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Confutation of the Popes Bull

Published: 1572
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A confutation of the Popes bull which was published more then two yeres agoe against Elizabeth the most gracious Queene of England, Fraunce, and Ireland, and against the noble realme of England together with a defence of the sayd true Christian Queene, and of the whole realme of England. By Henry Bullinger the Elder.

London Printed by Iohn Day dwelling ouer Aldersgate An. 1572. Cum priuilegio Regiæ Maiestatis per decennium.

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Dedication¶To the right honourable and his singular good Lord Robert Dudley Earle of Leicester, Baron of Denbigh,…
PoemDe Sereniss. Angliae, Franciae, & Hiberniae Regina Elizabetha. &c. Et Bulla impij Pij Pontificis Romani in…
Preface¶To the most reuerend, godly, and vigilant Bishops of the noble Realme of England, L. Edmund Grindall…
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Part¶That the foresayd vnmeasurable power of the Romish Bishop, is not proued by these wordes of the Lord vnto…
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Part¶What is ment in the Gospell by loosing and binding: and how Christes Apostles did loose and binde.
Part¶ Here is expounded the mysterie of the Armes & cognisances of the Romane Bishops bearing brauely in their…
Part¶Of the wordes, power, and ministery, and so is the disputation of the keyes knit vp.
Part¶Here is expounded that place of Ieremy, I haue set thee ouer kynges & kingdomes &c. and it is shewed how…
Part¶That the Bishop of Romes vsurpyng of supremacie ouer kynges and nacions, is agaynst the open example and…
Part¶Nor that the Apostles of Christ tooke vppon them any souereintie in Christes Church, but onely the…
Part¶That the first Bishops of Rome vsurped not any souereintie at all in the church, but were lowly…
Part¶That the Decretall Epistles of the first Byshops of Rome are but counterfettes.
Part¶Also that the latter Byshops of Rome vntill Gregorie the first, vaunted not of any fulnesse of power, nor…
Part¶That the latter Byshops of Rome degenerated vtterly from the first and middlemost Byshoppes of Rome, and…
Part¶This discourse is concluded, and here is shewed that the sentence of Pope Pius the fifth published against…
Part¶Here are perused the articles as well of the accusation as also of the slaunders alleadged by the Byshop…
Part¶That it is no monstruousnesse at all for the Queene of England to be called supreme head of the Realme of…
Part¶How it is no monstruousnesse for the Queene of England and consequently for all ciuill Magistrates to…
Part¶That the Queene of England hath not chosen mens opinions for herself, and hir realme to follow, but Gods…
Part¶ Here be recited other articles of accusation, which the Bull mentioneth concerning the Queenes abolishing…
Part¶The Queene of England hath iustly cō maunded her subiectes that they should not acknowledge the Church of…
Part¶That Kynges and Magistrates ought to compell their subiectes vnto goodnesse, and not suffer euery man to…
Part¶That Kinges and Magistrates doe lawfully punish, yea and also put to death such as breake the true…
Part¶That the Queene of England is not an hereticke, and therefore not stricken with the popes curse, nor cut…
Part¶That the Pope of Rome doth falsly and tyrannously giue sentence that the Queene of England is depriued of…
Part¶That the Byshop of Rome can not discharge them of their othe which are sworne to the Queene For the trothe…
Part¶ That the Nobilitie and Commons of England must not obey the popes commaundement, nor feare his curse. And…
Part¶How great calamities and how great mischieues the Bishop of Rome hath brought vpō kyngdomes and nations…
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