So that ye make not the Pope an Absolute God, ye think, ye may otherwise call him God safely, and without prejudice. A proper shift, to maintain a vain man in the possession of his Godhead. 1234567In such a pleasant imagination Antiochus sometime the king of Syria, entitled him self by the name of God. So the Emperor Domitian used to assign his Proclamations: Dominus Deus vester Domitianus: Your Lord God Domitian. So the Emperor Caligula called him selfe, Deum optimum Maximum, & Jovem Latialem: The Best, and most mighty God, and the great God Jupiter of Italy: So Sapores, the great king of Persia, called him self, Fratrem Solis, & Lunae: The brother of the Sun, and the Moon: So the peevish Physician Menecrates called him self Jupiter: So Nicostratus called him self Hercules: So Nicagoras made him self a pair of wings, and would needs be called the God Mercurius: So Manichaeus the Heretic called him self the Holy Ghost: So the Romans in old times erected up an Image in the honour of Simon Magus the Sorcerer, with this Inscription, or Posee, Simoni Sancto Deo: In the honour of Simon the Holy God. By this your so handsome Distinction, M. Harding, of God Absolute, and God not Absolute, I see not, but every of these might well, and safely have maintained his title without blame.
So that yee make not the Pope an Absolute God, ye thinke, ye maie otherwise cal him God safely, and without preiudice. A proper shifte, to mainteine a vaine man in ye possession of his Godhed. 1234567In sutche a pleasant imaginatiō Antiochus sommetime the king of Syria, intituled him selfe by the name of God. So the Emperoure Domitian vsed to assigne his Proclamations: Dominus Deus vester Domitianus: Youre Lorde God Domitian. So the Emperoure Caligula called him selfe, Deum optimum Maximum, & Iouem Latialem: The Beste, and moste mighty God, and the greate God Iuppiter of Italie: So Sapores, the great king of Persia, called him selfe, Fratrem Solis, & Lunae: The brother of the Sonne, and the Moone: So the peeuishe Physician Menecrates called him selfe Iuppiter: So Nicostratus called him selfe Hercules: So Nicagoras made him selfe a paire of whinges, and would needes be called the God Mercurius: So Manichaeus the Heretique called him selfe the Holy Ghoste: So the Romaines in olde times erected vp an Image in the honour of Simon Magus the Sorcerer, with this Inscription, or Posee, Simoni Sancto Deo: In the honoure of Simon the Holy God. By this youre so handesome Distinction, M. Hardinge, of God Absolute, and God not Absolute, I see not, but euery of these might wel, and safely haue maineteined his title without blame.
- 1Hierony. In Daniel. cap. 3. [Greek or Hebrew].Hierony. In Daniel. cap. 3. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉.
- 2Suetonius in Domitiano
- 3Suetonius.
- 4Pompon. Laetus. Athenaeus, li. 7.
- 5Chrysost. De Spi. Sancto.
- 6August. Contra Faustum li. 13. cap. 17.
- 7Euse. li 2. ca. 13.
