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A confutation of the Popes bull which was published more then two years ago…A confutation of the Popes bull which was published more then two yeres agoe…
A confutation of the Popes bull which was published more then two years ago against Elizabeth the most gracious Queen of England, France, and Ireland, and against the noble realm of England together with a defence of the said true Christian Queen, and of the whole realm of England. By Henry Bullinger the Elder.A confutation of the Popes bull which was published more then two yeres agoe against Elizabeth the most gracious Queene of England, Fraunce, and Ireland, and against the noble realme of England together with a defence of the sayd true Christian Queene, and of the whole realme of England. By Henry Bullinger the Elder.
London: printed by John Day, 1572London: printed by Iohn Day, 1572
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At length when the good Emperor being pined with sorrow had yielded up his soul unto God at Liege,1 and was buried in a certain Abby there: the pope and his faction would not admit the bishop, and clergy, & people of Liege to the communion, till they had digged up the Emperors body again, and bestowed it in an unhallowed place. These blessed fathers burned in so unreconcilable hatred, that they could not be satisfied with their most cruel, and continual troubling of him while he was a live, unless that like a sort of Hines, they also wreaked their teen we outrageous woodness, even upon the holy corpse of him being dead. These truly are the most worthy fruits of that unmeasurable power of the romish Bishops. I will not rehearse here, what Calixt the second, an other scholar of Hildebrand's,2 which came out of the kennel of Cluniac, wrought against Henry the fifth, with whom he would not come in favour again. till he had granted the Bishop of Rome the right of investing bishops in Germany: which thing had hitherto belonged to the Emperors. Then at length he absolved the Emperor from the bond of excommunication,3 wherein they had wrapped the son, as well •• ⟨image 82⟩(not without cause) do call pope Nocent.4 The hatred that this man bare toward Philip was hotter then ever was the hatred of Uatinius. And that was chiefly for two causes: both for that he was of the house of the Dukes of Sweveland, which had always set it self, and as yet did still set it self against the tyranny of the Bishops of Rome: and also because he had given and assured to his nephew Frederick the second, his brothers son, the kingdom of Sicily, which was the lawful dowry of his mother Queen Constance descended to her by right of inheritance from her father: whereunto the pope also made claim. The Bishop therefore sought by all means to enforce the Princes of the Empire to admit Berthold prince of Zaring for Emperor. But when this device of pope Innocents took not place, the holy father fell into such a rage, that he burst forth into these words: Either the bishop shall pluck the crown from Philips head, or else Philip shall pluck the bishops mitre from the bishops head. And byanby dealing with the Princes of Germany for the choosing of a new Emperor,