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A04483	A viewe of a seditious bul sent into Englande, from Pius Quintus Bishop of Rome, anno. 1569. Taken by the reuerende Father in God, Iohn Iewel, late Bishop of Salisburie. Wherevnto is added a short treatise of the holy Scriptures. Both which he deliuered in diuers sermons in his cathedral church of Salisburie, anno. 1570	Jewel, John, 1522-1571.; Garbrand, John, 1542-1589.	1582 (1582)	STC 14614; ESTC S107782	85,989	232

of his diuelish practises to worke rebellion treasons among vs we may well thinke hee dealeth the like with other places when he draweth them to serue his turne Hunc vnum super omnes gentes principem constituit qui euellat destruat c. He hath appointed him onely Peter and his Successour the Byshop of Rome Prince ouer all nations to plucke vp and to destroy to roote out and throw downe to build plant No doubt this cōmissiō is large There can be no greater authority giuen in matters of the world But this authority hath no man God kéepeth it to himselfe By me Kings raigne and Princes decree iustice They beare my name they drawe my sword they are my Ministers to take vengeance on him that doth euill their hearts are in my hands I turne them whether soeuer it pleaseth me I take the praiers supplications and intercession for Kinges and for all that are in authoritie that men may leade a quiet and peaceable life in all godlines and honestie Daniel telleth King Nabuchodonosor that the most high beareth rule ouer the kingdomes of men and giueth it to whomsoeuer hee will Wherefore doth hée not giue this glorie vnto God Wherefore saith he I will goe vp and be like vnto the highest I wil exalt my selfe and shew my selfe that I am God I haue saith he a déede of gifte The wordes set downe by the Prophet Hieremie are my warrant to place and depose whom I will And he doth not onely say thus but as if it were too small and base a title to set the name of God or of our Sauiour Christ before the wordes of his priuiledge he kéepeth his feete from y e ground and raiseth alofte and ietteth in the ayre aboue as though he were one of the spirituall wickednesses which are in the hie places and saith Regnans in excelsis cui data est omnis in caelo in terra potestas c. Hee that ruleth in the heights to whom al power is giuen both in heauen in earth c. Let him not deceiue you with vaine wordes You shall witnesse against him that hée taketh the name of the Lorde his God in vaine For if any worde in that péece of Scripture be spoken either of Prince or remouing of Princes if y e whole sense of those words cary any greater authoritie to the Pope than to the Bishop of any other place or to the simplest Minister in the world let me be no more credited Marke therefore sée howe boldly and fondly Pope Pius séeketh to mocke the worlde First he sayth Deus constituit me vnum Principem super gentes God hath appoynted me alone to be Prince ouer the nations Here is a shamelesse falsifying of Gods words The Prophet saith I haue set thee ouer the nations The Pope thrusteth in thrée words more Me alone and Prince that so he and none but he may reuel and rule in all places Reade the place of the Prophet if you haue your bookes The wordes are I set thee ouer the nations They say nothing neither of the Pope nor of Peters Successour nor of one alone nor of Prince All these the Pope hath péeced of his owne deuise But Salomon warneth him Put nothing to his words least he reproue thee and thou be founde a lyar Also S. Iohn telleth him If any man shall adde vnto these thinges GOD shall adde vnto him the plagues that are written in this Booke Whose wordes or what euidence will hée not corrupt which dareth in such presumption to handle the worde of GOD deceitfullye and without shame sende it foorth so into the worlde As for Hieremie the Prophete vnto whom God spake the wordes which the Pope sendeth vs will Pius say that hée was a Prince and had auctoritie ouer nations and kingdomes will hee saye that Hieremie depriued Princes and thrust them from their royall seates Hieremie did no such thing But al contrarie he suffered persecution not onely of the Princes but of the wicked people Pashur smote him and put him in the stockes Hee was in derision dayly euery one mocked him Hée hearde the rayling of many and feare came on him on euery side All his familiars laye in waite for him y e so they might preuaile against him and execute their vengeance vpon him Hee moneth his case before God saying howe is it that I came forth of the wombe to see labour and sorowe that my dayes should be consumed with shame And in the sixe and twentith Chapter all the people were gathered against Hieremie in the house of y ● Lord then the Priestes and the Prophets and all the people tooke him and saide thou shalt die the death Was al this done vnto him by rebellion as against their Prince was it because he had vsed him selfe proudely or cruelly in matters of temporal gouernement was it not rather because