¶
The
summe
of
the
Romish
Bull
published
against
the
most
vertuous
Queene
of
England
,
and
the
whole
noble
Realme
of
England
.
FIrst
and
formest
it
séemeth
requisite
to
heare
the
very
effect
of
the
Romish
Bull.
For
the
Bull
it selfe
is
not
worthy
to
be
recited
at
large
,
and
in
forme
of
words
as
they
terme
it
.
Wherin
notwithstanding
we
will
ouerslip
nothing
that
is
to
any
purpose
,
and
which
may
séeme
worth
the
confuting
.
In
the
enterance
of
it
,
the
Pope
in
most
ample
wordes
blazeth
and
boasteth
that
vnmeasurable
power
of
his
,
which
he
termeth
the
fulnesse
of
power
,
receiued
(
as
he
would
beare
men
in
hand
)
from
the
gouernour
of
all
thinges
our
Lord
Iesu
Christ
,
which
committed
the
catholicke
and
Apostolicke
Church
to
one
alone
vpon
earth
,
euen
to
Peter
the
prince
of
the
Apostles
,
and
to
Peters
successor
the
Bishop
of
Rome
,
with
fulnesse
of
power
to
gouerne
it
,
ordeining
him
alone
to
be
souerein
ouer
all
nations
and
all
kingdomes
,
to
plucke
vp
,
throw
downe
,
disperse
and
destroy
:
and
againe
to
plant
,
and
build
vp
,
that
he
might
hold
the
Christian
people
together
in
vnitie
of
the
spirite
,
and
yelde
them
vp
safe
and
sound
to
their
Sauiour
.
Out
of
this
fulnesse
of
power
,
mounting
vp
into
his
high
throne
,
which
he
termeth
the
souerein
seate
of
iustice
:
and
taking
vpon
him
to
be
both
iudge
and
accuser
,
he
thunderingly
readeth
forth
from
thence
the
articles
of
his
accusation
which
he
hath
to
alledge
against
the
most
vertuous
Quéene
of
England
,
whom
euen
at
the
first
chop
with
a
slaunderous
mouth
(
vtterly
proper
to
him self
)
he
termeth
a
bondslaue
of
most
hainous
euil
doings
,
which
hath
brought
backe
into
miserable
destruction
,
the
Realme
of
England
,
sometime
turned
away
from
the
Church
of
Rome
by
that
prince
of
blessed
memory
Henry
the
8.
(
whom
the
Bull
termeth
a
reuolted
runneaway
)
and
now
of
late
brought
againe
to
the
Catholicke
faith
by
Quéene
Mary
:
and
to
be
short
,
he
sayth
she
is
become
the
refuge
of
all
runnegates
and
naughtipackes
:
who
also
willeth
her selfe
to
be
taken
for
onely
souerein
Lady
in
all
cases
both
temporall
and
spirituall
,
monstruously
vsurping
the
place
of
supreme
head
:
and
finally
which
hath
presumed
to
dispose
of
Bishops
,
parsons
of
Churches
,
and
other
Catholicke
priestes
,
and
to
determine
of
ecclesiasticall
cases
,
deposing
and
oppressing
the
catholicke
Bishops
,
and
aduauncing
and
putting
in
their
roomes
leawd
preachers
,
and
ministers
of
vngodlinesse
.
Moreouer
(
sayth
the
Bull
)
she
hath
abolished
the
sacrifice
of
the
Masse
,
prayers
,
fasting
,
choice
of
meates
,
single
life
,
and
all
catholicke
rites
,
and
commaunded
bookes
that
conteine
open
heresie
,
to
be
set
forth
to
the
whole
Realme
,
and
wicked
mysteries
and
ordinances
receiued
and
obserued
by
her selfe
according
to
the
appointment
of
Caluine
,
to
be
also
obserued
of
her
subiectes
.
She
hath
forbidden
the
Clergie
and
laitie
to
acknowledge
the
Romane
Church
,
or
to
obey
the
commaundementes
therof
:
yea
and
she
hath
compelled
them
to
renounce
by
othe
the
authoritie
and
obedience
of
the
Bishop
of
Rome
:
She
hath
layd
penalties
and
punishmentes
vpon
such
as
shall
disobey
,
and
hath
executed
the
same
vpon
such
as
haue
continued
in
the
vnitie
of
faith
and
obedience
aforesayd
:
and
therwithall
also
she
hath
cast
the
catholicke
bishops
in
prison
,
where
they
haue
ended
their
daies
miserably
,
pyned
in
much
and
long
languishing
and
dayly
sorow
.
All
which
thinges
are
so
notorious
,
as
there
is
no
roome
left
for
any
excuse
,
defence
,
or
shift
to
serue
in
the
matter
.
Wherfore
rising
now
out
of
the
throne
of
his
with
sword
drawen
,
and
pronouncing
the
extremest
sentence
against
the
most
vertuous
Quéene
,
yea
and
against
all
her
complices
through
the
whole
Realme
:
he
denounceth
and
declareth
her
an
hereticke
,
and
a
fauourer
of
heretickes
,
and
therfore
most
proudly
determineth
her
to
be
stricken
through
with
his
curse
,
and
cut
of
from
the
vnitie
of
Christes
body
,
and
moreouer
to
be
depriued
of
her
kingdome
,
and
of
all
right
of
her
crowne
,
&
of
all
maner
of
other
preheminence
,
dignitie
,
and
priuiledge
.
And
not
content
with
this
,
he
procéedeth
yet
further
,
and
geueth
charge
to
all
and
singular
the
Quéenes
Nobilitie
,
and
other
her
subiectes
,
that
vnder
paine
of
the
sayd
curse
they
obey
not
hereafter
the
lawes
and
commaundementes
of
their
pretensed
or
supposed
Quéene
,
as
he
termeth
her
.
Yea
and
in
what
sort
soeuer
they
were
sworne
vnto
the
Quéene
,
he
assoileth
them
all
of
such
othe
,
and
vtterly
dischargeth
them
of
all
duetie
of
subiection
,
fealtie
,
and
allegeance
.
Upon
all
which
thinges
it
followeth
most
manifestly
,
that
by
setting
that
most
vertuous
Quéene
and
the
noble
Realme
of
England
and
other
nations
at
oddes
among
them selues
,
he
doth
most
cruelly
and
wickedly
put
her
in
hazard
both
of
her
foes
,
and
of
her
frendes
:
yea
and
(
which
is
horrible
to
be
heard
)
of
her
owne
subiectes
to
be
trayterously
torne
in
péeces
through
ciuill
warres
and
most
outragious
seditions
,
if
there
were
any
so
mad
,
and
so
voyde
of
all
godlinesse
and
manhood
,
as
to
suffer
such
(
that
is
to
wit
,
so
deuilishe
and
hellish
)
furie
to
be
so
inspired
into
them
by
the
inchauntmentes
of
this
venemous
beast
.
Hitherto
I
haue
declared
what
thinges
are
conteined
and
set
forth
in
that
wicked
,
slaunderous
,
seditious
,
and
bloudy
Bull.
Of
which
thinges
,
if
any
man
be
desirous
to
haue
a
more
compendious
abridgment
,
and
yet
neuerthelesse
as
fully
presumptuous
and
shamelesse
as
that
which
hath
béen
shewed
already
:
let
him
heare
what
maner
of
title
the
Bull
hath
set
before
it
to
the
face
of
the
world
.
The
sentence
declaratorie
of
our
most
holy
father
Pope
Pius
the
fifth
,
against
Elizabeth
the
pretensed
Queene
of
England
,
and
the
heretickes
that
cleaue
vnto
her
.
Wherby
also
all
her
subiectes
are
declared
assoiled
of
their
othe
of
allegeance
,
and
of
all
other
duties
whatsoeuer
,
and
those
that
obey
her
heerafter
are
wrapped
in
the
same
curse
.
¶
That
the
foresayd
vnmeasurable
power
of
the
Romish
Bishop
,
is
not
proued
by
these
wordes
of
the
Lord
vnto
Peter
:
Peter
louest
thou
me
?
feede
my
sheepe
.
HItherto
you
haue
patiently
heard
the
Popes
sentence
or
declaration
by
his
Bull
,
against
the
most
vertuous
Quéene
of
England
.
&c.
and
now
I
pray
you
be
so
good
as
gently
to
heare
me
also
.
I
will
bréefly
and
plainly
shew
,
how
there
is
no
truth
,
substance
,
or
soundnesse
in
this
Bull
,
and
that
the
cause
which
the
Hope
maintaineth
and
pleadeth
against
the
most
noble
Quéene
,
is
euill
and
vniust
:
but
the
case
on
the
Quéenes
side
very
good
and
rightfull
.
And
I
will
begin
at
that
vnmeasurable
power
of
the
Pope
,
which
he
boasteth
of
,
and
by
force
whereof
he
taketh
vpon
him
to
be
iudge
in
this
case
.
For
that
being
once
ouerthrowen
:
all
the
whole
Bull
falleth
to
the
ground
,
together
with
the
iudgement
builded
vpon
this
ruinous
foundation
,
and
so
shall
the
Pope
sit
in
that
seate
of
his
,
not
a
terrible
or
iust
iudge
,
but
an
Idoll
,
to
be
despised
,
yea
and
to
be
spit
at
of
all
good
men
,
and
his
sentences
shall
be
no
more
the
thunderboltes
of
Iupiter
,
but
counterfait
flashes
glistering
out
of
a
basen
,
in
no
wise
worthy
to
be
regarded
.
our
Lord
deliuered
vnto
Peter
alone
,
and
vnto
Peters
successor
the
Bishop
of
Rome
,
that
his
fulnesse
of
power
:
that
is
to
say
,
his
supreme
and
most
absolute
power
,
as
well
in
spirituall
as
in
temporall
matters
.
Let
him
tell
vs
where
or
by
what
wordes
,
the
Lord
created
the
Bishop
of
Rome
prince
ouer
all
nations
and
ouer
all
kingdomes
.
I
am
not
ignorant
of
your
stincking
and
vnsauerie
fables
in
this
behalfe
.
I
am
not
ignorant
what
Decretalls
haue
béene
put
forth
by
Gregory
the
ix
.
Boniface
the
viij
.
Innocent
the
4.
Clement
the
v.
Iohn
the
xxij
.
and
such
other
like
to
these
,
conspirators
&
Catilines
companions
.
As
for
me
,
I
will
not
heare
those
decrées
or
Decretalls
,
which
the
famous
Lawyer
Marsilius
of
Padwa
,
no
lesse
aptly
than
truely
sayd
to
be
neither
Gods
lawes
nor
mans
lawes
,
but
proclamations
of
plaine
vniuersall
souereintie
.
You
say
that
without
any
parable
at
all
,
Christ
our
Lord
gaue
the
fulnesse
of
power
which
ye
brag
of
,
to
Peter
,
and
to
Peters
successor
the
Pope
.
Bring
forth
therfore
some
euident
record
of
this
your
allegation
,
out
of
the
new
Testament
.
Truely
ye
be
not
able
to
bring
forth
one
tittle
,
or
one
iote
of
this
your
allegation
.
And
therfore
with
most
wicked
lyes
,
and
forgeries
haue
both
you
and
your
predecessors
now
certaine
hundred
yeares
,
scared
and
seduced
good
men
,
that
leaned
too
much
vnto
you
through
too
light
beléef
,
and
ouermuch
fearfulnesse
.
For
where
as
they
haue
alledged
the
wordes
which
our
Lord
after
his
Resurrection
did
thrise
repeate
and
vrge
vpon
Peter
,
namely
,
Peter
louest
thou
me
?
feede
my
sheepe
:
Certes
I
wonder
that
both
they
,
and
you
are
so
past
all
shame
,
that
ye
dare
bring
these
thinges
for
the
stablishing
of
your
kingdome
,
or
rather
your
tyranny
.
As
who
would
say
,
we
be
all
of
vs
blind
,
or
blockes
,
voyde
of
common
reason
,
and
not
able
to
perceaue
how
those
wordes
perteine
not
to
souereintie
,
but
to
seruice
.
Peter
was
by
this
meane
to
be
comforted
by
the
Lord
,
and
to
be
restored
to
the
name
and
office
of
Apostle
,
which
he
séemed
to
haue
lost
at
the
Lordes
passion
,
chéefly
in
this
respect
,
because
he
had
a
fowler
fall
then
the
rest
of
the
Apostles
,
insomuch
as
he
had
thrée
times
denied
,
yea
and
also
forsworne
his
Lorde
and
Master
.
Therefore
least
by
his
thrise
denying
he
might
séeme
put
out
of
his
office
of
Apostleship
:
the
Lord
on
the
other
side
by
his
thrise
confessing
of
his
loue
,
and
enioyning
him
his
charge
,
receaueth
him
againe
and
admitteth
him
to
the
office
of
Apostleship
,
to
féede
the
Lordes
flocke
together
with
the
rest
of
the
Lordes
Apostles
.
For
who
can
say
,
that
the
féeding
of
the
Lordes
shéepe
was
committed
to
Peter
onely
,
and
not
to
the
other
Apostles
also
?
Againe
,
what
maketh
this
to
the
ratifying
of
the
tyranny
of
the
Romish
Bishop
?
To
féede
,
is
not
to
aduance
mans
selfe
aboue
all
power
,
to
make
kinges
and
princes
subiecte
to
him
,
and
to
vsurpe
fulnesse
of
power
ouer
all
men
and
all
things
:
but
to
féede
,
I
which
am
also
an
elder
&
a
witnesse
of
Christes
afflictions
,
and
also
a
partener
of
the
glory
that
shall
be
reuealed
,
beseech
the
elders
that
are
among
you
,
feede
Christes
flocke
as
much
as
in
you
is
,
playing
the
Bishops
,
or
taking
care
of
it
,
not
constrainedly
,
but
willingly
,
not
seeking
filthely
after
gaine
,
but
of
an
earnestly
affected
mind
:
not
as
though
ye
were
Lordes
ouer
the
parishes
,
but
so
as
ye
may
be
patterns
to
the
flocke
.
Lift
vp
your
eares
here
ye
Romish
Monarkes
,
harken
,
and
marke
what
your
owne
Peter
sayth
.
He
nameth
not
him selfe
Lord
,
head
,
or
prince
,
but
fellowe
elder
:
yea
and
as
for
the
Lordlinesse
and
other
fowle
vices
wherwith
you
be
so
bespotted
,
or
rather
allberayed
:
he
forbiddeth
the
desire
of
them
.
And
Christ
he
hath
set
forth
the
high
shepeheard
in
singular
humilitie
,
and
faith
to
be
looked
at
,
and
him
to
be
serued
.
&c.
After
the
same
maner
speaketh
also
the
Apostle
Paule
in
the
Actes
of
the
Apostles
,
to
the
shepeheardes
that
were
assembled
in
the
Synod
of
Miletum
,
Take
heede
to
your selues
,
and
to
the
whole
flocke
wherein
the
holy
Ghost
hath
made
you
Bishops
(
whom
Luke
a
little
before
called
priestes
or
elders
)
to
feede
the
congregation
of
God
,
which
he
hath
purchased
with
his
bloud
.
Againe
,
the
same
Paule
a
little
afore
in
the
same
oration
of
his
,
declareth
after
what
sort
he
him selfe
had
hitherto
in
that
vocation
of
his
fed
the
Lordes
flocke
committed
vnto
him
,
and
sayth
:
I
haue
shunned
none
of
those
things
that
were
for
your
profit
,
but
haue
preached
vnto
you
,
and
taught
you
openly
and
priuately
,
witnessing
both
to
the
Iewes
and
to
the
Grekes
,
the
repentaunce
towardes
God
,
and
the
fayth
toward
our
Lord
Iesus
Christ
.
It
appeareth
then
by
this
plaine
exposition
of
the
Apostle
,
Take
heede
to
your selues
,
and
to
the
whole
flocke
,
wherin
the
holy
Ghost
hath
made
you
Bishops
,
to
feede
the
Church
of
God.
And
so
the
shepeheardes
are
the
teachers
,
teacheth
repentaunce
to
Godward
,
and
beleefe
in
Iesus
Christ
.
This
I
say
is
the
sound
,
simple
,
and
not
any
strange
,
racked
,
or
wrested
exposition
of
Christes
wordes
[
feede
my
sheepe
:
]
but
taken
out
of
the
very
own
wordes
of
the
Lord
him selfe
and
of
his
Apostles
,
and
therefore
to
be
preferred
before
all
other
interpretations
,
and
none
other
that
disagréeth
with
this
(
what
interpreter
soeuer
be
the
author
therof
,
be
he
olde
or
be
he
new
)
is
to
be
admitted
or
receaued
.
Therfore
no
man
néede
now
to
dout
that
it
is
out
of
all
dout
,
that
by
these
the
Lordes
wordes
,
feede
my
sheepe
,
there
is
not
graunted
neither
to
Peter
,
nor
to
the
Bishop
of
Rome
,
that
fulnesse
of
power
which
these
men
boast
of
,
and
which
they
beare
the
world
in
hand
to
be
geuen
by
those
wordes
.
I
could
also
alledge
other
testimonies
for
our
side
concerning
this
maner
of
féeding
out
of
the
Prophets
,
as
out
of
the
iii.
chapt
.
of
Ieremy
,
and
the
xxxiiii
.
of
Ezechiell
,
but
that
I
labour
to
be
short
.
The
Lorde
sayd
vnto
me
,
yet
take
vnto
thee
the
tooles
of
a
foolish
shepeheard
.
For
beholde
I
raise
vp
a
shepeheard
vpon
the
earth
,
which
shall
not
visite
the
thing
that
is
cut
vp
,
nor
seeke
the
thing
that
is
youthfull
or
foolishe
,
nor
heale
the
thing
that
is
broozed
,
nor
feede
the
thing
that
standeth
:
and
shall
eate
the
fleshe
of
the
fatter
sort
,
&
breake
of
their
hoofes
.
Woe
be
to
the
idoll
shepeheard
,
and
which
forsaketh
his
flocke
:
and
so
forth
as
followeth
in
the
xi
.
chapt
.
of
Zacharie
.
Here
haue
ye
a
looking
glasse
ye
Romane
Bishops
,
wherin
ye
may
beholde
and
discerne
your
own
phisnomie
.
That
the
Bishoppes
fauourers
,
neither
by
these
wordes
of
Christ
,
I
haue
prayed
for
thee
Peter
:
nor
yet
by
these
wordes
,
Behold
here
be
two
swordes
:
can
sufficiently
proue
,
that
that
power
is
geuen
them
which
they
vaunt
of
.
NEuer
a
whit
the
more
do
these
men
further
or
beautifie
their
case
,
when
againe
in
defence
of
themselues
and
their
soueraigntie
,
they
alledge
our
sauioures
wordes
at
such
tyme
as
he
sayd
vnto
Peter
:
He
hath
craued
you
to
winowe
you
,
whome
withstande
you
watching
by
fayth
.
For
the
Lord
in
those
his
wordes
vnto
Peter
,
teacheth
vs
not
only
that
thing
,
but
also
this
:
namely
,
that
our
standing
out
in
temptations
,
is
not
by
our
own
strength
,
but
by
the
defence
,
helpe
,
and
benefite
of
Christe
our
Lord
,
who
doubtlesse
geueth
,
increaseth
,
and
maintayneth
fayth
in
vs
,
When
the
Lord
after
supper
,
as
he
was
goyng
to
the
garden
of
mount
Oliuet
,
bad
his
disciples
sell
euen
their
garmentes
and
get
them
swordes
:
and
he
was
reckoned
among
offenders
,
verely
meaning
thereby
,
that
he
should
vppon
mounte
Oliuet
be
bound
and
led
away
as
a
transgressor
,
and
that
his
disciples
also
should
be
put
in
extreme
hazarde
of
their
liues
:
from
which
notwithstanding
he
would
deliuer
them
,
not
by
the
terror
of
any
sworde
,
but
by
his
owne
only
voyce
or
power
.
The
Lord
then
ment
another
thing
,
yea
and
a
farre
other
thing
,
than
to
yeld
the
vse
of
the
temporall
sword
,
and
this
endlesse
authoritie
either
to
Peter
,
or
to
any
other
man
.
Nay
rather
when
his
disciples
were
redy
armed
to
fight
,
he
ment
too
set
before
their
eyes
,
euen
vpon
mount
Oliuet
,
that
in
the
persecutions
which
should
come
vpon
them
for
his
sake
,
they
should
not
be
deliuered
by
the
helpe
of
temporall
swordes
,
but
by
the
ayde
and
worde
of
their
maister
Christ
,
saying
:
if
ye
séeke
me
,
let
these
go
their
wayes
.
And
to
this
end
did
the
Lord
suffer
Peter
to
draw
his
sworde
,
and
to
make
assault
vpon
Malchus
the
bishops
seruaunt
.
But
what
preuayled
Peter
by
that
?
So
little
did
he
with
that
sworde
of
his
deliuer
himselfe
or
his
fellowdisciples
,
(
and
much
lesse
his
maister
)
from
the
present
daungers
:
that
he
had
rather
turned
the
bloudy
weapons
of
his
enemies
vpon
himselfe
,
if
his
maister
had
not
sayd
,
let
these
go
their
wayes
.
Then
was
it
Christes
protection
,
and
not
the
sword
,
that
saued
the
disciples
:
and
euen
at
this
day
also
,
as
many
as
be
saued
in
persecution
,
are
saued
by
the
same
defence
.
Which
thing
he
ment
to
shew
to
the
eye
by
those
swordes
,
both
to
them
and
to
vs
:
warning
vs
couertly
by
the
way
,
that
in
persecution
we
must
turne
vnto
Christ
and
craue
his
help
,
who
is
able
euen
with
a
worde
to
asswage
any
manner
of
tempestes
,
be
they
neuer
so
outragious
.
And
to
this
purpose
serued
the
swordes
,
at
leastwise
which
were
brought
at
this
tyme
and
to
this
ende
to
mount
Oliuete
at
the
commaundement
of
Christ
.
Besides
this
,
the
Lord
expounding
his
owne
woordes
,
turneth
hym
vnto
Peter
and
sayth
:
Here
are
expounded
these
wordes
of
our
Sauiour
,
Thou
art
Peter
,
and
vpon
this
rocke
,
&c.
and
it
is
shewed
that
in
them
there
is
nothyng
spoken
of
the
Popes
fulnesse
of
power
:
&
that
the
church
of
Christ
is
not
builded
vpon
Peter
or
the
Pope
.
THat
sword
of
theirs
wherof
they
made
their
vaunte
being
striken
out
of
their
hand
,
by
and
by
they
make
hast
to
the
rocke
wherupon
the
Church
is
founded
,
and
consequently
vnto
Peter
and
his
keyes
.
For
in
these
and
by
him
,
they
auouch
themselues
to
haue
receiued
power
and
most
full
soueraigntie
,
both
of
heauen
&
earth
.
And
there
they
blaze
out
wonders
of
the
building
of
the
Church
vpon
Peter
,
and
of
the
keyes
and
wonderfull
working
power
of
them
,
alledging
for
themselues
the
wordes
of
our
sauiour
which
are
written
in
the
xvi
.
chap.
of
the
gospell
of
S.
Mathew
.
But
these
men
with
their
sacriledge
,
they
are
neuer
able
to
cleare
themselues
,
or
make
amends
therfore
do
corrupt
this
most
holy
place
replenished
with
healthfull
doctrine
and
consolation
.
Which
thing
by
gods
helpe
I
wil
euidently
shew
to
the
godly
readers
by
the
things
that
ensew
.
The
Lord
in
that
place
demaundeth
of
his
disciples
,
whom
men
take
him
to
bée
.
His
disciples
aunswer
,
how
there
be
diuers
iudgementes
and
opinions
of
hym
among
the
people
:
some
saying
him
to
be
Helias
,
some
Ieremy
,
&c.
And
by
that
question
it
was
the
Lordes
wil
to
do
them
to
wit
,
how
there
haue
alway
bene
,
&
alwayes
shal
be
diuersitie
of
opinions
in
the
world
concerning
religion
:
how
be
it
,
that
no
man
ought
to
be
offended
at
that
diuersitie
:
for
we
read
also
the
Lordes
Apostle
hath
sayd
there
must
néedes
be
heresies
,
The
Lord
liking
well
of
this
confession
,
sayth
vnto
Peter
,
Blessed
art
thou
Simon
the
sonne
of
Ionas
:
geuing
to
vnderstand
in
these
short
wordes
,
what
and
how
great
the
force
of
true
fayth
in
Christ
is
:
namely
,
euen
to
iustify
and
make
blessed
,
that
is
to
say
,
to
make
pertakers
of
eternall
life
,
which
thing
the
apostle
sheweth
in
large
wordes
in
his
Epistles
to
the
Romaines
,
Galathians
,
Ephesians
,
&
in
other
places
.
Furthermore
the
Lord
immediatly
addeth
from
whence
commeth
that
same
so
excellent
fayth
,
saying
:
flesh
&
bloud
hath
not
opened
it
vnto
thée
,
but
my
father
which
is
in
heauen
.
Fayth
then
hath
not
his
originall
in
vs
or
of
vs
,
but
is
geuen
vs
from
heauen
by
the
father
of
lyght
,
according
as
the
Apostle
witnesseth
in
many
places
,
and
the
Lord
himselfe
saith
in
Iohn
:
Moreouer
this
fayth
grafteth
vs
in
Christ
,
and
maketh
vs
Christians
,
for
there
followeth
in
the
Lordes
wordes
,
And
thou
art
Peter
,
namely
,
for
confessing
of
the
rocke
.
Petra
,
now
what
a
rocke
is
,
there
is
no
man
but
he
knoweth
.
And
in
the
scriptures
it
is
euery
where
Metaphorically
applyed
vnto
God
,
because
he
is
the
strength
,
the
stedinesse
,
the
refuge
,
and
the
foundation
of
the
faythfull
,
wheruppon
they
rest
,
and
in
whom
only
they
be
preserued
.
Of
this
(
Petra
)
rocke
,
was
Simon
the
sonne
of
Ionas
called
Peter
,
which
name
implyeth
as
much
as
if
a
man
shoulde
say
,
grounded
vpon
the
rocke
God
,
and
grafted
into
Christ
the
sonne
of
God
:
stedfast
,
and
so
consequently
a
Christian
,
for
the
doctors
&
interpreters
of
holy
scripture
do
terme
Christians
,
Peters
also
,
because
that
beyng
setled
by
fayth
vpon
the
rocke
Christ
,
they
draw
stedinesse
,
strength
,
and
lyfe
out
of
him
,
so
as
through
the
operacion
of
Christ
,
they
be
all
their
lyfe
long
stedfast
in
fayth
,
&
honor
Christ
with
all
kind
of
vertues
.
And
Peter
himselfe
also
expounding
this
mysterie
vnto
vs
,
Christ
(
the
rocke
)
is
the
lyuing
stone
,
forsaken
in
deede
of
men
,
but
chosen
and
precious
vnto
God
,
vpon
whom
we
also
as
liuely
stones
are
builded
,
that
we
may
be
a
spirituall
house
,
offeryng
spirituall
sacrifices
,
acceptable
to
God
through
Iesus
Christ
.
Whosoeuer
are
not
such
Peters
or
stones
,
there
is
no
cause
that
they
should
glory
at
all
of
the
name
of
Peter
or
Christians
:
for
they
continue
that
which
they
bée
,
euen
the
children
of
this
world
.
There
followeth
yet
further
in
the
Lordes
wordes
,
And
vpon
this
Rocke
will
I
build
my
Church
.
By
which
woordes
Christ
ascending
from
the
particular
to
the
generall
,
and
deliuering
an
vniuersall
lesson
to
his
Church
,
declareth
most
manifestly
,
that
these
thinges
belong
not
to
Peter
alone
,
or
to
his
disciples
onely
:
but
to
the
Catholike
,
that
is
,
to
the
vniuersal
church
,
wherof
the
foundacion
,
Rocke
,
and
head
,
is
Christ
,
vpon
whom
being
builded
by
faith
,
she
shal
obtayne
saluation
.
As
if
the
Lord
had
sayd
,
not
onely
Peter
is
so
called
,
of
me
the
Rocke
,
but
also
as
many
as
shal
hereafter
by
Peters
example
,
confesse
me
to
be
Christ
the
sonne
of
the
liuing
God
,
and
by
this
true
fayth
settle
themselues
vpon
me
the
onely
foundation
:
all
them
will
I
take
and
acknowledge
for
my
household
,
that
is
to
say
for
my
church
And
this
(
that
is
to
say
)
Christ
the
Rocke
shall
be
the
only
foundation
of
Gods
church
in
earth
:
and
all
they
shall
be
members
and
citizens
of
this
holy
church
,
euen
as
many
as
beleue
as
Peter
did
,
and
settle
themselues
vpon
this
foundation
of
soule
health
by
the
same
fayth
.
And
this
is
it
,
that
the
Lord
ment
by
saying
:
And
vpon
this
Rocke
will
I
builde
my
Church
.
And
least
any
man
may
doubt
of
this
simple
and
true
exposition
of
the
Lordes
wordes
,
considering
how
diuers
wrest
them
,
and
draw
them
some
one
way
and
some
another
:
Behold
,
I
will
by
other
places
of
scripture
also
,
confirme
and
enlighten
this
exposition
aboue
recited
.
Surely
,
the
scripture
doth
euery
where
agréeably
witnesse
,
that
by
fayth
onely
in
Christ
,
we
be
iustified
&
grafted
into
Christ
,
and
made
members
of
Christ
and
his
church
,
which
is
the
communion
of
all
saintes
,
that
is
to
say
of
the
faythfull
,
resting
vpon
Christ
:
and
that
no
creature
(
no
not
euen
Peter
himselfe
,
&
much
lesse
the
bishop
of
Rome
)
can
be
the
Rocke
,
the
head
,
&
the
foundation
of
the
Catholike
church
.
And
least
any
man
may
thinke
this
thyng
hard
and
varying
from
the
truth
:
forasmuch
as
it
is
directly
against
the
decrées
of
the
Romish
church
:
Loe
,
I
in
this
case
bring
in
the
cleare
and
vndoubted
recordes
of
the
holy
Ghost
himselfe
speaking
by
the
prophetes
and
Apostles
.
