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A18320 The execution of iustice in England for maintenaunce of publique and Christian peace, against certeine stirrers of sedition, and adherents to the traytors and enemies of the realme, without any persecution of them for questions of religion, as is falsely reported and published by the fautors and fosterers of their treasons xvii. Decemb. 1583. Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598. 1583 (1583) STC 4902; ESTC S104905 27,520 41

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will that it belongeth not to a Bishop of Rome as successor of Saint Peter and therein a pastor spirituall or if hee were the Bishop of all Christendome as by the name of Pope he claymeth first by his Bulles or excommunications in this sort at his will in fauour of traytours and rebels to depose any soueraigne Princes being lawfully inuested in their Crownes by succession in blood or by lawfull election and then to arme subiects against their naturall Lordes to make warres and to dispense with them for their othes in so doing or to excommunicate faithful subiects for obeying of their natural Princes and lastly himselfe to make open warre with his owne souldiers against Princes mouing no force against him For if these powers shoulde be permitted to him to exercise then shoulde no Empire no kingdome no countrey no Citie or Towne be possessed by any lawful title longer then one such onely an earthly man sitting as he saith in S. Peters chaire at Rome should for his will and appetite without warrant from God or man thinke meete and determine An authoritie neuer chalenged by the Lorde of lordes the sonne of God Iesus Christ out onely Lord and Sauiour and the onely head of his Church whilest he was in his humanitie vpon the earth nor yet deliuered by any writing or certaine tradition frō Saint Peter from whome the Pope pretendeth to deriue all his authoritie nor yet from Saint Paul the Apostle of y e Gentiles but contrariwise by all preachings preceptes writings conteined in the Gospel and other Scriptures of the Apostles obedience is expresly commaunded to all earthly Princes yea euen to Kings by speciall name and that so generally as no person is excepted from such duetie of obedience as by the sentence of Saint Paul euen to the Romanes appeareth Omnis anima sublimioribus potestatibus sit subdita That is Let euery soule be subiect to the higher powers within the compasse of which law or precept Saint Chrisostome being Bishoppe of Constantinople writeth that euen Apostles Prophets Euangelists and Monkes are comprehended And for proofe of Saint Peters minde herein from whome these Popes claime their authoritie it can not be plainlyer expressed then when he writeth thus Proinde subiecti estote cuiuis humanae ordinationi propter Dominum siue Regi vt qui superemineat siue presidibus ab eo missis That is Therefore be you subiect to euery humane ordinance or creature for the Lorde whether it be to the King as to him that is supereminent or aboue the rest or to his presidents sent by him By which two principall Apostles of Christ these Popes the pretensed successours but chiefely by that which Christ the Sonne of God the onely Master of trueth sayde to Peter and his fellow Apostles Reges gentium dominantur vos autem non sic That is The Kings of the Gentiles haue rule ouer them but you not so may learne to forsake their arrogant and tyrannous authorities in earthly and temporall causes ouer Kings and Princes and exercise their Pastorall office as Saint Peter was charged thrise at one time by his Lorde and Master Pasce oues meas Feede my sheepe and peremptorily forbidden to vse a sworde in saying to him Conuerte gladium tuum in locum suum or mitte gladium tuum in vaginam that is Turne thy sword into his place or Put thy sworde into the scabbard All which precepts of Christ and his Apostles were duely followed and obserued many hundred yeeres after their death by the faithfull and godly Bishops of Rome that duely followed the doctrine and humilitie of the Apostles and the doctrine of Christ thereby dilated the limittes of Christs Church and the fayth more in the compasse of an hundred yeeres then the latter Popes haue done with their swordes and curses these 500 yeeres and so continued vntil the time of one Pope Hildebrand otherwise called Gregory theseuenth about the yeere of our Lorde 1074. who first beganne to vsurpe that kinde of Tyrannie which of late the Pope called Pius Quintus and since that time Gregory nowe the thirteenth hath followed for some example as it seemeth that is Where Gregory the seuenth in the yeere of our Lord 1074. or thereabout presumed to depose Henry y e fourth a noble Emperour then being Gregory the thirteenth nowe at this time would attempt the like against King Henry the eightes daughter heire Queene Elizabeth a soueraigne Queene holding her Crowne immediatly of God And to the ende it may appeare to Princes or to their good Counsellours in one example what was the fortunate successe y t God gaue to this good Christian Emperour Henry against the proud pope Hildebrand it is to be noted that when the pope Gregory attempted to depose this noble Emperour Henry there was one Rodulphe a noble man by some named the Count of Reenfield that by the Popes procurement vsurped the name of the Emperour who was ouercome by the sayde Henry the lawfull Emperour and in fight hauing lost his right hand he the said Rodulphe lamented his case to certayne Bishoppes who in the popes name had erected him vp and to them he said that y e selfe same right hand which he had lost was the same hande wherewith he had before sworne obedience to his Lorde and master the Emperour Henry and that in following their vngodly counselles he had brought vpon him Gods heauy and iust iudgementes And so Henry the Emperour preuailing by Gods power caused Gregory the pope by a Synode in Italy to be deposed as in like times before him his predecessour Otho the Emperour had deposed one pope Iohn for many heynous crymes and so were also within a short time three other popes namely Siluester Bennet and Gregory the sixt vsed by the Emperour Henry the third about the yere of our Lord 1047. for their like presumptuous attemptes in temporall actions against the said Emperours Many other examples might be shewed to the Emperours maiestie and the Princes of the holy Empire nowe being after the time of Henry the fourth as of Henry the fifth and after him of Fredericke the first and Fredericke the second and then of Lewis of Bauar all Emperours cruelly and tyrannously persecuted by the popes and by their bulles curses and by open warres and likewise to many other the great Kings and Monarches of Christendome of their noble progenitors Kinges of their seuerall dominions whereby they may see howe this kind of tyrannous authoritie in popes to make warres vpon Emperors and Kings and to commaund them to be depriued toke holde at the first by pope Hildebrande though the same neuer had any lawefull example or warrant from the Lawes of God of the olde or new Testament but yet the successes of their tyrannies were by Gods goodnesse for the most parte made frustrate as by Gods goodnesse there is no doubt but the like will followe to their confusions at all times to come And