under Boniface the 8th when the Papal Power was at the highest about two hundred years before Huldericus Zuinglius began to preach the Gospel or indeed was born But from that time to this all things there have been in the greatest Tranquility and Quiet that was possible not only in relation to foreign Wars but intestine Commotions so that if it were a sin to deliver their Country from a foreign Dominion which oppressed them with great Insolence and Tyranny yet it is unjust and absurd to load the Reformation with the Crimes of others or them with those of their Fore-fathers 14. BUT O immortal God! Shall the Bishop of Rome accuse us of Treason Will he pretend to teach the People Subjection and Obedience to Magistrates Or has he any regard to Majesty Why then does he suffer himself to be call'd by his Flatterers the LORD OF LORDS which none of the ancient Bishops of Rome ever did as if he would have all Kings and Princes whoever they were and wheresoever be no better than his Vassals and Slaves Why does he boast that he is the KING OF KINGS and that he has the Right of commanding them as his Subjects Why does he force Emperors and Monarchs to swear Obedience to him Why does he boast that his own Majesty is seventy seven times greater than the Majesty of the Emperor and that forsooth because God made two great Lights in Heaven and because the Heavens and the Earth had not two several but one single Beginning Why have he and his Followers in that like the Anabaptists and Libertines shaken off the Yoke and exempted themselves from the Jurisdiction of all Civil Powers that they might with the greater liberty and security plague the World 15. WHY has he his Legats that is a crafty sort of Spies as it were in ambush in the Courts Councils and Chambers of all Kings Why doth he as his Interest requires set Princes at variance amongst themselves and at his pleasure fill the Earth with Seditions Why does he proscribe and take for an Heathen and Pagan whatever Prince withdraws himself from his Dominion and promise his Indulgences so freely if any man will by any means whatsoever assassinate his Enemys Doth he preserve Empires and Kingdoms or at all consult and desire the Publick Peace You ought O pious Reader to pardon us if these things seem a little more sharp and eager than becomes a Divine for so great is the Provocation so great and so impotent with all is the Ambition of the Popes that it cannot be expressed in other or milder Words For he had once the Insolence to say in a publick Council that all the Authority of all the Kings in the World depended upon him He out of Ambition and Desire to Rule distracted the Roman Empire and tore in pieces the Christian World he absolved the Italians and amongst them himself from the Oath wherein they were obliged to the Emperor of Greece with great perfidy and solicited his Subjects to revolt from him and call'd Charles Martell the Great out of France into Italy and after a new and till then unheard of manner made him Emperor He deposed Chilperick King of France an innocent Prince only because he did not like him and set up Pipin in his Place He would if he had been able have cast out Phillip the Fair another King of France and have adjudged the Kingdom of France to Albert King of the Romans He broke the Power of Florence tho his own Country which was then a most flourishing City and changing its free and peaceable State he delivered it up to the Lust of one man He made all Savoy to be torn in pieces by the Emperor Charles the 5th on the one side and Francis the First King of France on the other scarce leaving to the miserable Duke one City to shelter himself in 16. I am weary of Examples and indeed there is nothing more troublesome than to enumerate the great Actions of the Popes of Rome of this nature I pray of whose Party were they who poisoned the Emperor Henry the 7th in the Eucharist and they who did the same to Pope Victor in the holy Chalice Who exercised the same Art upon our King John of England in a common Table Cup whoever they were and of what Party soever this is certain they were neither Lutherans nor Zuinglians Who is it that at this day permits the greatest Kings and Monarchs to kiss his Feet Who is it that commands the Emperor to hold his Bridle and the King of France his Stirrup Who was it that cast Francis Dandalus Duke of Venice and King of Crete and Cyprus under his Table to gnaw the Bones with the Dogs who crowned Henry the 6th the Emperor at Rome not with his Hands but with his Feet and then with his Foot kicked his Crown off