes of your adders broode that induced the King to that minde not any of the Doctours here by you named who all againste their willes condescended therevnto Howe then are they broughte foorthe for witnesses of your heresies who for feare of deathe saied as you doe and that no longer then the foresaid impedimente laie in theyr waye For when the state of the worlde was otherwise that without feare of deathe they might vtter their minde freely who knoweth not that all they who liued to see those daies of freedome in all theire woordes and deedes protested that the Pope and not the King was head of the Churche vnder Christ Neuer hearde you M. Horne that when your owne brethren being arryued before D. Gardiner the Bishope of Winchester and then Chauncelour of England had saied they lerned theyr disobedience vnto the Pope out of his booke De vera obedientia c. then he aunswered that if they had bene good Scholers they would haue folowed theyr Maister in his beste and not in his worste doeinges Againe if they had erred through his Authority whē he was not so wel learned and grounded they should much more repēt and recāt through his Authority being nowe better lerned through longer studie and better grounded through longer experience And this Doctour Gardiner when he was moste of your side in this one matter yet he was so suspected of the Kinge for secrete conference with the Pope by letters to be sent by a straunger in the tyme of his embassye on this side of the Seas that as Master Foxe reporteth for this verie cause Kinge Henrie in all Generall Pardons graunted after that tyme dyd euermore excepte all treasons committed beyonde the Seas whiche was meant for the Bishoppes cause This ys that Doctour Gardiner who at Paules Crosse in a moste Honorable and full Audience witnessed not onely his owne repentaunce for his former naughty doings but also that King Henry sought diuerse tymes to haue reconciled hym selfe againe to the See of Rome as who knewe that he had vnlawfully departed from the vnytie thereof and had made hym selfe the Supreme Heade of the Churche of Englande altogether vniustly This is that Doctour Gardiner ▪ who lying in his deathebedde caused the Passion of Christe to be readen vnto hym and when he hearde it readen that Peter after the denying of his Maister went out and wepte bitterlie he causyng the Reader to staye wept him selfe full bitterlie and saied Ego exiui sed non dum fleui amarè I haue gone out but as yet I haue not wepte bytterlie And is nowe Doctour Gardiner a fitte witnesse for your secular Supremacy M. Horne Marcellinus the Pope being afearde of deathe dyd sacrifice vnto Idolles And the same Marcellinus repenting his vniuste feare dyd afterwarde sacrifice his owne bodie and soule for the loue of Christe suffring Martyrdome for his sake Will you nowe proue Idolles to be better then Christe by the facte of Marcellinus Or shall not the last iudgemente stande rather then the first What meane you then to alleage the iudgementes of Doctour Gardiner Doctour Thirlbey Doctour Tonstall and Doctour Bonner sith you knowe that all those chaunged their mindes vppon better aduise Or whie died Doctour Tonstalle in prisonne Or why lye the other learned godly Bisshops yet in prisonne if they are of your minde But if you knowe that they dissente vtterly from you and yet doe pretende to bring their Authoritie for you this fact declareth that you are not only a fond wrangler but also a wicked falsarie and that you knowe as well Saint Augustine whome you alleaged before so largelye and all the Councels and princes with al other Authours by you producted are none otherwise of your minde then are Doctour Thirlebie and Doctour Bonner whome you so impudentlie make to speake as Proctours in your cause albeit they are readie to shedde their bloude against this your opinion Once in maner the whole clergy of the Realme sinned most greuously by preferring the secular and earthly kingdome before the Magistrates of the heauēly kingdome But that sinne of theirs al those now abhor and haue before abhorred to whō God gaue grace to see the filthines and the absurdty thereof And surelye vntil the rest bothe of the clergy and of the layety do hartely repēt for that most filthy and absurd dede wherein they withdrewe the Supremacy from S. Peters successours and gaue it to the successours of Iulius Caesar vntill I say they repent for it and refourme that minde of theirs as much as lyeth in thē they cā neuer be made partakers of the kingedome of heauen But only they shal inherit the kingdome of the earth in whose Supremacy they put their cōfidence You Mayster Horn haue in dede great
