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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

hauinge abolished the solemne feaste of our blessed ladies natiuity she hathe caused her owne impure birthe day to be solemnlie celebrated and put in to the kalender the verie eue of the said holie feaste and put out the name of an other sainte the 17. of Nouember to place the memory of her Coronation God graunte she may repente leaste in steade of her `excessiue praises that her fauorers and flaterers now giue vnto her she heare yet in her owne daies the saienge of the prophet against the proud prince Nabuchodrnosor how didest Esa 14 thow fall Lucifer from heauen that wast so orient in the moringe how wast thow brought doune to the grounde that woundedst nations that subuertedst kingdoms and saidst in thy hart I will be like the highest or feele the plague of one of the Herodes that for to to muche delytinge in the peoples praises acclamatiōs and for not giuinge glorie to God was suddenly stricken by Gods angel eaten of wormes and died Obstinas in mali●● Now of all these heynous horrible facts not credible almost to be acheiued by one woman and her cōplices not so many she hathe in fine shewed herself incorrigible and altogether impatiet of admonitiō wherof she neuer had wāte aswell by the writinges of sundrie her lerned subiectes as sumtimes by the Imperiall Maiestie and other temporall Princes and namely by diuers holie Popes whose Nuntioes she wold neuer admitt to tell her as of deutie they thought themselues bōude Gods threatninges for all her forsaid and many other intollerable Her excomunication and contēpte therof disorders of beleife lyfe gouernment But to accomplishe all other impiety and to shew herself wholly solde to sinne she hathe now eightene yeres stoode stubbernly contemptuously and obduratly as in the sight of God by her owne willfull separatiō through schisme and he resie iudged condemned before so now by name notoriously excommunicated and deposed in the word of Christe and omnipotent power of God by sentence giuen against her by holie Pius the fyfte the highest courte of religiō vnder the heauens The which state of excomunication thoughe presently of the faithelesse where ther is no Sense of religion it be not felt nor feared is moste miserable most horrible 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 most neare to damnation of all thinges that may happen to a man in this lyfe farr more greauous Aug. lib. 1. contra Faust cap. 17. sayeth a certen glorious Doctor then to be hewen in peeces with a sword consuned by fier or deuoured of wilde beastes and it is expressed in the scriptures by the state of kinge Pharao his obduration and excecation in wilfull wickednes She murthered the executors of the Popes sentence And she hathe not onely continued in this dānable contempte of the holie Churches Censures so lōge as we haue said but also cōmaunded and caused the publishers defenders approuers and all others that attempted most honorably godly the execution therof aswell of the nobility as the Cleargie and commons sum beinge apprehended at home and others traiterously bought and soulde abrode and sent home all in cruell manner murthered yea and for theire partes verie willinglie martyred to their eternall estimation rather then they wold liue serue or see any suche hereticke Atheiste and vsurper from whose pretēsed kingly authority they wete in consideration of all these her heinous crimes clearly by Christes owne vicar the warrante of all the faithefull world that neuer tooke it self bounde to obey a condemned heretike or an Apostata before God and man discharged The murther of Bishopes and Preistes In which her obstinacie and Sathanicall obduration dailie increasing she hathe these late yeares imbrued her handes and cuntrie with the sacred blud of a number of most innocent lerned and famous religious men yea holie Bishopes The Archebishop of Casseles and the Bishop of Mayon also aswel in England as Ireland caused thē pittifully to be racked rent chained famished beaten buffeted derided abused and by false accusation of crimes neuer intended vnder pretēce of treason against her vsurped state and person to be finally with all crueltie executed to the regret and shame of our nation and wonder of all the worlde And finally to accomplishe the measure of all her inhumaine crueltie she hathe this last yeare barberouslie vnnaturally against the lawe of nations by a statute of riot and conspiracie murthered the ladie Marie of famous me morie Queene of Scotland douager of France The slaughter of the queene of Scotlande Gods Annointed her next kinswoman and by lawe and righte the true owner of the croune of England The iustice of the sentence against Elizabeth All which her open enormities and other her secret wickednes hiddē from vs which must nedes be great and not numerable in a Caytif so longe vnder Gods and holie Churches curse giuen vp into a reprobate sense and hardnes of harte may put all faithefull and reasonable men out of doubte of the iustice of the Apostolike sentence and censure against her beinge well assured that if any case may fall in which a Prince may iustly be forsakē or resisted by his subiects or yf any crime in the worlde eyther in lyfe regimēt or religiō can deserue depositiō of a kinge that here all causes together do concur in the person of the pretensed in the highest degre None euer not amongest the heathen so vnprofitable so euill so faithles so pernitious no realme euer so farr falne from religion publike honesty order and sincerity as ours hathe done in her vnhappie vsurped gouernement A necessati consideration And here we may beholde the pittifull race of an vnbridled powrable sinner woe be to our offences that haue deserued the experience of solamentable a case this vnworthie womans supposed father frist as now her self afterward by reason of theire height of erthly power free frō ciuil chastisemēt could not be cōtent therwith till they had also discharged themselues of all remorse of conscience of all awe of religion of all spirituall discipline put themselues in full fredome from Pope Prelate Prophet Priest and ghostlye father an example for all cōmon weal thes in the world to beware of by vs for euer therfore not onely in their hartes said against God his annointed Let vs shake of theire yoke and breake theire bondes a sunder But opēly and boldly both said and made thēselues heades of the Churche spirtualtie aswel now of the soules as they were before of the bodies That all lyfe faithe religion Churche counsell conscience scripture Sacrament ceremonie what soeuer was i heauē or earthe might wholli hāge at their hādes lustes lykinges At which licentious irreligiosity Antechristian pride thoughe the highest in heauē doe in the meane time laugh by lōge patiēce not onely forbeare the present reuenge therof but also by secret iudgmēt for the parties increase of damnatiō or