again adding that he had power to create Emperors and to depose them Who armed Henry the Son against Henry the 4th his Father and caused the Son to take his Father Prisoner and having shaven and treated him ignominiously to cast him into a Monastery where he pined away with Hunger and Sorrow who was it that trod insolently upon the Neck of the Emperor Frederick and as if this had not been a sufficient Affront subjoyned out of the Psalms of David Thou shalt walk upon the Asp and the Basilisk and shalt tread the Lion and the Dragon under thy Feet Where is there such another Example of despised and injured Majesty in all History except in Tamberlane the Scythian a fierce and a barbarous Prince and in Saphores King of Persia All these were Popes all of them Successors of St. Peter all most Holy Men whose Words were every one of them to be Gospel to us 17. IF we be guilty of Treason who reverence our Princes who submit to them in all things as far as the Scriptures will permit us what then are these Men who have not only done all these base things but have also extol'd them as generous Actions Do they thus teach the People to revere Magistrates or can they with any Modesty accuse us of being Seditious Men the Disturbers of the Publick Peace and Contemners of the Majesty of Princes For as for us none of us shake off the Yoke nor imbroil Kingdoms nor dispose of Empires nor do we reach Poison to our Kings nor put out our Feet to them to kiss nor do we insultingly tread upon their Necks No our Profession our Doctrine is this That every Soul whose ever it is whether it be a Monk or an Evangelist or a Prophet or an Apostle it ought to be subject to Kings and Magistrates and so the Pope himself except he affect to seem greater than the Evangelists Prophets and Apostles ought to acknowledge and call the Emperor his Lord as the ancient Popes in better times ever have done We publickly teach that
to read the word of God in their own Tongue 16. Or that it was then Lawful for the Priest to pronounce the words of Consecration closely or in private to himself 17. Or that the Priest had then Authority to offer up Christ unto his Father 18. Or to communicate and receive the Sacrament for another as they do 19. Or to apply the vertue of Christs Death and Passion to any Man by the means of the Mass 20. Or that it was then thought a sound Doctrine to teach the People that Mass Ex opere operato that is even for that it is said and done is able to remove any part of our sin 21. Or that any Christian man called the Sacrament of the Lord his God 22. Or that the People were then taught to believe that the Body of Christ remaineth in the Sacrament as long as the accidents of Bread and Wine remain there without Corruption 23. Or that a Mouse or any other Worm or Beast may eat the Body of Christ for so some of our Adversaries have said and taught 24. Or that when Christ said Hoc est Corpus meum the word Hoc pointed not to the Bread but to an individuum vagum as some of them say 25. Or that the Accidents or Forms or shews of Bread and Wine be the Sacraments of Christs Body and Blood and not rather the very Bread and Wine it self 26. Or that the Sacrament is a sign or token of the Body of Christ that lieth hidden underneath it 27. Or that ignorance is the Mother and cause of true Devotion The Conclusion is that I shall then be content to yield and subscribe This challenge saith the Learned Dr. Heylyn being thus published in so great an Auditory startled the English Papists both at home and abroad but none more than such of our Fugitives as had retired to Lovain Doway or St. Omers in the Low-Country Provinces belonging to the King of Spain The business was first agitated by the exchange of friendly Letters betwixt the said Reverend Prelate and Dr. Henry Cole the late Dean of St. Pauls more violently followed in a Book of Rastal's who first appeared in the Lists against the Challenger followed herein by Dorman and Marshall who severally took up the Cudgels to as little purpose the first being well beaten by Nowel and the last by Calfhill in their Discourses writ against them but they were only Velitations or preparitory Skirmishes in reference to the main encounter which was reserved for the Reverend Challenger himself and Dr. John Harding one of the Divines of Lovain and the most Learned of the Colledge The Combatants were born in the same County bred up in the same Grammar School and studied in the same University also Both zealous Protestants in the time of King Edward and both relapsed to Popery in the time