Dauid
in
the
18.
psalme
cryeth
out
,
Who
is
God
besides
the
Lord
,
and
who
is
the
Rocke
besides
our
God
?
And
God
himselfe
in
Esay
sayth
:
Behold
,
I
lay
a
corner
stone
in
Sion
,
a
chosen
one
,
a
precious
one
:
he
that
beleueth
in
him
and
resteth
vppon
him
,
shall
not
be
ashamed
.
Moreouer
also
the
Apostle
Paule
sayeth
:
The
Rocke
was
Christ
.
Other
foundation
can
none
be
layde
then
is
layd
already
,
which
is
Iesus
Christ
.
Which
thing
he
expoundeth
yet
more
fully
in
his
Epistle
to
the
Ephesians
.
Vpon
this
Rocke
will
I
build
my
Church
,
must
of
necessitie
be
vnderstoode
of
Christ
alone
,
as
who
reigneth
from
heauen
in
his
saintes
,
as
the
head
doth
in
the
members
,
and
from
whom
as
the
liuely
head
,
they
be
watered
with
the
spirite
,
and
sucke
lyfe
out
of
hym
,
and
through
him
do
liue
a
lyfe
beséeming
hym
.
And
to
be
a
head
(
as
it
is
most
manifestly
gathered
by
the
doctrine
of
the
Apostles
)
is
to
be
a
Lord
and
Sauiour
,
and
to
inspire
life
into
the
members
that
be
subiect
to
the
head
.
Neither
may
the
head
at
any
time
be
from
the
body
without
the
destruction
of
the
body
.
Seing
then
that
Christ
is
the
onely
head
of
the
Church
,
it
behoueth
him
to
be
alwayes
with
his
Church
.
By
reason
wherof
she
hath
no
néed
of
any
deputie
or
vicegerent
vpon
earth
.
For
a
deputie
or
vicegerent
is
the
deputie
or
vicegerent
of
him
that
is
absent
.
But
Christ
is
euermore
present
with
his
Church
:
For
he
sayth
in
the
Gospell
:
I
will
be
with
you
euen
to
the
vttermost
end
of
the
world
,
&
will
neuer
leaue
you
comfortlesse
.
Our
religion
therfore
willeth
vs
,
and
the
vniforme
doctrine
of
the
Prophets
and
Apostles
willeth
vs
to
expound
these
thinges
,
not
of
Peter
or
of
the
Bishop
of
Rome
,
but
of
Christ
only
.
Therfore
if
ye
méete
with
any
interpreters
,
be
they
olde
or
new
,
that
interprete
the
foresayd
wordes
of
our
Lord
to
be
ment
of
Peter
and
the
Pope
:
the
authoritie
of
the
Prophets
and
Apostles
,
yea
and
of
this
selfsame
Peter
too
,
ought
to
beare
more
sway
with
you
,
than
the
authoritie
of
any
men
els
,
whatsoeuer
they
be
in
the
world
.
For
Christ
abideth
euerlastingly
the
foundation
of
his
Church
:
and
as
for
Peter
,
and
the
rest
of
the
Apostles
,
and
the
ministers
that
haue
come
in
their
roomes
,
they
remaine
as
workmaisters
of
this
building
,
which
build
,
not
vpon
them selues
being
men
,
but
vpon
this
onely
and
euerlasting
foundation
,
according
as
the
Apostle
teacheth
plainly
in
the
third
chapt
.
of
the
first
Epistle
to
the
Corinth
.
And
let
this
be
our
brazen
wall
.
Neither
fighteth
it
against
this
,
that
in
the
Apocalips
the
Citie
of
God
is
sayd
to
haue
twelue
foundations
,
and
the
names
of
the
twelue
Apostles
written
in
them
.
For
(
sayth
Paule
)
there
can
none
other
foundation
be
layd
then
is
layd
already
:
notwithstanding
,
forasmuch
as
in
the
laying
of
this
foundation
,
that
is
to
say
,
in
the
preaching
of
Christ
,
the
Apostles
were
Gods
workfellowes
&
bestowed
their
trauell
faythfully
theraboutes
:
therfore
that
Citie
is
sayd
to
haue
twelue
foundations
.
For
otherwise
,
the
Apostle
in
his
2.
chapt
.
to
the
Ephesians
sayth
:
You
are
fellow
citizens
wyth
the
sainctes
,
and
Gods
houshold
meyny
,
builded
vpon
the
foundation
of
the
Apostles
and
Prophets
,
whereof
the
corner
stone
is
Christ
Iesus
him selfe
,
in
whom
the
whole
buildyng
beyng
semented
together
,
groweth
to
a
temple
in
the
Lorde
,
vpon
whom
you
also
are
builded
,
to
be
a
dwellyng
place
for
God
through
hys
spirite
.
And
what
man
that
hath
his
right
wits
,
will
,
after
these
thinges
,
séeke
for
manifester
?
Wherfore
let
all
of
vs
beware
of
that
rotten
and
tottering
foundation
which
the
Court
of
Rome
striueth
to
set
vnder
vs
.
We
will
yet
héerunto
adde
the
wordes
of
our
Lorde
that
follow
after
,
least
any
thing
of
this
place
may
remain
vndiscussed
.
And
the
gates
of
hell
(
sayth
Christ
)
shall
not
preuayle
agaynst
it
.
By
which
wordes
is
declared
the
power
and
victoriousnesse
of
Christ
,
and
of
his
Church
,
&
of
fayth
.
The
gates
of
hell
are
all
kinde
of
powers
that
are
against
it
,
yea
euen
the
power
of
Sathan
,
which
of
all
other
is
the
strongest
and
noysomnest
to
the
faythfull
.
And
therfore
it
is
sayd
,
that
no
force
be
it
neuer
so
mighty
,
whether
it
be
of
Sathan
him selfe
,
or
of
the
world
,
or
of
any
other
aduersary
power
vnder
heauen
or
in
hell
,
shall
preuaile
against
Christ
the
Rocke
,
and
the
Church
that
is
builded
vpon
the
rocke
,
which
howsoeuer
it
be
tempted
and
persecuted
,
must
notwithstanding
at
length
ouercome
in
Christ
,
through
fayth
.
The
prince
of
this
world
is
already
condemned
and
cast
out
.
Be
of
good
cheere
,
I
haue
ouercome
the
world
.
And
Iohn
the
Apostle
:
All
that
is
borne
of
God
(
sayth
he
)
ouercommeth
the
world
:
and
the
victory
that
ouercommeth
the
world
is
this
,
euen
your
fayth
.
Also
,
who
is
he
that
ouercommeth
the
world
,
but
he
whych
beleueth
that
Iesus
is
the
sonne
of
God
?
So
I
say
,
this
place
is
opened
plainly
inough
by
laying
together
of
the
Scriptures
.
Now
if
I
listed
to
play
the
Rhetoricien
héere
,
I
could
with
many
wordes
declare
,
that
hell
gates
do
not
onely
preuaile
against
the
Romishe
Bishops
and
their
Court
,
the
filthiest
that
euer
was
:
but
also
that
the
very
prince
of
féendes
him selfe
obteineth
full
and
onely
souereintie
in
them
.
Which
thing
I
could
without
trouble
shew
and
proue
both
by
the
witnesse
and
by
the
complaints
of
the
Bishops
them selues
.
But
let
vs
ouerpasse
that
abhominable
filthinesse
,
and
make
hast
to
the
opening
of
the
residue
of
this
place
.
For
there
is
no
man
so
blockishe
,
that
hath
not
now
of
late
euen
felt
with
his
handes
,
that
in
these
wordes
of
the
Lord
there
is
nothing
spoken
of
the
vnmeasurable
power
of
the
Pope
,
but
that
there
be
set
out
vnto
vs
farre
more
heauenly
and
healthfuller
thinges
.
Prayse
and
thankes
be
geuen
vnto
God.
¶
That
not
euen
by
the
gift
of
the
keyes
vnto
Peter
,
there
is
any
fulnesse
of
power
deliuered
by
the
Lord
,
either
vnto
Peter
,
or
vnto
the
Pope
,
for
that
the
keyes
are
a
farre
other
thing
,
yea
and
a
thing
of
much
greater
holinesse
then
is
the
sayd
fulnesse
of
the
popish
power
.
THe
Lorde
addeth
vnto
the
premisses
:
And
I
will
geue
thee
the
keyes
of
the
kingdome
of
heauen
:
and
whatsoeuer
thou
byndest
vpon
earth
shall
be
bound
in
heauen
,
and
whatsoeuer
thou
loosest
vppon
earth
shall
be
loosed
in
heauen
.
By
which
wordes
the
Lord
sheweth
againe
,
that
this
charge
concerning
blessednesse
and
eternall
life
,
which
he
hath
hetherto
layd
forth
,
perteineth
not
onely
to
Peter
or
the
rest
of
the
Apostles
,
but
also
vnto
all
men
through
the
whole
world
.
Moreouer
he
sheweth
the
meane
and
maner
how
men
are
brought
into
the
Church
,
that
is
to
say
,
how
they
be
builded
vpon
the
Rocke
and
made
members
of
Christ
and
the
Church
,
and
so
enter
into
the
kingdome
of
heauen
.
You
Apostles
(
sayth
the
Lord
)
shall
open
the
way
,
and
as
it
were
by
reaching
out
your
handes
bring
men
into
the
company
of
me
and
of
my
Saintes
,
and
consequently
into
the
kingdome
of
heauen
:
and
that
shall
be
done
by
the
preaching
of
the
Gospell
.
For
by
fayth
we
be
graffed
into
Christ
and
his
Church
.
But
fayth
commeth
by
hearing
,
and
hearing
by
the
preaching
of
the
Gospell
.
And
therfore
(
sayth
the
Lord
)
I
will
geue
you
the
keyes
of
the
kingdome
of
heauen
,
that
is
,
I
will
commit
vnto
you
the
charge
of
preaching
the
Gospell
,
to
this
end
,
that
you
shall
go
out
into
the
whole
world
,
and
by
declaring
vnto
all
men
the
remission
of
sinnes
through
me
,
set
them
loose
that
be
fettered
in
the
chaines
of
their
sinnes
,
and
open
the
kingdome
of
heauen
to
them
that
beleue
:
and
on
the
other
side
bynde
those
that
shake
of
the
preaching
of
the
Gospell
,
that
is
to
say
,
declare
and
witnesse
vnto
them
that
they
be
subiect
to
eternall
damnation
.
And
this
your
declaration
and
witnessing
shall
be
so
ratified
and
assured
,
that
whomsoeuer
ye
loose
or
binde
by
my
worde
vpon
earth
,
them
will
I
also
account
as
loosened
or
bound
in
heauen
.
And
this
is
the
simple
meaning
of
Christes
wordes
,
flowing
out
of
the
wordes
them selues
,
without
any
racking
of
the
wordes
at
all
.
Which
meaning
I
will
more
cléerly
enlighten
and
more
assuredly
confirme
by
that
which
ensueth
.
The
worde
Keyes
,
are
not
vttered
alwayes
in
one
signification
in
the
Scripture
:
For
otherwise
there
is
no
man
but
he
knoweth
what
they
be
in
their
proper
signification
:
that
is
to
wit
,
tooles
wherwithall
the
lockes
of
doores
,
chestes
,
and
such
other
thinges
are
opened
or
shut
.
And
they
be
conueyed
ouer
from
bodily
thinges
to
spirituall
thinges
,
from
earthly
thinges
to
heauenly
thinges
:
and
sometime
they
be
taken
for
souerein
and
full
power
,
like
as
when
we
read
in
the
Apocalips
that
Christ
hath
the
keyes
of
Dauid
,
of
death
,
and
of
hell
.
For
by
that
phrase
of
spéech
is
betokened
that
Christ
hath
the
souerein
and
most
absolute
power
or
authoritie
to
gouerne
the
kingdome
of
Dauid
,
and
also
full
power
ouer
death
it self
,
and
ouer
hell
,
and
that
he
is
able
to
deliuer
from
death
,
or
to
thrust
down
into
hell
whomsoeuer
he
listeth
.
These
Keyes
,
that
is
to
say
,
this
power
,
belongeth
onely
vnto
Christ
,
and
no
creature
is
partaker
of
it
.
Wherupon
also
in
the
Apocalips
the
Lord
sayth
with
a
vehemencie
,
I
haue
the
Keyes
:
and
he
sayth
not
,
I
haue
had
,
but
I
haue
,
I
say
I
haue
them
yet
still
,
and
will
haue
them
euer
,
&
I
resigne
them
to
no
man
.
There
is
also
the
Key
of
knowledge
,
and
the
Key
of
the
kingdome
of
heauen
,
whereof
we
intreate
at
this
present
.
The
Key
of
knowledge
is
instruction
,
wherby
a
mans
vnderstanding
is
opened
,
and
his
want
of
skill
amended
.
And
the
Key
of
the
kingdome
of
heauen
is
a
plaine
or
lightsome
declaration
or
laying
forth
of
thinges
,
whereby
men
are
taught
,
what
way
they
may
goe
into
heauen
,
or
how
they
may
be
saued
.
I
faine
nothing
of
mine
owne
head
in
this
behalfe
,
in
these
thinges
I
followe
the
Scripture
,
and
for
mine
exposition
I
alledge
the
very
worde
of
Christ
saying
in
the
Gospell
after
S.
Luke
:
Woe
be
to
you
Lawyers
,
whych
haue
taken
away
the
key
of
knowledge
:
ye
entred
not
in
your selues
,
and
them
that
came
in
,
ye
forbad
.
Which
wordes
of
the
Lord
,
Mathew
vttereth
in
this
wise
:
Woe
be
to
you
Scrybes
and
Pharyseys
,
for
ye
shut
vp
the
kingdome
of
heauen
before
men
:
ye
your selues
goe
not
in
,
neyther
suffer
ye
them
that
come
,
to
enter
in
.
Behold
,
looke
what
Luke
called
the
taking
away
of
the
key
of
knowledge
,
the
shuttyng
vp
of
the
kingdome
of
heauen
.
And
therefore
what
els
I
pray
you
is
it
to
bring
forth
the
keyes
of
the
kingdome
of
heauen
,
then
to
bring
forth
the
keyes
of
knowledge
,
that
is
to
say
,
the
doctrine
which
concerneth
the
kingdome
of
heauen
,
through
the
instruction
whereof
we
may
know
how
to
become
partakers
of
the
euerlasting
saluation
?
Againe
,
to
take
away
the
keyes
of
knowledge
or
of
the
kingdome
of
heauen
,
is
nothing
els
but
to
withstand
the
doctrine
of
the
Gospell
concerning
the
kingdome
of
God
,
or
to
assault
it
,
or
to
geue
commaundement
that
it
be
not
preached
.
You
therfore
enter
not
in
(
sayth
the
Lorde
)
I
meane
by
harkening
to
my
doctrine
:
ye
beleue
not
,
that
ye
might
be
saued
:
neither
suffer
ye
them
to
enter
which
come
and
are
desirous
of
my
doctrine
concerning
the
kingdome
of
God
,
that
is
to
say
,
which
would
faine
heare
and
beleue
my
doctrine
,
that
by
faith
they
might
be
made
heires
of
Gods
kingdome
,
while
you
slaunder
my
doctrine
and
my
workes
,
as
though
they
procéeded
from
Sathan
,
and
therefore
were
to
be
abhorred
and
eschewed
of
good
men
.
And
by
these
wordes
of
the
Lord
it
appeareth
most
manifestly
,
that
the
keyes
wherof
he
speaketh
here
in
S.
Matthew
,
saying
,
and
to
thee
will
I
geue
the
keyes
of
the
kingdome
of
heauen
,
are
not
any
other
thing
then
the
charge
of
preaching
the
Gospell
,
committed
by
the
Lord
to
the
ministers
of
his
Church
,
that
by
the
sayd
publishing
of
the
Gospell
,
they
might
open
the
kingdome
of
heauen
to
the
beleuers
,
and
shut
it
against
the
vnbeleuers
.
But
if
these
thinges
which
notwithstanding
(
if
I
be
not
deceaued
)
I
take
to
be
euident
&
strong
inough
)
do
not
yet
satisfie
you
:
beholde
I
will
vnfolde
this
whole
matter
of
the
keyes
yet
an
other
way
,
though
nothing
differing
from
the
interpretation
which
I
haue
set
downe
already
,
as
in
respect
of
the
pith
of
the
matter
.
The
worde
keyes
are
also
vsed
in
the
Scripture
,
for
the
care
&
ordering
of
an
householde
.
For
the
seruauntes
whom
the
master
of
any
house
setteth
in
office
,
haue
keyes
deliuered
vnto
them
,
wherewith
to
open
and
shut
,
and
to
order
all
the
house
:
which
thing
is
wont
to
be
done
by
the
Stewardes
or
Comptrollers
,
that
haue
the
chéef
charge
of
the
house
.
By
meanes
wherof
the
keyes
also
are
taken
for
the
very
charge
,
the
ordering
,
or
the
gouerning
of
the
house
.
Héere
againe
I
faine
nothing
of
my self
,
I
wyll
lay
the
key
of
the
house
of
Dauid
vpon
the
shoulder
of
Eliachim
,
which
shall
open
and
no
man
shall
shut
,
and
shall
shut
and
no
man
shall
open
.
And
what
els
is
this
,
then
if
he
had
said
without
figure
,
I
wil
put
Sobna
out
of
office
,
and
make
Eliachim
Lord
Treasurer
,
and
commit
the
gouernement
of
the
Realme
or
of
king
Ezechias
palace
,
which
charge
he
shall
performe
with
so
great
faithfulnesse
and
authoritie
,
that
whatsoeuer
he
ordaineth
,
shall
stand
sure
and
inuiolable
,
and
whatsoeuer
he
disanulleth
,
no
man
shall
attempt
to
ratifie
.
In
like
respect
are
the
keyes
of
the
kingdome
of
heauen
sayd
to
be
geuen
to
the
Apostles
and
other
ministers
,
I
meane
the
gouerning
or
housholdly
ordering
of
the
Church
,
therby
to
bring
men
to
the
kingdome
of
heauen
,
or
to
shut
them
out
of
the
partenership
thereof
.
Which
surely
can
be
none
other
,
then
that
which
it
accounteth
as
the
chéef
,
namely
,
the
message
of
Gods
worde
,
I
meane
the
preaching
of
the
Gospell
of
Iesu
Christ
,
concerning
the
remission
of
sinnes
,
and
euerlasting
life
.
The
which
truely
is
so
certaine
and
sure
,
that
looke
whom
the
ministers
absolue
from
their
sinnes
by
it
,
they
are
also
assuredly
acquit
before
God
,
and
whom
the
ministers
condemne
by
the
worde
for
their
vnbeléefes
sake
,
those
remain
also
condemned
to
destruction
before
God.
And
as
for
these
thinges
which
I
haue
layd
forth
concerning
the
ordering
of
a
housholde
by
Stewardes
,
that
is
to
say
,
concerning
the
ordering
of
the
Church
by
the
ministers
,
they
are
not
differing
from
the
worde
of
God
.
For
the
Lord
in
his
Gospell
rehearseth
a
parable
of
a
man
that
went
from
home
and
committed
the
charge
of
his
house
to
his
seruauntes
which
should
be
as
Stewardes
to
order
his
house
.
Which
Parable
certesse
is
applyed
to
the
Church
the
house
of
God
,
and
to
the
ministers
placed
in
the
same
,
that
in
gouerning
it
they
may
chéefly
beautifie
it
with
the
preaching
of
the
Gospell
.
For
in
the
same
Gospell
the
Lord
sayth
againe
:
Who
(
thinkest
thou
)
is
that
faythfull
and
wise
seruaunt
,
whom
his
Lord
hath
set
ouer
his
housholde
to
geue
them
meate
in
due
season
?
But
who
knoweth
not
what
the
meate
of
the
Church
is
?
Truely
Paule
writing
to
a
Bishop
,
that
is
to
say
,
to
an
ouerséer
or
steward
of
the
Church
,
sayth
:
Indeuour
to
yeeld
thy selfe
an
allowable
workman
vnto
God
,
not
to
be
ashamed
of
,
and
rightly
distributing
the
worde
of
truth
.
And
the
same
Apostle
speaking
yet
more
manifestly
of
the
ministers
and
the
housholde
order
of
the
Church
,
sayth
:
Let
a
man
so
esteeme
you
as
the
ministers
of
Christ
,
and
housholde
guides
or
stewardes
of
the
mysteries
of
God.
Then
the
which
,
I
pray
you
what
can
be
spoken
more
fully
and
plainly
in
this
our
case
?
Christ
our
Lord
ordained
in
his
Church
,
ministers
and
not
Lordes
,
ministers
or
seruauntes
I
say
to
be
stewardes
or
dealers
forth
of
Gods
mysteries
in
the
Church
,
that
is
to
say
,
of
the
Gospell
,
and
of
the
thinges
that
are
annexed
to
the
Gospell
.
For
so
doth
the
Lord
him selfe
expound
the
worde
Mysterie
in
the
xiii
.
chapt
.
of
Mathew
:
and
so
doth
Paule
also
in
the
third
to
the
Ephesians
.
These
keyes
,
that
is
to
say
,
this
charge
&
houshold
order
of
gouerning
the
Church
,
which
is
executed
according
to
the
appointment
of
the
Gospell
of
Iesus
Christ
,
did
the
Apostles
receaue
,
and
after
them
all
ministers
of
Churches
that
be
lawfully
called
to
the
same
office
.
¶
What
is
ment
in
the
Gospell
by
loosing
and
binding
:
and
how
Christes
Apostles
did
loose
and
binde
.
NOw
although
our
Lorde
sayd
,
I
will
geue
thee
the
keyes
of
the
kingdome
of
heauen
,
and
that
by
the
way
he
made
no
mention
in
the
processe
following
,
of
opening
and
shutting
,
which
are
the
properties
of
keyes
:
yet
did
he
set
down
other
termes
in
their
stead
,
that
is
to
wit
,
to
loose
and
to
binde
,
by
which
doutlesse
he
ment
to
shew
the
power
of
the
keyes
,
and
after
what
maner
the
Apostles
doe
either
open
or
shut
heauen
with
the
keyes
.
They
open
when
they
vnbinde
or
let
loose
(
for
both
those
thinges
come
to
one
point
)
and
they
shut
when
they
binde
.
To
let
loose
therefore
is
to
open
:
and
to
shut
is
to
binde
.
Otherwise
to
binde
is
a
word
of
knowen
signification
.
For
the
officer
bindeth
,
which
at
the
commaundement
of
his
lord
casteth
a
man
in
prison
,
or
by
some
other
way
hampereth
him
in
bondes
.
And
he
looseth
,
which
dischargeth
a
man
from
bondes
or
bringeth
him
out
of
prison
.
This
thing
is
conueyed
ouer
from
the
body
to
the
minde
.
For
bondes
in
the
Scripture
betoken
as
well
spirituall
as
bodily
imprisonment
.
To
loose
therefore
is
to
open
the
prison
of
sinnes
by
preaching
forgeuenesse
of
sinnes
,
through
Christ
,
who
onely
releaseth
sinnes
and
bringeth
out
of
prison
.
Which
thing
shall
be
the
rightlyer
vnderstood
,
if
we
vewe
and
consider
more
néerly
this
saying
of
the
Prophet
which
the
Lord
Iesus
him selfe
expoundeth
in
the
Synagog
of
Nazareth
in
S.
Luke
,
The
spirite
of
the
Lord
is
vpon
me
(
meaning
vpon
Christ
)
because
he
hath
annointed
me
,
and
hath
sent
me
to
bring
glad
tidynges
to
the
poore
,
to
heale
them
that
be
hart
broken
,
to
preach
release
to
the
prisoners
,
and
recouery
of
sight
to
the
blynd
,
and
to
set
the
broosed
at
lybertie
.
Héerunto
adde
also
that
which
the
same
Lord
said
in
Iohn
:
Like
as
the
father
hath
sent
me
,
so
send
I
you
:
Whose
sinnes
soeuer
you
release
,
they
are
released
vnto
them
,
and
whose
sinnes
soeuer
you
retayne
,
they
be
retayned
.
The
sonne
of
God
then
sent
out
his
disciples
after
the
same
maner
that
he
him self
was
sent
out
by
the
father
.
But
the
sonne
of
God
(
according
as
the
Prophet
hath
auouched
)
was
sent
to
bring
glad
tidinges
to
the
poore
,
&
to
preach
deliueraunce
to
prisoners
:
Ergo
,
the
Apostles
also
were
sent
forth
to
shew
glad
tidinges
,
and
to
preach
deliueraunce
to
prisoners
.
Which
thing
when
they
do
,
then
open
they
heauen
by
the
keyes
,
and
let
loose
them
that
were
tyde
in
the
bondes
of
sinne
,
releasing
them
their
sinnes
,
that
is
to
say
,
witnessing
by
the
Gospell
,
that
their
sinnes
are
released
by
fayth
through
Christ
.
For
the
Apostles
release
not
sinne
otherwise
then
by
the
warrant
of
the
Gospell
,
which
auoucheth
vnto
them
that
onely
Christ
by
his
owne
merite
forgeueth
sinnes
.
For
like
as
the
Apostles
are
not
sent
to
offer
them selues
in
sacrifice
for
the
clensing
of
the
whole
world
as
Christ
was
,
the
sacrifice
of
whom
alone
clenseth
away
the
sinnes
of
the
whole
world
:
euen
so
doutlesse
the
Apostles
were
not
sent
to
forgeue
sinnes
by
their
owne
authoritie
as
Christ
did
,
but
to
witnesse
vnto
men
that
they
be
forgeuen
by
faith
through
Christ
.
For
we
must
in
these
cases
aduisedly
and
with
a
conscience
obserue
the
matching
of
the
superior
with
the
inferior
,
so
as
we
may
yéeld
to
ech
partie
that
which
is
his
owne
,
and
not
wickedly
attribute
that
glory
vnto
seruauntes
,
which
is
due
to
the
onely
sonne
of
God
.
Certesse
Austine
behauing
him selfe
reuerently
in
these
matters
,
sayth
peremptorily
,
that
Christ
worketh
these
thinges
by
power
,
and
that
the
disciples
do
the
thinges
which
they
do
,
by
seruice
or
seruauntly
.
Wherof
more
shall
follow
anon
.
Also
Marke
and
Luke
handling
the
same
story
which
Iohn
hath
touched
in
his
xx
.
chapt
.
do
witnesse
that
in
the
talke
which
Christ
hath
in
the
day
of
his
resurrection
,
there
is
nothing
els
betaken
to
the
Disciples
,
but
the
office
of
preaching
the
Gospell
.
For
in
Marke
the
Lord
sayth
:
Goe
into
the
whole
world
and
preach
the
Gospell
.
So
behoued
it
Christ
to
suffer
,
&
to
rise
againe
from
the
dead
the
third
day
,
and
repentaunce
and
forgeuenesse
of
sinnes
to
be
preached
to
all
nations
in
his
name
.
And
therefore
by
laying
all
these
places
of
Scripture
together
,
it
is
made
most
manifest
and
vndouted
,
that
the
keyes
which
were
geuen
to
Peter
and
the
other
Apostles
,
is
nothing
els
but
the
ministration
of
preaching
the
Gospel
,
wherby
the
way
is
opened
for
the
world
into
heauen
,
&
wherby
(
to
be
short
)
is
declared
most
assured
release
and
forgeuenesse
of
sinnes
through
fayth
in
Christ
,
to
such
as
beleue
.
Wherunto
also
séemeth
to
perteine
this
most
elegant
and
fit
sentence
of
the
Lord
speaking
with
Paule
:
I
will
make
thee
a
witnesse
and
messenger
(
marke
how
he
sayth
,
a
witnesse
and
messenger
)
and
will
send
thee
vnto
nations
and
realmes
,
to
open
their
eyes
,
that
they
may
be
turned
from
darknesse
to
light
,
and
from
the
power
of
Sathan
vnto
God
,
so
as
they
may
receaue
forgeuenesse
of
sinnes
,
and
lot
among
those
that
be
sanctified
by
the
fayth
which
is
to
meward
.
You
haue
in
these
wordes
a
most
exacte
description
of
the
keyes
of
the
kingdome
of
heauen
.
Wherunto
to
adde
any
more
,
I
thinke
it
but
superfluous
.
Now
if
vnto
all
these
thinges
,
ye
will
adde
the
practise
of
the
Apostles
(
as
they
terme
it
)
and
diligently
search
out
how
they
haue
vsed
the
keyes
that
were
deliuered
to
them
,
and
after
what
sort
they
haue
opened
or
shut
the
kingdome
of
heauen
vnto
men
,
and
also
in
what
wise
they
haue
either
bound
them
or
loosed
them
:
ye
shal
no
where
in
all
the
new
Testament
finde
them
to
haue
exercised
the
Popishe
practise
,
that
is
to
wit
,
that
the
Apostles
haue
set
them selues
downe
in
the
places
where
they
came
to
preach
the
kingdome
of
God
and
saluation
,
and
commaunded
men
to
come
vnto
them
,
and
there
to
crouch
or
to
knéele
after
the
maner
of
worshippers
,
and
to
shriue
them selues
,
that
is
to
say
,
to
poure
out
all
their
thoughtes
,
wordes
,
and
déedes
,
with
all
the
circumstances
of
them
into
the
eare
or
lap
of
the
confessor
as
he
sits
,
and
to
craue
of
him
the
absolution
of
their
sinnes
,
with
enioynance
of
satisfaction
:
and
that
he
on
the
other
side
laying
his
handes
vpon
the
head
of
the
shriftman
,
whispered
an
absolution
of
sinnes
ouer
him
in
an
ordinary
forme
of
wordes
,
and
enioyned
him
a
certaine
satisfaction
by
the
workes
of
penance
.
Much
lesse
shall
ye
finde
that
the
Apostles
installed
them selues
in
thrones
,
and
thrust
downe
sinners
into
hell
by
sentence
of
excommunication
.
