An answer to a letter of a Jesuit named Tyrie, be John KnoxAn answer to a letter of a Iesuit named Tyrie, be Iohne Knox

That shall we better understand be his accusation and be the sentence pronounced against him, be all the Bishops of France and Germany. Who with one voce concluded, that Hildebrand was ambitious perjured: an usurper of the Empreoures authority: one that violated and brake the concord o• the Kirk: and therefore that ⟨image 35⟩he was unworthy of that seat. This sentence was pronounced in his own face, while that he was sitting in counsel in Rome be one Rulandus, chief Priest of Parma.

That shall we better vnderstand be his accusation and be the sentence pronūced against him, be all the Bishoppes of Frāce and Germanie. Who with one voce concluded, that Hildebrand was ambitious periur•d: an vsurper of the Empreoures autho•itie: one that violated and brak the concord o• the Kirk: and therefore that ⟨image 35⟩he was vnworthie of that seat. This sentēce was pronūced in his owen face, whil that he was sitting in counsal in Rome be one Rulandus, cheaf Preast of Parma.

Who boldly and without any salutation, offering the decree of the counsel, together with the Empreoures letters, said. This Hildebrand is no Bishop, no Father, no pasture: he is a thief, a Wolf, a murderer, a Tyrant: and therefore let him he deposed. &c. We are not ignorant that hereof ensue great tumult, sedition, and trouble. But as that purged nothing his former infamy, so did it not stop the mouths of many, plainly to pronounce, what Judgement they had of him and of that seat. To wit, that he under the title of Christ, did the very work of the Antichrist: That he sat in the Temple of god, which then was become Babylon: That he was worshipped and extolled above all that which was called God: That he glorified as if he could not err. &c. These and others crimes of no less weight were lade in that age, to the Bishops and seat of Rome: and this was far without the term of three hundred years within the which Master Tyrie would limit the doctrine