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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30388	The life of William Bedell D.D., Lord Bishop of Killmore in Ireland written by Gilbert Burnet. To which are subjoyned certain letters which passed betwixt Spain and England in matter of religion, concerning the general motives to the Roman obedience, between Mr. James Waddesworth ... and the said William Bedell ...	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.; Bedell, William, 1571-1642. Copies of certain letters which have passed between Spain & England in matter of religion.; Wadsworth, James, 1604-1656?	1692 (1692)	Wing B5831; ESTC R27239	225,602	545

of your induction though it matters little whether you do or no since Father Parsons will needs aver that he lived and dyed of your Religion Here first you mention his violent divorceing himself from his lawful Wife We will not now debate the Question How his Brothers Wise could be his lawful Wife You must now say so Whatsoever the Scriptures Councils almost all Universities of Christendom determined Yet methinks it should move you that Pope Clement himself had consigned to Cardinal Campegius a Breve formed to sentence for the King in as ample manner as could be howsoever upon the success of the Emperours affairs in Italy and his own occasions he sent a special Messenger to him to burn it But what violence was this that you speak of The matter was orderly and judiciously by the Archbishop of Canterbury with the assistance of the learnedest of the Clergy according to the antient Canons of the Church and Laws of the Realm heard and determined That indeed is more to be marvelled at What moved him to fall out with the Pope his Friend in whose quarrel he had so far engaged himself as to write against Luther of whom also he was so rudely handled as you mention before having received also for some part of recompence the title of The Defender of the Faith having been so chargeably thankful to the Pope for it All these things considered it must be said this unkindness and slippery dealing of Clement with him was from the Lord that he might have an occasion against the Pope and that it might appear that it was not Humane Counsel but Divine Providence that brought about the banishment of the Popes Tyranny from among us His marriage with the Lady Anne Bullen her death and the rest which you mention of the abling or disabling her Issue to inherit the Crown I see not what it makes to our purpose The suppression of the Monasteries was not his sole Act but of the whole State with the consent also of the Clergy and taken out of Cardinal Wolsey his example yea founded upon the Popes Authority granted to him To dissolve the smaller Houses of Religion on pretence to defray the charges of his sumptuous Buildings at Oxford and Ipswich wherein if it pity you as I confess it hath sometimes me that such goodly Buildings are defaced and ruined we must remember what God did to Shiloh yea to Jerusalem it self and his Temple there And that Oracle Every tree that beareth not good fruit shall be cut down and cast into the fire You demand If this Man King Henry were a good Head of Gods Church What if I should demand the same touching Alexander the Sixth Iulius the Second Leo the Tenth or twenty more of the Catalogue of Popes in respect of whom King Henry might be canonized for a Saint But there is a Story in Tullies Offices of one Lucatius that laid a Wager that he was bonus vir a good Man and would be judged by one Fimbria a Man of Consular Dignity He when he understood the case said He would never judge that matter lest either he should diminish the reputation of a Man well esteemed of or set down that any Man was a good Man which he accounted to consist in an innumerable sort of Excellencies and Praises That which he said of a good Man with much more reason may I say of a good King one of whose highest excellencies is to be a good Head of the Church And therefore it is a Question which I will never take upon me to answer Whether King Henry were such or no unless you will beforehand interpret this Word as favourably as Guicciardine doth tell us Men are wont to do in the censuring your heads of the Church For Popes he saith now a-days are praised for their goodness when they exceed not the wickedness of other men After this description of a good head of the Church or if ye will that of Cominaeus which saith he is to be counted a good King whose vertues exceed his vices I will not doubt to say King Henry may be enrolled among the number of good Kings In special for his executing that highest duty of a good King the imploying his Authority in his Kingdom to command good things and forbid evil not only concerning the civil Estate of Men but the Religion also of God Witness his authorizing the Scriptures to be had and read in Churches in our Vulgar Tongue enjoyning the Lords Prayer the Creed and ten Commandments to be taught the people in English abolishing superfluous Holy-days pulling down those jugling Idols whereby the people were seduced namely the Rood of Grace whose Eyes and Lips were moved with wires openly shewed at Pauls Cross and pulled asunder by the people Above all the abolishing of the Popes Tyranny and Merchandise of Indulgences and such like Chafer out of England Which Acts of his whosoever shall unpartially consider of may well esteem him a better Head to the Church of England than any Pope these thousand years In the last place you come to the Hugenots and Geuses of France and Holland You lay to their Charge the raising of Civil Warrs shedding of Blood occasioning Rebellion Rapine Desolations principally for their new Religion In the latter part you write I confess somewhat reservedly when you say occasioning not causing and principally not only and wholly for Religion But the Words going before and the exigence of your Argument require that your meaning should be they were the causers of these disorders You bring to my mind a Story whether of the same Fimbria that I mentioned before or another which having caused Quintus Scavola to be stabbed as Father Paulo was while I was at Venice after he understood that he escaped with his life brought his Action against him for not having received the Weapon wholly into his Body These poor people having endured such barbarous Cruelties Massacres and Martyrdoms as scarce the like can be shewed in all Stories are now accused by you as the Authors of all they suffered No no Mr. Waddesworth they be the Laws of the Roman Religion that are written in Blood It is the bloody Inquisition and the perfidious violating of the Edicts of Pacification that have set France and Flanders in combustion An evident Argument whereof may be for Flanders that those Genses that you mention were not all Calvinists as you are mis-informed the chief of them were Roman Catholicks as namely Count Egmond and Horne who lost their Heads for standing and yet only by Petition against the new Impositions and the Inquisition which was sought to be brought in upon those Countries The which when the Vice-roy of Naples D. Petro de Toledo would have once brought in there also the people would by no means abide but rose up in Arms to the number of fifty thousand which sedition could not be appeased but by delivering them of that fear The like resistance though more