pointe Polidorus on his side Yf it were so though yt were a foolish and a fond shifte yet were yt somwhat colourable to shifte from him self so notable a lie But Polidorus writeth conformably to all other And as yt is true that Mayster Horne boroweth all the residewe of Polidorus so moste wretchedlie he dismembreth from the residewe of Polidorus narration all that towcheth Pope Eleutherius Lucius sayeth Polidore in the yeare of our Lorde .182 and the yeare of his reigne .13 of verie true loue to religion sent letters to Eleutherius the Pope to procure that he and his people might be made Christians Fugatius and Damianus men of singular vertue were sente thither which did baptise the kinge with al his courte and people All this hath M. Horne broken and cutte of from the myddle of the sentence and thereby hath mangled and torne the same as miserablie as euer did Medea her chylde for that he well sawe yt made notablye for the Popes primacy Whiche you shall well perceyue yf you doe deaplye consider the cause that moued the Kynge to sende so farre as to Rome A man woulde at the firste sight thinke the doinges of the king very straunge namely considering that abowt this time liued in Fraunce the great clearke and Bishoppe Ireneus with many other famouse men whose ayde he might haue craued for his necessary instruction in the Christian faith Neither did he lacke at home of his owne subiectes that could well as yt semeth haue serued his turne And yet no doubte this good kinge had a good and substantial grownde for his doinges It is then to be cōsidered that anon after the death of Christe and so euer after vntil Lucius time there were amonge the Christians a number of heretikes whiche as they bore the name of Christians so by they re heresies they loste the benefitte of their Christēdome as the Simonians the schollers of Simon Magus Menandrians the Saturninians the Basilidians the Nicolaites the heretikes called Gnostici for the excellent knowledge they pretended to haue aboue other mē the Cherinthians the Cerdoniās the Phrygians the Montanistes and Marcionites with diuerse other Eche secte contending theire owne false faith to be the true and the onely Christian faith yea manie of them were taken for Prophetes as Montanus and others Many suffred death for Christe with those that were catholike and that with great pacience Among them was a priest called Metrodorus a Marcionite Of the which secte euen in Lucius time a great number suffred in the persecution raised against the Christians Whereof the secte craked very muche and made thereof a great argument that they were in the true faith and a muche better argumēte then doth Mayster Foxe for his madde martyrs that died moste wilfullie for playne and open heresie Lucius then vnderstāding of this had good cause to be careful by whom he receiued his Christendome least chauncing vppō some false shrew and taking him for his instructour he might rather chaunge one errour for an other then put yt cleane away and for an Idolatour become a false Christian. The wante of this good choyse of Instructours was the cause why Valens the Emperour became an Arrian and suche an horrible bloudsucker of the catholikes This also was the cause that the Gothes ād Vādales were Arriās Who most cruelly afflicted and martyred thowsandes of Christians What was then the sureste way for Lucius to auoyde this daunger Dowbtles the very same that he toke that is to send to the Churche of Rome which neuer erred in faith and which was the principal Churche and with the which al other Churches muste agree by reason of the cheif principalitie of that Churche as Ireneus that blessed bishop and Martyr wrote euen in the tyme of this Lucius This principalitie I say hath so troubled M. Horne that he durst not truely reporte his owne authour yea so amased him that falling sodēly in a rage hath framed vs suche an open and maliciouse lie that who so euer wil hereafter truste him is well worthie to be beguiled And wil ye yet see an other as greate a madnes of this man As he moste shamefully denieth theis doinges of Lucius with Pope Eleutherius againste the vniforme cōsente of al historiographers so hath he fownde letters of Lucius with Eleutherius answere wherof no one of al the foresayde chroniclers maketh mention nor any other that I cā yet lerne of containinge