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A14012	A letter written by Cutbert Tunstall late Byshop of Duresme, and Iohn Stokesley sometime Byshop of London sente vnto Reginalde Pole, Cardinall, then beynge at Rome, and late byshop of Canterbury.	Tunstall, Cuthbert, 1474-1559.; Stokesley, John, 1475?-1539. aut; Pole, Reginald, 1500-1558.	1560 (1560)	STC 24321; ESTC S111452	16,182	66

be called ether by God or by the Kynge And those Kinges that so do chiefelye do execute well their office So that the kinges highnes taking vpon him as Supreame heade of the Churche of Englande to see that aswell spirituall men as temporall do their dueties doth nether make innouacion in the Churche nor yet trowble the ordre thereof But dothe as the chiefe and the best of the Kynges of Israell did and as all goode christiane kinges oughte to doe Whiche office goode Christiane emperours alwayes toke vpon them in callinge the vniuersall counseles of all Countryes in one place and at one tyme to assemble to the entent all heresies troubling the church might be there extyrped calling and cōmaundinge aswell the byshope of Rome as other Patriarches and all Primates aswell of the east as of the west of the southe and of the northe to come to the saide Counceiles As Marlianus themperoure did in callinge the greate councell of Calcedon one of the iiii chiefe and firste generall councelles commaunding Leo then Byshope of Rome to come therto And albeit Leo nether lyked the tyme whyche he would for a season shoulde haue bene differred nor yet the place whiche he would haue had in Italie wher the Emperour by his owne commaundement had called it to Calchis in Asia yet he answered themperoure that he would gladly obey his commaūdemente and sente thither his agentes to appere ther for him as doth appere in y e Epistles of Leo to Martiane the Emperoure xli xlvii xlviii and in the. xlix epistle to Pulcheria Empresse And lykewyse desyreth Theodosius themperour to cōmaunde a concell of Byshops to be called in Italy for taking awaye suche contencions and troubles as at that tyme troubled the quietnes of the churches And in many mo epistles of the same Leo it dothe manyfestly appeare that themperours alwayes assembled generall councelles by their commaundementes And in the syxe Councell general it appereth very plainely that at that tyme the byshops of Rome made no claim nor vsed tyttle to call theim selfe heddes vniuersal ouer all the catholyke churche as there dothe appere In subscriptione seu salutati one synodica suggestionis antedictae Whiche is thus ad verbum Pijssimis dominis sereniss victoribus triumphatoribus dilectis filijs dei dn̄i nostri Iesu Christi Constantino Magno imparotori Heraclio Tiberio Augustis Agatho episcopus seruus seruorum dei cum vniuersis sy nodis subia cētibus cōcili● apostolicae sedis In y e superscriptiōor salutaciō of y e foresaid sinodical preāble which is thus worde for worde To the moste godly Lordes and most noble victors and conquerours y e welbeloued chyldren of god of our Lord Iesu Christ to Constantine the great Emperoure to Eraclius and Tiberius Cesars Byshop Agatho the seruaunte of the seruauntes of god withall the conuocations subiect to the councell of the sea Apostolique sendeth greetinges And sayth expressing what countryes he reckened and comprehended in that superscription or salutaciō It foloweth that these were vnder his assembly whiche were in the Northe and Easte partes So that at that time the Byshop of Rome made no such pretence to bee ouer and aboue all as hee nowe dothe by vsurpation vendicatinge to him selfe the spirituall kyngedome of Chryste by whyche he raygneth in the heartes of all faythfull people and then chaungeth it to a temporall kyngedome ouer and aboue all kynges to depose theim for hys pleasure preachynge thereby Carnem pro spiritu terrenum regnum pro coelesti in damnationē nisi resipiscat suam The fleshe for the spirit and an earthely kingdom for an heauenly to his owne damnacion yf he repente not Where he oughte to obeye hys Prynce by the doctrine of Saint Peter in hys fyrst epistle saying Subiecti estote omni humanae creaturae propter deum siue regi quasi praecellenti siue ducibus tanquam ab eo missis ad vindictam malefactorum laudem verô bonorum Be ye subiecte to euerye mans ordinaunce for the Lordes sake whether to the kinge as to the chiefe whether to the dukes as sente of him to the punishment of the euil doers to the praise of the good Againe S. Paule Omnis omnia potestantibus sublimioribus sub dita sit with other thinges before alleged So that this his pretensed vsurpacion to be aboue all kynges is directly againste the scriptures geuen to the churche by the apostles whose doctrine whosoeuer ouerturneth can be nether Caput nor Infimum membrum ecclesiae Wherfore albeit ye haue heretofore stycked to the said wrongfully vsurped power moued thereto as ye wryte by your conscience yet sythens now ye see further yf ye luste regarde the mere truth and suche auncient authours as you haue bene writen to of in tymes paste we would exhort you for the wealth of your soule to surrender into the Byshop of Romes handes your red hat bi which he seduced you trustinge to haue of you beynge come of a noble bloode an instrument to aduaūce his vaine glorye whereof by the sayd hat he made you participante to allure you thereby the more to hys purpose In whiche doynge ye shall retourne to the truth from whiche ye haue erred Do youre duety to your soueraigne Lord from whome ye haue declyned And please thereby almyghtye GOD whose lawes ye haue transgressed And in not so doynge ye shall remayne in erroure offendynge bothe almyghtye GOD and youre naturall soueraygne Lorde whom chiefly ye oughte to searche to please Whiche thinge for the good mynde that we heretofore haue borne you wee praye almightie God of his infinite mercy that you do not Amen FINIS Imprynted at London in Paules churche yearde at the the signe of the Brasen serpente by Reginalde Woulfe Anno Domini M. D. L X. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum Luke 15. Mat. 18. 1. Cor. 3. Luke 22. 1. Petri. 5. Act. 20. De simplicitate clericorum Contra Io●inianum Cap. 1. super Titū Lib. 3. cap. 21. Lib. 5. cap. 6. Lib. 3. cap. 23. Lib. 4. ca. 23. Epistola 16. 2. Vide duas Epistolas ad bonifacium pp. 1. ot conciliorum Fol. 307. 308. Dist. 16. Viginti Hist. tript Lib. 4. cap. 16. Apoca. 21. Mat. 28 Esd. 2. 1. Reg. 15. Eze. 3. Mat. 18. Mat. 28. August epist. 162. Rom. 13. ● Par. 28. 2. Par. 16. 2. Par. 19. 2. Par. 16. Epist. 81. Actione 4. 1. Pet. 2. Rom. 13.