&c.
What
then
?
Looke
vpon
the
Actes
of
the
Apostles
,
or
rather
goe
through
that
booke
,
wherein
Luke
hath
most
diligently
written
the
notable
sayinges
and
doinges
of
the
Apostles
(
and
specially
of
Paule
)
without
ouerslipping
of
any
thing
which
tended
to
soule
health
,
or
was
necessary
to
be
knowen
,
and
therwithall
hath
in
xxviii
.
chapters
set
forth
as
many
yeares
,
that
is
to
wit
,
the
things
that
the
Apostles
did
by
the
space
of
xxviii
.
yeares
together
in
the
matter
of
saluation
:
and
thou
shalt
not
finde
in
all
that
great
worke
,
that
all
and
euery
of
the
Apostles
did
any
thing
els
then
agreably
and
constantly
in
all
places
and
in
euery
place
preach
the
Gospell
,
and
promise
remission
of
sinnes
and
euerlasting
life
to
such
as
beleued
in
Christ
:
and
on
the
contrary
part
,
threaten
endlesse
and
most
assured
damnation
to
them
that
beleued
not
.
Thus
(
I
say
)
did
the
Apostles
vse
the
keyes
which
they
receaued
of
the
Lord
.
Thus
did
they
binde
and
loose
.
If
they
would
haue
had
any
other
thing
,
or
any
thing
more
to
haue
bene
done
in
the
Church
by
their
successors
,
they
would
not
haue
dissembled
it
by
the
space
of
xxviii
.
yeares
preaching
,
in
all
their
doinges
which
Luke
hath
most
faythfully
written
.
And
among
other
places
of
the
Actes
of
the
Apostles
,
let
the
godly
read
the
second
,
x.
xiii.xvi
.
and
xviii
.
chapters
,
and
they
will
beare
witnesse
that
the
thinges
which
I
haue
spoken
héere
are
most
true
,
yea
and
also
thinke
them selues
satisfied
in
this
case
.
I
speake
of
such
as
are
not
contentious
,
for
such
no
man
can
well
satisfie
.
And
at
this
present
I
say
to
them
also
as
Paule
sayd
:
If
any
man
seeme
to
be
full
of
contention
,
we
haue
no
such
custome
,
neyther
the
Churches
of
God.
And
whereas
the
aduersaries
vrge
this
singular
spéech
:
I
wyll
geue
the
keyes
of
the
kingdome
of
heauen
vnto
thee
,
I
say
,
vnto
thee
Peter
,
vnto
thee
,
singularly
,
and
not
vnto
you
,
plurally
:
and
in
their
vrging
do
cry
out
that
I
haue
openly
corrupted
this
place
of
the
Gospell
,
by
communicating
vnto
the
rest
of
the
Apostles
and
to
all
their
successors
being
ministers
of
the
word
,
the
keyes
that
were
geuen
to
Peter
onely
:
they
bewray
their
owne
grosse
foolishnesse
,
together
with
their
inuincible
malice
,
considering
how
they
can
not
deny
but
that
such
synecdoches
or
figures
of
putting
one
for
a
number
,
and
specially
in
such
cases
,
are
very
vsuall
in
the
Scriptures
.
Againe
,
seing
it
is
sufficiently
knowen
what
the
keyes
be
,
and
that
the
rest
of
the
Apostles
receaued
them
as
well
as
Peter
:
I
pray
you
what
will
they
proue
by
their
singular
number
?
But
let
them
aske
their
owne
fathers
,
why
the
Lord
wheras
he
gaue
equall
or
one
maner
of
power
to
them
all
:
did
neuerthelesse
say
seuerally
vnto
Peter
,
I
will
geue
thee
:
and
they
shall
perceaue
that
therby
is
betokened
and
expressed
the
vnitie
of
the
Church
.
Surely
Austine
in
his
118.
treatise
vpon
Iohn
,
sayth
thus
:
Whereas
they
were
all
asked
the
question
,
Peter
alone
answered
,
Thou
art
Christ
the
sonne
of
the
liuing
God
:
and
it
is
sayd
vnto
him
:
Vnto
thee
will
I
geue
the
keyes
,
as
though
he
alone
had
receaued
the
power
to
binde
and
loose
:
when
[
notwithstanding
]
he
both
spake
it
alone
for
them
all
,
and
receaued
them
with
them
all
,
as
bearing
the
person
of
vnitie
:
and
one
[
did
]
therfore
[
both
speake
and
receaue
]
because
there
is
vnitie
in
all
.
The
same
wordes
repeateth
he
againe
in
his
124.
treatise
vpon
Iohn
.
And
in
his
▪
50.
treatise
,
he
sayth
:
when
Peter
receaued
the
keyes
,
he
represented
the
holy
Church
.
The
same
thinges
auoucheth
the
blessed
Martyr
Cyprian
in
his
little
worke
concerning
the
simplicitie
of
Clerkes
.
Furthermore
if
we
shoulde
graunt
any
thing
to
be
geuen
héere
singularly
vnto
Peter
,
what
is
that
to
the
Pope
of
Rome
?
He
hath
not
yet
proued
him selfe
to
be
Peters
heire
and
successor
.
In
his
owne
Decrées
,
in
the
sentences
of
Hierom
and
Chrysostom
,
in
the
xl
.
distinction
,
he
shall
finde
that
which
will
put
him
to
his
trumpe
,
wring
him
by
the
eare
,
and
cut
his
combe
.
Neither
doth
he
which
sayth
that
in
Peter
the
keyes
were
geuen
to
the
whole
Church
,
approue
the
Romish
toyes
.
¶
Here
is
expounded
the
mysterie
of
the
Armes
&
cognisances
of
the
Romane
Bishops
bearing
brauely
in
their
scutchions
a
triple
crowne
with
a
payre
of
Keyes
.
BEfore
I
depart
from
hence
,
I
will
glauncingly
and
bréefly
set
forth
the
thinges
which
séeme
to
perteine
peculiarly
to
the
keyes
,
not
of
the
kingdome
of
heauen
,
but
the
keyes
which
the
Bishops
of
Rome
take
to
them selues
,
and
which
they
blaze
abroad
in
their
Armes
,
that
is
to
wit
,
by
painting
and
stamping
them
commonly
in
a
scutchion
and
vnder
an
helmet
,
yea
and
by
fastening
them
vnto
all
their
Bulls
.
For
vnder
those
armes
and
cognisances
of
theirs
,
after
the
maner
and
fashion
of
scutchions
and
helmets
,
doe
they
shadowe
the
fulnesse
of
their
power
,
and
blaze
it
abroad
to
the
knowledge
of
all
men
.
For
the
scutchion
it selfe
beareth
the
armes
of
the
house
of
the
Bishop
that
sitteth
in
the
Sea
.
And
ouer
the
scutchion
stand
two
keyes
a
crosse
,
so
set
,
that
in
stead
of
an
helmet
or
crest
,
they
beare
vp
,
or
haue
set
vpon
the
shéeld
and
keyes
a
triple
crowne
or
cap
of
mainteinance
,
which
(
according
to
the
interpretation
of
Austin
Steuchus
)
they
them selues
call
their
Royaltie
.
The
cap
of
mainteinance
it selfe
sheddeth
out
little
Labells
such
as
are
hanging
at
Bishops
Miters
.
And
all
these
thinges
,
which
were
vtterly
vnknowen
to
the
Apostles
and
the
first
Bishops
of
the
Romane
Sea
,
are
according
to
the
arte
of
Haraldrie
,
made
significatiue
to
shew
forth
the
puissance
or
power
of
this
king
&
kingdome
of
all
other
the
greatest
.
The
shéeld
it selfe
which
beareth
the
armes
of
the
Bishops
linage
,
sheweth
that
the
kingdome
,
and
the
power
of
the
kingdome
belongeth
to
him
whose
armes
those
be
,
and
which
presently
sitteth
in
that
Sea
.
And
the
two
keyes
set
crosse
aloft
vpon
the
shéeld
(
like
as
also
their
two
swordes
)
doe
(
according
to
their
holy
and
misticall
diuinitie
)
betoken
that
vnmeasurable
power
of
theirs
which
extendeth
it
selfe
foreward
and
backward
through
the
whole
earth
,
and
aduaunceth
it selfe
also
aboue
the
very
cloudes
euen
into
heauen
.
In
the
meane
while
,
it
was
Gods
good
will
to
teach
wise
men
by
such
fatall
badges
,
who
and
what
maner
a
one
this
prince
is
,
verely
euen
the
same
of
whom
S.
Iohn
hath
written
in
his
Apocalips
,
saying
:
And
I
saw
an
other
beast
comming
out
of
the
earth
,
and
hauing
two
hornes
,
like
vnto
the
Lambes
.
But
those
two
hornes
are
Préesthood
and
Princehood
:
and
both
of
them
belong
to
Christ
the
Lord
,
who
is
,
continueth
alone
both
King
and
Préest
for
euer
.
For
he
is
that
Lambe
of
God
.
Therfore
it
is
piththely
sayd
that
those
hornes
which
the
beast
taketh
vnto
him
,
are
not
the
Lambes
hornes
(
for
the
Lambe
kéepeth
his
still
,
and
lendeth
them
to
no
man
)
but
like
the
Lambes
hornes
.
For
the
Bishop
will
haue
all
men
beleue
,
that
by
Peter
,
Christ
hath
geuen
them
equall
power
with
him selfe
,
that
is
to
wit
,
Préesthood
and
Princehood
,
and
so
prate
they
in
those
tyrannicall
Decretalls
of
theirs
,
which
thing
for
all
that
,
is
but
of
their
owne
making
,
neither
haue
they
receaued
any
such
thing
of
Christ
or
yet
of
Peter
.
Furthermore
their
Royaltie
or
Crowne
hath
Labells
hanging
at
it
,
yea
euen
bishoply
labells
flaring
about
,
and
wrythed
with
the
keyes
to
the
sides
of
the
crowne
,
meaning
therby
that
this
prince
is
no
common
prince
,
but
both
a
prince
and
a
préest
.
Yea
&
the
crowne
which
this
préestly
king
,
prince
,
and
Emperor
beareth
,
is
not
single
and
one
,
but
triple
,
such
as
neuer
any
Monarkes
wore
,
that
men
can
read
of
,
were
they
neuer
so
puissant
:
neither
are
there
any
princes
liuing
at
this
day
,
that
weare
the
like
.
And
who
(
I
pray
you
)
would
dout
that
there
were
a
great
mysterie
in
these
thinges
,
if
it
were
not
such
a
one
as
knoweth
not
that
the
matters
of
these
men
are
stuffed
with
mysteries
like
the
holy
letters
of
the
Egyptians
?
This
triple
crowne
therfore
signifieth
,
that
he
which
beareth
it
is
Lord
of
Lordes
,
and
King
of
Kinges
,
or
rather
that
he
is
the
only
prince
vpon
earth
,
which
hath
power
in
earth
,
in
heauen
,
and
in
purgatory
vnder
the
earth
,
or
more
verely
which
is
king
of
heauen
,
of
the
earth
,
&
of
the
vnfortunate
Ilandes
,
or
of
the
new
found
land
Purgatory
.
And
this
crowne
is
not
of
lesse
value
then
the
crownes
of
other
kinges
,
but
much
statelyer
,
wrought
with
wonderfull
cunning
,
and
garnished
and
beset
with
iewels
and
things
of
great
price
,
that
at
least
wise
euen
therby
they
might
do
men
to
vnderstand
that
that
power
of
theirs
hath
not
his
match
in
all
the
world
,
but
in
all
pointes
surmounteth
all
others
.
Again
,
it
is
come
to
passe
by
the
goodnesse
of
God
,
that
none
of
all
the
princes
in
the
world
weareth
such
a
crowne
,
but
onely
the
Bishop
of
Rome
.
For
so
was
it
Gods
will
to
shew
openly
by
this
peculiar
marke
,
that
this
prince
thus
capped
with
a
triple
crowne
,
is
the
very
same
whom
Daniell
in
his
vij
.
chapter
termeth
the
little
horne
.
For
the
little
horne
in
déede
is
the
bishop
and
shepeheard
which
is
bedecked
with
humilitie
,
and
whom
God
hath
forbidden
to
reigne
as
a
Lord
.
This
little
pretie
horne
springeth
vp
among
the
tenne
hornes
.
For
when
the
Romane
Monarchie
which
is
the
olde
beast
,
was
diuided
and
decayed
,
there
appeared
vp
a
little
slender
horne
,
and
a
despised
one
among
the
rest
,
and
swept
away
thrée
of
the
other
hornes
.
By
doing
wherof
he
purchased
him self
power
.
For
the
Bishops
of
Rome
,
at
the
beginning
of
their
créeping
vp
,
dispatched
thrée
princes
.
First
Gregory
the
second
of
that
name
,
pluckt
vp
Leo
the
third
Emperor
of
Constantinople
one
of
these
thrée
hornes
,
by
procuring
his
Exarke
to
be
slaine
in
a
hurlyburly
at
Rauenna
,
and
dispatching
the
Emperor
quite
out
of
Italy
.
Afterward
Pope
Zachary
draue
Childericke
king
of
Fraunce
to
decay
,
by
counselling
to
depose
Childericke
,
and
to
aduaunce
Pippin
to
the
kingdome
.
And
so
was
an
other
horne
ouerthrowen
by
the
little
horne
.
The
third
horne
(
which
was
the
kinges
of
Lombardie
)
was
brought
lowe
at
the
incensing
of
the
Popes
,
and
finally
also
vtterly
wiped
away
by
Pippin
and
Charles
kinges
of
Fraunce
.
But
by
the
vndoing
&
oppressing
of
these
kinges
,
the
wealth
of
the
Bishops
of
Rome
increased
,
and
their
power
waxed
strong
,
whom
Gods
will
was
to
shew
by
this
triple
crowne
,
as
it
were
with
the
fingar
,
to
be
very
Antichristes
.
Thus
much
concerning
the
Keyes
,
Armes
,
and
Cognisances
of
the
Romane
Bishops
.
Now
come
to
my
way
againe
.
¶
Of
the
wordes
,
power
,
and
ministery
,
and
so
is
the
disputation
of
the
keyes
knit
vp
.
I
Know
well
inough
it
offendeth
many
euen
in
this
discourse
,
that
I
vse
the
terme
power
so
seldome
,
and
the
worde
ministerie
or
ministration
so
often
,
when
notwithstanding
the
Scripture
doth
openly
geue
power
to
the
ministers
,
and
it
is
commonly
called
the
power
of
the
keyes
.
But
how
small
a
thing
is
that
I
beséech
you
,
if
it
be
compared
with
the
fulnesse
of
power
which
these
men
chalenge
to
them selues
openly
?
I
graunt
in
déede
that
the
administration
of
the
Church
,
or
(
if
ye
like
it
better
)
of
the
keyes
,
is
called
power
.
For
the
Lord
sayth
in
the
Gospell
:
Like
as
a
man
that
at
his
going
into
a
straunge
countrey
,
left
his
house
and
gaue
his
seruauntes
power
.
&c.
But
who
knoweth
not
that
the
power
which
is
spoken
of
héere
,
is
none
other
but
to
do
seruice
or
to
minister
:
specially
seing
that
in
an
other
Euangelist
,
it
is
more
effectually
opened
what
maner
of
power
the
same
is
,
in
these
wordes
:
to
geue
his
honsholde
meate
in
due
season
,
sayth
the
Lord
.
Which
thing
no
man
will
wrest
to
the
fulnesse
of
power
,
but
he
that
is
past
all
shame
.
For
the
Lorde
speaketh
manifestly
of
the
preaching
of
the
Gospell
,
whereby
meate
is
set
before
the
housholde
,
I
meane
before
the
Church
of
God
.
And
when
Paule
to
the
Corinthians
had
termed
the
preaching
of
the
Gospell
the
word
of
attonement
:
All
power
is
geuen
to
me
in
heauen
and
in
earth
.
So
is
it
sayd
before
,
that
Christ
hath
the
key
of
Dauid
,
of
death
,
and
of
hell
.
This
power
is
communicated
to
no
creature
,
but
remaineth
to
God
alone
.
Therefore
except
they
will
be
false
ministers
,
they
will
neuer
take
this
power
vpon
them
.
But
the
power
of
ministration
or
office
,
is
that
which
the
Lord
hath
committed
to
the
ministers
,
with
a
certaine
limitation
and
not
absolutely
.
For
these
do
,
not
what
they
list
them selues
,
nor
as
owners
of
thinges
,
but
as
their
Lord
and
master
hath
commaunded
them
,
and
onely
in
the
same
maner
that
he
by
his
certaine
determination
hath
appointed
them
to
be
done
:
and
if
they
do
it
not
,
or
do
it
otherwise
then
their
master
hath
commaunded
them
,
they
shall
be
but
vntrusty
seruauntes
.
And
so
vndoutedly
the
minister
of
Christ
hath
the
ministering
power
of
the
keyes
in
the
Church
,
to
preach
the
Gospell
to
the
Church
,
and
to
preach
it
in
such
wise
as
the
Lord
hath
commaunded
him
to
preach
:
and
certeinly
he
shall
be
a
false
and
vnfaythfull
seruaunt
to
his
master
,
if
he
take
vpon
him
any
other
power
and
specially
fulnesse
of
power
,
and
preach
not
the
Gospell
at
all
,
or
preach
it
otherwise
then
is
appointed
him
.
Besides
this
,
I
am
not
ignorant
,
that
Christ
gaue
the
Apostles
great
power
,
howbeit
with
limitation
,
and
but
for
the
beginning
and
for
a
certeine
time
,
according
as
Mathew
witnesseth
,
saying
:
And
he
gaue
his
twelue
Disciples
power
against
vncleane
spirites
,
to
cast
them
out
and
to
heale
all
maner
of
diseases
and
infirmities
.
For
I
thinke
not
that
any
man
will
affirme
the
same
power
to
be
geuen
to
all
ministers
of
the
Church
,
together
with
the
keyes
,
considering
that
we
know
,
how
that
(
the
Gospell
being
sufficiently
confirmed
already
by
such
signes
)
they
be
now
no
longer
common
and
vsuall
in
the
rest
of
the
Church
,
no
more
then
the
ablenesse
and
vse
of
sundry
tounges
.
But
howsoeuer
the
case
stand
with
that
wonderfull
power
,
it
is
most
certeine
that
the
Apostle
Paule
sayd
of
all
maner
of
power
geuen
vnto
him
by
the
Lord
,
that
the
same
was
geuen
him
to
edifie
withall
,
and
not
to
destroy
.
Which
thing
vnlesse
euery
minister
wey
very
aduisedly
with
him selfe
:
not
onely
in
vaine
,
but
also
to
his
owne
great
harme
shall
he
dispute
of
the
power
that
is
geuen
him
,
and
much
more
daungerously
shall
he
take
it
vpon
him
.
Hetherto
I
haue
made
discourse
of
the
keyes
with
as
much
bréefnesse
and
plainnesse
as
I
could
.
Wherby
I
trust
that
such
as
shut
not
their
eyes
of
malice
,
may
perceaue
that
the
keyes
are
for
an
other
thing
,
then
the
Papistes
face
vs
withall
,
doutlesse
not
an
absolute
ouer
thinges
in
earth
and
in
heauen
,
but
an
healthfull
ministery
of
Gods
worde
,
or
of
the
Gospell
of
Iesu
Christ
,
and
the
charge
and
good
ordering
of
the
very
Church
of
God
:
And
therefore
that
when
the
Lord
sayd
,
I
will
geue
thee
the
keyes
of
the
kingdome
of
heauen
,
he
gaue
not
Peter
and
the
Romane
Idoll
an
infinite
power
which
they
call
the
fulnesse
of
power
.
For
when
the
Lord
promised
and
gaue
the
keyes
,
he
gaue
not
the
keyes
of
an
earthly
kingdome
,
but
of
the
kingdome
of
heauen
.
Which
thing
is
chéefly
to
be
marked
in
this
discourse
.
And
in
this
kingdome
&
in
this
his
Church
Christ
is
the
souerein
Lorde
,
and
abideth
King
,
Bishop
,
and
supreme
head
:
yea
and
that
alone
without
any
copartener
or
deputie
.
But
his
messengers
or
Ambassadors
sent
to
his
Church
,
are
the
Elders
,
rulers
,
and
ministers
of
the
congregations
.
As
for
all
power
it
is
onely
Christes
the
King
,
Préest
,
and
Head
,
and
is
not
surrendred
to
any
other
.
For
he
him selfe
caryeth
yet
still
,
and
vnto
the
very
end
will
cary
vpon
his
shoulders
the
key
of
Dauid
:
and
he
will
open
and
no
man
shall
shut
,
and
shut
and
no
man
shall
open
,
and
he
alone
both
looseth
and
bindeth
.
But
his
Ambassadors
or
preachers
that
are
sent
and
ordeined
to
gather
his
Church
,
doe
preach
this
Christ
the
Lord
,
assuring
men
by
the
preaching
of
the
Gospell
,
that
Christ
forgeueth
the
sinnes
of
such
as
beléeue
certeinly
and
bestoweth
eternall
life
vpon
them
,
and
that
he
condemneth
those
to
eternall
death
,
which
beléeue
not
,
or
which
gainstand
the
Gospell
.
The
self
same
Ministers
do
féede
with
Gods
word
the
Church
that
is
gathered
vnto
Christ
,
comfortyng
the
weakeharted
,
quickenyng
and
thrusting
foreward
the
slothfull
,
confirming
the
wauerers
,
exhortyng
all
men
euermore
vnto
continuall
prayers
,
to
the
lawfull
vsing
of
the
Sacramentes
,
too
the
dewties
of
godly
conuersation
,
and
most
of
all
to
charitie
and
mercy
,
and
in
all
thinges
&
by
all
meanes
with
singular
faythfulnesse
and
diligence
endeuering
to
bryng
and
preserue
the
Churche
safe
and
sound
vnto
Christ
:
whiche
doutlesse
is
the
very
true
and
wholesome
vse
of
the
keys
of
Gods
kyngdome
,
euen
the
natiue
and
holy
stewardshyp
,
charge
,
and
well
orderyng
of
Gods
Church
.
¶
Here
is
expounded
that
place
of
Ieremy
,
I
haue
set
thee
ouer
kynges
&
kingdomes
&c.
and
it
is
shewed
how
the
same
maketh
nothyng
to
the
proofe
of
the
Byshop
of
Romes
tyranny
which
he
exerciseth
agaynst
kynges
and
kyngdomes
.
LEt
vs
procede
further
,
that
we
may
also
espye
,
how
truly
the
Pope
of
Rome
vaunteth
himself
alone
to
be
ordeined
prince
ouer
all
nacions
and
all
kyngdomes
.
Here
agayn
I
am
not
ignorant
what
the
decrées
and
decretalles
cheefly
of
those
Byshops
whose
names
I
haue
cyted
afore
,
doe
crake
and
belk
out
with
open
mouth
concernyng
this
matter
.
But
we
will
haue
no
toyes
,
we
will
haue
them
shew
vs
by
Christes
expresse
wordes
,
that
the
Byshops
of
Rome
are
lawfully
ordeyned
Princes
ouer
all
nacions
and
all
Realmes
,
by
the
ordinance
of
Christ
our
Lord
,
not
by
the
ordinance
of
any
men
.
A
few
yeares
past
,
Austin
Steuchus
of
Eugubie
the
Librarikéeper
of
the
sea
of
Rome
,
and
besides
that
,
a
Byshop
also
,
a
man
otherwise
that
had
read
much
,
but
yet
for
all
that
,
smally
séene
in
the
holy
Scriptures
,
and
moreouer
a
most
filthy
flatterer
of
the
Romish
Bishops
,
did
put
forth
a
booke
agaynst
Laurence
Valla
,
in
the
defence
of
Constantines
Donation
,
worthy
to
be
spitted
at
of
all
godly
men
,
and
méete
to
be
trampled
in
the
myre
with
dirtie
féete
.
In
this
booke
,
among
other
thynges
,
in
the
xv
.
Diuision
.
First
of
all
(
sayth
he
)
it
standes
you
in
hand
to
know
,
that
Constantine
did
not
giue
by
name
those
fewe
Townes
,
and
those
fewe
Cities
which
are
called
the
patrimonie
of
the
Church
,
but
he
gaue
the
whole
West
part
of
the
world
,
and
so
departyng
from
the
Citie
,
did
as
it
were
giue
place
to
a
greater
Prince
then
hym selfe
(
that
is
to
wit
to
the
Pope
)
assuryng
him selfe
that
Rome
it selfe
was
the
head
and
dwelling
place
of
godlinesse
,
wherein
it
were
vnlawfull
for
any
man
to
reigne
,
besides
the
souereine
of
Religion
for
any
two
men
to
reigne
in
that
one
Citie
to
whiche
he
knew
Peter
the
Prince
of
the
Apostles
and
head
of
Religion
to
be
come
,
he
counted
it
a
haynous
matter
,
specially
if
the
earthly
Prince
should
beare
the
cheefsway
in
the
Citie
.
And
in
his
xvi
.
Diuision
,
It
could
not
be
sayth
he
)
that
two
princes
should
reigne
in
one
Citie
,
specially
in
this
respect
,
that
worldly
matters
would
haue
ouermated
holy
matters
.
Namely
it
would
haue
happened
,
as
it
is
in
the
Prouerb
,
that
riuers
should
haue
ronne
agaynst
theyr
streames
.
Also
in
the
90.
Diuision
:
This
is
the
Maiestie
and
prerogatiue
which
Peter
gaue
vnto
Rome
,
that
lyke
as
she
was
Lady
of
all
landes
,
so
she
should
reigne
ouer
all
Religion
,
and
all
thynges
should
be
ruled
at
her
becke
.
Agayne
in
his
94.
Diuision
,
he
reckeneth
vp
all
the
myghtyest
kyngdomes
of
the
West
,
as
Fraunce
,
Spayne
,
England
,
Denmarke
,
Portingale
,
and
all
the
residue
,
all
which
are
subiect
to
their
holy
and
vniuersall
mother
(
for
so
speaketh
he
)
the
Church
of
Rome
.
And
least
he
might
ouerslyp
any
thyng
,
at
length
in
his
103.
Diuision
he
addeth
:
But
what
should
I
alledge
any
more
to
proue
by
this
kynde
of
Argumentes
,
the
most
auncient
and
welnere
almightie
power
of
the
Church
of
Rome
ouer
all
kyngdomes
and
kinges
,
and
the
most
auncient
possession
of
the
same
.
Consideryng
that
the
auncient
monumentes
of
all
the
Byshops
are
full
of
the
highe
power
wherwith
they
ruled
the
whole
world
at
their
commaundement
,
holdyng
the
souereintie
of
all
Realmes
&c.
These
thynges
wherby
he
hath
put
all
the
kyngdomes
of
the
world
vnder
the
Pope
and
Churche
of
Rome
,
could
not
satisfie
and
content
that
lying
and
blasphemous
clawbacke
,
but
he
must
also
with
extreme
shamelessenesse
and
horrible
wickednesse
make
a
God
of
that
wicked
wight
the
Bishoppe
of
Rome
.
For
in
his
26.
Diuision
he
sayth
,
that
the
faythfull
worshyp
the
sonne
of
God
him selfe
in
the
Pope
,
and
that
they
honour
,
not
so
much
hym
as
a
mortall
man
,
as
in
him
euen
God
hym selfe
who
hath
made
him
his
deputie
vpon
earth
.
Agayne
,
in
the
67.
Diuision
,
141.
leafe
.
Thou
hearest
(
sayth
he
)
how
the
hygh
Byshop
which
is
called
God
,
was
by
Constantine
estemed
as
God
.
And
ye
must
vnderstand
that
this
was
then
done
,
when
he
endowed
him
with
that
noble
graunt
,
for
euen
then
dyd
he
worshyp
him
as
God
,
then
dyd
hee
(
as
much
as
lay
in
hym
)
bestowe
godly
honour
vppon
hym
as
Christes
vicare
and
Peters
successour
,
and
then
did
he
reuerence
him
as
the
liuely
image
of
Christ
.
Thus
sayth
he
.
And
such
blasphemous
and
wicked
writynges
doth
Rome
yeld
vnto
vs
.
Which
thynges
I
haue
hitherto
mencioned
,
to
the
end
I
might
disclose
vnto
all
men
,
the
extreme
&
vnrecouerable
madnesse
of
the
Pope
him selfe
and
of
his
houshold
together
with
their
wickednesse
,
where
through
,
they
beyng
most
heathenish
&
shamelesse
men
,
are
not
afrayd
euen
in
the
sight
of
the
whole
world
as
well
of
Angels
as
men
,
to
vsurpe
vnto
them
selues
the
very
Godhead
it selfe
and
all
the
kyngdomes
of
the
world
,
and
to
spit
out
whatsoeuer
commeth
at
their
tounges
end
.
This
Steuchus
was
also
a
Byshop
,
and
yet
he
was
not
ashamed
to
offer
so
blasphemous
writinges
to
the
Church
,
yea
&
to
dedicate
them
to
S.
Peter
.
But
let
them
bryng
vs
some
one
sentence
,
or
at
least
wise
some
one
word
of
Christ
or
his
Apostles
,
whereby
they
may
shewe
and
auouch
vnto
vs
,
that
Christ
authorized
the
Pope
to
be
souereine
of
all
kyngs
&
kingdomes
.
No
,
they
cannot
bryng
me
oneiote
out
of
all
the
new
Testament
.
And
therfore
they
flée
vnto
Ieremy
for
succour
.
But
euen
this
mans
holy
writyngs
also
do
they
defile
:
béeray
,
&
corrupt
with
their
poyson
.
For
the
Prophet
speaketh
of
the
ministration
of
the
word
,
and
not
of
any
Lordyng
of
his
owne
.
For
the
Lord
calleth
,
authorizeth
,
and
sendeth
Ieremy
to
the
charge
of
preachyng
.
For
he
sayth
to
him
by
expresse
wordes
:
Before
thou
camest
out
of
thy
mothers
wombe
,
I
sanctified
thée
,
and
appointed
thée
to
be
a
Prophet
vnto
nations
.
