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A19272 Certaine sermons vvherin is contained the defense of the gospell nowe preached against such cauils and false accusations, as are obiected both against the doctrine it selfe, and the preachers and professors thereof, by the friendes and fauourers of the Church of Rome. Preached of late by Thomas by Gods sufferance Byshop of Lincolne. Cooper, Thomas, 1517?-1594. 1580 (1580) STC 5685; ESTC S120768 201,470 274

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see y t not only the ecclesiastical state but also al the Realms of Christendom besyde by the ambition of these Bishops were brought to hatred dissention and horrible warres Neuer was there like canuassing stir for y t attaining of any principallity either one or other as hath bene for the sea of Rome as in part you nowe maye perceiue and I could farre more amplie declare vnto you but that I feare I should weary you with hearing as I am now with rehearsing examples to the profe of the same If any man thinke I speake of affection more then truth is let him examine the Histories and hee shall find I haue not sayde so muche by a great deale as iustly I may affirme But what was this onelye the Vice that reigned in that holye Sea of Roome no truelye their Pryde Crueltie Couetousnesse and vniust dealing was muche more horrible I will not offende the chaste eares of many with some other Vyces onelye I will touche a fewe Examples of these thinges I haue named Was not this thinke you vncharitable and cruell dealing amonge Prelates of the Church not only by violence and armes to depose their enemies but to cast them in prison to putte out their eyes to pul of their noses to famish thē to death to cut of their heads and fingers as they serued Constantinus the 2 Formosus the 1. Leo the 5. and diuers other Such Tyrantes were Stephane y e 6. Iohn the 13. Sergius the 3. John the 14. Boniface the 7. and a number moe Of John the 14. Platina writeth that when the Emperour had subdued an ennimie of the Bishops one Peter a notable man and committed the same vnto his hande to vse him as he thought good This charitable Bishoppe stript him starke naked and hung him vp a whole daye by the heare of the head Afterward hee sette him on an Asse with his face backwarde and the tayle of the Asse in hys hande and so led him through the Citie and they whipped him and cast him into banishment Calixt the second vsed like crueltie toward Gregorie that was chosen Bishoppe agaynst him and in like despight brought him into Rome on a Camels back w t his face toward the tayle as Carsellanus Platina Stella and Vincentius do write Mighte not these heades of the Church haue learned charitie and mercie of the Pagā Licurgus who as Plutarche writeth was contented gently to remitte and pardon him that in a seditious styrre had put out his eye Yea might not Caligula Nero and Phalaris himselfe haue the commendation of gentlenes seing the Prelates of Religion the heads of the Church and the Vicars of Christ doe passe them in crueltie But they vsed not this only among themselues or towarde meane ennimies but towarde Kinges Princes toward the head rulers of the earth those to whome by Gods lawe they ought most humble obedience I mean the moste worthy and noble Emperoures After there had bene hatred a long time betweene the Emperour Henrie the fourth and Pope Gregorie the seuenth that wicked Tyraunt as Benno sayth most vniustlye by sundrye meanes had wrought him muche trouble at the last the good Emperoure for sparing of Christian blood willing to yeelde and seeke meanes of Concorde in a colde and sharpe winter and moste daungerous passage came with his wife and Children to Carnusium where the Bishop was and there being wullwarde and bare footed came to the gates of the Cittie by the Bishops commaundment was kepte out three dayes in moste sharpe cold weather ere he coulde bee admitted and then at the intreatie of a Lady called Mathildis the fourth day after was let into the Cittie and had his Pardon but not before hee had sworne Obedience to the Sea of Rome and maynteynance of the same as Platina wryteth And yet all would not serue in the ende for the wicked Bishop did sette vp 3. Rebels agaynst him Rodulphe Harman Egberte all which by the iust iudgement of god came to foule end Rodulphe in battayle had his right arme cut of and thereof died crying out vpon the Bishoppes that had incited him Herman was slayne by a woman casting downe a greate stone from a Castle that he besteged Egberte flying into a Mille was taken and slayne Thus God preserued the good Emperour maugre the malitious hart of the cruell