¶
The
rooting
out
of
the
Romishe
supremacie
:
wherein
is
declared
,
that
the
authoritie
which
the
Pope
of
Rome
doeth
challenge
to
himselfe
,
ouer
all
Christian
Bishops
and
Churches
,
is
vnlawfully
vsurped
.
Chap.
1.
That
in
controuersies
of
religion
,
the
truth
must
be
tried
by
the
holy
Scriptures
.
That
by
the
Scriptures
no
apostle
,
nor
Bishop
hath
a
supremacie
ouer
others
.
IN
al
maner
of
doubts
&
controuersies
,
which
may
arise
in
our
Christian
religion
,
the
trueth
therof
must
be
tried
with
the
touche
of
Gods
word
,
as
well
in
matters
that
concerne
godly
instruction
,
as
in
those
thinges
,
which
doe
belong
to
a
Christian
conuersation
.
Doctrine
.
And
first
there
must
be
brought
in
nothing
into
the
Church
of
God
,
but
that
which
God
commaundeth
.
Moses
therefore
in
giuing
of
lawes
to
the
Israelites
,
Doctrine
.
diuerse
&
sundrie
times
hath
this
saying
.
Dominus
locutus
est
.
Exo.
20.1
.
The
Lord
spake
these
wordes
.
And
in
the
dayes
of
Ahas
,
when
the
seruice
of
God
was
polluted
,
and
they
sacrificed
their
sonnes
&
daughters
vnto
diuels
,
by
causing
them
to
passe
through
the
fire
,
8.
Isay
.
20.
the
Prophet
willeth
them
to
repaire
to
the
law
&
to
the
testimony
,
if
they
speake
not
according
to
this
word
,
it
is
because
there
is
no
light
in
them
.
And
therefore
the
fearce
wrath
of
the
Lorde
was
powred
vpon
Nadab
and
Abihu
,
Leui.
10.1
sonnes
vnto
Aaron
the
high
Priest
,
because
contrary
to
the
lawe
of
God
,
they
offered
strange
fire
:
And
this
was
the
cause
that
Vzzah
was
stroken
&
slayne
,
because
contrary
to
Gods
commandement
he
would
haue
stayed
vp
the
Arke
of
the
Lord
.
And
albeit
the
man
had
a
good
intention
,
&
an
honest
meaning
:
yet
the
spirite
of
God
reproueth
the
fact
,
and
saith
,
God
smot
him
in
the
place
for
his
Fault
,
2.
Sam.
6.7
.
&
there
he
died
by
the
Arke
of
God
.
And
in
the
new
Testament
our
Sauiour
doth
acknowledge
that
the
doctrine
was
not
his
,
but
his
fathers
,
and
speaking
of
the
spirit
,
he
saith
,
that
it
shall
call
vnto
minde
those
things
which
he
hath
spoken
:
and
the
Apostle
did
deliuer
nothing
else
vnto
the
Corrinthians
,
but
that
which
he
had
receiued
of
the
Lorde
Iesus
.
And
therefore
Christ
in
the
Gospell
saith
,
Iohn
.
10.
My
sheepe
heare
my
voyce
and
as
for
a
stranger
they
will
not
heare
.
And
this
therefore
moued
the
men
of
Berea
to
proue
Pauls
preaching
by
the
writinges
of
the
law
,
and
the
Prophets
:
Act.
17.11
and
this
moued
Paul
to
denunce
an
accurse
against
those
which
went
about
to
preach
an
other
Gospell
,
yea
if
it
were
himselfe
,
or
an
Angel
from
heauen
.
Gal.
1.8
.
And
therfore
Augustine
hath
this
worthy
saiing
:
Audi
,
dicit
Dominus
,
Epist.
48.
non
dicit
Donatus
,
aut
Rogatus
,
aut
Vincentius
,
aut
Hilarius
,
aut
Ambrosius
,
aut
Augustinus
,
sed
dicit
dominus
.
Heare
,
the
Lord
saith
it
,
not
Donatus
saith
it
,
or
Rogatus
,
or
Vincentius
,
or
Hilarius
,
or
Ambrose
,
or
Augustine
,
but
the
Lord
affirmeth
&
aduoucheth
.
And
the
same
in
an
other
place
,
Aug.
de
nuptiis
&
concupiscentia
.
lib.
2.
cap.
33.
Ista
controuersia
iudicem
quaerit
,
iudicet
ergo
Christus
,
&
cui
rei
mors
eius
profecerit
,
ipse
dicat
.
This
controuersie
seketh
a
iudge
,
let
Christ
then
iudge
,
and
let
him
tell
what
thing
his
death
hath
profited
.
And
this
did
that
good
&
most
Christian
Constantine
in
the
councel
of
Nice
,
for
the
appeasing
of
Sectes
which
were
crept
in
to
the
Church
,
referred
the
Bishoppes
&
the
councel
to
the
scriptures
of
God
.
Trip.
lib.
2.
cap.
5.
But
heretikes
cannot
away
with
the
word
of
God
,
as
it
may
appeare
in
the
Pharisees
,
which
did
greatly
regarde
the
doctrines
of
men
,
Mat.
15.
contemning
&
despising
the
commandements
of
almighty
God
.
In
Montanus
,
1.
Tim.
4.3
.
who
being
delighted
in
the
doctrine
of
Deuils
forbidding
meates
&
mariage
,
did
leaue
the
word
,
and
did
flee
to
reuelations
:
in
madde
Manicheus
,
who
for
the
establishing
of
his
errours
did
shroud
him selfe
in
the
harbour
of
his
hellish
inspirations
:
Chrisost.
de
sancto
&
adorando
spiritu
in
Adimantus
his
disciple
,
infected
with
the
poyson
of
his
master
,
who
did
bend
him selfe
fully
and
wholy
to
dispraise
the
scriptures
of
God
:
Aug.
contra
Adimantum
.
cap.
3.
but
moste
manifestly
in
the
papistes
,
which
for
the
maintenaunce
of
their
most
vile
and
abominable
superstition
haue
called
the
worde
of
God
a
nose
of
waxe
,
or
a
shippmans
hoose
,
as
of
late
did
that
fleshly
&
carnall
Cardinall
Cusanus
,
or
a
blacke
or
an
inckie
gospell
,
as
did
of
late
time
Eckius
&
Pighius
,
two
princiall
pillers
of
the
popish
Sinagogue
or
Semen
Turcicum
a
turkish
seede
,
whereas
it
is
the
seede
of
the
immortall
and
euerliuing
God
,
1.
Pet.
1.23
as
some
time
did
that
pestilent
prelate
,
I
meane
poysoned
Poole
.
Therefore
leauing
these
men
in
their
errours
,
let
vs
remember
that
are
the
Children
of
God
,
if
there
be
any
errour
in
doctrine
to
referre
our selues
to
the
written
word
of
God
.
And
as
in
doctrine
,
Conuersation
.
so
in
like
manner
for
the
ordering
of
our
conuersation
,
and
for
the
amendement
of
our
leude
liues
.
And
therefore
by
Moses
,
Deu.
12.8
.
Num.
15.39.40
.
almightie
God
saith
.
Let
not
euery
one
doe
that
which
is
right
in
his
owne
eyes
,
but
that
which
I
commaund
,
you
shall
obserue
.
Yea
god
calleth
the
following
of
a
mans
owne
fancie
,
and
the
seeking
for
to
accomplish
the
desire
of
his
owne
heart
,
whoring
.
And
whereas
the
Iewes
had
a
great
opinion
of
their
fathers
doinges
,
being
drawen
thereto
by
a
natuall
affection
,
God
reclameth
them
,
and
by
his
prophet
he
saith
You
shall
not
goe
in
the
wayes
of
your
fathers
,
I
am
the
Lorde
your
GOD
:
Ezech.