of Queen Mary Jewel for fear and Harding upon hope of Favour and Preferment by it But Jewel's fall may be compared to that of St. Peter which was short and sudden rising again by his Repentance and fortified more strongly in his Faith than before he was but Harding's like to that of the other Simon premeditated and resolved on never to be restored again so much was there within him of the gaul of bitterness to his former standing But some former Differences had been between them in the Church of Sarisbury whereof the one was Prebendary and the other Bishop occasioned by the Bishops visitation of that Cathedral in which as Harding had the worst so was it a Presage of a second foil which he was to have in this encounter Who had the better of the day will easily appear to any that consults the Writings by which it will appear how much the Bishop was too hard for him at all manner of Weapons Whose learned Answers as well in maintenance of his Challenge as in defence of his Apology whereof more hereafter contain in them such a Magazin of all sorts of Learning that all our Controversors since that time have furnished themselves with Arguments and Authority from it THUS far that Learned man has discoursed the event of this famous Challenge with so much brevity and perspicuity that I thought it better to transcribe his words than to do it much worse my self WHEN Queen Mary died Paul the Fourth was Pope to whom Queen Elizabeth sent an account of her coming to the Crown which was delivered by Sir Edward Karn her Sisters Resident at Rome to which the angry Gentleman replied That England was held in Fee of the Apostolick See that she could not succeed being illegitimate nor could he contradict the Declarations made in that matter by his Predecessors Clement the Seventh and Paul the Third he said it was a great boldness in her to assume the Crown without his Consent for which in reason she deserved no favour at his hands yet if she would renounce her Pretensions and refer her self wholly to him he would shew a fatherly affection to her and do every thing for her that could consist with the dignity of the Apostolick See Which answer being hastily and passionately made was as little regarded by the Queen But he dying soon after Pius the Fourth an abler man succeeded and he was for gaining the Queen by Arts and Kindness to which end he sent Vincent Parapalia Abbot of St. Saviours with courteous Letters to her dated May the fifth 1560. with order to make large proffers to her under hand but the Queen had rejected the Popes Authority by Act of Parliament and would have nothing to do with Parapalia nor would she suffer him to come into England In the interim the Pope had resolved to renew the Council at Trent and in the next year sent Abbot Martiningo his Nuncio to the Queen to invite her and her Bishops to the Council and he accordingly came to Bruxells and from thence sent over for leave to come into England but tho France and Spain interceded for his Admission yet the Queen stood firm and at the same time rejected a motion from the Emperor Ferdinando to return to the old Religion as he called it Yet after all these denials given to so many and such potent Princes one Scipio a Gentleman of Venice who formerly had had some acquaintance with Bishop Jewel when he was a Student in Padua and had heard of Martiningo's ill success in this Negotiation would needs spend some Eloquence in labouring to obtain that Point by his private Letters which the Nuncio could not gain as a publick Minister and to that end he writes his Letters of Expostulation to Bishop Jewel his old Friend preferred not long before to the See of Sarisbury Which Letter did not long remain unanswered that Learned Prelate saith my Author was not so unstudied in the nature of Councils as not to know how little of a General Council could be found at Trent And therefore he returned an answer to the proposition so