matter altogether vnprobable and vnlikely and therefore mete after this fowrtene hundred yeares nowe at length to come owte of Trophonius and Cacus blinde denne and be set in M Hornes boke as a notable matter of antiquity to furnish and bewtify his new supremacie withal He layeth vs forth an epistle of Eleutherius but out of what authour he hath taken yt or in what library we shal fynde yt he will not tell vs. The best Author I wene that he can alleage for it wil be some recordes of parchement in the Guild Halle But then M. Iewel wil answere you for me M. Horne A Calues skinne is no sufficient warrant of truth Lies haue bene writen in letters of golde Wel make the best of it and iustifie it as you may As our cause can take no preiudice by it So you shal take much shame by it if not for the matter it selfe yet at the least for three or foure pretie lies that you adioyne to companie this notable Epistle For first there was neuer any Saxon king that made any notable Lawes called Iune There was one called Inas and he in dede with king Aluredus or Alphredus ordeined many Lawes but that they shoulde be suche Scripture lawes as Maister Horne saieth drawen alonely out of the Scripture it is Mayster Hornes vaine dreame And in case they had so great regarde to scripture onely and measured and squared their lawes and doings by scripture belike M. Horne will beginne to haue some better liking of Religious men and of the Popes Primacye also For it was this king Inas that gaue the Peter pence first to Rome and renouncing his Realme went to Rome and professed him self a Monke Both which things vndoubtedly by M. Horn he must nedes find in Scripture It is this Alphredus that was anointed and crowned King at Rome as we haue told before and therfore is called the Popes sonne adoptiue Now wheras ye bring this Epistle to proue that the king was christened without the Popes cōsent ād that the Pope was nothing offēded with the kīgs doings but greatly cōmended him therin neither the one nor the other can be proued by this Epistle This is a mete and cōuenient glose for such a worthy epistle In the which also there is no probability in the world For as other Coūtries that were subdued by the Romans especially such as were reduced into a forme of a Prouince and had their rulers and Lieutenaūts frō Rome as Britain had receiued the
power and Authority out of Englande For yf euery foraine prelat be renounced is not all power and Authority of the Church which dependeth only of Prelates and Bisshops accompted also forayne and for very forayne renounced It is so It is so Maister Horne The Othe runneth largely and expressely You can not you may not you shal not God geuing vs his grace bleare our eyes with vayn talke or make vs to say we see not that which we see we heare we feele we vnderstande You sawe you sawe your self M. Horne that the woordes of the Othe being taken as they lie verbatim as you say they must did expressely renounce the Catholike Churche And therefore Marke wel gentle Reader You M. Horne thinking and labouring to remoue this opinion from the Reader for though you thinke in very dede that nor Churche nor prelat but only the expresse liuely worde of God muste be heard and obeyed yet yow dare not as yet for very shame to expresse that detestable minde of yours the lusty braue Chalenge of Maister Iewel offering to yeld to any one sentence or any one old doctor withdrawing you perhaps not a litle therfro do tel hiÌ„ that the Othe maketh no mention in any one worde of the Catholike Church but it speaketh say you of a forain Prince and Prelate c. Wherein to auoyde the manifest absurditye you flatly belye the Othe For the Othe speaketh not M. Horne of a forain Prince and Prelate c. But the Othe expressly saith of euery forain Prince and Prelat c. Now wheÌ„ it renouÌ„ceth the power of euery forain Prelat it renounceth the power of al Catholik Bishops without the realm of England which al are forain Prelats to the realm of England whereupon in dede M. Fekenham coÌ„cludeth not as it were by reuelation in a Monkishe dream without ryme or reason as that grosse head of yours most vilely rayleth against such a sobre and discrete prelate but with good reason and plaine euidence that therefore the Catholik Church is by Othe renouÌ„ced Not as though there were no difference betwene a foraine Prince or Prelat and the Catholike Church as you ful peuishly make Maister Fekenham to reason but bycause there is no difference betwene euery foraine