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The Pope confuted The holy and apostolic Church confuting the Pope. The first action.…The Pope confuted The holy and apostolique Church confuting the Pope. The first action.…
The Pope confuted The holy and apostolic Church confuting the Pope. The first action. Translated out of Latin into English, by James Bell.The Pope confuted The holy and apostolique Church confuting the Pope. The first action. Translated out of Latine into English, by Iames Bell.
London: printed by Thomas Dawson for Richard Sergier, 1580
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But I can not say whether any one of all the rabble afore rehearsed,1 may seem to exceed Boniface the 8. in pride & in villainies: Who was so monstrously puffed up with pride, & beyond all imagination, unmeasurably sw•••en with unshamefast insolencie that he shamed not to interdict Philip the French king, by his legate, fortified with most arrogant bulls, commanding him, as he would ⟨p. 34⟩answer the authority Papane, to resign the kingdom of France to the Sea Apostolic. What more impud•t demand could have bin imagined of the most villainous Pirate of the world? What more currish command delivered from any, though more mad then a march hare? What action more resembling the Turkish fury? certes there could nothing have bin done, or devised more disagreeable, and less beseeming an Apostle or the successor of an Apostle. In good fellowship (pope of Rome) speak even for the reverence ye bear to S. Peter & S. Paul: Did the Apostle Peter give ever any such president whiles he lived? Or if he lived now, would he commit any such outrage, as did Pope Clement 5. 2without all regard of shame, who procuring the Emperor Henry 5. to maintain most cruel battle against Robert king of Apulia• whiles the two princes were by the ears, turned his tip pet, and joined in arms against the said Emperor, on the behalf of the said king? or would Peter have bin ever s• mad, as with the next Pope following, John the 22.3 by b•ll proclaimed him self father and prince of all Christen dome, chief legate of the high God? or vaunted him self to be of full power and highest authority able to dispose kingdoms & Empires, where, and upon whom him listed? Who in the end of his bull gave in special commandment to Lodowike the Emperor to relinquish the Empire within three months, and to resign the name and title of a king: not presuming from thenceforth to reenter upon any such dignity, without his special license, & warrant: upon refusal whereof he further chargeth all his nobles, & estates, aswell spiritual as temporal, to abā don their king, and compel him to yield his neck, under the yoke of Apostolical obedience?