Forms of our Publick Rites and Prayers to an exact resemblance with their Institutions or Customs And so we have only done that which we know Christ himself and all pious and good Men have in all Ages ever done for we have brought back Religion which was foully neglected and depraved by them to her Original and first State for we considered that the Reformation of Religion was to be made by that which was the first Pattern of it For this Rule will ever hold good against all Hereticks saith the most ancient Father Tertullian That that is true which is first and that is adulterated and corrupted which is later Irenaeus doth often appeal to the most ancient Churches who were the nearest to Christ and which therefore were not at all likely to have erred And why is not that course now taken also Why do we not return to a Conformity with the most Ancient Churches why cannot that be now heard amongst us which was pronounced in the Council of Nice without the least contradiction or opposition from so many Bishops and Catholick Fathers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 LET THE OLD CUSTOMS STAND FIRM When Esdras was to rebuild the Temple he did not send to Ephesus tho there was there a most beautiful Temple of Diana which was adorned most exquisitely and when he was to restore the Rites and Ceremonies he did not send to Rome tho perhaps he might have heard there of Hecatembs c. and the ritual Books of Numa Pompilius he thought it was sufficient for him if he set before him as an example and followed the ancient Temple built by Solomon according to the Prescription of God Almighty and the ancient Rites and Ceremonies which God had expresly commanded Moses When the Temple was rebuilt by Esdras and the People might seem to have a just cause to rejoyce in so very great a Blessing granted to them by the Great and Holy God yet Haggai the Prophet brought Tears from all their Eyes because they that were yet living and had seen the Structures of the former before it was destroyed by the Babylonians did well remember how far this latter was from the splendor of the former Temple But on the contrary they would have thought it excellently restored if it had answered the Model and represented the Majesty of the old Temple 16. St. Paul that he might reform the Abuses of the Lords Supper which the Corinthians began even then to corrupt proposed to them the Institution of it by Christ to follow That saith he have I delivered to you which I received of the Lord. And Christ that he might refute the Errors of the Pharisees in another case sends them up to the beginning In the beginning saith he it was not so And that he might shew the Sordidness and Avarice of the Priests This saith he in the beginning was a House of Prayer that Men might in it pray to God Religiously and Purely and so you ought still to have kept it for it was not built to be a Den of Thieves So all religious and approved Princes in Scripture are especially honoured with this Commendation that they walked in the ways of David their Father that is that they returned to the Original and Fountain and restored Religion to its first Integrity And so we seeing all things perverted by them and that there was nothing left in the Church of God but miserable Ruines thought it was but reasonable to set before us those Churches for our Example which we were sure had not erred and had neither private Masses nor unintelligible and barbarous Prayers nor that Corruption of the Holy Rites or other Fooleries And desiring to restore the Church of God to its first Integrity and Purity we would not seek any other Foundation to build upon than what was laid by the Apostles that is by our Saviour Jesus Christ 17. WHEN therefore we had heard God himself speaking to us in his word and had seen and considered the illustrious Examples of the Ancient and Primitive Church and that the expectation of a General Council was very uncertain and the event that would follow it much more uncertain and especially when we had the utmost certainty what was the Will of God and therefore thought it a Sin to be too sollicitous and anxious what the opinion of Men might be After all this I say we could no longer deliberate with flesh and blood but proceeded and have accordingly done that which may both lawfully be done and which hath already been often done by many pious Men and Catholick Bishops that is to take care of our own Church in a Provincial Synod For so we see the ancient Fathers ever took that course before they came to a General and Publick Council of the whole World and there are still extant the Canons made in Muncipial or Provincial Councils at Carthage under St. Cyprian at Ancyra Neocaesarea and at Gangra also in Paphlagonia all which as some think were held before the name of the Nicene General Council was thought of And in this manner without any General Council by a private dispute they of old opposed the Pelagians and Donatists So when Constantius the Emperor openly favored Auxentius a Bishop of the Arrian Party Athanasius a most Christan Bishop did not appeal to a General Council in which he saw nothing could be done by reason of the Power of the Emperor and the great