20.18
.
walke
in
my
preceptes
.
Psal.
109.
And
therefore
Dauid
woulde
haue
a
yong
man
to
rule
himselfe
,
according
to
Gods
worde
,
and
this
would
the
graundmother
of
Timothie
,
2.
Tim.
1.5
and
therefore
she
trained
him
in
the
scriptures
from
his
verie
youth
.
Verily
,
verily
the
wayes
of
the
Lord
are
righteous
,
and
the
iust
will
walke
therein
:
but
as
for
the
vngodly
which
haue
solde
them selues
vnto
sinne
,
do
break
in
sunder
the
cordes
of
Gods
lawe
,
because
they
hate
and
abhorre
to
be
reformed
.
And
therfore
hauing
committed
the
workes
of
darkenes
,
doe
enuie
and
mallice
at
nothing
so
much
,
Iohn
.
3.
as
at
the
light
,
for
Qui
malè
agit
,
odit
lucem
.
He
that
doth
euill
,
hateth
the
light
.
As
it
may
appeare
in
the
Popes
of
Rome
,
who
will
not
haue
their
doinges
to
be
called
in
question
,
as
it
may
appeare
by
that
speach
of
Paul
the
second
.
Platina
in
vita
Pauli
secundi
.
Pontifex
sum
,
mihique
licet
pro
arbitrio
,
&c.
I
am
Pope
,
I
may
do
as
I
list
.
And
therfore
this
is
decreed
in
their
decretals
Sacrilegij
esset
instar
,
Distinct.
40.
si
Papa
in
glossa
.
disputare
de
facto
Papae
.
It
should
be
accounted
sacriledge
for
any
man
to
reason
of
the
Popes
doing
.
And
the
rest
of
the
popish
cleargie
are
sicke
of
a
disease
called
Noli
me
tangere
.
But
cleane
contrary
is
it
in
the
Church
of
God
,
where
the
members
do
committe
themselues
fully
&
wholy
to
be
censured
by
the
worde
of
God
,
neither
going
vnto
the
right
hande
,
or
to
the
left
:
and
whereas
they
are
called
Gods
building
,
are
gladd
to
be
squared
by
the
rule
of
the
scripture
,
and
therfore
no
doubt
,
but
peace
,
euen
that
peace
which
passeth
all
vnderstanding
shall
come
vnto
them
which
so
walke
,
Gal.
6.16
.
and
mercy
to
the
Israel
which
doth
appertaine
to
God
.
And
therefore
both
in
thinges
which
doe
concerne
doctrine
,
or
haue
a
respecte
vnto
a
godly
life
,
let
that
at
al
times
take
place
,
which
our
Sauiour
Christe
hath
willed
vs
to
search
out
the
trueth
of
them
by
the
Scriptures
.
Iohn
.
5.
For
in
the
fifth
Chapter
of
the
Gospell
after
saint
Iohn
,
when
hee
had
rebuked
the
Iewes
,
because
they
woulde
not
beleeue
his
doctrine
which
he
brought
them
from
God
his
Father
,
he
saide
vnto
them
,
Verbum
ejus
non
habetis
manens
in
vobis
,
quia
quem
misit
ille
,
huic
vos
non
creditis
.
Scrutamini
scripturas
,
quia
vos
putatis
in
ipsis
vitam
aeternam
habere
:
&
illae
sunt
,
quae
testimonium
perhibent
de
me
.
You
haue
not
gods
word
,
saith
Christ
,
remaining
in
you
:
for
you
doe
not
beleeue
him
,
whome
the
father
hath
sent
.
Search
you
the
scriptures
,
for
in
them
you
think
to
haue
eternal
life
:
and
they
beare
witnes
of
me
.
Which
wordes
of
our
Sauiour
Christ
haue
enforced
me
the
more
boldly
to
search
out
by
his
holy
scriptures
the
bishop
of
Rome
his
suspect
authority
,
I
meane
his
supremacie
and
vniuersall
iurisdiction
,
most
vniustly
clamed
,
and
vsurped
by
him
,
for
these
eight
or
nine
hundred
years
,
cleane
contrarie
to
Christ
his
word
and
commaundement
.
For
it
is
forbidden
by
him
,
as
the
stories
of
the
Euangelistes
do
shewe
in
the
holy
scriptures
.
And
,
as
it
doth
appeare
by
storyes
ecclesiasticall
,
the
Byshoppes
of
Rome
haue
chalenged
and
vsed
it
onely
sith
Boniface
the
thirde
obtayned
it
of
the
Emperour
Phocas
:
of
whom
he
was
proclamed
vniuersall
Byshoppe
,
to
the
ouerthrowe
of
true
religion
,
in
the
Church
of
Christ
,
of
vertue
,
godlinesse
,
humilitie
,
and
obedience
amonge
all
the
cleargie
,
of
the
imperiall
estate
,
and
maiestie
of
the
noble
Emperours
and
kinges
,
from
whome
they
had
their
first
authoritie
,
and
not
from
our
Sauiour
Iesus
Christ
.
The
which
I
will
endeuour
to
shewe
in
this
litle
worke
,
&
specially
by
the
two
commissions
that
he
gaue
:
the
one
before
his
death
and
passion
,
the
other
after
his
resurrection
,
to
all
his
Apostles
,
in
like
and
equall
manner
,
that
not
one
of
them
might
thereby
challenge
any
iote
of
authoritie
or
power
ouer
or
aboue
the
other
,
as
by
the
commissions
themselues
the
whole
world
easily
may
see
.
Nowe
,
as
no
subiecte
can
haue
any
higher
or
larger
authoritie
then
is
limited
and
expressed
by
plaine
wordes
in
his
commission
,
by
his
emperours
or
prince
,
whosoeuer
it
be
that
graunteth
it
,
and
as
euery
one
of
the
commissioners
,
to
whom
it
is
directed
,
haue
that
authoritie
which
in
their
commission
is
mentioned
,
and
no
other
:
euen
so
in
the
commission
that
our
Sauiour
Christ
gaue
to
his
Apostles
,
euerie
one
of
them
ought
obediently
to
obserue
their
maisters
commaundemente
with
his
authority
giuen
to
them
,
and
not
to
breake
it
,
and
goe
beyonde
the
bondes
and
lemitation
of
it
.
Yea
,
much
lesse
shold
they
dare
to
breake
it
,
then
any
subiecte
dare
the
commaundement
and
commission
giuen
him
by
his
Prince
,
a
Prince
of
this
worlde
:
whose
commission
,
no
subiect
will
be
so
bolde
to
breake
in
any
one
point
,
because
he
knoweth
the
daunger
of
it
.
As
for
the
Bishoppes
of
Rome
howe
they
haue
broken
their
master
Christes
commission
,
you
shal
find
by
their
doings
,
most
contrary
to
his
two
special
commissions
before
mentioned
:
specially
in
taking
vpon
them
higher
power
,
&
greter
authoritie
,
then
any
other
Bishoppe
hath
,
or
euer
had
from
our
sauiour
Christ
:
to
wit
,
that
they
are
and
ought
to
be
soueraigne
heades
and
rulers
,
not
onely
ouer
all
other
bishopes
in
this
worlde
,
but
also
aboue
all
Emperours
,
Kinges
,
and
Princes
.
Which
being
cleane
contrarie
to
their
Maister
Christes
commaundement
&
commission
,
thereby
they
haue
manifested
themselues
to
be
of
those
very
Antichristes
of
whom
the
scriptures
do
make
mention
.
1
Iohn
.
2.
Chap.
2.
That
the
first
commission
of
Christ
to
his
Apostles
,
when
he
sent
them
to
preach
the
Gospell
,
did
giue
no
authoritie
to
Peter
aboue
the
rest
,
but
like
and
equall
vnto
them
all
.
