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Not much unlike hereunto was that glorious title attributed to Pope Julius the second by Christopher Marcellus in a public sermon,¹ Thou art our shepherd (said he,) our Physician, our governor, our honour, to be brief, thou art an other God on earth, &c. Could ever any more blasphemous voice be attributed to any person, or vouchsafed of any man, then that a mortal man should be worshipped of a man for an immortal God on earth? which blasphemous speeches were y•t so not altogether refused of those proud Peacocks, and so nothing at all reprehended, that Ladislaus was for none other cause at all, esteemed and dignified with the title of a Catholic king.

Not much vnlike herevnto was that glorious title attributed to Pope Iulius the seconde by Christofer Marcellus in a publique sermon,¹ Thou art our shepeheard (sayd he,) our Phisition, our gouernour, our honour, to be briefe, thou art an other God on earth, &c. Could euer any more blasphemous voyce be attributed to any person, or vouchsafed of any man, then that a mortall man shoulde bee woorshipped of a man for an immortall God on earth? which blasphemous speaches were y•t so not altogither refused of those prowde Peacockes, and so nothing at all reprehended, that Ladislaus was for none other cause at all, esteemed and dignified with the title of a Catholike king.

1. 1Ex Tomo 14. Conc. pag. 66•.

But what reckon I up one Nicholas, or one Julius, as though this were the example of one, two, or three Popes only, as though it were not an easy matter, rather in this one Glass to behold the whole cluster of all the rest of the same crew?¹