Prelate as the Othe speaketh and the Catholike Churche Seing as I haue often said the Catholyk Church consisteth of euery forayn Prelate without the realme of EnglaÌ„d much more then of al the prelates within the realme of EnglaÌ„d Yea though euery foraine prelate without the realme of England may and haue in many General councells prescribed ouer al the bishoppes of England yet all the Bishoppes of England nether haue or may at any tyme prescribe ouer euery foraine Prelate without the realme of England This othe therfore excludeth plainely the Authority of the Catholike Church and fighteth directly against all good reason and order Now the definitioÌ„ or descriptioÌ„ of the catholik Church such as ye bring is much lyke to a shooe that serueth euery fote or to a Welshmans hose that serueth euery legge Simon Magus Marcion Hebion Manicheus Photinus Arrius Nestorius and al other sects that euer were will graunt to this your definition and wil therby challenge the Church to their sect only as ye do to yours But herein your synagoge resembleth the faulse and schismatical teÌ„ple that Onias made in Aegypte and Sanaballites in Samaria in the mount of Garizim wherof the ghospel of S. Iohn speaketh though yt doth not so expresly name it And though God had specially appointed the temple of HierusaleÌ„ to be his true and holy temple and would al sacrifices to be offred there yet the Samaritanes toke their temple to be the true and the only temple where God would be honored in And sayed that all offerings and sacrifices should be made ther and not at Hierusalem The Iewes sayth Iosephus when they had vnlawfully maried when they had transgressed and violated the Sabbot day or eaten meates or don other things contrary to the Lawe fearing punishment for the same would fly to the Samaritanes and to the false bishop there and complaine to him that they were wrongfully vexed at Hierusalem and so did ioyne with the sayd schismaticall factioÌ„ at the temple of Garizim And there was sayth Iosephus continuall strief and contention betwene the Iewes and the Samaritanes eche parte with much sturre and busines preferring and auauncing their owne temple yea the matter went so farre and the Samaritanes waxed so hotte and feruent at the length that they offered them selues to die in the quarrell and defence of theire hill and temple And this controuersy bursting out at AlexaÌ„dria into a sedition was tried by the common consent of both parties by the kinge Ptolomeus Philomitor Eche of them making this offer that that party shuld suffer death whose proufs shuld be founde defectyue and insufficiente the issewe of the whole contention was that the king pronounced and gaue sentence for the Iewes bicause they proued the continual succession of their bishops at Hierusalem from the beginning and that the kings of Asia had euer honored and with great rewardes enriched that temple as Gods true temple Whervppon the proctours of the Samaritanes were by the kinges commaundement put to death whome notwithstaÌ„ding the Samaritans toke for as blessed martyrs as M. Foxe taketh any of his ragged rablement in his new holy maâ—tyrologe This schismatical synagog is the very patern of your Church M. Horne Sentence hath bene geuen against your synagoge by many good and catholike kings by many general councells And yt is a most euident yea and a blasphemous lie against the Saints in heaueÌ„ to say as ye doe that al the Saints and faythful ChristiaÌ„s that be or hath bene are of your Church What so euer visour ye put vppon your Church when we ones come to the cheif poynte to knowe the Church by and by the which the temple of Hierusalem was iustified I meane the continuall succession without any interruptioÌ„ of bishops in the sea of Rome and in al other openly knowen to be catholik Churches maynteyning that faith that ye namely in this boke impugne then it wil easely appeare what your Church is and howe vnperfytte your definition is that lacketh one infallible marke whereby ye may sone disseuer the false from the true Church to wytte the knoweÌ„ succession of bishops from age to age in all places of the Christened worlde al which the worde Catholike importeth and the which therfore you haue omitted bicause you are not in dede of the Catholik Churche and bicause those markes of vniuersalyte of Antiquite and of a knowen succession doe vtterly wante in that you call your Churche Els if you haue those markes and we haue not procure I pray you M. Horne that some one of your brethern I prouoke them al in this matter doe answere if he can to the Fortresse of our first fayth by me set forth and annexed to the