THE
first
message
and
commission
giuen
by
our
sauiour
Christe
to
his
Apostles
,
is
declared
by
the
holy
Euangelist
Saint
Matthew
,
in
the
10.
Chapter
of
his
Gospell
.
Matt.
10.
Where
he
sheweth
,
that
the
twelue
Apostles
being
called
together
,
they
had
power
giuen
them
ouer
all
vncleane
spirites
,
that
they
might
cast
them
out
,
and
also
cure
&
heale
all
manner
sicknesse
and
diseases
.
Whervpon
hauing
recited
the
names
of
Christes
Apostles
,
he
saith
these
wordes
,
Hos
duodecim
misit
Iesus
,
praecipiens
eis
&
dicens
:
in
viam
gentium
ne
abieritis
:
in
ciuitates
Samaritanorum
ne
intraueritis
:
sed
potius
ite
ad
oues
quae
perierunt
domus
Israel
.
Euntes
autem
praedicate
,
dicentes
,
appropinquauit
regnum
coelorum
.
Infirmos
curate
,
mortuos
suscitate
,
leprosos
mundate
,
daemones
eijcite
:
gratis
accepistis
,
gratis
date
.
These
twelue
,
his
Apostles
,
Iesus
sent
forth
,
commanding
&
saying
to
them
:
You
shal
not
go
into
the
way
of
the
gentiles
:
you
shall
not
enter
into
the
cities
of
the
Samaritans
:
but
rather
go
you
to
the
lost
sheepe
of
the
house
of
Israel
:
and
as
you
go
,
preach
,
saying
,
the
kingdome
of
heauen
is
at
hand
,
heale
the
sicke
,
raise
the
dead
,
cleanse
the
leopers
,
and
cast
out
diuels
:
freely
you
haue
receiued
these
things
of
me
,
freely
giue
them
.
In
this
first
message
and
commission
of
Christ
,
giuen
to
his
twelue
Apostles
,
you
may
plainely
vnderstande
that
he
gaue
equall
and
like
authority
vnto
them
al
,
without
any
preferring
of
any
one
of
them
before
all
his
fellowes
,
he
gaue
the
very
lowest
(
if
any
were
lowest
)
as
greate
and
large
power
,
as
he
gaue
vnto
the
highest
,
no
exception
being
made
of
any
one
,
as
higher
in
authority
then
they
all
.
So
that
neither
Peter
nor
any
supposed
successour
of
Peter
can
claime
any
superiority
by
this
ordinaunce
and
commission
of
our
sauiour
Christ
.
And
therefore
if
they
enter
into
any
higher
authority
,
it
must
be
otherwise
then
by
Christ
,
belike
by
that
way
,
which
Christ
himself
doth
mention
in
the
gospel
of
Saint
Iohn
,
where
he
sayth
,
Ego
sum
ostium
:
Iohn
.
10.
qui
non
intrat
per
ostium
in
ouile
ouium
,
sed
ascendit
aliunde
,
ille
fur
est
&
latro
:
I
am
the
dore
:
he
that
entreth
not
by
the
dore
into
the
Shepehouse
,
but
climeth
vp
some
other
way
,
he
is
a
theefe
and
a
robber
.
Whereof
it
followeth
,
that
if
the
Byshops
of
Rome
haue
challenged
suche
authority
which
our
sauiour
Christ
hath
not
giuen
them
,
but
they
haue
obteined
it
otherwise
by
worldly
pollicies
:
then
they
deserue
to
be
called
by
the
names
,
that
Christe
hath
appointed
for
them
,
euen
théeues
and
robbers
.
Now
this
wil
easily
and
clearely
be
proued
that
the
Bishop
of
Rome
hath
had
no
such
vniuersal
authority
from
our
sauiour
Christ
.
Then
what
names
,
what
titles
of
dignity
ought
we
to
attribute
to
the
Byshops
of
Rome
?
which
so
haue
abused
Christes
Church
,
sith
the
time
of
the
good
byshop
Gregory
the
first
:
who
did
vtterly
withstand
the
decrée
of
the
Emperour
Mauricius
,
by
the
which
he
would
haue
made
Iohn
the
patriarch
of
Constantinople
,
vniuersall
bishop
ouer
all
the
byshops
of
Christs
catholike
Church
.
Gregor.
epistolarum
.
Lib.
4.
Epist.
32.
&
38.
For
he
would
not
suffer
this
decrée
to
be
receiued
within
his
prouince
of
Italy
but
vtterly
reiected
it
:
and
wrote
not
only
to
the
emperour
,
how
greatly
he
did
offend
almighty
God
,
in
admitting
this
new
,
prophane
,
blasphemous
name
,
and
authoritie
into
the
Church
of
Christ
,
empairing
the
authority
which
he
hath
giuen
to
the
rest
of
his
byshops
and
ministers
:
but
also
to
Iohn
the
patriarke
,
that
he
by
taking
and
vsurping
that
authority
,
did
shewe
him self
in
pride
and
presumption
to
be
the
very
forerunner
of
Antichrist
.
Wherby
it
came
to
passe
that
Mauricius
the
Emperour
was
so
greatly
offended
with
this
good
Gregory
,
Platina
de
vitis
pontificum
Romanorum
in
Gregorio
primo
.
Volaterranus
.
Centuria
.
6.
fol.
872.
that
,
as
Platina
doth
report
,
he
exhorted
the
Lumbardes
to
set
vppon
the
city
of
Rome
:
which
Agilulfus
the
king
of
Lumbardy
did
,
beséeging
it
a
whole
yeare
:
Howbeit
in
the
end
he
was
faine
to
go
away
without
any
hurt
done
to
the
city
,
that
was
saued
by
the
mighty
prouidence
of
God
.
Chap.
3.
That
Christ
in
the
promise
of
his
second
commission
,
saying
vnto
Peter
.
To
thee
will
I
giue
the
keyes
of
heauen
,
doth
giue
him
no
supremacie
,
Neither
by
these
wordes
,
I
haue
prayed
for
thee
Peter
,
that
thy
faith
faile
not
.
NOwe
,
to
returne
to
the
commissions
of
Christe
,
because
that
betwixt
the
first
,
whiche
was
giuen
before
his
passion
to
his
Apostles
,
as
I
haue
declared
,
and
the
second
which
he
gaue
them
after
his
death
and
resurrection
,
Christ
did
open
to
them
in
the
meane
time
his
purpose
and
intent
,
both
for
giuing
them
further
authoritie
,
then
before
he
gaue
them
,
and
for
instructing
of
them
what
they
should
doe
with
it
:
he
therefore
demaunded
of
his
disciples
,
what
men
did
talke
of
him
,
and
whom
they
saide
him
to
be
.
To
whome
when
they
aunswered
:
some
,
that
Thou
art
Iohn
Baptist
,
and
some
,
Elias
,
&
others
,
Ieremias
,
or
one
of
the
prophets
:
Matt.
16.
then
Iesus
said
vnto
them
,
Vos
autem
quem
me
esse
dicitis
.
Respondens
Simon
Petrus
,
dixit
:
tu
es
Christus
filius
Dei
viui
.
Respondens
autem
Christus
dixit
ei
:
beatus
es
Simon
Bar-iona
,
quia
caro
&
sanguis
non
reuelauit
tibi
hoc
,
sed
pater
meus
qui
est
in
coelis
.
Et
ego
dico
tibi
,
tu
es
Petrus
,
&
super
hanc
Petram
aedificabo
Ecclesiam
meam
,
&
portae
inferni
non
praeualebunt
aduersus
eam
.
Et
tibi
dabo
claues
regni
coelorum
:
&
quidcunque
ligaueris
super
terram
,
erit
ligatum
in
coelis
,
&
quidcunque
solueris
super
terram
,
erit
solutum
in
coelis
.
