What
the
visible
Church
is
,
and
what
are
the
sundry
states
thereof
.
CHAP.
I.
GOD
,
through
his
might
the
Creatour
of
mankind
,
vouchsauing
of
his
owne
good
wil
,
to
be
the
Father
thereof
,
would
that
the
Church
should
be
honoured
&
acknowledged
as
mother
of
all
those
,
of
whom
he
vouchsaueth
to
be
Father
,
in
his
Sonne
Iesus
Christ
our
Lord
:
And
forasmuch
as
we
are
not
saued
,
but
in
this
that
God
hath
allowed
vs
for
his
children
,
and
that
he
hath
allowed
none
to
be
such
,
but
those
that
are
regenerated
,
and
nourished
vp
in
his
Church
:
if
we
desire
our
saluation
,
it
is
necessarie
that
we
acknowledge
her
,
in
whose
lappe
we
haue
it
.
And
if
we
will
be
heires
of
the
Father
,
we
must
be
vnited
in
the
familie
of
the
mother
,
in
which
it
hath
pleased
him
to
beget
those
againe
,
whom
he
hath
ordeined
to
be
heires
of
his
kingdome
,
and
coheires
of
his
dearely
beloued
sonne
Iesus
Christ
our
Lord.
All
they
that
are
knit
and
incorporated
into
this
Churche
in
true
faith
&
charitie
,
are
partakers
of
this
inheritance
,
because
they
are
members
of
the
body
of
Christ
:
and
without
her
,
as
there
is
no
true
fayth
,
nor
charitie
,
nor
Christ
,
so
also
we
ought
not
to
seeke
any
saluation
,
but
in
her
.
And
therefore
if
a
man
would
speake
properly
,
we
should
call
the
Churche
,
a
company
onely
of
those
,
whom
God
hath
chosen
to
euerlasting
life
,
in
al
times
&
places
,
which
is
to
man
inuisible
,
who
can
not
enter
so
farre
as
to
knowe
Gods
will
,
neyther
the
hart
of
man
himselfe
,
but
is
only
visible
to
God
,
Notwithstanding
,
by
the
way
we
will
note
the
differences
that
are
betwene
these
two
.
The
inuisible
Church
containeth
none
but
the
good
.
The
visible
Church
contayneth
both
the
good
and
the
bad
,
to
witte
,
that
onelye
the
electe
,
this
all
those
indifferently
,
which
are
brought
into
her
by
the
preaching
of
the
trueth
.
And
for
this
cause
S.
Augustine
saith
of
that
,
All
these
differences
notwithstanding
,
we
do
not
beleeue
two
Churches
,
nor
two
espouses
of
Christ
,
but
we
beleeue
one
onelye
considered
diuersely
:
one
in
the
blade
,
and
the
other
in
the
graine
,
one
in
the
threshing
floore
,
another
in
the
garner
,
one
in
the
mine
,
another
now
already
fyned
,
the
one
inwrapped
yet
in
the
minglings
of
the
world
,
the
other
before
her
husband
without
spotte
or
wrinckle
.
Altogether
like
as
by
a
familie
,
we
properly
vnderstand
the
children
only
,
although
speaking
more
generally
we
comprehend
the
seruants
them selues
,
&
by
a
Citie
we
vnderstand
the
vnion
of
Cittizens
,
albeit
many
times
one
part
be
at
contention
,
&
considered
apart
by
it selfe
,
deserueth
not
but
to
be
rooted
out
.
Returning
then
to
our
purpose
we
will
call
the
visible
church
,
the
company
of
those
,
which
make
profession
to
serue
the
true
God
in
Christ
,
of
which
we
haue
presently
to
intreate
.
This
Church
hath
had
three
principall
states
or
ages
,
one
without
the
lawe
,
then
(
say
some
of
the
auncient
Fathers
)
when
man
was
but
in
some
sort
corrupted
by
the
sinne
of
the
first
,
when
he
was
notwithstanding
in
some
sort
a
lawe
to
him selfe
,
&
naturally
felt
himselfe
conuinced
of
his
sinne
,
that
is
to
say
,
he
felt
his
euil
,
to
seeke
for
remedy
for
the
same
:
although
in
very
trueth
this
state
and
age
of
the
Church
,
found
it selfe
no
lesse
corrupted
then
the
rest
.
The
second
was
vnder
the
lawe
,
when
it
began
in
such
sort
to
accustome
it selfe
to
sinne
,
that
it
grewe
into
a
natural
habite
through
the
same
:
and
then
for
to
shewe
the
sinne
therof
,
the
lawe
was
giuen
as
a
glasse
,
in
which
she
might
consider
her
filthinesse
,
and
how
farre
of
she
was
from
that
shee
presumed
,
to
the
ende
she
might
returne
again
to
be
clensed
.
The
thirde
was
vnder
grace
,
in
Iesus
Christ
promised
to
our
first
parents
by
&
by
after
their
fal
,
and
who
,
when
the
fulnes
of
time
was
come
,
was
sent
of
the
Father
,
who
brought
remedy
to
all
them
,
that
before
eyther
had
,
or
presently
did
feele
their
euil
,
and
sought
remedy
in
his
merite
.
Vnder
the
first
,
the
Church
was
visible
amongst
men
,
but
if
you
compare
those
which
serued
God
in
puritie
,
with
the
others
,
we
shal
finde
that
they
were
entangled
in
a
wonderfull
confusion
.
Vnder
the
second
,
the
Church
was
visible
in
one
people
,
issued
from
the
loynes
of
Abraham
,
to
witte
,
the
people
of
Israel
,
but
not
so
eminent
,
if
we
consider
not
so
much
what
the
countrie
,
as
the
people
themselues
were
,
in
comparison
of
the
rest
of
the
whole
world
,
and
the
great
Empires
that
florished
at
that
time
.
Vnder
the
third
,
is
comprehended
all
peoples
&
nations
without
any
exception
or
acception
whatsoeuer
,
being
nowe
visible
in
one
Countrey
,
or
other
,
fewe
or
many
,
and
therefore
we
call
her
Catholique
,
or
vniuersal
,
to
witte
,
which
is
to
●●ore
tyed
to
the
familie
of
Iacob
,
nor
to
Ierusalem
:
as
vnder
the
second
estate
or
age
(
for
from
all
partes
it
ought
to
be
gathered
there
)
but
who
adopteth
for
children
of
Israel
&
of
Abraham
,
in
all
places
those
that
haue
the
fayth
of
Abraham
,
and
for
citizens
of
Ierusalem
,
all
the
citizens
of
the
world
,
which
serue
God
in
spirite
and
trueth
.
This
vniuersal
Church
comprehendeth
vnder
her
,
all
the
particular
Churches
,
gathered
together
in
diuers
parts
of
the
world
,
the
which
likewise
we
cal
the
Christian
Churches
,
that
is
to
say
,
assemblies
which
cal
vpon
one
only
God
by
Iesus
Christ
,
as
the
East
Church
&
West
Church
,
the
Greek
Church
,
and
the
Latine
Church
,
the
Church
of
Corinth
,
the
Church
of
Galatia
,
of
Ephesus
,
of
Rome
,
of
Carthage
:
notwithstanding
to
speake
properly
,
not
Catholike
or
vniuersal
,
but
parts
of
the
Catholique
or
vniuersall
.
No
more
then
when
we
speake
of
some
parts
of
the
Ocean
sea
,
we
call
all
those
the
sea
,
as
the
South
sea
,
the
North
sea
,
the
Athlantique
sea
,
the
Cantabrique
sea
,
and
the
Britannique
sea
,
&c.
and
we
say
of
al
these
,
it
is
the
Ocean
sea
.
And
yet
notwithstanding
we
knowe
that
there
is
but
one
Ocean
,
and
not
many
,
whereof
by
these
names
we
make
many
distinctions
,
seeing
it
is
but
one
body
&
vniforme
,
from
which
the
vnion
cannot
be
seuered
,
but
only
distinguished
,
as
wee
ought
also
to
acknowledge
in
the
Church
.
And
therefore
he
that
saith
that
the
Church
of
Rome
,
&
the
Catholique
Church
is
al
one
,
he
speaketh
no
lesse
improperly
,
than
he
that
should
say
,
that
the
Britannique
sea
were
the
whole
Ocean
sea
,
or
the
Tyrrhene
sea
it self
,
which
yet
is
but
a
part
of
the
Mediterraneum
sea
.
Nowe
the
visible
Church
is
in
the
worlde
,
and
the
worlde
as
we
may
feele
in
our selues
,
is
an
vncleane
worlde
,
&
therefore
liuing
vnder
such
an
infected
ayre
,
it
is
impossible
,
but
that
shee
shoulde
be
defiled
,
and
drawe
vnto
her
much
corruption
.
It
is
also
compounded
of
men
,
and
outwardly
gouerned
by
men
,
and
all
men
are
flesh
and
blood
,
and
by
a
consequent
corrupt
and
imperfect
,
subiect
to
ignorance
and
malice
.
It
is
then
possible
that
sometimes
shee
be
corrupted
,
and
impossible
that
in
this
world
she
appeare
in
any
sound
perfection
.
Notwithstanding
,
because
the
Scripture
sometymes
in
speaking
,
hauing
regard
to
that
which
is
reputed
vnto
her
(
in
consideration
of
Iesus
Christ
her
husband
)
before
God
,
and
sometimes
also
not
according
to
that
she
is
,
but
according
to
that
shee
ought
to
be
,
not
so
much
to
praise
her
,
as
to
prouoke
her
to
make
her selfe
worthy
of
that
praise
,
shee
is
graunted
these
titles
of
the
Churche
,
to
which
she
is
not
alwayes
conformed
:
be
it
that
we
consider
her
in
the
men
,
whereof
she
is
composed
,
or
the
doctrine
it selfe
that
is
taught
in
her
.
She
is
called
the
kingdome
of
heauen
,
or
the
kingdome
of
Christ
:
Concerning
the
doctrine
she
is
called
his
spouse
,
Hereof
it
is
,
that
of
this
vniuersall
Church
dispersed
throughout
the
whole
worlde
,
and
gathered
together
into
particular
Churches
of
all
the
nations
thereof
,
wee
maye
see
some
vtterly
rooted
out
by
the
iust
iudgement
of
God
,
as
the
Philippians
,
Colossians
,
&
many
others
of
the
East
,
which
were
erected
by
the
Apostles
themselues
:
others
to
be
erected
else
where
,
through
the
euerlasting
goodnesse
of
God
towards
mankinde
:
Some
by
the
corruption
of
men
,
to
be
corrupted
both
in
maners
and
doctrine
,
as
those
of
Greece
,
of
Egypt
,
of
Affrike
,
&c.
Others
by
the
presumption
of
their
leaders
,
hauing
nothing
left
sound
,
as
the
Church
of
Rome
at
this
day
.
To
be
short
,
some
other
gone
from
heresie
to
infidelitie
,
as
in
the
countries
where
Mahomet
begunne
his
sect
,
which
are
altogether
the
fruites
of
the
first
sinne
of
man
,
who
of
him selfe
turned
awaye
from
God
to
himselfe
,
and
was
blinded
in
his
owne
loue
,
thinking
to
be
wise
enough
to
guide
himselfe
without
the
worde
of
God
.
Thus
much
in
few
words
,
concerning
the
parts
of
this
visible
Church
,
nowe
vniuersall
.
But
let
it
suffise
for
this
time
,
that
wee
resolue
our selues
,
that
this
Church
is
the
Assemblie
or
Congregation
of
all
those
which
make
profession
of
Christ
,
throughout
the
whole
worlde
:
that
vnder
her
are
comprehended
al
the
particular
churches
,
to
which
the
promises
of
Christ
,
made
to
this
universall
Churche
,
belong
equally
:
That
of
the
same
some
are
pure
,
and
some
impure
,
according
as
they
are
turned
away
from
God
to
themselues
:
to
be
short
,
that
the
purer
churches
are
impure
before
God
,
seeing
he
hath
not
founde
puritie
in
his
angels
,
sauing
that
he
supporteth
them
in
mercie
,
in
Iesus
Christ
his
sonne
our
Lorde
.
That
of
the
visible
&
Catholique
Church
,
some
partes
of
it
are
pure
,
and
some
impure
,
and
which
be
the
infallible
markes
of
the
pure
Churches
.
CHAP.
II.
THe
Catholique
or
vniversall
visible
Church
is
the
assemblie
of
all
those
which
make
profession
of
the
Gospell
of
Iesus
Christ
throughout
the
whole
worlde
,
distinguished
(
as
we
haue
sayd
)
into
many
particular
Churches
,
all
which
do
make
but
one
body
.
Of
all
these
particular
,
as
members
and
parts
of
one
&
the
selfe
same
body
,
some
are
pure
,
other
some
are
impure
,
some
more
,
&
some
lesse
sounde
,
and
some
at
this
day
are
sicke
euen
vnto
death
,
which
in
times
past
were
more
healthful
,
according
as
all
are
composed
of
men
,
and
therefore
are
subiect
to
be
partakers
with
their
faultes
.
Those
that
are
of
the
purer
and
sounder
Churches
,
we
call
them
sound
and
true
Churches
,
consenting
to
the
true
doctrine
,
which
is
the
name
,
that
for
the
most
part
,
the
auncient
fathers
haue
giuen
them
.
The
others
wee
call
the
erring
,
hereticall
or
schismatical
Churches
,
according
as
they
erre
,
either
in
faith
or
in
charitie
,
agaynst
the
square
and
right
rule
of
Christ
,
or
against
the
rule
of
his
Church
,
either
in
the
one
or
in
the
other
,
notwithstanding
euery
one
in
his
degree
.
And
yet
for
all
this
,
both
the
one
and
the
other
are
truely
Churches
,
that
is
to
say
assemblies
,
that
make
profession
of
Christ
:
but
they
are
not
pure
Churches
,
that
is
to
say
,
seruing
God
in
Christ
onely
,
in
puritie
and
veritie
:
euen
like
as
a
lying
person
is
truely
a
man
,
albeit
he
be
not
a
true
man
,
&
a
man
ceaseth
not
to
be
a
man
,
howsoeuer
he
be
disfigured
without
,
and
inwardly
infected
with
leprosie
,
and
in
such
sorte
benommed
of
his
members
,
or
else
troubled
in
his
senses
,
that
he
is
depriued
of
the
principall
actions
of
a
man
,
yea
,
and
of
those
things
also
,
in
outwarde
appearance
,
that
make
difference
betweene
a
man
&
a
beast
,
I
meane
,
speache
and
reason
.
I
knowe
very
wel
that
the
auncient
fathers
,
and
principally
the
Latines
,
they
commonly
call
the
pure
Church
Catholike
,
by
excellencie
,
to
distinguish
it
from
the
congregation
of
heretikes
:
but
to
speake
properly
,
there
is
no
particular
Church
,
how
pure
&
sound
soeuer
it
be
,
that
can
bee
called
universall
:
And
if
we
giue
them
their
name
,
because
they
are
partes
of
the
universall
Church
,
by
the
selfe
same
reason
,
it
should
agree
aswell
to
the
most
impure
Churches
themselues
.
And
in
deede
this
worde
(
Catholike
)
was
not
put
in
our
Creede
,
for
to
distinguish
a
pure
Church
from
an
impure
,
but
to
distinguish
the
Iewish
Church
,
in
times
past
tyed
to
Ierusalem
,
from
the
Christian
Church
,
which
by
the
comming
of
Iesus
Christ
,
was
spread
throughout
the
whole
worlde
,
that
is
to
saye
,
to
authorize
the
vocation
of
the
Gentiles
against
the
pretended
prerogatiues
of
the
Iewes
,
Nowe
it
followeth
that
we
search
out
the
true
markes
of
this
Church
,
which
we
call
the
true
&
pure
Church
,
or
if
we
like
better
,
the
Catholike
Church
,
to
distinguish
it
from
the
impure
&
erroneous
Church
.
We
haue
said
alredy
that
God
,
vouchsafing
through
his
goodnes
to
be
the
father
of
one
sort
of
men
,
would
also
that
his
Church
should
be
the
mother
,
and
we
knowe
very
wel
,
that
it
belongeth
not
to
the
mother
alone
,
to
bring
furth
children
into
the
world
,
but
she
is
a
true
mother
who
also
nourisheth
them
,
and
careth
for
them
,
after
shee
hath
brought
them
forth
.
Nowe
through
Baptisme
we
are
auowed
to
be
the
children
of
God
,
and
of
children
of
wrath
which
we
were
,
we
are
through
his
word
cherished
&
nourished
vp
in
the
faith
:
and
she
at
the
first
giuing
vs
sucke
,
and
afterwards
more
fast
and
strong
meate
,
through
the
Communion
of
Christ
his
bodye
in
the
Supper
,
we
are
more
and
more
vnited
to
him
,
and
by
this
meane
inuested
into
that
heauenly
inheritance
.
It
followeth
then
,
that
she
is
the
pure
Church
and
true
mother
,
who
bringeth
:
foorth
vs
her
children
through
Baptisme
,
regenerateth
&
norisheth
vs
through
the
worde
,
knitteth
vs
to
Christ
,
and
so
a-amongst
our selues
one
to
another
,
through
the
Sacrament
of
his
Supper
:
that
is
to
saye
,
shee
is
the
true
mother
,
in
which
the
worde
of
God
is
purely
preached
,
and
the
Sacraments
according
to
the
same
worde
duely
administred
.
In
the
Church
of
Iuda
and
Israel
,
Circumcision
occupied
the
place
of
Baptisme
,
&
the
Passeouer
of
the
Supper
,
the
worde
of
God
alwayes
keeping
his
place
,
as
the
ordinarie
nourishment
of
the
children
of
God
:
and
therefore
we
see
,
that
after
their
entrie
into
the
land
of
Canaan
,
Iosue
being
admonished
by
the
Lord
,
to
repaire
those
faults
committed
in
the
desert
,
We
wil
call
then
the
true
&
pure
Churches
all
those
,
wherein
we
finde
the
worde
of
God
,
and
Sacraments
purely
and
lawfully
administred
,
that
is
to
say
,
(
as
Cyprian
saith
)
according
to
the
institution
of
the
Lorde
.
And
we
nothing
doubt
to
communicate
with
them
,
&
that
God
is
there
president
,
howsoeuer
in
some
certaine
pointes
of
doctrine
there
haue
bene
some
errour
,
and
in
the
outward
policie
some
abuse
,
and
corruption
,
and
impuritie
in
maners
:
for
it
behooueth
that
alwayes
we
resort
thither
,
when
the
chiefe
pointes
of
the
foundation
of
our
saluation
be
there
truly
taught
,
seeing
we
are
men
,
&
the
Churches
are
compounded
of
men
,
as
speache
and
language
consist
of
syllables
and
letters
:
of
the
qualities
of
which
men
,
as
long
as
the
Church
is
in
this
world
,
she
is
alwayes
a
partaker
.
As
concerning
the
false
and
impure
Churches
,
they
are
not
so
easely
to
be
defined
.
Trueth
,
soundnes
and
right
,
are
but
of
one
sort
:
but
errors
,
diseases
,
&
crookednesses
are
without
nomber
.
Againe
,
there
are
many
kindes
&
degrees
of
impure
Churches
:
notwithstanding
,
we
can
say
in
one
worde
,
that
al
those
Churches
are
impure
,
in
which
the
word
of
the
Lord
,
and
his
Sacraments
are
impurely
ministred
,
that
is
,
are
administred
both
against
the
honor
of
God
,
and
the
saluation
of
our
neighbour
:
and
because
that
the
whole
Gospel
is
nothing
else
but
faith
and
charitie
,
and
whole
Christ
,
nothing
but
head
and
body
,
we
may
make
two
principall
kindes
thereof
,
calling
those
Heretikes
which
erre
in
the
faith
&
doctrine
of
Christ
,
&
those
schismatikes
,
which
sunder
themselues
from
charitie
,
and
from
the
communion
of
his
body
which
is
the
Church
,
yea
although
they
agree
otherwise
to
the
trueth
of
doctrine
in
all
pointes
.
Nowe
as
there
are
many
pointes
,
in
the
Christian
doctrine
,
so
also
there
are
many
kindes
of
heresies
,
some
in
one
point
,
and
some
in
another
,
and
some
in
one
point
more
heinous
and
grieuous
then
another
,
and
furthermore
,
some
in
one
point
alone
,
and
others
in
more
points
then
one
.
No
otherwise
then
in
a
naturall
body
,
some
sicknesse
is
in
the
vitall
part
thereof
,
another
in
the
instrumentall
,
one
a
simple
heate
of
the
liuer
,
another
a
burning
in
all
partes
of
the
body
alike
:
to
be
short
,
one
a
distemperance
in
some
one
part
,
another
distemperature
,
or
euil
disposition
of
al
the
body
.
Such
a
Church
then
,
as
hath
plaied
the
harlot
with
false
gods
,
and
hath
beleeued
the
noughtie
counsaile
of
men
,
may
be
in
such
sort
infected
with
heresie
,
that
euen
from
the
crowne
of
the
head
,
to
the
sole
of
the
foote
,
a
man
shall
not
see
one
sounde
place
.
Notwithstanding
,
these
ceasse
no
more
to
be
the
Churches
of
Christ
,
because
they
are
heretikes
,
then
a
man
that
is
diseased
,
ceasseth
therefore
to
be
a
man
:
but
in
this
that
they
are
Heretikes
in
the
doctrine
of
Christ
,
this
sheweth
vnto
vs
that
they
are
yet
Churches
,
howsoeuer
we
distinguish
the
disease
from
the
body
,
altogether
like
as
we
know
that
a
sicke
man
is
a
man
,
and
not
yet
the
carkasse
of
a
man
.
But
then
they
are
not
any
more
Churches
,
when
they
come
to
the
heresie
of
infidelitie
,
when
Christ
,
who
is
the
soule
of
the
Church
is
no
more
accompted
for
a
Sauiour
an●
Mediatour
,
when
this
mediation
which
ioyneth
Christ
to
his
Church
,
as
the
necke
doeth
the
head
to
the
bodye
,
is
cut
of
:
as
for
example
.
When
the
Christians
of
Asia
in
many
places
,
of
Nestorians
became
Mahomites
,
that
is
to
say
,
of
Heretikes
became
Infidels
(
what
praise
soeuer
the
Alcoran
giueth
to
Iesus
Christ
)
because
then
the
soule
is
out
of
the
body
,
and
the
winde
pipe
is
cut
,
and
the
bill
of
diuorce
is
published
betwixt
Christ
and
them
,
after
they
haue
once
openly
maried
themselues
to
another
,
and
haue
sought
their
happines
and
saluation
,
without
him
.
This
is
to
come
againe
to
that
I
haue
before
spoken
of
,
that
the
markes
of
the
true
Church
are
these
,
that
of
a
pure
and
chaste
wife
of
Christ
,
and
the
mother
of
the
heires
of
the
father
,
she
engender
children
to
God
,
that
she
nourish
them
vp
vnto
him
,
and
that
she
vnite
them
vnto
Christ
:
for
one
of
these
points
alone
,
maketh
her
not
worthy
of
this
title
,
but
all
together
:
for
she
is
not
a
true
mother
,
who
engendreth
children
,
and
afterwards
leaueth
them
at
randon
,
and
yet
shee
is
truely
a
mother
.
The
Latine
Church
,
as
Ierusalem
to
Samaria
,
set
it selfe
then
very
couragiously
against
such
errors
,
and
healed
many
of
them
,
whereupon
it
got
great
aucthoritie
amongst
all
:
but
afterwards
,
a
worse
euill
came
vnto
it
,
and
that
was
this
,
that
hauing
through
Gods
goodnesse
,
(
who
alwaies
preserueth
his
trueth
in
some
place
)
bene
exempted
from
the
foresaide
heresie
and
sickenes
,
she
was
borne
in
hand
that
it
came
of
her
owne
strength
,
and
that
shee
could
not
any
more
be
deceyued
,
as
he
,
who
for
hauing
his
health
one
yeere
,
giueth
him selfe
to
all
disorder
,
thinking
that
it
can
nothing
hurt
him
,
whereupon
we
say
,
that
she
is
fallen
into
a
generall
distemperance
,
and
is
so
laden
with
heresies
,
that
she
is
not
only
throughly
sicke
,
but
she
is
as
it
were
sicknesse
it selfe
,
not
feeling
her
euill
at
all
.
We
say
then
of
her
,
the
same
that
the
Prophet
Ezechiel
said
of
Ierusalem
,
who
was
the
onely
seate
of
the
Lorde
:
Samaria
hath
not
offended
to
the
one
halfe
of
thy
sinnes
:
Concerning
the
Schismatical
Churches
,
whether
they
are
plainely
schismatical
,
or
whether
heresie
foloweth
after
a
schisme
,
as
a
feuer
doth
after
a
wound
,
heretikes
&
schismatikes
in
this
sense
are
all
one
.
Of
Heretikes
we
haue
spoken
as
before
.
Of
Schismatikes
we
make
here
two
distinctions
.
The
cause
(
sayth
the
Canon
)
maketh
a
schismatike
,
&
not
the
separation
:
&
therfore
we
say
,
that
they
which
haue
giuen
others
a
iust
occasion
to
separate
them selues
from
their
corruptions
,
are
the
schismatikes
,
&
not
they
who
haue
taken
it
.
For
this
cause
,
the
Apostles
were
not
schismatikes
,
although
they
separated
them selues
from
the
Scribes
&
Pharises
,
&
cut
themselues
of
from
their
assemblies
:
But
rather
the
Priestes
&
Scribes
,
which
put
them
to
death
,
when
they
submitted
them selues
to
verifie
the
comming
of
Christ
amidst
the
Church
:
&
we
shall
proue
in
his
proper
place
,
that
the
selfe
same
in
like
maner
is
come
to
passe
in
our
time
,
of
those
which
haue
verified
Antichrist
in
an
open
councill
.
For
the
second
,
we
say
,
that
we
must
distinguish
betwixt
the
author
of
a
schisme
,
&
those
which
followe
it
.
That
the
authors
of
Schisme
,
forasmuch
as
they
rent
themselues
from
charitie
,
&
so
by
consequence
from
the
body
of
Christ
,
they
may
be
compared
to
Dathan
,
Core
,
&
Abiram
,
cutting
themselues
(
asmuch
as
in
them
lyeth
)
out
of
the
booke
of
life
.
Concerning
the
others
,
we
say
that
they
are
the
flocke
of
Christ
,
but
euil
gouerned
by
their
pastors
,
and
principally
those
which
are
borne
vnder
the
Schisme
,
forasmuch
as
neither
of
both
are
without
blame
,
neither
can
in
any
wise
excuse
themselues
.
And
therefore
Dathan
and
his
companions
were
swallowed
vp
,
We
wil
conclude
then
that
the
workes
of
the
pure
Church
are
fayth
and
charitie
,
the
worde
and
the
Sacramentes
purely
&
lawfully
administred
.
That
the
other
markes
which
our
aduersaries
alledge
,
are
common
both
to
the
pure
and
the
impure
Church
,
&
such
as
for
the
most
part
hold
not
.
CHAP.
III.
THey
that
perceyue
themselues
vanquished
in
this
,
that
they
haue
not
the
essential
markes
of
the
pure
&
sound
Church
,
they
would
quite
contrary
make
vs
beleeue
,
that
the
true
Church
can
not
be
knowen
by
the
pure
&
sincere
administration
of
the
worde
&
Sacraments
,
but
by
certaine
outward
markes
,
to
wit
,
by
antiquitie
,
multitude
,
succession
of
places
and
persons
,
by
miracles
&
reuelations
:
no
otherwise
then
false
coyners
,
which
wil
not
haue
men
to
knowe
their
money
by
the
finenes
of
Golde
,
and
by
the
touchstone
,
but
by
the
wayght
,
by
the
sounde
,
&
by
the
coyne
&
the
colour
,
which
they
may
easely
falsifie
.
They
alledge
therefore
vnto
vs
antiquitie
,
It
was
not
so
from
the
beginning
:
Nowe
let
vs
come
to
multitude
,
Deies
was
a
litle
town
not
farre
from
Rome
.
Plutarch
.
in
Themist
.
Dion
lib.
41.
Appian
in
libic
.
Plorus
.
cap.
49.
though
the
towne
of
Rome
was
in
the
hand
of
the
enemie
.
And
Themistocles
saide
that
Athens
was
in
shippes
which
the
Romanes
had
taught
the
poore
Carthagians
to
their
cost
,
when
they
made
their
Citie
to
be
caried
out
of
their
towne
.
To
be
short
,
the
Popes
them selues
haue
maintayned
for
lxxx
.
yeeres
together
,
that
the
Romish
Church
had
her
sea
in
Auignion
although
they
had
forsaken
Rome
.
Moreouer
this
argument
is
common
to
the
Churches
,
Greekes
,
Syrians
,
Armenians
,
Ethiopians
,
&c.
whom
the
Pope
condemneth
in
many
poynts
of
doctrine
.
To
conclude
,
if
euer
there
were
Church
that
might
alledge
succession
of
place
,
it
was
Ierusalem
.
For
of
it
was
said
,
The
Lord
wil
euermore
dwel
in
this
Temple
:
They
alledge
that
the
auncient
Doctors
haue
vsed
this
argument
,
&
we
deny
it
not
.
But
they
must
marke
therein
eyther
that
this
was
against
heretikes
that
denyed
the
holy
scriptures
,
or
else
there
was
alwayes
adioyning
the
succession
of
doctrine
.
S.
Augustine
enferreth
it
against
the
Manichees
:
but
they
reiected
the
greatest
part
of
the
scriptures
,
and
manifestly
the
booke
of
the
Actes
of
the
Apostles
,
to
the
end
to
deny
the
descending
of
the
holy
Ghoste
,
and
to
establish
Manichee
in
his
place
.
He
alledged
also
vnto
them
miracles
,
antiquitie
&c.
but
he
addeth
immediatly
after
.