he stoode in the Courte of the Lords house where the Lorde had sent him to Prophecie and saide to all the people the wordes of the Lorde of Hostes. Was it not because hee prophecied in the name of the Lorde Woulde Pope Pius be thus set ouer nations add kingdomes would he bée smitten and put into the stockes rayled at woulde he haue his dayes consumed in shame woulde he be let downe with cords into the dungeon where was no water but mire and so sticke fast in the mire woulde he haue his friendes mone his case to the King and tell what euill hath bene done to him in that they haue cast him into the dungeon say he dyeth for hunger in the place where hée is would he I say thus be set ouer nations and kingdomes or wil he say that Hieremie suffering these reproches of the Rulers and the Priests and the people did enioy an earthly peace and possesse a worldly kingdome or will hee say that God mocked his Prophet whē he saide vnto him This day I set thee ouer nations The words therefore must néeds haue an other meaning and what that meaning is who is better able to declare than Hieremie him selfe The Lord stretched out his hād touched my mouth and the Lorde saide vnto me beholde I haue put my words in thy mouth I haue ordained thee to be a Prophet vnto the nations Thou shalt go to all that I shall sende thee and what soeuer I command thee thou shalt speake Be not afraide of their faces For I this daye haue made thee a defensed Citie and an iron piller and walles of brasse against the whole lande against the Kinges of Iuda and against the Princes thereof against the Priestes thereof and against the people of the lande For they shall fight against thee but shall not preuaile against thee For I am with thee sayeth the Lorde Such auctoritie had he ouer the nations to be their Prophet to speake what the Lorde commaunded to reproue them without feare In like auctoritie

of God and that he saith Let no soule be subiect to the higher powers let euery soule resist the Prince let him withstand the ordinance of God be not obedient neither for wrath nor for conscience giue no custome nor tribute nor feare nor honour vnto hir Remember if thou obey thy Prince as God hath commaunded thée thou art accursed by the Pope or if thou disobey the Prince as the Pope requireth thée thou art condemned by the iudgemēt of God Remember that the Pope hath conferēce with traitours in all countries that he raiseth Subiectes against their Princes that he causeth Princes to plague their Subiectes that he hath no regard of the stranger and the fatherlesse that hée suffereth Iewes and Harlots to liue in wealth and peace with him at Rome yet will not suffer a Christian and lawfull Prince to liue in y ● peace of hir own Countrie at home that he is the procurer of theft and murder of rebellion and dissention in the land that he hath sent in a Bul● to shewe his meaning and to worke our disquiet so bold and vaine impudent a Bul and so full fraught with blasphemie and vntruth as neuer before him did any Let these thinges neuer bée forgotten Let your children remember them for euer Let vs your children with vs pray God saue Queene Elizabeth and confound all those which rise vp against hir Let vs at the length take knowledge of the Pope of his enterprise boldnes He his Predecessours haue deceiued y ● worlde our Fathers before vs. Let vs bee no more children in vnderstanding God hath giuen vs the light of his word we haue by it espied wherein they robbed vs let vs be no more deceiued I say vnto you againe I beséech you let vs at the length take knowledge of the Pope and of his enterprise and boldnesse Hée and his Predecessours haue deceiued the worlde our Fathers before vs. Let vs be no more children in vnderstanding God hath giuen vs the light of his word we haue by it espied wherein they robbed vs. Let vs be no more deceiued And thou O most merciful Father bée our defence in these daungerous times The Lyon rangeth and séeketh whome he may deuour Looke downe from thy heauens vpon vs. Giue thy grace vnto Elizabeth thy seruant Thou hast placed hir in the seate of hir fathers thou hast made hir to be a comfort vnto thy people thou hast endewed hir with manifold gifts shadow hir vnder the wings of thy mercifull protection confound and bring to nothing the counsell of hir enemies direct the worke of thine owne hands establish that O God which thou hast wrought in vs so we which bée thy people and the shéepe of thy pasture shal giue thée honour and praise for euer and euer Amen ¶ A Treatise of the holy Scriptures gathered out of certaine Sermons which the reuerend Father in God Bishoppe Iewel preached at Salisburie Anno. Domini 1570. AMONG al his creatures in heauen or earth God hath not made any like vnto the Sunne in the firmament the beames where of are beautifull and pleasaunte and doe giue comforte in all places to all things It reioyceth the whole and relieueth the sicke it causeth birds to sing fishes to play cattel to stirre wormes to créepe grasse