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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	ordinance_n	power_n	resist_v	4,907	5	10.4011	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03718	The brutish thunderbolt: or rather feeble fier-flash of Pope Sixtus the fift, against Henrie the most excellent King of Nauarre, and the most noble Henrie Borbon, Prince of Condie Togither with a declaration of the manifold insufficiencie of the same. Translated out of Latin into English by Christopher Fetherstone minister of Gods word.; P. Sixti fulmen brutum in Henricum sereniss. Regem Navarrae & illustrissimum Henricum Borbonium, Principem Condaeum. English	Hotman, François, 1524-1590.; Fetherston, Christopher.; Catholic Church. Pope (1585-1590 : Sixtus V). Declaratio contra Henricum Borbonium. English.	1586 (1586)	STC 13843.5; ESTC S117423	154,206	355

like sort if the sentence containe an intollerable error as the same canonists affirme * in d. c. solet in d. c. per tuas as in this matter of ours where the bull of pope Sixtus is conuict of most manifest errors as is shewed in the last cause of Nullitie especially where the sentence doth manifestly contain the error of the fact as Augustine * in Sum. contra gloss in d. c. per tuas noteth For a sentence pronounced according to false allegations is in law none as we prooued before at large The fourth Nullitie by reason of the forme of the sentence THere remaineth the fourth cause of Nullitie by reason of the foolish forme of the conceiued sentence For as it is commonly said the foolishnes of spéech declareth the foolishnes of the mind * l. pend D. de cond demon l. 1. §. pen. vlt. D. de aedil edict Therfore a iudge which giueth sentence foolishly fondly and absurdly is called a foole * l. vlt. c. de fideic libert such a one as we shall prooue this Frier a scholler of Francis Bernardo to be by this his sentence and Frierlike bull For he beginneth thus The authoritie granted by the infinite power of the eternall king to S. Peter and his successors doth surmount all the powers of earthly kings and princes Sée how the hangman speaketh sentences But it is an old rule of the Logicians that comparisons are vsed in those things onely that are of the same sort But what agréement is there betwéene the authoritie that was giuen to the apostles which appertaineth to religion and conscience and the power granted to kings which consisteth in ciuil and politike matters Therfore our cowled Frier hath spoken as if he had said The foolishnes of Bernardo his scholler doth surmount the eares of all the asses that are in Arcadia But that we may answer somwhat in earnest let this conclusion come to light A successor of right hath no more than his author had Peter had not authoritie surpassing the powers of kings but he was commanded to obey them as superiors Therefore though the pope were Peters successor which we prooued before to be false yet being inferior to kings he ought to obey them The assumption is plaine out of these words Let euery soule be subiect to the higher powers Whosoeuer he be that resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God Rom. 13. Tell them that they submit themselues to principalities and powers that they obey Tit. 3. Be subiect to euery ordinance of mā for the Lords sake whether it be to the king as to the chief ruler or to presidents as to those that are sent by him 1. Pet. 2 But what shall the authoritie of the holie scripture auaile with the pope For it shall euen now be refuted with this one word Constantine granted to the pope all the kingdoms of the West and he commanded that emperors and kings should hold his stirrop when he gat vp vpon horsebacke that they should wait vpon him as pages and finally that prostrating themselues vpon the ground they should kisse his féete This is that preeminence of the popes whereof he speaketh in this place such as either was in times past vpon earth that of his god Francis when being taken vp into the middle region of the aire he talked familiarly with Christ for which cause to auoid that cold he put on a hooded garment or else is at this day in heauen where he is said to sit stradling aboue the Cherubins But now let vs sée what followeth Standing firme vpon the rocke it doth not turne aside from the right course by any contrarie or prosperous blasts Who euer heard before this that either authoritie being set vpon a rocke did saile or that any ship was euer turned aside from the right course by prosperous blasts But notwithstanding howsoeuer this ship doth saile we haue shewed before that he that did boast that he sitteth in the sterne therof and doth hold the helme hath not a place left him so much as in the pumpe or sinke Like to this is that that followeth If he find any that resist the ordinance of God those doth he more sharply punish As if euen in the citie of Rome which is a mansion of al wickednes the ordinances of God were not resisted or the pope did sharpely punish any such as resist But Petrarcha Mantuan Sannazarius and many mo Italians call Rome the shop of all wickednes Babylon Sodom the schoole of errors the temple of heresies a shamelesse strumpet Go shame into the villages If villages be not become Receits of filth For that is now A brothelhouse that erst was Rome saith Mantuan Also in another place At Rome are sold The temples priests and altars braue The sacrifice and diademe The fire incense and praiers eke To sell both heauen and God they seeme Also Albericus Rosat in the word Rome The court of Rome will not be serued With sheepe that 's robbed of hir fleeze Against all those that nothing giue The doors are shut but those which greeze Hir hand with bribes she heares with speed Also S. Bernard in his fourth booke of consideration to pope Eugenius cap. 1. Whom wilt thou shew me of a whole great citie that receiued thee to be pope without reward or hope of reward These being hated of earth and heauen haue laid hands vpon both being wicked against God rash against holie things seditious one against another Also Petrarcha in his epistles Whatsoeuer is read concerning Assyria or Egypt or Babylon whatsoeuer is read concerning the labyrinths finally whatsoeuer is read of the entrie of hell and of the brimstone woods of hell being applied to this hell it is a fable Heere is the turretting and terrifieng Nimrod Heere is Semiramis with hir quiuer heere is Minos that cannot be intreated Heer is Radamantus Heer is Cerberus that deuoureth al things Heer is Pasiphae lieng with the bull and the mixed kinde as saith Maro and the childe hauing two shapes Heer is Minotaurus moniments of lust not to be named Last of all you may see heer whatsoeuer is confused whatsoeuer is blacke whatsoeuer is any where horrible or is feigned so to be and to be briefe a sinke of all wickednes and shamefull things What saith our pope to these things Let vs heare the praise of the citie of Rome out of the chapter fundamenta 17. de elect in vj. Rome saith he is an holie nation an elect people a priestly citie and a princely by the holie sea of S. Peter made the head of the whole world Was there euer any so shamelesse a baud or beast out of whose mouth came a more shamelesse saieng Or what shall we saie of our Franciscan frier who careth for those things that are done beyond the Alpes who regardeth not what things be done at home Séeing Paul hath ordained that he that cannot gouerne his owne family haue not the gouernment of the church