But
whom
,
saith
Christ
,
do
you
say
that
I
am
.
He
said
not
,
Peter
,
who
dost
thou
say
that
I
am
:
but
in
the
plurall
nomber
,
to
all
his
Apostles
,
who
doe
you
say
that
I
am
.
Then
Peter
,
as
the
mouth
and
speaker
of
them
al
,
said
,
Thou
art
Christ
the
sonne
of
the
liuing
God
.
To
whom
our
sauiour
Christ
aunswered
and
saide
:
blessed
art
thou
Simon
the
sonne
of
Ionas
:
for
flesh
and
bloud
hath
not
reuealed
it
to
thee
,
but
my
father
which
is
in
heauen
.
And
I
say
to
thee
.
Tu
es
Petrus
,
alluding
to
the
name
of
Peter
,
for
his
perfect
faith
on
the
head
corner
stone
,
the
is
to
say
,
on
Christ
,
wherevpon
Peter
him selfe
was
builded
,
and
not
Christ
vpon
Peter
:
therefore
Christ
said
,
Vpon
this
rocke
or
stone
,
of
thy
confession
of
me
to
be
the
sonne
of
the
liuing
God
,
will
I
builde
my
Church
,
and
the
gates
of
hell
shall
not
preuaile
against
it
.
Christ
did
not
say
,
against
thée
Peter
,
but
against
it
,
that
is
,
his
true
Church
,
builded
vpon
that
faith
that
Peter
then
confessed
,
and
not
vpon
Peters
person
.
I
doe
beléeue
there
is
no
man
so
ignoraunt
or
voide
of
knowledge
,
that
will
iudge
our
Sauiour
Christ
would
build
his
Church
vpon
so
weake
and
fraile
a
foundation
,
as
Peter
was
,
if
we
regard
not
his
profession
,
but
his
person
:
who
shewed
himselfe
more
wauering
and
vnstable
then
any
other
of
the
twelue
Apostles
,
as
one
that
vtterly
denied
his
Maister
Christe
thrée
times
in
one
day
:
Matt.
26.
and
also
before
that
did
speake
such
carnall
and
worldly
wordes
vnto
him
,
that
Christe
was
faine
to
answere
him
,
Thou
art
an
offence
vnto
me
:
and
added
moreouer
,
Matt.
16.
Get
thee
be
hinde
me
Sathan
.
Wherefore
I
do
leaue
it
to
the
iudgement
of
euerie
good
Christian
man
,
whether
it
be
more
agréeable
to
our
faith
,
and
safe
for
the
Church
of
God
,
to
be
founded
vpon
Christ
,
or
vpon
Peter
:
vppon
the
sonne
of
the
liuing
God
,
whom
Peter
confessed
,
or
vpon
a
man
,
who
vttterly
denied
the
sonne
of
the
liuing
God
,
saying
,
Non
noui
hominem
istum
,
and
that
cum
iuramento
,
Matt.
26.
I
do
not
knowe
this
man
,
and
bound
it
with
an
othe
,
as
the
Gospel
doth
testifie
.
It
is
certaine
that
Christ
builded
his
Church
vpon
that
rocke
or
stone
,
Iuellus
in
replicatione
ad
responsum
Hardingi
fol.
221.
222.
246.
262.
which
was
sure
&
stedfast
:
euen
vpon
the
faith
confessed
by
Peter
,
and
not
vpon
Peter
.
And
that
by
the
iudgement
of
the
olde
fathers
,
as
Hillarie
affirmeth
in
his
second
booke
De
Trinitate
.
Haec
est
vna
foelix
fidei
Petra
,
quam
Petrus
ore
suo
est
confessus
.
This
is
the
onely
blessed
rocke
of
faith
,
whiche
Peter
confessed
by
mouth
.
And
Chrysost.
in
Matth.
Hom.
51.
Super
hanc
petram
in
hac
fide
&
confessione
aedificabo
Ecclesiam
.
Vpon
this
rocke
,
vpon
this
faith
and
confession
,
will
I
builde
my
Church
.
And
Saint
Augustine
in
his
13.
sermon
vpon
Matthew
saith
,
Non
me
aedificabo
super
te
,
sed
aedificabo
te
super
me
.
I
wil
not
builde
my selfe
of
thee
,
but
I
will
build
thee
vpon
me
.
And
this
was
the
meaning
of
Christ
.
For
after
Peter
had
saide
,
Tu
es
Christus
filius
dei
viui
.
Christ
said
not
,
Super
te
Petrum
,
vpon
thee
Peter
,
but
super
hanc
petram
,
vpon
this
rocke
,
or
stable
stone
,
euen
thy
confession
of
me
to
be
the
sonne
of
the
liuing
God
,
I
will
build
my
Church
,
and
the
gates
of
hell
shal
not
preuaile
against
it
.
He
saide
not
,
against
Peter
,
but
against
his
Church
,
which
he
builded
vpon
that
rocke
of
faith
that
Peter
helde
.
For
Christes
words
are
,
Matt.
16.
Portae
inferni
non
praeualebunt
aduersus
eam
,
in
the
feminine
gender
,
against
it
:
which
must
needes
haue
relation
to
Ecclesiam
,
His
Church
,
&
not
to
Peter
:
for
then
he
would
haue
said
,
Non
preualebit
aduersus
eum
.
Likewise
he
saide
immediately
,
Tibi
dabo
claues
regni
coelorum
:
To
thee
will
I
giue
the
keyes
of
the
kingdome
of
heauen
.
Now
it
is
plain
that
he
gaue
those
keies
vnto
his
Church
,
and
not
to
Peters
onely
person
:
though
he
saide
to
him
,
but
as
to
his
Apostle
,
the
charge
pertayning
to
al
his
Apostles
,
and
all
the
ministers
of
his
Churche
,
by
like
right
,
Quodcunque
ligaueris
super
terram
erit
ligatum
in
coelis
,
&
quodcunque
solueris
super
terram
,
erit
solutum
in
coelis
.
Whatsoeuer
thou
shalt
binde
vpon
the
earth
,
it
shall
be
bound
in
heauen
,
&
whatsoeuer
thou
shalt
loose
vpon
the
earth
,
it
shal
be
loosed
in
heauen
.
For
otherwise
those
keyes
of
loosing
&
binding
had
ben
lost
cleane
,
and
the
authority
of
Christes
church
had
bene
ouerthrowen
for
euer
,
if
Peter
onely
shoulde
haue
possessed
those
keyes
,
as
parteining
to
himselfe
alone
,
and
not
to
Christes
Church
.
For
it
followeth
in
the
same
chapter
,
how
Christ
telling
his
Apostles
that
he
must
go
to
Ierusalem
,
and
there
suffer
many
things
by
the
elders
,
scribes
and
princes
of
the
priestes
,
and
be●lains
,
and
the
third
day
rise
againe
from
death
:
Peter
tooke
him
aside
and
rebuked
him
,
saying
,
Let
this
be
farre
from
thee
,
let
not
this
happen
to
thee
.
Wherevpon
Christe
turning
him selfe
to
Peter
,
sayd
:
vade
post
me
Satana
,
scandalum
es
mihi
:
quia
no●
sapis
ea
quae
dei
sunt
,
sed
ea
qua●
sunt
hominum
:
Get
thee
behinde
me
,
thou
Satan
,
or
Diuell
:
thou
art
an
offence
vnto
me
:
for
thou
doest
not
sauour
of
the
thinges
that
are
of
God
,
but
the
thinges
that
are
of
men
.
So
that
whatsoeuer
Christ
said
to
him
before
if
the
same
had
not
concerned
the
authority
of
his
whole
church
,
but
onely
Peters
person
:
them
al
the
vertue
of
those
sayinges
had
bene
clearely
quenched
,
and
taken
from
Peter
,
when
Christ
called
him
Sathan
,
and
bad
him
come
behinde
him
.
