1 October 2015 A.D. Jewel’s “Apology”—Roman misdeeds: poisoning of Henry the Emperor, Victor the Pope, King John of England and other misdeeds…were these Lutherans or Zuinglians?
1 October 2015
A.D. Jewel’s “Apology”—Roman misdeeds: poisoning of Henry
the Emperor, Victor the Pope, King John of England and other misdeeds…were
these Lutherans or Zuinglians? p.83-84
Jewel, John. “The Apology of the Church of England.”
Project Gutenberg. 5 Aug 2006. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17678/17678-h/17678-h.htm. Accessed 1 Aug 2015.
We are cloyed with examples in this behalf, and it
should be very tedious to reckon up all the notorious deeds of the bishops of
Rome. Of which side were they, I beseech you, which poisoned Henry the
Emperor even in the receiving of the sacrament? which poisoned Victor the Pope
even in the receiving of the chalice? which poisoned our King John, king of
England, in a drinking cup? Whosoever at least they were and of what sect
soever, I am sure they were neither Lutherans nor Zuinglians. What is he
at this day, which alloweth the mightiest kings and monarchs of the world to
kiss his blessed feet? What is he that commandeth the emperor to go by
him at his horse bridle, and the French king to hold his stirrup? Who
hurled under his table Francis Dandalus the duke of Venice, king of Crete and
Cyprus, fast bound with chains, to feed of bones among his dogs? Who set
the imperial crown upon the Emperor Henry the Sixth’s head, not with his hand,
but with his foot; and with the same foot again cast the same crown off, saying
withal, “he had power to make emperors, and to unmake them again at his
pleasure”? Who put in arms Henry the son against the emperor his father
Henry the Fourth, and wrought so that the father was taken
prisoner of his own son, and being shorn and shamefully handled, was thrust
into a monastery, where with hunger and sorrow he pined away to death?
Who so ill-favouredly and monstrously put the Emperor Frederick’s neck under
his feet, and, as though that were not sufficient, added further this text out
of the Psalms, “Thou shalt go upon the adder and cockatrice, and shalt tread
the lion and dragon under thy feet”? Such an example of scorning and
contemning a prince’s majesty, as never before that was heard tell of in any
remembrance; except, I ween, either of Tamerlane’s, the king of Scythia, a wild
and barbarous creature, or else of Sapor king of the Persians.
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