Bishop Of this Gregory the 7. Abbas Vrspergens in his Chronicle writeth thus Constat Hildebrandum non à Deo electum sed à se ipso fraude pecunia intrusum qui ecclesiasticum subuert it ordinē Christiani imperij turbauit regnum pacifico regi intendit mortē periuros defendit lites seuit discordias seminauit quicquid inter piè viuentes rectè stare videbatur concussit i. It is manifeste that Hildebrād was not chosen of God but by himself intruded through deceit and money Who did ouerthrow ecclesiasticall order troubled the kingdome of the Christian Empire practised the death of the peaceable king defended periured persons planted strife sowed discord and ouerthrew all whatsoeuer semed to be well established among those that led a godly life How cruelly vniustly Alexāder the 3. vsed the Noble Emperour Friderike it is wonderful to read in Nauclerus Funcius By misfortune being takē prisoner of the Venetians this Emperoure for safetie of his Lyfe was fayn to yeeld and came to Venice where the Bishop was but could not obtain pardon before he came to S. Markes church and did prostrate himself on the ground before the Bishop at which time with exceding pride he set his foote on the Emperours necke caused this Verse of the Psalter to be song Super aspidem Basiliscum ambulabis c. Thou shalt walke vpon the Lion the Adder the yong Lion and the Dragon shalt thou tread vnder thy feete That verse y t the spirit of god ment of our Sauiour christ this proud Antechrist turned to the aduancing of his own glory and repressing of Gods cheefe minister to whom he had giuē by lawful means y ● thefe gouernmēnt of y ● earth I neede not put you in mind that they admittted Kinges Emperours to go at their styrrapes as footemen So did Charles the great King Lewes of Fraunce and King Henrie of Englande both at one time Yea Adrian the fowerth blamed Friderike the Emperoure that comming on foote to meete him he did stay the styrrop on the wrong syde when hee lighted from his Horse And at another time impudentlye blamed the s●●ne Emperoure because in the Tytle of his Letters that hee did sende hee didde sette his owne name before the Popes The time wil not suffer me to declare vnto you the intollerable pride and crueltie of Gregorie the 9. Clemēt the 6. The one of y t which after most despightful cruel iniuries wold not be recōciled to Friderike the 2. before he had paide in way of penance one hundred and twenty thousand
among Papists Folio 212 What is to be thought of Ministers if they liue offensiuely c. Folio 212 Others must liue well how so euer Ministers do liue Folio 226 The meanes now left to the Ministers to redresse the curiositie and obiection of hearers for preaching either of doctrine or manners Folio 218 What Ministers shoulde be able to doe when their doctrine is discredited by their liues Folio 208 A very commendable example of concealing Ministers faults Folio 213 A good example admonishing princes to beware of secrete dealers againste Ministers Folio 213 All Ministers are not to be euill spoken of bicause some deserue it c. Folio 214 Miracles False Miracles wroght by false prophets to deceiue Gods people Folio 78. 79 Why God doth not shew such miracles as of old he did c. Folio 80 The end wherevnto godly Miracles doe tend Folio 80. 81 N. Nature ¶ The definition or discription of Nature declaring what it is Folio 163 The saying of the Heathens that all things stand according to the course of Nature c. Folio 192 O. Opinions ¶ God suffereth diuersitie of Opinions euen in his true Church Folio 57 Diuersitie of opinions in the East and West Church for Easter Folio 58 Obiection to conuince protestants for dissention of Opinions Folio 55 The Scholemen a●e full of diuersitie of Opinions Folio 60 Disagreement in Opinions amongst coūcels Folio 62 Diuersitie of Opinions betwixte the vniuersitie and the Friers Folio 62 Late dissentions in Opinions amongest Papistes Folio 62. 63 Dissentiō in opinions is no new thing Fol. Folio 54 The absurd Opinions of them confuted which imagine God to gouern great things only c. Folio 165 P. Papistes ¶ The Papists will haue Christ to be a demi-sauiour Folio 237 Of obstinate papistrie in three sortes of Papistes Folio 194 England in moste daungerous perils by Papistes Folio 194 The meanes to remedie some kindes of Papistes Folio 194 Cause of care in what places of credite Papistes are put Folio 195 Perfection ¶ What Perfection should be in the life of euerie one c. Folio 226. 