to grow and trées to bring fruit it reneweth the face of the whole earth Yet a blind man hath no pleasure in the beauty therof because he is blind and cannot sée it Yet a deade man hath no warmth by the heate thereof because he is dead and féeleth it not Adam was placed in Paradise in perfect estate and in the companie of Gods Angles God walked and did talke with him He heard the voice and behelde the presence of God The riuers yéelded waters aboundantly the trées brought him foode of life He had plentie without trauel he had pleasures ioy and his hearts desire But Adam was vnthankfull he knew not God the worker of his happinesse he knewe not the place in whic● he was he knew not his owne state and blessednesse therefore the wrath of the Lord grewe against him he fell into the snares of the Deuil he became mortall and returned to dust What nation in all the Worlde so happy as Israel they were deliuered by a mightie hand out of Aegipt from the tyrannie of Pharao from seruage and vilanie Their children were no more slaine before their faces They passed through the bottome of the Sea as vpon drie land When they were hungrie there went forth a wind from the Lord and brought them Quailes from the sea and Manna was giuen them from Heauen to eate when they thirsted the rocks opened and powred oute water that they and theyr beastes might drinke In battaile they were mightie and strong no power was able to stande against them The Lord wente before them by daye in a pillar of a cloude to leade them the waye and by night in a pillar of fire to giue them lighte When they called vpon the Lord he heard them When they trusted in him they were not confounded But they grewe vnmindfull of all these mercies and murmured agaynste the Lorde and againste his seruauntes therefore God raught forth his hand against them He sware in his wrath that they shoulde not enter into his reste Hee sent his Angel and destroied them in the wildernesse Euen so fareth it with all suche whiche regarde not the worde of their saluation because they haue eares and heare not nor will vnderstande with their harts the furie of the Lord shal be kindled against them The Prophet saith in the name of God to Israell I haue sent vnto them al my seruants the Prophets yet would they not heare mee nor encline their eare And Behold I sowe my law in you that it may bring foorth fruit in you But our fathers which receiued the lawe kept it not neither obserued thine ordinaunces neyther did the fruite of thy lawe appeare For they that receyued it perished bicause they kepte not the thing that was sowen in them Samuell telleth Saul Thou haste caste away the word of the Lord and the Lord hathe caste awaye thee Againe Ieremie sayeth How do yee saye wee are wise and the Lawe of the Lorde is with vs they haue reiected the word of the Lord and what wisedome is in them Againe Vnto whom shal I speake and admonish that they may heare Behold their eares are vncircumcised and they cannot hearken beholde the worde of the Lord is vnto them as a reproche they haue no delight in it I wil cause a plague to come vpon this people euen the fruite of theyr owne imaginations because they haue not taken heede vnto my wordes nor to my lawe but cast it off After this sorte dothe God shewe the cause why his word taketh not place in vs bicause we are wilfull and will not heare it nor receiue it nor take delight in it nor let

Scriptures In them yée shall learne to know me and howe you should worship me in them you shal finde euerlasting life the wordes of the Lord are pure words as the siluer tryed in the fornace ther is no filth nor drosse remaining in them They are the store-house of wisdome and of the knowledge of God In respect whereof all the wisedome of this world is but vaine foolish Numa Pompilius King of the Romanes Lycurgus King of Lacedemon and Minos King of Creta were wise men of great gouernment they deuised lawes to rule the people and bare them in hande that they were taught by reuelatiō that so their ordinances might win the more credite and be established for euer But where are they nowe Where is Numa Minos or Lycurgus where bée their Books What is become of their Laws They were vnwise and had no knowledge nor vnderstanding of God they and their Laws are dead their names forgotten But the lawe of God came from Heauen indéede GOD wrote it with his finger it is the fountaine of al wisedome and therefore shal it continue for euer and neuer haue an ende Here let vs beholde the great power and worke of God When Moses receyued the Law God hymselfe came down in person wyth thousande thousande of Aungels the Aire was darkened at hys presence the Moūt stoode al couered with fire the earth shooke the heauens thundered the people stood a farre off and fled for feare and said vnto Moses talke thou with vs we wil heare but let not God talk with vs least we die This was the first proclayming publishing of y e law such force and credite God gaue to his word warrāted himselfe