You
on
your
part
alledge
nothing
like
,
but
onely
you
holde
a
promise
of
the
trueth
amongst
you
.
notwithstanding
if
you
could
euidently
proue
it
,
Concerning
miracles
,
if
a
man
speake
of
those
which
were
wrought
either
in
the
publication
of
the
lawe
by
Moses
,
Touching
reuelations
and
visions
which
are
a
kinde
of
miracles
,
We
conclude
then
that
all
the
foresaide
markes
are
not
the
infallible
markes
of
the
sounde
and
pure
Church
.
First
,
because
they
be
not
substantial
but
outwarde
.
Secondly
,
because
they
are
common
,
aswell
to
falsehood
as
to
trueth
.
But
that
they
may
be
markes
,
they
ought
to
put
a
difference
.
Thirdly
,
they
neede
to
be
proued
and
approued
by
another
marke
,
to
witte
,
doetrine
:
to
be
short
,
seeing
it
is
said
,
that
in
the
ende
Antichrist
shall
come
,
and
seduce
the
greatest
part
of
the
people
,
and
that
he
shall
sitte
in
the
Temple
of
GOD
,
that
is
to
saye
,
in
the
Churche
it selfe
,
and
in
one
of
the
most
famous
places
,
and
that
be
shall
worke
strange
signes
and
wonders
:
we
conclude
on
the
contrary
part
that
antiquitie
,
multitude
,
succession
,
and
miracles
,
are
rather
at
this
day
the
markes
of
the
seat
of
Antichrist
,
&
of
that
whore
,
then
of
Christ
and
of
his
chaste
spouse
,
of
whome
Christ
hath
giuen
vs
this
one
marke
,
He
that
is
of
the
trueth
,
heareth
my
voyce
.
He
that
is
my
Disciple
,
abideth
in
my
word
.
That
the
holy
scripture
is
the
vndoubted
touchstone
,
to
try
the
puritie
of
doctrine
,
which
is
the
marke
of
the
pure
Churches
.
CHAP.
4.
OVr
aduersaries
doe
therevpon
obiect
vnto
vs
,
that
doctrine
as
a
common
argument
,
and
that
euery
one
saith
,
that
he
hath
the
pure
doctrine
on
his
side
,
and
therefore
that
it
can
not
be
alledged
as
a
mark
of
the
pure
Churches
.
I
answere
,
that
this
is
in
deede
a
common
bragge
of
all
heretikes
,
but
it
is
not
alwaies
a
common
marke
,
but
peculiar
and
proper
to
the
pure
Churches
.
For
both
the
true
Christians
and
heretikes
,
may
haue
antiquitie
,
multitude
,
succession
,
and
miracles
,
as
we
haue
already
proued
:
but
there
is
none
but
the
sound
and
Catholike
Church
that
can
haue
trueth
,
&
true
doctrine
,
which
consisteth
in
faith
and
charitie
,
forasmuch
as
she
is
one
,
and
if
the
other
boast
of
it
,
they
haue
nothing
else
but
the
sound
,
the
which
by
and
by
vanisheth
,
if
it
be
once
put
to
the
touch
.
Likewise
we
see
commonly
that
they
which
pleade
together
,
pretende
euery
one
that
ryght
is
on
their
side
.
In
meane
time
who
wil
say
,
that
seeing
both
twaine
saye
they
haue
right
,
that
there
is
no
question
to
dispute
of
the
right
but
only
that
he
which
is
in
possession
should
keepe
it
.
He
that
should
say
so
,
he
should
make
him selfe
a
laughing
stocke
,
&
should
often
times
giue
authoritie
,
&
title
to
the
vniust
possessor
against
the
right
owner
:
For
besides
the
opinions
of
parties
,
there
are
aduocates
to
debate
the
right
,
&
lawe
that
must
iudge
thereof
.
Now
for
to
decide
the
matter
wherof
there
is
question
,
thanks
be
to
God
we
haue
a
good
Iudge
.
The
question
betweene
vs
is
of
the
pure
seruice
of
God
.
Now
it
is
not
in
mans
power
to
iudge
,
howe
God
must
be
serued
,
much
lesse
for
a
poore
pesaunt
to
make
bookes
,
how
Princes
should
be
dutifully
serued
.
For
betweene
man
&
man
there
is
alwaies
a
proportion
,
but
betweene
man
and
God
there
can
be
none
.
For
it
is
God
alone
which
ought
only
to
be
heard
in
this
matter
,
&
not
men
,
whose
ordinances
of
the
seruice
towards
god
is
for
their
own
turne
,
&
serue
only
for
their
owne
phantasies
.
This
is
the
cause
why
God
himselfe
would
be
the
onely
law
giuer
vnto
his
people
,
Nowe
by
the
comming
of
our
Sauiour
Christ
,
the
holy
scriptures
haue
lost
nothing
,
but
rather
haue
the
greater
authority
,
By
this
worde
thus
limited
within
the
bookes
of
the
Canonicall
Scripture
,
the
primatiue
Church
hath
taken
away
an
infinite
nomber
of
traditions
,
which
heretiks
haue
made
to
passe
vnder
the
name
of
the
Apostles
,
allowing
nothing
but
that
which
they
haue
found
contained
in
the
foresayde
bookes
.
By
the
same
also
they
haue
stopped
the
mouth
of
heresies
,
which
sprong
vp
of
the
noughtie
and
vnsound
interpretations
thereof
:
to
be
short
,
they
neuer
complained
,
when
they
had
any
thing
to
doe
with
heretikes
,
who
agreed
of
this
Iudge
,
accompting
their
matter
wonne
,
but
rather
when
they
vanquished
them
which
refused
the
same
worde
:
forasmuch
as
it
is
impossible
to
finde
a
Iudge
,
to
them
that
refuse
to
be
iudged
of
God
.
Our
aduersaries
alwaies
cry
with
open
mouth
,
The
Fathers
,
Fathers
,
Fathers
:
but
beholde
whereby
the
Fathers
woulde
bee
iudged
,
and
before
whome
they
would
pleade
.
This
controuersie
(
sayeth
S.
August
.
Ioh
20
.
3●
.
And
Augustine
vpon
that
place
.
that
which
he
hath
written
,
is
sufficient
to
beleeue
in
Christ
,
and
to
haue
lyfe
in
his
name
:
and
as
concerning
the
things
which
are
omitted
,
S.
Augustine
pronounceth
that
he
is
rash
,
which
presumeth
to
ghesse
what
they
are
.
Saint
Paul
also
sayth
,
We
finde
in
the
Scriptures
the
inuocation
of
one
God
alone
,
by
meanes
of
Iesus
Christ
alone
,
but
they
would
find
there
the
inuocation
of
Saints
.
We
there
finde
,
that
purgatorie
cleansing
is
in
the
onely
blood
of
Iesus
Christ
,
they
woulde
finde
there
that
purgatorie
,
which
they
haue
taken
out
of
Virgill
and
Plato
.
We
there
finde
one
onely
Mediator
:
but
they
would
finde
as
manie
there
,
as
there
are
saints
in
their
kalender
.
They
call
these
things
imperfections
in
the
Scripture
,
which
are
rather
so
manie
infections
in
their
Church
.
Furthermore
I
demaunde
,
be
it
that
a
man
thinke
that
there
wanteth
something
,
who
shall
be
so
hardie
,
after
such
a
workeman
,
to
put
to
his
hande
to
make
it
perfect
?
If
a
man
saye
the
Doctors
,
why
then
quite
contrarie
finde
it
onely
perfect
,
&
in
it
as
in
a
glasse
they
acknowledge
the
imperfections
both
of
others
,
and
of
themselues
.
Againe
I
demaunde
,
whether
in
their
iudgement
is
more
obscure
,
the
Gospel
or
the
Prophets
:
They
will
not
saye
,
I
am
sure
,
that
it
is
the
Gospell
,
for
then
litle
children
would
laugh
them
to
scorne
.
And
moreouer
Saint
Peter
sayeth
,
But
putting
the
case
there
were
such
great
obscurite
as
they
say
,
let
vs
see
a
litle
by
whome
they
would
make
it
brighter
.
Shall
it
be
by
the
doctors
?
Nay
rather
contrariwise
,
as
we
shall
see
hereafter
,
they
reioyce
not
but
in
the
brightnesse
of
this
sunne
.
What
then
:
shal
it
be
by
the
Church
:
But
the
Church
is
the
moone
,
a
body
shadowed
and
darke
of
it selfe
,
which
hath
no
light
,
but
that
which
it
giueth
her
.
What
then
:
shall
it
be
Thomas
:
shall
it
be
Scotus
:
shall
it
be
Bricot
and
a
rablement
of
such
like
?
I
report
me
to
al
men
of
iudgement
,
whether
they
darken
,
or
make
more
bright
the
woorde
of
God
.
It
remaineth
then
that
we
search
in
this
light
,
the
light
of
all
our
thoughtes
,
and
that
wee
conclude
that
if
wee
see
nothing
,
the
faulte
thereof
is
in
our
eyes
,
and
not
in
the
light
.
They
alledge
that
the
Scripture
is
doubtefull
,
because
that
Satan
alledged
it
vnto
Iesus
Christ
.
I
aunswere
,
that
there
is
no
lawe
that
a
man
may
not
reiect
by
this
argument
:
for
all
lawes
are
subiect
to
be
alledged
both
by
good
&
bad
.
But
let
them
also
marke
,
that
by
the
same
Iesus
Christ
stopped
his
mouth
.
Also
,
your
Sauiour
Christ
hath
spoken
in
parables
and
similitudes
:
we
know
that
similitudes
are
to
make
cleare
,
and
not
to
darken
:
and
I
make
their
owne
consciences
iudges
,
whether
those
parables
of
Christ
,
so
expounded
as
we
haue
them
in
the
scriptures
,
tend
to
any
other
end
.
When
he
would
teach
vs
who
is
our
neighbour
,
he
maketh
it
playne
by
the
similitude
of
the
man
descending
from
Iericho
:
what
the
kingdome
of
heauen
is
,
by
the
similitude
of
the
sower
:
But
yet
see
a
farther
matter
then
the
former
:
for
it
is
so
farre
of
,
that
they
will
accept
the
Scriptures
for
their
iudge
,
that
they
them selues
will
bee
Iudges
ouer
the
Scripture
.
If
the
Churche
(
saye
they
)
had
not
kept
the
Scriptures
,
Furthermore
I
praye
euerye
man
to
examine
this
conclusion
.
The
Church
of
GOD
hath
kept
the
Scripture
:
The
Church
beareth
witnesse
of
the
Scripture
:
Ergo
shee
is
aboue
the
Scripture
.
The
edictes
of
a
Prince
are
registred
in
all
his
Countries
.
The
lawes
are
gathered
together
and
written
by
Clarkes
.
All
Contractes
and
bargaines
are
subsigned
by
witnesses
.
And
yet
for
all
that
,
he
that
woulde
saye
,
that
they
were
aboue
the
Kinges
,
aboue
the
lawes
&
contracts
,
hee
shoulde
make
him selfe
a
laughing
stocke
.
If
they
say
that
the
Lawes
of
God
haue
no
place
,
neyther
more
nor
lesse
then
edictes
of
some
Princes
,
except
they
be
agreeable
to
the
worde
of
God
:
I
answere
them
,
that
it
is
not
the
Church
of
God
that
hath
this
priuiledge
:
for
shee
is
the
Spouse
of
Christ
,
and
hath
learned
to
obey
her
husbande
without
anye
examination
of
his
commaundement
,
and
must
by
and
by
holde
her
peace
,
assoone
as
shee
heareth
his
woord
.
For
she
knoweth
also
,
that
the
wisedome
of
her
husband
(
whose
will
is
the
rule
of
doctrine
)
is
not
like
that
of
Princes
,
which
it
is
necessarye
to
examine
,
whether
it
bee
honest
and
profitable
,
Ciuile
or
vnciuile
:
but
if
they
be
so
stiffe
for
the
obteyning
of
this
priuiledge
,
yet
let
them
agree
with
mee
herein
:
that
this
is
that
assemblie
,
which
hath
lyfted
vp
it selfe
aboue
all
that
is
called
GOD
,
which
fearing
to
bee
discomfited
by
the
Spirite
of
his
mouth
,
woulde
therefore
moussell
and
stoppe
vp
hys
mouth
,
all
that
it
might
.
The
place
of
Saynt
Augustine
which
they
alledge
,
maketh
nothing
agaynst
that
which
hath
bene
sayde
before
.
I
woulde
not
(
sayeth
hee
)
beleeue
the
Gospell
,
vnlesse
the
aucthoritye
of
the
Church
constrained
or
moued
me
.
Ni
me
Ecclesiae
Catholicae
commoueret
authoritas
:
where
it
is
specially
to
be
noted
,
that
according
to
the
style
of
Affricke
,
Commoueret
is
taken
for
commouisset
,
that
is
to
say
,
I
had
not
beleeued
the
Gospell
,
vnlesse
the
consent
of
the
vniuersall
Church
had
moued
mee
thereto
:
hee
meaneth
not
that
the
holy
Ghost
had
not
such
a
style
,
There
foloweth
another
argument
,
that
the
Church
is
before
the
Scripture
:
Now
in
this
whole
disputation
,
they
can
not
finde
one
onely
word
out
of
the
auncient
doctors
,
for
there
was
neuer
yet
any
heretike
so
monstrous
,
which
durst
set
it
forth
,
till
the
Councill
of
Constance
,
where
it
was
first
set
out
by
the
doctors
of
the
Church
of
Rome
.
There
was
the
question
moued
concerning
the
taking
away
of
the
cup
of
our
Lord
from
the
people
,
expresly
against
the
institution
of
the
Sonne
of
God
.
There
could
not
one
place
be
found
out
in
the
Scriptures
,
which
might
fauour
directly
or
indirectly
,
plainly
or
darkely
so
damnable
a
sacriledge
.
Iohn
Hus
called
them
to
the
holy
Scripture
,
and
they
knewe
well
that
that
was
full
against
them
.
Then
first
they
began
to
aduise
of
those
goodly
Maximes
or
grounds
,
That
there
can
be
founde
no
other
Iudge
of
the
controuersies
of
this
time
,
but
the
holy
Scripture
,
and
how
euery
one
may
iudge
them
by
the
same
.
CHAP.
V.
NOw
seeing
then
that
they
do
doubt
that
the
Scripture
is
not
on
their
side
,
let
vs
beare
at
their
hands
that
they
refuse
it
,
and
that
they
slander
it
as
much
as
they
can
:
let
vs
also
see
now
whether
they
can
allowe
of
any
other
Iudge
besides
it
.
I
would
demaunde
of
them
,
if
of
all
the
auncient
doctors
they
would
chuse
any
one
,
which
hath
bene
free
from
those
refusals
,
which
they
propounde
against
the
word
of
God
,
or
els
whether
they
wil
allowe
al
?
Concerning
any
one
alone
they
cannot
,
for
in
euery
one
of
them
,
there
may
easely
be
found
either
one
error
or
an
other
:
but
they
haue
so
many
errors
to
defend
,
that
to
defend
all
,
all
the
errors
of
all
times
&
ages
would
not
suffice
.
Moreouer
they
would
be
ashamed
to
denie
,
that
their
style
is
more
obscure
then
the
style
of
the
Scripture
.
Also
they
know
in
their
owne
conscience
,
that
in
the
most
principal
points
they
are
on
our
side
,
and
yet
there
is
not
any
one
of
them
,
which
they
will
accept
in
&
through
al
things
,
for
as
much
as
they
condemne
in
Irenee
the
error
of
the
Chiliasts
,
and
the
interpretation
which
he
made
of
the
Apocalypse
concerning
the
church
of
Rome
,
in
Cyprian
Anabaptisine
,
in
Tertullian
the
heresie
of
Montanus
,
in
S.
Austine
predestination
,
and
so
like
wise
of
others
.
Will
they
then
receiue
all
alike
for
Iudges
?
but
then
who
shal
be
president
in
the
contrarieties
of
their
doctrine
and
interpretations
?
For
euery
one
knoweth
that
there
shall
be
found
some
euery
where
.
If
it
be
the
holy
Scripture
,
that
is
the
thing
which
we
desire
.
But
if
they
refuse
the
Scripture
as
partie
or
partiall
,
by
a
more
strong
reason
then
,
we
will
not
accept
them
for
Iudges
,
which
are
parties
against
vs
.
In
like
maner
shall
it
be
with
the
schoolemen
,
if
they
take
them
for
Iudges
,
although
that
they
be
the
principall
authors
of
the
errors
of
the
Church
of
Rome
:
for
betweene
Thomas
,
and
Scotus
,
and
theyr
armies
set
in
battel
raye
,
and
fighting
one
against
an
other
,
who
shall
be
iudge
?
It
remaineth
then
that
they
chuse
eyther
one
of
the
Councils
,
or
els
all
the
Councils
together
.
If
they
chuse
one
,
we
knowe
that
in
euery
one
lightly
,
there
is
handled
as
yet
but
one
thing
,
as
for
example
:
in
the
Councill
of
Nice
,
the
matter
of
Arrius
:
in
the
Councill
of
Ephesus
,
and
of
Chalcedon
,
the
matter
of
Nestorius
,
and
Eutyches
,
and
so
likewyse
of
others
:
but
of
these
pointes
,
there
is
no
contention
betweene
vs
.
If
they
will
haue
all
,
I
demaund
who
shall
be
president
in
the
errors
which
the
auncient
fathers
confesse
,
Nowe
if
they
obiect
,
that
there
is
no
more
neede
to
iudge
of
our
controuersies
,
and
that
they
haue
bene
oftentimes
iudged
alreadie
by
Councils
:
But
admitte
,
that
the
holy
Scriptures
be
the
rule
to
compasse
all
doctrines
:
they
will
yet
aske
me
foran
ende
,
in
so
great
contrarietie
which
is
amongst
vs
,
who
he
shal
be
that
shall
expound
and
apply
them
:
Concernyng
vs
,
we
are
parties
against
them
,
and
as
couching
them
,
they
are
parties
against
vs
,
who
shall
be
iudge
here
then
:
for
saye
they
,
Let
the
Scripture
be
so
great
a
Iudge
as
men
would
haue
it
,
yet
it
speaketh
not
for
to
determine
and
pronounce
the
sentence
.
To
this
I
answere
,
first
that
when
a
man
is
assured
of
the
squeere
in
the
measure
,
or
of
the
compasse
in
the
shippe
,
there
is
no
Mason
so
sclender
witted
,
which
doeth
not
knowe
in
applying
it
,
which
is
straight
,
and
which
is
crooked
:
nor
Mariner
so
vnskilfull
,
that
doeth
not
perceyue
,
whether
the
shippe
keepe
her
right
course
or
noe
.
And
therefore
let
them
onely
graunt
vs
,
to
guide
the
preceptes
of
our
saluation
,
accordyng
to
the
rule
of
saluation
,
conteyned
in
the
olde
and
newe
Testament
,
and
we
will
therein
submitte
our selues
,
not
onely
to
a
free
and
lawfull
Councill
,
but
also
to
learned
and
vnlearned
,
to
the
ministers
and
common
people
,
and
to
all
Christians
,
for
whose
saluation
it
was
written
,
who
by
them selues
shall
finde
in
this
worde
,
the
iudgement
of
the
worde
,
and
shall
pronounce
definitiue
sentence
for
the
same
.
Furthermore
,
in
euery
arte
there
are
certayne
principles
and
groundes
,
whereupon
vndoubtedly
depende
all
the
rest
.
Geometry
hath
her
Axiomes
,
Physicke
her
Aphorismes
,
and
the
Eiuill
and
Canon
lawe
their
generall
rules
,
by
which
they
will
scanne
all
difficulties
,
which
shal
aryse
in
their
lawes
.
Nowe
,
say
I
,
that
diuinitie
also
hath
her
rules
&
grounds
,
and
the
lawe
of
God
,
hath
her
certaine
principles
,
able
to
decide
al
controuersies
which
are
amongst
vs
:
yea
and
those
so
much
the
more
strong
and
easie
,
as
we
are
most
assured
,
that
there
is
no
kinde
of
doubt
,
contradiction
,
or
contrarietie
in
them
,
to
make
them
voyde
or
vnstable
.
Nowe
we
haue
three
sortes
of
differences
,
or
controuersies
with
the
Church
of
Rome
:
the
one
sort
consisteth
in
thinges
playnely
forbidden
in
the
worde
of
God
,
the
other
in
things
which
are
not
commanded
,
and
the
last
in
the
interpretation
of
certaine
pointes
,
which
are
eyther
forbidden
or
commaunded
,
which
both
of
vs
receyue
,
but
diuersly
.
Concerning
the
first
kinde
,
Concerning
the
second
we
haue
an
other
rule
,
God
is
the
onely
lawgiuer
vnto
his
people
.
But
to
defeate
this
rule
,
they
would
drawe
certaine
places
by
the
haire
,
to
the
end
,
to
make
vs
to
finde
therein
their
lewd
inuentions
.
As
for
example
,
It
shall
not
be
forgiuen
in
this
world
,
This
is
my
body
,
be
a
figuratiue
speache
or
no.
First
of
all
I
conferre
,
or
waye
together
the
places
of
the
Euangelistes
,
and
I
finde
in
Saint
Luke
:
This
Cuppe
is
the
newe
Testament
in
my
bloud
,
The
rocke
was
Christ
,
this
is
one
place
:
Baptisme
is
regeneration
,
that
is
another
,
&c.
Finally
I
finde
in
S.
Augustine
these
words
:
In
figuratiue
speaches
,
I
demaunde
then
of
euery
Christian
man
,
what
we
may
iustly
attribute
more
to
the
iudgement
of
the
auncient
fathers
:
for
where
we
haue
a
plaine
forbidding
from
God
,
euery
one
will
agree
vnto
vs
,
that
men
can
doe
nothing
,
and
that
there
neede
no
interpreters
.
Againe
,
where
we
haue
no
commaundement
from
his
mouth
,
there
it
lesse
behoueth
:
for
where
there
is
no
text
,
there
can
be
no
glose
.
Those
matters
then
remaine
,
out
of
which
these
commaundements
are
taken
,
and
interpreted
diuersly
,
in
which
we
most
gladly
admit
the
interpretations
of
the
doctors
of
the
primitiue
Church
,
and
the
most
notable
in
all
ages
.
To
conclude
then
this
article
,
we
say
,
that
the
infallible
marke
of
the
pure
Church
,
is
the
pure
doctrine
therof
duely
administred
:
and
the
vndoubted
touchstone
of
pure
doctrine
,
is
the
pure
worde
of
God
,
conteyned
in
the
holy
Scripture
,
which
God
hath
deliuered
to
be
the
rule
of
his
Church
.
That
the
same
is
perfect
,
and
to
be
vnderstood
of
those
that
desire
their
saluation
,
yea
aswell
of
it selfe
,
as
conferred
with
it selfe
:
albeit
for
the
decyding
of
controuersies
founded
vpon
the
same
,
we
wyllingly
admit
the
interpretations
of
the
most
auncient
.
Briefely
,
because
we
finde
not
this
puritie
in
the
Church
of
Rome
,
but
the
quite
contrary
,
neyther
the
lawe
of
God
obeyed
,
by
made
subiect
to
the
wyll
of
the
Pope
and
his
vpholders
:
we
holde
the
Church
of
Rome
most
impure
,
and
we
marke
the
Pope
that
gouerneth
there
,
for
a
notable
marke
of
Antichrist
,
lyfting
vp
him selfe
aboue
GOD
,
for
that
he
setteth
the
lawe
of
God
,
behinde
his
owne
commaundements
and
vaine
inuentions
.
That
the
visible
Church
may
erre
,
yea
,
and
that
in
matters
of
fayth
,
and
those
which
concerne
our
saluation
.
CHAP.
VI.
BEcause
our
aduersaries
knowe
very
well
,
that
they
can
not
defende
,
neyther
by
the
holy
Scripture
,
nor
by
the
example
of
the
primitiue
Church
,
the
false
doctrine
which
beareth
swaye
amongst
them
,
in
the
most
principal
points
of
Christian
religion
,
yf
a
man
should
examine
them
by
piecemeale
:
therefore
they
haue
thought
good
to
defende
all
at
once
,
to
wit
,
to
maintaine
that
the
Church
can
not
erre
,
especially
in
matters
that
doe
concerne
saluation
.
For
(
say
they
)
seeing
that
Christ
is
the
head
of
the
Church
,
he
guideth
the
same
by
his
spirit
,
and
this
spirit
is
the
spirite
of
vnderstanding
,
which
inspireth
into
her
in
time
and
place
,
all
that
is
necessary
for
to
leade
her
,
in
such
sort
,
that
she
can
not
erre
.
But
as
they
defending
this
bulwarke
,
assure
themselues
to
defende
all
theyr
Babylon
:
so
is
it
also
as
certaine
,
that
this
being
once
wonne
,
they
can
not
any
longer
stande
.
When
they
speake
of
the
Church
in
this
matter
,
Search
the
Scriptures
:
and
this
is
that
same
worde
also
which
hath
sent
the
holy
Spirite
to
the
Apostles
.
If
we
then
wyll
feele
the
Spirit
,
it
behoueth
that
we
heare
the
word
,
for
the
Spirit
is
sent
from
the
word
:
but
the
cleargie
of
Rome
doe
make
no
accompt
of
this
word
.
In
stead
of
hearkening
vnto
it
,
it
will
be
heard
afore
it
,
in
steade
of
obeying
vnto
it
,
it
will
make
commaundements
of
it selfe
,
in
respect
of
which
,
those
of
Gods
haue
bene
neglected
:
yea
it
hath
abolished
&
cut
of
certaine
commaundements
wholy
,
and
that
openly
.
It
followeth
then
,
that
it
can
not
boast
neither
of
the
spirit
,
neither
of
the
leading
thereof
,
forasmuch
as
this
spirite
proceedeth
from
the
sending
of
the
essentiall
word
,
who
hath
left
vs
his
word
in
the
holy
Scriptures
.
So
we
see
the
a
king
wil
communicate
his
authoritie
to
a
parliament
,
to
the
end
to
make
them
obey
his
lawes
,
&
to
distribute
them
to
his
people
:
but
if
the
parliament
shal
abuse
them
,
to
the
end
to
make
it self
obeyed
aboue
the
king
,
and
the
lawes
themselues
,
he
will
straightwayes
take
his
authoritie
from
it
.
Nowe
God
and
his
lawe
,
in
respect
of
the
Church
,
are
farre
greater
then
these
:
for
there
can
be
no
proportion
of
that
which
is
infinite
,
to
that
which
is
finite
.
And
therefore
,
is
it
any
wonder
if
he
haue
taken
from
the
prelates
of
the
Church
of
Rome
,
the
gifts
of
his
spirit
,
when
they
woulde
giue
authoritie
to
their
vaine
traditions
,
aboue
the
lawe
it selfe
,
and
that
vnder
the
shadow
of
his
Spirite
?
We
say
that
the
spirit
and
the
word
are
inseparably
ioyned
and
knit
together
,
and
that
without
great
sacriledge
they
cannot
be
separated
,
forasmuch
as
Iesus
Christ
,
who
is
the
word
it self
,
hath
so
taught
vs
.
When
that
same
conforter
shall
come
,
that
same
spirite
(
I
meane
)
of
trueth
,
he
shall
leade
you
(
saith
he
)
into
all
trueth
:
for
he
shall
not
speake
of
himselfe
,
but
whatsoeuer
he
shall
heare
,
that
shall
he
speake
.
He
shall
glorifie
me
,
for
he
shall
receyue
of
mine
,
and
shall
shewe
it
vnto
you
,
and
shall
bring
all
thinges
to
your
remembrance
,
which
I
haue
tolde
you
,
&c.
If
this
spirite
heare
the
worde
,
and
speake
nothing
of
his
owne
:
by
a
more
strong
reason
the
Church
shoulde
,
if
she
be
gouerned
and
lead
by
the
same
spirite
.
He
sayth
also
vnto
his
Apostles
,
I
will
be
with
you
till
the
ende
of
the
world
.
Teaching
them
to
obserue
al
things
whatsoeuer
I
haue
commaunded
,
that
is
to
say
,
my
worde
.
And
therefore
Saint
Paul
preaching
the
word
,
both
by
liuely
voyce
,
and
also
by
writing
,
doeth
neuerthelesse
call
his
ministerie
,
The
ministerie
of
the
spirite
:
because
it
is
the
spirite
,
Beholde
my
couenaunt
that
I
make
with
them
,
(
saith
the
Lord
:
My
Spirite
that
is
in
thee
,
and
my
wordes
which
I
haue
put
in
thy
mouth
,
shall
not
depart
out
of
thy
mouth
,
nor
out
of
the
mouth
of
thy
seede
for
euer
,
&c.
He
ioyneth
the
spirite
with
the
worde
in
plaine
wordes
,
as
if
the
couenaunt
were
conceiued
in
these
woordes
:
My
spirite
shal
be
in
thee
,
but
marke
this
,
that
the
wordes
that
I
haue
put
in
thy
mouth
,
do
not
depart
out
of
thy
mouth
for
euer
.
Neither
ought
we
to
saye
,
that
this
is
to
much
to
abase
the
spirite
of
God
,
to
bring
it
backe
to
the
worde
.
For
this
is
alwayes
to
measure
God
by
himselfe
,
and
this
also
is
the
onely
measure
that
he
hath
giuen
vs
.
They
obiect
vnto
vs
that
GOD
is
sure
in
his
promises
,
and
that
therefore
hee
keepeth
the
couenaunt
that
hee
hath
made
with
his
Church
.
We
aunswere
,
that
in
verye
deede
the
worde
of
GOD
endureth
for
euer
:
but
in
all
these
sayd
couenauntes
,
there
is
alwayes
a
condition
,
If
ye
keepe
my
worde
,
how
soeuer
through
his
mercy
he
many
times
beareth
long
with
our
iniquities
.
And
therefore
we
must
not
conclude
,
God
is
sure
:
therefore
the
Church
cannot
erre
.
But
much
rather
to
say
,
Seeing
that
the
Church
erreth
so
greatly
,
and
so
oftentimes
forsaketh
him
,
it
must
needes
be
that
God
is
sure
in
his
promises
,
and
full
of
mercye
.
