¶Thanswere.
The time was when neither the heade bishop ye bishoppe of Rome, nor other bishops were chosen withoute the consente not onelye of the Emperoure and the magistrates, but also
The triall of the supremacy wherein is set fourth ye unitie of christes church milita[n]t geue[n] to S. Peter and his successoures by Christe and that there ought to be one head bishop in earth Christes vicar generall ouer all hys churche militant: wyth answeres to the blasphemous obiections made agaynste the same in the late miserable yeres now paste.
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- The triall of the supremacy wherein is set fourth ye unitie of christes church milita[n]t geue[n] to S. Peter and his successoures by Christe and that there ought to be one head bishop in earth Christes vicar generall ouer all hys churche militant: wyth answeres to the blasphemous obiections made agaynste the same in the late miserable yeres now paste.
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- Standish, John, 1507?-1570.
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- 1556]
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"The triall of the supremacy wherein is set fourth ye unitie of christes church milita[n]t geue[n] to S. Peter and his successoures by Christe and that there ought to be one head bishop in earth Christes vicar generall ouer all hys churche militant: wyth answeres to the blasphemous obiections made agaynste the same in the late miserable yeres now paste." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A12923.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 19, 2024.
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not wtout the consēt of the mul¦titude of the comen people.
And this the clargye (thoughe it was theyr onelye office to chose) did then suffer, yea, then greately desired yt it so mighte be, partelye to the intente that agaynst the wicked & agaynst tyrannye they mighte the ra∣ther be defended with the tem∣porall sword, and partlye that the people mighte the rather geue eare to christes doctryne and ly••e more vertuously ha∣uing him theyr heade & shepe∣herde whome they loued and chose them selues. What mer∣uel was it then that thempe∣rours cōsent (ye chiefe of the co¦men people) was desired in that electiō? what maketh this agaynste our holye father the
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popes authoritie? Surely no∣thīg at al. Howbeit in processe of time manye inconueniences rising herby (as tirāny sinister affectiō with diuerse other cor∣ruptions) it was lafte to the e∣lection of the clergy agayne: & that euen by the consent of the holye emperours: as ye maye rede in graciā dist. 63. & in many other places mo. Wherfore Hil¦debrād (which after was pope named Greg. ye .vii.) answered vnto Otto Archb. of Colen com¦ing frō Hen. the .iiii. emperour, that neither emperoure nor a∣ny other but onely the clargye had any power or Authoritye in chosing the bishop of Rome: & that the permission or suffe∣rāce yt emperours for certayne causes had had therin was iust¦lye
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for more lawful & more rea∣sonable causes taken awaye.