A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

That he alone as necessity requires can make new Laws. Let him proceed; 8. Quod solus possit uti Imperialehus insigniis; He alone can use Imperial ensigns. It is a great kindness in him doubtless to lend them to any of his neighbours, or rather subject, Kings. 9. Quod slius Papo pedes omnes Principes deosculaetur; That it is the Pope alone whose feet all Princes may or ought to kiss. Yea and it is a kindness if he kick not their Crowns from their heads with his foot, as one did our King John's; or tread upon their necks, as another ⟨p. 81⟩did on the Emperor Frederick's. 11. Quod unicum sit nomen in mundo, Papa scilicet; That there is only one name in the world, to wit, that of the Pope; no other name it seems given under heaven. Once more; 12. Quod illi liceat, Imperatores deponere; That it is lawful for him to depose Emperors. I hope you will not be offended at the calling over these Heresies, because the so doing is not suited to our present design. I took them out of your Cardinal Baronius, in the place above quoted, who hath placed them as on a pillar, V. D. P. L. P. where they may be easily read by all men. And that you may not think that these were the Heresies of Gregory alone, the same Baronius affirms that these Dictates were confirmed in a Synod at Rome, whereby they became the Heresies of your whole Church. Did Peter thus feed the sheep of Christ? seeing Pasce oves meas, is the great pretence for all these exorbitances. Alas Hic alienus oves custos his mulget in hor• all this is but the shearing, milking, and slaying of a stranger; the shepherds being driven into corners. But have these noisome Heresies of your Church, think you, passed without control? Was she not judged, censured, written against, and condemned in the person of her chief Pastor? You must be a very stranger unto all History, if you can imagine any such thing. A Council assembled by the Emperor at Worms in Germany, reckons up the miscarriages of this Hildebrand, and pronounceth him deposed, with all those that adhered unto him. Another Synod, an. 1080. at Brixia in Bavaria, condemns him also for the same causes. All the Heroic Potentates of Europe, especially the Emperors of Germany, the Kings of England, and France, with whole Assemblies ⟨p. 82⟩of their Clergy, have always opposed and condemned this branch of your Supremacy.