Afterward
when
Ieremie
excused
him selfe
by
his
tender
yeares
and
vnenured
childhode
:
the
Lord
harteneth
and
comforteth
him
,
promising
to
be
present
with
him
,
and
to
speake
by
his
mouth
.
For
in
the
Lordes
wordes
it
foloweth
,
behold
I
haue
put
my
wordes
in
thy
mouth
.
He
is
sent
vnto
nacions
and
kyngdomes
as
a
preacher
of
Gods
word
,
and
not
set
ouer
them
as
a
prince
or
a
king
.
For
there
foloweth
to
plucke
vp
&c.
Which
is
the
office
of
a
teacher
,
and
the
end
of
the
Lordes
ambassade
.
And
a
Prophet
plucketh
vp
,
ouerthroweth
buildeth
vp
and
planteth
,
two
wayes
.
First
when
by
Gods
word
he
declareth
to
people
,
nacions
,
and
kyngdomes
,
that
the
Lord
which
hath
planted
the
nations
&
kyngdomes
,
will
roote
out
the
same
for
their
outrageous
sinnes
,
vnlesse
they
amend
.
For
Ieremy
of
himselfe
did
not
ouerthrow
or
build
vp
kyngdomes
,
but
the
Lord
alone
did
it
.
But
Ieremy
beyng
Gods
minister
and
messenger
,
told
them
out
of
the
Lordes
mouth
or
by
his
word
,
that
the
Lord
would
do
it
.
And
this
sence
is
ministred
and
furthered
by
the
thynges
that
folow
in
the
45.
chapter
,
where
the
Lord
sayth
:
behold
,
I
pull
downe
the
thynges
that
I
haue
builded
,
and
I
plucke
vp
the
thynges
that
I
haue
planted
.
And
agayne
in
the
42.
chapter
,
I
will
build
you
vp
and
not
pull
you
downe
,
I
will
plant
you
and
not
plucke
you
vp
.
Besides
this
,
to
plucke
vp
and
to
plant
are
termes
of
husbandry
,
like
as
to
build
and
to
pull
down
are
termes
of
masonry
and
carpentry
.
Hereupon
now
the
Prophet
is
by
an
allegoricall
speach
informed
,
what
he
must
do
and
wherunto
his
commission
extendeth
.
Like
as
husbandmen
and
builders
do
first
prepare
their
ground
and
cut
it
vp
with
the
plough
,
and
afterward
sow
it
with
séede
,
or
first
pull
downe
the
decayed
buildynges
and
clense
the
floore
,
and
then
afterward
build
vpon
it
:
So
is
it
the
dewtie
of
a
Prophet
or
preacher
,
first
and
formest
to
confute
by
Gods
word
to
pull
downe
and
plucke
vp
wicked
opinions
,
Idolatrie
,
and
whatsoeuer
thynges
els
are
raysed
vp
agaynst
God
:
and
afterward
in
place
of
the
thynges
that
be
rooted
out
,
to
plant
agayne
sound
doctrine
,
the
true
worshyppyng
of
God
,
and
all
maner
of
godlinesse
,
and
finally
to
kéepe
the
Lordes
field
in
tilth
and
to
decke
Gods
house
with
all
diligence
.
These
thynges
wil
be
the
more
enlightned
,
if
ye
compare
them
with
the
Lordes
owne
wordes
in
the
13.
and
15.
of
Mathew
,
and
with
the
wordes
of
the
Apostle
Paule
in
the
third
chapter
of
the
first
Epistle
to
the
Corinthians
,
and
in
the
tenth
chapter
of
the
second
Epistle
.
Once
againe
therfore
by
the
cleare
,
natural
,
and
right
construed
interpretation
of
this
place
of
Ieremye
,
we
haue
wonne
,
that
the
Pope
by
that
Bull
of
his
,
hath
wickedly
and
trayterously
to
the
Lord
Godward
,
corrupted
and
inuerted
his
wordes
,
and
wrested
them
to
his
own
souereintie
or
rather
to
his
owne
tyranny
,
which
the
Lord
hath
not
ordeined
or
defended
by
his
word
,
neither
here
nor
in
any
place
els
.
And
if
they
be
not
yet
ashamed
of
their
wicked
wrestyng
and
corruptyng
of
this
place
of
the
Prophetes
:
Let
them
tell
vs
what
maner
of
souereintie
Ieremy
bare
in
Hierusalem
the
chief
Citie
of
Iewry
,
or
ouer
what
nation
or
kyngdome
he
reigned
?
From
the
death
of
kyng
Iosias
,
he
liued
vnder
the
wicked
kynges
Ioachaz
,
Ioachim
,
Iechonias
,
&
Zedechias
.
The
horrible
déedes
of
these
princes
are
described
both
in
the
holy
stories
of
the
Bible
,
&
also
in
the
same
Ieremyes
booke
,
let
them
tell
vs
then
in
what
wise
Ieremy
by
the
vertue
of
these
the
Lordes
wordes
,
I
haue
set
thee
this
day
ouer
nations
and
kyngdomes
.
&c.
dyd
roote
out
or
plant
,
and
which
of
those
vngodly
kynges
he
plucked
vp
and
excommunicated
?
or
where
he
taught
that
bycause
of
the
wickednesse
of
these
kynges
,
their
people
ought
to
yeld
no
obedience
vnto
them
?
Let
them
tell
vs
where
or
when
he
discharged
the
noblemen
and
commons
of
the
Realme
of
their
othe
made
vnto
the
sayd
kinges
,
yea
or
vnto
Nabuchodonosor
which
was
a
heathen
kyng
?
Or
which
of
the
kinges
Ieremy
cast
downe
from
his
throne
,
and
afterward
aduaunced
another
to
it
at
his
owne
pleasure
?
Tell
me
,
tell
me
I
say
.
Why
are
ye
thus
dumine
.
Bicause
ye
be
neuer
able
to
proue
by
any
Scriptures
,
the
thyng
that
you
take
vpon
ye
.
For
the
truth
witnesseth
manifestly
that
Ieremy
was
the
humble
seruaunt
of
the
Lord
God
,
a
poore
Minister
,
and
therewithall
a
faithfull
Prophet
of
the
Lord
God
,
and
that
he
was
pitifull
vexed
,
imprisoned
,
and
persecuted
by
those
kynges
:
agaynst
whom
for
all
that
,
he
ment
so
litle
to
draw
any
sword
at
all
:
that
in
all
ciuill
cases
he
willyngly
obeyed
them
,
and
taught
all
the
people
yea
the
nobilitie
also
to
obey
them
,
and
finally
acknowledged
and
reuerenced
them
as
his
soueraine
Lordes
.
In
déede
he
did
sharply
rebuke
the
wicked
offences
of
these
kynges
,
and
preached
Gods
greuous
iudgementes
,
not
so
much
to
them
as
to
the
Priestes
and
to
the
whole
people
,
vtterly
after
the
same
maner
that
the
Lord
had
commaunded
him
to
do
it
.
But
in
the
meane
while
he
made
no
commotions
in
the
Realme
,
but
rather
patiently
suffered
persecution
at
their
handes
,
&
prayed
earnestly
for
their
welfare
.
Yea
and
this
selfe
same
Prophet
dyd
diligently
&
carefully
teach
the
very
people
of
God
to
obey
euen
the
kyngs
of
Babylon
,
Nabuchodonosor
,
Euilmerodach
,
and
Baltazar
.
Like
as
Ezechiel
also
blameth
Zedechias
very
sore
,
for
falsifying
his
othe
and
breakyng
his
fayth
geuen
vnto
Nabuchodonosor
.
Therefore
there
is
no
reason
why
the
Byshop
of
Rome
should
cloke
his
tyranny
with
Ieremyes
wordes
,
consideryng
that
Ieremyes
wordes
fight
agaynst
hym
,
and
that
he
in
no
poynt
resembleth
Ieremyes
patterne
.
¶
That
the
Bishop
of
Romes
vsurpyng
of
supremacie
ouer
kynges
and
nacions
,
is
agaynst
the
open
example
and
expresse
commaundement
of
our
Lord
Christ
.
NAy
rather
to
the
intent
the
matter
may
appeare
yet
more
euidently
vnto
all
men
:
so
little
did
our
Lord
Iesus
Christ
mynde
to
ordeine
either
Peter
or
any
other
of
his
Apostles
,
souereines
ouer
kynges
and
kyngdomes
in
the
Church
:
that
I
am
able
presently
to
set
the
euident
example
of
the
Lord
him selfe
,
and
his
doctrine
or
expresse
commaundement
agaynst
the
tyranny
&
wrongfull
dealyng
of
the
Pope
,
and
as
it
were
to
shew
with
my
finger
,
that
his
vsurping
of
soueraintie
ouer
kynges
and
kyngdomes
in
the
Church
,
is
extreme
iniurie
and
vngodlynes
.
This
matter
is
of
it selfe
right
plentifull
in
the
holy
Scriptures
,
but
I
will
(
as
much
as
may
be
)
comprehend
them
in
a
brief
.
Therefore
although
our
Lord
Iesus
Christ
,
was
by
his
almightie
father
ordeined
both
kyng
and
priest
in
his
kingdome
,
and
that
he
manifestly
auouched
himselfe
to
be
a
king
:
yet
notwithstandyng
he
laid
aside
the
gouernement
of
temporall
and
worldly
thyngs
,
and
tooke
him selfe
to
the
charge
onely
of
spirituall
thynges
.
By
reason
wherof
when
Pylate
asked
hym
whether
hee
were
the
kyng
of
Israell
or
no
?
He
denyed
not
him self
to
be
a
kyng
,
but
hee
addeth
an
exposition
and
méekely
aunswered
,
my
kyngdome
is
not
of
this
world
.
Whereupon
in
another
place
of
the
Gospell
he
sayd
,
he
came
not
to
be
serued
(
that
is
to
wit
as
a
worldly
prince
)
but
to
serue
or
to
do
seruice
him selfe
,
and
to
giue
his
life
for
the
raunsome
of
the
whole
multitude
.
For
that
cause
,
Therfore
when
in
the
xvii
.
of
Mathew
,
Peter
had
payd
a
péece
of
twentie
pence
for
the
Lord
and
himselfe
,
to
those
that
demaunded
but
ten
pence
,
and
that
therby
he
had
put
the
rest
of
the
disciples
in
suspicion
,
as
though
Peter
should
be
aduaunced
aboue
all
the
rest
of
them
:
or
be
made
primate
among
them
in
the
kyngdome
of
heauen
,
or
in
the
gouernement
of
the
Church
:
they
began
to
dispute
of
the
matter
among
them selues
:
and
eche
of
them
accordyng
to
mans
infirmitie
gaped
after
that
hyghest
degrée
of
souereintie
.
But
what
sayd
the
Lord
,
and
what
did
he
in
that
debate
of
his
disciples
?
He
tooke
a
child
vnto
him
and
setting
him
in
the
middes
of
them
,
sayd
:
Uerely
I
say
vnto
you
,
except
ye
turne
and
become
like
children
,
ye
shall
not
enter
into
the
kyngdome
of
heauen
.
Therfore
whosoeuer
humbleth
himselfe
as
this
child
he
is
greatest
in
the
kyngdome
of
heauen
.
Which
is
all
one
as
if
the
Lord
had
sayd
vnto
them
,
ye
striue
for
preheminence
,
which
of
you
should
be
gréeted
as
greatest
of
all
.
But
I
tell
you
for
a
certeintie
,
except
ye
turne
your
myndes
from
such
ambitious
disputations
that
sauour
of
nothyng
but
pride
and
pompe
,
and
turne
your selues
in
lowlinesse
vnto
me
and
my
example
,
yea
and
vnto
the
simplenesse
of
this
little
boy
whom
you
sée
here
:
ye
shal
be
so
farre
from
greatnesse
and
gloriousnes
in
that
kyngdome
of
myne
,
that
I
will
not
so
much
as
take
you
for
my
Disciples
.
Uery
truly
sayth
S.
Chrisostome
in
his
59.
Homely
vpon
Mathew
,
litle
children
know
not
how
to
enuy
,
nor
how
to
gape
for
vaineglorie
,
nor
how
to
desire
preheminence
of
dignitie
,
neither
are
they
any
whit
the
statelyer
if
ye
prayse
them
or
honor
them
.
What
then
aunswereth
the
Lord
to
the
question
of
his
Disciples
?
Who
soeuer
(
sayth
he
)
becommeth
like
a
child
by
puttyng
away
naughtie
affections
,
but
chiefly
ambition
and
desirousnesse
to
beare
rule
:
truly
the
same
is
greatest
in
the
kingdome
of
heauen
.
Upon
which
place
Chrisostome
sayth
agayn
.
Thou
séest
how
he
hath
taught
that
preheminence
of
dignitie
is
not
to
be
coueted
in
any
case
.
And
so
forth
.
Agayne
in
the
20.
chapter
of
Mathew
,
when
the
mother
of
Zebedies
children
came
vnto
the
Lord
with
her
sonnes
Iames
and
Iohn
,
and
made
sute
for
them
that
they
might
haue
the
highest
roome
and
chief
authoritie
about
him
in
his
kingdome
,
so
as
he
should
place
them
next
him selfe
:
the
one
on
his
right
hand
,
and
the
other
on
his
left
,
(
for
looke
who
they
be
that
are
next
about
a
kyng
,
and
garde
his
person
in
sittyng
on
either
side
of
him
,
those
are
counted
chief
men
in
the
Realme
,
like
as
at
this
day
those
be
called
Legates
a
latere
or
from
the
Popes
side
,
whom
the
Byshop
sendeth
from
Rome
with
full
power
and
authoritie
.
)
The
Disciples
hauyng
forgotten
the
thynges
which
the
Lord
had
taught
them
afore
,
mistrusted
eftsoone
that
those
two
brothers
should
be
preferred
before
them
all
.
By
reason
wherof
,
enuying
them
,
they
began
to
take
pritch
at
it
,
and
to
contend
agayne
among
themselues
for
the
preheminence
.
The
Lord
therfore
calling
them
to
him
,
sayd
:
ye
know
that
the
kynges
of
nations
reigne
ouer
them
:
and
they
that
be
great
exercise
authoritie
vpon
them
.
It
shall
not
be
so
among
you
:
but
he
that
will
be
great
among
you
,
let
him
become
your
seruaunt
:
and
he
that
wil
be
chief
among
you
,
let
him
be
your
vnderlyng
:
like
as
the
sonne
of
man
is
come
,
not
to
be
serued
,
but
to
serue
,
and
to
giue
his
life
for
the
redemption
of
many
.
Most
trimly
and
effectually
hath
the
Lord
herein
seuered
the
Ecclesiasticall
ministerie
,
from
the
ciuill
authoritie
.
And
iustly
doth
he
challendge
and
yeld
to
the
Magistrate
,
that
which
belongeth
to
the
Magistrate
,
without
derogatyng
or
takyng
any
thyng
from
him
,
and
conueying
it
to
him selfe
and
his
:
and
likewise
shew
the
ministers
what
they
also
ought
to
do
.
Ye
know
(
sayth
he
)
that
there
be
Princes
or
Magistrates
ordeined
among
people
,
and
among
the
Gentiles
,
so
as
there
is
no
neede
that
you
also
should
be
made
rulers
ouer
nations
.
I
mynde
not
to
make
warres
with
the
Romanes
,
and
to
put
downe
their
presidentes
and
Tetrarkes
,
to
set
you
vp
in
theyr
roomes
,
(
which
thyng
,
notwithstandyng
the
Iewes
beleued
that
Christ
should
haue
done
,
and
therfore
when
he
aunswered
not
their
expectation
,
they
acknowledged
him
not
to
be
the
Messias
.
)
Princes
haue
their
power
giuen
them
of
God
.
Wherby
you
vnderstand
,
that
there
is
no
cause
why
you
should
striue
among
your selues
for
souereintie
.
For
you
sée
that
those
which
are
in
office
already
,
shall
continue
still
in
their
charge
.
Thus
much
sayd
the
Lord
concernyng
ciuill
gouernement
.
Now
foloweth
also
concernyng
the
ministerie
of
the
Church
.
It
shall
not
be
so
among
you
.
For
I
haue
not
chosen
you
to
make
you
princes
of
landes
,
but
rather
seruantes
of
the
Churches
,
not
Lordes
I
say
,
but
preachers
to
publish
the
word
of
glad
tydinges
,
and
to
shyne
before
the
people
in
example
of
holy
lyfe
.
Therfore
I
will
not
haue
you
once
thinke
of
bearing
rule
,
or
wish
to
reigne
like
princes
of
this
world
:
it
shall
not
be
so
among
you
.
Howbeit
for
asmuch
as
ambitious
pride
had
brought
the
Disciples
this
farre
,
here
also
like
as
afore
he
commendeth
lowlinesse
vnto
them
,
saying
:
whosoeuer
will
be
great
among
you
&c.
Neither
is
there
any
cause
why
the
Romish
sorte
should
now
a
dayes
blere
our
eyes
with
their
stile
of
Seruant
of
the
seruants
of
God
,
which
the
Pope
vseth
.
For
that
style
is
a
forged
style
,
and
the
lowlinesse
of
these
men
is
but
a
counterfet
or
hipocritly
lowlinesse
.
For
the
very
experience
of
many
hundred
yeares
witnesseth
,
that
in
all
the
whole
world
there
are
none
that
can
worse
away
with
doyng
seruice
,
than
this
kynde
of
men
.
Nay
rather
they
will
be
worshipped
for
soueraines
and
kynges
of
kynges
.
Or
if
they
be
the
seruauntes
of
Gods
seruauntes
in
déede
;
why
offer
they
their
feete
to
be
kissed
euen
of
Gods
princes
?
And
the
Lord
to
moue
them
the
more
euidently
,
addeth
his
owne
example
to
his
foresaid
commaundement
,
saying
.
Like
as
the
sonne
of
man
is
not
come
to
be
serued
&c.
This
is
a
notable
saying
:
for
it
is
as
much
as
if
he
had
sayd
,
If
I
which
am
your
Lord
and
master
,
and
the
liuyng
sonne
of
the
liuing
God
to
,
and
kyng
of
kynges
,
sue
not
for
,
ne
chalendge
not
to
my selfe
any
worldly
preheminence
vpon
earth
,
as
who
am
come
into
the
earth
,
to
serue
all
mens
turnes
euen
with
the
losse
of
my
lyfe
:
truly
you
ought
to
be
ashamed
of
it
,
that
you
which
are
but
wretched
men
and
no
better
then
thralles
,
are
notwithstandyng
not
afrayd
to
gape
after
souereintie
.
These
thynges
,
these
thynges
I
say
as
dreadful
thunderboltes
,
not
onely
shake
,
but
also
turne
vpside
downe
that
seate
of
the
Romishe
Byshops
,
which
they
haue
most
boldly
&
shamelessely
exalted
aboue
the
thrones
of
all
kynges
,
vnder
pretence
of
Peter
and
of
the
graunted
souereintie
and
vnmeasurable
power
which
[
they
say
]
they
receiued
of
Christ
.
And
whereas
the
Lord
vttered
these
thynges
to
his
Disciples
once
or
twise
very
earnestly
,
and
so
forcibly
as
they
could
not
be
vttered
more
forcibly
:
yet
had
ambition
and
desire
of
prerogatiue
taken
so
déepe
rootes
in
the
mindes
of
the
Disciples
accordyng
to
the
corruption
of
mans
nature
,
that
at
the
Lordes
last
Supper
,
when
they
vnderstode
he
should
depart
out
of
this
world
,
they
fell
againe
to
striuyng
for
the
supremacie
and
prerogatiue
then
most
of
all
,
Good
&
Gracious
:
that
is
to
say
,
they
be
ordeined
of
God
to
the
end
they
should
do
good
to
their
subiectes
.
Unto
these
he
addeth
also
other
reasons
,
whereby
to
lay
forth
to
the
eye
,
that
Apostolicke
men
are
called
,
not
to
reigne
but
to
serue
.
Greater
(
sayth
he
)
is
the
prerogatiue
of
him
that
sitteth
at
the
table
,
then
of
him
that
serueth
him
which
sitteth
.
But
the
Church
beyng
called
by
the
Lord
to
a
spirituall
feast
,
sitteth
downe
:
And
you
serue
the
Church
of
that
spirituall
foode
:
Ergo
,
the
Church
is
as
your
Lady
and
mistresse
,
and
you
are
the
seruauntes
of
this
mistresse
,
but
not
her
maisters
and
much
lesse
her
souereines
.
Hereunto
agayne
he
ioyneth
his
owne
example
:
I
am
(
sayth
he
)
as
a
seruaunt
among
you
.
Seyng
then
that
I
which
am
your
Lord
,
do
neuerthelesse
serue
you
:
it
is
a
shame
for
you
which
be
but
seruauntes
,
to
thinke
of
Lordyng
it
in
the
Church
,
considering
how
my
most
humble
example
is
dayly
before
your
eyes
vtterly
abhorryng
from
all
desire
of
souereintie
.
Furthermore
he
addeth
this
also
:
Surely
it
is
straunge
that
you
should
striue
among
your selues
for
superioritie
:
considering
how
that
I
haue
hetherto
ben
subiect
to
many
and
sundry
afflictions
.
Wherof
you
your selfe
can
beare
witnesse
,
vnto
whom
some
part
of
my
temptations
and
afflictions
hath
redounded
.
Wherefore
ye
might
rightlyer
conferre
among
your selues
,
of
bearing
the
crosse
and
of
patience
,
than
of
Lordshyp
&
superioritie
.
Notwithstandyng
he
annexeth
here
agayne
a
comfort
,
least
their
hartes
might
fayle
them
at
the
mention
of
afflictions
.
And
therefore
he
knitteth
vnto
it
a
declaration
of
heauenly
rewardes
that
shal
be
liberally
giuen
vnto
those
in
the
euerlasting
countrie
,
which
get
the
vpper
hand
in
persecutions
:
aduauncyng
his
maner
of
spéech
from
bodily
and
earthly
thinges
,
to
spirituall
and
heauenly
thinges
.
Yet
notwithstandyng
,
after
all
these
thinges
,
(
which
surely
may
séeme
a
wonder
to
the
whole
world
)
yea
euen
after
thrise
most
earnest
warning
and
euident
instruction
,
the
Disciples
dare
byanby
vpon
Christes
Resurrection
,
and
at
the
verie
instant
of
his
Ascension
into
heauen
,
make
mention
yet
agayne
of
reigning
,
yea
and
to
cloy
the
Lord
again
with
their
desirousnesse
of
superioritie
,
saying
:
Wilt
thou
at
this
time
,
that
is
to
say
before
thou
depart
from
vs
into
heauen
)
restore
the
kingdome
vnto
Israell
?
Unto
which
question
the
mercyfull
Lord
bearing
with
the
weakenesse
of
his
Disciples
,
aunswereth
,
méekely
agayne
,
and
biddeth
them
referre
the
seasonable
doing
of
it
vnto
God
.
In
the
meane
while
he
repeteth
and
beateth
into
them
agayne
,
what
they
should
do
and
what
he
requireth
at
their
hands
,
saying
:
After
that
the
holy
Ghost
is
come
downe
into
you
,
you
shall
receiue
power
,
and
you
shal
beare
witnesse
of
me
,
not
onely
at
Hierusalem
,
but
euen
to
the
vttermost
costes
of
the
earth
also
.
And
what
els
is
this
,
then
if
he
had
sayd
,
The
holie
Ghost
shall
teach
you
to
vnderstand
,
what
maner
of
kingdome
mine
shal
be
,
doutlesse
spirituall
,
&
not
worldly
,
wherin
I
shall
sit
and
reigne
the
chief
&
onely
souerein
.
And
in
this
my
kingdome
,
that
is
to
wit
,
in
the
very
Church
of
the
saintes
,
you
shal
be
witnesses
&
not
kinges
,
preachers
and
not
princes
.
For
by
preachyng
of
the
Gospell
you
shall
gather
me
a
Church
out
of
the
whole
world
.
This
I
say
is
Christes
doctrine
concerning
supremacie
and
reigning
,
&
concernyng
the
ministerie
of
Christ
in
the
Church
,
more
lightsome
than
the
sunne
.
Wherby
also
it
appeareth
,
more
clearely
then
the
day
light
,
that
the
Byshop
of
Romes
vsurping
of
souereintie
in
the
Church
,
and
his
bosting
of
himselfe
to
be
ordeined
head
ouer
all
kinges
and
Realmes
,
contrarie
to
Christes
example
and
doctrine
,
is
not
by
the
lowlie
spirite
of
Christ
,
but
by
the
proude
spirite
of
Lucifer
?
¶
Nor
that
the
Apostles
of
Christ
tooke
vppon
them
any
souereintie
in
Christes
Church
,
but
onely
the
ministerie
.
ANd
when
the
Apostles
had
receiued
the
holy
Ghost
,
they
vtterly
displaced
all
ambition
and
desire
of
souereintie
out
of
their
hartes
,
perceiuyng
now
,
that
no
such
thing
as
they
and
the
Iewes
had
hitherto
surmised
,
was
to
be
sought
or
looked
for
in
the
kyngdome
and
Church
of
Christ
,
but
farre
greater
and
diuiner
thinges
,
namely
spirituall
thynges
.
And
therfore
accordyng
to
their
Lord
&
maisters
commaundement
,
traueling
ouer
the
whole
world
,
they
so
behaued
them selues
,
that
in
all
thinges
they
were
sound
to
be
the
very
Disciples
and
folowers
of
their
maister
:
endewed
with
lowlinesse
,
&
not
with
Lordlinesse
,
&
renowmed
for
their
faithfull
seruice
,
&
not
for
stately
superioritie
.
For
they
not
onely
preached
the
Gospell
purely
without
mens
forgeries
and
traditions
:
but
also
were
wont
to
reuerence
kynges
as
next
vnto
God
in
earth
and
chief
of
all
men
,
and
to
call
them
their
Lordes
,
and
to
pay
them
tribute
,
and
to
obey
them
faithfully
,
and
to
pray
for
their
welfare
without
ceasing
,
yea
and
to
threaten
Gods
vengeance
to
such
as
refused
obedience
to
the
Magistrate
commaunding
no
wickednesse
.
They
no
where
intermedled
them selues
in
worldly
affaires
,
in
somuch
as
they
cast
euen
the
care
of
the
poore
(
which
otherwise
is
most
holy
,
)
vpon
the
shoulders
of
the
Deacons
,
verely
to
the
end
they
might
the
earnestlyer
apply
them selues
to
the
preaching
of
the
word
.
They
no
where
vsurped
to
them selues
the
benches
of
iudges
or
the
thrones
of
princes
,
and
much
lesse
did
they
depose
any
kyng
or
prince
from
his
kingdome
,
were
he
neuer
so
wicked
,
(
and
yet
there
is
no
man
ignoraunt
what
the
Romane
presidentes
were
that
liued
in
the
time
of
the
Apostles
,
full
of
couetousenesse
,
lechery
,
and
pride
:
and
the
posteritie
of
Herode
euen
venemouse
slippes
:
yea
and
the
Emperours
them selues
most
filthie
and
vngracious
persons
as
the
Tyberiusses
,
the
Caligulaze
,
the
Claudiusses
and
the
Neroes
)
or
discharge
his
people
of
their
allegeance
,
or
contend
with
any
prince
for
the
souereintie
,
and
much
lesse
did
they
euer
purpose
or
practise
to
place
&
exalt
them
selues
aboue
him
.
Nay
rather
they
suffered
sore
persecution
,
the
which
they
ouercame
by
patience
,
and
not
by
violent
withstanding
,
nor
by
practises
and
pollicies
of
malicious
wylinesse
:
and
gathered
verie
great
Churches
vnto
Christ
out
of
the
whole
world
by
preaching
the
Gospell
ouer
all
the
earth
.
S.
Luke
the
Euangelist
describeth
these
thynges
diligently
and
plenteously
in
his
booke
of
the
Actes
of
the
Apostles
,
wherin
although
he
pursue
their
doinges
by
the
space
of
xxviii
.
yeares
together
,
Yet
doth
he
no
where
giue
any
little
incling
of
that
supremacie
and
fulnesse
of
power
,
which
they
at
this
day
do
boast
of
,
that
call
them selues
Apostolick
,
and
crake
of
the
fulnesse
of
their
power
.
But
if
any
man
desire
to
here
some
singular
thyng
of
S.
Peter
:
he
is
alwayes
set
first
in
the
register
of
the
holie
Apostles
.
But
all
men
know
that
this
formershyp
of
Peters
,
is
not
in
ouer
ruling
,
but
in
order
:
for
accordyng
to
the
doctrine
of
the
Gospell
,
all
the
Apostles
were
indewed
with
like
dignitie
and
power
,
and
the
Churches
were
gouerned
by
their
trauell
in
common
.
In
the
meane
while
it
was
requisite
that
there
should
be
order
both
in
speakyng
and
doing
for
the
auoydance
of
disordered
confusion
:
&
they
that
had
obteined
greater
giftes
were
more
honored
and
had
in
more
estimation
and
authoritie
than
the
residew
.
Like
as
Paule
speaking
of
Iames
,
For
S.
Peter
neuer
chalendged
to
him selfe
any
superioritie
no
not
euen
ouer
the
basest
sort
of
men
,
and
much
lesse
ouer
princes
:
he
neuer
aduaunced
his
throne
(
which
he
had
not
)
aboue
all
kinges
and
all
kingdomes
.
Cornelius
the
Centurion
a
knight
of
Rome
fell
down
at
his
féete
,
and
it
was
no
small
cause
that
made
him
so
to
do
.
For
the
aungell
of
the
Lord
had
set
a
great
commendation
vpon
this
Peter
vnto
him
,
wherupon
he
fell
downe
before
Peter
.
But
Peter
liftes
him
vp
agayne
,
and
humbly
sayth
that
he
him selfe
is
a
man
also
.