Celebrating the Diuine Seruice and then it shall easely appeare that Ignatius talketh of such doiÌ„gs of a bishop as in deede declare his functioÌ„ and office aÌ„d yet furthereth no vvhit the CoÌ„clusioÌ„ of your obiectioÌ„ Stapleton The conclusioÌ„ of M. Fekenhams obiections being knitte vp with a sentence of Ignatius that is that no man shoulde doe any thing in matters ecclesiastical without the bishops consent M. Horne answereh that he is fayne to finish vppe his conclusion with patching wresting and falsifying his Authors He sayth that M. Fekenham is like to one that hauing no right to any claimeth al to obtayne somwhat at the least and being set in his mery mode he returneth Ignatius sentence by the which M. Fekenham would challenge as he saith al iurisdiction to bisshops so pretely and pleasantly vpon him that him selfe might goe play as one that had nothing to doe in any thing perteyning to the Church no not so much as to tol a bel to seruice or sweepe the Church but that the bisshoppe must do yt all alone And then sadly falling to a graue exposition of Ignatius and to take away all absurdity he byddeth M. Fekenham to take the residew of the sentence with him that he lefte out of the Sacrament of thanks geuinge and celebrating the diuine seruice and then he sayth it shall easely appeare that Ignatius furthereth nothing M. Fekenhams coÌ„clusion I like yt well M. Horn that you such a feate mynser and minisher such a Macarian parer and pincher of your Authours sentences and narrations throughe owt your whole booke do nowe cal for the whole sentence of Ignatius at M. Fekenhams hands Your request is so reasonable that it may not be denied you Nay you must nedes haue it and your reader to and it were for no more but to shewe him of your good graciouse dealing who euen there where you fynd faulte with M. Fekenham for not taking the residewe of the sentence with him do your self fondly abuse your reader and Ignatius withall not daringe ons to recite the whole sentence following For if you had you should haue stopped therwith your owne fowle blasphemouse mouth against the massing and sacrificing priesthod as you call it And your reader shuld haue sene that you might aswel cal Ignatius one of the Apostolical clergie of the Romish Antichrist for this pointe as those that you commonly call papists And seing you charge but most vntruly M. Fekenham for patching wresting and falsifying to furnishe vp his conclusion withall let vs see howe worshipfully and howe sowndly you conclude your owne answere M. Fekenham telleth you of a general rule out of Ignatius recitinge his wordes truly though shortly You leauing out that which Ignatius sayth in dede bring vs forth that which he sayeth not For seing you set forth your interpretation with a distinct letter theis wordes must be taken as your authours wordes and not as your owne according to your promise made at the beginning Nowe there are no such wordes in the Latin translation as you reherse as the formall wordes of Ignatius In dede he nameth Eucharistia but the worde Sacrament he hath not neither theis wordes celebrating the diuine seruice Neither do you truly expresse the Greke sentence We graunt you neuerthelesse that it is a sacrameÌ„t of thaÌ„ks geuing but now we speake not whether it may be so called but whether your author so calleth it Againe I aske you what is the thiÌ„g ther that is so excelleÌ„t aÌ„d thaÌ„ks worthy that the whole is called a thaÌ„ks geuiÌ„g Suerly it is so called because there is present in the said blessed Sacrament the real body and bloud of Christ left to his Churche to be offred for a remembraunce of his death and to be most reuerently to our great and spiritual comfort receiued as ofte as we are therevnto godly disposed and worthely prepared This is the pretiouse dishe that Christ feadeth his Churche withall It is writen that Cleopatra the Quene of Aegyt exceded in sumptuouse feasting and that she put an excellente pearle and resolued it with vineger and then dranke it vp There be that do valew the price of the said pearle at fiftie thousande poundes of our money But it is an other maner of dishe and of much higher price that Christ hath left vs for this oure spiritual banket euen his owne most preciouse and blessed body the same I say that died vpon the Crosse for vs. Great cause haue we then to