But
,
that
the
right
of
these
wordes
doth
belong
vnto
the
whole
Church
,
it
is
euident
by
the
wordes
of
Christe
that
do
follow
in
the
eightéene
Chapter
,
spoken
to
the
Church
:
Matt.
18.
Quaecunque
ligaueritis
in
terra
erunt
ligata
in
coelo
:
Et
quaecunque
solueritis
in
terra
,
erunt
soluta
in
coelo
.
What
soeuer
ye
binde
in
earth
,
shall
be
bound
in
heauen
:
and
whatsoeuer
ye
loose
in
earth
,
shall
be
loosed
in
heauen
.
Yea
,
to
regarde
the
substance
of
Christes
wordes
touching
that
authority
of
binding
and
loosing
mentioned
to
Peter
,
Christ
said
not
,
tibi
do
claues
regni
coelorum
,
Matt.
16.
I
doe
giue
the
keyes
of
the
kingdome
of
heauen
to
thee
,
but
tibi
dabo
,
I
will
giue
to
thee
the
keyes
of
the
kingdome
of
heauen
,
to
loose
and
to
binde
.
So
that
Christes
wordes
were
spoken
of
the
time
to
come
,
not
of
the
time
present
:
to
be
giuen
afterward
,
not
as
giuen
presently
.
Whereof
it
doeth
follow
,
that
none
of
the
Apostles
had
authoritie
of
binding
and
loosing
,
of
retaining
and
remitting
the
sinnes
of
all
estates
of
men
,
through
all
nations
:
vntill
our
sauiour
Christ
had
suffered
his
death
,
and
had
washed
away
our
sinnes
with
his
bloud
,
and
had
conquered
death
by
rising
from
death
.
At
the
which
time
they
receaued
the
holie
Ghost
,
as
it
shall
appeare
in
the
second
commission
,
and
had
that
perfourmed
,
whiche
was
promised
,
when
Christ
saide
,
Iohn
.
20.
I
wil
giue
thee
the
keyes
of
the
kingdome
of
heauen
.
But
in
the
mean
season
,
before
that
was
performed
:
Christ
perceiuing
by
his
diuine
prescience
and
foreknowledge
,
that
Peter
should
denie
him
thrise
in
one
day
,
he
saide
vnto
him
:
Simon
,
Luke
.
22.
Ecce
Satanas
expetiuit
vos
vt
cribraret
sicut
triticum
:
ego
autem
oraui
pro
te
,
vt
non
deficiat
fides
tua
:
&
tu
aliquando
conuersus
confirma
fratres
tuos
.
Ipse
verò
dixit
ei
,
Domine
tecum
paratus
sum
in
carcerem
&
in
mortem
ire
.
At
ille
dixit
,
dico
tibi
Petre
,
non
cantabit
hodie
gallus
.
donec
ter
abneges
,
nosse
me
.
Simon
,
saith
the
Lord
to
Peter
:
Behold
Sathan
hath
desired
you
,
to
syfte
you
like
wheat
:
but
I
haue
praied
for
thee
,
that
thy
faith
fayle
not
:
therefore
when
thou
at
length
art
conuerted
,
confirme
&
stablish
thy
brethren
.
Then
Peter
saide
vnto
him
,
Lorde
I
am
ready
to
go
with
thee
into
prison
&
vnto
death
.
But
Christ
saide
,
Peter
,
I
tell
thee
,
the
cocke
shall
not
crowe
this
day
,
vntill
thou
hast
thrice
denied
that
thou
knowest
me
.
Whiche
wordes
of
Christ
were
fulfilled
the
same
night
,
as
soone
as
he
was
brought
before
the
high
priest
.
For
Peter
being
amongst
them
that
stoode
by
the
fire
,
when
he
was
reported
of
by
a
maide
,
that
he
was
one
of
those
which
were
with
Christ
:
he
aunswered
,
I
doe
not
knowe
him
.
When
againe
he
was
tolde
by
another
man
,
who
stoode
by
the
maide
,
that
he
was
of
them
:
he
answered
,
I
do
not
know
him
.
Anone
after
,
the
thirde
time
,
when
another
man
said
,
verily
this
man
was
with
him
,
for
he
is
also
a
Galilean
:
then
Peter
cursed
and
did
sweare
,
as
S.
Matthew
doth
witnes
,
that
he
knew
not
Christ
.
And
immediately
the
cocke
did
crowe
.
Matt.
26.
And
Christe
looked
back
vpon
Peter
,
and
Peter
went
forth
,
and
did
wéepe
bitterly
.
This
I
haue
recited
so
muche
the
more
at
large
:
because
there
be
some
,
who
would
proue
authoritie
giuen
to
Peter
by
the
former
wordes
of
Christ
:
which
if
they
be
well
considered
,
are
but
a
manifestation
partly
of
Christs
Godhead
in
that
he
did
foreknow
Peter
would
denie
him
,
partely
of
his
mercie
shewed
gratiously
to
Peter
,
whose
faith
he
did
establish
with
his
praier
,
that
he
should
not
dispaire
,
as
Iudas
Iscariot
did
,
who
after
he
had
sold
Christ
,
went
and
hanged
himselfe
.
So
,
vpon
this
verie
sentence
of
Christ
,
Ego
rogaui
pro
te
Petre
,
vt
not
deficiat
fides
tua
:
Chrisostomus
in
Mat.
Cap.
26.
Hom.
83.
Saint
Chrisostome
doth
say
,
that
Christe
the
more
sharpely
to
reproue
Peters
pride
,
(
who
did
presume
more
of
him selfe
,
then
any
other
of
the
Apostles
)
doeth
signifie
before
vnto
him
,
that
his
fall
shal
be
worse
then
the
fall
of
the
rest
,
and
therefore
néedeth
greater
helpe
to
raise
him
vppe
againe
.
Wherefore
that
he
might
sée
and
féele
his
owne
weakenes
:
Christe
suffered
him
to
fal
,
&
told
him
of
it
before
it
happened
:
yet
he
preserued
him
withall
,
through
his
great
care
&
fauour
,
that
he
should
not
fall
from
him
,
though
he
did
denie
him
:
wherwith
he
conforted
him
in
saying
,
I
haue
prayed
for
thee
Peter
,
that
thy
faith
fail
not
.
Now
as
saint
Chrisostome
doth
shewe
,
that
Christ
did
thus
manifest
his
diuine
knowledge
and
fauour
vnto
Peter
,
by
foreshewing
him
his
fall
,
and
promising
that
he
would
rayse
him
:
so
likewise
holie
Beda
writing
on
the
same
wordes
,
saith
,
that
he
who
onely
knoweth
what
is
in
man
,
Beda
in
Euangelium
Lucae
cap.
22.
lib.
6.
both
as
God
,
did
foretell
in
what
sorte
,
at
what
time
,
how
often
Peter
should
denie
him
:
and
as
merciful
,
did
promise
him
the
help
of
his
defence
,
least
that
any
of
the
faithful
either
vnaduisedly
should
presume
of
his
owne
standing
,
or
more
vnaduisedly
should
dispaire
for
his
owne
falling
.
Wherefore
to
passe
ouer
other
thinges
that
might
be
saide
,
hereby
it
is
manifest
that
the
words
of
Christ
spoken
to
Peter
of
his
prayer
for
him
,
haue
no
force
at
all
to
proue
any
preeminence
or
superioritie
in
Peter
:
but
they
are
rather
of
greate
force
against
him
,
and
those
that
chalenge
to
be
his
successors
,
sith
they
doe
shewe
a
notable
fall
of
Peter
,
by
occasion
that
he
had
too
greate
a
confidence
in
himselfe
,
as
it
is
euident
by
Christes
words
.
Chap.
4.