partiality and stiffness of the Faction but to his own Clergy and People that is to a Provincial Council 18. SO it was decreed in the Nicene Council that twice in the year and in a Carthagenian Council that at least once in a year Meetings of the Bishops should be celebrated in every Province which the Council of Chalcedon saith was done that if any Errors or Abuses arose any where they might presently and upon the spot be extinguished And so when Secundus and Paladius rejected the Council of Aquileja because it was not a Publick and General Council St. Ambrose Bishop of Milan replied that it ought not to seem new or strange if the Bishops of the West assembled in Prâ—vincial Conventions or Synods for it had been not seldom done by the Western Bishops before and was very frequently by the Greek Bishops So Charles the Great Emperor of Germany held a Provincial Council in Germany for the taking away Images out of the Church against the second Nicene Council which had determined for them nor is this thing new and unheard of in England for we have heretofore had many Provincial Synods and have governed our Church by our own domestick Laws without the Interposition of the Popes of Rome or any other foreign Bishops or Churches What need is there of many words Certainly those greatest and fullest Councils of which these Men so often Glory if they be compared with all the Churches which throughout the World own and confess the Name of Christ what I pray can they seem to be
See did yet most humbly supplicate Martian the Emperor that he would be pleas'd to call a Council in Italy because that Country did then seem most convenient for that purpose his Words are these All the Priests do most earnestly beseech your Clemency that You would be pleased to command a General Synod to be celebrated in Italy But this Emperor that he might shew that he had the Right of calling Councils and none but he commanded the Council to meet at Chalcedon in Bithynia and not in Italy where the Pope did most violently desire it should have been held And when Ruffinus in the Contest which he had with St. Jerome alledged a Synod tell us said St. Jerome what Emperor commanded it to meet St. Jerome did not think a General Council of any great Validity except some of the Emperors call'd it Now I do not inquire what Emperor commanded the Bishops to meet now at Trent but only whether the Pope who takes so much upon him hath consulted with the Emperor about holding this Council and what Christian King or Prince has he prae-acquainted with his Will Now to break in upon the Rights of another and to assume to a mans self what belongs to another man by Fraud or Force is injurious and for him to abuse the Clemency of Princes and to command them as if they were his Servants is a superlative and intolerable piece of Injury and contumely and it would be an equal Injustice in us to confirm and allow that Injury and Insolence of his by our Compliance and therefore if we should only reply That this Council of yours at Trent is not lawfully call'd and that nothing relating to it has been rightly and orderly managed by Pope Pius no man can with any Justice blame our Absence 9. I shall not here trouble you with an exact account of the Injuries our Nation hath received from the Popes of Rome that they have snatch'd the Scepters out of the Hands and plucked the Diadems from off the Heads of our Kings that they pretend that this Kingdom is theirs that it is possess'd in their Right and that our Kings are their Beneficiaries of Homagers These are old Injuries but of late years they have stir'd up at one time the King of France and at another the Emperor and what this Pope Pius has consulted spoken done contrived and threatned against us need not be remembred here for his Words and Actions are not so close and secret but they may be known and his Will thereby be discovered And as to the means by which he acquired the Popedom and the steps by which he climb'd to that heighth of Dignity I shall say nothing I do not say that he corrupted the Cardinals by purchasing their Votes and by Bargain and Purchase as by Mines and Ambushes aspired to the Popedom I do no say neither that very lately when he was not able to pay the Cardinal Caraffa by whose Assistance he purchased the Votes of the other Cardinals and to whom upon that Score he ow'd a very considerable Sum of Money he cast the poor man into Prison and there basely murthered him I leave these and such other things as these are rather to you who being nearer to them must needs see them more