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A14210	The Romane conclaue VVherein, by way of history, exemplified vpon the liues of the Romane emperours, from Charles the Great, to Rodulph now reigning; the forcible entries, and vsurpations of the Iesuited statists, successiuely practised against the sacred maiestie of the said empire: and so by application, against the residue of the Christian kings, and free-states are liuely acted, and truely reported. By Io. Vrsinus ante-Iesuite.; Speculum Jesuiticum. English	Beringer, Joachim.; Gentillet, Innocent, ca. 1535-ca. 1595, attributed name.	1609 (1609)	STC 24526; ESTC S118919	126,713	245

beene In high proportion meated from That side The Tables to this Booke The first declaring how many Emperors haue beene either Excommunicated or constrained to kisse his Holinesse Feete Emperrours Excommunicated by Otho the fourth Innocent the third Henry the fourth Gregorie the 7. Henry the fift Paschal the second Frederick the first Adrian the fift Philip the sonne of Frederick Alexander the 3. Frederick the secōd Innocent the third thrice by Gre. the 9. Conradus the fourth Innocent the fourth Lodowick the Bauarian Iohn the 22. Benedict the 12. and Clement the VI. Emperours Constrained to kisse the feet of Charles the great Iustian Emperor of Constantinople Luit Prandus king of Lomb. Crescentius Consul c. Otho the first Frederick the first Henry the fift Sigismund Charles the fift Adrian the Pope Stephen the second Iohn the xvij Iohn the xvij Alexander the third agroofe c. Paschal the second Of Martin the fift and Eugenius the fourth Of Clement the seuenth The second deuided into Sections seuerally epitomizing the liues of the Popes with the vices whereunto euery one hath in particular beene addicted viz. who haue beene 1 Atheists 2 Arrians 3 Magitians or Coniurers 4 Blasphemers 5 Forswearers and equiuocators 6 Turkish Pentioners 7 Mad-men and tyrants 8 Warriours and bloud-succours 9 Traytours and mouers of seditions 10 Parricids and impoysoners 11 Whoremasters 12 Adulterers 13 Incestuous persons 14 Sodomites 15 Pandars 16 Bawdes 17 Bastards 18 Drunkards 19 Couetous persons 20 Church-robbers 21 Simonianists 22 Ambitious persons 23 Monsters 24 Vnlearned persons ❧ Liues of the Popes 1. Atheists LEo the tenth who hearing Cardinall Bembo speaking to a point concerning The ioyfull message of our Lord answered most dissolutely It is well knowen to the world through all ages in how great stead that fable of Christ hath profited vs and our associates This man neither beleeued heauen nor hell after our departure out of this life And such were Alexander the tenth Siluester the second Paul the third Benedict the nineteenth Iohn the thirteenth Clement the seuenth Gregory the seuenth 2. Arrians Anastasius the eleuenth Liberius and Felix 3. Magitians and Coniurers ALexander the sixth this man made a league with the diuell vpon promise to procure him the Papacie Paul the 3. obtained the garland in Astrology and in that kind of speculatiō which is assisted by the ministery of diuels He altogether kept familiar acquaintance with Negromancers such like notable impostures and starre-gazers to learne the faults of himselfe and his children Siluester the second as well seene in these diabolical Arts as his Predecessors gaue himselfe wholly to the diuell vpon condition to aduance him to the Papacie Benedict the ninth obtained the same sea by charms spels inchantments Before his instalment in company of his associates in woods and remote places he was accustomed to inuoke euill spirits and by Negromantike toyes to worke women to his filthy lust Iohn the thirteenth at dice would call vpon the diuell and in merriment carouse a cup of wine to his diuelship Of Clement the seuenth we read that he was a Geomantique and Simonianist Gregory the seuenth laboured the Papacie by the same Arts. He was the first that euer presumed to excommunicate an Emperour And that was Henry the fourth vnto the end of whose legend if you please you may with pleasure and to good purpose add these true and vncontrolable records With the forme of his Outlary vpon earth we will not trouble you but with his impudent presumption in banishing his soule from heauen a place wherein I feare such persons haue smallest interest ad perpetuam rei memoriam I will not faile to informe you Then thus Agite igitur Apostolorum sanctissimi Principes quod dixi vestra authoritate interposita confirmate vt omnes nunc demū intelligāt si potestis in caelo ligare soluere in terra quoque imperia regna principatus quicquid habere mortales possunt auferre dare vos posse Ediscant nunc Reges huius exemplo omnes seculi principes quid in coelo possitis quantique apud Deum sitis ac deinceps timeant sanctae Ecclesiae mandata contemnere Hoc autem iudicium cito in Henricum exercete vt intelligant omnes iniquitatis