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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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I pray you heartily when it cometh to your mind, to make a true account, how much they have been beneficial unto you & others of your crew, whiles they were your vassals, tell us now this one thing, ⟨image 13⟩what secrete insolencie lurketh in that authority of your majesty, that may by an unavoidable necessity enforce them to the like superfluous pillage any longer.
I pray you heartely when it commeth to your minde, to make a true account, howe much they haue bene beneficial vnto you & others of your crew, whiles they were your vassals, tel vs now this one thing, ⟨image 13⟩what secrete insolencie lurketh in that authoritie of your maiestie, that may by an vnauoidable necessitie enforce them to the lyke superfluous pillage any longer.
1For why should they so do? is it because you may grant them salvation, and bless them? But their salvation is already plentiful, sufficient and everlasting for them in our only Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Is it because you may give them remission of sins? but the same is also given them freely in the faith of the Gospel, without any other aid. What is it then? Because you may preach the word of God to Gods people? or is it rather because ye may, as ye have hitherto accustomed, thrust upon them mens traditions, pelting glosses, and old wives tales in stead of Christs Gospel? that ye may rob the lay people of the word of God, with holding it fast locked from them, in an unknown and barbarous tongue? That ye may scatter abroad the doctrine of Devils? But the Lord be highly thanked for it, there lacketh no store of godly personages amongst them, which are able too execute that holy function of preaching Gods word, and do execute it indeed without aid of the Lateran Bishop freely, and with good success: yea so much the more freely, by how much they be severed from your tyranny by distance of place. What is the cause then? that ye may determine their causes and controversies? But where may controversies be more happily decided, and more speedily ended, then where the special circumstances of the grievances began first, and are best known? Here of came that sacred decree of those godly Fathers in the African Council as Cyprian doth testify: