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
you what my Judgment is but as another saith as far as I know and may which I doubt not will give you an intire Satisfaction 3. WE wonder say you that no Ambassadors from England are come to the Council I beseech you Sir are the English the only Nation who have not come to the Council Have you Sir been at the Council your self Have you taken an exact Account Have you told them exactly by Poll Did you Sir see there all the other Nations come together from all Parts of the World except the English But Sir if you are so mightily in love with Wondering why did you not admire this too that neither any one of the three great Patriarchs of Constantinople Antioch nor Alexandria nor Presbyter John nor the Grecians Armenians Medes Persians Egyptians those of Barbary Ethiopia or the Indies did not come to the Council too for is there not many in those Nations who believe in Christ have they not Bishops are they not by Name and in reality Christians And Sir did Ambassadors come from all these Nations to the Council or will you rather say the Pope did not call them or that they are not bound by your Ecclesiastical Sanctions 4. BUT Sir we have much greater reason to wonder that when the Pope hath beforehand condemn'd us and publickly pronounc'd us excommunicated as Hereticks without ever hearing us make our Defence or alledging any thing against us he should afterwards call us to the Council for to condemn and punish men first and then to call them to Judgment is a very absurd way of Procedure a meer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Cart before the Horses But Sir I would very gladly be inform'd if the Popes Intentions be to consult with us concerning Religion in this Council whom he has condemn'd for Hereticks as I said or if he intends we shall stand at the Bar and be obliged forthwith to change our Minds or be immediately condemn'd again one of these things is new or without Example and stiffly denied to those of our Perswasion by Pope Julius the third and the other is ridiculous if he thinks the English so silly as to come to the Council for no other purpose but to be accused and make their Defence as well as they can and before his Holiness especially who is long since accused himself not only by us but by his own party of many great Crimes 5. BUT Sir if England only seems so stubborn to you where are the Ambassadors of the King of Denmark the Princes of Germany and the King of Sweden of the Switzers of the Grisons of the Hanse Towns of the Realm of Scotland and of the Dukedom of Prussia and now when so many of the Christian Nations are absent from your Council it is a most foolish thing to speak of none but the English but why do I speak of them the Pope himself will not vouchsafe to come to his own Council and did you not wonder at this too for what Insolence is this for any one man at his Pleasure when he will to call together all the Christian Kings Princes and Bishops and to require them to yield Obedience to him in it and in the mean time not meet them there himself Sure I am when the Apostles call'd a Council at Jerusalem St. Peter the Apostle of whose Chair and Succession the Popes glory so infinitely would not be absent But I suppose the Pope Pius the 4th who now sits in that Chair remembers very well what betided John XXII that he had no good Fortune at his Appearance in the Council of Constance for he came thither a Pope but returned a Cardinal and therefore the Popes ever since have very wisely taken care of themselves and kept out of reach and at home and have stoutly withstood all Councils and free Debates for above forty years since when Dr. Martin Luther was assaulted with all manner of Curses and Thunderbolts by the Pope because he had begun to preach the Gospel and reform Religion by the Word of God and with all Humility begged that his Cause might be reserved to the Hearing and Determination of a General Council he could not be heard for Leo the X. saw very well if the thing had been refer'd to a Council that his own Concerns would be brought in danger and that he might hear what he would not 6. THE Name of a General Council sounds well if it be conven'd as it ought and Men would lay by their Passions and refer all things to the Word of God submitting to the Truth only but if Piety and Religion are openly oppress'd if Tyranny and Ambition are confirm'd if Factions Gluttony and Luxury are encouraged there can then be nothing thought of that is of worse Consequence to the Church of God And all this I have said upon a Supposition that there is such a Council somewhere as you mention and yet I heartily believe there is none at last but if indeed there be any where any Council at all it must be a very obscure private Council for tho we are at no very great distance from the Place yet we could never hear what Bishops were met nor what was done nor indeed whether any Bishops at all would meet And about twenty months since when this Council was first call'd by Pope Pius Ferdinandus the Emperor made answer that tho all other things were agreeable yet the Place the Pope had chosen did very much displease him for that tho Trent was a fine City yet it was not convenient for all the Nations and besides could not possibly entertain that great Number of Persons who did usually follow a general Council And almost the same Answer was generally given by all the Christian Princes and some of them answered much more sharply and therefore we thought all these fine Shews would together with the Council end in smoak 7. BUT I pray Sir who call'd this Council and assembled the World together you will say Pope Pius the IV. and why he rather than the Arch-bishop of Toledo by what Authority and Example of the Primitive Church and by what law hath he done this did Peter Linus Cletus or Clemens thus put the World in commotion by their Edicts this during the Integrity and Prosperity of the Roman Empire was a sole Prerogative of the Emperor but now that the Power of the Empire is diminished and that the several Kingdoms in Christendom have shared the Imperial Power amongst them this Power is devolved to all the Christian Kings and Princes Now Sir search all the Annals and gather together all the Memoirs of Antiquity and you shall find that all the ancient Councils as those of Nice Ephesus Chalcedon and Constantinople were call'd by the Emperors of Rome Constantinus Theodosius the First and Second and Martianus and not by the Popes of Rome 8. POPE Leo a Man sufficiently kind to himself and who did not in any thing neglect the Authority of his
