and their Councils Abridged. ingwholly addieced to cafe and voluptuoufnefs : He hired the Helvetiater for his Militia againft Francis King of France, but they weredeflroyed by the French, and the Pope was glad at laftto beg a peace. Having unbound ed defìres of Empire, he pickt a quarrel with the Dukeof Vrbane, and af- faulted himwithArms, and difpoffeft himof his Country, whencehe fled, and ungratefully banifhed Doris taus, and his Brother Alphonfts a Cardinal, who fludying revenge, was deftroyed by him: The Pope fought to infnare the Dukeof Ferrary, but failed ; the French in Italy conquer the Emperour andHelvetian: ; the Turk winneth Syriaand Egygt the Pope fits bare-foot to pray againft him, bringing forth all the Confecrated Wiles, the Saints Relicks, Images, &c, in pomp, and the Tyrant prefently died of a Cancer: The Pope fallethon divers Cardinals ; Cardinal Alphonfus he imprifoneth, and appointeth aBlackemoor to break out his Chamber, and ftrangle him-: Having hereby loft the love of manyof the old ones, in one day he ma- keth one and thirty newCardinals, that he may be lure of help ; Paulus Baleon he beheaded, Amadeus Rieinatius he harg°d : It was this Pope that iscommonly Paid to have faid to Pet. Bembus his Secretary, Whatprofit cloth this Fableof Jefusbringue in. 4.59. Butnow begins the fatal time, Anna 1517. Martin Luther began to cry down their fin, and draw ple of Germany from them ; and Zuinglius, atad manyothers doing the fame, the light brake forth, and the darknefs vanifhed. Ineed not write theHiftory of it, which is fo common- ly known or published: The Pope published a Bull againft him, in which he numbereth his fuppofed Errours; you may fee them in Binius, pag. 653. in Leo the tenths life, how John Frederick,Eleetor of. Saxony bore Luther out, howPhilip of Hajpa feconded him, how the univerfityof Wittenberge . clave to him, and efpecially Philip Melanflhon, that excellent man ; how the Free Cities, with. many Princes, came in to them, and joyned; how many Petitions and Difputatious there were about it; how the Auguftine Confeffion was written, and the Apology forit ; how it turned toa War how the Elector of Saxony, and Philip Landgraveof Hap, were takén pri.- foners; howMaurice of Saxony, fiding with the Emperour, was made Ele- áor, and John Frederick difpoffeft ; how the fame Mauriceafter, to vindi- cate Pbilip.of HaJTa, toók Arms againft the Emperour, And forced him to .flight, and finally to fome degree of toleration. for the Proteftants. All thefe things the .Hiftory_of the Reformation, written by divers, telleth you at large; as alto howmany great and : excellent Divines were fuddenly rai- led up toHand for Reformation, as loon as Tyranny was fo far abated as that menmight freely Phew their minds,it loon appeared that molt had been long fubjugated to the Pope more by violence than by confent when the Emperour was neceflitated-to a Toleration, he confulted for Come abate- mentto procure Concord, and by Agricola, Sidonius,..and Julius Pflug (an Antinomian turnedback toPopery) drew up amiddle form ofworlhip, call- ed the Interim, which he would have all conform to till a General Council, which divided the Reformers among, themfIves, w; ile lotne as moderate, and.,, 453 l
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