Howe long at the length will you abuse our gentle suff• raunce,1 ye Pope of Rome? Howe long shall your fury and counterfeit hypocrisy delude us? What kind of inordinate licentiousness is this, that so much diste••pereth you? What doeth your outrageous insolencie import? what doeth it practise? whether will i• ra•nge• what measure or end of this your intolerable […] and tyranny shall we look for at your hands at the last •have you so shamefully shaken off all shamefastness all feeling and insight of humanity and common reason: that knowing both heaven and earth conspired against your destruction, through your monstrous and manifold treacheries, horrible and unmeasurable murders, beholding daily with your eyes, so many, so manifest arguments, and plain demonstrations, as it were fore warnings of your utter overthrow, and can none of all the same mollify your mind any thing at all? Can they nothing at all restrain you from outrage? what? doeth not this so palpable lightsomeness of Christs Gospel, this so glorious majesty of the trueth glistering as the Sunshine in midday, menacing, I know not what horrible confusion of your kingdom, the pomp of your tottering Throne already rent asunder, and for the most part darkened and lef• succourless: doeth not the blood of so many ⟨image 6⟩Martyrs, the testimonies of so many Doctors: the […] of the people: The secrete determinations, and foreiu•gementes, yea not only secrete determinations, but the open speeches, and frank voices of all the godly, wherewith they do generally all denounce, detest, and condemn you for the very Antichrist: doeth not the apparent gestures and frowning countenances of all sorts of men: doth not the sting of your own conscience at the least, nor any regard of shame: doeth not the friendly alliance of so many Cities united in one, with unseparable hands of mutual league, apparent even to your face, the daily protestations of all people, the Lances and Swords of princes, sharpened with deadly hate, and •et an edge against you, and even now bending their main force to your destruction, the prepared power of people and Nations: the inward heart burnings of the greatest dominions of the world, yea their very nails scarcely restrainable from your present •aking in peers, doth nothing of all these, no one of all these (I say) move you any jo• at all?
HOwe long at the length wil you abuse our gentle suff• raunce,1 ye Pope of Rome? Howe long shall your fury and counterfeyte hypocrisie delude vs? What kynde of inordinate licentiousnes is this, that so much diste••pereth you? What doeth your outragious insolencie import? what doeth it practize? whether will i• ra•nge• what measure or ende of this your int•llerable 〈…〉 and tyranny shall we looke for at your handes at the last •haue you so shamefully shaken off all shamefastnes• all feeling and insight of humanitie and common reason: that knowing both heauen and earth conspired against your destruction, through your monstruous and manifold treacheries, horrible and vnmeasurable murthers, beholding daily with your eyes, so many, so manifest argumentes, and playne demonstrations, as it were fore warnings of your vtter ouerthrowe, and can none of all the same mollifie your mynde any thing at all? Can they nothing at all restraine you from ••trage? what? doeth not this so palpable lightsomenesse of Christes Gospell, this so glorious maiestie of the trueth glistering as the Sunshine in midday, manacing, I know not what horrible confusion of your kingdome, the pompe of your tottering Throne already rent asunder, and for the most parte darkened and lef• succourles: doeth not the blood of so many ⟨image 6⟩Martyres, the testim•nies of so many Doctours: the 〈…〉 of the people: The secrete determinations, and foreiu•gementes, yea not onely secrete dete•minations, but the open speaches, and francke voyces of all the godly, wherewith they doe generally all denounce, detest, and condemne you for the very Antichrist: doeth not the apparant gestures and frowning countenances of all sortes of men: doth not the sting of your owne conscience at the least, nor any regard of shame: doeth not the friendly alliaunce of so many Cities vnited in one, with vnseparable hands of mutuall league, apparaunt euen to your face, the dayly protesttions of all people, the Launces and Swoordes of princes, sharpened with deadly hate, and et an edge agaynst you, and euen nowe bending theyr mayne force to your destruction, the prepared power of people and Nations: the inwarde heart burninges of the greatest dominions of the worlde, yea theyr very nayles scarely restrayneable from your present aking in peeres, doth nothing of al these, no one of all these (I saye) mooue you any io atal?
- 1The universal Church doth complain• or expostulate with the Bishop of Rome.The vniuersall Churche dooth complain• or expo••ulate with the Bishopp of Rome.