So
also
when
he
had
lifted
vp
the
lame
man
and
made
him
whole
and
sound
,
at
the
temple
of
Ierusalem
,
and
that
the
people
stode
wondering
and
worshipping
of
him
,
he
gaue
all
the
glorie
vnto
Christ
,
and
told
them
that
he
him selfe
was
but
a
Minister
.
Neither
doth
he
in
his
Epistles
aduaunce
him selfe
with
any
prelacie
,
but
simply
calles
him selfe
an
Apostle
and
felowelder
,
forbidding
the
elders
to
vsurpe
any
Lordship
ouer
the
Clergie
.
a
latere
:
but
he
is
contented
to
let
the
congregation
send
him
with
Iohn
into
Samaria
.
These
lightsome
and
euident
textes
of
Scripture
,
are
sufficient
for
men
that
be
curable
,
(
as
for
vncurable
&
quareling
men
,
we
leaue
them
to
God
the
iust
iudge
)
and
doe
witnesse
manifestly
enough
that
neither
Christes
Apostles
no
nor
the
Apostle
Peter
him selfe
vsurped
so
much
as
one
iote
of
souereintie
in
the
Church
,
but
onely
tooke
vpon
them
ministration
of
the
glad
tydinges
of
saluation
,
and
of
Christes
holy
Church
,
all
their
life
long
euen
vnto
the
last
gaspe
of
their
liues
.
And
therfore
there
is
no
reason
why
the
Bishop
of
Rome
should
hereafter
in
maintenance
of
himselfe
&
his
supremacie
,
alledge
any
more
the
supremacie
of
Peter
,
which
is
now
sufficiently
apparant
to
be
vtterly
none
,
and
alwayes
to
haue
ben
none
at
all
in
déede
.
¶
That
the
first
Bishops
of
Rome
vsurped
not
any
souereintie
at
all
in
the
church
,
but
were
lowly
shepeheardes
,
teachers
and
ministers
of
the
Church
of
Rome
:
yea
and
besides
that
,
also
Martyrs
of
Christ
.
I
Will
not
now
dispute
whether
Peter
came
at
Rome
or
no.
Wherof
I
sée
learned
men
to
dout
,
not
without
cause
.
Surely
it
may
be
proued
by
substantiall
argumentes
,
that
Peter
sate
not
in
that
seate
,
at
that
tyme
and
so
long
a
tyme
as
he
is
commonly
sayd
to
haue
sit
continually
together
.
If
he
came
to
Rome
at
all
,
certes
it
was
late
ere
he
came
,
and
peraduenture
not
long
afore
his
death
.
For
all
the
old
writers
,
euen
those
that
were
néere
the
Apostles
time
,
do
agreably
and
stedfastly
affirme
,
that
Peter
was
crucified
at
Rome
vnder
the
Emperour
Nero
for
preaching
Christ
and
his
Gospell
,
the
same
time
that
Paul
was
beheaded
.
Which
thing
I
can
easly
graunt
.
But
from
this
Peter
vnto
Siluester
there
be
registred
33.
Byshops
or
pastors
of
Rome
.
Of
whom
notwithstandyng
none
tooke
vpon
him
any
souereintie
either
ouer
the
Citie
it selfe
,
or
ouer
the
Church
of
Rome
,
and
therfore
much
lesse
aduaunced
they
them selues
ouer
kynges
and
kyngdomes
.
Yet
am
I
not
afrayd
to
say
thus
much
more
of
them
,
that
if
they
might
be
found
to
haue
attempted
any
whit
of
this
preheminence
,
or
to
haue
sewed
for
souereintie
,
it
is
certein
that
they
started
aside
from
the
way
of
their
predecessours
,
yea
and
from
their
maister
Christ
,
and
grew
out
of
kynd
from
their
owne
Peter
.
Wherfore
their
sayinges
and
doinges
being
against
the
expresse
testimonies
of
Christ
and
the
Apostles
aboue
rehearsed
,
could
proue
nothing
.
Howbeit
,
like
as
in
other
Churches
,
as
of
Antioche
,
Alexandria
,
Corinth
,
Philippos
,
Ephesus
,
Cesarea
,
and
the
rest
,
there
were
pastors
or
teachers
which
were
called
Bishops
,
set
ouer
the
Church
of
God
,
which
by
their
holy
ministerie
serued
seuerally
their
owne
shéepe
that
were
committed
to
them
,
and
not
other
mens
shéepe
,
or
in
many
places
at
once
:
(
for
at
the
begynnyng
,
euery
pastor
had
his
flocke
appointed
and
committed
vnto
him
.
)
So
also
was
done
in
the
Church
of
Rome
,
which
is
named
Apostolicke
Sea
or
Chayre
.
I
would
not
haue
any
man
amased
at
the
termes
of
Sea
&
Chayre
,
and
surmyse
and
imagine
any
Popishnesse
by
them
.
Men
in
old
time
gaue
the
termes
of
Sea
and
Chayre
,
not
onely
to
the
Church
of
Rome
,
but
to
any
of
the
notable
Churches
,
I
meane
which
the
Apostles
them selues
founded
,
and
in
which
the
traditions
or
the
doctrine
of
the
Apostles
and
of
the
Gospell
sounded
or
was
preached
&
florished
still
vncorrupted
.
For
Tertullian
in
his
prescriptions
of
heretikes
,
saith
:
Peruse
the
Apostolik
Churches
,
among
which
the
very
chayres
of
the
Apostles
are
yet
still
sytin
in
their
places
,
&
among
which
their
authenticall
letters
are
still
read
,
resounding
the
voyce
and
resembling
the
face
of
euery
of
them
.
If
Achaya
be
next
thée
,
thou
hast
Corinth
:
if
thou
be
not
farre
from
Macedonie
,
thou
hast
Philippos
,
and
thou
hast
Thessalonice
.
If
thou
list
to
go
into
Asia
,
thou
hast
Ephesus
.
And
if
thou
border
vpon
Italy
,
thou
hast
Rome
,
from
whence
also
we
haue
authoritie
at
hand
.
O
happy
Church
wherupon
the
Apostles
bestowed
their
whole
doctrine
together
with
their
bloud
,
where
Peter
was
matched
with
his
Lord
in
passion
,
where
Paule
was
crowned
with
the
end
of
Iohn
Baptist
,
and
where
the
Apostle
Iohn
,
after
he
had
ben
plundged
in
scalding
oyle
&
felt
no
harme
at
all
,
was
banished
into
the
Ile
of
Patmos
.
Thus
saith
he
.
Otherwise
the
Chayre
is
properly
a
hygh
place
in
the
Church
furnished
for
the
ministers
to
teach
out
of
the
more
commodiously
,
as
from
whence
they
may
the
better
be
séen
and
heard
of
their
audience
that
is
assembled
in
the
Church
.
Such
as
the
men
of
old
time
are
knowen
to
haue
had
,
as
appeareth
by
the
doynges
of
Achaz
kyng
of
Iuda
,
and
by
the
viij
.
chapter
of
Nehemias
.
It
is
commonly
called
a
Pulpit
or
preaching
stoole
.
It
is
not
a
cloth
of
estate
,
or
a
Salomons
throne
,
or
a
kynges
chayre
of
estate
.
Neither
did
men
in
old
tyme
by
the
Apostolike
chayre
or
sea
,
meane
reigning
or
souereintie
and
I
wote
not
what
greater
thyng
,
as
they
meane
at
this
day
.
But
rather
the
chayre
is
taken
for
the
very
Apostolike
doctrine
,
which
was
preached
out
of
those
chayres
or
pulpites
,
and
to
fit
in
the
Apostolike
sea
is
to
preach
the
Apostolike
doctrine
.
For
it
is
well
knowen
to
all
men
what
the
Lord
ment
by
the
chayre
of
Moses
in
the
Gospell
,
when
he
sayd
,
The
Scribes
and
Pharisies
sit
in
Moses
chayre
.
What
soeuer
they
bid
you
obserue
,
that
obserue
and
do
ye
.
For
what
els
is
it
to
sit
in
Moses
chayre
,
than
to
professe
Moses
,
and
to
teach
the
things
that
Moses
taught
?
If
any
had
taught
any
thing
besides
that
or
contrarie
to
that
,
they
had
ben
of
neuer
the
more
authoritie
for
the
chaire
,
like
as
at
this
day
also
,
they
that
preach
not
Apostolicall
doctrine
,
haue
none
authoritie
by
the
Apostolike
chayre
or
sea
of
Rome
,
of
Antioche
,
or
of
Philippos
,
neither
are
they
in
any
wise
to
be
regarded
,
although
they
sit
in
the
same
seas
.
Uery
well
knowen
is
this
Canon
reported
in
the
40.
Distinction
of
the
Decrées
,
out
of
the
writings
of
Ierome
,
It
is
hard
to
stand
in
the
roome
of
Peter
and
Paule
,
and
to
kéepe
the
chayre
of
those
that
reigne
with
Christ
.
For
hereupon
it
is
sayd
,
They
are
not
the
Saintes
children
,
which
possesse
the
Saintes
places
,
but
they
that
fulfill
the
workes
of
the
Saintes
.
They
then
which
had
the
charge
of
the
Romane
Church
after
that
Peter
was
put
to
death
,
were
ministers
,
pastors
,
and
teachers
or
preachers
,
and
not
princes
or
Lordes
.
Irenaeus
placeth
Linus
immediatly
after
Peter
.
Tertullian
placeth
Clement
.
Eusebius
puts
Anacletus
in
the
middes
betwixt
Linus
and
Clement
.
Some
register
one
Cletus
betwixt
Clement
&
Anacletus
,
which
Cletus
is
notwithstanding
quite
ouerskipped
and
omitted
by
diuerse
.
Others
also
dispose
the
succession
or
Register
of
the
first
Byshops
of
the
Romane
Church
,
some
after
one
sort
and
some
after
another
so
as
it
may
séeme
straunge
that
antiquitie
varieth
so
in
the
succession
of
them
,
&
hath
almost
nothing
certein
&
assured
in
that
behalf
.
But
howsoeuer
the
case
standeth
,
this
is
most
certein
that
such
as
held
the
Apostolik
sea
of
Rome
after
Clement
,
were
vtterly
ignoraunt
of
that
supreme
power
and
the
authoritie
of
both
the
swordes
which
those
men
presumptuously
boast
of
,
that
thinke
themselues
possesse
the
same
seate
at
this
day
.
They
were
lowely
and
poore
ministers
of
the
Church
,
&
preached
the
Gospell
and
the
doctrine
of
the
Apostles
to
the
Church
,
wherof
they
had
the
charge
,
and
therewithall
ministred
Christes
Sacramentes
to
the
Church
,
and
beautified
their
doctrine
with
example
of
lyfe
,
&
in
the
end
sealed
it
vp
with
Martyrdome
,
For
all
those
Byshops
or
pastors
of
Rome
,
became
Christs
Martyrs
,
and
were
put
to
death
for
mainteynyng
the
pure
faith
and
doctrine
,
and
for
preaching
against
Idolatrie
and
the
vncleane
conuersation
of
the
heathen
.
And
whereas
in
other
Churches
there
spring
vp
sundry
heresies
and
greuous
debates
:
The
Romane
Church
aboue
the
rest
,
did
faithfully
at
that
time
and
in
the
begynning
kéepe
still
the
purenesse
of
doctrine
,
and
the
consent
and
agréement
of
faith
.
And
this
was
the
cause
why
the
men
of
old
time
did
worthely
make
so
great
account
of
the
succession
of
those
men
in
the
Church
and
of
their
consent
in
the
faith
:
who
otherwise
would
vndoubtedly
haue
made
no
reckening
at
all
of
the
succession
in
the
Sea
,
onlesse
the
pastors
and
the
Church
of
Rome
had
continued
in
pure
doctrine
and
vnappayred
faith
.
Truly
there
arose
dissention
euen
in
this
Church
also
,
betwixt
Anicetus
Bishop
of
Rome
,
and
Polycarpus
the
minister
of
the
Church
of
Smyrna
the
Disciple
of
Iohn
the
Apostle
:
howbeit
not
for
any
Articles
of
faith
,
but
for
kéeping
of
the
Easter
day
.
Neuerthelesse
the
contention
endured
not
long
.
For
they
agréed
well
and
brotherly
agayne
,
and
willed
that
euery
man
should
obserue
and
kéepe
still
his
owne
custome
that
was
admitted
in
his
owne
Church
:
that
the
concord
of
the
Churches
might
not
be
broken
for
the
diuersitie
of
ceremonies
.
But
yet
agayne
Victor
the
Byshop
of
the
Romane
Church
takyng
more
vppon
him
than
became
him
,
and
stepping
aside
from
the
modestie
and
simplicitie
of
his
predecessours
,
aduentured
to
breake
the
agréement
that
was
begon
betwene
Anicetus
and
Polycarpus
,
&
excommunicated
the
Easterne
people
that
kept
the
Easter
day
vpon
the
xiiii
.
day
of
the
moneth
.
Yet
for
all
that
,
the
pastors
of
the
residew
of
the
Churches
acknowledged
not
Victor
for
a
commaunder
of
the
Churches
,
or
for
such
a
one
as
by
right
might
take
vpon
him
authority
ouer
other
Churches
.
For
his
ouerbold
and
rash
enterprise
was
reproued
by
the
Bishops
as
well
of
the
East
as
of
the
West
,
that
is
to
wit
by
the
holyest
and
best
learned
and
by
such
as
were
had
in
chief
estimation
in
that
age
,
namely
by
Polycrates
Bishop
of
Ephesus
,
and
by
Irenaeus
Bishop
of
Lyons
.
And
so
was
Victor
brought
agayne
into
the
right
way
.
Which
thing
Eusebius
declareth
at
large
in
his
historie
of
the
Church
matters
.
And
truly
in
processe
of
tyme
the
vices
that
had
euery
where
occupyed
and
corrupted
other
Churches
,
began
also
to
enter
into
the
Church
of
Rome
,
for
there
arose
a
great
schisme
in
the
Church
of
Rome
,
some
chosing
S.
Cornelius
to
be
their
pastors
,
and
some
choosing
Nouatus
from
whom
sprong
the
heresie
or
sect
of
the
Nouatians
,
which
became
very
noysome
to
the
Church
.
But
Cornelius
got
the
gouernement
,
vnder
whom
certein
of
Aphrike
began
to
put
the
decidyng
of
their
controuersies
to
the
sea
of
Rome
.
Neuerthelesse
,
the
blessed
Martyr
&
Byshop
of
Carthage
Cyprian
,
did
set
himselfe
agaynst
them
also
,
and
in
his
3.
booke
of
Epistles
in
his
first
Epistle
to
Cornelius
Byshop
of
Rome
whom
he
calleth
his
brother
,
he
sayth
among
other
thinges
,
how
it
is
decréed
by
all
men
,
yea
and
also
that
it
is
right
and
reason
,
that
eche
mans
case
should
be
there
heard
where
the
fault
is
committed
.
Also
he
sayth
,
that
vnto
euery
pastor
is
allotted
a
portion
of
the
flocke
,
for
euery
of
them
to
rule
and
gouerne
,
and
he
shall
render
an
account
of
his
doing
vnto
the
Lord
.
Among
these
thinges
marke
that
as
yet
at
that
tyme
the
Byshop
of
Rome
,
was
not
taken
for
:
the
vniuersall
shepheard
,
to
whom
all
the
other
Churches
should
be
subiect
.
Nay
rather
he
sayth
that
euery
shepheard
had
his
seuerall
Church
committed
to
him
to
gouerne
,
for
which
he
should
render
account
,
to
the
Lord
God
,
and
not
to
the
Pope
.
And
S.
Cornelius
himself
did
not
either
allow
such
as
appealed
out
of
Affricke
to
Rome
,
or
desire
to
rule
ouer
all
other
Churches
and
to
be
called
the
souerein
Lord
of
all
kinges
and
kingdomes
.
To
be
bréef
,
these
Byshops
of
the
Romane
Church
were
all
put
to
death
for
the
sound
doctrine
and
the
professing
of
Christes
name
,
by
the
Emperours
of
Rome
.
So
farre
were
they
of
from
taking
vpon
them
full
and
absolute
power
ouer
any
Princes
,
and
least
of
all
ouer
the
princes
of
Rome
.
For
which
of
so
many
vngodly
,
bloudy
,
&
manquellyng
princes
being
mo
then
xl
.
in
nomber
,
did
they
depose
from
his
souereintie
?
or
which
of
them
I
pray
you
did
they
excommunicate
?
Or
which
of
these
bishops
assoyled
the
people
of
their
othe
made
to
the
Emperours
?
Or
which
of
all
these
,
said
,
wrate
,
or
thought
himself
to
haue
receiued
fulnesse
of
power
at
the
handes
of
Christ
our
Lord
by
Peter
,
&
to
be
set
ouer
kinges
and
kingdomes
?
Therfore
it
is
most
certein
,
that
these
first
ministers
of
the
Romane
Church
,
were
ignoraunt
of
the
thinges
which
the
Romish
Bishops
of
this
last
and
forworne
age
haue
vsurped
to
themselues
,
and
which
they
haue
now
a
long
tyme
in
vayne
indeuered
to
stablish
by
the
Epistles
of
those
men
.
¶
That
the
Decretall
Epistles
of
the
first
Byshops
of
Rome
are
but
counterfettes
.
VErely
I
am
not
ignorant
how
there
fly
abroad
many
Epistles
of
these
holy
Romane
Bishops
&
Martyrs
which
they
call
decretals
.
But
they
ouerthrow
themselues
with
their
owne
absurdities
,
and
shew
themselues
to
be
but
counterfettes
,
in
asmuch
as
many
thinges
be
so
light
,
so
triflyng
,
and
so
vtterly
vnlike
that
auncient
simplicitie
,
purenesse
,
and
maiestie
,
that
not
with
out
good
cause
they
séeme
vnto
godly
and
learned
men
,
to
haue
ben
deuised
long
since
by
others
.
Neither
do
I
greatly
regard
that
the
same
are
fathered
vpon
the
gatheryng
of
Damasus
and
Isidorus
:
seyng
that
there
want
not
some
men
which
put
ouer
certeine
of
these
kynd
of
thinges
euen
to
the
time
of
Gregorie
the
7.
But
howsoeuer
the
case
stand
for
the
tyme
.
I
pray
yon
what
can
be
more
fond
,
then
the
fathering
of
these
wordes
vpon
Anacletus
?
This
holy
holy
and
Apostolike
Church
of
Rome
obteined
the
supremacie
and
preheminence
of
power
ouer
all
Churches
,
not
from
the
Apostles
,
but
from
the
very
Lord
himselfe
our
Sauiour
.
And
again
,
There
was
a
difference
euen
betwene
the
blessed
Apostles
:
and
albeit
that
all
of
them
were
Apostles
:
yet
did
the
Lord
graunt
and
the
Apostles
determined
among
them selues
,
that
Peter
should
haue
preheminence
afore
all
the
rest
of
the
Apostles
,
and
be
Cephas
,
that
is
to
say
a
head
,
and
hold
the
souereintie
of
Apostleship
.
Thus
sayth
he
.
But
who
knoweth
not
(
though
he
be
but
meanely
séene
in
histories
,
)
that
after
full
fiue
hundred
yeares
,
it
was
obteined
and
ordeined
,
not
by
Christ
,
or
his
Apostles
but
by
loytering
lozels
or
rather
by
traiterous
persons
,
that
Rome
should
be
called
the
head
of
all
Churches
,
that
is
to
wit
,
that
it
should
obteine
supremacie
&
prerogatiue
of
power
ouer
all
Churches
?
Or
who
would
beleue
that
Anacletus
exercised
himselfe
so
little
in
readyng
of
the
Gospell
,
that
he
knew
not
how
Cephas
signifieth
,
not
a
head
but
a
stone
or
a
Rocke
?
according
as
it
is
interpreted
by
Iohn
the
Apostle
in
the
first
chapter
?
And
which
interpreter
should
a
man
rather
beleue
?
Iohn
the
Apostle
,
or
the
counterfet
Anaclete
?
The
lewd
packing
then
of
the
lewd
lozelles
is
detected
both
in
these
and
in
many
other
thinges
.
The
same
partie
maketh
very
often
mention
of
Archbyshops
and
metropolitanes
,
neither
omitteth
he
primates
.
But
it
is
most
manifest
,
that
those
titles
were
vtterly
vnknowen
to
the
primitiue
Church
,
and
were
afterward
inuented
and
vsurped
in
times
folowyng
.
And
at
their
first
comming
vp
the
maner
of
vsing
them
was
after
a
sort
méetly
tolerable
,
till
their
posteritie
did
afterward
vse
them
or
rather
misuse
them
more
proudly
.
Besides
this
,
the
sayd
counterfet
Anaclete
maketh
a
Bishop
greater
than
an
Elder
:
whereas
Ierome
himselfe
sheweth
by
Scriptures
,
that
Elders
and
Bishops
are
all
one
,
and
that
in
processe
of
time
Byshops
were
preferred
before
Elders
,
not
by
the
ordinaunce
of
God
,
but
by
the
ordinaunce
of
man
.
Moreouer
this
Anacletus
alloweth
the
Appeales
that
are
made
to
the
sea
of
Rome
,
saying
:
that
all
questions
and
matters
of
weight
ought
to
be
referred
to
the
Apostolike
sea
,
for
so
had
the
Apostles
decréed
.
But
this
selfe
same
thing
is
manifestly
disallowed
by
the
holy
maister
of
Christ
Cyprian
writyng
to
Cornelius
the
Pope
.
Many
other
thinges
prateth
he
concerning
the
priuiledges
and
iudgementes
of
the
Church
:
which
who
soeuer
séeth
not
to
disagrés
with
these
first
tymes
of
the
primitiue
Church
,
he
seeth
nothyng
,
but
is
blynder
then
a
béetle
.
Furthermore
there
is
a
decrée
fathered
vpon
Pope
Alexander
,
wherby
he
commaundeth
that
water
should
be
halowed
with
salt
,
to
clense
the
people
and
to
put
away
the
secret
slightes
of
the
deuill
.
But
who
is
so
light
headed
to
beleue
that
so
great
men
in
so
great
light
of
the
Gospell
published
so
filthy
decrées
concerning
such
baggagely
gewgawes
so
openly
fighting
agaynst
the
Gospell
and
doctrine
of
the
Apostles
?
These
thinges
sauour
not
that
Apostolike
and
auncient
purenesse
and
maiestie
which
entierly
attributeth
all
saluation
to
the
onely
bloud
of
the
sonne
of
God
and
not
to
water
and
salt
.
Pope
Sixtus
in
the
sayd
decretall
Epistles
commaundeth
that
no
man
els
should
touch
the
holy
vesselles
but
he
that
is
halowed
.
Ye
may
perceiue
that
this
stuffe
agréeth
trimly
with
the
Apostolicall
doctrine
deliuered
by
Paul
in
the
2.
to
the
Colossians
,
and
finally
with
the
histories
which
openly
beare
record
that
euen
the
laymen
receiued
&
handled
the
bread
and
cup
of
the
Lord
with
their
[
bare
]
handes
,
certein
hundred
yeares
after
this
Sixtus
.
Besides
this
,
in
the
same
Epistles
,
there
is
open
&
manifest
mention
made
of
Clementes
iourney
,
which
booke
neuerthelesse
euen
the
very
Decrées
of
Gratian
do
reiect
among
the
authenticall
writynges
.
Yea
and
Thelesphorus
commendeth
the
seuen
wéekes
fast
before
Easter
,
forbidding
also
the
eating
of
flesh
.
Which
thing
againe
how
well
it
agréeth
with
the
doctrine
of
the
Apostles
,
and
with
the
doinges
,
it
is
to
be
knowen
by
the
thinges
which
S.
Paul
hath
written
in
the
2.
chapter
to
the
Colossians
,
and
in
the
4.
chapter
of
the
first
Epistle
to
Timothie
,
and
which
Socrates
hath
left
written
in
his
Ecclesiasticall
historie
in
the
5.
booke
and
xxii
.
chap.
but
most
of
all
which
are
taken
out
of
Irenaeus
by
Eusebius
in
the
5.
booke
and
xxvi
.
chapter
of
his
Ecclesiasticall
historie
.
Moreouer
in
those
Epistles
Calixtus
is
reported
to
haue
ordeined
the
imber
fast
at
foure
seasons
of
the
yeare
.
Which
thing
others
referre
to
other
authors
or
founders
.
And
among
this
stuffe
this
is
a
thing
that
can
not
be
read
without
laughter
,
that
Eusebius
the
predecessour
of
Melciades
doth
with
so
great
statelinesse
commaund
the
feast
of
the
finding
of
the
holy
crosse
to
be
solemnized
the
vi
.
day
of
May
.
For
some
declare
that
the
crosse
was
not
yet
found
at
this
time
,
but
a
xx
.
yeares
after
by
Helene
the
mother
of
the
Emperour
Constantine
.
Agayne
how
superstitious
,
péeuishe
,
and
fond
géere
are
commaunded
in
the
same
Epistles
,
namely
that
Nonnes
should
not
touche
the
holy
vessels
.
As
who
should
say
there
had
ben
any
Nunnes
as
yet
in
those
dayes
,
the
first
comming
vp
of
whom
is
referred
to
farre
later
times
.
Many
other
thinges
of
this
sort
do
I
passe
ouer
willingly
,
least
I
might
make
my
readers
to
cast
vp
their
stomakes
.
For
in
these
Epistles
there
be
very
many
thinges
so
foolish
,
so
farre
agaynst
reason
,
so
full
of
superstition
,
and
so
full
of
ambition
:
that
all
men
which
haue
eyes
may
gather
therby
that
they
be
counterfettes
,
and
specially
for
asmuch
as
there
is
very
seldome
or
no
mention
at
all
made
in
all
the
booke
through
out
,
of
vncorrupted
fayth
in
Christ
,
yea
or
of
Christ
himselfe
our
redemer
,
&
of
the
treasures
which
the
father
hath
giuen
vs
in
him
,
which
thinges
are
the
naturall
markes
of
Apostolicall
writinges
.
Now
although
there
be
many
thinges
in
them
not
vnprofitable
to
be
read
:
yet
are
the
same
thinges
to
be
found
in
other
men
set
forth
more
purely
,
and
without
any
paringes
cankerfretted
with
the
filthinesse
of
mans
traditions
.
Furthermore
it
is
very
well
knowen
that
those
first
most
pure
tymes
of
the
Church
were
not
acquaynted
with
so
many
ceremonies
,
so
many
decrées
,
and
so
many
constitutions
,
as
are
found
vrged
vpon
Gods
Church
in
those
Epistles
.
For
the
holy
and
deuout
folke
of
old
time
had
not
yet
forgotten
the
Apostolicke
Counsell
that
was
held
at
Hierusalem
,
wherin
not
onely
Peter
playnly
would
not
there
should
be
any
yoke
layd
vppon
the
frée
neckes
of
the
faythfull
,
but
also
moreouer
it
séemed
good
to
the
holy
Ghost
and
to
the
whole
primitiue
Church
of
the
Apostles
,
that
there
should
not
any
burthen
be
layd
hereafter
vppon
the
faithfull
.
This
story
is
knowen
to
be
written
in
the
xv
.
chapter
of
the
Actes
of
the
Apostles
.
But
if
our
aduersaries
will
nedes
procede
to
mainteine
that
these
are
the
very
Epistles
of
those
men
vppon
whom
they
be
fathered
:
we
haue
aunswered
a
little
afore
,
how
they
be
of
no
authoritie
against
the
doctrine
of
the
Gospell
and
the
Apostles
,
and
therfore
we
admit
them
not
in
disputation
.
Notwithstanding
by
the
way
we
haue
better
opinion
than
so
,
of
so
great
learned
men
,
and
of
so
holy
Martyrs
of
Christ
,
neither
will
we
in
any
wise
stayne
and
deface
their
honorable
names
and
blessed
memoriall
with
such
maner
of
gewgawes
,
wherof
out
of
all
doubt
there
neuer
came
any
in
their
mindes
,
no
not
euen
in
their
dreames
.
¶
Also
that
the
latter
Byshops
of
Rome
vntill
Gregorie
the
first
,
vaunted
not
of
any
fulnesse
of
power
,
nor
of
their
supremacie
ouer
beyng
aduaunced
aboue
kinges
and
kingdomes
.
NEuerthelesse
we
must
néedes
graunt
,
that
from
the
tyme
of
Constantine
the
great
,
who
did
set
the
Churches
in
peace
,
not
onely
the
Bishops
of
Rome
,
but
also
the
Bishops
of
other
Churches
through
the
worlde
began
to
step
aside
from
the
playne
footesteppes
of
their
predecessors
,
and
claue
not
so
carefully
to
the
simple
doctrine
of
the
Apostles
,
and
therfore
admitted
mo
ceremonies
into
the
Church
,
then
beséemed
,
and
furthermore
intermeddled
them selues
in
worldly
affaires
and
applyed
them selues
to
much
vnto
them
,
yea
&
inuented
new
names
and
offices
of
dignitie
,
and
brought
such
other
thinges
of
the
same
sort
into
the
Church
,
which
made
way
for
worser
thinges
.
This
saw
that
famous
Poet
Baptista
Mantuanus
,
who
intreatyng
of
the
times
of
Constantine
the
great
among
other
thinges
wrate
thus
.
Most
noysom
poyson
sprang
of
honny
sweete
.
A
right
faire
word
is
Rest
,
a
pleasaunt
name
is
peace
.
But
yet
from
peace
shall
flowe
more
losse
,
Dishonour
,
shame
,
reproche
and
miserie
,
Then
could
from
cruell
warre
.
For
out
of
kynde
the
auncient
vertue
shall
degenerate
&c.
But
howsoeuer
the
Bishops
as
well
of
Rome
as
of
other
Churches
began
to
grow
worse
and
worse
,
yet
were
they
still
ignorant
of
that
Romish
Monarchie
or
rather
tyrannie
which
is
defended
at
this
day
.
For
that
I
may
alledge
nothing
hether
out
of
the
auncienter
writers
of
Gods
Church
:
doth
not
S.
Hierome
in
his
Epistle
to
Euagrius
,
and
in
his
Commentaries
vpon
S.