silium non fortuito sed vestra opera è regno cadere Hoc tamen à vobis optauerim vt paenitentia ductus in die iudicij vestro rogatu gratiam à Domino consequatur Actum Romae Nonis Martij indictione tertia Courage then ye most chosen Princes of the Apostles And what I haue thundered by the deputation of your authorities ratifie I beseech you that now at last all people may vnderstand that as ye are of power in heauen to binde and to loose so likewise that you are of no lesse potencie on earth to giue and to take Empires Kingdomes and Honors with whatsoeuer the inhabitants of this world may peculiarly challenge By the example of this man let Kings and Princes of the earth now learn what are your prerogatiues in heauen what your credits with God that henceforth they may feare to contempe the awards of Holy Church Execute I beseech you this sentence with speede vpon Henry that all the world may perceiue that this sonne of iniquity was disinthronized by your operation and not by destinie Yet thus much I request of your clemencies that after repentance in the day of iudgement he may obtaine pardon of our Lord at your intercession Giuen at Rome the Nones of March the third indiction to the rarenesse and nouelty of which president to auoid exception and to confound such quarrelsome spirits let them heare what the wisedome of that vpright Bishop Frisingensis a man for discent zeale and learning most eminent reporteth and the rather for that he was almost an eie-witnesse vnto those times Lego relego saith he Romanorum regum Imperatorum gesta nusquam inuenio quemquam eorum ante hunc a Romano Pontifice Excommunicatum vel regno priuatum I read and read againe the Chronicles of the Roman kings and Emperors and in no age can find that euer a Romane Bishop excommunicated or depriued any one of them from his kingdome before this man meaning Hildebrand And again in his first book of the gests of Frederick Gregorius septimus saith hee qui tunc vrbis Romae Pontificatum tenebat eundem Imperatorem tanquam a suis destitutum anathematis gladio feriendum decernit Cuius rei nouitate eò vehementius indignatione motum suscepit Imperium quò nunquam ante haec tempora huiusmodi sententiam in Principem Romanorum promulgatam cognouerat Gregory the seauenth saith he at that time Pope of Rome resolued to smite with the sword of Excommunication the foresaid Emperor as forsaken of his people At the nouelty whereof the Empire was so much the rather mooued with indignation for that before those times it neuer had known such a sentence to haue been

was demanded lest he should giue an euill president to others the Siluer being taken out from the Fishes mouth he deliuered it vnto the Kings Officers Moreouer when he vnderstood that his Disciples distracted through the ambition of superioritie contended for Primacie hee told them That not they but Temporall Princes were to affect Soueraigntie hereby putting them in minde of their Calling as dis-vnited from worldly Gouernement and humane Policies At last after his glorious resurrection he sent them to Preach the Gospel ouer the whole world but with no other Commission then what he himselfe had receiued from his Father Intimating by this Mandat that they were neuer called nor chosen for Lordship but that through the Preaching of the Gospel and the glad tidings of saluation they were bound to beget a Congregation to the Father in eternitie That Him they should loue feare and inuocate with all their power And being astonished with no torments calumnies nor threates they should not forbeare to confesse his holy Name before all men That in Prayer they should carie themselues zealously faithfully constantly modestly soberly and chastly That vpon cause of offences they should studie mildnesse compassion towards good men oppressed and patience amidst their miseries That by the bond of peace they should retaine vnitie of spirit And finally that casting away the care of earthly easements they should meekly indure pouertie and worldly displeasures that thus by their doctrine and example of life Christ might be glorified the Church increased and their Ministerie admired And surely the Apostles and their successors in all their trauailes ouer the face of the earth thus vndertaken by the commandement of their Master so behaued themselues in all occurrances but especially in this obseruancie of difference betweene politicall Gouernement and Ecclesiasticall orders that by this note onely they were acknowledged to bee the true Disciples and followers of their glorified Master For they not onely Preached with puritie the euerlasting will of God without intermingling of humane fancies but also in all places accustomed to teach That vpon earth Caesars Kings were to bee acknowledged next vnto God and to be reuerenced before all other mortall men They stiled them their Lords payed them tribute