That
the
second
commission
which
Christ
gaue
out
to
his
Apostles
,
was
giuen
in
like
sort
as
the
first
,
not
with
any
greater
authoritie
to
Peter
,
then
to
any
of
the
rest
.
THe
second
commission
whiche
our
sauiour
gaue
to
all
his
Apostles
,
was
giuen
to
them
after
that
he
had
suffered
death
vpon
the
crosse
for
al
mankinde
,
and
hauing
redéemed
them
with
his
precious
bloude
,
was
raised
vp
againe
from
death
vnto
life
.
This
commission
is
declared
by
the
Euangelist
saint
Mark
in
these
wordes
:
Mark
.
16.
Nouissimè
autem
recumbentibus
illis
vndecim
apparuit
,
et
exprobrauit
incredulitatem
illorum
&
duritiem
cordis
,
quia
his
,
qui
viderant
eum
resurrexisse
non
crediderunt
.
Et
dixit
eis
:
euntes
in
mundum
vniuersum
praedicate
euangelium
omni
creaturae
:
qui
crediderit
&
baptizatus
fuerit
,
saluus
erit
:
qui
verò
non
crediderit
,
condemnabitur
.
Last
of
all
he
appeared
to
the
eleuen
Apostles
sitting
at
the
table
:
and
rebuked
them
for
their
vnbeleefe
and
hardnes
of
their
heartes
,
because
they
did
not
beleeue
them
which
had
seene
him
,
being
risen
from
death
.
And
he
sayde
vnto
them
:
Go
you
into
all
the
world
and
preach
the
gospell
to
euery
creature
:
He
that
shal
beleeue
and
be
baptised
,
shal
be
saued
:
But
who
so
will
not
beleeue
,
shall
be
damned
:
vnto
which
commission
he
added
further
promises
,
what
signes
should
followe
than
who
beléeued
:
to
wit
,
that
in
his
name
they
should
cast
out
diuels
,
they
should
speake
new
languages
,
they
shoulde
take
away
serpentes
,
yea
,
if
they
did
drinke
poyson
,
it
should
not
hurt
them
,
they
shoulde
lay
their
hands
vpon
diseased
persons
,
&
they
should
recouer
.
The
meaning
and
manner
of
this
commission
that
Christe
did
giue
them
,
is
declared
farther
by
the
Euangelist
saint
Iohn
,
in
that
he
doth
say
:
Cùm
ergo
serò
esset
die
illo
,
Iohn
.
20.
vna
sabbatorum
,
&
fores
essent
clausae
,
vbi
erant
discipuli
congregati
propter
metum
Iudaeorum
:
venit
Iesus
&
stetit
in
medio
,
&
dixt
eis
,
pax
vobis
.
Et
cum
haec
dixisset
,
ostendit
eis
manus
&
latus
.
Gauisi
sunt
ergo
discipuli
viso
domino
.
Dixit
ergo
eis
iterum
,
pax
vobis
:
sicut
misit
me
pater
,
&
ego
mitto
vos
.
Hoc
cùm
dixisset
,
insufflauit
,
&
dixit
eis
:
Accipite
spiritum
sanctum
:
quorum
remiseritis
peccata
,
remittuntur
eis
:
&
quorum
retinueritis
peccata
,
retenta
sunt
.
The
same
day
then
at
nighte
,
which
was
the
first
daye
of
the
weeke
,
and
when
the
dores
were
shut
,
where
the
disciples
were
assembled
for
feare
of
the
Iewes
,
Iesus
came
&
stood
in
the
middest
of
them
,
and
said
vnto
them
,
peace
be
vnto
you
.
And
when
he
had
sayd
that
,
he
shewed
vnto
them
his
hands
and
his
side
,
then
were
the
disciples
glad
,
when
they
had
seene
the
Lord
.
Then
saide
Iesus
againe
vnto
them
,
peace
be
vnto
you
:
as
my
father
sent
me
,
so
I
also
send
you
.
And
when
he
had
saide
this
,
he
breathed
vpon
them
,
and
sayde
vnto
them
:
receiue
you
the
holy
ghost
.
Whosoeuers
sinnes
you
shall
forgiue
,
they
are
forgiuen
them
,
and
whosoeuers
ye
retein
,
they
are
reteined
.
By
this
later
commission
our
sauiour
Christ
gaue
to
all
his
Apostles
like
power
and
equal
authority
,
to
go
through
the
whole
world
,
&
to
prech
the
gospell
of
saluation
to
all
creatures
,
of
whome
he
said
in
general
.
He
that
shal
beleeue
and
be
baptised
,
shall
be
saued
:
he
that
will
not
beleeue
shall
be
damned
.
He
gaue
them
equall
authority
and
power
to
remit
and
reteine
the
sinnes
of
all
,
both
Iewes
and
Gentiles
:
which
by
their
first
commission
they
could
not
,
because
they
had
not
authority
to
preach
vnto
any
,
but
to
the
lost
shéepe
of
the
house
of
Israel
,
I
say
,
this
authority
nowe
giuen
the
Apostles
,
was
giuen
in
equall
and
like
manner
to
them
all
:
and
not
to
one
more
then
to
all
the
rest
.
Wherfore
vnlesse
that
Satan
had
mightily
puffed
vp
the
bishops
of
Rome
,
naming
them selues
Peters
successours
,
whome
Christe
once
called
Satan
,
and
I
know
not
in
what
they
be
his
successours
,
vnlesse
it
be
in
that
:
it
might
séeme
strange
that
any
man
pretending
the
name
and
faith
of
a
Christian
,
shoulde
so
farre
abuse
Christes
worde
and
commission
,
as
to
claim
such
authority
,
so
far
greater
then
his
worde
and
commission
doth
extend
vnto
.
But
it
is
a
true
saying
,
who
is
so
blind
as
he
that
wil
not
see
?
Verily
if
the
Papistes
woulde
read
and
sée
with
an
humble
spirit
,
and
obedient
hart
to
the
almighty
God
,
that
which
is
written
in
his
worde
,
as
I
beséeche
the
Lorde
they
may
:
then
out
of
doubt
they
shoulde
finde
that
Peter
had
no
greater
or
larger
authority
then
other
the
Apostles
had
.
Neither
did
he
euer
chalenge
such
authority
aboue
other
the
Apostles
,
as
the
Byshops
of
Rome
haue
done
aboue
all
other
bishops
,
vnder
the
false
pretence
,
that
they
are
Peters
successours
,
because
for
sooth
they
are
Byshops
of
Rome
,
&
therein
(
as
they
say
)
doe
succéede
Saint
Peter
.
Chap.
5.
That
Peter
was
neuer
at
Rome
,
as
farre
as
may
be
gatherd
by
the
scriptures
,
Therefore
the
Popes
supremacie
may
not
be
laide
on
that
foundation
.
BVT
to
touch
this
by
the
way
,
for
so
much
as
they
make
so
much
a
do
about
it
,
by
the
scriptures
they
can
not
proue
that
Peter
was
euer
at
Rome
:
much
lesse
that
he
was
Byshop
of
Rome
.
But
this
we
can
proue
,
that
he
was
at
Ierusalem
,
and
in
many
other
places
,
gouerning
and
instructinge
the
congregation
of
Christe
.
Yea
aboue
three
yeares
after
saint
Paules
conuersion
:
Galat.
1.
we
read
that
he
went
to
Ierusalem
to
see
Peter
:
and
hauing
bene
in
sundry
countries
,
after
other
fouretéene
yeares
he
went
vp
to
Ierusalem
againe
,
&
talked
with
him
.
Peter
afterward
came
to
Antioche
,
where
saint
Paul
also
mette
with
him
,
as
his
words
doe
witnes
to
the
Galatians
.
Galat.
2.