Paules
Epistle
to
Titus
,
most
manisfestly
make
the
Bishop
of
Rome
and
the
very
Church
of
Rome
it selfe
,
equall
with
all
other
Byshops
and
Chuches
in
the
world
?
Doth
he
not
openly
say
,
that
the
Churches
in
old
time
were
gouerned
by
the
common
aduise
of
the
elders
?
Doth
he
not
most
piththely
shew
out
of
the
Scriptures
,
that
elders
and
bishops
be
all
one
thing
?
and
that
the
one
is
not
the
name
of
age
and
the
other
of
office
?
Doth
he
not
playnly
say
that
Bishops
were
preferred
before
elders
,
&
elders
made
subiect
to
Bishops
,
by
custome
of
the
Church
and
not
by
appointment
of
God
?
Wherfore
it
were
truly
a
wonder
,
why
Epiphanius
agaynst
the
Arrians
should
recken
vp
this
thing
for
an
heresie
,
which
Ierome
vrgeth
with
so
many
and
so
piththy
wordes
:
but
that
others
giue
me
warnyng
that
Epiphanius
was
to
gentle
in
charging
other
folkes
with
heresie
.
Truly
in
this
case
(
to
speake
with
reuerence
of
so
great
a
learned
man
)
he
wrongfully
misreported
the
giltlesse
,
contrarie
without
authoritie
of
the
holy
Scripture
.
But
if
any
man
list
to
heare
Ieromes
owne
wordes
,
behold
I
will
briefly
rehearse
the
thinges
that
make
to
this
purpose
.
We
must
not
(
sayth
he
to
Euagrius
)
esteme
the
Church
of
Rome
to
be
one
,
&
the
Church
of
the
whole
world
to
be
another
.
Both
Fraunce
,
and
Britaine
,
and
Affrike
,
and
Persia
,
and
the
Eastcountreys
,
and
Inde
,
and
all
the
barbarous
nations
,
worshyp
one
Christ
,
&
obserue
one
rule
of
truth
.
If
authoritie
be
sought
,
the
world
is
greater
than
a
Citie
.
Where
soeuer
is
a
Byshop
,
whether
he
be
of
Rome
,
or
of
Eugubie
,
or
of
Alexandrie
,
or
of
Tanais
,
he
is
all
one
in
merite
,
all
one
in
Priesthode
.
The
statelinesse
of
riches
or
the
basenesse
of
pouertie
maketh
not
a
Bishop
either
higher
or
lower
?
but
all
of
them
are
successors
of
the
Apostles
.
And
vpon
the
Epistle
of
S.
Paul
vnto
Titus
:
An
Elder
(
sayth
he
)
and
a
Byshop
are
both
one
.
And
before
such
tyme
as
by
the
instinct
of
the
deuill
there
were
sectes
in
religion
,
and
it
was
sayd
among
folke
,
I
hold
of
Paule
,
I
of
Apollo
,
and
I
of
Cephas
:
the
Churches
were
gouerned
by
the
common
aduise
of
the
Elders
.
But
after
the
time
that
euery
man
imagined
those
whom
he
had
baptised
to
be
his
owne
and
not
Christes
:
it
was
decréed
through
the
whole
world
▪
that
one
(
he
speaketh
not
of
the
bishop
of
Rome
onely
,
but
of
all
other
Metropolitanes
through
the
whole
world
)
should
be
chosen
from
among
the
Elders
,
and
set
ouer
the
rest
,
vnto
whom
the
charge
of
the
whole
Church
should
belong
,
and
so
the
séedes
of
schismes
and
variances
be
taken
away
.
Againe
when
the
same
Ierome
had
proued
and
shewed
by
many
textes
of
Scripture
,
that
Elders
and
Byshops
are
all
one
thing
he
addeth
byanby
:
I
haue
therfore
mencioned
these
thinges
,
that
I
might
shew
how
Elders
and
Bishops
were
all
one
thing
,
and
that
for
the
plucking
vp
of
the
plantes
of
dissention
,
the
charge
of
all
things
was
by
little
put
vnto
one
.
Therfore
like
as
Priests
know
that
by
the
custome
of
the
Church
they
be
subiect
to
him
that
is
set
ouer
them
:
so
also
let
the
Bishops
vnderstand
that
they
be
greater
than
the
Priestes
rather
by
custome
than
by
truth
of
Christes
ordinaunce
,
and
that
they
ought
to
gouerne
the
Church
in
common
.
And
so
forth
.
And
although
I
thinke
not
that
any
man
will
looke
for
plainer
&
fuller
matter
in
this
present
case
than
this
which
I
haue
rehearsed
already
out
of
Ierome
:
yet
will
I
adde
somewhat
more
out
of
Gregorie
,
who
was
himselfe
a
Bishop
of
Rome
,
placed
in
that
sea
the
yeare
of
our
Lord.
591.
in
which
he
dyed
the
yeare
of
our
Lord
64.
He
alone
wil
be
a
sufficient
able
witnesse
,
that
in
his
time
the
sayd
tyrannicall
and
Popish
Monarchie
was
not
yet
either
placed
in
that
sea
,
nor
graunted
to
it
.
Before
this
Gregorie
was
chosen
to
the
Byshoprik
of
Rome
,
he
was
Pretor
or
Maior
of
the
Citie
of
Rome
,
as
he
himselfe
witnesseth
in
his
booke
of
Epistles
the
second
Epistle
.
Beyng
chosen
Byshop
&
confirmed
in
his
Bishoprike
or
sea
by
the
Emperour
Morice
who
kept
his
residence
at
Constantinople
:
he
calleth
him
Emperour
&
acknowledgeth
him
to
be
his
souerein
Lord
ordeined
by
God
,
and
himselfe
to
be
his
subiect
&
seruaunt
.
Yea
and
he
faithfully
obeyed
his
Exarkes
and
Captaines
that
were
placed
through
Italie
,
calling
them
his
Lordes
.
He
obeyed
their
lawes
,
yea
and
their
Ecclesiasticall
lawes
to
.
All
which
thinges
are
to
be
read
in
his
Epistles
,
Lib.
2.
Epist.
61.
Againe
,
Lib.
4.
Epist.
31.
&
Lib.
1.
Epist.
43.
Also
,
Lib.
7.
Epist.
11.
Besides
this
Paulus
Diaconus
in
his
4.
booke
&
9.
chap.
of
the
doyngs
of
the
Lombardes
,
witnesseth
that
Gregorie
submitted
himselfe
to
be
iudged
by
the
Emperour
Maurice
,
for
the
murther
of
Malchus
a
byshop
,
wherof
he
was
appeached
.
And
Gregorie
him selfe
maketh
mention
of
the
same
matter
in
the
seuenth
booke
of
his
Epistles
.
But
these
thinges
will
séeme
light
and
small
,
if
they
be
compared
with
those
which
he
himselfe
hath
left
in
writyng
.
For
when
as
one
Iohn
Bishop
of
Constantinople
would
néedes
be
called
oeconomicall
Bishop
and
be
acknowledged
for
vniuersall
Bishop
to
haue
supremacie
,
iurisdiction
,
and
dominion
ouer
all
Churches
and
Byshops
of
Churches
in
the
whole
world
:
Gregorie
withstode
him
sharpely
and
stoutly
,
like
as
Bishop
Pelagius
had
done
afore
him
.
He
wrate
many
and
sundry
Epistles
concernyng
that
matter
to
Maurice
the
Emperour
,
to
Constance
the
Empresse
,
to
Iohn
himselfe
the
Bishop
of
Constantinople
,
and
to
the
Bishops
of
Antioche
and
Alexandria
.
Among
other
thinges
he
denieth
that
any
man
ought
to
be
an
vniuersall
Bishop
sauing
Christ
,
&
that
any
Bishops
vsurped
that
title
afore
him
.
For
he
sayth
,
that
the
title
is
,
straunge
,
foolish
,
proude
,
péeuish
,
wicked
,
and
heathenish
,
wherunto
to
consent
,
were
euen
as
much
as
to
renounce
the
fayth
.
Agayne
speakyng
of
Iohn
of
Constantinople
,
Out
of
the
same
dust
(
sayth
he
)
in
which
he
sate
,
and
out
of
the
same
lowlynesse
which
he
pretended
,
he
hath
taken
presumptuousnesse
,
so
as
he
assayeth
to
ascribe
all
thinges
to
himselfe
,
and
by
haultinesse
of
stately
spéech
indeuereth
to
subdue
all
Christes
members
to
himselfe
,
which
cleaue
alonely
to
their
owne
head
,
that
is
to
say
,
to
the
same
Christ
.
Anon
after
comparing
with
Lucifer
,
he
writeth
:
Lucifer
sayd
,
I
will
clymb
into
heauen
,
I
will
exalt
my
throne
aboue
the
starres
of
the
skie
.
For
what
els
are
all
thy
brethren
the
Byshops
of
the
vniuersall
Church
,
but
starres
of
heauen
?
whose
life
together
with
their
toung
shineth
among
mens
sinnes
&
errours
,
as
it
were
in
the
dareknesse
of
the
night
.
Before
whom
when
thou
couetest
to
preferre
thy selfe
by
title
of
preheminence
,
and
to
treade
their
name
vnder
foote
in
comparison
of
thine
owne
,
what
els
sayest
thou
,
but
I
will
clymb
vp
into
heauen
&c.
Finally
writing
to
the
same
Iohn
Byshop
of
Constantinople
,
all
thinges
(
sayth
he
)
that
were
forespoken
,
do
come
to
passe
.
The
kyng
of
pride
is
néere
at
hand
,
and
(
which
is
a
shame
to
be
spoken
)
there
is
an
army
of
Priestes
in
preparing
for
him
.
For
they
which
were
set
to
be
lodesmen
of
lowlynesse
serue
as
souldiers
vnder
the
necke
of
loftinesse
.
And
the
same
man
agayne
in
his
6.
booke
of
Epistles
and
the
xxx
.
Epist.
But
I
say
boldly
,
that
who
soeuer
termeth
himselfe
or
desireth
to
be
termed
the
vniuersall
Bishop
,
is
in
his
pride
the
forerunner
of
Antichrist
,
bycause
he
preferreth
himselfe
by
his
proudnesse
before
the
residue
,
and
by
like
pryde
is
led
into
errour
.
And
certes
Gregorie
hath
spoken
these
thynges
most
truly
.
For
the
sayd
Iohn
Bishop
of
Constantinople
was
the
very
forerunner
of
Antichrist
,
as
who
by
his
wicked
and
importunate
demaund
of
highest
preheminence
,
gaue
occasion
to
the
Byshops
of
Rome
to
aspire
to
the
top
of
supremacie
.
Among
them
after
the
death
of
Gregorie
,
Boniface
the
third
obteyned
of
the
Emperour
Phocas
that
he
should
proclaime
the
Church
of
Rome
to
the
head
of
all
other
Churches
,
as
Bede
sayth
:
to
be
the
first
Church
,
as
Paulus
Diaconus
sayth
:
or
to
be
the
mother
Church
,
as
Vrspergensis
and
Crantzius
say
.
Whereupon
the
Bishops
of
Rome
as
beyng
Byshops
of
the
souerein
S●a
,
immediatly
proclaymed
themselues
both
souerein
and
vniuersall
Shepheardes
of
all
Churches
,
to
whom
all
ought
of
dewtie
to
obey
.
For
the
Emperour
Phocas
(
sayth
Nauclerus
in
his
hystorie
)
by
the
Byshop
of
Romes
persuasion
sent
abroad
proclamations
openly
and
to
the
whole
world
,
ordeinyng
that
all
the
Churches
of
the
world
should
obey
the
Church
and
Byshop
of
Rome
.
The
same
History
writer
addeth
further
that
in
tymes
forepast
,
the
same
proclamation
was
not
obserued
in
all
pointes
,
and
specially
not
of
the
Greekes
&c.
The
sayd
Phocas
that
made
this
law
was
a
monster
of
mankynd
,
a
most
vnthrifty
Prince
,
a
most
cruell
murtherer
,
a
thrall
of
lecherie
,
and
all
wickednesse
as
histories
beare
witnesse
,
and
of
all
kynges
the
wretcheddest
.
Therfore
least
the
pot
might
not
haue
a
co●●●●fit
for
it
,
or
least
like
lippes
might
not
alwayes
finde
lyke
lettice
,
he
made
a
constitution
euen
méete
for
hym selfe
.
¶
That
the
latter
Byshops
of
Rome
degenerated
vtterly
from
the
first
and
middlemost
Byshoppes
of
Rome
,
and
that
they
vsurpe
the
cursed
title
of
full
power
,
agaynst
all
right
and
reason
.
NOt
vnfitly
are
diuerse
godly
and
learned
men
of
the
Church
reported
to
haue
sayd
,
that
among
the
latter
Byshops
of
Rome
that
are
worthy
to
be
reckoned
among
Shepherdes
,
Gregory
is
the
last
.
For
as
for
the
hindermost
sort
that
haue
folowed
after
hym
,
they
were
not
sheepefeeders
but
sheepebyters
,
a
few
excepted
,
for
through
their
neglecting
of
Gods
worde
,
and
their
earthly
affections
,
they
haue
not
onely
in
wonderfull
wise
darkened
the
clearnesse
of
the
christian
doctrine
with
mens
inuentions
and
traditions
,
but
also
defiled
and
marred
the
simplicitie
and
purenesse
of
Gods
seruice
,
with
vncleane
superstitions
,
differing
little
or
nothing
from
the
heathenish
&
wicked
Idolatries
.
Many
of
them
haue
openly
defended
corrupt
doctrines
,
and
the
Idolles
themselues
,
and
other
abhominacions
,
and
therewithall
haue
forced
them
vppon
the
people
.
Othersome
of
them
treading
all
discipline
and
honestie
vnder
foote
,
haue
wallowed
themselues
in
filthy
and
vnlawfull
lustes
,
in
ryot
and
lecherie
,
in
vnchastnesse
,
in
aduowtrie
and
whoredome
,
in
incest
and
other
horrible
offences
,
as
it
were
in
the
myre
of
Cocytus
,
and
the
poole
of
Stix
.
Others
of
them
haue
not
refrayned
themselues
from
poysonynges
,
from
Necromancie
,
or
felowshyp
with
Deuilles
,
from
magik
,
damned
in
all
ages
,
from
murtheryng
,
and
from
treasons
.
All
of
them
for
the
most
part
,
and
specially
the
latter
Bishops
of
Rome
,
being
blinded
with
diuelish
desire
of
soueraintie
,
and
swolne
and
puft
vp
with
such
pride
as
the
lyke
was
neuer
heard
of
,
haue
not
bene
ashamed
before
God
,
nor
before
his
aungels
and
the
whole
world
,
to
aduaunce
themselues
into
that
seate
by
simonie
,
and
to
intangle
themselues
in
secular
kyngdome
,
and
therwithall
to
withdraw
themselues
from
the
subiection
of
kynges
and
princes
ordayned
by
God
,
to
vsurp
other
mens
rightes
,
to
beare
both
the
persons
of
spiritualtie
and
temporaltie
,
and
to
chalenge
to
themselues
the
iurisdictson
of
both
the
swordes
,
to
suffer
no
man
to
be
equall
wyth
them
,
and
much
lesse
to
be
aboue
them
:
also
to
deny
dutie
and
honour
vnto
their
betters
,
and
to
such
as
are
ordayned
of
God
,
or
rather
to
take
it
from
them
to
themselues
:
to
raigne
ouer
the
Princes
themselues
,
and
to
appoint
them
lawes
,
and
finally
to
trample
them
vnder
their
féete
,
contrary
to
Gods
commaundement
and
the
example
of
the
Apostles
.
But
least
in
this
behalfe
I
may
séeme
to
yelde
to
affection
or
to
speake
these
thinges
vppon
malice
,
or
to
fayne
neuer
so
little
:
go
to
,
let
vs
stand
to
the
tryall
,
let
inquisition
be
made
vppon
the
liues
of
the
Bishops
,
and
read
the
liues
of
Iohn
the
twefth
,
of
Siluister
the
second
and
Siluester
the
third
,
of
Bennet
the
ninth
,
of
Gregorie
the
sixt
,
and
Gregorie
the
seuenth
,
of
Vrban
the
second
,
of
Paschall
the
second
,
of
Calixt
the
second
,
of
Honorius
the
second
,
and
Honorius
the
third
,
of
Innocent
the
second
,
Innocent
the
third
,
&
of
Innocent
the
fourth
,
of
Adrian
the
fourth
,
of
Alexander
the
third
,
of
Gregorie
the
nynth
,
of
Clement
the
fourth
,
and
here
I
am
fayne
to
stop
,
least
I
might
make
a
beadroll
ouer
long
and
wearisome
to
the
reader
,
for
I
could
name
yet
mo
of
the
byshops
that
ensued
,
fewe
better
then
these
,
but
too
many
worser
.
But
in
thys
behalfe
it
is
best
to
heare
the
iudgement
of
some
Byshop
,
yet
will
I
not
alledge
the
testimonie
of
Cardinall
Benno
and
certayne
others
,
but
of
Eberhart
Erle
of
Abensperg
,
who
being
byshop
of
Salisburg
,
did
in
the
counsell
that
was
helde
at
Regenspurg
the
yeare
of
our
Lord
1240.
make
a
méetly
long
oration
against
the
tyranny
of
the
Romane
byshops
,
which
oration
Iohn
Auentine
hath
copied
out
whole
into
hys
history
of
yearly
affayres
in
the
seuenth
booke
,
the
683.
leafe
.
Among
other
thing
,
Christ
our
Sauiour
,
Lord
and
God
,
leauing
(
saith
he
)
his
heauenvly
throne
,
became
mortall
and
poore
,
that
he
might
make
vs
immorand
rich
.
And
when
he
had
conquered
hell
and
was
returning
triumphantly
into
heauen
,
he
gaue
vs
hys
peace
,
he
left
vs
his
peace
,
and
he
assigned
concord
and
mutuall
loue
to
be
as
it
were
the
badge
and
cognisance
whereby
his
citizens
might
be
discerned
from
the
souldiers
of
the
infernall
Ioue
.
And
he
gaue
vs
earnest
warning
to
beware
of
false
Christes
and
false
Prophetes
,
namely
men
that
should
séeke
to
raigne
ouer
vs
,
and
to
mocke
vs
vnder
the
Christian
name
and
byshoply
title
.
If
we
be
not
blynde
,
we
sée
a
most
cruell
woolfe
in
a
shéepes
skinne
,
vnder
the
title
of
the
chiefe
byshop
.
The
Romish
flamines
haue
warre
against
all
Christians
,
being
growen
great
by
aduenturing
,
by
deceiuing
,
and
by
sowing
warre
vppon
warre
,
they
kill
the
shéepe
,
they
slea
,
they
driue
peace
and
concord
out
of
the
world
,
they
bring
vp
ciuill
warres
,
and
household
debates
from
hell
,
and
they
weaken
all
mens
strengthes
dayly
more
and
more
,
that
they
themselues
may
leape
ouer
all
mens
heades
,
deuour
all
men
,
and
bring
all
men
in
bondage
.
They
prouide
not
for
their
flocke
like
byshoply
shepheardes
,
but
rather
make
hauocke
of
them
with
outragious
licenciousnes
like
tyrantes
.
Iustice
waxeth
skant
:
vngodlinesse
,
couetousnesse
,
desire
of
honor
,
loue
of
money
,
and
lechery
waxe
rise
.
Christ
forbiddeth
vs
to
hate
our
enemies
,
and
commaundeth
vs
to
loue
them
.
Contrariwise
the
Romish
sort
vnder
great
pretence
of
holinesse
,
commaund
men
to
breake
stedfast
couenauntes
,
to
abuse
Gods
holy
name
to
deceiue
men
withall
,
to
be
vnkinde
to
such
as
haue
deserued
well
,
to
recompence
good
déedes
with
euill
déedes
,
to
make
warre
,
to
quarrell
,
to
beguile
,
and
to
betray
.
Hildebrand
(
the
same
is
Gregory
the
seuenth
)
a
hundred
threscore
and
tenne
yeares
agoe
layde
first
the
foundacion
of
Antichristes
kingdome
,
vnder
pretence
of
Religion
.
He
was
the
first
that
began
this
horrible
warre
,
which
is
continued
vnto
this
day
by
his
successors
.
First
they
thrust
out
the
Emperour
from
the
election
of
the
byshops
,
and
conueied
it
to
the
people
and
the
clergie
.
After
they
had
geuen
them
a
mocke
also
and
hist
them
out
of
doores
,
now
they
labour
to
bring
vs
also
vnder
coram
and
bondage
,
that
they
may
raigne
alone
.
Moreouer
being
nouzeled
in
custome
of
bearing
rule
,
and
hauing
throughly
wayed
the
power
of
themselues
and
of
their
aduersaries
,
they
will
vse
the
beutifull
colour
of
stablishing
the
libertie
of
the
Church
,
as
an
occasion
to
plucke
the
soueraintie
to
themselues
and
to
oppresse
Christian
libertie
.
Beleue
me
(
I
speake
of
experience
)
they
will
not
cease
till
they
haue
gotten
all
into
their
owne
handes
.
The
Pope
imagineth
new
deuises
in
his
brest
,
to
the
intent
he
may
stablish
his
owne
Empyre
,
he
altereth
lawes
,
he
stablisheth
his
owne
,
he
defileth
,
he
filtheth
,
he
spoyleth
,
he
defraudeth
,
he
killeth
.
That
lost
man
whom
men
are
wont
to
call
Antichrist
,
in
whose
forehead
is
written
a
name
of
blasphemy
,
that
is
to
wit
,
I
am
God
,
and
I
cannot
erre
,
euen
that
lost
soule
I
say
sitteth
in
Gods
temple
and
raigneth
far
and
wide
.
These
and
many
other
thinges
like
these
,
did
that
holy
byshop
discourse
with
great
boldnesse
and
constancie
.
Neither
was
this
Prelate
altogether
a
vayne
Prophet
,
considering
that
within
thréescore
yeares
after
,
Boniface
the
eight
of
that
name
,
a
most
filthy
and
vngracious
wight
is
reported
to
haue
bene
puffed
vp
into
so
diuelish
and
brasenfaste
pride
,
that
openly
in
the
Iubilie
(
which
he
himselfe
first
inuented
and
ordayned
contrary
to
the
Christian
fayth
)
he
durst
vaunt
himselfe
as
highest
byshop
and
chiefe
Emperour
,
before
a
great
assembly
and
prease
of
people
of
all
nacions
vnder
heauen
.
For
the
first
day
he
came
forth
in
hys
byshoplike
apparell
,
and
gaue
the
foolishe
people
his
Apostolike
blissing
as
they
terme
it
.
And
the
next
day
wearing
an
imperiall
crowne
,
and
being
clothed
in
robes
of
estate
,
he
commaunded
a
naked
sword
to
be
borne
before
hym
,
and
sittyng
downe
in
a
throne
,
cryed
out
,
Behold
here
be
the
two
swordes
.
And
being
not
satisfied
with
this
Luciferlike
gaze
,
he
durst
yet
further
at
the
same
time
most
spitefully
reiect
the
Ambassadours
of
the
Princes
Electors
which
gaue
him
to
vnderstand
that
they
had
chosen
Albert
Prince
of
Habspurge
and
Austrich
,
the
sonne
of
king
Rodolphus
,
to
be
king
of
Romanes
:
yea
and
also
to
make
a
lawe
in
all
respectes
tyrannicall
,
and
Antichristian
,
which
is
extant
in
the
extrauagantes
,
in
the
booke
of
maioritie
&
obedience
,
beginning
with
vnam
Sanctam
.
&c.
In
that
lawe
,
after
he
hath
attributed
all
power
both
spirituall
,
&
temporall
to
the
Pope
:
in
the
end
he
concludeth
the
same
and
saith
:
moreouer
we
declare
,
auouch
,
determine
,
and
geue
sentence
that
it
is
vtterly
of
necessitie
of
saluation
,
that
all
men
be
subiect
to
the
byshop
of
Rome
.
Whereas
there
is
commonly
blazed
abroad
of
the
same
byshop
this
commendation
of
his
,
that
he
entred
as
a
Fox
,
raigned
as
a
woolfe
,
(
others
haue
as
a
Lion
)
and
dyed
as
a
dogge
:
And
whereas
Phillip
the
fayre
king
of
Fraunce
appeached
him
of
heresie
,
murther
,
simonie
,
and
all
maner
of
most
heynous
crimes
:
yet
are
not
the
Papistes
ashamed
to
alledge
still
the
sayd
stinking
lawe
of
this
rancke
varlet
for
the
maintenaunce
of
their
monarchy
.
Hereunto
perteineth
it
,
that
the
Bull
of
Iohn
the
xxij
.
published
agaynst
Lewes
the
4.
Emperour
of
that
name
,
(
which
Bull
Auentine
rehearseth
whole
in
his
vii
.
booke
of
Chronicles
)
sayth
among
other
thinges
:
When
the
chief
Empire
happeneth
to
be
without
a
head
,
the
souerein
power
of
it
is
in
the
handes
of
the
highest
Bishop
,
whole
benefite
the
same
is
,
&c.
This
durst
he
write
the
yeare
of
our
Lord.
323.
So
greatly
were
their
corages
increased
since
Boniface
dyed
in
prison
,
which
was
within
xxiij
.
yeares
space
.
But
the
Emperour
Lewes
aunswereth
the
Bull
at
large
by
a
proclamation
,
which
is
to
be
read
copyed
whole
by
the
same
Auentine
into
his
booke
of
histories
.
In
the
same
proclamation
,
among
other
thinges
,
The
Byshop
(
sayth
he
meaning
Iohn
the
xxij
)
thristeth
,
after
Christian
bloud
,
and
soweth
euery
where
the
mischief
of
discord
and
seditions
among
Christians
.
Neither
can
the
Christians
kéepe
the
peace
giuen
them
of
God
,
by
reason
of
this
Antichrist
.
So
great
is
the
madnesse
of
that
man
,
or
rather
of
that
féend
,
that
he
preacheth
his
owne
wicked
doynges
as
if
they
were
good
déedes
,
in
open
audience
.
When
Christian
Princes
(
sayth
he
)
are
at
variance
one
with
an
other
,
then
is
the
Romish
Priest
the
hyghest
Byshop
in
déede
,
then
reigneth
he
,
then
is
he
in
his
ruffe
.
And
so
the
debate
and
discord
of
the
Germanes
is
meate
and
drinke
to
the
Byshops
of
Rome
.
Therfore
it
standes
the
high
prelate
in
hand
to
weaken
the
Empire
of
the
Almaines
.
And
a
little
after
the
Emperour
sayth
.
Looke
who
soeuer
kéepe
their
allegeance
to
the
Emperour
,
and
to
Christ
our
Sauiour
which
commaundeth
them
to
obey
:
Them
for
so
doyng
and
for
none
other
cause
,
doth
he
brond
with
the
marke
of
heresie
.
What
soeuer
he
listeth
,
he
déemeth
it
lawfull
.
How
shall
I
therfore
deale
with
him
?
He
mindeth
not
to
execute
or
to
know
any
right
,
any
equitie
,
any
good
.
He
séeth
nothyng
,
he
doth
nothyng
,
but
what
he
listeth
himselfe
.
He
taketh
to
him
the
spirit
of
Sathan
,
and
maketh
himselfe
like
the
highest
.
He
suffereth
himselfe
to
be
worshipped
(
which
thing
a
certaine
aungell
forbade
Iohn
to
do
vnto
him
)
and
his
féete
to
bée
kissed
,
after
the
maner
of
the
most
cruel
tyrantes
Diocletian
and
Alexander
,
whereas
Christ
our
Lord
and
kyng
washed
the
féete
of
his
Disciples
beyng
but
fishermen
,
to
the
intent
that
his
messengers
should
do
the
same
agayne
to
those
that
they
were
sent
to
:
&
so
forth
.
I
haue
rehearsed
these
things
,
to
the
end
that
the
manifest
record
and
iudgement
not
onely
of
a
famous
Byshop
,
but
also
of
a
most
glorious
kyng
or
Emperour
,
concernyng
this
latter
vnhappy
and
vngracious
Bishops
,
might
remaine
in
record
.
In
the
same
tyme
of
Lewes
the
iiij
.
about
the
yeare
of
our
Lord
.1330
.
that
is
to
say
,
two
hundred
and
forty
yeares
ago
,
florished
the
renowmed
and
sage
Lawyer
Marsilius
of
Padua
,
who
wrate
a
singular
booke
for
the
Emperour
Lewes
the
4.
agaynst
the
Byshops
of
Rome
,
and
intitled
it
the
defence
of
peace
.
In
the
same
booke
Dict.
2.
Chap.
4.
he
sheweth
by
many
and
those
most
euident
reasons
that
neither
the
Byshop
of
Rome
,
no
nor
any
other
Byshop
,
or
Priest
hath
any
souereintie
ouer
any
man
,
either
clerks
or
layman
:
and
that
by
the
example
of
Christ
,
if
any
such
be
offered
them
they
ought
to
refuse
it
:
and
that
all
Byshops
and
Churchmen
ought
to
be
subiect
to
the
souerein
that
ruleth
them
.
Agayne
the
same
man
in
Dict.
2.
Cap.
25
sayth
thus
:
They
haue
taken
to
them
the
title
which
they
make
their
boast
of
,
namely
The
fulnesse
of
power
:
which
they
say
that
Christ
gaue
peculiarly
vnto
them
in
the
person
of
S.
Peter
,
as
to
the
successors
of
the
same
Apostle
:
&
they
indeuer
to
make
it
the
instrument
of
this
naughtinesse
.
By
which
cursed
title
,
&
by
sophisticall
spéech
,
they
labour
to
bring
all
Princes
,
people
,
and
persons
politike
and
seuerall
,
in
bondage
to
them
.
And
agayne
,
Although
the
Euangelist
sayd
trew
in
auouchyng
Christ
to
be
kyng
of
kynges
,
and
Lord
of
Lordes
:
yet
notwithstandyng
he
that
hath
auouched
any
power
of
souereintie
at
all
&
much
lesse
any
full
power
,
to
be
graunted
to
the
Bishop
of
Rome
,
or
to
any
other
Bishop
,
in
the
person
of
S.
