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A09823	The seditious and blasphemous oration of Cardinal Pole both against god [and] his cou[n]try which he directid to themperour in his booke intytuled the defence of the eclesiastical vnitye, mouing the emperour therin to seke the destruction of England and all those whiche had professid the gospele translated into englysh by Fabyane Wythers.; Pro ecclesiasticae unitatis defensione. English. Selections	Pole, Reginald, 1500-1558.; Withers, Fabian.; Atanagi, Dionigi, ca. 1504-1573. aut	1560 (1560)	STC 20087; ESTC S114887	19,235	80

The seditious and blasphemous Oration of Cardinal Pole both against god his Coūtry which he directid to themperour in his booke intytuled the defence of the eclesiastical vnitye mouing theemperour therin to seke the destruction of England and all those whiche had professid the gospele ☞ Translated into englysh by Fabyane Wythers Reede all and than Iudge Fabyan wythers to the gentle reader IF in tymes past the auncient historiographers ye euene the prophane auctors haue thought yt mete eyther to extolle or abasse to praise or dispraise suche as in their days and tymes haue bene eyther grate or in grate benefyciall or noysome to ther comō walth how much mor in these our days in thee whiche the trew lyght of the gospell shyneth amongest vs and christian loue chariti shold florish ought we to derect and disclose al such vnto our posterities the which haue not only gone about to seke the vter destruction and ruyne of their owne natife Countrey and comon wealth by inflaming and incensinge prince againste prince but also that which more yea worse is hath not fear id cōtrary to his owne forimer professions and confessiōs most shāfuly abominably to backbyte and stander Christ him self his gospel and his trew folowers as thauctours of all myschiefes seditious and tumultes Such a man was Renold Pole an english Cardinal but not as thē of england who in the yeare of our Lord. M. D. xxxvi being sent ambassadour from the pope to y e french king for to intreat apeace was thought in this his embassade to go about nothing els then as by this his oration aperyth to styr vp and sow dissencion malice discord Such was his Good wyll that he bare to his natyfe contrey and comon wealth that for his owne aduantage and preferment he desirid yea procurid as much as in hī lay y e vter subuersiō ruyne of y e same to procede wheras you shal rede after in Athanasius glose that at what tyme he was in Germani at Augusta and there was lodgid in the pastors house hee said that he dyd very well allow and agree vnto all their doctrine that he wold declare no lesse yf there were Any couocations or comon coūcells holden Now be hold the great and double dissimulation of this holy ypocrite who al beit that before in his ambassade vnder the pretence of intreati for peace had gone about nothing ells then to moue and stirr vp discord and warres euen now again at his retorn vnto Rome fearid not to dissemble and cloke euen with God him self for although as before you haue hard he semid not to be ignorant of the truth yet when he was come to Rome whether he wer suspectid of Lutheranysme and to auoid the suspicion ther of or no or ells that he did yt to gratifie the pope with all he wrote a boke against kyng Henry theyght king of Englād intituled the defence of the vnity of the church in the which boke he conuerting his style vnto themperour he includid this most detestable pestiferous yea and seditious oration against the king of Englād vnto whome he was not only most neare ioined in affiniti and kindred but also as he him self confessith most greatly bounden for his education and literature But now mark I pray you how the prick of his owne consciens causid him to display his owne hypocrisie when he had wrytten this boke hee cansid yt to bee imprintid at Rome at his own propet costes and charges and whē they wer thus printed he fearing least yf they shold be caried a brod and come vnto the handes of such vnto whome he had before professid the contrari that then yt wold torne to his great ignominie and reproche toke all y e bokes into his owne handes sett none of them abrode sauing a few whiche he gaue vnto the pope certain cardinales whōme he knew very well wold allow his doinges Sed nihil occultum quod non reuelabitur For God wold not suffer his church to be so much abused or deceauid by his hypocrisy but that at the length he wold bring yt to lyght for although these his doinges werby a long ceason kept close secret yet at the length they cam vnto the handes of one or to in Germanye who hath set theme forth to the eys of al men And bycause all trew english hartes shuld not be ignorant what a venemous viper they haue of late noryshed euen in there own bosomes whiche sought nothing els then to knaw a sunder y e bowels and to destory his mother and coūtrei I haue for the vse comodyty of all men translatid this his oration into english the which my labours trauailles in this behalf bestowid and taken yf they mai reapethonly frutes of thākfulnes in accepting y e same It shall cause me w t more spede greter diligence seke to gratifie y e again w t most pleasāt and godly histories to thy great delectatiō confort now gentle reader y t I haue sō what declarid vnto you thoriginall cause w t the time plase of this his oratiō w t also his maner forme in setting forth of y e same I will cease to be any lōger tedious vnto you referrīg yt to your owne discreation to iudge vpon the oratiō as you shall think y e matter doth require thus wyshing vnto the all vertuous successe in godlines I comytt the to the tuition of allmyghty God F. W. VErelye I doe wytnes bothe the loue of my cōtrye the whiche nature hath wrought in me also the zeale of the churche y e whiche y e sonne of god hath kindelid in my harte and cāne by no meanes be expulsed or layd awaye That yf I vnderstode or knew that Cesare with all his nauye had alredy entred and taken the seas had directid his course to wards constantinople the chiefest palais force of the great turke Yea albe yt all the perylls daungers of the world wer present sett before me I wold neuer rest nor stay vntyl y t I myght comme vnto his presence although he had already entred y e straightes of helle spontus to thēd I myght haue conuenient opportunity to talke withe him before whome I wold burst out and speake in this maner Cesar what doest thou go about or what doest thou intende whether wylt thou go or saill with this thy greate nauye furniture if y e loue of y e Christiā Comō wealth do so muche moue thee that thou woldest assaill and inuade the kyng of turkes being an ancyent ennemy vnto the name of Christ wer it not muche more mete better for thee to conuert turne thy hole force and power that wais from whence a greater daunger is imynēt vnto our comō wealth from whence also a presēt myschief and a newe enemy much more greuous and worse then the turk doth vexe and greue vs You for so muche