For
it
is
certaine
that
very
often
hee
keepeth
his
couenaunt
with
her
,
how
corrupt
and
diseased
soeuer
she
bee
,
and
euen
then
when
she
prouoketh
him
to
a
diuorce
,
so
as
she
treadeth
the
contracte
of
marriage
vnder
her
feete
,
and
when
she
hath
enlarged
her
bedde
(
as
the
Prophete
sayth
,
)
to
all
commers
,
as
it
maye
plainely
be
shewed
in
all
times
and
states
of
the
Church
.
When
our
aduersaries
will
proue
that
the
Church
is
before
the
Scripture
,
Genesis
.
3.
they
beginne
it
at
Adam
.
This
therefore
is
the
place
from
whence
we
must
beginne
.
God
hauing
created
Adam
,
he
forbad
him
to
eate
of
the
fruit
of
the
tree
of
the
knowledge
of
good
and
euill
:
that
is
to
saye
,
He
commaunded
him
to
order
all
his
affections
and
desires
according
to
his
holye
will
,
and
to
seeke
all
his
felicitie
and
all
his
knowledge
,
in
this
onely
point
of
cleauing
vnto
God
.
If
he
did
not
,
he
signified
vnto
him
by
this
that
he
shall
die
the
death
,
that
is
to
saye
,
he
shal
be
separated
,
from
God
,
which
is
the
soule
of
our
soule
,
as
our
soule
is
in
our
bodies
.
In
this
couenaunt
we
see
a
plaine
condition
.
Adam
altogether
full
of
graces
,
as
hee
was
then
,
loued
rather
to
followe
his
fantasie
,
then
to
be
ordred
according
to
the
worde
of
God
,
and
to
hearken
rather
to
the
voyce
of
Sathan
,
then
of
his
Creator
.
Iust
punishment
followed
vpon
him
and
vpon
all
his
posteritie
,
man
remayning
corrupted
,
not
onely
in
his
body
and
outward
senses
,
but
also
in
his
reason
,
and
in
his
vnderstanding
,
in
such
sort
that
reason
it selfe
,
for
the
most
part
,
serued
to
no
other
ende
but
to
make
them
so
much
the
more
vnreasonable
,
and
vnderstanding
nothing
,
but
to
make
them
searche
curiosities
that
might
withdrawe
them
from
their
saluation
.
And
yet
for
all
this
,
we
may
marke
,
in
our
foolish
vnconstancie
,
the
constant
loue
and
goodnesse
of
our
Creatour
,
towardes
vs
his
vnworthy
treasures
,
when
he
promised
euen
presently
after
to
our
first
parents
,
the
seede
that
should
brufe
the
head
of
the
serpent
,
in
which
alone
they
might
obtaine
mercy
.
This
then
was
a
conditionall
couenaunt
,
broken
of
mans
part
,
by
the
sume
of
the
first
Adam
,
and
repayred
againe
in
the
person
of
the
second
,
by
the
assured
goodnes
and
onely
bountie
of
the
Creator
.
Now
if
this
Church
euen
from
her
first
roote
was
thus
polluted
,
if
from
her
beginning
,
euen
then
when
she
was
full
of
knowledge
and
incegritie
,
and
when
she
enioyed
the
presence
of
God
,
she
failed
so
shamefully
,
because
she
turned
away
from
the
worde
of
her
God
,
to
her
owne
desires
:
can
it
be
that
any
man
nowe
a
dayes
,
in
obscuritie
,
ignorance
and
vanitie
,
(
wherein
we
are
all
borne
,
)
can
vaunt
them selues
,
that
they
are
able
to
walke
vprightly
without
this
worde
?
Our
aduersaries
for
to
auoyd
this
place
,
do
lessen
the
sinne
of
Adam
as
much
as
they
can
:
Exo.
19
4.
Nowe
the
whole
seconde
state
of
the
Church
,
to
wit
,
vnder
the
lawe
,
is
full
of
such
like
examples
.
God
made
a
couenant
with
his
people
of
Israel
,
to
be
their
God
,
and
that
they
should
be
his
people
:
the
promises
of
this
same
couenant
,
they
are
very
great
and
excellent
.
I
will
walke
in
the
middest
of
you
,
I
will
haue
my
tabernacle
amongst
you
for
euer
,
my
name
shal
be
in
Ierusalem
,
I
haue
sanctified
it
,
to
the
ende
it
may
be
there
alwaies
,
I
will
answere
betweene
the
two
Cherubins
.
But
alwayes
this
condition
was
set
to
this
couenaunt
:
If
you
shall
be
my
people
,
if
you
shall
serue
me
,
if
you
shall
walke
in
my
commaundements
,
if
you
shall
aske
counsell
at
my
mouth
,
&c.
otherwise
he
sayth
first
,
I
wyll
chastice
you
with
my
roddes
,
to
cause
you
to
returne
vnto
me
,
but
if
you
shall
make
no
accompt
of
it
,
I
will
reiect
the
people
that
shall
forsake
my
lawe
.
I
will
cast
of
Iuda
from
before
my
face
,
as
I
haue
reiected
Israel
,
&
I
wil
reproue
the
Citie
of
Ierusalem
which
I
haue
chosen
,
&
the
house
whereof
I
haue
said
,
my
name
shal
be
there
:
Euen
as
I
haue
done
to
Silo
(
sayth
he
)
euen
so
will
I
doe
to
you
,
yea
euen
vnto
you
.
This
is
that
that
the
Spirite
of
God
sayth
in
the
time
of
Asa
,
by
the
Prophet
Azarias
,
The
Lorde
is
with
you
,
because
you
are
with
him
.
If
you
seeke
him
,
you
shall
finde
him
:
If
you
forsake
him
,
he
will
forsake
you
.
And
a
little
after
he
addeth
,
Wherefore
haue
ye
beene
so
long
time
without
the
true
God
,
without
a
Priest
,
without
a
Teacher
,
and
without
the
Lawe
?
&c.
Nowe
when
the
Lorde
sayth
in
a
thousand
places
,
If
ye
shall
forsake
me
,
he
putteth
not
downe
any
false
matter
,
nor
impossible
thing
,
but
a
thing
that
not
only
oftentimes
commeth
to
passe
and
is
possible
,
but
also
is
so
easie
and
so
ordinary
,
or
rather
so
natural
to
euery
assembly
of
men
,
that
in
this
same
Church
here
,
which
may
enioy
the
manifest
presence
of
the
Lord
,
and
may
heare
his
voyce
when
it
tooke
counsell
at
his
mouth
,
we
see
by
a
great
many
of
examples
.
Beholde
O
Israel
,
the
gods
which
brought
thee
out
of
Egypt
.
If
in
this
question
they
will
vnderstand
by
the
Church
the
people
,
behold
then
a
strange
Idolatrie
:
if
they
wil
vnderstand
(
as
they
speake
)
the
Cleargie
,
then
beholde
,
not
onely
Idolatry
,
but
the
Church
of
God
euen
prostituted
to
Idols
,
that
is
to
say
,
beholde
an
adulterous
wyfe
,
prouoking
her
husband
as
much
as
lyeth
in
her
,
to
make
a
diuorce
from
her
.
Haue
the
light
,
but
walke
in
it
&
follow
it
.
In
the
daies
of
Saul
it
is
said
,
that
no
man
sought
the
Lorde
in
the
arke
of
the
couenant
,
that
is
to
say
,
that
no
man
toke
counsel
of
God
in
his
word
:
and
herein
we
may
see
the
iudgement
of
God
,
when
the
Arke
was
taken
by
the
Philistines
,
You
,
you
are
called
by
the
name
of
Israel
,
and
in
many
other
places
.
Iere.
2.3.13.14
.
and
you
sweare
by
the
name
of
the
Lorde
,
but
you
serue
him
not
in
trueth
and
in
righteousnesse
.
You
haue
said
vnto
a
piece
of
wood
,
thou
art
my
father
,
&
to
a
stone
,
thou
hast
begotten
me
.
You
,
you
haue
prostituted
your selues
vnder
euery
greene
tree
.
You
haue
abandoned
me
by
the
space
of
innumerable
dayes
,
and
you
haue
gods
according
to
the
number
of
your
Cities
,
&c.
To
be
short
,
all
the
Prophets
which
were
sent
euen
vntill
the
comming
of
Christ
,
and
in
all
the
Prophets
,
all
the
Chapters
are
in
a
maner
nothing
els
but
testimonies
of
the
idolatries
and
adulteries
of
the
Church
with
strange
gods
,
who
for
the
same
threatten
her
,
and
signifie
vnto
her
a
diuorce
,
if
she
do
not
returne
vnto
the
Lord
.
In
meane
while
,
he
that
shal
marke
what
maner
of
band
&
companie
that
was
,
in
this
time
,
which
our
aduersaries
call
the
Church
,
vnderstanding
the
Cleargie
,
the
Priests
,
the
Scribes
,
&
the
ordinary
prophets
,
a
man
shal
find
that
the
true
Prophets
,
which
were
sent
from
God
,
had
no
greater
enemies
then
they
were
:
that
they
were
these
that
imprisoned
them
,
&
put
them
to
death
,
as
troublers
of
the
Church
,
yea
so
farre
foorth
,
that
our
sauiour
Christ
sayth
,
that
it
could
not
be
that
a
prophet
must
be
murthered
out
of
Ierusalem
.
And
when
they
said
vnto
them
,
Turne
you
vnto
the
law
of
the
Lord
,
reforme
the
Church
,
forsake
your
Idolatries
,
Say
ye
not
,
Here
is
the
temple
of
the
Lord
,
for
I
haue
abandoned
Silo
,
which
I
haue
chosen
,
and
I
wil
reiect
you
also
,
if
you
continue
,
&c.
Say
ye
not
that
the
law
shall
not
perish
from
the
priest
&c.
for
,
for
a
long
season
Israel
and
Iuda
was
without
the
true
God
,
without
a
Priest
,
without
a
Teacher
,
&c.
Seeke
therfore
the
Lord
,
&c.
Your
Priests
(
saith
the
Lorde
)
haue
broken
my
lawe
,
and
they
haue
defiled
my
holy
places
.
They
haue
not
saide
,
Where
is
the
Lorde
,
thei
vnderstood
not
my
word
,
&
thei
haue
not
knowen
me
.
Your
Prophets
haue
prophecied
lies
,
saying
,
The
Lorde
hath
saide
thus
,
wheras
the
Lord
neuer
spake
it
.
They
haue
prophecied
in
Baal
,
&
haue
gone
after
the
things
that
are
vaine
.
They
shal
all
couer
their
lips
,
because
they
shall
receiue
no
answere
from
God
.
Seeke
therfore
the
Lord
,
&
you
shal
find
him
,
&c.
Beholde
how
the
true
Prophets
,
who
in
comparison
of
these
prelats
were
accompted
the
of
scouring
and
muck
of
the
world
,
beate
backe
all
their
vaine
presumptions
,
that
they
had
of
not
being
deceyued
.
To
be
short
,
the
Church
of
that
time
was
throwen
downe
farre
beneath
that
of
Samaria
and
of
Sodom
.
For
if
the
Lorde
(
sayth
Esai
the
Prophet
)
had
not
restored
euen
a
small
remnant
,
they
had
bene
as
Sodom
,
and
should
haue
ben
like
vnto
Gomorrha
.
And
he
saith
in
another
place
,
Behold
me
Lord
,
&
my
children
,
that
is
to
say
,
the
disciples
that
thou
hast
giuen
me
.
Finally
,
when
the
Iewes
would
not
hearken
to
the
wholesome
exhortations
of
the
Prophetes
,
God
would
euen
constraine
them
by
his
mercy
,
and
therefore
sent
them
euen
saluation
it self
from
heauen
,
to
witt
,
Iesus
Christ
his
onely
Sonne
our
Lord
.
But
the
Church
behaued
it selfe
towards
him
euen
likewise
.
He
had
no
greater
enemies
then
the
Priestes
,
the
Scribes
,
the
Doctors
,
the
Pharisees
,
that
is
to
say
,
(
as
our
aduersaries
speake
,
)
the
cleargie
,
and
those
which
had
the
Lawe
committed
vnto
them
,
and
those
which
seemed
to
be
the
light
of
the
Iewishe
Church
.
If
he
spake
any
thing
of
the
reformation
of
the
Church
,
then
said
they
he
would
destroye
the
Temple
:
if
of
the
grace
of
God
by
the
Messias
,
then
he
blasphemed
against
the
Lawe
:
if
of
the
kingdome
of
heauen
,
then
he
strooke
at
the
maiestie
of
Cesar
:
if
he
wrought
any
miracles
,
that
was
by
the
deuil
:
if
he
alledged
the
Scriptures
,
then
they
demaunded
of
him
where
were
the
letters
of
his
Doctourship
,
reproching
him
,
that
hee
was
a
Carpenters
sonne
.
To
be
short
,
all
their
arguments
against
Christ
,
are
euen
the
same
that
our
masters
vse
against
vs
.
We
are
the
children
of
Abraham
:
we
are
the
keepers
of
the
Scriptures
.
It
belongeth
to
vs
to
expounde
them
:
and
not
to
you
,
who
haue
not
receyued
holy
orders
as
we
haue
done
.
And
yet
notwithstanding
all
this
,
these
were
they
,
that
with
their
gloses
,
traditions
,
and
vnwritten
verities
,
with
their
successions
,
interpretations
and
councills
most
cruelly
persecuted
him
,
euen
to
the
snatching
him
out
of
the
hande
of
the
heathen
magistrate
,
who
iudged
him
innocent
,
that
they
might
crucifie
him
.
Now
I
demaund
of
our
aduersaries
,
what
they
can
require
in
the
outward
estate
of
a
Church
,
that
was
not
in
this
Church
here
.
If
it
be
antiquitie
,
they
were
from
Abraham
:
If
it
were
calling
,
they
were
Priestes
and
Scribes
:
If
it
be
a
place
,
this
was
the
Lordes
house
:
If
it
be
a
councill
,
To
whom
be
longeth
the
adoption
,
and
the
glory
,
&
the
couenauntes
,
and
the
ordinance
of
the
Lawe
,
and
the
seruice
of
God
,
and
the
promises
.
Of
whom
also
the
fathers
are
descended
,
and
of
whom
also
according
to
the
flesh
Christ
himself
came
,
&c.
To
witt
,
that
for
hauing
reiected
the
Lord
of
glory
,
their
pouertie
was
made
the
riches
of
the
Gentiles
,
&
their
reiection
,
the
reconciliation
of
the
world
,
In
such
sort
,
that
God
in
steade
of
turning
away
from
mankinde
,
for
the
blindnesse
of
his
owne
people
,
hath
taken
occasion
thereby
to
adopt
al
peoples
for
his
people
.
Let
vs
not
say
therefore
any
more
,
that
the
Church
cannot
erre
,
because
that
God
is
firme
in
his
promises
:
but
rather
that
God
is
truely
sure
in
his
promises
,
and
constant
in
his
mercies
,
forasmuch
as
he
maketh
no
diuorce
with
her
,
albeit
she
hath
abandoned
him
,
and
strangely
played
the
harlot
,
so
inlarging
the
bowels
of
his
compassion
towards
mankinde
,
and
turning
his
great
wrath
into
so
inspeakeable
mercie
:
as
at
this
day
we
see
in
our
time
,
in
the
great
number
which
he
hath
withdrawne
,
and
dailye
doeth
withdrawe
,
from
the
Swynishe
filthe
of
the
Popedome
.
It
remayneth
then
nowe
that
we
see
,
I
wil
make
an
euerlasting
couenant
with
them
,
saith
the
Lord
,
I
will
put
my
sanctuarie
in
the
middest
of
them
for
euer
.
I
will
be
their
God
,
and
they
shal
be
my
people
.
Behold
that
which
Ezech.
the
Prophete
hath
foretold
,
of
the
couenaunt
made
by
the
comming
of
Christ
with
his
vniuersall
Church
.
Iesus
Christ
also
saith
himselfe
:
I
will
be
with
you
vntill
the
ende
of
the
world
.
Also
,
I
will
send
you
my
spirit
which
shal
teach
you
all
things
,
&c.
But
to
the
ende
that
hereby
we
do
not
imagine
,
as
the
Iewes
did
,
our selues
to
be
a
visible
Church
,
which
is
alwayes
of
one
sorte
whatsoeuer
she
doe
,
the
condition
is
euermore
added
,
If
you
shall
heare
my
voyce
,
if
you
be
my
people
,
if
you
shall
teache
that
which
I
commaunde
you
,
if
you
shall
loue
me
and
abide
in
my
word
.
For
if
you
shal
not
abide
therein
(
saith
our
Lord
)
you
are
not
my
disciples
,
and
those
which
are
not
his
disciples
cannot
boast
that
they
are
taught
by
his
Spirite
,
to
the
ende
not
to
be
deceyued
.
The
prerogatiue
then
that
is
in
the
visible
Christian
Church
,
is
not
that
she
cannot
erre
in
her
particular
parts
,
but
rather
that
being
vniuersall
,
when
one
part
doth
fall
,
the
other
doth
help
it
vp
,
and
when
the
one
doth
goe
astray
,
the
other
may
bring
it
into
the
way
againe
,
yea
,
and
the
particular
members
do
their
dutie
when
the
more
apparant
leaders
of
the
Church
do
guide
it
to
destruction
.
Againe
on
the
other
side
,
in
that
she
is
vniuersal
,
it
ought
a
great
deale
rather
to
beat
downe
this
same
particular
presumption
,
of
not
being
deceyued
in
the
whole
Church
,
forasmuch
as
when
there
is
a
temple
either
ouerthrowne
or
prophaned
,
that
sacrifices
,
as
in
times
past
,
cease
not
any
more
,
but
rather
of
the
ruines
&
remainders
,
others
may
be
els
where
builded
vp
againe
where
there
was
neuer
any
such
.
S.
Paul
feared
lest
that
the
Serpent
which
seduced
Eue
,
through
his
subtiltie
should
turne
the
Church
of
the
Corinthians
from
Christ
and
his
simplicitie
,
But
now
contrary
to
these
so
vrgent
and
weighty
proofs
,
they
alledge
vnto
vs
,
that
Iesus
Christ
prayed
that
Peters
faith
might
not
faile
,
Christ
prayed
for
Peter
,
&
the
consequent
:
The
Church
of
Rome
can
not
erre
,
there
are
infinite
thinges
to
proue
,
betweene
these
two
sentences
,
to
wit
,
That
S.
Peter
was
head
of
the
Apostles
&
of
the
church
:
That
he
was
at
Rome
:
That
he
was
B.
there
:
That
he
particularly
founded
any
church
there
:
That
he
had
this
prerogatiue
aboue
the
rest
,
that
he
coulde
not
erre
:
That
he
either
tyed
it
,
or
coulde
tye
it
to
that
chaire
,
either
for
the
popes
,
or
for
the
Romish
Church
:
The
which
things
ought
first
to
be
plainely
proued
,
before
we
can
come
to
any
such
conclusion
.
Let
vs
come
then
to
ours
,
following
our
promises
,
and
notwithstanding
their
obiection
of
this
place
,
let
vs
conclude
with
the
holy
Scriptures
,
and
the
practise
of
all
times
,
this
present
disputation
.
Our
Lord
Iesus
Christ
hath
deliuered
to
his
Church
the
holy
Scripture
,
as
a
compasse
to
a
shippe
,
for
to
conduct
and
guide
it
to
Saluation
.
Looking
vnto
this
compasse
,
she
can
not
be
deceiued
,
for
it
sheweth
alwayes
vnto
her
,
her
marke
,
whatsoeuer
winde
do
driue
her
:
and
not
looking
vnto
it
,
she
can
not
but
erre
,
and
goe
out
of
the
way
,
no
more
then
all
the
pilots
or
Shipmasters
of
the
world
together
know
,
without
a
good
compasse
,
to
keep
their
course
one
only
houre
.
To
the
churches
which
follow
his
worde
,
he
hath
promised
them
the
presence
of
his
spirit
.
From
these
which
make
no
accompt
of
it
,
he
withdraweth
him selfe
,
accompting
them
vnworthy
of
his
presence
,
which
disdaine
to
harken
to
his
voice
.
Hereof
it
is
,
that
the
Church
in
all
her
estates
and
places
hath
greatly
erred
&
gone
out
of
the
way
:
but
more
this
then
al
the
rest
,
which
hath
bene
more
bold
to
intermedle
without
the
leading
of
the
worde
,
&
which
hath
most
presumed
of
her
owne
abilitie
,
to
witte
,
the
Romishe
Church
.
If
she
haue
no
other
priuiledges
and
promises
then
the
visible
and
vniuersall
Church
,
there
is
no
doubt
but
she
may
erre
.
For
we
haue
seene
by
her
owne
confession
,
that
she
hath
erred
euen
in
the
matters
of
saluation
,
in
her
most
notable
members
.
If
she
haue
any
speciall
priuiledge
,
as
that
which
shee
alledgeth
of
Saint
Peters
Seate
:
yet
for
all
that
,
as
wee
haue
proued
,
that
exempteth
her
not
,
neither
from
errour
nor
heresie
.
But
to
the
ende
men
may
see
howe
vaine
and
weake
this
foundation
is
,
whereupon
they
woulde
builde
an
article
of
so
great
weight
,
it
followeth
that
wee
examine
those
titles
,
by
vertue
whereof
shee
pretendeth
this
priuiledge
.
That
the
Pope
,
or
Bishop
of
Rome
is
not
head
of
the
vniuersall
visible
Church
,
by
any
right
of
the
lawe
of
God
.
CHAP.
VII
.
WHen
we
demaund
of
our
aduersaries
,
vpon
what
their
traditions
are
founded
,
which
they
make
equall
with
the
articles
of
our
fayth
,
which
haue
not
anye
shewe
of
foundation
in
the
holye
Scripture
:
they
answere
vs
,
that
they
are
the
ordinances
of
the
Church
.
If
hereupon
wee
will
beate
them
downe
,
alledging
that
the
Church
must
be
gouerned
after
God
his
will
,
conteyned
in
his
woorde
,
and
that
such
doctrines
are
not
agreeable
thereunto
:
they
reply
,
that
the
Church
can
not
erre
in
the
matters
of
Saluation
.
If
wee
proue
farther
vnto
them
by
the
discourse
of
all
times
,
that
often
tymes
shee
hath
abandoned
the
pure
seruice
of
God
,
to
follow
her
owne
inuentions
,
euen
vntill
shee
hath
bene
defiled
with
al
abhominable
idolatries
:
they
reply
,
that
the
Romish
church
hath
this
particular
priuiledge
,
that
it
can
not
erre
,
because
it
is
S.
Peters
seate
,
the
head
of
the
Apostles
,
&
of
al
the
Church
.
And
therfore
by
this
meanes
all
the
controuersies
in
a
maner
,
that
we
haue
with
them
,
come
to
be
brought
to
this
question
:
Whether
the
B.
of
Rome
,
or
the
sea
of
Rome
,
(
for
they
are
different
in
themselues
)
be
head
of
the
church
.
We
say
that
Iesus
Christ
is
the
head
of
the
Churche
:
our
aduersaries
say
that
it
is
S.
Peter
in
his
successors
,
or
rather
the
pope
,
and
the
Church
of
Rome
,
because
of
S.
Peter
his
seat
.
Now
as
we
haue
found
the
body
out
of
the
Scriptures
,
to
wit
,
the
church
,
Againe
,
here
is
no
question
of
a
kingdome
which
may
be
gouerned
by
a
lieutenant
alone
:
but
of
preaching
the
Gospell
throughout
the
whole
worlde
,
of
reconciling
al
the
people
of
the
world
by
the
word
vnto
God
:
in
a
woorde
of
the
Ministerye
of
the
Gospell
,
which
consisteth
in
administring
the
worde
and
Sacraments
in
all
places
.
Nowe
it
is
certaine
,
that
no
man
can
accomplish
this
,
but
onely
he
,
who
is
the
worde
it selfe
,
and
the
alone
sacrifice
,
because
that
with
his
manhode
hee
hath
Godhead
,
and
power
that
is
infinite
.
That
which
they
alledge
of
Moses
and
Aaron
,
that
they
were
heades
,
the
one
of
the
common
wealth
,
&
the
other
of
the
sacrifices
,
whilest
yet
God
walked
in
the
middest
of
his
people
,
is
but
naughtely
drawen
into
a
consequence
.
For
besides
that
there
was
the
expresse
institution
of
God
in
their
persons
,
and
in
the
successors
of
Aaron
for
the
seruice
of
God
,
there
was
this
other
thing
in
it
,
that
it
was
but
a
litle
countrey
,
and
in
that
countrey
one
onelye
Citie
Ierusalem
,
and
in
that
City
but
one
Temple
,
where
men
ought
to
sacrifice
,
so
that
there
one
gouernour
and
one
high
Priest
might
suffise
:
in
steade
whereof
,
the
whole
world
,
by
the
comming
of
Christ
the
Messias
,
is
become
one
Temple
,
and
al
the
people
but
one
flocke
,
which
must
be
fedde
by
the
worde
of
God
,
a
thing
that
no
one
man
may
presume
to
do
.
Not
that
I
would
denye
,
but
in
the
heart
of
one
Pope
,
there
may
bee
ambition
enough
to
couet
the
whole
world
:
for
this
were
to
deny
the
truth
of
all
histories
:
but
rather
I
woulde
saye
that
there
was
not
any
one
of
them
,
that
was
not
ready
to
haue
forfaited
&
lost
the
crown
,
if
he
failed
to
instruct
by
the
preaching
of
the
word
of
god
,
the
least
diocesse
in
the
world
.
Of
this
allegation
then
,
they
conclude
nothing
to
their
aduantage
,
vnlesse
they
wil
become
Iewes
,
&
enclose
the
whole
world
in
one
Citie
,
&
make
voyde
the
benefit
of
the
death
of
Iesus
Christ
which
is
common
to
al
the
world
.
But
contrariwise
we
may
by
the
way
drawe
this
consequence
:
That
seeing
Moses
(
as
they
say
)
was
head
of
the
common
weale
,
and
Aaron
of
the
seruice
of
God
,
that
the
Pope
ought
to
content
him selfe
with
the
one
,
without
farther
intermedling
with
the
other
,
to
the
preiudice
of
all
the
princes
&
kings
of
the
earth
.
Nowe
if
they
replie
,
that
they
are
able
ynough
to
exercise
the
estate
of
the
generall
lieutenantshippe
of
Christ
throughout
the
whole
world
,
without
calling
them
to
the
practise
which
yet
neuer
was
seene
,
I
demaund
whether
this
be
by
the
spirit
of
Christ
,
or
by
their
owne
.
If
by
theirs
,
why
then
,
this
is
the
spirit
of
the
prince
of
this
world
,
for
to
couet
and
not
to
conduct
:
and
miserable
is
that
Church
,
which
is
left
to
be
guided
by
the
vaine
spirite
of
these
men
,
who
thinke
themselues
to
haue
such
abundance
.
Nowe
if
it
be
by
the
spirite
of
Christ
,
I
do
require
them
,
either
that
they
will
agree
,
that
this
spirite
following
the
promise
of
Christ
to
his
ministers
,
doeth
giue
power
to
the
ministery
of
the
worde
pronounced
by
them
,
whereof
followeth
that
euery
Bishop
and
pastor
in
his
ministery
,
occupieth
the
roome
of
Christ
visibly
:
or
else
that
they
proue
vnto
vs
by
fit
&
agreeable
texts
,
that
Christ
hath
enclosed
the
roote
of
his
spirite
so
in
the
heart
of
the
Pope
,
that
none
can
be
partaker
of
it
besides
himselfe
.
To
be
short
,
the
kingdome
of
Christ
consisteth
in
this
,
that
he
gouerneth
his
owne
,
giuing
power
to
the
preaching
of
his
worde
,
and
to
his
Sacramentes
by
the
vertue
of
his
spirite
:
and
the
ministerie
of
his
Gospell
,
consisteth
in
the
administration
of
that
worde
,
and
of
his
Sacramentes
.
Nowe
there
is
not
any
man
that
can
boast
to
giue
and
dispense
the
holy
Ghost
,
for
he
proceedeth
not
but
from
the
Father
and
the
Sonne
:
None
then
,
vnlesse
it
be
Christ
,
God
and
man
,
can
be
the
essential
head
of
the
Church
.
Likewise
no
man
can
preache
the
woorde
,
&
exercise
the
ministerie
throughout
the
world
:
none
therefore
can
bee
the
Ministeriall
head
of
the
whole
Church
:
But
rather
eche
minister
&
pastor
in
his
owne
right
,
vnder
the
Pastor
of
pastors
Iesus
Christ
our
Lorde
.
Nowe
let
vs
come
to
that
which
our
aduersaries
say
,
that
Saynt
Peter
was
the
ministeriall
head
of
the
Church
.
If
he
were
so
,
they
must
needes
graunt
that
this
was
by
the
institution
of
Christ
:
for
otherwise
,
and
without
his
commaundement
,
he
would
neuer
haue
presumed
to
haue
taken
vpon
him
such
a
dignitie
.
Likewise
if
our
Lorde
haue
placed
him
in
any
such
degree
,
and
so
necessary
as
they
saye
,
for
the
Church
:
they
will
graunt
me
that
Saynt
Peter
hath
exercised
this
office
:
for
otherwise
it
had
bene
to
leaue
the
Church
for
a
pray
and
confusion
.
If
then
Christ
haue
not
instituted
it
,
nor
S.
Peter
exercised
it
,
it
must
followe
,
that
he
was
neuer
the
ministeriall
head
of
the
Church
.
Concerning
the
first
poynt
.
nor
to
make
a
newe
worlde
,
but
that
I
am
milde
and
humble
of
heart
.
And
as
touching
S.
Peter
,
he
is
brought
vnto
Christ
by
his
brother
Andrewe
,
to
the
end
to
be
his
companion
,
and
not
to
be
called
the
chiefe
,
or
to
haue
any
primacie
attributed
vnto
him
.
