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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03627	An exposition vpon the .23. psalme of Dauid full of frutefull and comfortable doctrin, written to the citye of London by Iohn Hooper, bushop [sic] of Gloceter and Worceter, and holye martyr of God for the testimonye of hys truth. Wherunto is annexed an apology of his, agaynst such as reported that he cursed Quene Mary, wyth certaine godlye and comfortable letters in the ende.	Hooper, John, d. 1555.; Bull, Henry, d. 1575?; Hooper, John, d. 1555. Apologye. aut	1562 (1562)	STC 13752; ESTC S113071	47,811	140

And although the bishops in the time of Constantine y ● great obtayned that emonges bishps t●ere should be some that shoulde be called Archebishops metropolitanes yet all they wer not instituted to be heads generally of the church but too the ende they shoulde take more paynes to see the church well ordered and instructed and yet this pre-emenence was at the liberty and discretion of princes and not alwayes bounde vnto one place and one sorte of prelates as the wickednes of our tyme beleueth as ye maye see in the councelles of Calcedon and Aphrike So that it is manifest this superiour preeminence is not of Gods lawes but of mannes instituted for a ciuil policye and so was the churche of Constantynople equall wyth the church of Rome And in our dates Erasmus Roterodame wrytethe and sayeth this name to be highe bishop of the world● was not knowe too the olde churche but thys was vsed that bishops were all called hyghe pryestes and that name gaue Urbane the fyrst vnto al bishops as it is written in Distinct 59 cap. Si officia anno Do. 226. But as for one to be headde of all it was not admitted And the Greeke churche dyd neuer agree too thys wycked supremacye nor obeyd it vntyll the yeare of our Lord. 1202 compelled thereunto by one Baldewyne that brought the French men by the helpe of the venetyans vntoo Constātinople to restore one Alexius vnto the Empire vpon this cond●ciō that he shuld subdue the greke church to y e church of Rome But this came to passe that the pope neuer after he hadde gotten by almes and healpe of princes to be ouer them passed one fote for the Emperoure of Constantinople farther then hee serued his turne So that ye maye see both his beginnynge and procedinges to be of the deuil which if ye kil not with the staffe of Gods worde and beate him frome your conscience he wyll double kill youre soules Now within 150 yeares after Phocas had made the bishoppe of Rome heade of the churche the bishoppe of Rome centemned the Emperour of Constantinople deuised to bringe the Empire in to Fraunce and too geue the kinge of Fraunce the same autoritye ouer the bishop of Rome y ● before the Emperour had as it apeareth in Charles the great and his successours a longe time and yet was y e bishop of Rome vnder the princes not as he is now an idoll exempt frō all order and obedience For princes made the bishops of Rome al other bishops within theyr realmes and s● con●inued the makyng of the pope in y e Emperours autority vntyl it was aboute the yeare of oure Lorde 1110. After that Henrye the fyfte beinge sore molested by sedytion moued agaynste him by the pope Paschalys the second was constrained at length to surrender hys autority vnto him who turned y ● face of his bishoprik into manfest warres What folowed when the pope was thus free and lined withoute obedience too the Christian magistrates I wyll not in this treatise make mencion but put you in remembraunce that for certaynty there folowed such trouble emonges christian princes as neuer was before as it is to be sene bi the doing of the wicked man Gregorye the. vii who toke then vpon him to haue aurity to vse two swordes the spiritual and the temporall in so muche that Henrye the fourthe was compelled 62. tymes to make warre in his lyfe by the meanes of the byshoppe of Rome And as it is wrytten thys wycked byshoppe styrred vppe the Emperoures owne brother in lawe Radalphus the Duke of Sw●upa to ware agaynste him and sent him a crown of gold with this verse graved in it Petra dedit p●tro petrus diadem● Radulpho That is to say Christ gaue the Empire too Peter Peter geueth it to Radulphe meaning that Christ had geuen the Empire worldlye too the bishop of Rome and he gaue it to Radulphe Ye maye see what a rodde the Emperours made for their owne tayle For after they had made the bishoppe of Rome headde of the church the bishops made them selues shortelye after the headees of Emperoures and kinges A iuste plague of God for all them that wyll exalte such to rule as God sayde should be ruled These bishops be not onely proude but also vnthanckfull For where as all the worlde knowethe the bishops autoritye to come frome the Emperoure in worldelye thinges and not frome God but agaynste God this monster Gregorye the seuenth sayed that Christ gaue hym the Empire of Rome and he geeveth it to the Duke of Sweuia Radulphe too kyll hys good brother Henrye the fourth He that wyll knowe more of thys wycked man of his brethren bishops of Rome let him reade Bēno the cardinall that writeth in his history of the popes that he saw of Iohn 20. benedict 9. Siluester 3. Gregory 6. Leo. 9. Alexander 2. But in his olde dayes he saw and writeth horrible execrable thinges of Gregorye the. vii Yet was England free from this beast of Rome then in respect of that it was before the idoll was expulsed in king Henry the viii time But Alexander the third neuer rested to moue men to sedition untyll suche tyme as kinge Henrye the seuenth was c●ntented to be vnder him as other were And all thys suffered England for Thomas Becket the popes martyr When they were crepte vp into this high autoritye all theyr owne creatures bishops of their secte Cardinalles pricstes monkes and friers could neuer be contented too be ●nder the obedience of the princes and to saye the truthe princes dur●●● not in maner require it ●or the● wer in daunger of goodes life And the Emperoure Henry the seuenth was poysoned by a monke that poysoned the idol of the masse both a god and minister meet● to poyson menne and both of the popes making And what conscyence dyd they make of thys thinke ye ▪ Doubtlesse none at all for the pope sayeth and so doeth all hys children that he canne dyspence and absolue them selues and all menne frome what othes so euer they haue made to God or manne Thys enemye wyth his false doctirine is to be resisted and ouercome by the woorde of God or els he wyll destroye both bodye and soule Therefore against all hys craftes and abh●minations we muste haue the rodde the staffe the table the oyle and the cuppe that Dauid speaketh of in a readines to defende our selues wyth all Now foloweth the laste parte of thys holy hymne ¶ The .7 parte of the psalme What the ende of Goddes troubled-people shall be The texte ¶ Thy louinge kindnes shall folowe we all the dayes of my life and I wyll dwel in the house of the Lorde foreuer The explanation I Wyl in the myddes of all troubles be stronge of good chere for I am assured that thy merc● and goodnes wyll neuer forsake me but wyll continuallye preserue me in al daungers of this life and when I