as you se so many thousands of christians opressed with y e most vile hard seruitude bondage of the turkes you do thinke yt a worthy notable act to deliuer them and to restore theim vnto liberti the whiche in dede is no lesse thē prayse worthy but yf you coūt this so laudable a thyng how much more glorioꝰ praise worthy wer yt to redeme releas so many thousāds of soules beyng euen in present perill and danger beyng also violētly rapt and taken away out of the lappe or bosome of the church and euē now brought into great doubt danger of saluation and to restore y e same again vnto y e church fayth of Chryst such is y e perill whiche is iminent and hangyng ouer our heades y e enemy also whiche goethe about and hath brought a great part of the same to passe is suche a one as thou canst not excuse thy selfe o Cesar but to vnderstand and know the same The which thyng as it is most laudable so dothe it also apere most necessari fyrst to prouide and seke remedy for this myschief whiche is now spronge growyng vpon vs before thou prouyde or seke for the lyberty of the body verely yt is so much the more necessary that except you imediatly resiste and with stand this myschief all that you now go about is but in vayn although you shuld subdew all asai expulsing the turkes frome thence you shuld retourne a conquerer I pray you what shal you then haue profited whē in place of them whome you haue expulsid out of asia new turkes be rysen and sprong vp amongst vs at home for what other thing ar the turkes then a certain secte of christians which in tyme paste haue shrounk and gone a way from the catholyke church Nether do thee turkes hate or abhorre the name of Christ or reiect his gospell but as the arrianes dyd in times past thei take awai that dignity from Christ that he shulde bee thee sonne of God with many other thinges which they haue taken of the arrianes how beit thy affirme christ to be a great prophet and also owe no small reuerence vnto his mother mary The orygynall and begynyng of the turkes relygion is all one withe all other heresyes They wer the first which wēt away frō y e church forsaking and denienge him to be the hed whiche was ordeined and left by Christ and so by lytle lytle they vterly declined swarued from the doctrine of Christ what shuld I say more do you you not see how largley aboūdantly this turkish sede is spred and sowen amōgest vs. I wold to god yt wer so small that you could not perceaue yt But you haue sene that which is greatly to be sorouid euen in your owen cōtry of germany but as yet ther is not y e playn turkish sede because it is not yet sowen or sprede nether by publyque auctority nether yet by commaundement of any one which hath rule or power ouer others to compell them vnto yt and ther fore it is not vterly to be despaired but that y e trewe germā church of the germanes hauīg oppressid this adulterous noughty sede may florish and spring again and bring forthe y e trew aboūdant fruits of the catholike fayth So likewise in Englād wher as in tyme past trew religiō did also florish now is this sede so sowen and strengthened by thāctorytuy of one man that it can starsly be discernid frō the turkish sede and to thin tēt that that which is alredi sowē shuld haue the better encrese it is defended withe the sword and with the sword they answer all that is obiectid against yt and this is the very turkyshe maner thꝰ their sect doth in crese and grow But in this point it doth differ from the turkes for so much as the turks sect doth compell no man vnto ther opiniō for he that doth not impugne there religion although he be of a clene cōtrary opinion he maye liue in safety amongst them and they do also much reuerence and honor good men although thei be of cōtrary religion The which thing the greke monkes which inhabyte the mont Athusdo wytnes to be trew whom the turkysh emperour him self doth much sette by in so much that he doth often send such as haue offendyd vnto them that they shulde praye for them and comend them in ther prayers vnto almyghty God vnto whome he beleuyth y e ar most dearlye beloued and in Fauour No man truly vnder all his hole emprye or dominiō and of what secte soeuer he bee yf he kepe his tonge is in any maner of peril or daunger But wher as this new and pestiferous sede is now ther is no lesse punyshement or dāger for them that kepe sylence thē for suche as moste in pugne and striue against them behold Thomas Moore who alone in vertue Learnyng dyd chieflye excel he was put to death for his silence monkes in lykwyse themore holy relygeous thei seim me to be the more thei ar in daunger so that fynally all mens tonges ar stoppid by feare of the swear what wold you desire more o Cesar whan thes goodly begynyngs this violence and cruelti whiche is exercised against holy men doth sufficntly shew what peryll and danger is rysen to the church by denieng and refusing the heade of the church Ye the turkes them selues against whome thou doest prepare warres may be an exāple for the the which hauing this path or way opened vnto them haue attemptid to oppresse and ouerthorw the church of christ when as they reiectid and cast of thauctoryty of the superme head in stede ther of haue brought in the force and rigour of the. Swerd thorow the which they haue so long a tyme defendid thē selues y t it is to late for the church to seke for or call home hir children again whiche haue alredy forgotten ther mother Yf the turkysh sect do not sufficientlye declare vnto you the greatnes hougenes of the perill which I haue spoken of before Germany it felfe doth shew it aboundantly if thou doest consider wyth thy selfe how quiet how peaceable and religious a prounce it hath bene in tymes paste and finallye howe plentifull and aboundant it was in all thinges so long as it contynwed in the vnytye of y e church Contrarywyse yf you do marke these late dais or times in y e which it is vexed and troubled with intestine and cyuyle warres after y t it had refused reiectid y e head of y e church it is so tossed troubled that all hope of recouery or end of there myschiefs is vtterly past except as god graūt they may they do retorne again to thee vnity of ther head and church Verely this acknowleging of one hed or Gouernour hath alwais benethe moste sure and strong fort and defence of y e church This y e herytikes aboue all