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A16774	An admonition to the nobility and people of England and Ireland concerninge the present vvarres made for the execution of his Holines sentence, by the highe and mightie Kinge Catholike of Spaine. By the Cardinal of Englande; Admonition to the nobility and people of England and Ireland concerninge the present warres made for the execution of his Holines sentence, by the highe and mightie Kinge Catholike of Spaine.	Allen, William, 1532-1594.	1588 (1588)	STC 368; ESTC S120636	32,181	61

Christe by whō and for deffence of whose honor he reigneth that thē I may most lawfully breake with him So in olde times of the primatiue Churche the Catholike people did often by armes defend and kepe their Bishopes in their seates against the Infidels and specially against the cōmaunde ment of hereticall Emperours Yea and lawfully resisted them in the deffence of theīr Churches and Churche goodes So the people defended See Pruden de monacho Antioch Nazian in etus laudibus lib. ● epi. ipsius the Churche of Antioche from the Emperour Galerius his officers So they deffended S. Basil in the like case So they deffended S. Ambrose Prouided neuerthelesse alwaies in this case that we followe not our deceitfull wills as our aduersaries doe condemning for Gods enemies suche Princes or persons as the holie Churche who must be ouriudge informer in all these thinges pronounceth and holdeth to be most iuste godly and Catholike kinges But then must we take thē for heretikes when our lawful Bishops and popes do so adiudge them to be and so commaunde vs to take them yea and charge vs to forsake them Then be we sure in conscience discharged of our othe obediēce which be bands of such qualety and nature that they hold not nor haue force against iustice and where the matter ys vnlawfull And we haue iust cause to arme our selues for defence of Gods honor and our innocencie and to seke for succor at Popes and Princes handes Theod. li 2 cap 5. 13. Soc. li. 1. cap 13. Soz. li 4 ●rp 7. Yea Bishops of the cuntrie so oppressed and so persecuted by hereticall princes should so specially doe For so did holie Athanasius who knewe his devvtie to his kinge and soueraigne vvel enoughe and vvhen and vvhere he might rise against him aske ayde against Constantius the Arian and first hereticall Emperour vvhom Pope Felix declared to be an heretike of his ovvne brother Constance the Catholike Emperour of the vvest For feare of vvhose armes he restored Athanasius and other Catholike Bishopes to their Churches and honors againe But aftervvarde vvhen the Caholike Constāce vvas deade the said Emperours brother did more furiously persecute Athanasius for the same Soc. lib. 4 cap. 16. 17 30. Sor. lib. 6 cap. 19. So against Valens the Arian Emperour did Petrus Athanasius his successor brother to Saint Basil seke to he Pope of Rome for succor as all other bishops in like distresses euer did that no man neede to maruell why we haue done the like now Sol. 2 ca. 18. Nice lib. 14. ca 21 So did Atticus Bishop of Cōstantinople craue aide of Theodosius the yonger against the Kinge of the Persians that persecuted his Catholike subiectes and was therby forciblie depriued the Catholikes deliuered Leo epist. 7● euāg ●i 2. ca. 8. So did holy Pope Leo the first persuade the Emperour called Leo also to take armes against the Tyrant of Alexandria for the deliuerie of the oppressed Catholikes from him and the heretikes Eutichians who then threw doune monasteries and did other great sacrileges as ours now doe and haue done in England O Emperour saied S. Leo If it be lawdable for thee to inuade the hethens how muche more glorie shall yt be to deliuer the Churche of Alexādria from the heauy yoke of outragious heretikes by the calamité of which Churche all the Churches in the world be iniured As at this time ther is no Churche in Europe that feeleth not the smarte of our English miseries Lib. 1. epi. 72. In brefe so did S. Gregory the first moue Gen●dius the Exarke to make warrs against the hereti kes as a very glorious thinge so haue euer all holy Bishopes of the primatiue Churche done Depositiō of Princes for heresie For which crime of heresie and iniuries done to Gods Churche as for a fault most detestable and most directly subiect to their correction they haue specially intermedled aswell by way of excomunicatiō as by force procured for their De consideratione ad Eugen li. 4. deposition For as saith Saint Bernard though Popes fighte not in person nor draw the sword themselues yet it must be done at their commaundment where Gods honor and our saluation require it For religion therfore specially though otherwise sumtimes Princes haue bene by Popes iustly bothe excomunicated otherwise punished for notorious crimes namely whē their owne subiectes require the Churches Rhegino anno 864. aide and sentence therin as kinge Lotarius brother to the Emperour Lewis the second was excomunicated by Nicolas the first for deuorsinge Sigisber● Tr●●hem his lawfull wife and marieng a strumpet and diuers others for suche like offences yea namely Popes haue pursued in princes their fall from religion disobediēce to Gods Churche as a sinne properly subiect to their correction Zon. in vita Leonis 3. For heresie was Leo the third both excommunicated and depriued of all his temporallties in Italie by Gregorie the second Chalc ō rerum turc li. 1. For heresie and Schisme were the Greke Empe perours discharged and the Empire therby trāslated to the Germans by Pope Leo the third and like wise diuers German Emperours for iniuries done Tho. 2. 2. quest 12. art 2. to Gods Churche and for heresie by sundry holie Popes haue ben brought to order as Henry the fourthe Frederike the first Otho the first Frederike the secōd Lewis the third many other Bonifa Dec. 4. For heresie was George kinge of Bohem excomunicated ther vpon by the forces of the kinge of Hungarie finally depriued As John Albert Guie lib. 2. Honuf in vita ●ulij secundi Polid. lib. 15. had half of his kingdō of Nauar takē from him by Ferdinandus surnamed Catholicus Kinge of Aragon bicause he gaue aide to Lewis the xij then excomunicated by Iulius the seconde For shamefull iniuries done to the holie Churche and for persecution of Bishops religious was Iohn one of our kinges of England with his whole cūtrie Interdicted and at length forced to yeild his croune and dominions to the curtesie of the Popes legate as afore is mēcyoned Nubrig lib. z. c. 25. 34. For like causes and namely for being accessarie to the murther of the blessed Bishop S. Thomas of Caunterbury was Henry the second driuen by Alexāder the third to order penaunce Henry the eighte also for more horrible waste and desolation of Religion wherin he farr surmounted all his auncetors and all other that euer we reade of since the time of Julian the Apo stata for arrogatinge the title of supreme head of the Churche and forcinge all his people to sweare to his folly and that his concubine Anne Bullen was their Queene and his lawful wife for most cruell slaughter of Catholike Bishopes Preistes religious and laie men for infringinge and vtterly abolishinge against his owne othe all the priuileges and liberties graunted to the Churche of England by holie Kinge