render most humbly to our graciouse good Lorde our moste bounden and dewtifull thankes for such a feaste And most iust cause haue we M. Horne to curse your M. Caluin and all your sacramentary sect and your late damnable articles that like most wicked stewardes haue coÌ„ueyed away this best dishe and do feede Gods people with a peece of bare bread in stede of Christes most precious body bereuing Christes Churche of this most comfortable meate But herein ye followe your fathers Caluin Zwinglius Wicleff Berengarius and such other that the deuil sturred vp against this blessed Sacrament yea anon after the Apostles time and in the time of Ignatiê° For he doth write of such heretiks as would not by the report also of Theodoretus admitte the Eucharistia and the sacrifice for that they did not coÌ„fesse the Eucharistia to be the flesh of our Sauiour Iesu Christe the which did suffer for our sinnes and which the father by his goodnes did resuscitate See M. Horn the cause why we may wel call this Sacrament the Sacrament of Eucharistia that is of thanks geuing because there is presente the body of Christ and offered to The body of Christ being really present in the sacrament and the oblation that the Church maketh of the same ye can not abide M. Horne Ignatius in this place by M. Fekenham recited maketh expresse mention of the masse and of this oblation and as it were expounding the wordes by M. Fekenham rehersed sayth that yt is not lawfull neither to offer nor to make sacrifice nor to celebrate masse without the bisshop The like he speaketh other where doe nothing sayth he to Heron the Deacon without the bisshoppes for they are priests they do baptise they do offerre sacrifice they gyue holy orders they put their hands vppon men thou doest minister to them as S. Stephen did at Hierusalem to Iames and to the priests But M. Horne full truely and full lyke hym selfe telleth vs a tale of the Sacramente of thankes geuinge and celebratinge the diuine seruice and then that this place doth not one whitte further M. Fekenhams conclusion But as we haue concluded you euen by Ignatius hym selfe a duble heretike both for the spoyling vs of the presence of Christes body and of the oblation of the same so shal we conclude you a lier in that you deny that this place maketh any thinge for M. Fekenham For lo thus he argueth The priests them selues
Euseb. li. â— De vita ConstaÌ„t Socr. li. 1. cap. 8. Socr. li. 1. cap. 9. Theod. li. 1 ca. 13. The .94 vntruth For he had but priuate talke vvith him no open examination The .95 Vntruthe For Constantine did not this as the Iudge ouer Doctrine or as Supreme gouernour but as desiring aboue measure to serue the church vvith the Bishops â–ª as he protesteth in the same seÌ„teÌ„ce saiiÌ„g 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vvhich vvordes you nippe of from the middle of the sentence Sozomen li. 5. c. 25. Socra li. 1 cap. 10. King HeÌ„ries sitting vpoÌ„ Lambert The .553 leafe Socr. lib. 1. cap. 10. Niceph. li. 8. ca. 20 Theod. li 1. ca 14. The .96 Vntruth The very vvoordes of Arius falsified The .97 Vntruth No suche vvordes in Theodoret or in any other of the ecclesiasticall HistoriaÌ„s Socr lib. 1 cap. â—8 The 98. Vntruth No suche thing neither in Socrates nor in Theodoret for any matter of Arius Theod. li. 1. ca. 27. Soc. lib. 1. cap. 34. .99 A heape of vntruths as before in the .32 Diuision and third chapter The .100 vntruth Facing aÌ„d impudeÌ„t generally auouched but not in one particular proued Theodor. li. 1. c. 14. Ruff. lib. 1. cap. 11. Tripart li. 3. ca. 6. Hist. trip lib. 3. ca. 6 Sozomen li 2. c. 27. M. Horn hath no Author but Arius to helpe him M. Horn vresteth eueÌ„ Arius vvords Sozom. lib. 2. c 27 It is proued by Constantine himselfe that it vvas the bisshops part and not his to restore Arius aÌ„d other heretiques to the Churche Trip. lib. 3. cap. 6. Sozo vbi supra Ruff. li. 1. eccles suae hist. ca. 11. Trip Sozo vbi supra Trip li. 3. cap. 10 Ruff. li. 1. cap. 11. Theodore li. 1. ca. 14. Trip. li. 3. ca. 10. Socrates li. 1. ca. 38. Theodor. lib. 1. cap. 24. Socrat. li. 2. cap. 29. Theodor. vt supra Ruff. li 1. eccles hist. ca. 13. â—ripart li. 3. cap. 10. Socrat. li. 1. cap. 38. The notable death of Arius The .101 Vntruth SozomeÌ„ belyed They made lavves against the Idolaters but not lavves ecclesiasticall Theod. li. 2. cap. 1. The .103 Vntruth Liberius neuer became an Arrian Socr. li. 2. ca. 36.37 The .202 Vntruth For Constantine the great did not depose Athanasius Sabell Platin. Li. 3. c. 17. * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Three vntruthes of M Horns in fovver lines Tripart lib. 3. ca. 2. Theod. lib. 2. ca. 1. M. Horne now God be thaÌ„ked hath fouÌ„d his supreÌ„ head in coÌ„staÌ„tius the ArriaÌ„ Emperor Athanasius ad solitartam vitam agentes vbi literae Hosij recitantur ad CoÌ„stantium Hilarius in lib. contra Constantium VVhat liking the catholiks theÌ„ liuing had of yt VVhat Hosius sayde to him for this supremacy Vide Suidam in Leontio VVhat Leontius sayde to him for this supremacy Novvel fol. 114. Theod. li. 2. cap. 22. Ambros. li 5. ep 32. Athanas. ad solit vitaÌ„ ageÌ„t Tripart li. 5. ca. 17 a epist. 