Cùm
autem
venisset
Petrus
Antiochiam
,
in
faciem
ei
restui
,
quia
reprehensibilis
erat
.
Prius
enim
quàm
venirent
quidam
〈◊〉
Iacobo
,
cum
gentibus
edebat
:
quum
autem
venissent
,
subtrahebat
,
&
segregabat
se
&c:
sed
cum
vidissem
quòd
non
rectè
ambularent
ad
veritatem
euangelij
,
dixi
Cephae
coram
omnibus
:
si
tu
cum
Iudaeus
sis
,
gentiliter
viuis
,
&
non
Iudaicè
,
quomodo
gentes
cogis
Iudaizare
?
Therefore
when
Peter
did
come
to
Antioche
,
saith
saint
Paul
,
I
withstood
him
to
his
face
,
because
he
was
to
bee
rebuked
.
For
before
that
some
came
from
Iames
,
he
did
eate
with
the
gentiles
:
when
they
were
come
,
he
did
withdrawe
him selfe
.
&c.
But
when
I
sawe
that
they
went
not
the
right
way
to
the
truth
of
the
Gospel
,
I
saide
to
Cephas
(
that
is
Peter
)
before
them
all
:
if
thou
being
a
Iewe
,
liuest
as
a
gentile
,
and
not
like
a
Iewe
:
why
doest
thou
cause
the
gentiles
to
liue
after
the
manner
of
Iewes
?
Nowe
this
rebuke
of
Paul
(
for
that
is
worth
the
notinge
also
)
Peter
did
patiently
beare
and
suffer
at
Paules
handes
.
Whereby
it
is
manifest
that
Peter
did
not
claime
the
Popish
supremacie
,
neither
did
saint
Paul
make
more
account
of
Peter
,
then
of
other
the
Apostles
,
reprouing
him
,
because
hée
had
brought
the
Iewes
and
Barnabas
into
his
dissimulation
.
And
here
(
to
passe
ouer
the
frailty
of
Peter
in
this
his
great
offence
)
it
is
to
be
considered
,
because
the
Bishoppes
of
Rome
haue
claimed
a
succession
from
him
,
that
if
there
ought
to
haue
beene
such
a
succession
as
they
imagine
of
Peter
,
rather
then
of
other
the
Apostles
,
the
Bishops
of
Antioche
then
by
likelihood
shold
haue
claimed
the
right
of
Peters
successors
,
rather
then
the
bishops
of
Rome
:
sith
it
doth
not
appeare
in
any
place
of
the
holy
scriptures
,
that
euer
Peter
was
at
Rome
:
but
at
Antioche
it
appeareth
,
and
in
sundrie
places
of
Asia
,
and
other
the
East
partes
of
the
world
.
Howbeit
,
I
denie
not
,
Euseb.
lib.
2.
cap.
14.
but
that
some
histories
and
Chronicles
doe
make
mention
,
that
Peter
was
at
Rome
.
Which
I
will
not
say
,
that
they
were
made
to
say
so
,
corrupted
by
popish
setters
forth
of
them
:
I
can
not
affirme
it
:
but
this
I
can
affirme
&
wil
boldly
say
,
that
al
,
which
those
histories
&
Chronicles
doe
writ
of
Peters
being
at
Rome
,
is
not
agreable
with
the
word
of
God
,
&
therefore
is
not
of
vs
to
be
credited
,
seeing
that
it
is
contrarie
to
the
word
of
truth
.
And
herein
all
wise
men
may
consider
,
that
seeing
Pauls
iourney
from
Ierusalem
to
Rome
is
most
plainly
set
forth
in
the
scriptures
,
from
place
to
place
,
from
Iland
to
Iland
,
from
countries
,
to
country
,
&
what
he
did
either
by
land
or
by
sea
:
much
more
if
Peter
had
traueiled
from
Antioche
to
Rome
,
and
that
his
iourney
had
beene
of
so
great
weight
to
our
saluation
,
as
the
papistes
doe
pretende
,
by
grounding
therevppon
the
supremacie
and
authoritie
of
the
Bishops
of
Rome
,
it
is
to
be
thought
that
Peters
iourney
shoulde
haue
bene
written
and
set
foorth
most
expressely
.
Yea
,
of
all
likelihood
it
should
haue
bene
extolled
more
then
the
iourneis
of
famous
Emperours
:
then
Xerxes
iourney
into
Grece
,
with
tenne
hundreth
thousande
men
:
then
Alexander
the
greate
his
iourney
to
conquere
the
whole
worlde
:
then
Iulius
Cesars
iourneyes
in
his
conquest
of
Asia
,
France
,
Spaine
,
England
,
and
many
other
nations
.
But
if
the
Papistes
fansies
be
true
:
belike
saint
Peter
did
flie
in
the
skies
aboue
the
ground
,
and
neither
trauailed
by
sea
,
nor
by
lande
.
Certainely
,
this
is
euident
,
that
the
foundation
of
the
Romish
supremacie
is
too
weake
to
beare
such
weight
,
as
they
would
haue
it
:
séeing
that
it
hath
no
ground
in
all
the
scriptures
,
but
onely
in
mans
corrupt
deuises
,
for
worldly
vaine
glorie
.
As
in
déede
it
is
most
vngodly
extolled
,
and
aduaunced
,
by
Albertus
,
Pighius
,
Eckius
,
Hosius
,
and
such
other
Romish
clearkes
,
and
Popishe
Sophisters
:
who
doe
exalt
the
Bishop
of
Rome
to
the
celestiall
hierarchies
:
and
make
a
doubt
whether
he
be
a
mere
man
or
no
:
whether
he
haue
not
as
great
power
as
our
Sauiour
Christ
had
:
with
other
such
matters
grounded
on
his
supremacie
,
most
vaine
,
and
blasphemous
to
the
dishonour
of
God
,
and
our
Sauiour
Iesu
Christ
,
in
whose
word
it
hath
no
ground
.
For
(
to
go
forward
with
Peters
being
at
Rome
,
the
foundation
of
this
supremacy
S.
Paul
being
at
Rome
in
the
time
of
Nero
the
Emperor
,
did
write
his
Epistle
to
the
Colossians
,
in
the
fourth
Chapter
wherof
,
sending
gréetings
&
salutations
from
his
friendes
that
were
then
at
Rome
with
him
,
he
saith
to
the
Colossians
.
Col.
4.
Salutat
vos
Aristarchus
,
&
Marcus
consobrinus
Barnabae
,
&
Iesus
,
qui
dicitur
iustus
.
Hi
soli
sunt
adiutores
mei
in
regno
Dei
,
qui
mihi
fuere
solatio
.
Salutat
vos
Epaphras
,
qui
ex
vobis
est
seruus
Christi
.
Salutat
vos
Lucas
medicus
charissimus
,
&
Demas
.
Aristarchus
doth
salute
you
,
&
Marcus
,
Barnabas
sisters
sonne
&
Iesus
which
is
called
Iustus
.
These
only
are
my
workfellowes
to
the
kingdome
of
God
,
which
haue
bene
a
comfort
to
me
.
Epaphras
doth
salute
you
,
which
is
one
of
you
,
the
seruant
of
Christ
.
Luke
the
beloued
physician
,
and
Demas
doe
salute
you
also
,
now
if
Peter
had
bene
at
Rome
in
the
time
of
Nero
with
Paul
:
was
not
he
worthie
to
haue
bene
named
in
these
salutations
,
as
well
as
Aristarchus
,
Marcus
,
Iesus
,
Epaphras
,
Luke
,
and
Demas
?
would
not
he
haue
ben
a
fellowhelper
to
Paul
:
which
saint
Paul
saith
none
were
,
but
onely
those
thrée
,
whom
he
nameth
to
them
,
and
Peter
is
none
of
them
.
Yes
doubtlesse
.
Whereby
it
appeareth
,
he
was
not
then
at
Rome
.