Agayne
,
when
they
were
sent
foorth
to
preache
,
Against
these
places
playnely
denying
and
forbidding
the
primacie
,
they
alledge
vnto
vs
that
which
Iesus
Christ
hath
said
vnto
Peter
.
Tu
es
Petrus
,
Mat.
16.
&
super
hanc
petram
&c.
Thou
art
Peter
and
vpon
this
rocke
I
will
builde
my
Church
,
and
the
gates
of
hell
shall
not
preuayle
against
it
.
Nowe
vpon
this
place
our
aduersaries
ground
this
proposition
:
The
Church
is
founded
vpon
Saynt
Peter
.
And
we
will
drawe
another
,
Thou
art
Peter
.
That
of
ours
vpon
this
,
that
it
is
said
,
Super
hanc
Petram
,
&
non
super
te
Petrum
,
that
is
to
saye
,
Vpon
this
rocke
,
&
not
,
Vpon
thee
Peter
.
And
hereof
it
is
that
our
Sauiour
Christ
hath
clerely
distinguished
Petrum
a
Petra
,
that
is
to
say
,
Simon
Peter
,
from
the
liuely
rocke
whereupon
he
hath
builded
his
Church
,
changing
both
the
name
&
the
person
,
the
which
our
text
plainely
sheweth
vs
,
the
which
he
would
neuer
haue
done
,
if
it
ought
to
haue
bene
vnderstoode
of
Peter
,
&
not
of
the
confession
of
Peter
.
Againe
,
I
leaue
it
to
the
iudgement
of
euery
Christian
:
whether
it
be
more
agreeable
to
the
faith
,
&
more
healthful
for
the
Church
,
either
that
the
Church
be
founded
vpon
Christ
,
or
vpon
Peter
:
vpon
the
Sonne
of
the
liuing
God
whom
Peter
confessed
,
or
vpon
Peter
,
who
a
litle
while
after
,
denyed
the
sonne
of
the
liuing
God
:
vpon
him
that
vanquished
Satan
,
or
vpon
him
,
whom
Christ
himselfe
in
the
very
same
Chapter
calleth
Satan
himselfe
:
Chrysostome
vpon
Saynt
Matthewe
:
Thou
art
Christ
the
sonne
of
the
liuing
God
:
Christ
added
,
Thou
art
Peter
,
&
vpon
this
rocke
,
that
is
to
say
,
vpon
this
fayth
which
thou
hast
confessed
&c.
Saint
Ambrose
:
Iesus
Christ
hath
sayd
vnto
Peter
,
Thou
art
Christ
&c.
Our
Sauiour
added
,
vpon
this
rocke
which
thou
hast
confessed
,
will
I
build
my
Church
.
Christ
then
is
the
rocke
,
vpon
which
S.
Peter
himselfe
was
founded
&
builded
.
For
none
can
lay
any
other
foundation
,
then
that
which
is
already
layd
,
to
wit
,
Christ
.
Againe
he
wil
not
say
,
vpon
this
Peter
I
wil
build
my
Church
,
Thou
art
Christ
the
sonne
of
the
liuing
God
&c.
Here
vpon
this
rocke
(
saith
he
)
I
wil
found
my
Church
.
Also
:
Vpon
this
rocke
which
thou
hast
confessed
,
vpon
this
stone
which
thou
hast
acknowledged
wil
I
build
my
church
,
I
wil
build
my
Church
vpon
me
,
&
not
vpon
thee
:
but
thee
vpon
me
.
The
men
that
will
build
vpon
men
,
they
wil
say
,
I
hold
of
Cephas
,
that
is
to
say
,
of
Peter
,
of
Paul
,
and
of
Apollo
:
but
they
who
wil
not
be
builded
vpon
Peter
,
but
vpon
the
rocke
,
they
wil
say
,
I
holde
of
Christ
.
This
is
the
interpretation
of
S.
Augustine
,
repeated
in
many
places
of
his
bookes
of
the
citie
of
God
,
euery
where
,
where
he
handleth
this
matter
.
Saint
Bernard
:
Super
hanc
Petram
,
vpon
this
rocke
,
that
is
to
say
,
vpon
Christ
,
in
whom
thou
beleeuest
:
and
the
interlineall
glose
,
Thou
art
Peter
,
but
from
me
which
am
the
rocke
,
and
alwaies
in
such
sort
as
I
reserue
to
my selfe
the
dignitie
of
the
foundation
of
the
Church
.
Beholde
then
,
that
by
the
interpretation
of
the
auncient
fathers
,
none
neede
to
dashe
against
this
stone
.
Nowe
if
our
aduersaries
reply
that
some
of
the
auncient
fathers
interpret
it
,
as
they
doe
,
and
namely
Saint
Augustine
in
some
place
:
I
aunswere
,
that
if
a
man
reade
those
places
,
he
shall
finde
that
it
was
but
by
the
way
,
and
as
it
were
,
in
handlying
another
thing
.
And
in
deede
Saint
Augustine
in
his
booke
of
retractations
hath
retracted
it
in
these
wordes
:
Tibi
dabo
&c.
I
will
giue
thee
the
keyes
of
the
kingdome
of
heauen
.
That
which
thou
shalt
binde
in
earth
&c.
Of
this
text
we
further
drawe
two
contrary
propositions
.
Theirs
is
,
Christ
hath
giuen
here
to
Peter
alone
,
the
keyes
of
the
kingdome
of
heauen
,
and
so
consequently
to
the
Bishop
of
Rome
and
to
his
successours
.
Ours
contrariewise
is
,
that
Christ
here
hath
promised
the
keyes
to
all
in
the
name
of
Peter
,
and
hath
giuen
them
to
all
his
Apostles
,
and
after
them
to
all
those
,
which
lawefully
exercise
the
Ministerie
of
his
Gospel
.
If
we
knowe
what
is
meant
by
the
keyes
,
and
what
it
is
to
binde
and
to
loose
,
it
wil
be
easie
for
vs
to
iudge
,
whether
of
these
two
propositions
be
true
.
Christe
Iesus
pronounceth
,
Wo
be
to
you
Doctors
of
the
lawe
,
The
Ministerie
and
word
of
reconciliation
,
and
else
where
,
The
Ministerie
of
vengeaunce
vpon
the
disobedient
,
I
will
giue
thee
.
IESUS
Christe
had
sayde
vnto
all
:
Whome
thinke
ye
that
I
am
?
And
he
in
the
name
of
all
had
answered
,
Thou
art
Christ
&c.
And
therefore
in
his
name
he
promiseth
to
all
his
Church
the
power
of
the
keyes
,
which
he
promiseth
also
afterwardes
to
all
,
in
the
eyghtenth
Chapter
,
and
after
his
resurrection
deliuered
them
to
all
the
Apostles
equally
,
and
without
any
difference
,
in
these
wordes
:
Receiue
the
holy
Ghost
.
To
all
those
to
whom
you
shall
remit
their
sinnes
,
they
shal
be
remitted
&c.
That
then
that
was
promised
here
in
these
wordes
:
I
will
giue
vnto
thee
&c.
and
not
,
I
doe
giue
thee
,
which
sheweth
the
time
to
come
,
was
then
fully
accomplished
universally
to
all
,
as
in
the
person
of
Peter
it
was
there
promised
to
all
.
To
be
short
,
If
(
as
Saint
Gregorie
saith
)
Saint
Peter
was
not
head
of
the
Apostles
,
Our
Lord
in
the
person
of
one
man
,
gaue
the
keyes
to
all
,
to
shewe
the
vnitie
of
all
.
The
others
neuerthelesse
were
euen
the
same
that
Peter
was
,
companions
in
like
equal
honour
,
&
in
equall
power
,
but
he
would
begin
by
one
man
,
to
shew
that
the
Church
is
one
.
Saynt
Hierome
expounding
this
selfe
same
place
:
The
ignorant
Bishops
and
elders
(
sayth
he
)
tooke
hereby
occasion
to
vsurpe
,
I
know
not
what
maner
of
Pharisaicall
authoritie
,
thinking
that
they
had
power
to
bynd
and
loose
at
their
pleasure
.
But
to
bind
&
loose
ought
to
be
no
other
thing
,
but
to
declare
by
the
word
of
God
,
Gods
sentence
.
Beholde
then
the
Pope
in
the
stead
of
Cephas
,
a
Caiphas
,
euen
by
the
difinitiue
sentence
of
S.
Hierom
,
a
minister
of
the
Romane
Church
.
And
else
where
:
All
the
Apostles
had
one
,
&
the
selfe
same
iudicial
power
.
For
Christ
after
his
resurrection
sayth
vnto
them
:
Receiue
the
holy
Ghost
,
whose
sinnes
ye
shal
remitte
,
they
shal
be
remitted
in
heauen
&c.
All
the
Church
likewise
in
his
elders
,
&
Bishops
,
but
specially
Peter
receiued
it
,
to
the
ende
that
euery
one
should
vnderstand
,
that
he
that
separateth
himselfe
from
the
vnitie
of
faith
,
cannot
be
absolued
from
his
sinnes
,
nor
enter
into
heauen
.
He
sayth
,
from
the
vnitie
of
fayth
,
&
not
from
the
vnitie
of
Peter
,
nor
from
the
vnitie
of
the
Bishop
of
Rome
.
Also
,
the
elders
&
ministers
of
the
Gospell
haue
the
same
right
&
office
,
which
the
priestes
of
the
lawe
had
in
the
case
of
those
that
were
Lepers
.
They
remitte
then
,
or
holde
sinnes
,
according
as
they
iudge
&
shewe
that
they
are
remitted
or
holden
before
God
.
Saint
Augustine
:
The
Lord
calleth
the
keyes
of
the
kingdome
of
heauen
,
the
knowledge
and
vertue
to
discerne
those
,
who
are
worthy
to
be
receyued
,
or
else
to
be
shut
out
of
the
kingdom
.
Now
howsoeuer
it
semeth
at
the
first
sight
,
that
he
gaue
this
power
to
Peter
alone
,
yet
we
must
acknowledge
without
all
doubt
,
that
he
hath
giuen
it
to
all
the
Apostles
,
as
it
appeareth
after
his
resurrection
,
when
he
sayth
vnto
them
:
That
which
ye
remit
in
earth
&c.
Also
:
It
is
sayd
vnto
him
,
I
will
giue
thee
the
keyes
,
as
though
that
power
had
bene
giuen
to
him
alone
:
but
as
he
answered
for
al
,
so
he
likewise
receyued
the
keyes
together
with
all
,
as
bearing
the
person
of
the
vnitie
.
He
is
named
therefore
alone
for
all
,
forasmuch
as
there
was
vnitie
amongst
all
.
And
therefore
Augustines
ordinarie
maner
of
speache
is
,
This
power
(
sayth
he
)
of
the
keyes
,
is
likewise
passed
ouer
to
all
the
Apostles
,
and
transferred
to
all
the
gouernours
of
the
Church
.
And
in
that
it
is
particularly
recommended
vnto
Peter
,
it
is
because
the
example
of
Peter
is
set
forth
to
all
the
gouernors
of
the
Church
.
In
euery
place
therfore
,
where
men
iudge
according
to
the
equitie
of
Peter
,
there
Peters
priuiledge
is
founde
,
but
contrariwise
,
it
hath
no
place
where
Peters
equitie
is
not
found
.
Hitherto
then
we
find
not
the
keyes
of
power
,
but
of
knowledge
only
,
to
wit
,
the
ministerie
of
the
Gospell
,
the
which
is
common
to
al
ministers
,
and
so
likewise
are
the
keyes
,
which
are
thereto
annexed
.
This
is
that
which
is
repeated
by
Gratian
in
the
Decretals
:
That
Saynt
Peter
receiued
no
more
power
then
the
other
Apostles
,
and
by
the
chiefest
Canonists
in
the
Decretalles
themselues
.
That
the
power
of
bynding
and
loosing
,
in
which
is
founded
al
the
iurisdiction
of
the
Church
,
proceedeth
immediatly
from
Christ
,
&
not
immediatly
from
S.
Peter
or
his
successors
:
Neither
man
,
Angel
,
nor
Archangel
can
do
any
thing
.
And
in
very
deede
this
is
an
assured
Maxim
of
Christian
religion
(
as
he
there
sayth
)
That
none
can
take
away
sinnes
,
but
Iesus
Christ
alone
,
who
is
the
lambe
that
hath
borne
the
sinnes
of
the
world
.
Now
if
God
be
he
which
bindeth
&
looseth
.
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And
the
priest
,
he
which
pronounceth
them
that
are
bound
&
loosed
.
I
demaund
what
more
power
can
remaine
in
the
Pope
,
who
doeth
neyther
the
one
nor
the
other
?
And
whether
we
may
not
come
to
the
conclusion
of
Marsilius
of
Padua
:
That
the
Pope
cārelease
no
more
neither
from
the
punishment
,
nor
from
the
fault
,
then
any
other
poore
priest
?
Also
:
If
God
then
exercise
his
authoritie
,
(
as
Saint
Ambrose
saith
)
and
the
priest
his
knoweledge
in
doing
his
office
by
the
key
of
discretion
,
What
shall
remaine
for
the
Pope
to
do
,
vnlesse
he
will
breake
in
vpon
the
authoritie
of
God
,
&
what
key
remaines
for
him
,
not
hauing
any
office
to
exercise
,
vnlesse
it
be
the
key
of
indiscretion
?
To
conclude
then
,
the
interpretation
of
this
place
of
S.
Marthew
,
according
to
the
force
of
the
wordes
,
the
conference
of
the
scriptures
,
the
analogie
or
proportion
of
faith
,
the
opinion
of
the
auncient
Doctors
,
&
the
Canons
themselues
of
the
Romish
church
:
Iesus
Christ
is
the
stone
,
or
rather
the
liuely
rocke
,
vpon
which
the
Church
is
founded
,
by
the
ministery
of
the
Apostles
,
who
were
no
other
but
master
Masons
.
To
this
church
,
which
is
one
vnder
the
name
of
Peter
,
who
answered
for
all
,
the
power
of
the
keyes
was
promised
,
to
open
the
gate
of
the
kingdome
of
heauen
to
all
those
,
which
obey
the
preaching
of
the
gospel
.
Al
they
which
exercise
the
ministery
of
the
Gospel
,
haue
these
keys
,
so
farre
forth
as
their
ministery
extends
,
&
it
cannot
be
attributed
to
them
that
do
not
exercise
any
:
whereof
it
ensueth
,
that
it
is
so
farre
of
,
that
the
Pope
should
haue
them
alone
,
or
al
the
rest
from
him
,
that
the
poorest
priest
doing
his
dutie
in
his
parish
,
hath
them
better
than
he
.
And
if
because
this
word
was
spoken
to
Peter
,
they
wil
restraine
this
place
to
Peters
person
,
I
say
then
,
that
it
is
rashly
done
of
them
,
to
extend
to
all
the
Bishops
of
Rome
,
that
which
was
spoken
to
Peter
.
Or
if
they
wil
be
yet
of
this
tough
opinion
,
them
they
must
permit
that
these
words
:
Come
behinde
me
Sathan
,
thou
art
an
offence
vnto
me
:
which
follow
in
the
verses
next
after
,
spoken
to
Pet.
alone
,
must
be
vnderstood
of
him
,
&
al
his
pretended
successors
:
wherof
must
folow
this
special
priuiledge
,
that
the
successors
of
Peter
&
none
others
may
become
deuils
,
&
that
the
Church
of
Rome
,
is
become
in
Christendome
the
stone
of
offence
,
because
for
taking
care
for
nothing
but
the
great
things
of
the
world
,
it
hath
forsaken
those
which
are
of
God
.
They
make
an
argument
afterwardes
by
another
place
.
Ioh.
21
:
it
is
sayde
three
times
to
S.
Peter
,
Louest
thou
me
,
then
feede
my
sheepe
:
Ioh.
21.
Therefore
he
was
vniuersal
pastor
of
the
Church
.
If
they
concluded
,
he
is
commaunded
to
feed
,
therefore
he
was
a
pastor
of
the
flocke
of
Christ
,
the
conclusion
were
good
.
But
that
therfore
he
was
an
vniuersal
pastor
,
or
the
pastor
of
pastors
,
there
is
nothing
in
the
text
from
whence
they
may
fetch
it
.
To
feede
,
(
sayth
their
owne
glose
vpon
that
word
)
is
to
teach
by
word
&
by
example
,
&
not
to
gouerne
ouer
al
the
world
:
How
it
was
said
to
all
the
Apostles
,
Teach
,
go
ye
into
the
whole
world
.
Also
,
Euen
as
my
father
sent
me
,
so
send
I
you
.
Therefore
it
was
said
vnto
all
,
Feede
my
sheep
.
S.
Paul
saith
in
many
places
,
That
he
is
the
Apostle
of
the
Gentiles
,
and
thereupon
he
addeth
:
Which
feedeth
the
flocke
,
and
yet
eate
not
of
the
milke
.
He
was
then
a
pastor
thereof
:
and
yet
none
wil
deny
,
but
that
al
the
rest
were
pastors
aswel
as
he
.
To
him
it
was
said
by
the
spirit
of
God
:
Thou
shalt
be
a
witnesse
for
me
before
all
men
:
Then
feede
my
sheepe
,
and
yet
notwithstanding
none
will
conclude
that
the
other
were
but
vnder
witnesses
.
For
our
Lorde
like
wise
had
saide
vniuersally
to
all
:
You
shall
be
witnesses
vnto
me
euen
to
the
end
of
the
worlde
.
Wherefore
then
,
say
they
,
are
these
words
here
directed
to
Peter
alone
:
Because
that
as
Peter
alone
had
denyed
him
thrise
,
so
likewise
he
asketh
three
times
whether
he
loued
him
,
&
for
that
by
his
triple
deniall
,
he
had
lost
his
Apostleship
,
so
by
that
threefolde
commaundement
his
commission
was
renewed
,
to
the
ende
his
companions
should
neuerthelesse
esteeme
him
for
an
Apostle
.
This
therefore
was
rather
a
consolation
for
his
infirmitie
,
then
a
marke
of
dignitie
.
Saint
Augustine
,
who
was
otherwise
curtous
inough
,
found
out
no
other
meaning
of
this
place
.
For
see
what
he
saith
vpon
Saint
Iohn
,
In
stead
(
saith
he
)
of
that
threefolde
deniall
,
behold
a
triple
confession
,
to
the
end
the
tongue
should
not
lesse
serue
to
loue
then
to
feare
,
and
that
it
seemed
not
,
that
present
death
drue
from
him
more
words
,
then
present
life
,
that
is
to
saye
,
Christ
.
That
this
then
shoulde
be
the
office
of
loue
,
to
feede
the
flocke
of
our
Lord
,
seeing
that
that
was
the
office
of
feare
,
to
haue
denied
the
pastor
himselfe
.
What
meaneth
this
then
,
If
thou
loue
me
,
feede
my
sheepe
:
that
is
to
say
,
Feed
not
thou
thy self
,
but
feed
my
sheepe
:
feed
them
not
for
thy selfe
,
but
for
me
,
not
for
desire
to
beare
dominion
,
but
for
charities
sake
to
helpe
them
.
This
exposition
also
both
Hylarius
&
Cyril
haue
vpon
the
same
place
:
Also
Christ
recommended
his
Lambes
to
Peter
,
euen
he
which
fed
Peter
himselfe
.
Vnderstand
them
brethren
,
with
obedience
,
that
you
are
the
sheepe
of
Christ
,
as
all
we
which
heare
his
word
:
Feed
my
sheepe
.
S.
Aug.
therefore
thought
it
to
be
as
much
spoken
vnto
him
who
was
B.
of
Bonne
in
Affrike
,
as
to
the
B.
of
Rome
,
following
the
admonition
of
our
Sauiour
himselfe
.
That
which
I
say
vnto
one
,
I
say
vnto
al.
S.
Cyprian
:
Al
are
pastors
,
but
there
is
but
one
flocke
,
which
all
the
Apostles
haue
fed
with
one
whole
consent
.
there
is
but
one
Bishopprick
,
wherof
euery
B.
in
solidum
,
&
without
separation
holdeth
his
part
:
&
this
is
repeted
by
Gratian
in
his
decretalles
in
expresse
words
,
which
some
of
the
schoolemen
,
yea
&
the
sorbonists
themselues
haue
expounded
in
these
words
:
The
priesthood
or
ministerie
is
the
soule
of
the
Church
,
the
which
is
whole
in
all
,
and
whole
in
euery
part
.
To
be
short
,
it
cannot
be
founde
,
for
many
ages
after
the
death
of
our
Sauiour
,
that
this
place
hath
bene
alledged
by
the
Bishop
of
Rome
,
for
any
strength
or
power
,
that
he
shoulde
be
acknowledged
pastor
of
pastours
.
And
if
they
wil
in
this
behalfe
beleeue
their
owne
Masse
booke
,
The
Elders
which
are
among
you
I
beseeche
,
which
also
am
an
Elder
(
sayth
he
.
)
Feede
the
flocke
of
Christe
which
is
committed
vnto
you
,
not
as
hauing
lordship
ouer
the
heritages
of
the
Lord
,
but
as
examples
of
the
flocke
:
And
when
the
chiefe
shephearde
shall
appeare
,
ye
shall
receiue
an
incorruptible
crowne
of
glory
.
He
that
will
play
the
Sophister
as
they
do
vpon
these
words
,
feede
the
flocke
,
will
conclude
that
Peter
hath
resigned
his
Church
to
them
.
But
it
suffiseth
vs
,
that
S.
Peter
calleth
not
himselfe
pastor
of
pastors
,
but
sendes
them
to
the
principal
pastor
,
who
is
Iesus
Christ
our
Lord
.
And
in
that
,
There
shal
be
one
fold
and
one
shepheard
,
applying
it
to
the
Pope
,
they
doe
yet
worse
.
The
scope
of
the
text
sheweth
vs
,
that
Christ
speaketh
of
the
vocation
of
the
Gentiles
,
&
therevpon
S.
Gregory
in
their
glose
saith
,
Greg.
&
Theoph.
Fiet
vnum
ouile
&c.
that
is
to
say
:
there
shal
be
one
folde
.
That
this
is
spoken
because
Christ
hath
ioyned
both
the
Iewe
&
the
Gentile
in
his
faith
,
&
Theophilus
:
because
all
the
sheepe
haue
but
one
marke
,
to
wit
,
Baptisme
,
&
but
one
pasture
,
that
is
to
say
,
the
word
of
God
.
But
see
one
other
place
,
from
whence
they
haue
not
feared
to
begin
to
triumphe
,
as
if
they
had
gotten
a
sword
in
their
hand
to
defend
this
interpretation
.
Iesus
Christ
drawing
neere
vnto
his
passion
,
saith
vnto
his
Apostles
,
When
I
sent
you
without
bagge
or
scrip
&c.
lacked
you
any
thing
:
they
answered
,
Nothing
.
But
nowe
he
that
hath
a
bagge
,
let
him
take
it
,
and
likewise
a
scrip
,
&
he
that
hath
none
,
let
him
sell
his
coate
and
bye
a
sword
.
For
I
say
vnto
you
,
that
the
same
which
is
written
,
must
be
fulfilled
in
me
:
he
was
reputed
with
the
wicked
.
Then
the
Apostles
saide
,
Behold
here
two
swords
.
And
he
said
vnto
them
,
It
is
inough
.
There
is
none
but
clearly
seeth
by
the
drift
of
the
text
alone
,
that
he
forewarneth
his
disciples
of
the
enterprise
that
should
be
made
against
him
,
for
which
notwithstanding
they
must
not
prouide
any
carnal
weapons
.
In
meane
season
,
see
the
wandering
conclusion
which
the
Popes
fetch
from
thence
in
their
extrauagaunts
.
It
is
said
:
Behold
here
two
swords
,
ergo
Saint
Peter
,
that
is
to
say
,
the
Pope
and
his
successours
are
heades
all
the
worlde
thorowe
,
aswell
of
the
Temporall
as
of
the
Spirituall
.
This
is
that
goodly
decree
of
Boniface
the
eight
,
for
which
king
Philip
the
faire
was
excommunicated
:
which
decree
beginneth
,
Vnam
sanctam
ecclesiam
&c.
that
is
to
say
,
And
Iesus
Christ
him selfe
cutteth
of
all
this
at
one
blowe
,
when
he
made
Peter
to
put
vp
his
sworde
into
his
sheath
.
And
yet
notwithstanding
they
haue
bene
so
impudent
,
that
they
haue
enterprised
vpon
the
sight
of
this
place
,
to
beare
iurisdiction
ouer
the
whole
worlde
,
&
both
Princes
and
people
haue
bene
such
noddies
&
so
ignorant
,
that
they
haue
suffered
them selues
to
be
troden
vnder
their
feete
.
God
hath
made
two
lights
:
the
Pope
is
the
Sunne
,
&
the
Emperour
the
Moone
.
Ergo
the
Pope
,
I
know
not
howe
many
thousande
times
,
is
greater
then
the
Emperor
.
Against
which
I
will
oppose
none
but
their
owne
I
sidore
,
alledged
by
a
Sorbonist
,
who
by
the
Sunne
vnderstandeth
a
kingdome
,
But
they
are
now
better
aduised
in
their
last
disputations
,
touching
certeine
other
places
,
but
as
ill
to
the
purpose
&
as
blasphemous
as
the
other
.
It
is
written
,
say
the
Iesuits
of
our
time
,
I
will
iudge
saith
the
Lord
,
betwixt
the
sheepe
and
the
sheepe
,
betwixt
the
Rammes
&
the
Goates
.
Therefore
S.
Peter
&
his
successors
are
iudges
of
al
the
earth
.
God
wil
iudge
betwene
the
sheepe
&
the
sheepe
&c.
&
the
Pope
saith
that
he
will
be
he
,
&
therefore
he
setteth
himselfe
in
Gods
seate
.
It
followeth
therefore
that
the
Pope
is
he
,
of
whom
S.
Paul
hath
foretold
vs
,
that
would
lift
vp
himselfe
aboue
all
that
is
called
God
.
Also
S
Peter
saith
that
baptizme
was
represented
by
the
Arke
,
whereof
this
conclusion
foloweth
,
He
saith
,
that
Noah
was
a
figure
of
Christ
,
because
he
was
the
beginning
of
another
generation
,
regenerated
by
water
.
And
the
Pope
sayth
that
he
was
a
figure
of
him
.
It
followeth
then
,
either
that
the
Pope
is
Christ
,
or
else
that
he
cannot
be
any
other
,
but
he
who
woulde
aduaunce
himselfe
to
that
place
in
the
Church
,
to
wit
,
Antichrist
.
I
woulde
haue
bene
ashamed
to
haue
alledged
these
places
for
them
,
were
it
not
,
that
they
which
haue
no
shame
to
defende
the
Pope
in
this
time
,
are
so
impudent
to
alledge
them
,
and
to
make
great
bookes
thereof
.
And
by
this
a
man
may
see
howe
destitute
they
are
of
playne
places
,
when
they
are
driuen
to
haue
recourse
to
such
.
But
forasmuch
as
it
appeareth
not
by
the
holy
Scripture
,
that
our
Lord
hath
ordeyned
Peter
head
of
the
Church
,
but
altogether
the
contrary
,
It
followeth
then
that
we
see
,
if
S.
Peter
before
his
death
hath
euer
exercised
this
charge
,
and
also
if
the
other
Apostles
haue
yeelded
so
much
vnto
him
.
This
went
fore
,
and
yet
notwithstanding
he
excuseth
himselfe
towardes
them
.
That
the
Pope
or
Bishop
of
Rome
is
not
the
Ministeriall
head
of
the
vniuersall
Church
,
by
any
right
of
mans
lawe
:
&
how
he
hath
vsurped
this
title
and
power
.
CHAP.
VIII
.
BVt
forasmuch
as
there
is
question
of
the
succession
of
Saint
Peter
,
hauing
seene
in
what
it
consisteth
,
let
vs
see
nowe
what
titles
they
bring
forth
,
to
the
ende
they
may
be
receiued
into
possession
.
They
alledge
euery
where
,
that
S.
Peter
was
at
Rome
,
Nowe
if
Saint
Peter
came
thither
after
Saint
Paul
,
besides
that
it
is
a
great
maruell
,
that
no
mention
is
made
thereof
,
yet
then
the
legende
is
false
,
whereupon
the
primacie
is
founded
:
and
as
it
is
false
in
one
poynt
,
so
it
may
be
in
another
.
Moreouer
the
Legende
sayeth
,
that
they
were
beheaded
both
together
,
and
the
Canon
sayeth
,
the
same
yere
,
in
the
same
daye
,
and
at
the
same
hower
.
Eusebius
sayeth
,
that
the
one
was
beheaded
,
and
the
other
was
crucified
,
The
Church
which
is
in
Babylon
saluteth
you
:
I
wyll
not
denye
vnto
them
,
that
Eusebius
,
and
Beda
,
Beholde
,
I
haue
sent
you
Prophets
,
wise
men
and
Scribes
,
&c
:
alledgeth
for
example
,
Saint
Stephen
stoned
,
and
S.
Peter
crucified
by
the
Iewes
:
to
be
short
,
that
the
popedome
then
is
founded
vpon
opinion
,
and
not
vpon
a
certaine
and
an
vndoubted
faith
.
But
granting
that
opinion
,
that
he
was
there
,
(
for
I
will
not
now
debate
the
matter
,
to
shewe
the
vncertaintie
of
that
which
they
pretende
to
be
most
certayne
)
I
demaunde
whether
he
were
there
in
the
state
of
a
Bishop
,
or
of
an
Apostle
.
If
as
Bishop
or
elder
,
(
for
then
we
know
that
both
these
were
one
)
they
were
bounde
euery
one
to
their
owne
citie
or
towne
,
and
to
his
owne
Church
,
That
Peters
chaire
is
for
the
Church
,
and
not
the
Churche
for
Peters
chayre
.
For
she
is
but
a
part
of
the
succession
.
And
if
this
come
to
passe
,
I
demaund
,
what
shal
become
of
the
Church
,
Nowe
albeit
we
coulde
reiect
all
in
one
worde
,
beyng
not
grounded
vpon
any
one
worde
of
Gods
lawe
,
yet
it
shal
be
good
to
see
from
time
to
time
,
howe
they
are
grounded
vpon
mans
lawe
,
and
that
which
wee
call
positiue
.
