'#I 3 5 8 Church -H or y of 33ghcps and claim to particular Kingdoms ? Would not his daim to.all the world ferve turn for the particulars ? Lib. 5. Epift. 4. He clameth the Ifle ofCorfica. § 47. That it may appear that the prefumptuous ufurpations ofthe Pope were not confented to by many Bifhops, he oft complaineth that many Bi(ho:ps of France, Italy, and Germany were againft him : He abundantly chid.eth and threatneth feverai partictilaraifhops for refill- ing and difobeying him. Lib. 6. Epift.1.. he wrireth thus to the Bifhop of Liege. ["Having read the Letters ofyour Brotherhood, we didnot a lit- " tie wonder that you wrote that which becameyou not, in reverence of the " Apoftolickfeat : but thatyou did with biting inveftive reprehend, me, for abfolvingyour Parioner, that lately came to us; as if the Apoflolickfeat i0 had not authority to bind and abfolve whomfoeverwe will andwherefoever " we will: Know therefore that we are greatlymoved againft your temerity.] Indeed one ofthe tricks of the Papal ambition was to be the Afylum ofall wicked fugitives that fled from Church juftice in all Countries near them ; to Thew favour to all condemned timers that would but fly to Rome, and. appeal to them from the Juftice of their Paftors, yea, and of their Princes to.o,which.made their friends toberather many than good. § 48. And the Church ofRome was not yet rich enough with all the Principalities it had got : They Rill kept on the trade of enriching the Pope to fave their fouls. Binnius. p. 1233. honoureth us with a record amongGregory 7th. Epiftles, viz. [" In the name ofthe Father, Son and . "Holy Ghoft, in the 6th. year of the Pontificate .of Gregory 7th, I Marro "Sonof Gifler dwelling in the Dukedom of Spoletane, for the Redemption as ofmy own and -my Parents fouls do give, deliver and offer to St. Peter "Prince ofthe Apofiles, and on his Altar, all that belongeth to me of the "Caftle called Moricida, &c.] Did Chriftthink how eally Rich men might be Paved (by giving to the Pope in the name of St. Peter) when he faid, It was harder for a rich mantoenter into the Kingdom ofHeaven, than for a Camel to gó through Needle's Eye? § .49. Lib.7. Epift. -3. -He faith L" They that.are Latines doall of them except a very few, praife thecastle ofHenry, anddefend it, and charge me with too much obstinacy and impietyagainft him.] And if the Latines did fo, what did the Germans, French, &c ? You fee here that it was far from all the world that was fubjeft to the Pope, -and took his part in his ufurpations. pit. 4. He commandeth.,a:General no more to fight againft the King ofDalmatia, as belonging to St. Peter]. § 5o. Yet this Pope doth teach them the truth againft deceitful pen- nance or repentance, Lib. 7. Fpift. Io. viz. [Ws fay that it is a fruitl fr " pennance, when men remain in thefame fault, or in the like, or in a worfe V.`" " or in one little lefs: He therefore that will worthily repent, muff have re- courfe to the Original ofhisFaith, and he felicitous watchfully to keep that which
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