clearly and understand them better than we do at this distance And now Sir do you wonder that we should not come to this bloody man this Purchaser of Votes this Bankrupt and this Simonaical Heretick It becomes not a wise man believe me to throw himself into the Chair of Pestilence and to consult concerning Religion with the Enemies of all Religion My Mother said one commanded me not to approach to the Infamous and St. John the Apostle durst not remain in the same Bath and wash himself with one Cerinthius a Heretick lest he should perish with him by a Thunder Clap from Heaven I have not sat said David in the Council of the Wicked neither have I walked with the Workers of Iniquity 10. WELL but be it so for this time let it be granted that the Right of calling Councils belongs to the Pope and that he can in this point command the World and let whatever we have said concerning the Power of the Emperor and the Right of Kings be taken for false and vain and let Pius be supposed too to be a good man that he was rightly and lawfully chosen Pope that he has not sought the Life of any man that he has not murthered Caraffa in Prison yet it is fit that Councils should be free after all this and that who pleaseth may be there who cannot conveniently may on the other side be absent this was the equity and moderation of better men Princes then were not treated with so much Violence and Rudeness so that if any person happened to stay at Home or did not send Ambassadors to the Council he should presently be noted by the Eyes and Fingers of all men I beseech you Sir what Observer kept count who was absent from the Councils of Nice Ephesus Constantinople and Chalcedon but there was in none of these any Ambassadors from England Scotland Poland Hungary Spain Denmark nor any part of Germany See read and consider the Subscriptions and you will find what I say is true And why do you not rather wonder that the Britans did not come to those full famous celebrated and frequented Councils Or that the Popes then were so wonderful patient that they did not presently censure them for Contumacy But this Papal tyranny was not then grown up it was then lawful for Pious Bishops and the Holy Fathers without any Prejudice to stay at Home Paul the Apostle would not trust himself to the Council of Jerusalem but appealed unto Caesar and tho St. Athanasius the Bishop was call'd to the Council at Caesarea by the Emperor yet he would not come and he also when he perceived the Arrian Party the strongest in the Council of Syrmium would not stay but presently withdrew and went away and the Bishops of the West following his Example refused to come to that Council St. John Chrysostom did not come to an Arrian Council tho he was invited both by Letters and Messengers sent by Arcadius the Emperor When the Arrian Bishops in Palestine were met together and had the greatest part of the Votes on their side Paphnutius an old man and Maximus Bishop of Jerusalem departed out of the Convention and went away Cyrillus a Bishop appealed from the Council of the Patropassians Paulinus Bishop of Treves would not come to the Council of Millan because he saw by reason of the Favour and Power of Constantius the Emperor every thing plied under and was over-rul'd by Auxentius an Arrian Bishop The Bishops who came to the Council at Constantinople would not afterwards come to that which was holden at Rome to which they were call'd also which yet was no prejudice to them tho they were commanded to attend there by Letters from
Church thereby unspotted to this day though she has suffered very much for her Fidelity and Loyalty Augustus Steuchus Anto. de Rosellis De major obed solit De major obed Vnam Sanctam Clement 5. in Concil Viennensi Leo papa Zacharias Papa Clemens Papa 7. The same Clemens Sabellicus Coelestinus Papa Hildebrandus Papa Psal 91. 13. Chrysostomus 13. ad Rom. Gregorius saepe in epist Rom. 13. 2. Tertul. in Apolog. cap. 16. Tertul. in Apolog. cap. 7. 8 9. Idem cap. 39. Jerem. 7. 4. John 8. 39. Augustin Ep. 48. ad Vincentium Jeremiah 8. 4. Revel 2. 9. John 8. 44. In Lateran Concil sub â—â—lio 2 Kings 19. Isaiah 1. 22. Math. 21. 13. Lib. 1. c. 1. HsE Cap. 4. v. 11. V. 19. Math. 24. 15. 2 Thes 2. 4. 2 Tim. 4. 3. 4. 2 Pet. 2. 1. Math. 24. 24. Contra Maxentium Epistola ad Mauricium lib. 4. Epist 32. Sermon 33. In libello de idiomate Linguarum Gerson Fratres Lugdunenses Adrian in Platina Pighius Gerson Ephesians 2. 20. De Vnitate Eccl. cap. 3. Ib. cap. 4. Our Saviour resigned up his Soul to his Father in the Words of David Luk. 23. 46. Psal 31. 