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A view of a seditious bull sent into England, from Pius Quintus Bishop of…A viewe of a seditious bul sent into Englande, from Pius Quintus Bishop of…
A view of a seditious bull sent into England, from Pius Quintus Bishop of Rome, anno. 1569. Taken by the reverend Father in God, John Jewel, late Bishop of Salisbury. Whereunto is added a short treatise of the holy Scriptures. Both which he delivered in divers sermons in his cathedral church of Salisbury, anno. 1570A viewe of a seditious bul sent into Englande, from Pius Quintus Bishop of Rome, anno. 1569. Taken by the reuerende Father in God, Iohn Iewel, late Bishop of Salisburie. Wherevnto is added a short treatise of the holy Scriptures. Both which he deliuered in diuers sermons in his cathedral church of Salisburie, anno. 1570
London: printed by R. Newberie & H. Bynneman, 1582
Title page typeset from the transcription.
A VIEW OF A SEDITIOUS BULL SENT INTO ENGLAND.A VIEVV OF A SEDITIOVS BVL SENT INTO ENGLANDE.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
A VIEW OF A SEDITIOUS BULL SENT INTO ENGLAND.
A VIEVV OF A SEDITIOVS BVL SENT INTO ENGLANDE.
Whiles I opened unto you the words of the Apostle, 1That day shall not come, except there come a departing first, & that man of sin be disclosed, even the son of perdition: which is an adversary, and is exalted above all that is called God, or that is worshipped: so that he shall sit as God in the Temple of God, & bear in hand that he is God: there came to my hands a copy of a Bull lately sent into this Realm by the Bishop of Rome: I read it, and weighed it throughly, and found it to be a matter of great blasphemy against ⟨p. 2⟩God, and a practise to work much unquietness, sedition, and treason against our blessed and prosperous government: For, it deposeth the Queens Majesty (whom GOD long preserve) from her royal seat, and teareth the Crown from her head: it dischargeth all us her natural Subjects from all due obedience: it armeth one side of us against an other: it emboldeneth us to burn, to spoil, to rob, to kill, and to cut one an others throat: it is much like that box which Pandora sent to Epimetheus full of hurtful and unwholesome evils. Are you desirous to hear it? it grieveth me to disclose, and your godly ears will hardly abide his unseemly speeches. Yet seeing he hath written them, and hath conveyed his Copies thereof to work the mischief he hath intended: I may the better rehearse them unto you, if withal your discretion provide to season them with the fear of God, and with due obedience unto our dread Sovereign, using these ⟨p. 3⟩