made intercession vnto God for their welfare And vnto such as spake euill of the Magistrate they threatned reuenge from aboue From all worldly affaires especially from the abuse of Armes they abhorred Knowing that the twofold sword of the Church was intrusted to saluation and regeneration and not for distruction So farre were they euen from imagination to thinke it lawfull to disenthronize any King or Potentate though a most wicked one either to absolue his people from their Othes of Allegiance or to proue masteries with him about Precedencies But rather they thought it a worke worthy their calling by the space of two hundred and seuentie yeeres to suffer most bitter and terrible persecutions and those too rather to bee indured by stedfast faith in Christ Iesus by zealous calling vpon his Name and by glorious Martyrdome then by rebellious impatiencie and violent Meditation of requitall And all this not without admirable increase and good successe to the Church of Christ For in what Age was the face of the Church more amiable or liker the head thereof euen Christ Iesus then when after his ascension his Disciples striuing to fulfill his Testament and their successors treading in the very same footesteps Preached faithfully and purely the Gospel through Iudaea Samaria and Palestine After that when so glorious and conspicuous as when with their fellow labourers taking their Iournyes towards other Nations but especially towards Rome at that time the chiefe Seate of the Empire and the bordering Regions they imployed their times in dressing in Planting and in watering the Lords vineyard viz. From the time of Linus to Siluester and Caesar Constantine by the space of two hundred and fiftie yeeres vnder most vnsufferable Persecutions euen to the losse of their liues and dearest bloods But assoone as Constantine by the diuine prouidence had giuen peace to the afflicted Churches and that the Bishops being deliuered from their lurking corners from Vaults and from dennes wherein during the time of Persecution they had safe conducted their bodies then I say shamed they not to giue themselues ouer to the delights of the world to vnprofitable idlenesse to liue a pleasurable life to degenerate from the wayes of their predecessors through neglect of Gods word being wholly seduced with carnall affections Then began they to giue coulorable clothing to the doctrine of Christ and his Apostles by Canons Decretals and Ceremonies Then began they to deuise new appellations of Dignitie To preferre one Church before all other and finally blushed not to confound all orders both Ciuill and Ecclesiasticall Whereupon presently followed so vniuersall a confusion of Doctrine Discipline and Order that they no longer seemed to represent the late Pastours of the Lords flocke but rauening Wolues not Priests but blasphemers not Doctors but deiectors of soules from the sweete aspect of the face of God For surely they did not onely obscure in a wonderous maner the sinceritie of the Christian doctrine by their humane traditions gaue it so great a scandall by superstitious impietie and heathenish inuocation of Soules departed and so wickedly polluted it with blasphemous Idolatrie But all honestie and discipline being troden vnderfoote in all seducement and oppression of veritie they spent their whole dayes in Sodomiticall abuses in Wantonnesse in Luxurie in Ribaldrie in Whoring in Sacrilege in Contention in Necromancie in Charmes in Homicide and such like transgressions And that more is being possessed with a diabolical affectation of Gouernment pride cleane contrarie to the Diuine commandement they began to busie themselues in secular affaires to withdrawe their faiths from the subiection of Kings to vsurpe vpon other mens patrimonies to thrust in their crooked Syckles and that at aduenture into another mans Haruest to arrogate both Presences to challenge the iurisdiction of both Swords to tollerate no equall much lesse no Superiour to defraude one of his right an other of his Honour to giue Law to Kings and prescribe them ordinances basely to esteeme of Emperours as if they reigned at will to accurse them and murder them To set Princes together by the eares to sow dissentions to patronize factions to absolue Subiects from their Othes of Allegiance and finally by their nouell and slie Policies to mooue them to vnlawfull Rebellions So farre forth that after they had once pleaded prescription in their incrochments they more defaced the Maiestie of the Romane Empire by their dissimulations slaughters warre and such varieties of wickednesses then any forraine or barbarous enemy could haue done by the Sword or violence For to let passe the Empire of the East ruinated by the cunning and slie cariage of the Romane Bishops the Grecians being first expulsed Italy by the Lombards and presently they againe being oppressed