They
holde
that
S.
Peter
was
crucified
vnder
Nero
,
in
the
yeere
of
our
Lorde
69
,
and
that
Clement
succeeded
him
.
Others
say
,
that
Linus
succeeded
him
,
then
Saint
Iohn
,
yea
and
Iames
himselfe
:
If
we
beleeue
those
bookes
supposed
to
bee
Clements
,
they
shoulde
haue
obeyed
Clement
as
head
of
the
Church
:
for
he
succeeded
,
as
they
saye
,
in
Peters
Authoritie
,
&
he
ought
to
haue
no
lesse
authoritie
then
the
popes
at
this
daye
,
who
can
dispense
with
Paules
epistles
.
A
wonderfull
case
that
the
primitiue
Church
,
when
they
made
the
Canon
of
those
bookes
that
should
haue
authoritie
in
the
Church
,
that
they
should
rather
put
in
those
bookes
of
Iames
and
Iohn
,
then
of
Clement
the
principall
heire
and
successour
of
the
holy
ghost
,
by
the
vertue
of
Saint
Peters
chaire
.
A
wonderfull
matter
further
,
We
holde
the
Apostles
Creede
from
the
beginning
of
the
Christian
Church
.
And
we
there
finde
the
Catholike
church
.
But
this
article
of
the
faith
,
that
pope
Boniface
the
eight
made
,
is
not
therein
:
That
if
we
will
be
saued
,
we
must
acknowledge
the
pope
to
be
the
soueraigne
Lord.
Saint
Cyprian
saith
,
That
there
is
but
one
Bishoppricke
,
of
which
euery
Bishop
holdeth
his
parte
,
wholy
without
any
diuision
.
Also
,
that
none
of
his
time
,
either
called
,
or
made
him selfe
Bishoppe
of
Bishops
,
eyther
made
through
tyrannie
his
companions
subiect
to
his
obedience
.
Also
he
complaineth
,
that
certaine
prophane
men
and
Schismatikes
with
drewe
them selues
to
the
bish.
of
Rome
,
who
(
saith
he
)
hath
none
but
certaine
desperate
&
wicked
fellowes
that
stay
vpon
him
,
making
them selues
beleeue
that
the
Bishops
of
Affricke
haue
lesse
power
then
the
Bishops
of
Rome
.
And
in
very
deede
he
calleth
not
Stephen
&
Cornelius
bishops
of
Rome
,
other
than
brethren
&
companions
,
&
handleth
Stephen
rudely
enough
in
manye
places
.
To
be
short
,
a
litle
after
his
death
,
The
Ministers
,
saith
he
,
which
haue
helde
the
eldershippe
of
the
Church
ouer
which
thou
now
doest
gouerne
,
Anicetus
,
Pius
,
Higinus
&c.
haue
not
done
as
thou
hast
done
,
neither
they
also
which
were
with
them
.
In
the
time
of
Constantine
,
as
the
church
had
more
liberty
,
so
it
had
also
more
ambition
,
&
then
Bishops
began
first
to
think
on
miters
,
that
before
time
thought
nothing
els
but
to
be
martyrs
.
That
same
famous
Council
of
Nice
was
then
called
together
by
Constantine
the
Emperour
,
By
this
we
see
,
how
much
authoritie
the
Pope
hath
gotten
in
our
time
,
against
the
sacred
auncient
constitutions
,
and
altogether
through
the
length
of
time
and
custome
of
a
slauish
subiectionall
obedience
.
And
yet
in
meane
time
Iulius
with
standeth
it
not
,
neither
doe
his
Legates
alledge
to
the
fathers
of
the
Councill
their
Tibi
dabo
,
I
will
giue
vnto
thee
,
nor
their
Pasce
oues
meas
,
Feed
my
sheep
:
for
as
yet
they
were
not
studyed
so
deeply
therin
,
but
they
rested
onely
in
the
ordinance
of
the
Councill
,
which
afterwardes
was
confirmed
by
the
Councils
of
Antioche
,
This
is
a
fable
which
an
old
lye
hath
forged
.
Or
if
they
wil
therin
beleeue
the
legend
of
Pope
Syluester
,
then
let
them
also
beleeue
that
which
it
sayeth
,
At
this
day
poyson
is
shedde
into
the
middest
of
the
Church
.
In
the
first
and
seconde
Councill
of
Ephesus
,
Cyrillus
and
Dioscorus
,
Patriarches
of
Alexandria
did
gouerne
there
,
though
the
Bishoppe
of
Rome
there
had
his
deputies
.
there
president
,
hee
was
called
Archbishoppe
as
were
the
others
.
But
the
history
sayeth
,
that
he
required
the
Emperour
and
the
Empresse
to
gouerne
there
,
because
that
in
the
seconde
Councill
of
Ephesus
,
Dioscorus
the
Patriarke
of
Alexandria
,
abusing
his
authoritie
,
had
approued
the
heresie
of
Eutyches
,
whereof
then
there
was
question
.
Nowe
in
that
hee
demaundeth
this
fauour
,
it
sufficientlye
declareth
that
it
was
not
done
vnto
him
,
and
if
this
might
once
bee
drawen
into
consequence
,
as
well
also
must
this
,
that
Cyrill
was
President
ouer
the
first
councill
of
Ephesus
,
for
all
the
Bishoppes
of
Alexandria
.
That
the
Bishop
of
Rome
should
not
receiue
those
that
were
excommunicated
by
the
Bishops
of
Affrike
,
neither
should
he
receiue
the
appellations
of
those
that
by
them
should
be
cond̄ened
,
&
that
all
they
which
should
appeale
to
him
,
should
be
holden
for
excommunicated
persons
.
The
reasons
of
this
councill
contained
in
the
105.
chapter
,
by
the
letters
of
the
council
to
Celestine
Bishop
of
Rome
,
that
there
is
no
council
,
that
had
so
decreed
:
Contrariwise
that
the
Council
of
Nice
,
had
put
the
Clergie
&
the
Bishops
of
ech
prouince
vnder
the
Metropolitan
:
That
the
grace
of
the
holye
Spirite
had
not
withdrawen
it selfe
from
euerye
Prouince
,
to
discerne
the
right
of
all
causes
.
That
anye
myght
appeale
to
a
Prouinciall
councill
,
if
hee
felt
him selfe
grieued
,
&
that
it
was
more
credible
,
that
GOD
woulde
inspire
a
great
assemblie
of
ministers
in
a
Councill
,
then
one
man
alone
.
And
because
that
the
B.
of
Rome
required
to
send
his
legates
to
be
ouer
those
places
to
enquire
of
matters
and
causes
,
they
made
answere
that
they
could
not
find
any
councill
that
had
so
decreed
,
and
likewise
that
they
would
not
suffer
it
.
In
this
council
,
where
they
had
time
enough
to
dreame
all
their
forbidding
,
yet
shall
you
not
finde
that
the
primacie
was
founded
vpon
anye
lawe
of
God
:
much
lesse
,
that
which
they
call
the
fulnes
of
power
.
And
in
very
deede
,
for
to
decide
the
matter
,
men
were
not
sent
to
search
the
scriptures
,
in
which
S.
Augustine
(
who
was
present
there
)
was
wel
able
to
haue
found
it
,
if
it
had
bene
there
,
but
rather
to
the
foure
originals
of
the
councill
of
Nice
,
which
were
kept
in
the
foure
patriarchall
Sees
.
In
meane
while
Gratian
the
Compiler
of
their
decree
,
was
so
sottishly
malicious
,
That
men
should
not
appeale
beyond
the
Sea
,
he
added
,
vnlesse
to
the
B.
of
Rome
:
as
though
the
Canon
had
bene
made
quite
contrary
to
it selfe
,
all
the
reasons
being
heard
&
concluded
to
the
contrary
.
And
by
this
place
a
man
may
very
well
gather
what
to
accompte
of
their
Canons
,
being
rehersed
with
such
fidelitie
.
In
the
Councill
of
Carthage
,
holden
vnder
the
Emperour
Mauricius
about
the
yeere
of
Christ
,
sixe
hundred
,
the
matter
of
the
Supremacie
was
also
largely
debated
,
All
the
auncient
doctors
,
who
liued
during
the
time
of
these
Councils
,
yea
the
Latines
,
that
yelded
very
much
to
the
Bishopricke
of
Rome
,
as
being
their
most
neere
patriarchshippe
,
doe
witnesse
the
selfe
same
thing
vnto
vs
.
Athanasius
,
that
all
the
Apostles
were
equal
in
honour
&
power
:
S.
Hierom
a
minister
of
Rome
he
saith
,
If
there
be
any
question
of
the
authoritie
of
all
the
world
,
the
world
is
greater
then
one
City
.
Wherefore
wilt
thou
bring
the
order
of
the
Church
into
the
subiection
of
a
fewe
persons
:
Whence
commeth
this
presumption
?
Wheresoeuer
there
is
a
Bishop
,
be
he
at
Rome
,
or
at
Agubium
,
be
he
at
Constantinople
or
at
Rhegium
,
(
saith
he
)
in
euerye
Churche
a
Bishoppe
,
one
chiefe
amongest
the
Deacons
,
and
another
amongest
the
Elders
,
and
all
the
order
of
the
Churche
consisteth
in
these
gouernors
.
It
should
folow
therupon
,
seeing
the
the
question
was
of
vnity
,
that
he
should
adde
and
say
,
a
B.
ouer
the
other
Bishops
:
but
he
speaketh
nothing
.
Whosoeuer
of
the
Bishoppes
shall
desire
primacye
in
earth
,
he
shall
find
confusion
in
heauen
,
&
he
that
shall
desire
to
be
the
chiefe
,
he
shall
not
be
reputed
in
the
nomber
of
the
seruaunts
of
Christ
.
Gregory
the
great
,
Bishop
of
Rome
,
when
the
Bishop
of
Constantinople
would
attribute
vnto
him selfe
that
Supremacy
,
that
this
was
a
prophane
title
,
full
of
sacriledge
,
and
the
fore-running
of
Antichrist
,
and
that
this
was
to
say
with
Lucifer
,
I
will
ascend
aboue
the
cloudes
,
and
will
make
my selfe
equall
to
the
high
God
.
That
none
of
his
predecessours
tooke
vpon
them
to
be
aboue
their
brethren
&
companions
.
And
if
there
were
any
such
amongst
them
,
he
falling
downe
,
al
the
Church
should
stumble
&
fal
with
him
.
That
this
were
to
destroy
all
christianitie
.
And
after
many
such
other
woordes
,
he
pronounceth
this
generall
sentence
:
That
whosoeuer
shal
call
himselfe
vniuersal
Bishop
,
or
shall
desire
to
be
so
called
,
that
he
is
the
forerunner
of
Antichrist
,
forasmuch
as
through
pride
,
he
axalteth
him selfe
aboue
all
.
As
touching
him self
he
flatly
refused
it
,
that
Peter
,
Paul
,
Andrew
,
Iohn
&c.
they
are
al
particular
heads
of
the
people
whom
they
gouerne
,
but
all
members
vnder
one
head
,
which
is
Christ
,
howsoeuer
they
holde
Peter
for
chiefe
amongest
them
.
I
beseech
the
readers
that
they
will
take
paines
to
reade
vpon
this
matter
the
epistles
of
Saint
Gregory
,
and
there
they
shall
finde
the
condemnation
of
this
Supremacie
,
more
expressely
,
then
yet
I
haue
said
.
To
conclude
,
the
Emperours
haue
called
generall
Councils
,
&
the
patriarks
and.
Metropolitanes
,
those
that
were
Nationall
and
prouincial
.
They
that
were
Patriarkes
euery
one
was
president
ouer
the
See
of
his
patriarchshippe
,
and
not
the
Bishoppe
of
Rome
,
nor
his
deputies
in
general
councils
.
The
patriarks
or
chiefe
Bishoppes
went
not
to
seeke
their
Palls
at
Rome
,
but
were
Canonically
elected
ouer
those
places
.
The
Bishoppe
of
Rome
(
as
appeareth
by
those
Epistles
them selues
of
Gregorye
the
great
)
when
hee
was
chosen
,
Against
these
decrees
of
the
generall
councills
,
they
blush
not
to
alledge
vnto
vs
those
goodly
bookes
of
Clement
,
whereof
we
haue
spoken
a
litle
before
:
that
same
ridiculous
epistle
of
Anaclet
,
That
Cephas
is
asmuch
to
say
as
head
of
the
church
:
that
same
authentical
reuelation
of
Pope
Marcellus
,
of
Peters
seate
to
be
remoued
from
Antioch
to
Rome
,
One
lay
man
may
set
himselfe
(
hauing
the
holy
Scripture
on
his
side
)
against
a
whole
generall
councill
which
erreth
from
it
:
By
a
more
strong
reason
maye
the
whole
primitiue
Church
oppose
it selfe
,
&
all
the
whole
Scripture
(
hauing
al
the
general
councils
on
her
side
,
that
were
for
the
space
of
600.
yeres
)
against
the
tyrannie
of
one
man
alone
,
which
cannot
alledge
any
thing
but
his
owne
ambition
,
yea
&
against
the
decretall
epistles
of
some
Popes
,
&
yet
for
the
most
part
,
but
shuffled
in
vnder
the
name
of
some
of
the
auncient
fathers
.
Rome
was
then
the
seat
of
the
Empire
,
and
the
glorie
of
all
the
world
:
good
learning
there
flourished
:
it
was
the
chiefe
of
all
the
peoples
of
the
earth
:
and
therefore
when
all
the
bishops
were
gathered
together
,
they
gaue
the
bishop
of
Rome
the
first
place
for
ciuilitie
and
courtesies
sake
.
Likewise
wee
reade
in
the
histories
,
that
Alexandria
and
Antioch
were
after
Rome
the
most
famous
cities
,
and
according
to
that
degree
which
their
gouernours
helde
,
they
also
helde
their
bishopprickes
.
And
concerning
Ierusalem
,
that
was
so
greatly
accompted
of
,
for
the
first
originall
of
true
Religion
,
and
therefore
likewise
was
not
reckoned
in
the
least
place
:
for
Plinie
calleth
it
the
head
of
all
the
East
:
but
yet
her
place
was
ill
kept
,
after
she
had
lost
her
first
glorie
.
Afterwards
Constantinople
came
to
be
builded
,
which
was
called
the
second
Rome
.
And
then
also
we
see
the
councill
of
Constantinople
,
where
there
were
sixe
hundreth
bishops
,
That
at
the
first
they
instituted
Primates
of
the
Church
according
to
temporall
policie
.
That
where
there
were
chiefe
Priests
of
the
Painims
,
there
they
established
Primats
of
Christians
,
Lombard
.
lib.
4.
dist.
24.
Conc.
Chalcedon
.
cap.
1.
&
12.
the
which
is
repeated
in
the
same
wordes
by
Peter
Lombard
in
his
fourth
booke
of
Sentences
.
The
councill
of
Chalcedon
,
(
wherein
notwithstanding
the
earnest
requests
of
Pope
Leo
the
first
,
the
second
See
was
giuen
to
the
Citie
Constantinople
,
)
vseth
also
the
same
woordes
:
The
fathers
vpon
good
righte
with
one
consent
agreed
,
that
the
priuiledge
of
the
first
See
should
belong
vnto
olde
Rome
,
because
of
the
Empire
there
,
and
wee
also
moued
with
the
same
consideration
,
agree
that
the
second
shal
be
at
new
Rome
.
And
in
the
12.
Act
of
the
same
council
,
the
reasoning
betwixt
the
bishop
of
Nice
,
&
of
Basianopolis
,
is
grounded
vpon
the
dignitie
of
the
cities
.
And
to
cut
of
all
such
controuersies
,
this
Canon
was
there
passed
:
That
these
Cities
onely
shoulde
be
holden
for
Metropolitans
,
to
which
Kings
and
Princes
had
done
this
honor
by
their
statutes
.
And
the
Council
of
Thurin
there
addeth
:
That
if
the
earthly
superioritie
were
translated
from
one
Citie
to
another
,
that
then
the
right
of
the
Archbishoprick
should
be
translated
likewise
.
To
be
short
,
when
the
seate
of
the
Empire
was
translated
to
newe
Rome
,
that
is
to
say
,
to
Constantinople
,
we
see
that
the
Bishop
of
that
place
by
&
by
tooke
vnto
himselfe
the
primacie
,
whereof
they
held
euen
as
much
as
they
coulde
:
and
when
that
murtherer
Phocas
declared
the
Bishop
of
Rome
to
be
head
of
al
churches
,
Non
inquam
a
Petra
,
neque
a
Petro
,
sed
a
Saxo
Tarpeio
:
That
all
degrees
both
small
and
great
,
yea
the
popedome
it selfe
,
they
are
from
the
positiue
lawe
,
and
of
mans
ordinance
.
I
knowe
very
well
,
that
they
haue
a
decree
of
Pope
Innocentius
,
which
sayth
,
that
it
is
not
necessary
to
change
the
ecclesiasticall
preheminence
,
according
to
the
Ciuill
:
but
this
forsooth
was
at
such
a
time
,
when
the
good
man
himselfe
feared
,
least
the
Empire
shoulde
withdrawe
all
the
honor
into
the
East
,
and
he
thought
it
expedient
(
which
thing
also
his
successors
did
very
well
knowe
and
finde
)
to
builde
their
greatnes
&
glory
of
the
ruines
of
the
Westerne
Empire
.
And
againe
,
the
decree
of
one
man
is
not
to
be
preferred
before
so
many
Councils
,
seeing
that
(
as
some
of
them
haue
said
)
the
decretals
haue
no
authoritie
,
by
the
meere
will
of
the
Pope
,
that
is
to
say
,
absolutely
:
but
only
so
farre
foorth
,
as
they
are
agreeable
to
the
Canons
of
the
Councils
.
that
in
the
beginning
men
might
be
gouerned
after
it
,
because
learning
there
florished
:
no
otherwise
then
as
the
vniuersitie
of
Orleans
,
or
of
Angers
,
oftentimes
conforme
themselues
to
that
of
Paris
:
as
also
the
Romanes
borrowed
in
deede
their
lawes
from
the
twelue
tables
of
the
Grekes
:
And
yet
by
vertue
thereof
,
the
Grekes
shoulde
not
well
ground
to
pretend
themselues
superiors
to
the
Romanes
,
and
likewise
the
Romanes
,
if
therefore
they
should
pretend
to
be
superiors
ouer
other
Bishops
.
Nowe
concerning
the
name
Pope
,
which
is
giuen
vnto
him
,
they
that
haue
read
,
know
that
it
was
common
,
not
onely
to
al
Bishops
,
but
also
euen
to
elders
in
all
the
auncient
Church
.
(
Papous
)
and
the
Germaines
(
Pfaff
)
which
they
that
vnderstand
the
tongue
,
the
grou●●
of
the
Pope
.
Chro.
Mattini
.
Platin.
in
vita
Bonif.
3.
We
haue
then
founde
,
that
the
Pope
of
Rome
hath
beene
declared
head
of
the
Church
,
a
litle
after
600
yeeres
,
not
by
the
tradition
of
Christ
,
or
of
his
Apostles
,
but
by
the
treason
of
Phocas
,
not
by
any
Councill
of
the
Church
,
but
by
the
conspiracy
of
a
seruant
against
his
master
,
who
to
reconcile
himselfe
with
the
people
of
Rome
,
ordained
his
Bishop
with
that
title
,
which
Gregorie
his
predecessor
had
lefte
for
Antichrist
,
and
the
Pope
on
the
other
side
proclaimed
him selfe
Emperour
in
steade
of
Mauritius
,
whom
he
had
slaine
.
This
goodly
ordinance
of
Phocas
was
confirmed
by
a
pettie
Councill
,
To
the
holy
father
of
fathers
,
and
soueraigne
prince
of
prelates
,
&c.
and
so
we
see
by
histories
,
from
degree
to
degree
,
howe
this
monster
hath
growen
euen
to
full
height
,
from
which
he
must
tumble
downe
headlong
.
The
Emperours
of
Grece
,
who
were
then
as
banisht
out
of
Italy
,
to
keepe
the
Italians
in
obedience
,
they
left
vnto
them
the
handling
of
their
affaires
,
in
such
sort
notwithstanding
,
that
they
were
constrained
to
confirme
their
election
by
the
Emperour
,
and
to
date
their
wrytinges
according
to
the
indiction
and
yeere
of
their
Empyre
.
But
euen
as
the
Emperors
grewe
weake
by
the
enterprises
of
the
Persians
in
the
Easte
,
This
was
after
the
time
that
the
key
of
knowledge
,
which
Christ
promised
to
S.
Peter
,
was
changed
into
the
key
of
power
,
&
the
ecclesiastical
censure
was
employed
to
excommunicate
all
princes
,
peoples
&
kingdomes
which
would
not
obey
them
,
vntill
they
had
left
them
for
a
pray
,
and
cut
them
of
from
saluation
,
without
acception
of
any
persons
.
This
was
in
that
time
,
that
these
gaye
interpretations
were
bred
:
That
all
power
was
giuen
to
Christ
by
the
father
,
aswel
in
heauen
as
in
earth
:
Therefore
the
Pope
absolutely
commandeth
both
one
&
other
.
Also
God
translateth
kingdomes
from
one
nation
to
another
:
Ergo
,
the
Pope
hath
power
to
establish
,
and
to
put
downe
,
as
it
seemeth
good
vnto
him
,
whereupon
Kings
and
Emperours
of
blinde
zeale
began
to
kisse
his
feete
,
That
the
Pope
is
soueraigne
both
of
the
spiritualtie
and
temporaltie
,
shewing
himselfe
in
a
Iubilie
,
with
a
key
in
one
hand
,
and
a
sword
in
another
:
that
Pope
Clement
the
fift
his
successour
,
not
content
to
commaunde
Kinges
and
Emperours
,
Clemens
5.
in
Clement
.
pastoralis
.
Idem
in
rescripto
.
This
writing
is
kept
ac
Vienna
in
Dauphin
,
and
in
Extrauagant
.
cadem
.
tooke
vpon
him
by
an
expresse
Bull
to
commaunde
Angels
,
that
they
should
execute
his
will
.
To
be
short
,
one
hath
concluded
and
decided
at
Rota
,
that
is
to
say
,
in
the
Parliament
of
Popes
at
Rome
,
that
God
holdeth
for
wel
done
,
all
that
is
done
of
the
Pope
:
that
his
will
is
the
rule
of
all
right
and
righteousnes
:
that
he
can
absolutely
do
in
this
world
all
that
God
can
do
,
seeing
he
is
all
and
aboue
all
thinges
:
That
if
he
change
his
purpose
,
I
wil
giue
thee
(
saith
hee
)
all
the
kingdomes
which
thou
seest
,
if
thou
wilt
worship
mee
.
That
is
for
worshipping
the
deuil
,
they
haue
that
they
haue
,
and
not
for
any
other
title
they
can
alledge
.
But
I
suppose
,
that
nowe
with
the
licence
of
all
the
Readers
,
I
maye
conclude
by
these
proofes
conteyned
in
these
two
chapiters
,
that
which
followeth
:
That
the
essentiall
head
of
the
Catholique
Church
is
Iesus
Christ
our
Lord
:
That
vnder
him
all
the
Apostles
were
equal
in
dignitie
and
power
:
That
after
them
the
bishops
are
equall
amongst
themselues
,
&
euery
one
in
his
Ministerie
occupieth
the
place
of
Christ
:
That
none
may
be
the
Ministeriall
head
of
the
Church
:
That
the
Pope
of
Rome
can
pretend
this
title
,
neither
by
Gods
law
nor
mans
:
That
the
first
roume
that
he
had
,
was
by
reason
of
the
dignitie
of
the
citie
,
but
that
all
that
was
more
,
was
from
the
deuill
and
by
vsurpation
.
Whereupon
it
followeth
,
that
in
regard
of
the
ministerial
head
of
the
Church
,
he
could
not
pretend
to
be
lesse
subiect
to
error
,
then
other
bishops
and
patriarkes
,
neither
the
latine
Church
lesse
then
those
of
Greece
&
others
of
the
East
.
And
so
we
returne
,
notwithstanding
their
exception
,
to
our
former
conclusion
:
That
the
articles
grounded
vpon
the
authoritie
of
the
Pope
and
the
church
of
Rome
are
ouerthrowne
,
and
al
their
traditions
&
inuentions
subiect
to
the
examination
of
the
holy
Scripture
,
as
are
the
doctrines
of
all
other
Churches
.
That
the
Pope
in
affirming
himselfe
to
be
head
of
the
Churche
,
and
not
being
so
in
deede
,
is
the
Antichrist
in
the
Church
:
and
that
he
cannot
be
receiued
with
any
other
,
then
the
papistical
doctrine
.
CHAP.
IX
.
THE
Pope
not
being
head
of
the
Church
,
as
he
saith
he
is
,
and
hauing
no
other
titles
to
prooue
this
generall
Lieutenant
shippe
which
he
so
proudly
exerciseth
,
we
saye
that
he
is
the
plague
of
the
whole
body
,
a
tyraunt
in
the
common
weale
,
&
Antichrist
in
the
church
.
And
for
to
prooue
this
,
I
will
not
enter
into
the
particular
explication
of
those
predictions
,
which
are
in
Daniel
,
First
,
to
take
away
al
doubt
,
the
Scripture
speaketh
vnto
vs
of
many
Antichrists
.
For
euery
hereticke
which
setteth
himselfe
against
the
truth
,
he
is
in
very
deed
an
Antichrist
:
but
it
speaketh
vnto
vs
of
one
amongst
others
,
who
shall
haue
his
seate
in
the
Church
of
God
,
and
shall
vsurpe
Gods
place
:
who
as
Origen
saith
,
Secondly
when
the
Scripture
speaketh
of
Antichrist
,
it
saith
,
that
it
shal
be
an
Apostacie
or
a
falling
backe
from
the
faith
.
Also
,
that
that
mysterie
of
iniquitie
began
to
worke
in
Paul
his
time
,
Thirdly
,
Antichrist
is
called
that
false
prophet
,
vomiting
out
blasphemies
against
the
most
highest
.
His
Empire
therefore
consisteth
in
false
doctrine
,
&
not
in
armes
:
he
is
called
a
woman
&
an
whore
:
he
shall
therefore
wind
in
himselfe
,
and
come
in
by
pleasaunt
wayes
,
sleightes
and
flatteries
,
deceyuing
men
through
his
crafte
,
&
drawing
them
to
his
spiritual
whordome
,
which
is
idolatrie
.
He
is
also
called
the
sonne
of
perdition
,
as
Iudas
.
Againe
,
he
shall
not
assayle
the
Church
by
open
force
,
but
he
shall
betray
her
with
a
kisse
,
and
shall
not
enter
by
the
breach
,
or
by
a
strong
scaling
ladder
,
but
by
counterfaiting
the
keyes
by
painted
Emblemes
,
and
secretly
like
a
thiefe
.
And
in
very
deede
the
Empires
which
consisted
in
forces
and
armes
,
they
are
figured
in
the
scriptures
vnder
the
name
of
Wolues
,
Lyons
,
Beares
,
and
such
other
rauening
beastes
,
whereas
for
this
,
ye
haue
but
women
,
whoredomes
,
cuppes
,
drinckings
,
enchantments
,
that
is
to
say
,
deceipts
,
crafts
,
and
subtilties
:
whereupon
the
schoolemen
themselues
haue
concluded
,
that
this
chiefe
Antichrist
,
which
is
here
described
,
can
neither
be
Mahomet
,
nor
the
Empire
of
the
Turkes
.
Fourthly
,
he
is
properly
called
Antichrist
,
and
not
Antithee
,
that
is
to
say
,
contrary
to
Christ
the
Mediator
,
and
not
simply
against
God
:
therefore
particularly
he
shal
be
against
Christ
Iesus
our
Lorde
.
And
all
the
doctrine
of
Christ
consisteth
in
the
office
of
the
Mediatorship
,
&
in
the
benefit
of
his
death
and
passion
.
This
then
shall
be
the
speciall
doctrine
that
he
will
chiefely
labour
to
abolish
.
It
is
oftentimes
saide
,
that
he
shall
sitte
in
the
Church
of
God
,
being
there
acknowledged
as
God
.
Nowe
it
is
certaine
,
that
if
he
shoulde
say
that
he
were
Christ
,
or
shoulde
preach
directly
against
Christ
,
the
Church
would
not
suffer
this
in
the
middest
of
her
,
nor
suffer
him
to
raigne
.
That
he
shall
haue
two
hornes
like
to
the
lambe
,
speaking
notwithstanding
as
the
Dragon
,
that
is
to
say
,
he
shall
counterfaite
the
doctrine
and
holinesse
of
Christ
,
although
he
speake
nothing
but
impieties
,
as
Satan
doeth
.
It
foloweth
therefore
,
to
make
these
markes
to
agree
together
,
that
it
must
be
that
Antichrist
,
of
whom
nowe
the
controuersie
is
,
that
he
must
speake
in
shewe
as
Christ
,
but
in
deede
and
in
effect
against
Christ
,
and
honoring
him
in
wordes
,
and
yet
as
much
as
lieth
in
him
,
robbing
him
of
his
glorie
.
And
that
he
is
the
true
Antichrist
,
of
whom
the
question
is
,
who
vnder
the
shadowe
of
Christ
,
shall
ouerthrowe
his
doctrine
,
and
put
him selfe
in
Christ
his
place
,
Saint
Augustine
handling
this
matter
,
doeth
no
otherwyse
vnderstande
it
.
Let
vs
not
regarde
(
saith
he
)
the
tongue
,
but
the
deede
:
Antichrist
is
a
lyer
,
which
maketh
profession
of
Christ
,
and
yet
denieth
him
in
effect
.
And
a
litle
after
,
Howe
sayest
thou
that
I
denye
him
in
effect
?
Because
Christ
(
sayth
he
)
is
come
in
the
flesh
,
to
the
ende
that
he
should
die
for
vs
.