more than some Private Councils of the Bishops and a sort of Great Provincial Synods For tho perhaps Italy France Spain England Germany Denmark and Scotland should meet yet Asia Greece Armenia Persia Media Mesopotamia Egypt Aethiopia India and Mauritania in all which places there are many Christians and Bishops would yet be absent And how could such a Council as this ever be reputed a General Council by any understanding Man And when so many and such considerable parts of the World are absent how can they pretend to have the Consent of the whole World Or what kind of Council was the last at Trent or how could it in any sense be said to be General when only Forty Bishops met there out of all the Christian Kingdoms in Europe and some of them too were so very Eloquent that it had been fit to send them to the Grammar Schools again and so Learned that they had never in all their Lives read the Bible over But be these things as they will the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ doth not depend upon General Councils or as St. Paul saith upon Mans Iudgment But if they who ought to take care of the Church will not understand and will be wanting to their duty and will harden their hearts against God and against his Christ and still go on to pervert the direct and streight ways of the Lord God will make the stones to cry out and endow Infants with an Oratorical Eloquence that there may ever be some to confute their Shams for God can protect and enlarge his Church not only without the help but against the opposition of Councils There be many Devices in Mans heart saith Solomon but the Counsel of the Lord that shall stand for there is neither Wisdom nor Prudence nor Counsel against the Lord for saith Hilary Those things theâ— are set up by Humane Industry do not continue long the Church was otherwise built and must be preserved by other means for she was built upon the Foundations of the Apostleâ— and Prophets and is fixed and cemented together by one corner stone Jesus Christ 18. VERY elegant and to our times most seasonable are the Words of St. Jerome As often saith he as the Devil lulls any a sleep with the sweet Blandishments of his Sirens the the Holy Scriptures never fail to awaken them with a Surge qui dormis elevare illuminabit te Christus Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the Dead and Christ shall give thee Light At the coming of Christ and of the Word of God and of the Ecclesiastical Doctrine when the time of the Ruine of Nineve that beautiful Harlot is come then shall the People awake which had before been lull'd a sleep under their former Teachers and shall pass to the Mountains of the Scriptures there shall they find the Mountains of Moses and Joshua the Son of Nun the Mountains of the Prophets and the Mountains of the New Testament the Apostles and Evangelists and when the People have fled to these Mountains and are exercised in the reading of them tho they find no Teacher for the Harvist shall be great and the Labourers few yet the Industry of the People shall be approved in that they have fled to these Mountains and the Negligence of their Teachers shall be reprehended Thus hath St. Jerome written so very plainly that here is no need of an Interpreter and with so great a Congruity to the Events which have happened in our Times that it looks as if he had designed to foretel and describe to us with a Prophetick Spirit the whole State of our Times the Ruine of that richly adorned Babylonish Harlot and the Reformation of the Church of God the Blindness and Negligence of the Bishops and the Alacrity and Zeal of the People For who can be so blind as not to see that these were the Masters who as St. Jerome saith led the People into Error and stupified them in it or that Rome their Nineve which was once painted with the most lovely Colours is not now better known and less valued or that pious Men being now as it were awakned out of a deep Sleep have not betaken themselves to the Mountains of the Scriptures the Word of God and the Light of the Gospel without ever expecting the Councils of such Teachers as these 19. BUT without the Popes Consent at least some may think these things ought not to have been attempted because he is the Bond that unites the Christ an Society he is that one Priest whom God means in Deuteronomy from whom Counsel was to be expected in all difficult Cases and from whom the Judgment of Truth was to be fetched and if any man should dare to disobey him he was to be put to death in the sight of his Brethren and whatsoever he doth he can be judged by no mortal Man that as Christ reigns in Heaven so he rules on Earth that be can do whatever Christ or God himself can do that his Consistory and Christs are one and the same that without him there is no Faith no Hope no Church that he who forsakes him rejects his own Salvation For thus the Canonists the Flatterers of the Pope write not very modestly of him for they could scarce say more and certainly not greater things of Christ himself As for us we have not forsaken the Pope for any humane Pleasure or worldly Profit and we wish passionately he would behave himself so that there should be no need of a Departure from him but so it was except we left him there was no coming to Christ Nor will he now enter a League with us upon any other terms than those proposed by Nahash King of Ammon to the men of Jabeth-gilead that he may thrust out all our right Eyes for he will deprive us of the Holy Scriptures the Gospel of our Salvation and of all that Hope we have in Christ Jesus for upon other Conditions no Peace with him can be had 20. AND as to that which so many of them accustom themselves to extol so very much that the Pope only is St. Peters Successor as if upon that account he always carried the Holy Ghost in his Bosome and so could not err it is an airy and a silly Pretence The Grace of God is promised to pious Souls and to those that fear God and not affixed to Chairs and Successions Riches saith St. Jerome may render one Bishop more powerful than another but yet all Bishops what ever they are are the Successors of the Apostles But if the Place and Inauguration be it they so much rely on both Manasses succeeded David and Caiaphas Aaron and an Idol hath often stood in the House of God Long since one Archidamus a Lacedemonian made a mighty boasting that he was descended from Hercules one Nicostratus chastised his Insolence by telling him it did not seem probable that he could be descended from Hercules because
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.