Peter
,
or
of
any
other
Apostle
,
hath
spoken
and
written
a
false
and
an
open
lye
agaynst
the
manifest
opinion
of
Christ
,
and
of
his
Apostles
Peter
,
Paule
,
&
Iames.
But
such
power
is
,
was
,
and
shal
be
forbidden
by
Christ
vnto
the
Byshop
of
Rome
and
all
others
in
the
person
of
any
of
the
Apostles
,
accordyng
as
we
haue
vndoubtedly
certified
you
by
the
Scripture
and
the
authorities
of
holy
men
in
the
4.5
.
&
9.
Dist.
hereof
.
This
farre
Marsilius
.
¶
This
discourse
is
concluded
,
and
here
is
shewed
that
the
sentence
of
Pope
Pius
the
fifth
published
against
the
most
vertuous
Queene
of
England
,
and
all
her
whole
noble
Realme
,
is
vtterly
fond
and
of
none
effect
.
BUt
to
what
purpose
serueth
so
déepe
repetyng
of
these
thinges
will
some
man
say
?
Surely
all
these
thinges
serue
to
this
purpose
,
that
it
may
appeare
manifestly
by
them
,
yea
&
be
perceiued
euen
of
the
most
simplest
sort
of
all
,
that
this
fulnesse
of
power
&
souereintie
ouer
all
kings
&
kyngdomes
,
which
the
sayd
Pope
Pius
the
fifth
braggeth
of
in
hys
Bull
,
to
be
giuen
vnto
himselfe
and
to
all
Byshops
of
Rome
,
is
nothyng
els
but
Bullyng
or
Bublyng
,
that
is
to
say
nothyng
els
but
a
most
vayne
forgerie
,
or
rather
a
deuilish
and
cursed
lye
deuised
,
found
out
,
and
forced
vpon
the
people
of
God
,
by
the
Popes
themselues
and
by
flattering
clawbackes
of
their
owne
stamp
.
For
Christ
neuer
gaue
any
such
thyng
either
to
Peter
or
to
the
other
Apostles
.
Neyther
did
Peter
leaue
any
whit
thereof
to
his
successors
:
so
as
I
may
well
say
,
that
the
Popes
are
nothing
lesse
than
the
successors
of
Simon
Peter
,
but
rather
the
successors
of
Simon
Magnus
.
Moreouer
the
Lord
in
his
Gospell
not
once
nor
darckely
,
but
most
openly
commaundeth
byshops
to
obey
kinges
,
and
not
to
raigne
ouer
them
.
And
therefore
the
Apostles
and
the
first
byshops
of
the
Romane
Church
,
were
ministers
of
the
Church
,
yea
and
martyrs
,
but
not
Princes
of
nacions
:
and
they
yelded
due
obedience
vnto
Princes
.
What
maner
of
men
the
latter
byshops
of
Rome
be
and
haue
bene
,
who
stepping
aside
from
the
footsteppes
of
the
fathers
,
haue
both
vniustly
vsurped
and
cruelly
executed
,
the
sayd
fulnesse
of
power
,
wherof
they
now
make
their
boast
,
they
are
knowen
to
all
men
,
not
by
their
vertues
but
by
their
unspeakeble
outrages
.
What
els
remayneth
then
,
but
that
the
sentence
of
Pope
Pius
the
fift
(
who
as
he
sayth
himselfe
is
mounted
vp
into
the
throne
of
Iustice
to
geue
iudgement
)
which
he
by
the
fulnesse
of
his
power
hath
geuen
and
pronounced
definitiuely
by
publishing
it
against
the
most
vertuous
Quéene
of
England
and
the
noble
Realme
of
England
,
is
vtterly
nothing
and
of
none
effect
,
because
it
is
but
a
vayne
,
a
fained
,
and
counterfet
power
,
by
force
wherof
this
disguised
Iudge
hath
geuen
sentence
,
not
as
a
Iudge
,
but
as
a
tyraunt
,
and
Antichrst
.
Therefore
O
England
(
happie
euen
in
the
same
resspect
)
when
thou
séest
the
Romish
thunderbolts
which
the
Bull
spreddeth
into
the
whole
world
,
to
be
throwen
and
darted
agaynst
thée
:
thou
must
thinke
it
is
but
a
new
Italian
Cacus
that
puffeth
out
again
his
vaine
flashes
of
fire
,
from
those
his
shadie
dennes
of
meant
Auentine
blinded
with
much
mist
,
and
dazeleth
the
sight
of
blearied
folke
with
black
fogginesse
and
darcknes
mixt
with
fire
.
They
that
haue
receiued
their
eysight
by
the
grace
of
God
,
know
well
inough
what
that
fond
Salmonean
lightener
is
,
namely
euen
the
man
of
sinne
,
&
the
child
of
damnation
,
as
the
Apostle
saith
,
which
is
lifted
vp
against
all
that
is
called
God
or
the
power
of
God
,
in
so
much
as
he
sitteth
in
the
temple
of
God
,
boasting
himselfe
to
be
God
.
Therfore
the
godly
and
those
that
be
enlightened
beleue
that
God
blesseth
their
curssages
and
curseth
their
blessinges
▪
and
therefore
that
his
excommunications
are
nothing
to
be
feared
.
Surely
from
the
time
that
these
men
executed
that
vnmeasurable
power
of
theirs
in
the
Church
,
they
haue
bene
so
farre
from
holding
Gods
people
together
in
the
vnitie
of
the
spirit
,
or
from
bringing
them
to
their
Sauiour
,
that
they
rather
dispersed
them
&
pulled
them
away
from
them
their
Sauiour
.
Which
thing
the
matter
it self
bewrayeth
.
¶
Here
are
perused
the
articles
as
well
of
the
accusation
as
also
of
the
slaunders
alleadged
by
the
Byshop
of
Rome
in
his
Bull
agaynst
the
most
vertuous
Queene
of
England
.
NOw
let
vs
also
come
downe
to
the
chiefe
pointes
of
the
accusation
which
Pius
the
fift
the
byshop
of
Rome
bendeth
against
the
most
vertuous
Quéene
of
England
.
For
by
confuting
them
,
and
by
mainteining
the
godlinesse
and
innocency
of
that
vertuous
Quéene
and
her
noble
Realme
,
it
will
appeare
againe
to
the
whole
world
,
that
the
Popes
curse
is
but
a
very
flimflaw
and
a
filme
of
a
nutshell
as
they
say
in
the
prouerbe
.
Least
he
might
not
resemble
the
reuiling
&
blasphemous
mouth
of
Antichrist
,
he
beginneth
these
thinges
with
rayling
and
slaundring
,
for
he
termeth
the
noble
Prince
kyng
Henry
the
eight
,
father
of
this
good
Quéene
,
an
Apostata
,
as
who
turned
away
the
Church
of
England
from
the
Church
of
Rome
,
&
he
termeth
his
daughter
Elizabeth
by
the
grace
of
God
now
Quéene
of
England
,
a
thrall
of
wickednes
,
as
who
(
by
his
saying
)
hath
plucked
backe
and
called
againe
into
miserable
destruction
,
the
Realme
of
England
which
had
bene
brought
to
the
catholike
faith
by
Queene
Marie
lately
deceased
:
and
also
is
become
the
refuge
of
heretickes
.
If
the
beast
should
not
speake
so
,
he
could
not
be
beleued
to
be
the
same
that
he
is
.
For
so
doth
he
trimly
fulfill
the
things
that
are
written
of
Antichrist
.
For
Saint
Peter
speaking
of
Antichrist
,
and
of
Antichristes
household
,
saith
that
God
knoweth
how
to
reserue
the
wicked
to
be
punished
at
the
day
of
iudgement
,
and
specially
such
as
folowing
the
flesh
(
that
is
to
say
,
such
as
being
led
by
lust
of
the
flesh
,
and
not
by
inspiration
of
the
spirit
)
walke
in
vncleane
concupiscence
and
despise
Lordship
(
that
is
to
say
,
the
order
of
dominion
&
soueraintie
)
&
such
as
malapertly
standyng
in
their
own
conceit
(
that
is
to
wit
,
such
as
being
stubburne
&
ouer-wilfull
in
their
owne
opinions
)
are
not
afrayd
to
rayle
&
reuile
the
higher
powers
:
wheras
the
very
angels
(
which
are
greater
in
power
and
strength
than
they
)
geue
not
rayling
sentence
against
them
before
the
Lord
:
and
so
forth
as
foloweth
in
the
second
chapter
of
Saint
Peters
second
Epistle
.
Herewithall
agrée
the
thinges
which
the
blessed
Apostle
Iudas
Thaddaeus
hath
left
written
concerning
the
same
matter
,
saying
:
these
defyle
the
flesh
,
despise
rulers
,
and
rayle
vpon
them
that
be
in
authoritie
.
But
in
the
law
of
God
,
commaundement
is
geuen
that
thou
shalt
not
raile
vppon
the
Gods
,
In
déede
,
that
wise
Prince
king
Henry
the
viii
.
turned
the
Church
that
is
in
England
away
from
many
Romish
superstitions
that
were
very
fowle
.
And
what
offended
he
therin
?
Nay
rather
,
he
deserued
prayse
,
and
his
fallyng
away
is
counted
among
wise
men
,
a
vertue
,
and
not
a
vyce
.
Moreouer
the
renowme
of
this
Prince
is
so
famous
among
all
good
and
godly
men
,
as
it
can
not
be
defaced
by
the
raylinges
of
these
rascals
of
the
Romish
sink
.
He
was
of
singular
learnyng
,
of
notable
wisedome
and
experience
,
of
excellent
corage
,
and
adorned
with
all
heroicall
vertues
and
feates
méete
for
a
Prince
.
And
it
is
not
I
alone
that
thinke
thus
of
this
Kyng
:
there
be
other
graue
personages
which
haue
commended
the
same
thinges
in
hym
.
This
Prince
departyng
blessedly
out
of
this
lyfe
in
the
xxxviii
.
yeare
of
his
reigne
about
the
end
of
Ianuary
in
the
yeare
of
our
Lord
.1547
.
and
hauyng
erst
by
his
will
intayled
the
succession
of
his
Crowne
first
vnto
his
sonne
Edward
a
young
child
of
ix
.
yeares
of
age
,
and
successiuely
after
hym
,
vnto
his
daughters
Marie
and
Elizabeth
:
was
succeded
by
the
sayd
Edward
,
the
vi
.
of
that
name
,
whose
ample
commendations
that
notable
Historiographer
Sleidan
hath
comprised
in
few
wordes
in
the
xxv
.
booke
of
his
Comentaries
,
saying
:
Edward
the
vi
.
the
kyng
of
England
,
doutlesse
a
Prince
of
singular
towardnesse
,
departed
out
of
this
lyfe
the
vi
.
day
of
Iuly
in
the
yeare
of
our
Lord.
1553.
beyng
about
the
age
of
xvi
.
yeares
,
truly
to
the
grief
of
all
godly
men
.
For
after
his
decease
there
folowed
a
very
great
alteration
of
thinges
in
England
.
Surely
Europe
hath
not
had
any
kyng
of
so
great
hope
now
these
certein
hundred
yeares
.
Beyng
very
well
trayned
vp
in
godlinesse
and
instructed
in
learnyng
euen
from
his
tender
yeares
,
he
was
séene
not
onely
in
the
Latin
toung
,
but
also
in
the
Gréeke
&
the
French
tounges
,
and
he
had
an
earnest
loue
to
the
doctrine
of
the
Gospell
,
and
gaue
interteinement
and
defence
to
all
learned
men
,
Germaines
,
Italians
,
Frenchmen
,
Scottes
,
Spanyardes
,
and
Polonians
.
Thus
much
saith
he
furthermore
Iohn
Bale
Byshop
of
Ossoria
in
Ireland
,
reporteth
that
this
King
did
also
exercise
himselfe
in
writing
,
and
among
other
thinges
wrate
a
Comedie
of
the
whore
of
Babylon
.
Queene
Mary
.
Concernyng
the
gouernaunce
of
Quéene
Mary
,
and
her
bringyng
of
the
Church
backe
agayne
to
the
Sea
of
Rome
:
I
will
say
nothing
at
this
present
,
bycause
the
declaration
therof
would
be
very
sorowfull
and
lamentable
,
and
(
to
say
truth
)
it
sticketh
yet
still
more
fresher
is
all
mens
myndes
,
thou
that
it
néedeth
to
be
ripped
vp
agayne
.
This
onely
will
I
say
further
,
that
the
Bishops
of
Rome
were
euen
then
also
heauie
frendes
to
the
Realme
of
England
as
they
had
ben
oft
afore
:
accordyng
as
they
had
alwayes
wrought
mischief
vnto
other
kingdomes
also
in
Christendome
for
these
fiue
hundred
yeares
and
more
.
But
God
will
iudge
them
when
he
séeth
tyme
.
Queene
Elizabeth
.
After
Quéene
Marie
,
succeded
Quéene
Elizabeth
in
the
kyngdome
,
not
a
thrall
of
wickednesse
as
the
Popes
rayling
mouth
doth
slaunderously
reuile
her
,
but
the
seruaunt
,
yea
and
the
faithful
seruaunt
of
Iesus
Christ
our
redemer
and
Lord
,
as
by
him
set
at
libertie
from
the
thraldome
of
sinne
,
and
made
his
fréewoman
,
so
as
she
is
now
the
daughter
of
God
,
and
an
enemie
of
all
wickednesse
,
yea
euen
of
the
Popes
for
their
wickednesse
sake
.
For
she
cleaueth
entierly
to
her
onely
Redemer
Christ
:
to
him
onely
doth
she
with
singular
faithfulnesse
and
diligence
indeuer
to
knit
the
people
of
her
Realme
and
the
subiectes
that
be
vnder
her
charge
:
Her
owne
selfe
liueth
a
lyfe
beséemyng
a
Christian
princesse
,
commendyng
holy
and
honest
conuersation
to
all
folkes
through
her
Realme
,
and
(
as
much
as
in
her
lyeth
)
forbidding
&
restreining
all
wickednesse
.
Which
thing
truly
,
is
not
to
draw
backe
her
subiectes
to
destruction
,
but
to
plucke
them
from
destruction
,
and
to
restore
them
to
assured
saluation
.
They
that
know
this
Quéene
,
know
also
that
I
feyne
nothing
here
to
curry
fauour
.
And
I
touche
these
things
the
more
sparely
,
least
I
may
séeme
to
purpose
in
any
wise
to
flatter
.
Neither
hath
her
maiestie
any
néede
of
my
defence
considering
that
her
owne
godlinesse
and
innocencie
defend
her
.
Surely
her
Maiestie
(
like
as
also
her
brother
of
most
blessed
memorie
Kyng
Edward
the
vi
.
did
)
opened
a
Sanctuarie
to
outlawes
,
¶
That
it
is
no
monstruousnesse
at
all
for
the
Queene
of
England
to
be
called
supreme
head
of
the
Realme
of
England
vpon
earth
.
ANone
after
,
among
the
haynous
offences
neuer
able
to
be
purged
with
any
sacrifice
,
and
which
most
of
all
moueth
the
choler
that
boyleth
inwardly
in
the
brest
of
the
vniuersal
bishop
,
and
souerein
Lord
(
as
he
him selfe
will
séeme
to
be
)
as
well
in
cases
spirituall
as
temporall
,
bycause
that
power
can
abyde
no
partnershyp
:
the
foresayd
thyng
is
bitterly
recited
in
the
Bull
,
euen
in
these
wordes
.
Which
will
haue
her selfe
acknowledged
alone
for
souerein
Lady
in
cases
spirituall
and
temporall
,
by
vsurpyng
monstruously
the
place
of
supreme
head
.
And
finally
which
hath
presumed
to
dispose
parsons
of
churches
&
other
Catholicke
Priestes
,
and
to
make
constitutions
in
cases
Ecclesiasticall
deposing
and
oppressing
the
Catholike
Byshops
,
and
aduauncing
or
restoryng
wicked
preachers
and
ministers
of
vngodlinesse
to
the
roomes
of
those
that
be
deposed
&c.
Monstruously
therfore
doth
the
seruaunt
of
seruauntes
which
is
excluded
from
all
Lordship
,
¶
How
it
is
no
monstruousnesse
for
the
Queene
of
England
and
consequently
for
all
ciuill
Magistrates
to
determine
in
cases
Ecclesiasticall
,
or
to
vndertake
and
beare
the
charge
of
Church
matters
,
as
to
depose
euill
Byshops
,
and
to
set
vp
better
in
their
roomes
.
NOw
then
it
is
out
of
dout
,
that
the
sayd
most
vertuous
Quéene
is
supreme
head
or
souerein
Lady
in
that
her
Realme
,
ordeined
of
God
himselfe
,
and
set
ouer
the
puissant
Realme
of
England
:
except
it
be
false
which
the
Lords
Apostle
and
chosen
vessel
Paule
hath
sayd
:
That
God
in
any
wise
would
,
For
so
had
Dauid
the
man
of
God
commaunded
.
Neither
did
they
omit
or
go
beyond
any
part
of
the
kynges
commaundement
,
as
well
the
Priestes
as
the
Leuites
.
The
same
Salomon
deposed
Abiathar
the
hygh
Priest
,
and
set
vp
Zadoch
in
his
sted
.
And
many
other
such
thyngs
as
these
,
did
that
wise
king
Salomon
the
beloued
of
God
,
with
Gods
well
likyng
&
his
owne
glorie
.
The
same
thinges
did
the
rest
of
the
kings
of
Iuda
.
Giue
eare
,
Clense
ye
,
Cary
away
.
&c.
The
Priestes
also
rebelled
not
stubbornly
agaynst
their
Prince
after
the
maner
of
our
prelates
,
saying
vnto
him
,
thou
puttest
thy
siccle
into
an
other
mans
corne
,
for
it
is
no
part
of
thy
charge
to
commaunde
the
Priestes
.
But
they
submitted
themselues
redely
to
their
Prince
,
and
obeyed
his
holy
hestes
in
all
thinges
.
It
is
declared
at
large
in
the
holy
Scriptures
,
that
Iosias
did
set
order
in
the
whole
Religion
accordyng
to
the
rule
of
Gods
law
,
And
yet
in
the
meane
while
,
the
Princes
meddled
not
with
the
sacrificing
,
which
God
had
committed
to
the
Priestes
.
Furthermore
we
haue
notable
examples
of
those
Emperours
and
Princes
,
Valentine
,
Gratian
,
and
Theodosius
did
in
likewise
,
as
it
appeareth
in
the
beginnyng
of
Iustinians
Code
.
And
the
Emperour
Theodosius
in
Nouellis
tit.
2
concerning
Iewes
,
Samaritanes
,
&c.
confesseth
to
Florentius
,
that
the
searchyng
out
of
Religion
is
the
chief
charge
and
greatest
care
that
belonges
to
the
Maiestie
of
an
Emperour
.
Also
the
Emperours
Leo
and
Anthemius
,
in
L.
omnes
.
C.
concernyng
Byshops
and
Clerkes
,
haue
set
downe
by
name
,
that
Ciuill
Magistrates
were
and
ought
to
be
iudges
of
the
Byshops
.
And
before
the
reigne
of
these
,
Archadius
and
Honorius
,
in
L.
Quicunque
.
C.
concernyng
Byshops
and
Clerkes
,
denounce
a
Byshop
that
breakes
the
common
peace
to
be
vnworthy
the
name
of
a
Bishop
,
and
depose
him
from
his
Bishoprike
,
and
finally
will
that
he
shal
be
banished
.
The
Emperour
Iustinian
about
the
yeare
of
our
Lord
550
,
made
many
lawes
,
openly
settyng
order
in
matters
of
the
Church
,
&
appointyng
Byshops
&
Clerkes
what
they
should
do
.
And
in
Nouellis
.
Constit.
123.
he
commaundeth
the
Presidentes
of
Prouinces
,
that
if
the
Byshops
forslow
to
kéepe
conuocations
,
then
they
should
do
it
,
and
execute
the
lawes
,
Charles
the
great
.
and
mainteyne
the
ordinaunces
of
the
Church
.
Furthermore
Charles
the
great
,
kyng
of
Fraunce
and
Emperour
,
and
his
sonne
Lewis
the
milde
,
published
many
Ecclesiasticall
lawes
concernyng
the
holy
doctrine
,
the
ministration
of
the
sacramentes
,
and
the
Ministers
them selues
.
Abbot
Ansegisus
compyled
their
lawes
into
foure
bookes
.
But
it
would
be
too
tedious
to
rehearse
and
of
these
lawes
,
therby
to
shew
and
proue
that
which
is
otherwise
sufficiently
proued
already
,
namely
that
the
charge
of
Religion
and
of
Church
matters
perteineth
also
to
Kynges
and
Quéenes
,
and
that
it
is
no
monstruousenesse
at
all
though
the
ciuill
Magistrate
determine
of
matters
of
Religion
,
vnles
those
so
many
,
so
mightie
,
and
so
holy
Kynges
,
Princes
,
and
Emperours
,
whose
examples
I
haue
hitherto
alledged
,
were
all
monsters
.
But
no
such
thyng
can
sinck
in
godly
mens
mindes
,
who
doutlesse
do
rather
beleue
,
that
Pope
of
Rome
the
author
of
this
rayling
Bull
is
a
monster
both
most
hideous
and
most
vgly
,
as
hath
ben
sayd
also
héertofore
.
Which
thinges
beyng
vndoutedly
so
,
The
slaunderous
Bull
rayling
vppon
these
Ministers
of
Christ
lawfully
ordeyned
by
the
Quéene
,
termeth
them
in
way
of
disdaine
and
reproch
,
lewd
preachers
and
ministers
of
wickednes
.
1.
Tim.
2.
according
to
Paules
saying
,
deuyde
the
woord
of
truth
rightly
and
honestly
,
and
endeuour
to
shew
themselues
allowable
woorkmen
afore
God
:
neyther
are
they
ministers
of
wickednesse
,
that
do
theyr
seruice
vnto
Christ
,
and
his
Church
,
with
all
faythfulnesse
and
singular
dilligence
.
I
will
not
say
at
this
present
,
how
cruell
those
bishops
(
whom
the
Quéenes
Maiestie
hath
deposed
from
their
estate
,
&
cast
in
prison
)
were
when
they
had
the
law
in
their
owne
handes
,
agaynst
the
faythfull
professors
of
Christ
,
nor
how
stubbornely
they
sticked
to
idolatry
,
and
to
the
Romane
Idoll
,
vnto
whome
they
had
bound
themselues
by
othe
,
defending
most
pestilent
and
manifesterrors
,
and
continewing
malicious
and
vnappeasable
enemies
of
the
truth
of
the
Gospell
:
in
so
much
as
the
Quéenes
Maiestie
neither
could
vse
their
seruice
,
nor
ought
to
wink
at
their
rebellion
,
traiterousnes
,
&
lewd
meaning
,
if
she
meant
to
aduaunce
&
maintain
the
peace
of
hir
realme
,
the
welfare
of
hir
people
,
&
the
procéeding
of
the
Gospell
.
Therefore
if
these
men
pyned
away
for
sorrow
,
and
dyed
miserably
in
prison
,
that
is
nothing
to
the
Quéenes
Maiestie
:
for
they
may
wite
it
vppon
theyr
owne
vniust
stubbernesse
,
ioyned
with
maliciousnes
:
they
may
wite
it
vpon
their
owne
most
wilfull
rebelliousnesse
,
and
in
generall
vpon
their
owne
wickednes
.
And
as
for
those
that
be
punished
,
or
put
to
death
for
their
owne
offences
,
the
righteous
Lord
God
geueth
sentence
vpon
them
in
his
owne
law
,
saying
:
Their
bloud
be
vpon
their
owne
heades
.
Most
excellent
and
true
also
is
the
sentence
of
S.
Iohn
Chrisostome
:
No
man
is
hurt
,
but
by
himself
.
Furthermore
Paule
in
expresse
wordes
to
the
Romanes
saith
:
Princes
are
not
a
terror
to
them
that
do
well
,
Honorius
.
L.
Quicunque
C.
concerning
Bishops
and
clerkes
,
as
hath
bene
sayd
heretofore
.
Yet
will
I
not
here
sing
the
prayses
of
those
that
are
set
vp
in
the
places
of
them
that
be
deposed
,
&
by
Gods
grace
do
their
seruice
at
this
day
to
the
Churches
of
England
peaceably
and
healthfully
.
Their
owne
vertue
commendeth
them
sufficiently
,
so
as
they
haue
no
néed
of
my
prayse
.
¶
That
the
Queene
of
England
hath
not
chosen
mens
opinions
for
herself
,
and
hir
realme
to
follow
,
but
Gods
pure
word
,
hertofore
sought
out
,
and
receyued
by
King
Edward
the
sixth
:
nor
yet
sette
foorth
bookes
of
heresie
,
or
forced
her
realme
to
receiue
them
.
THe
goodly
Bull
(
a
Gods
name
)
proceedeth
on
still
to
lay
together
the
rest
of
the
articles
of
his
accusation
,
against
the
Quéenes
Maiestie
in
these
wordes
.
She
hath
(
sayth
he
)
commaunded
hir
subiectes
to
obserue
the
wicked
misteries
and
ordinaunces
which
she
hir selfe
hath
taken
vp
and
obserued
according
to
Caluins
setting
forth
.
Also
she
hath
set
out
bookes
to
hir
whole
Realme
,
contayning
manifest
heresie
.
But
the
lying
and
slaunderous
Bull
shooteth
wide
al
the
féeld
ouer
.
Perchance
the
Romish
sort
measure
al
men
by
themselues
,
Truely
the
Quéenes
Maiestie
hath
prohibited
all
vngodly
bokes
to
be
dispersed
,
yea
or
read
in
hir
realme
,
which
are
hereticall
indéed
,
and
repugnant
to
the
sinceritie
of
our
Christian
religion
.
Neither
may
any
man
spread
abroad
any
wicked
or
blasphemous
booke
or
opinion
in
hir
realme
without
punishment
.
¶
Here
be
recited
other
articles
of
accusation
,
which
the
Bull
mentioneth
concerning
the
Queenes
abolishing
of
the
masse
,
and
hir
taking
away
of
many
other
superstitions
and
abuses
.
Also
here
is
expounded
,
what
catholikenesse
is
,
and
who
be
catholike
.
THe
Bull
knitteth
héerunto
also
other
articles
of
accusation
agaynst
the
Quéene
.
She
hath
also
(
sayth
the
bull
)
abolished
prayers
,
fastinges
,
choyce
of
meates
,
single
life
,
&
catholike
ceremonies
.
As
concerning
the
sacrifice
of
the
masse
,
the
Quéene
not
vniustly
,
but
for
many
and
most
iust
causes
hath
abolished
it
,
But
the
Masse
is
most
ceremonious
,
most
pompous
,
most
sumptuous
,
and
set
out
with
persian
furniture
,
which
in
processe
of
time
hath
so
encreases
with
hir
abuses
,
that
in
some
thinges
it
could
not
be
abated
or
purged
,
but
it
must
néedes
be
taken
quite
away
.
Truly
the
common
sorte
made
more
account
of
their
Chapleines
Masses
,
&
aduaunced
them
more
,
then
the
very
sacrifice
of
Christ
,
which
few
of
them
either
knew
or
estéemed
as
became
them
;
Lib.
Epist.
2.
Epist.
3.
Like
as
Christes
Martyr
S.
Cryprian
also
beyng
taught
by
the
same
Apostles
example
,
counselleth
and
commaundeth
vs
,
that
in
repayring
or
setting
vp
agayne
the
true
vse
of
the
Supper
,
we
should
go
to
the
wells
head
and
séeke
out
the
originall
,
and
not
do
any
other
thing
in
this
behalfe
,
then
that
which
he
hath
done
which
is
before
all
men
,
and
alonely
is
to
be
heard
:
Seing
that
the
Quéenes
Maiestie
hath
done
so
in
abolishing
the
Masse
and
setting
vp
the
Lordes
Supper
agayne
in
the
place
of
it
:
Surely
she
hath
not
sinned
at
all
,
but
is
falsly
accused
by
the
Bishop
in
his
Bull.
Most
false
also
is
this
that
the
Bull
auoucheth
the
Quéene
to
haue
abolished
prayer
and
fastyng
.
The
Popish
fastynges
are
not
wynges
and
helpes
of
prayer
nor
an
humbling
of
our selues
wherby
our
amendement
is
declared
,
Tatian
,
Montane
,
and
others
.
But
the
Prophet
speakyng
most
effectually
,
sayth
Forbiddyng
,
&
not
Condemnyng
.
The
old
heretickes
condemned
meates
&
mariage
vniuersally
.
But
our
aduersaries
condemne
not
meates
&
mariage
,
but
restreine
the
frée
vse
of
them
,
bynding
men
from
them
by
wicked
lawes
.
Properly
therfore
the
Apostle
spake
of
them
.
And
what
speake
they
of
Catholicke
ceremonies
,
wheras
if
they
did
terme
them
aright
,
But
now
gentle
reader
wey
me
throughly
within
the
compasse
and
vniuersalitie
of
what
body
,
Catholike
and
Rightbeleuyng
.
The
faythfull
know
who
you
be
.
Amend
therfore
and
liue
lyke
true
Catholikes
with
vs
,
not
in
the
Popish
Church
of
Rome
,
but
in
the
true
Catholike
Church
,
vnder
the
head
Christ
,
who
onely
is
our
saluation
.
To
him
be
glorie
for
euer
.
Amen
.
¶
The
Queene
of
England
hath
iustly
commaunded
her
subiectes
that
they
should
not
acknowledge
the
Church
of
Rome
,
or
obey
the
lawes
therof
.
Iustly
also
hath
she
bound
them
by
othe
to
abiure
the
authoritie
and
obedience
of
the
Romish
Byshop
.