5. Pighius in Hierarchia 2 Tim. 4. 16. 2 Cor. 5. 19. Psal 19. 8. Euseb lib. 1. c. 7. In opere imperfecto John 3. 20. 2 Thes 2. 8. Galat. 1. 8. Esther 3. 8. According tothe vulgar Latin Act. 17. 18. Origen contra Celsum John 5. 46. Caus 27. 9. 1. Nuptiarum bonum in controversiis This Book is every where to be had thus imperfect When this piece was written the design of a general Index Expurgatorius upon all the printed Fathers was not known which is an undeniable Argument under their own hands that the ancient Fathers are not in their Interest the first of these Indexes was found at the Sack of Cales in Spain Anno Domini 1596. many years after this Apology was published Cap. 3. Images Scripture Origines in Leviticum cap. 16. Chrysostom in Math. 1. Hom. 2. in Johan Hom. 3. Marriage Epist 11. lib. 1. cont Ap. Haerct 61. de virginitate servanda ad Demetriadem Ceremonies Monks Cap. 3. Concubines Magistracy Cap. 8. Married Priests * In Novellis Const it 23. and 146. Divine Service to be performed in an audible Voice Let those Clergy men of the Church of England consider this who read the Service so low that no man can hear it * Only the Canonical Scriptures to be read in Churches March 3d. 1547. Pluralities De Major Obed. Vnam Sanctam in Extravag Bonifac 8. Durand Concil Lat. sub Julio 2â— Distinct 9. Innocentii de major in obed solite in Extravag John 22. c. cum inter nonnullos in glossa finali in impressa Editione Parisiis 1503. Antonius de Posellis XXIII 28. I. 12. C. Plinius Plutarch XII 9. Mat. XX. 13. XIV 3. XLI 17. VIII 11. The Grecian Church 2 Cor. XIV Agesilaus Acts 4. 19. Gal. 1. 12. 16. In the fourth year of Pius the IV. Anno Christi 1563. in the sixth year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth was an end put to the Council of Trent which is so often mentioned by this Author Nazian ad Procopium Micah 3. 6. I. VI. 10. Math. 5. 13. Luke 14. 35. It was a common Proverb in the time of the Council of Trent that the Holy Ghost was sent from Rome to the Council in a Cloak-Bag which was spoken in derision of the Councils depending too much upon the Directions sent them very frequently from thence by Carriers as Father Paul acquaints us in his History of that Council and to this Proverb our Author in this place alludes The same Proverb is mentioned by the Bishop of Quinque Ecclesiae in a Leter printed in the end of the Council of Trent in English De electione electi potestate ca. significa Ad Evagrium Host ca. quanto Abas Panor de elect ca. Venerabilis Cornelius Episcopus in Concilio Tridentino Durandus Acts 15. 28. Hosius contra Brentium lib. 2. Theodorer lib. 1â—â— 2â— Tripart lib. 10. cap. 13. Euseb lib. 5. cap. 17. Soz. lib. 5. c. 15. XLIX 23. Exod. 12. Ioshua 1. 2 Chron. XIII 2 Chron. VI. 1 King VIII 2 Chr. XXIX 2 King XVIII 2 Chr. XVII 2 King XXIII 2 King X. Pius IV. In bulla sua ad Imperatorem Ferdinandum Hist Eccl lib. 1. cap. 5. Socrates Hist Eccl. l. 5. c. 10. Act. 2. * The Author mentions in this place Hecatombae Solitaurilia Lectisternia and Supplications Heathen Rites that cannot be supposed to be easily understood by an English Reader and are not worth the while to expound them at length Hagg. II. 3 4 c. 1 Cor. 4. 3. Prov. 19. 21. In Psalm 126. In Prophet Nahum cap. 3. Eph. 5. 14. 1 Sam. 11. 2. John 8. 40. 44. 1 Peter 5. 1. He stiles himself 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is your Fellow Presbyter or Copriest which is not so plainly rendred in our English Version as it might be * I suppose by this Expression he means the several English Bishops who had been Protestants in the Reign of Edward the 6th and turning Papists a-again in the Reign of Queen Mary were ashamed to take a third turn now in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth and so not only sliffly persisted now in Popery but were more clamorous against the Reformation than others were Heylin his Ecclesia Restaurata Anno primo Eliz. pag. 286. Henry the 2d John This Apology was pen'd before the Puritan Schism in in the Church of England broke out As Fuller informs us they first began to appear in 1563. which was the year after this Apology was written but it came not to an open Rupture till the year 1570. Fuller Rom. 16. 17. 18. Tit. 1. 12. Math. 21. 31. 29th of Nobemb 1560. So that this Letter was writ about August 1560. XXX I. according to the Septuagint version Chap. 8. v. 10. Psal 2. 2. Bound by Oath The Form of the Bishops Oath to the Pope 1 Cor. 14. 30. 1 Kings 22. 11. 1551. †In Corn. Agripp de Vanitate Scient 〈◊〉 14. 14. All Bishops equal Psal 2. 11.