to be y ● Lord. Since that time so manye thousande yeares are already passed In the meane time y e people of Israel were oppressed by Tyrantes were spoiled and chased out of their Countrie Firste by Nabuchodonosor into Babilon after that by Antiochus into Syria and lastly were as vagabondes driuen from countrie to countrie Thyir Citie Ierusalem was sackte their houses ouerthrowne their Temple razed and not a stone lefte vppon a stone theyr Librarie destroyed theyr Bookes burnte the tabernacle loste the couenaunt broken No vision no reuelation no comforte for the people left nor prophet nor priest nor any to speake in the name of the Lorde In all those times of decayes of sackings of darkenesse of miserie what was done with the word of God It was wickedly burnt by Ioachim King of Iuda and Antiochus burnt the Bookes of the Lawe and cutte them in peeces● No man durste be knowen to haue them and auouche the hauing So thought they vtterly to deface the glorie of God and abolish al remembraunce of his Lawes Then came the Phariseis they drowned the worde of God with their traditions they tooke away the key of Knowledge and entred not in them selues but forbade them that came in After them came Heretiques they denyed some one parte and some an other parte of Scriptures They razed blotted corrupted and altered the word of God of the word of God they made it their own word or which is worse they made it the word of the Diuel By the space of so many thousād yers the word of God passed by so many dangers of Tyrants of Phariseis of Heretiques of fire and of sworde and yet continueth and standeth vntill this day without altering or chaunging one letter This was a wōderful work of God that hauing so many so greate enimes and passing thorough so many so greate daungers it yet continueth stil without adding or altering of any one sentence or worde or letter No creature was able to doe this it was Gods worke He preserued it that no Tyrant should consume it no Tradition choake it no Heretike malitiously should corrupt it For For his names sake and for the elects sake he would not suffer it to perish For in it God hathe ordained a blessing for his people and by it he maketh couenant with them for life euerlasting Tirants and Phariseis and Heretiques and the enimies of the Crosse of Christe haue an end but the worde of God hath no ende No force shall be able to decay it The gates of Hel shal not preuaile against● it Cities shal fal Kingdoms shall come to nothing Empires shal fade away as the smoake but the trueth of the Lord shall continue for euer Burne it it will rise againe kill it it wil liue againe cut it downe by the roote it wil spring againe There is no wisedome neither vnderstāding nor Counsel against the Lord. Let vs behold the nations kingdoms which somtimes professed Christ are now heathnish I●●yricum Epyrus Peloponnesus Macedonia others Againe let vs behold such kingdomes countries whiche wer in times past heathnish knew not God As England Ireland Rome Scotland diuers other They were al without y ● Gospel without Christe without God without hope of life They worshipped Idols euen y e work of their own hands To them they appointed Priests for their seruice dayes and places for the people to resort togither to worship thē Here in Englād Paules Church in Londō was the Temple of Diana Peters Churche in Westminst was the Temple of Apollo In Rome they had y e Temple of the great God Iuppiter in Florence y e Temple of Mars and in other places they had Temples dedicated to other Idols Iupiter Mars Apollo Diana wer vncleane spirites filthie Diuels yet gaue they thanks to them for their peace and prosperitie prayed to them in war in miserie commended vnto them their wiues their children themselues y e safe keping and custody of their soules They built gorgeous Churches Chappels set vp images of siluer gold to thē prayed lifted vp their hāds did sacrifice offred vp their children to thē A horrible thing to say yet true it is y e darkenesse of those times were such that mē slew their own offered them vp to Idolles They saide greate is Iupiter greate is Apollo and greate is Diana of the Ephesians These are the Gods of our Fathers our Fathers trusted in them they made vs and haue defended vs and haue giuen vs victorie againste our enimies Whosoeuer denyed thē were thought worthy to die Thus were the Kings and the Princes and the people persuaded And so cōtinued they by the space of some thousand yeares without controllment or contradiction They had greate proppes of Antiquitie Vniuersality and Consent Antiquitie of all times Uniuersalitie of al places consent of al the people So strongly and so mightily were they foūded Who woulde thinke suche a religion so auntient so vniuersall and so defended by common consent should euer possibly be remoued But when the fulnesse of time came God sente forth his worde and al was changed Errour fell down truth stode vp mē forsooke their Idols and went to God The Kings and Priestes and