74 b heres 75 c epist. 165 d lib. 2. e lib. 3. de Virgin Theod l. 4 cap 5.6.7 PriÌ„ces by Synodes 104 doe ordeine and condemne Bisshops The .104 Vntruth A marginal note of that vvhich caÌ„not be founde in the Text. The .105 Vntruth Ioyned vvith a greate follye The .106 Vntruth Boldly auouched but no vvaye proued Ambr. lib. 5. epist. 32 Ibidem Theod. lib. 4. c. 5. Theod. li. 1. cap. 7. Theod. lib. 4. cap. 7. The 107. vntruth Flauianus in that matter betvvene the Emperour aÌ„d the bisshops of the vvest proued a periured person The 108. vntruthe mere slauÌ„derous The 109. vntruth There appeared no such Supremacy ouer Churche matters in Theosius The 111. vntruthe For he vvas for a time the bisshop there as shal appeare The 110. vntruthe Al this vvas but one Councel though they are tolde to make a shevv of Supremacy in themperour as if they vvere .3 seueral Councels Sozom. li. 7 c. 6.7.8 The 112. vntruth The bisshoppes might if they had listed most lawfully haue remoued him The 113. vntruth For not to be so coÌ„firmed as Mâ—â—ior fancieth That is by the vvaye of Supreme gouernement c. The 114. vntruth This vvas no other nor no Councel at al. Sozom. li. 5. cap. 10. The 115. vntruthe in reasoning For al this proueth no vvhit any spiritual Supremacy in Theodosius A heap of lies gathered together in the one story of Theosius Socra lib. 5. cap. 15. Theo. li. 5 cap. 23. Sozo li. 7. cap. 11. Vide Amb. epist. 78. tripart li. 9. cap. 26. 44. Theod. lib. 5. cap. 23. The popes primacy proued euen by M. Hornes ovvne storye Reconciliation to the pope â–ª Socra lib 5. cap. 6. Theod. lib. 5. cap. 8. Gre. Niss in vita Greg. Nazianzen Nicep lib. 12. cap. 11. Sozom. li. 7. cap. 8. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theod. lib. 5. cap. 9. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Can. apos 79. Can. Nic. â— Laâ—d can 3. Aurel 2. can 1. 1. Tim. 3. VVhye and to what end the Emperours confirme the lawes of the Churche Hovve Emperors haue and may deale in Generall CouÌ„cels Horne fo 85. col 1. c. Cusanus lib. 3. c. 9. de CoÌ„cordia Catholica Lib. 9. epi. 54. Cusan li. 3. cap. 10. Cap. 13. In epist. praeambu Chaâ—c coÌ„cil In 6. Syn. Act. 1. Cap. 15. Tripart hist. lib. 4. cap. 9. 19. Athanaes Apolog. 2. Cap. 14. Fol. 24. a. Lib. 3. De vit Const Cap. 13. Cap. 17. Cap. 18. Ibidem Cap. 22. The one of them euer lawhed the other euer wepte M. Horne no lesse astonied in the telling of this storie then the AriaÌ„s and other heretiks theÌ„ vvere vvheÌ„ the thing vvas don VVhy M. Horne hath lefte out the principal matter of his ovvn storye Tanquam cauis bibeÌ„s in Nilâ— Hovv Theodosius the Emperor dashed the Heretikes out of couÌ„tenance Socrat. li. 5. cap. 10. The Heretiks fell at diuisioÌ„ before Theodosiê° vvheâ— vpon he teareth their sheduls of their faith vvhich they offred Ye maye see the ful ansvvere of this in the Confutation of the Apology fol. 31. Cod. Omnis vtriusque sexus The Popes Primacie proued by the doinges of Theodosius aÌ„d the CouÌ„cels by M Horne alleaged Vide ToÌ„ 1. Concil in Concil Aquil pag. 397. col 1. b Tripart li. 9. ca. 30. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theod. li. 5. cap. 9. Can. 5. Ecclesiast cap. 2. The .116 vntruthe That vvil neuer appeare The 117. vntruthe Such certification appeareth not in the story The 118. vntruthe False traÌ„slation as shall appere Li. 5. ca 27 The 119. vntruthe No such rule or gouernemeÌ„t confessed by the Bishop of Rome Luithprand The 120. vntruthe He vvas then to the temporalties of the bishoprike restored but he vvas the true Pope before Dist. 79. Si duo Gratian. dist 63. The 121. vntruthe Carolus Molineus is none of the Popes Glosars The 122. vntruthe vtterly vnproued The election of S. Iohn Chrysostome by Archadius maketh him no supreame head Tripart lib. 10. c. 3. Socrates lib. 6.