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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 6
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11. IT is most certain that for Five hundred Years the Emperor alone took care of calling all the General Councils and Sacred Meetings, and therefore we do now the more admire the unreasonableness of the Bishop of Rome, who tho he knows that during the subsistence of the Roman Empire in its Greatness, this was the sole right of the Emperor, and that now Kings have succeeded to part of the Caesarean or Imperial Majesty, this Right is devolved to all Princes in common, yet has so unjustly usurped it to himself alone,1 and thinks it sufficient to communicate his design of holding a Council to the Greatest Prince in Christendom as to his Servant. But if the Modesty of Ferdinand the Emperor be so great, perhaps because he doth not thoroughly understand the Papal Arts, that he can digest this Injury; yet the Pope who pretends to so much Sanctity, ought not to have offered him this Affront, and thus to have arrogated to himself another Mans Right.
11. IT is most certain that for Five hundred Years the Emperor alone took care of calling all the General Councils and Sacred Meetings, and therefore we do now the more admire the unreasonableness of the Bishop of Rome, who tho he knows that during the subsistence of the Roman Empire in its Greatness, this was the sole right of the Emperor, and that now Kings have succeeded to part of the Caesarean or Imperial Majesty, this Right is devolved to all Princes in common, yet has so unjustly usurpt it to himself alone,1 and thinks it sufficient to communicate his design of holding a Council to the Greatest Prince in Christendom as to his Servant. But if the Modesty of Ferdinand the Emperor be so great, perhaps because he doth not thorowly understand the Papal Arts, that he can digest this Injury; yet the Pope who pretends to so much Sanctity, ought not to have offered him this Affront, and thus to have arrogated to himself another Mans Right.
- 1Pius IV. In bulla sua ad Imperatorem Ferdinandum.