227 Pope ¶ Pope Gregorie the firste condemneth the name of vniuersall Bishop Folio 99 Ambition in Pope Boniface succeeding Gregorie next saue one Folio 99 Popes ¶ The Popes trie it by the cares who shal be heade Folio 102 The Popes charitie shewed to his predecessor 100 The Popes treason against the Emperor Fol. Folio 101 Repugnancie euen in the decrees of Popes Folio 60 The Popes whordome passed ouer Folio 103 The crueltie of Popes taxed Folio 103 The Popes pride touched Folio 104 The Popes couetousnesse noted Folio 105 A conclusion vppon all the Histories of the Popes proceedings Folio 108 Vertue and learning not regarded in choice of Popes Folio 48 Of horrible cruelties in Popes Folio 48 Popes Sorcerers Nicromancers coniurers poisoners Folio 49 Popes did great iniuries euen to Emperours Folio 49 Of couetousnesse and extortions in Popes Folio 49 Popes seditious and raisers of warre Fol. Folio 50. 51. Popes by their strife and cursing one an other set all Christendome by the eares Folio 52 Popedome ¶ That the Popedome was to be gottē by ambition and bribery Folio 48 Nicromancie and poyson steppes to the Popedome Folio 101 Prayer ¶ A brief Prayer for communicants before they receiue the Lords supper Folio 157 Prayer to Saints is against Christ mediatourship and aduocatship Folio 236 Prayer to Saints conteyneth besides it selfe two other wicked things Folio 236 Preacher ¶ Truth may be taught by the Preacher and yet three to one take no fruite by it Folio 223 Gods people doe neuer make the wa●●e of godlinesse in the Preacher to bee the cause that good doctrine doeth not fructifie in the hearers ●●● Preachers ¶ It is an ordinarie way of Sathan to discredit true Doctrine by the life of the Preachers Folio 212 The first fault obiected against Preachers and the answere Folio 215 The second crime obiected against Preachers to discredit their doctrine Folio 218 The third matter obiected against Preachers and the answere thereof Folio 222 Howe they are to be accompted of that deride Preachers Folio 190 The specialties of a Preachers dutie Folio 209 Preachers in deliuering Gods will must do it openly withoute feare or negligence Folio 209. 210 Preachers muste giue good example of life aunswereable to their doctrine Fol. Folio 21● Preachers are autorized by God in their calling Folio 178 What estimation oughte to be hadde of Preachers Folio 178 How those are to be thought of who do lightly regarde eyther preaching or Preachers Folio 179 An obiection made against the credit of the Gospell and the Preachers therof c. Folio 182 Some Preachers had but barren successe and yet was their doctrine truth Folio 183 The cause of barren successe is all one to the presente Preachers as was to the Prophetes c. ●84 Howe grieuous it is for Preachers to offende Folio 185 Whye Preachers offences are not to bee made more greeuous than they are Fol. Folio 185 Princes ¶ How Papistes do vnlawfully ouerrule and abuse Princes Folio 221 The full right of authoritie is onely by Protestāts granted to Princes c. Folio 221 Principalities ¶ A principle of papistrie against Principalities which cannot but occasion warre Folio 220 Papistes and not Protestants alter titles of Principalities Folio 220 Papistes and not Protestantes challenge all temporall power of Principalities Fol. Folio 220. Prophets ¶ Description of false Prophets examined Folio 68 Distinction to be made betwixte the cloathing and the fruites of false Prophets Folio 69 How false Prophets are discerned by their fruites and chiefely by theyr Doctrine Folio 84 Three poyntes of Doctrine concerning false Prophets Folio 84. 85 A second poynt of doctrine by which false Prophets are discerned from true teachers Folio 87. 88. 89. 90 A thirde poynte of doctrine to trie the teachers whether they are true or false Prophets Folio 92 False miracles wrought by false Prophets to deceyue Gods people Folio 78. 79 The teachers of the doctrine of Christs office and comming in the flesh c. found to be false Prophets Folio 91 False Prophets are they that eyther in flatte words denie Iesus to be Christ or by indirect meanes go about to teach it Folio 86 Prouidence ¶ Of Gods speciall Prouidence for euery thing Folio 201 That vve must rest vpon Gods Prouidence in our desiring things of this life Folio 205 Foure reasons why for things of this life we should euer content our selues in and with Gods Prouidence Folio 205 Punishment ¶ The Punishment of sinne Folio 168 Punishmentes sente from God for examples sake Folio 169. 170. 171. 172. 173 R. Repentance ¶ How God calleth England to repent and without Repentance what is like to befall it Folio 188 Reprehension ¶ How the enimies of truth dislike perticular Reprehension Folio 217 Riches ¶ Why Riches and pleasures are resembled to thornes Folio 202 How Riches do hurt and worldly pleasures harme Folio 202 Why it