¶
That
Kynges
and
Magistrates
ought
to
compell
their
subiectes
vnto
goodnesse
,
and
not
suffer
euery
man
to
make
his
own
choyse
in
folowing
what
seemeth
best
to
him selfe
.
THis
also
séemeth
very
vnreasonable
to
the
Romish
sort
,
and
peraduenture
vnto
others
also
that
haue
a
mislikyng
of
this
case
,
that
the
Quéene
hath
laid
penalties
and
punishmentes
vpon
such
as
disobey
,
and
hath
executed
the
same
vppon
those
that
haue
continued
in
obedience
to
the
sea
of
Rome
.
For
some
are
of
opinion
that
no
man
ought
to
be
compelled
to
do
good
,
or
vnto
true
Religion
,
or
vnto
fayth
:
but
euery
man
ought
to
be
left
at
his
owne
libertie
,
to
folow
what
soeuer
séemeth
best
to
himselfe
&
his
owne
conscience
:
that
is
to
say
,
that
no
man
should
be
called
to
account
,
of
what
Religion
he
is
,
nor
examined
at
all
,
no
though
he
were
a
Papist
,
but
be
let
alone
with
his
owne
conscience
:
And
therfore
that
no
man
ought
to
be
punished
for
breakyng
the
Religion
of
the
Gospell
,
or
for
neglectyng
good
lawes
,
which
he
himselfe
estéemeth
not
to
be
good
.
Truly
,
as
concernyng
compulsion
to
well
doyng
,
or
to
faith
and
Religion
,
the
Donatistes
heretikes
taught
in
old
tyme
lyke
as
these
afore
mentioned
and
as
the
Anabaptistes
do
at
this
day
,
that
no
man
ought
to
be
compelled
to
faith
or
to
goodnesse
,
but
euery
man
to
be
left
to
his
owne
conscience
.
Agaynst
those
Donatistes
S.
Austen
hath
disputed
aboundantly
,
yea
and
that
by
the
Scriptures
and
by
euident
reasons
agréeing
with
the
Scriptures
.
In
which
respect
I
thinke
his
Record
is
to
be
beleued
,
&
therfore
I
will
now
alledge
certeine
thinges
out
of
him
,
that
make
peculiarly
for
the
present
case
.
The
same
Austen
in
his
48.
Epistle
to
Vincent
,
[
Hippone
]
which
beyng
erst
whole
vpon
Donates
side
,
was
turned
to
the
Catholik
vnitie
by
feare
of
the
Emperours
lawes
,
and
now
we
sée
it
so
detesteth
the
poyson
of
this
your
stoutnesse
,
as
a
man
would
thinke
it
had
neuer
bene
in
it
.
And
so
were
many
mo
,
which
were
rehearsed
to
me
by
name
,
that
I
might
perceiue
by
the
matters
themselues
,
how
that
euen
in
this
case
also
might
well
be
vnderstode
that
which
is
written
,
Giue
a
wiseman
an
occasion
and
he
wil
be
the
wiser
.
And
again
,
Not
euery
one
that
spareth
is
a
frend
,
nor
euery
one
that
beateth
,
The
same
Austen
agayne
in
his
v.
Epistle
to
Earle
Boniface
,
sayth
:
where
is
the
fréedome
of
beleuyng
or
not
beleuyng
,
which
these
men
are
wont
to
blase
abroad
,
¶
That
Kinges
and
Magistrates
doe
lawfully
punish
,
yea
and
also
put
to
death
such
as
breake
the
true
religion
,
and
disobey
holy
lawes
.
And
so
this
discourse
is
shet
vp
.
ANd
although
the
sayd
latter
Article
of
our
aduersaries
,
(
namely
that
no
man
ought
to
be
punished
for
breaking
of
the
Religion
of
the
Gospell
,
or
for
neglecting
of
such
good
lawes
as
they
themselues
estéeme
not
for
good
)
may
easly
be
iudged
by
the
premisses
which
we
haue
alledged
out
of
Austen
:
yet
notwithstanding
,
least
any
thing
may
remaine
doutfull
and
vndiscussed
,
I
will
by
short
and
euident
Argumentes
proue
,
that
the
Magistrate
may
lawfully
punish
,
yea
and
put
to
death
such
as
breake
the
true
Religion
,
and
set
themselues
agaynst
holy
lawes
.
S.
Austen
in
hys
treatise
vpon
the
xj
.
of
Iohn
,
In
the
new
Testament
we
haue
most
euident
examples
of
Christes
chiefe
Apostles
Peter
and
Paule
:
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of
Idolatry
.
temples
shall
out
of
hand
be
shut
vp
,
and
al
libertie
of
offending
taken
away
from
vnthrifts
,
by
prohibiting
them
from
comming
there
any
more
.
Also
we
wil
that
all
men
abstein
from
sacrifising
.
And
if
they
chaunce
to
commit
any
such
thing
,
let
them
suffer
execution
by
the
sworde
,
and
seaze
vpon
their
goodes
as
forfeyted
.
And
if
the
rulers
of
Prouinces
neglect
to
punish
the
offences
,
we
will
that
they
themselues
shall
haue
the
same
punishment
.
The
same
things
almost
are
commaunded
by
the
proclamations
of
Theodosius
and
Ualentinian
,
in
the
Code
of
Theodosius
,
in
the
second
title
,
and
also
by
Ualentinian
,
&
Martian
in
the
Code
of
Iustinian
,
in
the
xi
.
title
of
the
first
booke
.
Eusebius
in
hys
iii.
booke
of
the
life
of
Constantine
,
copyeth
into
hys
story
the
whole
epistle
of
the
Emperour
Constantine
,
published
against
heretikes
.
The
same
Constantine
when
he
had
borne
with
the
Arrians
a
great
while
,
howbeit
without
the
fruite
that
he
looked
for
,
at
the
length
perceiuing
them
to
be
wilfull
,
commaunded
that
they
should
be
banished
for
euer
,
and
taken
for
diffamed
persons
,
&
their
bookes
burned
,
&
those
to
be
punished
that
concealed
the
same
.
By
the
way
I
acknowledge
that
there
is
a
measure
to
be
vsed
in
punyshing
,
But
all
these
thinges
are
done
to
this
purpose
,
And
thus
haue
I
hetherto
in
all
this
discourse
of
mine
,
¶
That
the
Queene
of
England
is
not
an
hereticke
,
and
therefore
not
stricken
with
the
popes
curse
,
nor
cut
of
from
the
vnitie
of
Christes
bodie
.
ALthough
the
Bull
be
now
sufficiently
confuted
,
and
the
Quéenes
innocencie
defended
and
declared
,
and
the
popes
outragious
tyranny
,
cruell
wrong
,
and
excessiue
vnindifferencie
layd
foorth
,
so
as
his
most
vniust
definitiue
sentence
may
easely
and
by
very
good
right
,
be
ouerpassed
,
despised
,
yea
and
laughed
at
:
yet
shall
it
not
gréeue
me
,
euen
for
an
ouerplus
,
to
peruse
it
againe
in
sifting
it
by
péecemeale
.
The
same
hath
chiefly
fower
points
.
First
the
pope
declareth
and
denounceth
the
Quéene
of
England
to
be
an
hereticke
,
and
a
bolsterer
of
heretikes
,
&
therfore
that
she
is
stricken
with
his
curse
,
and
cut
of
from
the
vnitie
of
Christes
body
.
But
it
hath
bene
shewed
in
many
woords
already
,
that
the
Quéene
is
a
catholike
and
Christian
princesse
,
and
not
giltie
of
any
heresie
or
crime
.
Wherupon
it
followeth
,
that
the
pope
by
his
condemning
of
so
giltles
and
rightbeleuing
a
Prince
,
bewrayeth
and
vttereth
himself
what
he
is
,
namly
euen
one
of
those
of
whome
Peter
hath
sayd
,
And
therfore
the
thunderclap
of
that
Tarpeian
or
Romane
Iupiters
curse
,
Wherfore
it
hurteth
not
the
Queenes
Maiestie
a
whit
,
¶
That
the
Pope
of
Rome
doth
falsly
and
tyrannously
giue
sentence
that
the
Queene
of
England
is
depriued
of
her
kingdome
and
of
all
right
of
her
crowne
.
AFterward
the
Pope
in
his
sayd
definitiue
sentence
determineth
peremptorily
that
the
Quéene
of
England
is
depriued
of
her
crowne
and
of
all
right
of
her
crowne
,
and
of
all
other
authoritie
,
dominion
,
dignitie
,
and
priuilege
whatsoeuer
.
But
who
hath
made
the
Pope
a
souerein
Monarche
ouer
the
whole
world
,
to
reigne
alone
,
and
to
haue
all
kingdomes
vnder
him
,
and
to
hold
all
kynges
and
princes
vnder
his
allegeance
as
his
vassals
or
tenauntes
at
wil
,
so
as
he
might
set
them
vp
or
thrust
them
out
of
their
kyngdomes
at
his
pleasure
?
Heretofore
when
I
discoursed
vpon
Ieremies
wordes
I
haue
set
thee
ouer
kynges
and
kyngdomes
&c.
I
haue
shewed
openly
and
sufficiently
inough
,
(
so
as
there
néedeth
no
more
at
this
tyme
)
that
the
Pope
is
not
set
ouer
kynges
and
kyngdomes
by
God
,
but
rather
vsurpeth
superioritie
and
power
ouer
kynges
and
nations
,
contrarie
both
to
the
open
example
and
commaundement
of
the
Lord
.
Therfore
as
now
I
wil
adde
no
more
but
this
,
that
the
Pope
doth
falsly
or
rather
through
mere
tyranny
without
any
right
or
regard
of
shame
chalenge
to
him selfe
this
power
,
which
the
Lord
neuer
deliuered
to
any
man
.
For
the
wise
Prophet
Daniel
sayth
:
And
I
haue
rehearsed
these
thinges
to
the
end
that
all
men
may
manifestly
perceiue
,
¶
That
the
Byshop
of
Rome
can
not
discharge
them
of
their
othe
which
are
sworne
to
the
Queene
For
the
trothe
that
is
once
plighted
must
be
kept
both
to
good
and
bad
.
MOreouer
,
looke
how
many
soeuer
within
the
noble
Realme
of
England
haue
in
any
wise
sworne
to
the
Quéenes
maiestie
,
the
Bishop
of
Rome
vtterly
dischargeth
them
from
such
othe
,
and
from
all
dewtie
of
subiection
,
fealtie
,
&
obedience
.
But
we
aske
him
againe
,
from
whence
he
hath
that
power
,
and
what
God
or
rather
what
féend
hath
giuen
him
commission
to
release
those
of
their
othe
once
made
,
&
of
all
dewtie
,
and
of
all
their
rightfull
obedience
,
whom
the
true
God
himselfe
in
his
owne
true
word
openly
and
streitly
bindeth
to
kéepe
their
promise
?
he
is
not
able
to
alledge
so
much
as
one
litle
word
out
of
Gods
booke
,
for
this
power
of
his
which
he
leawdly
surmiseth
,
worthely
therefore
is
this
trayterous
ambition
and
rashnesse
of
his
spitted
at
:
and
the
faithfull
know
that
they
must
obey
their
gracious
Quéene
by
the
commaundement
of
God.
Certesse
as
for
Iehus
déede
in
sleaing
the
Priestes
of
Baal
,
That
promise
ought
not
to
be
kept
with
heretikes
and
infidels
,
executed
that
power
of
theirs
in
discharging
Ladislaus
king
of
Hungarie
and
Pooleland
from
the
othe
which
he
had
lawfully
made
of
Amurathes
the
Emperour
of
Turky
.
For
Iulianus
Caesarinus
the
Legate
of
Eugenie
the
iiij
.
the
Bishop
of
Rome
made
a
very
long
oration
in
the
presence
of
King
Ladislay
,
and
the
Nobilitie
of
his
realme
:
the
onely
drift
whereof
was
,
to
make
the
King
and
hys
noble
men
beleue
,
that
the
league
which
they
had
made
with
the
king
of
the
Turkes
being
an
Infidell
,
was
to
be
broken
,
and
the
promise
made
vnto
him
to
be
reuersed
,
but
in
any
wise
to
kéep
league
with
the
bishop
,
who
representeth
the
person
of
God
vppon
earth
.
Which
thing
if
ye
do
not
(
sayth
he
)
I
feare
me
lest
euen
as
Iudas
betrayed
Christ
,
so
you
will
séeme
to
betray
Christes
vicar
:
and
so
lest
you
finde
God
your
vtter
enemy
herafter
,
whom
ye
haue
alwayes
hetherto
found
helpfull
and
fauourable
in
your
affayres
.
But
harken
(
I
pray
you
)
how
helpfull
and
fauourable
the
king
and
nobilitie
found
God
toward
them
,
according
as
the
fals
prophet
Cesarinus
bare
them
in
hand
,
after
they
had
concluded
to
breake
promise
with
the
Turke
,
and
to
make
horrible
warre
vpon
him
,
when
he
looked
for
no
such
thing
.
Truely
at
the
battell
of
Waray
which
was
the
greatest
of
all
others
,
That
promise
is
not
to
be
kept
with
heretikes
&
infidelles
.
S.
Paule
:
&c.
That
man
lyeth
in
committing
periurie
,
which
knoweth
the
thing
to
be
vntrue
which
he
sweareth
:
for
(
as
Saint
Austen
sayth
)
a
lye
is
an
vntrue
vtterance
of
the
voyce
with
a
purpose
to
beguyle
.
As
for
example
,
When
the
pope
promiseth
safety
of
lymme
and
life
to
such
as
he
estéemeth
to
be
heretikes
,
(
but
in
déed
are
rightheleuers
and
catholikes
)
and
yet
purposeth
in
his
minde
to
deceiue
them
by
opening
them
the
gap
of
that
hope
,
and
so
to
bring
them
in
perill
of
lyfe
,
lymme
,
and
all
worldly
substance
,
that
is
to
say
,
to
destroy
them
cruelly
,
which
was
the
thing
that
he
purposed
,
when
he
guilefully
promised
them
safety
,
and
therefore
promised
it
,
to
the
entent
he
might
destroy
them
.
Thys
is
a
shamefull
lye
,
and
a
cursed
and
abhominable
periurye
.
Wherof
the
Prophet
hath
spoken
saying
:
Therfore
when
Iosue
,
and
the
Elders
of
Israell
had
made
a
league
of
peace
with
the
Gabaointes
,
who
came
with
a
false
tale
,
and
(
as
yée
would
say
)
beguiled
the
people
of
God
,
yet
they
neuertheles
kept
promise
with
them
vnimpeached
,
euen
after
they
had
found
out
their
deceit
.
Wherupon
Ambrose
in
hys
booke
of
duties
,
and
Austen
vnto
Boniface
,
geue
vs
to
vnderstand
,
and
that
full
rightly
,
that
the
promise
that
is
once
made
,
must
be
perfourmed
,
yea
euen
vnto
our
enemies
,
and
to
euill
men
,
and
infidelles
.
Besides
this
,
certayne
hundred
yeares
after
,
the
people
of
Israell
were
punished
with
a
sore
dearth
,
for
Saules
breaking
of
the
leage
that
was
made
with
the
Gabaonites
,
and
amendes
could
not
be
made
for
the
fault
,
vntill
seueu
men
of
Saulss
posterity
were
hanged
to
death
vnder
the
raign
of
Dauid
,
according
as
it
is
read
written
in
the
second
booke
of
Samuell
,
the
xxi
.
chapter
.
And
like
as
our
Lorde
sayth
in
the
Gospell
.
that
the
Niniuites
,
and
the
Quéene
of
Saba
shall
iudge
the
Iewes
at
the
day
of
iudgemet
:
Euen
so
there
is
no
doubt
,
but
that
Marcus
Attilius
Regulus
,
&
the
whole
Senate
of
Rome
,
which
were
heathen
men
,
shal
condemne
these
most
blessed
fathers
,
forasmuch
as
they
estéeme
it
a
thing
of
nothing
to
breake
the
promise
that
is
made
,
yea
,
&
confirmed
euen
with
an
oth
:
but
the
Romanes
kept
promise
that
a
man
would
wonder
at
it
,
yea
euen
to
their
enemies
.
The
histories
beare
witnes
of
these
things
in
many
places
And
men
agrée
also
with
God
in
thys
behalfe
:
For
of
many
things
,
Let
the
pope
then
goe
as
he
is
woorthy
,
¶
That
the
Nobilitie
and
Commons
of
England
must
not
obey
the
popes
commaundement
,
nor
feare
his
curse
.
And
here
is
shewed
what
thing
subiectes
owe
to
theyr
Princes
,
by
Gods
appoyntment
,
and
how
greuously
God
hath
alwayes
punished
rebelles
and
sedicious
persons
.
For
subiectes
ye
and
all
good
men
must
both
thinke
and
speake
reuerently
and
honorablie
of
their
Princes
or
Magistrates
,
But
heare
how
God
hath
alwayes
hated
seditious
persons
,
Abbas
Vspurgensis
in
the
238.
leafe
of
his
Chronicles
,
)
that
Rafe
now
drawing
towardes
his
end
and
beholding
his
right
hand
cut
of
,
gaue
a
sore
sigh
and
said
to
the
Bishops
which
by
chaunce
were
present
:
Lo
,
this
is
the
hand
wherwith
I
tooke
mine
othe
of
allegeance
to
my
Lord
Henry
the
Emperour
.
And
behold
,
now
I
leaue
both
his
kingdome
and
this
present
life
.
Sée
whether
you
,
that
made
me
mount
vp
into
his
chayre
of
estate
,
haue
led
me
a
right
way
:
which
thing
other
storywriters
report
in
these
wordes
:
it
was
by
your
impulsion
that
I
haue
fought
so
often
vnluckely
.
Looke
you
to
it
,
whether
you
haue
led
me
a
right
way
or
no.
Ge
your
wayes
&
performe
your
first
faith
plighted
to
your
king
:
for
I
shall
go
to
my
fathers
.
Now
ye
honorable
Péeres
of
England
,
and
thou
noble
Realme
of
England
in
generall
,
learne
ye
by
all
these
thinges
,
to
kéepe
your
faith
plighted
to
your
gracious
souereine
Lady
by
othe
,
and
to
obey
her
faithfully
,
to
mainteine
the
peace
of
the
Realme
,
and
to
abhorre
&
eschew
the
trechrie
and
traiterousnesse
leawdly
wound
in
,
or
rather
wickedly
commaunded
by
the
father
of
sedition
the
Bishop
of
Rome
that
sinnefull
man
,
to
the
intent
you
may
also
eschew
the
sore
punishmentes
of
God.
¶
How
great
calamities
and
how
great
mischieues
the
Bishop
of
Rome
hath
brought
vpon
kyngdomes
and
nations
in
Christendome
these
foure
hundred
,
yeares
and
more
,
in
putting
downe
kinges
,
and
remouyng
kingdomes
,
and
discharging
subiectes
of
theyr
dew
fealtie
and
allegeance
,
by
the
fulnesse
of
their
power
,
a
brief
historicall
declaration
or
wyndyng
vp
.
VPon
occasion
of
the
fore
mentioned
storie
of
Gregorie
the
vij
.
and
kyng
Rafe
,
I
will
procede
from
the
tyme
of
the
said
Gregorie
,
almost
vnto
our
age
,
by
the
space
of
foure
hundred
yeares
and
odde
,
briefly
compyling
and
knitting
together
how
great
calamities
,
and
how
great
mischieues
the
Bishops
of
Rome
haue
wrought
to
kingdomes
and
nations
in
Christendome
these
foure
hundred
yeares
and
more
,
in
deposing
kings
,
transposing
kingdomes
,
and
discharging
subiectes
from
their
faith
and
allegeance
,
by
the
fulnesse
of
their
power
to
the
intent
that
euen
by
this
horrible
butcherie
,
and
confusion
of
all
thinges
,
and
the
sorowfull
rehearsall
of
most
lamentable
aduentures
,
all
people
in
Christendome
may
learne
to
know
in
déede
what
the
Bishops
of
Rome
be
whom
they
still
honour
,
and
with
all
aduisednesse
and
constancie
,
to
beware
of
those
Romish
Prelates
,
as
of
a
dispatching
plague
both
to
kingdomes
and
common
weales
,
the
poyson
of
peace
and
welfare
,
the
authors
and
firebrandes
of
treasons
,
warres
,
ciuill
slaughters
,
and
all
most
miserable
calamities
,
and
worthely
hated
of
God
and
all
good
men
.
In
the
yeare
of
our
Lord
.1045
.
there
arose
a
very
great
and
noysome
schisme
in
the
Citie
of
Rome
,
betwene
thrée
Bishops
,
Benet
the
ix
.
Siluester
the
iij.
and
Gregorie
the
vj.
which
turmoyled
the
Church
of
Rome
very
daungerously
and
outrageously
.
Of
this
schisme
Otho
Frisingensis
writeth
thus
:
Hist.
lib.
6.
Cap.
32.
About
this
tyme
there
was
a
shamefull
confusion
of
the
Church
of
God
in
the
Citie
of
Rome
,
by
reason
of
three
Intruders
that
sealed
vpon
that
sea
at
once
,
who
(
as
I
my selfe
being
in
the
Citie
haue
heard
the
Romanes
report
)
led
there
a
beastly
and
shamefull
life
.
And
Beno
the
Cardinall
in
the
life
of
Hildebrand
,
the
Church
(
saith
he
)
by
these
mens
meanes
(
meaning
the
iij.
Bishops
)
was
torne
a
sunder
with
a
sore
schisme
,
mortall
warres
,
and
vnmeasurable
slaughters
:
and
almost
choked
with
horrible
heresies
,
by
giuing
men
poyson
to
drinke
vnder
colour
of
hony
.
And
Platina
in
the
life
of
Siluester
the
iij.
sayth
:
The
Bishoprike
was
come
to
that
point
,
that
who
soeuer
could
do
most
by
bryberie
,
and
ambition
,
I
say
not
by
holinesse
and
doctrine
,
he
onely
obteined
the
state
of
dignitie
,
the
good
men
beyng
borne
downe
and
reiected
:
and
the
rest
that
is
written
fréely
inough
agaynst
the
most
corrupt
maners
of
the
Court
of
Rome
.
But
the
Emperour
Henry
the
third
of
that
name
,
surnamed
the
Blacke
,
a
godly
and
stout
Prince
,
gathered
a
chosen
armye
in
Germanye
,
and
enteryng
into
Rome
,
called
a
Councell
,
and
deposed
those
three
Byshops
,
placing
in
their
roome
one
Swigger
the
Byshop
of
Bamberg
whom
they
call
Clement
the
second
.
Hereunto
Cardinall
Beno
addeth
:
But
Hildebrand
beyng
vnthankfull
the
Emperour
for
his
deliueraunce
,
As
Christ
the
Rocke
the
Crowne
to
Peter
gaue
So
Peter
would
that
Rafe
the
same
should
haue
.
Certeine
princes
therfore
which
had
conspired
among
themselues
chose
Rafe
of
Rhynefild
duke
of
Sweueland
,
Neuertheles
when
Rafe
the
popes
king
was
after
many
vnfortunate
battelles
dispatched
out
of
the
way
:
left
vnhappy
Germanie
might
take
breath
againe
,
or
the
Emperor
haue
neuer
so
little
rest
:
the
byshop
by
hys
pollicies
brought
to
passe
,
At
length
when
the
good
Emperor
being
pyned
wyth
sorow
had
yéelded
vp
his
soule
vnto
God
at
Liege
,
ad
Ap.
de
sent.
&
re
iud.
Lib.
6.
and
also
reported
by
Collenutius
the
storiwriter
about
the
end
of
Frederikes
lyfe
,
and
yet
the
sayd
Frederik
was
on
hys
way
thitherward
,
and
had
come
thither
,
but
that
he
was
called
backe
againe
by
hys
frendes
,
and
was
faine
to
returne
into
Italye
by
reason
of
a
slaughter
that
the
popes
complices
had
made
of
the
citizens
of
Parma
.
Immediatly
wheruppon
certain
princes
of
Germany
,
beying
bewitched
with
the
popes
hypocrisy
and
mischéeuous
slights
,
did
at
his
appoyntment
and
instigation
choose
Henry
the
Lantgraue
of
Thuring
to
be
Emperour
against
Friderik
.
Peter
Capuce
into
Germanie
,
who
calling
the
princes
together
to
Colon
,
caused
them
to
chuse
William
Earle
of
Holland
,
king
,
agaynst
Friderike
&
Conrade
.
Which
thing
wrought
new
broyles
in
the
Empyre
.
The
life
of
Corradine
is
the
death
of
Charles
,
and
the
death
of
Corradine
is
the
life
of
Charles
.
But
Robert
Earle
of
Flaunders
the
sonne
in
law
of
Charles
,
by
whose
aduise
he
had
gotten
the
victorie
,
remembring
the
state
of
mens
affaires
,
counseled
Charles
to
make
peace
,
and
to
bynd
vnto
him
by
bond
of
alyance
these
two
young
Princes
of
excellent
towardnesse
,
borne
of
the
noblest
houses
in
Germanie
,
and
the
ofspryng
of
Emperors
,
wishing
that
Corradine
should
haue
Charles
his
daughter
,
and
Frederike
his
néere
.
But
whyle
the
tyme
was
prolonged
in
these
consultations
.
Robert
returned
home
,
and
then
the
bloud
royall
was
condemned
to
death
.
I
haue
recited
this
pitifull
and
lamentable
storie
out
of
Iohn
Auentine
somewhat
the
more
at
large
,
But
Martine
the
fourth
beyng
moued
with
Charles
miserie
,
As
soone
as
Martine
was
dead
byanby
there
steppes
vp
another
Hyen
,
Boniface
the
viij
.
(
euen
by
the
record
of
Platina
)
the
arrogantest
Bishop
one
of
them
that
euer
was
,
Clement
the
v.
being
as
proud
and
as
great
a
troubler
of
Realmes
as
his
predecessours
,
Fraunces
Dandalus
,
who
afterward
was
made
Duke
of
Uenice
.
Much
a
do
he
had
to
come
to
the
Popes
presence
.
At
length
he
had
a
cheyne
of
yron
clapt
about
his
necke
,
&
was
fayne
to
lye
couched
at
the
pope
Clementes
table
too
too
basely
and
filthily
,
so
long
till
the
popes
displeasure
was
(
with
much
ado
)
ouercome
,
Iohn
the
xxij
.
after
many
attemptes
against
the
Emperour
Lewes
the
iiij
.
disfeated
him
of
the
Empyre
and
vsurped
it
wholly
to
himselfe
.
Againe
least
Clement
the
Antipope
might
séeme
of
lesse
authoritie
then
Pope
Turbane
,
Now
come
I
to
Martine
the
fifth
that
was
created
Bishop
at
the
Councell
of
Constance
:
Pius
the
second
,
I
will
not
any
further
report
what
the
Byshops
of
Rome
haue
committed
in
our
age
and
within
the
remembraunce
of
man
,
least
I
trouble
the
gentle
reader
to
much
for
they
be
better
knowen
then
that
they
néede
to
be
rehearsed
.
For
who
knoweth
not
how
great
lawlesnesse
they
haue
abused
,
in
transposing
kingdomes
,
in
dischargyng
subiectes
from
their
dew
faithfulnesse
and
obedience
in
putting
downe
and
settyng
vp
of
kynges
,
and
in
hatching
of
most
blouddy
and
mortall
warres
?
Onuphrius
Panuinius
hath
blamed
this
dealing
in
Iulius
the
second
.
What
troubles
Paule
the
third
the
Romish
Byshop
wrought
vnto
Germanie
,
As
for
the
outrages
of
Paule
the
fourth
they
be
better
knowen
by
reason
of
his
horrible
actes
yet
fresh
in
remembraunce
,
But
all
this
whole
declaration
tendeth
chiefly
to
this
end
:
Ye
shall
know
them
by
their
frutes
:
and
therfore
should
also
so
iudge
of
them
,
as
their
sayinges
and
doynges
teach
folke
to
iudge
of
them
:
wherwithall
be
interlaced
by
the
way
here
and
there
,
some
iudgements
of
certein
godly
and
wise
men
in
former
ages
,
concernyng
the
Bishops
of
Rome
:
and
partly
that
all
Realmes
and
all
common
weales
(
which
will
not
wittingly
and
willingly
perishe
)
(
and
specially
thou
noble
Realme
of
England
,
)
should
hereafter
not
onely
make
no
account
of
the
Popes
Bulles
tyrannously
deposing
kinges
,
wrongfully
transposing
kingdomes
,
and
wickedly
assoyling
subiectes
of
their
dew
faithfulnesse
and
obedience
:
but
also
cast
them
away
and
tread
them
vnder
foote
as
they
be
worthy
.
Ye
haue
heard
how
great
calamities
the
Popes
haue
oftentymes
wrought
to
kyngdomes
and
nations
by
such
maner
of
Bulles
.
And
he
is
a
wise
man
that
can
learne
to
beware
by
other
mens
harmes
.
Therfore
if
ye
be
wise
and
loue
to
liue
at
ease
,
kéepe
your
promise
that
ye
haue
made
,
and
obey
the
Princes
whom
God
hath
set
ouer
you
:
maynteyne
peace
,
and
eschew
warres
as
well
inward
or
Ciuill
,
as
outward
or
foreine
.
And
that
God
may
voutsafe
to
performe
these
thyngs
vnto
you
,
pray
ye
faithfully
and
diligently
vnto
him
,
perseuer
ye
stedfast
in
true
godlynesse
and
in
the
Gospell
of
the
sonne
of
God
,
and
cast
ye
away
all
the
Popish
toyes
,
superstitions
,
and
Idols
all
together
.
The
Prince
of
peace
voutsafe
to
graunt
you
these
thynges
,
who
at
hys
commyng
into
this
worlde
,
brought
tydinges
of
peace
to
the
world
,
and
at
his
goyng
out
of
the
world
left
his
peace
to
those
that
be
his
,
euen
our
Lord
Iesus
Christ
graunt
you
them
,
to
whom
be
glorie
for
euermore
world
without
end
.
Amen
.
¶
FINIS
.