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The apology of the Church of England, and an epistle to one Seignior Scipio…
The apology of the Church of England, and an epistle to one Seignior Scipio a Venetian gentleman, concerning the Council of Trent written both in Latin / by ... John Jewel ... ; made English by a person of quality ; to which is added, The life of the said bishop ; collected and written by the same hand.
London: printed by T. H. for Richard Chiswell, 1685
THE APOLOGY OF THE Church of ENGLAND. Written by the very Learned a… › Chapter 4
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15. WHY has he his Legates, that is, a crafty sort of Spies, as it were in ambush, in the Courts, Councils and Chambers of all ⟨p. 60⟩Kings? Why doth he (as his Interest requires) set Princes at variance amongst themselves; and at his pleasure, fill the Earth with Seditions? Why does he proscribe and take for an Heathen and Pagan, whatever Prince withdraws himself from his Dominion, and promise his Indulgences so freely, if any man will by any means whatsoever assassinate his Enemies? Doth he preserve Empires and Kingdoms, or at all consult and desire the Public Peace? You ought, O pious Reader! to pardon us, if these things seem a little more sharp and eager than becomes a Divine; for so great is the Provocation, so great and so impotent with all is the Ambition of the Popes, that it cannot be expressed in other or milder Words. For he had once the Insolence to say in a public Council, that all the Authority of all the Kings in the World depended upon him. 1He, out of Ambition and Desire to Rule, distracted the Roman Empire, and tore in pieces the Christian World; he absolved the Italians, and amongst them, himself, from the Oath wherein they were obliged to the Emperor of Greece, with great perfidy; and solicited his Subjects to revolt from him, and called Charles Martel the Great out of France into Italy; and after a new and till then unheard of manner, made him Emperor.2 He deposed Chilperick King of France, an innocent Prince, only because he did not like him, and set up Pipin in his Place. He would, if he had been able, have cast out Phillip the Fair, another King of France, and have adjudged the Kingdom of France to Albert King of the Romans. He broke ⟨p. 61⟩the Power of Florence, 3tho his own Country, which was then a most flourishing City, and changing its free and peaceable State, he delivered it up to the Lust of one man. He made all Savoy to be torn in pieces by the Emperor Charles the 5th. on the one side, and Francis the First, King of France on the other,4