see, to whose benefit it conduceth, to have it believed, that a
King hath not his Authority from Christ, unlesse a Bishop
crown him? That a King, if he be a Priest, cannot Marry?
That whether a Prince be born in lawfull Marriage, or not,
must be judged by Authority from Rome? That Subjects may
be freed from their Alleageance, if by the Court of Rome, the
King be judged an Heretique? That a King (as Chilperique
of France) may be deposed by a Pope (as Pope Zachary,) for
no cause; and his Kingdome given to one of his Subjects?
That the Clergy, and Regulars, in what Country soever, shall
be exempt from the Jurisdiction of their King, in cases
criminall? Or who does not see, to whose profit redound
the Fees of private Masses, and Vales of Purgatory; with
other signes of private interest, enough to mortifie the most
lively Faith, if (as I sayd) the civill Magistrate, and Custome
did not more sustain it, than any opinion they have of the
Sanctity, Wisdome, or Probity of their Teachers? So that
I may attribute all the changes of Religion in the world, to
one and the same cause; and that is, unpleasing Priests; and
those not onely amongst Catholiques, but even in that Church
that hath presumed most of Reformation.

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