Chrysostome
sayth
,
That
he
must
be
knowen
by
his
doctrine
,
and
neyther
by
titles
,
miracles
,
nor
wordes
of
holinesse
.
Saint
Hilary
sayth
,
That
Antichrist
shal
be
contrary
to
Christ
,
vnder
opinion
of
an
hypocriticall
and
faigned
godlinesse
.
And
in
another
place
,
O
ye
fooles
,
who
are
mooued
and
rauished
,
and
caught
in
loue
with
woordes
,
and
gorgeous
seelinges
of
Churches
:
Doe
ye
doubt
,
that
this
shall
one
day
be
the
seate
of
Antichriste
?
It
behooueth
vs
nowe
therefore
to
consider
,
who
it
is
that
sitteth
in
the
Church
,
who
speaketh
more
of
Christ
,
and
leaste
esteemeth
him
,
who
more
honoureth
him
with
trayterous
kysses
,
and
blasphemeth
more
against
his
comming
,
who
in
the
chaire
of
Christ
,
is
more
against
Christ
:
for
this
same
vndoubtly
is
the
true
Antichrist
.
Let
vs
begin
at
the
person
of
the
Pope
.
Christ
hath
declared
that
his
kingdome
was
not
of
this
world
,
Al
power
is
giuen
to
me
of
the
father
,
aswell
in
heauen
as
in
earth
:
I
aske
of
any
one
,
what
similitude
and
likenes
there
is
betweene
these
two
,
and
if
this
be
not
,
in
alleadging
Iesus
Christ
,
to
mocke
Christ
himselfe
?
Againe
,
Christ
being
God
,
and
the
sonne
of
the
eternall
God
,
vouchsafed
to
abase
himselfe
lower
then
Angels
,
and
vnder
men
themselues
to
worke
the
saluation
of
the
worlde
:
and
a
man
quite
contrary
lyfteth
vp
himselfe
aboue
kyngs
,
and
aboue
the
Angels
,
and
aboue
the
heauens
of
heauens
,
and
hath
caused
men
to
dispute
,
that
he
is
not
simply
a
man
,
but
a
partaker
of
the
diuine
nature
with
Christ
,
and
that
he
hath
the
fountaine
and
roote
of
the
spirite
of
Christ
in
him
.
To
be
short
,
whereas
Christ
submitted
himselfe
vnder
heauen
,
earth
and
hell
,
he
will
commaund
Kings
,
Angels
and
deuils
:
and
all
this
,
vnder
colour
of
the
key
of
the
word
,
which
Christ
hath
deliuered
to
his
ministers
.
I
aske
,
God
being
made
man
for
the
saluation
of
the
worlde
,
howe
it
can
be
,
that
this
man
,
which
maketh
himselfe
God
,
shoulde
be
any
other
,
then
that
sonne
of
perdition
,
come
for
the
perdition
of
the
worlde
?
But
we
must
see
,
howe
he
hath
asmuch
as
laye
in
him
,
made
voide
the
comming
of
the
Messiah
,
the
crosse
of
Christ
,
and
the
saluation
we
haue
by
the
same
.
We
feele
in
our selues
,
that
man
continually
doeth
nothyng
but
offend
God
,
and
that
it
is
as
possible
for
vs
,
of
our
own
nature
,
to
keepe
our selues
therefrom
,
as
to
stay
our
pulse
,
or
to
holde
in
the
winde
of
our
breath
.
These
offences
also
are
so
infinite
,
being
and
blasphemeth
more
against
his
comming
,
who
in
the
chaire
of
Christ
,
is
more
against
Christ
:
for
this
same
vndoubtly
is
the
true
Antichrist
.
Let
vs
begin
at
the
person
of
the
Pope
.
Christ
hath
declared
that
his
kingdome
was
not
of
this
world
,
Al
power
is
giuen
to
me
of
the
father
,
aswell
in
heauen
as
in
earth
:
I
aske
of
any
one
,
what
similitude
and
likenes
there
is
betweene
these
two
,
and
if
this
be
not
,
in
alleadging
Iesus
Christ
,
to
mocke
Christ
himselfe
?
Againe
,
Christ
being
God
,
and
the
sonne
of
the
eternall
God
,
vouchsafed
to
abase
himselfe
lower
then
Angels
,
and
vnder
men
themselues
to
worke
the
saluation
of
the
worlde
:
and
a
man
quite
contrary
lyfteth
vp
himselfe
aboue
kyngs
,
and
aboue
the
Angels
,
and
aboue
the
heauens
of
heauens
,
and
hath
caused
men
to
dispute
,
that
he
is
not
simply
a
man
,
but
a
partaker
of
the
diuine
nature
with
Christ
,
and
that
he
hath
the
fountaine
and
roote
of
the
spirite
of
Christ
in
him
.
To
be
short
,
whereas
Christ
submitted
himselfe
vnder
heauen
,
earth
and
hell
,
he
will
commaund
Kings
,
Angels
and
deuils
:
and
all
this
,
vnder
colour
of
the
key
of
the
word
,
which
Christ
hath
deliuered
to
his
ministers
.
I
aske
,
God
being
made
man
for
the
saluation
of
the
worlde
,
howe
it
can
be
,
that
this
man
,
which
maketh
himselfe
God
,
shoulde
be
any
other
,
then
that
sonne
of
perdition
,
come
for
the
perdition
of
the
worlde
?
But
we
must
see
,
howe
he
hath
asmuch
as
laye
in
him
,
made
voide
the
comming
of
the
Messiah
,
the
crosse
of
Christ
,
and
the
saluation
we
haue
by
the
same
.
We
feele
in
our selues
,
that
man
continually
doeth
nothyng
but
offend
God
,
and
that
it
is
as
possible
for
vs
,
of
our
own
nature
,
to
keepe
our selues
therefrom
,
as
to
stay
our
pulse
,
or
to
holde
in
the
winde
of
our
breath
.
These
offences
also
are
so
infinite
,
being
committed
against
him
which
is
infinite
,
that
they
deserue
an
infinite
punishment
,
whereto
all
the
men
in
the
world
together
are
not
able
to
satisfie
.
It
must
needes
be
therefore
,
that
the
sonne
of
God
in
person
must
descend
from
heauen
,
to
satisfie
by
his
infinite
merite
,
for
our
infinite
demerites
:
and
not
one
man
coulde
euer
hope
for
the
mercie
of
the
Father
,
if
his
iustice
had
not
bene
executed
vpon
his
owne
sonne
.
This
is
that
which
all
the
holy
Scripture
teacheth
vs
,
that
Christ
was
sent
for
the
saluation
of
the
worlde
:
that
he
is
the
onely
and
alone
Sauiour
thereof
:
that
he
was
slaine
from
the
beginning
of
the
worlde
,
for
the
saluation
of
those
that
beleeue
in
him
,
&c.
And
this
is
it
wherein
consisteth
all
the
benefite
of
the
comming
of
Christ
,
and
all
the
treasure
of
the
Church
.
But
see
howe
this
good
gouernour
of
the
Church
dispenseth
with
this
:
First
of
all
he
hath
buried
the
scripture
in
forgetfulnesse
,
forbidding
the
readyng
thereof
vnto
the
people
,
leauing
them
nothing
but
Rosaires
,
Legends
of
Saints
,
and
such
other
baggage
,
that
is
to
say
,
asmuch
as
lyeth
in
him
,
he
hath
put
out
the
light
,
to
the
ende
that
his
illusions
might
be
the
more
of
force
amiddest
the
darkenesse
.
And
we
haue
seene
many
burned
,
onely
and
simply
for
hauing
read
it
.
Moreouer
,
whereas
the
lawe
was
giuen
to
conuince
a
man
of
sinne
,
and
the
Gospel
to
teache
him
the
remedie
in
Christ
,
the
Popes
doctors
haue
taught
,
that
a
man
,
as
he
is
of
his
owne
nature
,
can
loue
God
aboue
all
thinges
:
that
it
is
possible
for
him
to
fulfill
the
lawe
:
and
that
at
the
first
,
man
was
saued
by
keeping
the
naturall
law
,
afterwards
by
fulfylling
the
lawe
of
Moses
,
&
now
Christians
by
keeping
the
Gospel
.
If
it
be
so
,
what
shall
become
of
that
S.
Paul
sayth
,
That
the
law
engendreth
sinne
:
that
it
is
come
vpon
vs
,
to
multiplie
transgressions
?
&c.
Also
what
shal
the
Gospel
haue
aboue
the
law
?
Christ
aboue
the
shadowes
?
And
wherefore
shall
not
his
comming
change
the
lawe
into
grace
?
Nowe
to
turne
away
the
people
from
theyr
Physition
,
there
is
no
shorter
and
readier
meane
,
then
to
perswade
them
that
they
are
whole
,
or
if
they
felt
in
any
sort
theyr
disease
,
that
they
might
cure
them selues
without
any
Physition
.
This
is
that
,
from
whence
are
sprung
these
goodly
pharisaicall
propositions
:
de
congruo
,
&
de
condigno
,
of
congruence
,
and
condignitie
,
which
altogether
destroy
the
comming
of
the
Messiah
.
And
they
haue
gone
so
farre
,
that
the
more
deuout
sort
bought
the
merites
of
Fryers
,
and
Monkes
,
which
they
called
workes
of
supererogation
,
that
is
to
say
,
that
these
Fryers
had
ynough
to
merite
Paradise
:
so
as
a
man
might
not
onely
of
himselfe
be
saued
,
but
he
myght
buye
his
saluation
by
the
workes
of
another
.
And
yet
notwithstandyng
all
this
,
sinne
is
in
such
sort
engrauen
in
man
,
that
it
is
felt
in
those
that
are
most
blockish
,
and
therefore
the
most
part
seeke
yet
the
Physition
,
and
can
neuer
content
themselues
with
it
.
But
behold
an
other
craft
of
Antichrist
,
to
abolish
the
comming
of
the
Messiah
:
whereas
they
should
onely
be
directed
to
Christ
the
onely
Physition
for
sinners
,
he
directeth
them
to
men
,
and
by
litle
and
litle
(
so
well
he
acquiteth
himselfe
)
they
are
altogether
directed
to
himselfe
.
Iesus
Christ
sayeth
vnto
all
,
Call
vpon
me
.
He
stretcheth
out
his
armes
to
euery
one
,
he
preuenteth
vs
with
his
mercie
,
he
draweth
vs
to
him selfe
,
as
it
were
by
strong
hande
.
In
stead
of
shewing
vs
him
,
the
Pope
sendeth
vs
to
the
virgine
Marie
and
to
Saynts
,
and
to
their
merites
,
as
though
all
they
together
,
in
all
their
lyfe
,
could
deserue
any
thing
but
death
,
or
hope
for
any
thing
after
their
death
but
hel
fire
,
without
the
death
of
Iesus
Christ
our
Lorde
.
To
this
ende
,
so
shamelesse
they
were
in
this
kingdome
of
darknesse
,
that
they
corrupted
the
firste
promise
which
God
made
to
our
Fathers
concerning
Christ
to
come
,
In
te
domina
speraui
.
Miserere
mei
Domina
.
Dixit
dominus
dominae
meae
,
Sede
mater
mea
a
dextris
meis
&c.
In
thee
haue
I
trusted
O
Lady
.
Haue
mercy
vpon
me
,
O
Lady
.
The
Lorde
hath
sayd
to
my
Lady
,
Sitte
,
my
mother
,
at
my
right
hand
&c.
In
such
sorte
,
that
these
blasphemies
,
which
they
called
,
Our
Ladyes
houres
,
were
the
chiefe
deuotion
of
those
that
were
most
deuout
.
Howe
seeing
the
virgine
Marie
was
put
in
Christe
his
place
,
I
aske
what
remayned
for
him
?
And
if
for
bringing
foorth
a
childe
,
shee
had
accomplished
the
saluation
of
those
that
call
vpon
her
,
why
then
,
what
neede
was
there
that
he
should
deliuer
himselfe
to
death
for
vs
?
From
the
selfe
same
roote
sprong
the
fourteene
Saints
,
that
we
must
call
vpon
in
the
time
of
our
necessitie
,
the
patrones
of
eche
profession
,
the
Physitions
for
euery
disease
,
that
we
must
woorship
by
vowes
,
Pilgrimages
and
Offrings
,
and
their
Images
with
censinges
,
payntings
,
and
all
kyndes
of
woorshppinges
,
so
that
the
Church
of
Rome
had
goddes
,
not
as
the
Iewish
Church
had
,
The
passion
of
Christ
,
and
the
merits
of
the
blessed
virgine
Marie
,
of
Saynt
Peter
,
of
Saynt
Paul
,
and
of
other
hee
Sayntes
,
and
shee
Saintes
of
paradise
,
be
vnto
thee
in
remission
of
thy
sinnes
:
wherby
the
Franciscane
Fryers
do
inseparably
ioyne
Saynt
Frauncis
with
Iesus
Christ
.
See
then
howe
the
Popes
,
contrarie
to
the
worde
of
God
,
and
vniforme
doctrine
of
all
the
auncient
Fathers
,
haue
taught
the
people
,
the
remission
of
their
sinnes
in
Iesus
Christ
alone
,
and
him
crucified
,
who
notwithstanding
is
so
sufficient
for
our
saluation
,
that
Saint
Paul
sayd
,
he
neither
knewe
,
nor
would
knowe
any
other
thing
.
But
as
the
Pope
and
his
supporters
had
turned
away
the
people
from
Christ
,
to
the
virgine
Marie
,
and
from
the
virgine
Marie
,
to
the
Apostles
,
and
from
the
Apostles
,
to
olde
Sayntes
,
and
from
the
olde
Sayntes
to
newe
,
whom
they
haue
canonized
according
to
their
fantasie
,
and
after
to
their
Temples
,
Chappels
,
Sepulchres
,
Bones
,
Relikes
and
Images
:
Finally
,
they
haue
gone
so
farre
astraye
,
that
by
litle
and
litle
,
he
drewe
all
to
himselfe
,
and
by
processe
of
time
,
wholly
put
him selfe
in
the
place
of
Iesus
Christ
our
Lorde
.
The
bloud
of
Iesus
Christ
,
shed
vpon
the
tree
of
the
Crosse
,
is
the
satisfaction
for
the
sinnes
of
all
those
that
beleeue
in
him
.
This
is
the
onely
marke
of
all
the
olde
and
newe
Testament
.
But
the
Pope
,
the
contemner
of
all
religion
,
bare
the
worlde
in
hande
,
that
he
was
the
treasourer
of
this
great
raunsome
payde
for
our
sinnes
:
And
that
to
be
partaker
thereof
,
we
must
come
vnto
him
:
And
he
will
distribute
this
benefite
to
whom
he
thinketh
good
.
And
thereupon
euery
man
began
to
bye
saluation
of
him
,
which
the
onely
bloud
of
Iesus
Christ
had
purchased
for
vs
,
and
no
other
thing
could
purchase
it
.
If
thou
hadst
committed
all
the
faultes
in
the
worlde
,
thou
mightest
haue
had
recourse
to
the
Popes
pardones
and
indulgences
.
All
offences
,
euen
to
murthers
,
incestes
,
Sodomitries
,
were
taxed
,
and
set
at
a
certaine
summe
of
money
,
and
paying
that
,
the
Pope
would
giue
you
full
remission
thereof
.
This
pardon
was
ratified
and
deliuered
to
him
that
would
giue
most
,
and
the
booke
of
taxes
doth
confirme
it
,
which
was
imprinted
by
their
owne
consent
,
before
the
light
of
the
Gospell
was
made
cleare
agayne
in
these
last
ages
.
These
indulgences
they
solde
first
to
certaine
persons
,
and
after
to
families
,
and
afterwardes
to
townes
:
And
after
,
they
were
sold
to
common
wealths
and
whole
kingdomes
,
without
exception
of
any
persons
,
yea
,
for
the
terme
of
foure
thousande
yeeres
of
true
pardon
.
The
doctrine
of
Christ
was
:
He
that
shall
beleeue
in
me
,
shall
haue
remission
of
sinnes
.
That
of
the
Popes
:
Hee
that
shall
giue
mee
money
,
there
shall
be
no
hell
for
him
.
If
he
had
any
enemy
,
he
sent
him
to
hell
bounde
hande
and
foote
,
yea
,
whole
kingdomes
and
nations
.
If
you
desired
paradise
,
he
commaunded
the
Angelles
to
carry
you
thither
,
and
all
your
parentes
and
friendes
,
among
them
of
theyr
owne
coate
,
and
such
outragious
Idolatrie
amongst
Christians
,
that
both
the
one
and
the
other
,
among
whome
nothing
is
more
expressely
forbidden
,
then
Idolatrie
,
haue
had
thereby
Christian
religion
in
great
detestation
,
&
one
sort
of
them
be
stiffe
in
Iudaisme
,
&
the
other
perswade
them selues
,
that
all
religion
is
nothing
else
but
an
instrument
of
policie
.
I
aske
then
for
conclusion
,
for
what
worse
we
shoulde
looke
from
Antichrist
,
than
to
make
Christ
vnprofitable
to
Christians
,
&
abhominable
to
Iewes
and
Painims
?
shall
we
waite
til
he
preach
Atheisme
,
and
godlesnesse
in
Temples
?
yea
,
but
they
which
see
but
the
sunne
&
moone
,
and
the
order
of
all
thinges
,
will
spit
in
his
face
.
What
then
?
till
he
preach
the
gods
of
the
Romanes
?
And
what
difference
shal
we
make
betweene
the
worship
of
Castor
and
Pollux
,
&
that
of
Saint
Ratherin
and
of
Saint
Nicholas
,
seeing
that
both
the
one
&
the
other
,
maketh
vs
quite
to
forget
our
saluation
?
And
forasmuch
as
he
hath
left
preaching
in
the
Temple
,
of
which
it
must
needes
be
that
he
tooke
possession
:
it
foloweth
therefore
that
the
Pope
,
&
none
other
is
Antichrist
,
who
vnder
the
name
of
Christ
,
hath
spoyled
Christ
of
his
place
.
Nowe
adde
vnto
his
doctrine
,
Saint
Irenee
,
Towardes
the
declyning
or
decaying
(
saith
he
)
of
the
Romane
Empire
,
Antichrist
shall
come
,
and
not
without
cause
.
For
this
Empire
beyng
so
renoumed
,
none
will
easely
be
subiect
vnto
it
.
But
this
being
destroyed
,
hee
shall
inuade
the
power
of
the
Empire
being
voyde
,
and
shall
take
it
to
hym selfe
,
in
somuch
as
hee
wyll
take
vppon
hym
the
Empire
both
of
God
and
men
:
For
as
all
kyngdomes
which
were
before
the
Romane
Empire
,
were
destroyed
:
euen
so
shal
the
kingdome
of
the
Romanes
be
destroyed
by
Antichrist
,
and
he
by
Christe
,
&
after
that
he
shall
haue
no
more
power
.
that
he
shall
come
vnder
the
visard
of
holines
,
and
of
myracles
,
of
superstitions
,
&
counterfet
godlinesse
.
Now
I
reporte
me
to
all
that
haue
read
histories
,
if
the
Pope
haue
not
growen
and
come
to
it
,
by
the
ruine
of
the
Romane
Empire
,
and
if
it
were
by
any
other
way
,
then
fayned
religion
.
Saint
Hylary
:
Take
heede
(
sayth
he
)
of
Antichrist
.
It
is
a
vilennie
,
that
you
should
be
so
mad
at
the
walles
.
You
abuse
your selues
in
reuerencing
goodly
buyldyngs
,
for
the
Church
of
God
:
For
that
is
the
place
where
Antichrist
shall
haue
his
seate
.
It
must
not
therefore
be
,
that
we
search
for
him
,
as
some
suppose
,
amongest
the
Barbarous
,
but
in
the
most
cleare
and
manifest
place
of
the
visible
Church
.
This
Babylon
(
saith
he
)
and
this
whore
clothed
with
Purple
,
which
is
paynted
foorth
vnto
vs
in
the
Apocalypse
,
can
signifie
no
other
thing
vnto
vs
,
but
Rome
:
and
he
repeateth
the
same
in
the
lyfe
of
Saint
Marke
:
and
Cusan
the
Cardinall
addeth
:
That
Bede
and
all
the
auncient
interpreters
haue
so
expounded
it
.
Saynt
Augustine
:
Babylon
is
the
first
Rome
,
&
Rome
the
second
Babylon
.
Also
,
expounding
that
place
of
Saint
Paul
in
the
second
to
the
Thessalonians
:
Antichrist
shall
come
towardes
the
ending
of
the
Romane
Empire
,
and
he
shall
not
be
a
prince
or
one
man
alone
,
but
a
multitude
of
men
are
belonging
vnto
him
,
who
together
with
him
shal
be
called
Antichrist
,
and
he
shall
sitte
in
the
Temple
of
God
,
as
though
he
and
his
were
the
Church
of
God
it selfe
.
He
shall
renewe
Idolatrie
,
he
shall
scatter
the
doctrine
of
the
Gospell
,
and
to
this
ende
he
shal
keepe
Magicians
,
Coniurers
,
and
Enchauntters
,
&c.
Nowe
euery
one
knoweth
the
false
miracles
,
wherewith
he
hath
abused
the
people
,
to
lead
them
away
from
Christ
.
And
he
that
will
see
howe
many
of
the
Popes
came
to
their
popedome
by
magicke
and
sorcerie
,
that
is
to
saye
,
howe
they
were
created
by
the
deuill
,
and
no
more
successours
of
Peter
,
but
of
Simon
the
Magician
:
Let
them
reade
that
which
their
owne
story
wryters
haue
written
thereof
:
as
Cardinall
Benno
,
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*
Praemonstratensis
.
Monke
,
Volateran
,
Sabellicus
and
Platina
,
which
I
willingly
omitte
,
least
I
make
the
readers
quake
for
horror
of
such
wickednesse
.
Saynt
Gregorie
Byshop
of
Rome
,
as
hee
was
more
neere
vnto
it
then
others
,
so
hath
he
spoken
therof
more
clearely
then
those
that
went
before
him
.
Let
it
not
seeme
a
light
thing
(
sayeth
he
)
vnto
thee
,
that
Antichrist
shall
auouche
himselfe
to
be
God
:
For
I
say
confidentlye
and
boldely
vnto
you
,
that
whosoeuer
shall
call
himselfe
vniuersall
Bishoppe
or
Minister
,
and
wil
be
so
called
,
hee
is
the
very
forerunner
of
Antichrist
.
That
he
is
Lucifer
,
which
aduaunceth
himselfe
aboue
Angels
,
and
will
sette
himselfe
at
the
right
hande
of
God
:
That
this
is
to
bring
to
ruine
the
whole
Church
&c.
Nowe
he
spake
this
the
more
frankely
,
because
it
was
at
that
time
that
the
Byshoppe
of
Constantinople
attributed
vnto
himselfe
that
title
.
But
beholde
that
a
litle
after
his
death
,
his
vniuersall
foretelling
was
accomplished
in
the
person
of
Pope
Boniface
the
thirde
,
his
successour
,
who
,
to
accomplishe
that
,
that
the
Spirite
of
God
had
foretolde
vs
by
his
Apostles
,
doth
so
much
preuaile
by
his
threatninges
,
that
he
obtayneth
that
title
of
Phocas
the
Emperour
,
the
murtherer
of
Mauritius
and
his
children
,
and
the
Popes
following
,
haue
buylded
thereupon
alwayes
after
.
Agaynst
this
open
Apostasie
,
then
all
the
Churches
of
Greece
,
Dace
,
Illyricum
&c.
did
oppose
themselues
,
euen
to
the
accusing
of
Pope
Symmachus
before
Theodoricus
the
king
of
the
Gothes
,
for
that
he
vaunted
himselfe
not
to
be
subiect
to
the
reprehension
of
any
.
Spayne
and
Englande
also
were
a
long
time
without
receyuing
the
legates
of
Rome
.
One
Claudius
Byshop
of
Thurine
,
in
the
time
of
Charles
the
great
,
wrote
very
learnedly
agaynst
the
Popes
Supremacie
,
and
agaynst
his
doctrine
:
yea
,
about
the
reygne
of
Hugh
Capet
,
Bernard
in
Cantic
.
Cantic
.
serm.
33.
&
77.
In
all
his
Epistles
to
Henry
the
Bishop
of
Sons
.
Nowe
if
wee
shall
reade
that
which
Saynt
Bernard
wrote
of
the
state
of
the
Church
in
his
time
,
about
the
yere
of
our
Lorde
1140.
aswell
in
his
Epistles
,
as
in
his
bookes
of
considerations
to
Pope
Eugenius
,
they
are
nothing
but
lamentations
of
the
ruine
of
the
Church
,
like
to
those
of
Ieremie
,
of
the
Church
vnder
the
captiuitie
of
Babylon
,
or
thundringes
against
the
tyranny
of
Antichrist
,
who
shewed
him selfe
in
his
time
.
He
sayeth
,
That
the
Popes
Court
is
a
parke
of
deuils
:
That
they
vsurpe
an
vnlawfull
and
an
intolerable
authoritie
:
That
there
was
not
any
more
shewe
of
Peters
succession
:
That
the
Bishops
of
his
time
,
were
marchantes
enriched
with
the
riches
of
the
whore
:
That
in
steade
of
keeping
the
spouse
of
Christ
,
they
made
port
sale
of
her
,
and
prostituted
and
layde
her
open
to
all
the
lechers
of
the
world
,
to
commit
fornication
with
her
.
And
a
litle
after
,
hauing
sayde
vpon
the
91.
Psalme
,
That
Antichrist
shall
haue
his
seat
in
the
South
part
,
he
addeth
:
What
differeth
then
the
estate
of
our
Church
,
from
that
same
pestilent
estate
which
walketh
in
darkenes
?
What
differeth
it
more
from
the
seate
of
Antichrist
?
Therefore
yours
(
sayth
he
)
is
in
very
deede
the
state
of
Antichrist
.
He
made
three
expresse
Satyres
agaynst
the
Pope
&
court
of
Rome
:
and
he
that
would
alledge
al
that
is
written
to
that
end
,
he
must
here
put
in
his
whole
bookes
.
Nowe
after
the
manifest
Apostasie
and
falling
awaye
of
the
popedome
,
the
Church
of
Rome
hath
not
brought
forth
so
excellent
a
man
as
he
was
.
whore
,
the
schoole
of
error
,
and
the
Temple
of
heresie
:
for
some
will
saye
,
that
much
is
permitted
to
poetrie
:
but
I
beseeche
the
readers
to
reade
his
latine
Epistles
,
which
are
full
of
grauitie
,
zeale
and
doctrine
.
He
sayth
there
in
plaine
termes
,
That
in
the
Pope
and
his
shauelings
,
there
is
neyther
fayth
,
godlinesse
nor
trueth
:
That
the
Popes
chaire
,
is
the
chaire
of
lying
:
That
this
is
a
falling
awaye
of
a
people
,
which
vnder
the
banner
of
Christ
rebell
against
Christe
,
and
fight
for
Satan
:
That
they
esteeme
the
Gospel
but
for
fables
,
and
the
promises
of
the
life
to
come
,
for
dreames
.
He
compareth
the
Pope
to
Iudas
,
who
betrayed
Iesus
Christe
with
a
kisse
:
and
his
clergie
to
the
Iewes
,
which
sayd
vnto
him
,
Aue
Rex
Iudaeorum
,
Al
haile
king
of
the
Iewes
:
his
prelates
to
the
Pharisies
,
who
in
mockerye
clothed
him
with
purple
,
and
afterwardes
crucified
him
in
the
mount
of
Caluery
.
And
after
he
sayth
:
Denie
it
nowe
if
thou
canst
,
that
thou
art
she
which
the
holy
Euangelist
Iohn
sawe
in
the
spirit
,
set
downe
vpon
the
great
waters
.
Thou
art
,
&
none
other
,
that
Babylon
,
the
mother
of
the
whoredomes
of
the
earth
:
Thou
art
drunken
with
the
bloud
of
the
Martyrs
of
Iesus
.
Thou
art
she
which
hast
made
all
the
kings
of
the
earth
drunken
with
the
Cuppe
of
thy
poyson
.
If
thou
deny
it
,
shew
vs
some
other
,
to
whom
these
thinges
maye
better
agree
:
If
thou
canst
not
,
then
wayte
for
that
to
fall
vpon
thine
owne
head
,
which
Iohn
the
Euangelist
addeth
a
litle
after
:
She
is
fallen
,
Babylon
the
great
,
and
is
made
an
habitation
of
deuils
&c.
But
what
do
I
say
,
Wayt
for
it
?
Yea
:
thou
hast
it
already
.
For
how
much
better
is
the
sonne
of
perdition
,
then
the
deuill
?
Thou
art
in
very
deed
a
kingdome
of
deuils
,
which
reigne
in
the
midst
of
thee
in
mans
shape
.
And
in
another
place
,
Let
it
not
(
my
friend
)
euer
grieue
thee
,
to
returne
from
these
princes
of
darkenesse
.
And
in
deede
,
what
wouldest
thou
see
in
the
Court
of
Rome
?
Christ
in
exile
?
Antichrist
reigning
in
his
stead
?
Beelzebub
the
iudge
?
Woolues
let
loose
?
The
Lambes
in
the
stockes
?
Ah
good
God
,
who
shall
deliuer
the
worlde
from
this
oppression
?
Who
shall
gather
together
the
sheepe
?
Who
shall
vanquishe
these
wicked
Pastors
?
Shall
there
neuer
be
a
limitation
and
end
of
this
intolerable
mischiefe
?
Now
when
there
was
such
that
durst
crye
so
lowde
,
wee
may
be
sure
,
that
there
were
many
more
that
lamented
in
their
heartes
.
To
be
short
,
the
most
notable
spirits
that
the
worlde
brought
forth
,
in
the
most
ignorant
ages
,
and
in
the
greatest
thicknes
of
darkenes
,
they
perceyued
this
,
some
more
clerely
,
and
others
as
it
were
through
a
clowde
,
vnlesse
it
were
some
such
as
ambition
and
glorie
of
the
worlde
had
blynded
:
Insomuch
that
when
abomination
was
come
to
his
full
toppe
,
God
raysed
vp
Iohn
Hus
,
Hierome
of
Prage
,
Wickliefe
,
Luther
and
others
,
which
haue
so
lowdly
published
and
proclaymed
it
,
that
all
the
worlde
doth
vnderstand
it
.
