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The appellation of John Knox from the cruel and most iniust sentence pronounced against…The appellation of Iohn Knoxe from the cruell and most iniust sentence pronounced against…
The appellation of John Knox from the cruel and most iniust sentence pronounced against him by the false bishops and clergy of Scotland, with his supplication and exhortation to the nobility, estates, and co[m]munaltie of the same realm.The appellation of Iohn Knoxe from the cruell and most iniust sentence pronounced against him by the false bishoppes and clergie of Scotland, with his supplication and exhortation to the nobilitie, estates, and co[m]munaltie of the same realme.
Geneva: printed by J. Poullain and A. Rebul?, 1558
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.
And after he addeth: Whether thou be Apostle, Evangelist, Prophet, or whosoever thou be, thou canst not ⟨image 41⟩be exempted from this subjection.
And after he addeth: Whether thou be Apostle, Euangelist, Prophete, or whosoeuer thou be, thou cāst not ⟨image 41⟩be exempted from this subiection.
Hereof it is plain that Chrysostom did not understand that God had exempted any person from obedience and subjection of the civil power, neither yet that he was author of such exemption and privilege, as Papists do this day claim. And the same was the judgement and uniform doctrine of the primitive Church many years after Christ. Your Honours do wonder, I doubt not, from what fountain then did this their immunity, as they term it, and singular privilege spring. I shall shortly touch that, which is evident in their own law and histories. When the Bishops of Rome, the very Antichrists had partly by fraud, and partly by violence usurped the superiority of some places in Italy, and most iniustly had spoiled the Emperors of their rents and possessions,1 and had also murdered some of their officers, as histories do witness, the began Pope after Pope to practise and devise, how they should be exempted from judgement of Princes and from the equity of laws, and in this point they were most vigilant, till at length iniquity did so prevail in their hands, according as Daniel had before prophesied of them, that this sentence was pronounced,
Hereof it is playn that Chrysostome did not vnderstand that God had exēpted any person from obedience and subiectiō of the ciuile power, neither yet that he was auctour of such exemptiō and priuiledge, as Papistes do this day claime. And the same was the iudgemēt and vniforme doctrine of the primatiue Church many yeares after Christe. Your Honours do wōder, I doubt not, frō what fōtaine then did this theyr immunitie, as they terme it, ād singular priuiledge sprīg. I shall shortly tuch that, which is euident in their own law and histories. When the Byshoppes of Rome, the verie Antichrists had partly by fraud, and partly by violence vsurped the superioritie of some places in Italie, and most iniustly had spoiled the Emperours of their rētes and possessiōs,