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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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warne them to amend & make heretikes of them and burne them.
And besydes that / the pope hath mad a playne decre in which he
commaundeth sayenge / though the pope synne neuer so greuously
and draw with him to hell by his ensample thousandes
innumerable / yet let no man be so hardye to rebuke him. For he
is heed ouer all & none ouer him distinct .xl. Si papa.
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An abhominable, wicked & deuilish decree.[[1573]
Ther to . . .
papa. CWM 8/1.587/23–32. The second half of this passage
[C7v, “And besydes that . . . Si papa”] is repeated at CWM 8/1.590/8–12. A sign of the absence of
faith within the papal hierarchy is its suppression of those
who would admonish its faults. In the medieval canonical tradition, a
lively discussion centered on the problem in Gratian, Decretum, Part 1, Dist. 40, Ch. 6 (CIC 1.146). For Gratian,
cf. [M6, “the lawes of the church” and commentary note]. The text stated that the pope was subject to no one's
judgment, but it went on to make an exception, nisi
deprehendatur a fide deuius, "unless he is found to have
deviated from the faith." The commentators expanded considerably the
meaning of "deviated from the faith" and thereby listed
numerous cases of papal malfeasance that would be subject to judgment.
Many came to designate a general council, representing the whole church,
as the proper forum of such correction, even to the measure of deposing
a recalcitrant pope. Cf. Brian Tierney, Foundations of
the Conciliar Theory (Cambridge UP, 1955) 56–67.
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And Paul saith Roma. xiij. let euery soule obey the
hier powers
that are ordeyned to punysh synne. The pope will not
/ ner let any of his.
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4. [1531]
Rom. 13. [1531]
And Paul . . . of his. CWM 8/1.594/3–5;
Rom. 13.1,4. Luther had attacked the claim of clerical immunity from
prosecution for crime in his first broadside against "the
three walls of the Romanists." He also declared perverse the canon
forbidding the temporal power to punish "the spiritual estate" and
appealed to Rom. 13.1 and 4, along with 1 Pet. 2.13–14, to justify the
intervention of rulers to reform clerical abuses. Cf. To the Christian Nobility, 1520 (WA
6.407/9–411/7; LW 44.127–33).
Romans 13.1, 4
1 Peter 2.13–14
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And Paul chargeth .1. Corin. v. if he that is a
brother be an horekeper / a dronkerd / couetouse / an
extorsioner or a raylar and so forth / that we haue no
felowsheppe with him: No not so moch as to eate in his
companie. But the pope with violence compelleth vs
to haue soch in honoure / to receaue the sacramentes
of them / to heare their masses and to beleue all they saye /
and yet they wyll not lett vs se whether they saye trouth or
no. And he compelleth .x.
parishes to paye their tithes and offeringes vn to
one soch to goo and runne at riott at their cost & to doo
noughte therfore. And a thousand
soch like doeth the pope contrarie vn to Christes
doctrine.
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5. [1531]
1. Cor. 5. [1531]
if he . . .
companie. Cf. 1 Cor. 5.11. Answer has
the AngloSaxon "horekeper"; NT has the Latinate "fornicator"
(Wallis 352/23;TNT 248C).
1 Corinthians 5.11
The Pope is vtterly against the doctrine of Christ.[[1573]
And Paul . . . doctrine. CWM
8/1.595/35–596/8.
to receaue the
sacramentes of them . . . doctrine. During the
persecution by Diocletian (AD 303–5), several bishops in North Africa
pretended to comply with the imperial decrees by handing over heretical
books instead of the Scriptures to be burned. The ordinations performed
by these bishops were contested , especially by Donatus,
schismatic Bishop of Carthage (AD 313–47). Believing that they alone
were the true church, the Donatists also required rebaptism
of those who had received the rite from one outside their sect (NCE
4.1001–1003).
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¶The argumentes where with the pope wold proue him selfe the church / are
solued.
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¶ The argumentes .
. . solued. Cf. CWM 8/1.599/5–6.
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Notwithstondinge because as they be all shauen they be all shamelesse
to affirme that they by the right church & can
not erre / though
all the world seeth that not one of them is in the
right waye and that they haue with vtter defiaunce forsaken both
the doctrine and livinge of
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