And
what
will
we
more
:
With
leaue
of
those
good
Fathers
of
the
Councill
not
long
agoe
holden
at
Trent
,
we
may
make
this
Syllogisme
.
Whosoeuer
wil
be
called
the
vniuersal
Bishop
,
he
is
the
forerunner
of
Antichrist
,
the
father
of
the
sonne
of
pryde
,
and
a
very
Lucifer
,
saith
Saint
Gregory
the
Pope
,
and
principall
Doctor
of
the
Church
of
Rome
.
But
Boniface
the
thirde
his
successour
,
tooke
this
title
,
they
which
followed
him
,
haue
continued
it
,
and
haue
encreased
it
more
&
more
.
And
the
Councill
of
Trent
excommunicateth
all
those
,
that
will
not
acknowledge
him
for
vniuersall
Byshop
.
Ergo
the
Pope
is
Antichrist
,
and
al
they
are
holden
for
excommunicate
by
the
Councill
of
Trent
,
that
doe
not
acknowledge
him
for
Antichrist
.
Yea
,
but
the
clergie
of
Rome
wil
say
,
If
the
Pope
were
the
Antichrist
,
whereof
the
Church
was
before
threatned
,
we
which
are
the
Church
,
shoulde
haue
knowen
him
.
Contrarywise
,
I
say
vnto
you
,
that
if
you
had
knowen
him
for
Antichrist
,
he
had
not
bene
Antichrist
.
This
is
that
which
the
Pharises
saide
when
Christ
came
:
If
this
were
Christ
,
who
shoulde
knowe
him
better
then
we
:
We
haue
the
Church
,
we
haue
the
Scriptures
:
we
are
the
interpreters
therof
:
We
are
the
eyes
of
the
people
:
It
cannot
escape
vs
,
that
we
shoulde
not
knowe
it
.
And
yet
in
meane
time
the
counsel
of
Hierusalem
condemned
&
crucified
the
Messiah
for
a
deceiuer
,
&
the
great
Rabbies
and
Masters
,
with
an
infinit
nomber
of
the
people
,
a
little
while
after
,
followed
that
same
miserable
Barcosba
to
ruine
&
destruction
,
and
acknowledged
him
for
the
true
Messiah
.
To
the
end
(
saith
our
sauiour
)
that
the
worde
of
Isai
the
Prophet
might
be
fulfilled
:
Who
hath
beleeued
our
word
?
and
to
whom
hath
thine
arme
bene
manifested
?
They
haue
eyes
but
they
see
not
.
They
haue
eares
but
they
vnderstand
not
.
The
Lorde
hath
blynded
their
eyes
,
and
hardened
their
heart
&c.
And
nowe
I
say
vnto
you
,
that
the
selfe
same
is
come
vpon
you
,
vpon
you
(
I
say
)
who
boast
of
the
name
of
the
Church
,
in
the
knowledge
of
Antichrist
.
For
he
is
come
with
all
the
signes
&
wonders
,
that
the
spirite
of
God
hath
foreshewed
vnto
vs
,
in
the
same
place
,
at
the
same
time
,
by
the
same
way
,
&
in
the
same
apparell
.
There
is
nothing
that
doth
not
agree
vnto
him
,
neyther
that
can
agree
to
any
other
,
but
to
him
.
In
meane
time
the
Church
,
that
is
to
say
,
the
Romane
clergie
,
haue
receiued
him
for
their
Spouse
.
The
Council
of
Trent
haue
declared
him
to
be
God
in
earth
,
excommunicating
al
those
that
wil
not
cleaue
vnto
him
:
and
the
princes
of
the
earth
haue
lent
him
their
armes
to
persecute
,
and
to
murther
those
who
woulde
make
him
knowen
to
the
worlde
.
And
wherfore
?
Because
this
word
of
God
must
be
fulfilled
,
which
he
hath
spoken
by
the
mouth
of
his
Apostles
:
He
shall
sit
in
the
Temple
of
God
,
boasting
himselfe
as
if
he
were
God
.
He
shal
make
drunk
al
the
kings
of
the
earth
.
He
shall
abuse
&
deceiue
all
the
world
,
because
they
haue
not
loued
the
truth
.
God
shal
giue
them
vp
into
a
strong
illusion
,
to
the
end
they
may
beleeue
lies
.
And
euen
lyke
as
the
Council
of
Hierusalem
condemned
Christ
,
so
the
Council
of
Trent
haue
approued
Antichrist
.
The
clergie
crucified
saluation
it selfe
:
&
the
clergie
hath
adored
their
perdition
.
The
great
doctors
of
the
lawe
were
therein
blynd
,
because
Christ
shewed
them
a
spiritual
kingdome
,
in
steade
of
the
temporall
that
they
waited
for
:
And
the
prelates
of
the
Romish
Church
haue
taken
pleasure
to
shutte
their
eyes
,
because
Antichrist
hath
brought
them
a
temporall
kingdome
,
wherein
they
intend
to
dwel
.
But
notwithstanding
death
,
the
crosse
,
and
the
conspiracies
of
all
the
worlde
,
the
spirituall
kingdome
of
Christ
was
victorious
ouer
all
the
kingdomes
of
the
earth
.
And
notwithstanding
the
temporall
kingdome
of
Antichrist
,
&
all
his
adorations
,
and
conspiracies
of
al
the
kings
&
princes
of
this
world
,
which
labour
to
vphold
him
,
it
must
needs
be
,
that
he
be
destroyed
by
the
breath
of
Christ
his
mouth
,
and
that
he
fall
,
and
vtterly
perish
.
First
,
that
this
false
doctrine
of
Antichrist
,
came
not
in
all
at
once
,
but
encreased
by
little
and
little
,
till
it
grewe
to
his
full
measure
and
heape
,
so
as
it
was
not
so
deadly
in
the
beginning
,
as
towardes
the
ende
thereof
when
it
came
to
his
strength
.
But
when
it
was
most
strong
,
and
in
the
greatest
ruffe
,
God
alwayes
reserued
many
in
al
countries
,
which
mourned
vnder
his
tyrannie
,
yea
and
some
also
that
cryed
out
as
loude
as
they
coulde
,
by
theyr
wrytynges
,
as
we
haue
already
shewed
.
And
in
deede
xxv
.
yeeres
agoe
,
one
woulde
haue
sayde
that
there
was
not
so
much
,
as
one
to
be
had
in
France
which
knewe
Antichriste
,
and
his
doctrine
.
And
yet
notwithstanding
,
at
the
first
libertie
which
was
graunted
to
the
townes
,
they
were
founde
verye
full
of
such
people
.
Secondly
,
as
our
aduersaries
make
a
difference
betweene
the
Church
and
the
people
,
snatching
the
name
of
the
Church
onely
to
the
prelates
,
which
should
be
common
to
all
Christians
:
so
we
likewise
do
well
put
a
difference
,
betweene
the
people
cleauyng
to
the
Churche
of
Rome
,
and
the
faction
of
Antichriste
,
betweene
them
who
liue
vnder
the
popedome
,
and
the
vpholders
and
maintayners
of
the
Pope
:
betweene
the
enchanters
,
&
those
that
are
enchanted
:
betweene
the
Pharises
,
whome
Christe
calleth
generation
of
vipers
,
and
that
poore
sicke
woman
,
whom
he
yet
called
the
daughter
of
Abraham
.
We
saye
that
among
that
poore
people
,
which
was
so
long
tyme
deceiued
vnder
the
darknesse
of
Antichriste
,
there
was
a
parte
of
the
bodye
of
the
visible
Church
:
But
that
the
Pope
and
his
mainteyners
are
the
bane
of
it
,
which
styfleth
and
choketh
these
poore
people
,
as
much
as
lieth
in
it
.
We
saye
that
this
was
the
Church
of
Christe
,
but
that
Antichriste
helde
it
by
the
throte
,
to
the
ende
that
that
saluation
and
life
which
floweth
from
Christe
,
might
not
be
powred
vppon
it
:
That
it
was
a
flocke
of
Christ
,
but
gouerned
partly
by
hyrelings
,
and
partly
by
woolues
.
In
the
people
we
consider
the
members
of
the
vniuersall
church
:
but
in
the
scabbes
&
infections
which
doe
hide
them
,
we
marke
the
poyson
of
the
papacie
:
and
in
their
buddes
,
the
whoredomes
that
the
church
of
Rome
hath
committed
with
Antichriste
.
To
be
short
,
we
saye
that
the
people
were
of
the
Christian
common
weale
:
but
the
Pope
with
his
faction
,
a
proud
seditious
Catiline
,
to
destroy
and
to
set
it
on
fire
:
whom
Cicero
very
wel
calleth
a
plague
,
and
not
a
member
of
the
common
weale
.
And
in
deede
,
as
of
euill
dyet
,
and
superfluitie
there
is
engendred
in
mans
body
an
impostume
,
(
which
yet
notwithstanding
is
not
the
body
,
nor
any
part
of
the
body
,
but
a
disease
,
and
very
oftentimes
the
death
of
the
body
)
euen
so
,
sayth
Salust
,
that
of
the
superfluitie
of
the
common
weale
,
Catiline
was
bred
:
euen
so
we
saye
that
of
the
delightes
,
superfluities
,
and
idlenesse
of
the
Church
of
Rome
,
Antichriste
is
bredde
in
it
,
who
yet
is
neyther
the
Church
nor
any
part
of
the
Church
,
but
is
the
disease
and
pestilence
it selfe
of
the
Church
,
which
had
so
infected
and
festered
the
whole
bodie
,
that
there
appeared
no
more
health
nor
soundnesse
therein
,
and
had
bin
altogether
the
death
of
the
bodie
,
had
not
God
of
his
singular
mercie
opened
the
same
vnto
vs
.
Thirdly
,
we
say
that
this
empoysoner
with
his
complices
,
hath
cast
into
the
fountaine
of
life
,
that
is
to
say
,
into
the
doctrine
of
saluation
in
Iesus
Christe
,
all
the
poyson
he
coulde
deuise
,
and
that
he
hath
infected
with
his
venime
,
the
most
dainty
meates
which
God
had
giuen
for
the
nourishment
of
his
people
.
But
that
GOD
hath
giuen
grace
to
some
to
absteine
from
it
,
to
some
in
tyme
to
vomit
it
vp
againe
,
to
others
to
mingle
it
with
the
meate
,
and
to
certaine
to
ouercome
it
by
the
soundnes
of
their
complexion
:
in
such
sort
that
many
haue
dayly
escaped
it
,
notwithstanding
his
accursed
intention
and
purpose
.
For
example
,
we
knowe
that
the
most
part
of
the
people
haue
byn
ignorant
of
those
mischieuous
doctrines
,
which
the
schoolemen
haue
left
by
writing
,
that
is
to
say
,
of
the
principal
blasphemies
of
the
papacie
.
Also
,
that
the
more
parte
haue
neuer
beleeued
,
that
they
coulde
merite
euerlasting
life
by
their
owne
workes
,
whatsoeuer
men
preached
vnto
them
thereof
.
Againe
,
albeit
that
through
custome
and
ignorance
they
went
to
Saints
and
Images
,
and
frequented
Masses
and
pylgrimages
:
yet
notwithstanding
,
in
their
conflictes
of
death
,
they
alwayes
principally
claue
to
the
Crosse
of
Iesus
Christ
,
and
al
the
Franciscans
preaching
in
their
eares
,
the
habite
&
vanishing
toyes
of
S.
Frauncis
,
could
not
pull
it
away
from
them
.
I
confesse
(
sayth
he
)
that
I
am
not
worthie
of
it
.
I
know
that
I
cannot
by
mine
owne
workes
obtaine
the
kingdome
of
heauen
.
But
my
Lord
hath
obtained
it
by
a
double
right
,
by
inheritance
from
the
Father
,
and
by
the
merite
of
his
passion
.
Nowe
he
is
contented
with
the
one
,
and
giueth
mee
the
other
.
And
when
I
attribute
it
to
my selfe
,
by
the
gift
which
he
hath
made
vnto
me
thereof
,
I
cannot
be
confounded
.
And
in
another
place
:
My
merite
is
the
mercie
of
the
Lord
.
And
I
am
not
poore
in
merits
,
because
he
is
riche
in
his
mercies
.
I
haue
greatly
sinned
,
but
I
will
comfort
my selfe
in
the
stripes
of
my
Lord.
Euen
so
likewise
we
assure
our selues
in
the
mercy
of
God
,
that
a
great
nomber
held
the
foundation
in
Iesus
Christ
,
Finally
,
we
say
with
S.
Cyprian
,
That
if
my
predecessors
,
either
by
ignorance
or
by
simplicitie
,
(
holding
notwithstanding
the
foundation
)
haue
not
kept
and
holden
that
which
our
Lord
hath
taught
them
by
his
example
&
aucthoritie
,
(
as
it
is
most
certaine
they
did
not
)
that
the
mercie
of
our
Lord
might
pardon
them
.
But
as
this
good
Doctor
addeth
:
That
we
cannot
hope
for
the
like
,
beyng
admonished
at
this
day
,
and
instructed
by
him
.
But
this
matter
shall
be
for
the
chapter
following
.
That
euery
one
is
bound
to
separate
himselfe
from
the
Communion
of
Antichrist
,
and
that
the
Romanists
are
Schismatikes
,
and
not
they
which
separate
themselues
from
them
.
CHAP.
X.
THe
matters
beyng
as
wee
haue
before
proued
,
there
shall
be
no
great
neede
now
that
we
render
a
reason
for
that
we
haue
withdrawen
our selues
from
the
communion
of
the
Pope
,
When
it
pleased
God
to
giue
vs
grace
to
know
the
false
Commission
of
the
Pope
,
by
vertue
whereof
he
made
himselfe
head
of
the
Church
,
and
that
by
examination
aswell
of
his
doctrine
,
as
of
those
markes
which
he
ought
to
haue
,
we
found
euidently
,
that
this
is
the
Antichrist
,
&
none
other
:
they
,
who
were
called
to
preach
the
trueth
,
haue
preached
in
the
Church
,
they
which
had
charge
to
teache
,
haue
declared
&
published
it
by
bookes
,
and
many
to
whome
God
gaue
zeale
&
courage
,
haue
protested
it
alowde
and
clearely
,
euen
amiddest
the
flaming
fire
.
Some
haue
shewed
it
to
the
people
and
common
weales
.
Some
cryed
it
out
in
the
eares
of
princes
.
Some
haue
offered
to
verifie
the
impietie
of
his
doctrine
in
a
free
generall
Councill
.
That
faith
and
promise
is
not
to
be
kept
with
heretikes
.
Afterwardes
all
this
notwithstanding
,
we
haue
alwayes
required
a
free
Council
,
where
they
haue
condemned
vs
without
euer
calling
for
vs
.
Some
haue
answered
vs
for
all
:
That
these
were
matters
done
long
ago
,
whereof
we
should
not
speake
any
more
.
They
haue
cut
vs
quite
of
from
the
Church
of
Rome
,
&
haue
proceeded
agaynst
vs
by
fire
and
fagot
,
by
the
sworde
,
by
warres
,
&
by
massacres
&
cruell
murthers
.
Finally
,
we
see
that
they
will
giue
no
place
to
our
worde
,
that
they
will
not
giue
vs
audience
in
a
Council
,
that
they
excommunicate
&
chase
vs
from
the
Church
of
Rome
.
Therfore
following
the
example
of
the
Apostles
,
when
they
were
excommunicated
from
the
Iewish
synagogue
for
hauing
preached
Christ
:
we
haue
begun
to
gather
our selues
together
to
serue
the
Lord
,
first
secretly
&
in
corners
,
&
afterwardes
more
freely
:
&
neither
can
we
communicate
with
those
Idolatries
brought
in
by
Antichrist
,
nor
at
the
first
dash
driue
him
from
his
seat
,
for
that
the
Princes
of
the
earth
with
their
power
vpholde
him
:
&
therefore
we
are
enforced
to
deliuer
our selues
,
&
all
those
that
wil
hearken
vnto
vs
,
from
his
seruitude
&
bondage
.
Nowe
I
aske
,
what
our
aduersaries
can
finde
fault
with
in
this
our
doyng
,
either
in
the
matter
it selfe
,
or
in
the
maner
of
our
proceeding
?
If
they
looke
vpon
the
matter
,
we
separant
our selues
not
for
light
matters
,
but
for
manifest
idolatrie
,
for
making
voyd
the
crosse
of
Christ
,
for
perdition
,
which
reigneth
in
the
place
of
saluation
.
To
be
short
,
we
withdraw
our selues
from
this
prince
of
confusion
,
who
is
reuolted
back
against
our
Lord
.
And
we
report
vs
euen
to
their
own
iudgement
,
whether
they
thinke
it
not
lawful
to
separate
our selues
from
the
communion
of
Antichrist
,
sitting
in
the
chayre
of
Iesus
Christ
.
For
if
euery
one
wynke
therat
,
who
shal
discouer
him
?
and
if
euery
one
cleaue
vnto
him
,
who
shal
chase
him
away
?
and
if
all
the
world
hold
their
peace
,
where
is
the
spirit
of
the
mouth
of
the
Lord
which
shal
destroy
him
?
Nowe
if
they
shall
deny
that
he
is
Antichrist
,
we
wil
submit
our selues
to
proue
it
,
&
then
there
is
no
question
of
our
separation
,
but
of
our
doctrine
.
If
they
will
reproue
vs
for
the
maner
of
our
proceeding
,
therein
condemning
vs
,
they
condemne
the
Apostles
,
who
hauing
ouerrunne
all
Israel
,
ran
into
a
thousande
dangers
,
to
the
end
they
might
make
Christ
to
be
receyued
into
his
owne
house
,
&
in
the
middest
of
the
temple
:
&
finally
,
perceyuing
themselues
to
be
stopped
euery
way
by
open
force
,
by
excommunications
,
imprisonments
,
&c.
they
receyued
him
secretely
into
their
priuate
houses
,
and
did
preach
him
in
smal
assemblies
,
till
at
last
they
brought
all
the
worlde
into
his
subiection
.
But
notwithstanding
this
,
they
crie
out
,
that
wee
haue
broken
the
Communion
of
the
Church
:
that
we
haue
set
altar
agaynst
altar
:
that
we
are
Schismatikes
,
&c.
which
were
the
outcries
of
the
Pharises
against
the
Apostles
,
You
violate
the
Temple
,
the
altar
,
the
lawe
,
&c.
And
hereupon
kings
and
nations
haue
armed
themselues
on
all
sides
against
vs
.
This
therefore
is
the
thing
that
we
must
presently
make
answere
vnto
.
Concerning
the
Communion
of
charitie
or
loue
,
which
consisteth
in
suffering
and
bearing
the
euilles
one
of
another
,
&
in
not
lightly
condemning
one
another
:
we
holde
all
them
for
the
true
members
of
Christ
,
which
worship
one
God
in
spirit
&
in
trueth
,
and
hope
for
their
saluation
in
one
Iesus
Christ
alone
,
the
sonne
of
God
come
in
the
fleshe
,
and
crucified
for
the
sinnes
of
the
worlde
,
which
is
the
foundation
of
saluation
to
all
men
.
We
desire
all
vnion
and
agreement
with
them
,
in
whatsoeuer
countries
and
regions
they
are
,
and
whatsoeuer
corruptions
may
be
yet
remaining
amongst
them
,
not
onely
in
maner
,
but
also
in
certayne
poyntes
of
doctrine
,
bewayling
the
bodyly
seruitude
which
they
endure
,
and
praying
the
Father
of
lyght
,
that
it
wyll
please
him
to
enlighten
them
more
&
more
by
his
holy
spirit
.
Contrary
wise
euery
man
knoweth
,
that
the
Popes
Consistorie
hath
excommunicated
al
the
East
Churches
,
600
yeres
agone
,
only
for
this
,
that
they
would
not
submit
themselues
to
the
Bishoppe
of
Rome
,
which
is
an
article
that
concerneth
only
but
his
ambition
,
and
that
the
Pope
hath
left
them
to
be
inuaded
of
the
Turke
,
in
despite
whereof
they
had
rather
endure
all
extremitie
,
then
to
acknowledge
him
to
be
head
of
the
Church
.
And
concerning
the
vnion
of
charitie
amongst
them
which
yet
cleaue
to
the
Pope
,
there
is
nothing
more
deare
vnto
them
,
then
their
own
liues
,
&
we
haue
bene
put
to
the
fire
,
water
&
sword
,
for
opening
the
trueth
vnto
them
,
&
praying
God
euery
day
,
that
he
wil
enlighten
them
by
his
spirit
.
On
the
other
side
,
the
Romish
Consistory
doth
pursue
vs
by
al
meanes
to
death
,
and
that
by
the
space
of
these
three
score
yeeres
and
more
,
and
so
many
people
continually
groning
for
a
free
generall
Council
,
they
haue
not
had
onely
so
much
charitie
,
as
to
grant
vs
eyther
generall
or
nationall
,
to
deliuer
vs
from
the
error
they
pretend
vs
to
be
in
,
answering
for
al
(
&
that
to
so
many
princes
,
who
haue
iudged
it
necessary
)
That
these
matters
are
already
decided
,
and
ought
not
any
more
to
come
in
question
.
this
is
euery
way
a
friuolous
answere
,
as
wee
haue
shewed
before
.
But
I
demaunde
,
what
Parliament
is
it
,
yea
euen
amongst
the
heathen
,
so
barbarous
,
and
so
farre
from
humanitie
,
which
for
the
agreeing
of
two
persons
onely
,
woulde
refuse
to
handle
againe
a
processe
,
whereof
there
had
bene
a
determinate
sentence
giuen
by
the
Parliament
before
?
This
therfore
is
in
the
Romish
Consistory
,
where
there
is
manifest
doubt
of
their
doctrine
,
or
else
foule
and
shamefull
lacke
of
charitie
,
and
that
in
such
a
wayghtie
case
,
as
concerneth
the
saluation
of
the
more
part
of
Christendome
.
To
be
short
,
we
agree
and
are
knitte
together
in
the
doctrine
of
the
Bible
,
with
all
Christians
,
but
we
reiect
the
pestilent
gloses
and
traditions
of
the
Pope
:
we
haue
bene
willing
brotherly
to
communicate
the
trueth
to
our
brethren
,
with
the
danger
of
our
life
,
in
the
middest
of
their
Churches
:
and
contrarywise
the
Pope
,
in
stead
of
hearkening
vnto
vs
,
fearing
to
be
discouered
,
hath
excommunicated
,
chased
and
driuen
vs
out
.
It
is
therfore
the
Pope
and
his
greasie
ones
,
which
haue
broken
the
Communion
of
the
vniuersall
Church
,
&
not
we
,
who
to
keepe
vs
in
,
are
readie
to
submitte
our selues
to
al
reason
,
&
to
abide
all
dangers
.
Secondly
,
that
they
alledge
altar
against
altar
,
if
we
shall
consider
the
nature
of
the
Christian
Church
,
it
is
not
much
from
the
purpose
.
In
auncient
tyme
vnder
the
law
,
The
canon
lawe
sayeth
,
Also
the
Canon
sayeth
,
that
the
essentiall
and
materiall
cause
of
all
Schisme
is
want
of
charity
.
Also
the
Canon
lawe
teacheth
vs
,
For
that
(
saith
he
in
his
protestation
)
they
will
mainteine
diuisions
in
the
Churche
by
their
tretcheries
,
and
will
not
submit
themselues
to
the
ordinarie
meane
of
a
free
councill
,
and
to
the
determination
of
the
church
.
Now
it
was
eight
score
yeeres
agoe
,
that
this
strife
began
in
the
Church
,
&
after
threescore
yeres
or
thereabouts
,
it
was
spread
ouer
all
Europe
.
The
princes
and
people
called
still
for
a
free
councill
,
and
alwayes
,
sometimes
by
one
meane
,
sometimes
by
another
the
Popes
went
scot
free
.
During
all
which
time
they
sought
all
the
wayes
they
could
for
their
liues
,
ordinary
&
extraordinary
,
to
make
an
end
of
vs
.
They
therefore
&
their
mainteiners
(
though
the
saluation
of
Christendome
was
not
in
controuersie
,
as
now
it
is
)
are
by
their
own
canons
found
schismatikes
,
&
they
who
haue
winked
at
it
,
fautors
of
schisme
:
&
they
who
haue
with
drawen
themselues
from
their
obedience
,
(
admit
that
their
Popes
had
bene
sometime
heads
of
the
Church
,
&
no
Antichrists
)
are
grounded
in
the
trueth
,
exempted
from
all
suspicion
of
schisme
,
and
blamelesse
of
all
the
mischiefes
and
disorders
,
which
through
schisme
haue
arisen
in
Christendome
.
Now
contrariwise
,
if
as
we
hold
the
Pope
be
Antichrist
,
&
the
papall
doctrine
contrary
to
saluation
in
Iesus
Christ
,
and
al
the
seruice
that
they
do
in
al
the
churches
that
acknowledge
him
,
which
they
cal
the
church
of
Rome
,
polluted
with
idolatrie
,
them
there
needs
no
longer
disputation
,
whether
men
do
well
to
separate
themselues
from
him
,
or
no
:
but
rather
to
conclude
ful
and
wholly
,
That
we
are
traitors
to
God
,
who
hath
created
vs
:
to
Christ
,
who
hath
saued
&
regenerated
vs
:
to
the
Church
,
who
hath
borne
vs
:
to
be
short
,
to
our
brethren
&
to
our selues
,
if
we
protest
not
against
his
blasphemies
,
if
we
withdraw
not
our selues
from
his
obedience
,
if
we
renounce
not
his
communion
:
to
be
shorte
,
if
we
do
not
our
vttermost
to
make
him
knowen
to
euery
one
,
and
to
deliuer
the
world
from
his
tyrannie
.
Hereupon
thei
obiect
vnto
vs
,
that
Moses
,
for
the
idolatry
committed
amongst
the
people
of
Israel
to
the
golden
Calfe
,
For
they
neuer
did
it
:
we
wil
not
(
I
say
)
communicate
in
any
wise
with
the
sacriledges
&
impieties
brought
in
by
Antichrist
:
for
this
were
great
wickednes
to
do
it
,
&
treason
against
God
to
conceale
it
,
&
more
then
sensles
blockishnes
to
all
,
not
to
search
it
out
,
&
inexcusable
blindnes
,
in
the
light
which
at
this
day
shineth
euery
where
,
to
communicate
with
these
workes
of
darkenesse
.
Thirdly
,
baptisme
in
our
infancie
brought
vs
into
the
house
of
God
,
but
it
is
not
enough
to
be
receyued
into
his
familie
,
if
we
serue
him
not
according
to
his
commandements
.
For
then
we
depriue
our selues
of
the
benefite
receyued
by
baptisme
,
the
which
(
as
S.
Augustine
sayeth
)
is
turned
into
our
greater
condemnation
.
This
therefore
is
vnto
vs
as
the
law
of
nature
in
a
common
weale
,
which
bindeth
vs
to
the
duetie
of
good
citizens
:
&
of
simple
&
plaine
enemies
that
we
shoulde
be
,
we
become
traytors
,
and
parricides
,
if
we
serue
a
Tyrant
which
hath
inuaded
it
,
Fourthly
.
Yea
,
but
there
is
no
baptisme
but
in
the
Church
,
and
when
you
separate
your selues
from
vs
,
you
then
separate
your selues
from
the
church
.
The
answere
.
There
is
no
Baptisme
but
in
the
Church
,
and
we
deny
not
also
,
that
the
Church
of
Rome
is
a
Church
.
For
in
that
we
affirme
that
Antichrist
ruleth
there
,
we
consequently
hold
that
it
is
the
Churche
,
inasmuch
as
he
can
not
sit
any
where
but
in
the
Church
.
But
it
is
one
thing
,
to
separate
our selues
from
the
Church
of
Rome
defiled
by
Antichrist
,
and
another
thing
to
depart
from
the
communion
of
the
vniuersall
church
,
as
we
haue
already
declared
.
Againe
we
depart
not
from
the
temple
,
but
from
the
idolatry
committed
in
the
temple
,
nor
from
the
common
weale
,
but
from
the
tyranny
which
oppresseth
the
common
wealth
,
nor
from
the
city
,
but
from
the
pestilence
which
infecteth
the
city
,
nor
from
the
communion
&
fellowship
of
the
people
(
to
whom
we
wish
al
happines
&
saluation
)
but
from
the
conspiracie
of
Antichrist
&
of
his
mainteiners
:
we
therefore
renounce
not
their
baptisme
,
but
we
ratifie
it
.
By
the
same
we
are
bound
to
serue
God
,
&
to
renounce
the
deuil
:
&
following
the
same
,
we
seeke
to
serue
God
according
to
his
word
,
&
renounce
all
idoles
.
By
these
letters
of
natural
birth
,
we
are
bound
to
mainteine
the
lawes
of
the
ancient
christian
common
wealth
,
which
is
the
church
:
&
folowing
them
,
we
set
vp
againe
before
vs
the
law
of
God
the
only
lawgiuer
of
the
church
,
&
would
deliuer
the
church
from
al
new
impositions
&
burdens
,
which
Antichrist
hath
laid
vpon
their
consciences
.
By
baptisme
we
haue
made
an
oth
vnto
christ
,
&
the
pope
would
turne
our
seruice
from
Christ
,
to
his
idols
&
to
him selfe
:
we
therfore
set
Christ
against
Antichrist
,
and
the
church
against
his
conspiracy
.
And
this
is
that
for
which
by
the
grace
of
God
,
we
haue
bin
baptized
into
the
Church
,
how
tyrannicall
and
disordered
soeuer
it
hath
bene
.
But
the
ministers
therof
,
whom
you
pretens
to
be
of
Antichr
.
they
haue
baptized
you
.
In
deed
they
haue
put
water
on
my
head
,
but
Christ
hath
baptized
me
.
The
tyran
or
his
officers
,
which
he
hath
established
after
his
fashion
,
haue
made
me
lift
vp
my
hande
,
&
giue
him
an
oth
:
but
they
haue
made
me
to
make
it
to
the
common
welth
,
&
not
to
the
tyran
,
in
the
name
of
Christ
,
&
not
in
the
name
of
Antichrist
.
The
forme
of
the
othe
hath
remained
entire
&
sound
,
albeit
the
estate
were
changed
.
To
folow
therfore
the
tenor
of
mine
oth
,
I
will
retire
my selfe
into
the
army
of
true
citizens
,
&
I
wil
seek
out
the
true
church
in
the
place
,
wherunto
it
hath
withdrawen
it self
,
&
I
will
renounce
the
communion
of
Antichrist
,
who
vnder
colour
of
mine
oth
,
maketh
me
to
breake
mine
othe
.
To
conclude
this
point
.
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*
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*
Pella
a
litle
towne
by
Iorden
,
wherin
the
Christians
were
preserued
when
Ierusalem
was
destroyed
.
Pella
.
If
men
marke
this
deede
in
it selfe
,
they
cannot
finde
faulte
with
it
:
For
wee
stande
grounded
vpon
the
expresse
woorde
of
GOD
.
Nowe
if
anye
man
further
saye
,
howsoeuer
it
ought
to
be
done
,
that
yet
it
belonged
not
vnto
our
Ministers
to
do
it
:
There
is
no
farther
question
but
of
their
vocation
and
calling
,
which
shal
be
handled
in
the
chapter
next
following
.
That
the
Ministers
of
the
reformed
churches
haue
a
lawfull
calling
to
reforme
the
Church
.
CHAP
XI
.
FOrasmuch
as
our
aduersaries
can
neither
deny
the
corruption
,
which
is
entred
into
the
Church
,
nor
the
tyranny
of
Antichrist
with
other
things
depending
therof
,
from
the
which
we
go
about
by
the
word
of
God
,
to
set
it
free
:
to
the
end
to
hold
vs
from
entring
to
the
ground
of
this
matter
,
&
from
ripping
it
vp
againe
,
they
at
length
vse
this
pretty
shift
,
&
aske
vs
whatcalling
our
ministers
haue
to
reforme
the
church
,
&
to
preach
in
it
?
The
words
which
we
preach
,
beare
witnes
of
vs
.
They
likewise
cast
in
our
teeth
their
long
succession
,
That
they
are
the
children
of
Abraham
,
S.
Peters
heires
&c.
To
whom
Iesus
Christ
hath
answered
for
vs
,
Ye
are
Abrahams
seede
,
but
the
deuil
is
your
father
,
from
whom
ye
are
come
.
&
s
.
Paul
:
Brethren
,
be
not
deceiued
,
for
Antichrist
shall
sit
&
be
worshipped
in
the
temple
of
God
.
But
forasmuch
as
hertofore
they
haue
made
whole
books
vpon
this
point
,
it
is
needefull
to
handle
this
more
largely
.
When
fire
shall
take
holde
of
any
Citie
or
towne
,
or
an
enemie
shall
scale
it
in
the
night
,
if
the
least
Burgesse
shall
giue
an
alarme
,
yea
admitte
it
be
but
a
straunger
,
whiles
the
watchmen
sleepe
,
no
man
will
demaund
by
what
tytle
he
did
it
,
and
much
lesse
punish
him
for
it
:
but
rather
men
wyll
runne
to
the
water
,
and
to
the
walles
,
they
will
see
where
it
is
,
and
euery
one
accepteth
him
thankfully
that
warned
them
.
When
contrariwyse
,
we
discouer
Antichrist
sitting
in
the
Church
,
whom
we
haue
submitted
our selues
to
conuince
,
before
the
face
of
a
Councill
,
and
in
his
owne
presence
:
in
steade
of
hearing
vs
,
of
examining
our
reasons
,
of
going
to
the
holy
Scriptures
,
where
he
is
liuely
painted
out
,
they
fall
to
examine
vs
of
our
condition
,
and
by
what
authoritie
we
aduertise
them
,
yea
they
put
vs
to
a
worse
death
,
then
if
we
had
betraied
the
common
wealth
.
If
the
gouernours
of
some
places
shoulde
doe
the
like
,
when
men
giue
them
aduertisements
,
what
place
shoulde
not
soone
fall
into
the
handes
of
the
enemies
?
And
what
prince
is
there
that
would
not
hold
them
for
traitors
,
and
iudge
that
they
had
conspired
with
his
enemies
?
There
is
no
question
here
of
our
condition
&
qualities
,
but
of
the
qualities
of
Antichrist
,
&
of
his
doctrine
.
It
standeth
with
the
duetie
of
those
that
warne
vs
,
and
it
concerneth
the
saluation
of
all
,
and
of
our selues
.
If
the
aduertisement
and
warning
be
true
,
it
is
the
saluation
of
the
Church
,
if
it
be
false
,
it
is
ours
.
The
question
is
then
,
to
examine
the
circumstaunces
of
the
warning
,
and
not
the
qualities
and
condition
of
those
that
warne
vs
.
In
the
conspiracie
of
Catiline
,
the
Senate
lent
theyr
eare
to
a
base
woman
,
agaynst
the
greatest
.
And
when
the
Gaules
would
by
night
haue
inuaded
the
Capitole
of
Rome
,
the
watchmen
spake
not
a
worde
,
and
the
dogges
were
dumbe
:
there
was
nothing
but
the
Geese
that
cryed
,
and
yet
euery
man
ranne
thither
,
and
made
accompt
therof
:
and
had
not
this
gagling
bin
,
this
notable
Citie
,
which
afterwardes
conquered
the
whole
world
,
had
byn
lost
.
When
therefore
we
shal
be
the
most
vile
&
contemptiple
of
the
Church
,
we
deserue
to
be
heard
,
yea
seeing
we
desire
not
to
speake
in
the
eare
,
as
slaunderers
,
but
in
the
face
of
the
Church
,
yea
in
the
eare
of
himself
that
hath
accused
vs
,
not
from
our selues
,
but
from
God
.
Concerning
the
reformation
of
the
Church
,
after
the
scattering
which
the
Pope
&
his
haue
made
in
it
,
we
knowe
that
there
must
be
a
lawful
callyng
,
but
we
maintayne
our selues
to
be
therein
better
warranted
and
grounded
then
they
,
who
haue
nothyng
but
theyr
boasting
and
vaunting
,
although
they
haue
the
greatest
titles
&
honors
in
the
world
to
be
on
theyr
side
.
That
a
bishop
must
be
apt
to
teach
,
and
blamelesse
:
If
of
the
persons
which
make
this
examination
,
why
,
it
was
not
one
man
alone
,
but
many
ministers
,
bishops
and
elders
duely
called
before
to
this
Church
,
that
is
to
say
,
That
the
minister
of
the
Church
must
be
ordeined
by
the
election
of
the
Clergie
,
&
by
the
consent
of
the
people
:
That
a
Bishop
should
not
be
chosen
without
a
nomber
of
bishops
,
&c.
At
the
request
of
the
Clergie
,
that
is
to
say
,
of
the
elders
,
&
with
the
consent
of
the
people
.
Againe
,
3.
Cyprian
.
lib.
1
Epist.
3.
August
.
Epist.
110.
chosen
in
the
time
of
Pope
Paul
the
thyrd
for
a
reformation
,
confesse
in
theyr
articles
,
that
for
theyr
wicked
liues
and
horrible
outrages
,
the
name
of
God
was
blasphemed
throughout
all
nations
.
If
of
the
consent
of
the
people
,
which
S.
Cyprian
so
much
requireth
,
&
which
we
see
so
wel
put
in
practise
in
the
person
of
Eradius
that
was
S.
Augustines
successor
,
they
present
their
bishops
to
the
people
,
not
to
haue
their
consent
to
approue
them
,
but
to
cause
them
to
worship
them
,
for
fashion
sake
only
,
and
not
altogether
in
good
earnest
.
Now
if
we
come
to
the
simple
priestes
,
Against
this
which
hath
bene
said
,
nothing
can
be
alledged
,
vnlesse
it
be
,
that
these
first
reformers
of
the
Church
,
Iohn
Hus
,
Luther
,
Zwinglius
,
Decolompadius
&
others
,
from
whom
ours
are
descended
,
they
were
not
bishops
,
but
onely
priestes
&
doctors
.
To
this
we
answere
,
I
left
thee
in
Candie
,
to
the
end
thou
shouldest
ordeyne
elders
in
euery
citie
.
And
afterwards
,
For
it
behoueth
that
a
Bishop
be
faultlesse
,
&c.
Also
it
is
sayd
in
the
Actes
,
That
he
sent
to
seeke
the
Elders
or
Seniors
of
Ephesus
.
But
marke
the
waighty
exhortation
he
maketh
to
them
,
Take
heede
,
sayth
he
,
to
your selues
,
&
to
the
whole
flock
,
ouer
which
the
holy
Ghost
hath
made
you
Bishoppes
or
ouerseers
.
as
beeing
bishops
.
Ephes.
4.
Feede
(
saith
he
)
the
flock
which
is
committed
vnto
you
,
hauing
an
eye
ouer
them
as
Bishoppes
or
ouerseers
,
&c.
And
in
deede
where
Saint
Paul
rekoneth
vp
the
names
of
all
the
degrees
in
the
Church
,
he
maketh
no
mention
of
bishops
,
but
onely
of
pastors
and
doctors
,
&
to
the
elders
it
is
said
,
Feede
,
teach
,
&
doe
the
duetie
of
Bishops
.
It
is
then
most
apparent
,
that
elders
(
whome
you
call
priests
)
&
Bishops
were
all
one
.
Among
our
ancients
,
Bishop
&
elder
were
both
one
,
but
the
one
is
the
name
of
age
,
the
other
of
office
or
dignitie
,
as
the
Apostle
hath
plainly
shewed
vs
.
Before
one
sayd
,
I
hold
of
Cephas
,
&
I
of
Apollo
,
&c.
all
things
were
gouerned
in
the
Church
by
the
common
aduise
of
the
Seniors
or
elders
.
Afterwardes
to
auoyde
Schismes
,
aduise
was
giuen
,
that
one
should
be
chosen
aboue
others
.
But
as
on
the
one
side
the
elders
are
subiect
vnto
him
,
so
on
the
other
side
they
must
know
,
in
that
that
he
is
aboue
the
elders
,
it
is
by
custome
,
and
not
by
the
Lords
ordinance
.
The
Bishops
(
sayeth
he
)
were
called
at
the
first
,
Elders
,
wherupon
one
succeeded
another
,
&c.
And
vpon
Timoth.
A
Bishop
is
none
other
but
a
chief
elder
.
That
the
superioritie
of
the
Bishop
,
and
the
distribution
of
his
dioces
is
from
mans
lawe
,
&
not
from
the
institution
of
the
Apostles
.
Peter
Lombarde
repeateth
it
in
the
same
wordes
.
And
M.
Iohn
of
Paris
,
Receiue
the
holy
Ghost
,
whatsoeuer
ye
bind
on
earth
,
shal
be
bound
in
heauen
,
&c.
To
be
short
,
Cardinall
Cusan
himselfe
maintaineth
,
that
the
popedome
,
the
state
of
Bishopricks
,
Consequently
we
saye
,
1.
Tim.
●
.
that
those
elders
haue
power
to
laye
on
their
handes
,
and
to
ordayne
pastors
.
That
they
had
so
in
the
Apostles
tyme
,
it
is
most
cleare
.
Neglect
not
(
sayth
Saint
Paul
)
the
gift
that
is
in
thee
,
which
is
giuen
to
prophecie
with
the
imposition
of
the
handes
of
the
Eldership
,
that
is
to
say
,
of
the
assemblie
of
Seniors
or
elders
.
And
againe
,
Timothie
ordeined
him selfe
.
&
forasmuch
as
a
Bishop
&
elder
were
al
one
,
if
by
the
scripture
the
Byshops
take
this
power
to
themselues
,
aswel
might
the
Ministers
&
Elders
:
&
if
they
deny
it
to
the
ministers
&
elders
,
they
deny
it
to
themselues
.
In
deede
in
the
olde
time
this
argument
was
common
in
the
Church
:
He
might
baptize
,
In
meane
time
,
these
were
the
goodlye
fetches
,
that
hyndered
the
fruite
of
the
conference
at
Poissy
,
from
whence
all
Fraunce
wayted
for
some
singular
good
thing
,
&
yet
this
is
that
,
vpon
which
at
this
day
the
Iesuites
do
ground
their
principall
defence
.
When
any
say
vnto
them
,
Shew
me
purgatorie
,
and
transubstantiation
,
and
the
inuocation
of
Sayntes
,
If
thou
be
the
sonne
of
God
,
cast
thy selfe
downe
from
the
toppe
of
the
pinacle
&c.
being
as
ready
to
haue
turned
vnto
him
,
if
he
had
done
it
,
as
if
he
had
done
nothing
.
But
our
Sauiour
,
who
could
haue
done
greater
things
,
confuted
him
onely
by
the
scriptures
.
So
likewise
the
Pharises
aske
him
for
signes
,
albeit
he
wrought
inow
,
&
those
wonderful
.
But
if
he
cast
out
deuils
,
this
was
(
say
they
)
by
the
power
of
the
deuil
.
If
he
did
them
in
earth
,
they
aske
them
from
heauen
:
&
if
the
heauen
it selfe
should
speake
,
to
giue
authoritie
to
his
vocation
,
them
they
said
,
What
thunder
is
this
?
Likewise
they
say
vnto
him
vpon
the
Crosse
,
He
was
wounded
for
our
transgressions
,
So
should
it
be
much
better
for
our
masters
,
to
searche
out
of
the
holy
scriptures
,
the
true
markes
of
Antichrist
,
and
deepely
to
thinke
vpon
this
great
miracle
,
which
God
hath
wrought
in
our
time
without
miracles
,
abolishing
by
the
onely
breath
of
his
mouth
,
and
by
the
off-scouring
of
the
world
,
that
horrible
monster
,
who
so
long
time
hath
caused
himselfe
to
be
worshipped
in
the
worlde
.
When
the
Lawe
was
published
by
Moses
,
we
reade
that
then
he
wrought
miracles
.
When
there
was
a
matter
of
iudgement
also
betwixt
God
and
Baal
,
God
wrought
miracles
by
Elias
.
But
when
Iosias
the
king
,
&
Helkias
the
Priest
brought
foorth
the
booke
of
the
Lawe
,
which
had
bene
buried
eyther
by
the
negligence
or
malice
of
the
teachers
,
and
that
they
threw
out
the
idoles
which
men
had
brought
into
the
Temple
of
God
:
when
Esdras
the
Scribe
and
Priest
restored
the
seruice
of
God
,
after
the
captiuitie
of
Babylon
,
we
reade
not
that
they
wrought
any
miracles
:
the
reason
thereof
is
very
cleare
.
Moses
had
published
a
newe
Lawe
to
the
people
.
And
Elias
had
to
do
with
a
people
,
that
openly
had
renounced
the
lawe
.
Contrarywise
Iosias
,
Helkias
,
&
Esdras
onely
kept
the
lawe
,
and
according
to
that
reformed
the
Church
,
and
had
to
do
with
a
people
that
beleeued
,
and
would
yeeld
vnto
it
:
yea
,
with
a
people
who
were
taught
by
the
lawe
,
to
beleeue
the
lawe
against
all
miracles
.
Nowe
if
they
wil
yet
stiffely
holde
an
opinion
of
miracles
,
one
poore
Fryer
,
with
the
onely
sounde
of
the
woorde
of
God
,
hath
in
one
moment
shaken
al
the
foundations
of
this
Babylonical
Empire
,
which
seemed
to
be
so
well
fensed
against
all
the
iniuries
of
the
time
.
And
in
what
time
?
euen
then
when
the
Pope
,
as
a
god
,
had
al
the
earth
at
his
commaundement
,
at
that
time
when
he
was
adored
&
worshipped
of
kings
,
&
serued
of
Emperours
,
when
he
tooke
away
&
gaue
Empires
at
his
pleasure
,
when
to
inquire
of
his
doings
,
was
(
as
they
say
)
to
touch
the
holy
mountaine
,
&
to
open
mouth
against
heauen
.
Euen
hee
(
at
whose
voyce
otherwise
our
most
mightiest
Kings
haue
trembled
in
their
thrones
)
at
the
voyce
of
a
man
,
in
respect
of
men
,
contemptible
,
hath
trembled
in
his
throne
,
and
can
not
vntill
this
daye
be
quieted
.
With
the
ayde
of
a
fewe
of
his
companions
,
and
of
the
same
estate
,
he
hath
withdrawen
the
greatest
parte
of
Christendome
from
vnder
his
power
:
he
hath
deliuered
from
this
deuill
that
possessed
them
,
not
only
men
,
or
cities
,
but
euen
whole
kingdomes
:
he
hath
by
the
word
of
God
opened
the
eyes
of
a
thousand
millions
of
persons
,
that
were
blinde
,
euen
from
their
birth
.
And
although
the
only
word
of
God
preached
by
his
seruaunts
,
hath
done
these
great
marueiles
,
you
yet
denie
that
God
worketh
miracles
.
Yea
rather
this
is
the
miracle
of
miracles
,
that
this
great
miracle
is
wrought
without
miracles
.
We
haue
seene
in
our
time
many
Bethulias
,
many
Senacheribs
,
many
Herodes
,
and
many
Dioclesians
.
We
haue
seene
Gyants
dashed
against
the
stones
:
we
make
no
reconing
of
these
things
,
because
we
haue
seene
them
,
but
those
that
come
after
vs
shal
wonder
at
them
.
And
who
would
haue
said
,
I
pray
you
,
that
after
the
24.
day
of
August
in
the
yere
1572.
that
euer
there
shoulde
againe
any
mention
be
made
of
vs
in
Fraunce
?
We
were
as
dead
&
buried
,
they
had
rolled
such
a
great
stone
vpon
vs
,
to
keepe
vs
downe
:
on
euery
side
they
were
in
armes
about
our
graues
.
God
contrariwise
from
all
these
same
lets
,
restored
vs
life
to
praise
him
:
and
to
make
all
the
earth
ashamed
in
their
slie
purposes
,
he
woulde
that
euen
the
aduersaries
of
our
religion
them selues
should
remoue
the
stone
,
and
reaching
out
their
hands
vnto
vs
,
should
drawe
vs
out
of
the
graue
againe
.
Nowe
,
if
as
the
Pharises
,
they
will
yet
aske
vs
for
a
signe
from
heauen
,
then
during
the
time
that
these
horrible
murthers
continued
thorowe
out
Fraunce
,
there
began
to
appeare
in
the
firmament
this
newe
starre
,
whereof
sithens
the
creation
of
the
world
the
like
hath
not
bene
seene
,
but
at
the
birth
of
our
Lorde
Iesus
Christ
.
All
the
worlde
sawe
it
three
yeres
together
.
Al
Astrologers
wondred
at
it
,
and
are
yet
amazed
to
thinke
of
it
.
The
wise
men
of
the
world
,
which
beleeue
al
things
to
be
eternall
,
beganne
from
thenceforth
to
worshippe
one
Creator
.
And
what
shall
we
thinke
that
it
signifieth
vnto
vs
,
but
that
seconde
birth
of
Iesus
Christ
in
the
earth
,
by
the
preaching
of
his
word
?
But
you
wil
say
,
We
haue
seene
yet
nothing
.
And
contrariwise
,
yo●r
affayres
in
stead
to
be
aduaunced
,
go
backward
.
Well
.
The
starre
which
was
followed
of
the
wise
men
,
was
thirtie
yeeres
before
it
shewed
his
effect
:
and
when
that
effect
was
accomplished
,
it
was
by
the
fleshe
of
one
man
,
of
whom
men
made
no
accompt
,
and
by
the
shame
of
a
crosse
,
that
seemed
to
haue
enclosed
the
whole
Diuinitie
in
one
Tombe
.
Notwithstanding
,
after
that
the
diuel
had
cast
out
his
fire
against
the
Apostles
and
disciples
of
Christ
,
&
that
he
had
raysed
against
them
infinite
persecutions
,
it
must
needes
be
in
the
end
that
he
yelde
himselfe
,
&
that
al
the
earth
acknowledge
their
Lord
.
Let
the
earth
therefore
do
what
it
will
,
the
word
of
God
endureth
for
euer
.
And
it
must
be
that
Antichrist
perish
,
&
be
discomfited
by
the
breath
of
the
mouth
of
Christ
,
&
that
he
be
abolished
by
the
brightnesse
of
his
comming
.
All
kings
,
and
al
the
earth
can
do
nothing
against
this
determination
.
But
I
beseech
the
Almightie
,
that
it
will
please
him
to
inspire
into
the
heartes
of
all
Kings
and
peoples
,
a
true
desire
of
knowing
the
trueth
,
&
to
search
for
their
saluation
:
a
true
zeale
to
bring
Christendome
againe
to
true
vnitie
vnder
the
obedience
of
Christ
:
a
true
aff●●●●
on
to
reigne
and
to
liue
in
him
,
as
they
raigne
and
liue
by
him
:
to
the
ende
that
Kings
being
well
obeyed
of
their
people
,
and
the
people
well
commaunded
of
their
Kinges
,
we
may
see
in
our
dayes
one
onelye
Iesus
Christ
,
acknowledged
of
all
peoples
&
Kinges
,
to
be
the
King
of
Kinges
,
and
Lord
of
Lordes
and
in
his
Church
the
onely
mediatour
,
fauiour
,
and
Lawegiuer
.
Amen
.
Conclusions
.
THe
Church
is
considered
,
as
it
is
to
be
seene
,
or
not
to
be
seene
.
The
Church
not
to
be
seene
,
is
the
companie
of
those
whom
God
hath
chosen
to
euerlasting
life
,
in
all
times
and
places
.
The
Church
that
is
to
be
seene
,
is
the
company
of
those
,
who
are
called
thereinto
,
and
is
considered
according
to
certaine
times
and
places
.
There
is
notwithstanding
but
one
Church
,
but
considered
diuersely
:
In
that
which
is
to
be
seene
,
as
the
corne
with
the
chasse
:
in
that
which
is
not
to
be
seene
,
as
the
corne
threshed
and
fanned
.
This
visible
Church
was
first
without
the
law
,
afterwards
vnder
the
law
,
tyed
to
one
certain
place
&
familie
.
Now
through
grace
it
is
spred
throughout
the
world
,
one
place
hauing
no
more
priuiledge
then
an
other
,
whereof
it
is
called
Catholike
,
that
is
to
say
,
vniuersall
.
The
Catholike
Church
comprehendeth
vnder
it
all
assemblies
of
Christians
,
in
al
regions
,
whom
we
call
Churches
,
as
we
call
partes
of
the
sea
,
the
sea
:
distinguishing
them
notwithstanding
by
their
names
,
as
the
Church
of
Greece
,
of
Affrike
&c.
Of
the
parts
of
the
Church
,
as
the
members
of
the
same
body
,
yea
though
it
be
vniuersall
,
some
are
pure
and
some
impure
,
and
of
those
that
are
impure
,
some
are
more
and
some
lesse
impure
.
The
pure
Churches
are
those
,
in
which
the
word
of
God
is
purely
preached
,
and
the
sacraments
duly
administred
,
albeit
that
in
respect
of
God
there
is
nothing
pure
.
The
one
they
call
the
sound
and
true
Churches
,
the
other
(
but
unproperly
)
Catholike
Churches
.
The
impure
are
those
,
in
which
the
word
of
God
,
and
his
sacraments
are
ill
administred
,
whatsoeuer
other
outward
marckes
they
can
pretende
.
And
because
that
al
the
doctrine
of
Christ
is
faith
and
charitie
,
we
cal
those
that
are
impure
in
the
doctrine
of
faith
,
heretical
Churches
,
and
those
that
haue
separated
themselues
from
the
vnitie
,
which
they
do
through
lacke
of
charitie
,
Schismatical
.
And
some
there
are
,
that
are
both
heretical
and
Schismatical
,
as
the
Churche
of
Rome
,
and
they
that
at
this
day
cleaue
vnto
it
:
for
they
maintaine
many
damnable
heresies
,
and
persecute
and
excommunicate
those
that
desire
reformation
.
Notwithstanding
forasmuch
as
the
profession
of
Christ
remayneth
there
in
some
sorte
,
we
denie
them
not
the
name
of
a
Church
,
as
we
call
a
man
,
a
man
,
howe
sicke
or
brainelesse
soeuer
he
be
.
To
discerne
the
pure
churches
from
the
impure
,
God
hath
deliuered
vs
his
worde
contained
in
the
scriptures
,
the
which
is
perfect
&
cleere
to
saluation
:
for
it
hath
for
his
aucthor
,
the
most
perfect
father
of
light
.
This
is
that
therfore
,
by
which
men
ought
to
determine
the
controuersies
of
this
time
,
&
to
reforme
the
Church
,
as
the
common
welth
according
to
the
lawes
,
abolishing
that
,
which
God
hath
there
forbidden
vs
,
holding
that
for
forbidden
in
his
seruice
,
which
hee
hath
not
ordeined
,
looking
to
that
which
he
hath
commaunded
,
and
interpreting
his
wil
by
it selfe
concerning
those
thinges
that
are
in
controuersie
.
The
Churches
which
follow
that
wil
,
cannot
erre
,
for
that
is
the
way
of
saluation
,
and
following
that
,
God
guideth
them
also
by
his
spirit
which
enlightneth
them
,
and
is
inseparably
ioyned
thereto
.
Contrariwise
,
the
Churches
which
departe
from
it
,
may
,
and
doe
erre
,
yea
and
that
in
the
matter
of
saluation
,
for
that
they
goe
out
of
the
way
of
saluation
.
Neither
can
they
beast
of
the
spirite
:
for
God
bestoweth
it
not
but
vpon
his
sheepe
,
neither
doth
he
hold
any
for
his
sheepe
,
but
those
that
heare
his
voyce
.
Therfore
the
Church
following
mans
fantasie
,
&
not
the
lawe
of
God
,
hath
greatly
erred
in
all
her
particular
states
&
times
,
euen
vntil
the
crucifiyng
of
the
sonne
of
God
,
that
is
to
say
,
her
owne
saluation
:
As
in
our
time
we
say
that
the
Church
of
Rome
doth
adore
and
worship
the
sonne
of
perdition
,
that
is
to
say
,
Antichrist
.
The
Church
is
a
body
,
&
Christ
the
sonne
of
God
is
the
head
thereof
,
giuing
efficacie
to
the
Ministerie
of
his
Gospell
,
through
his
spirit
,
&
by
the
selfe
same
assisting
all
those
that
truely
call
vpon
him
.
And
this
is
that
wherein
consisteth
the
administration
or
gouernement
of
the
head
of
the
Church
.
And
as
touching
the
ministerial
head
,
no
man
may
be
it
.
For
the
Church
,
by
the
comming
of
Christ
,
is
spread
throughout
the
whole
world
,
&
none
can
exercise
that
ministerie
throughout
the
world
:
but
rather
euery
pastor
representeth
Christ
in
his
charge
.
And
in
deede
our
sauiour
Christ
before
he
ascended
into
heauen
ordeyned
none
such
,
neither
did
any
of
the
Apostles
exercise
any
such
office
,
&
the
whole
primitiue
Church
neuer
knewe
of
it
.
Wherefore
,
following
the
worde
of
God
and
the
opinion
of
the
same
church
,
we
hold
that
the
Papal
See
,
which
vnder
this
false
title
exerciseth
tyranny
ouer
all
the
world
,
is
Antichrist
,
the
which
without
other
proofes
and
circumstances
,
may
be
verified
by
his
doctrine
alone
.
Notwithstanding
that
this
Papal
See
,
placed
in
one
part
of
the
Church
,
is
not
the
Churche
,
neither
a
part
of
the
Church
,
but
as
a
pestilence
to
the
body
of
the
Church
,
which
hath
corrupted
and
infected
all
asmuch
as
it
coulde
,
and
had
vtterly
choked
it
,
without
the
special
mercie
of
God
.
We
doe
therefore
depart
from
the
papacie
,
and
not
from
the
Church
,
from
Idoles
,
and
not
from
the
temple
,
from
Tyranme
,
and
not
from
the
common
wealth
,
from
the
plague
,
and
not
from
the
Citie
,
being
ready
,
entirely
to
knit
and
ioyne
our selues
againe
,
when
Antichrist
,
&
the
euil
which
he
hath
brought
in
,
shal
be
taken
away
.
And
in
waiting
for
this
we
reforme
the
Ministerie
of
the
worde
of
God
,
and
as
nye
as
we
can
,
his
seruice
,
according
to
his
institution
,
by
the
example
of
the
Apostles
excommunicated
out
of
Hierusalem
,
which
yet
notwithstanding
is
not
to
buyld
altar
against
altar
,
for
by
Christ
his
comming
all
the
earth
is
made
the
Lordes
altar
.
Our
ministers
,
who
haue
begonne
this
woorke
,
haue
the
same
calling
that
our
aduersaries
pretend
:
for
they
were
elders
and
doctors
ordeined
as
they
were
,
and
by
them
,
and
they
haue
done
nothing
,
but
followed
their
calling
,
whereas
the
others
had
vtterly
abandoned
it
.
And
they
which
followed
them
afterwards
,
had
a
much
better
calling
then
our
aduersaries
:
for
besides
that
they
were
ordeyned
by
those
first
,
who
had
authoritie
to
do
it
,
they
were
ordeined
according
to
the
practise
of
the
Apostles
and
auncient
Canons
,
which
are
neglected
in
the
Church
of
Rome
.
Moreouer
,
besides
this
ordinarie
vocation
,
the
extraordinarie
wonders
,
which
God
hath
wrought
,
in
these
last
times
by
their
Ministery
,
&
in
the
fauour
thereof
,
maye
sufficiently
witnesse
that
they
do
the
worke
of
God
,
and
not
of
men
.
FINIS
.