Againe
he
writeth
afterwarde
from
Rome
vnto
Timothie
.
Festina
ad
me
venire
citò
.
2.
Tim.
4.
Demas
enim
me
reliquit
,
diligen●
hoc
seculum
,
&
abijt
Thessalonicam
:
Crescens
in
Galatiam
:
Titus
in
Dalmatiam
.
Lucas
est
mecum
solus
.
Marcum
assume
&
adduc
tecum
:
est
enim
vtilis
mihi
in
ministerio
.
Tychicum
autem
misi
Ephesum
.
Haste
thee
to
come
to
me
quickly
.
For
Demas
hath
forsaken
me
,
embracing
this
present
worlde
,
and
is
gone
to
Thessalonica
:
Crescens
into
Galatia
:
Titus
to
Dalmatia
.
Luke
is
only
with
me
.
Take
Marke
and
bring
him
with
thee
:
for
he
is
profitable
to
me
in
the
ministery
.
Tichicus
I
haue
sent
to
Ephesus
&c.
Nowe
if
Peter
had
beene
at
Rome
with
Paul
,
when
hée
wrote
this
Epistle
to
Timothie
:
then
he
would
not
haue
written
,
that
there
was
none
with
him
but
Luke
only
,
and
therfore
required
Timothy
to
bringe
Marke
with
him
,
then
would
he
not
haue
added
that
which
there
doth
follow
,
that
at
his
first
answering
no
man
did
assist
him
,
but
all
did
forsake
him
:
which
I
thinke
the
Papistes
will
not
say
that
Peter
would
haue
done
,
if
he
at
that
time
had
béene
at
Rome
with
Paul
,
which
that
hee
was
not
at
any
time
:
it
may
be
farther
coniectured
by
that
which
is
written
in
the
second
to
the
Galathians
:
Galat.
2.
how
Iames
Peter
and
Iohn
made
an
agréement
with
Paul
and
Barnabas
that
they
shoulde
preach
vnto
the
Gentiles
,
as
Iames
,
Peter
and
Iohn
vnto
the
circumcised
,
which
are
the
Iewes
.
And
vppon
this
agréement
they
did
pledge
their
faith
,
and
gaue
their
right
hande
of
fellowshippe
one
to
the
other
.
Whereby
it
may
be
gathered
,
that
Peter
did
rather
frequent
those
places
where
the
Iewes
were
more
dispersed
,
●
.
Peter
.
1.
as
Pontus
,
Galatia
,
Cappadocia
,
Asia
,
Bithynia
,
to
the
which
he
writeth
also
his
first
Epistle
,
then
the
landes
of
Gréece
and
Italy
,
with
the
citie
of
Rome
,
replenished
with
the
Gentiles
,
&
hauing
fewer
Iewes
amongest
them
.
Al
which
things
laid
together
:
it
will
appeare
to
be
verie
likely
,
the
Peter
was
neuer
at
Rome
,
neither
before
the
time
of
Nero
,
nor
in
Neroes
time
with
Paul
.
Which
proueth
the
foundation
of
the
Romishe
Bishops
supremacie
vppon
Peters
being
at
Rome
,
to
bée
a
verie
weake
and
fickle
foundation
:
as
all
the
other
groundes
of
his
supremacie
are
,
with
the
rest
of
his
religion
.
Chap.
6.
That
although
Peter
had
beene
at
Rome
,
yet
could
he
not
be
the
foundation
of
the
Church
,
which
honour
is
proper
vnto
Christ
onely
.
By
the
way
,
against
the
sacrifice
of
the
Masse
,
and
the
Popish
transubstantiation
.
BVT
whether
that
saint
Peter
were
at
Rome
or
no
,
it
makes
no
gret
matter
.
It
is
sufficient
,
that
it
can
not
be
proued
by
the
scriptures
.
But
if
it
were
graunted
vnto
the
papistes
:
it
maketh
nothing
for
the
Popes
supremacie
.
For
saint
Paul
saith
,
1.
Cor.
3.
Fundamentum
aliud
nemo
potest
ponere
,
praeter
id
quod
positum
est
,
quod
est
Christus
Iesus
.
No
man
can
lay
any
other
foundation
,
then
that
which
is
laide
,
which
is
Christ
Iesus
.
And
saint
Peter
himselfe
saith
in
the
seconde
Chapter
of
his
firste
epistle
,
Deponentes
igitur
omnem
malitiam
,
&
omnem
dolum
,
&
simulationes
,
1.
Pet.
2.
&
inuidias
,
&
omnes
detractiones
,
sicut
modò
geniti
infantes
lac
sermonis
sine
dolo
concupiscite
,
vt
in
eo
crescatis
in
salutem
:
si
tamen
gustastis
quoniam
dulcis
est
dominus
.
Ad
quem
accedentes
,
lapidem
viuum
,
ab
hominibus
quidem
reprobatum
,
a
deo
autem
electum
ac
honorificatum
:
&
ipsi
,
tanquam
lapides
viui
,
superaedificamini
,
domus
spiritualis
,
sacerdotium
sanctum
,
offerre
hostias
spirituales
acceptabiles
deo
per
Iesum
Christum
,
Laying
away
therefore
all
malice
,
&
al
guile
,
&
dissemblings
,
&
enuies
and
all
bacbitinges
,
as
newe
borne
babes
desire
the
sincere
milke
of
Gods
worde
,
that
thereby
you
may
growe
vnto
saluation
:
if
so
be
that
you
haue
tasted
that
the
Lorde
is
swete
.
Vnto
whome
comming
,
as
to
a
liuing
stone
,
disallowed
of
men
,
but
chosen
of
God
,
and
pretious
:
vppon
him
be
ye
builded
,
as
liuing
stones
,
a
spirituall
house
,
a
holy
Priesthoode
,
to
offer
vp
spirituall
sacrifices
,
acceptable
vnto
God
through
Iesus
Christ
.
Out
of
the
which
wordes
of
S.
Paul
and
saint
Peter
,
we
haue
to
learne
two
notable
thinges
:
one
,
that
Christe
our
sauiour
is
the
foundation
,
and
the
liuing
stone
,
which
the
builders
refused
,
but
God
accepted
it
:
&
honoured
it
the
other
,
that
the
faithfull
must
be
laide
on
this
foundation
,
&
as
liuing
stones
,
be
builded
vppon
that
head
and
principall
corner
stone
euen
Iesus
Christ
,
which
the
more
effectually
to
declare
vnto
vs
,
saint
Peter
telleth
all
the
faithfull
,
that
they
,
who
are
so
builded
,
are
made
a
spirituall
house
,
and
a
holy
priesthoode
,
to
offer
spirituall
sacrifices
,
acceptable
to
God
through
Iesus
Christe
:
spirituall
sacrifices
,
and
not
carnall
,
or
transubstantiated
sacrifices
,
as
the
Bishoppe
of
Rome
,
and
his
prelates
doe
falsely
faine
themselues
to
doe
.
For
(
to
goe
a
little
from
my
chiefe
purpose
to
sift
this
horrible
heresie
of
popery
)
I
coulde
neuer
finde
in
all
the
holy
sciptures
,
or
any
hystorie
of
the
primitiue
Church
,
the
euer
this
kind
of
transubstantiated
sacrifice
was
ment
or
spoken
of
by
Christ
:
but
that
his
Church
did
alwayes
receaue
and
allow
the
sacrament
of
Christes
body
and
bloode
,
in
such
spirituall
manner
,
as
Saint
Paul
declareth
in
the
first
Epistle
to
the
Corinthians
,
1.
Cor.
11
the
eleuenth
Chapter
.
No
:
in
all
the
heresies
that
trobled
the
primitiue
Church
which
were
ouerthrown
by
the
fower
first
general
councels
,
there
is
not
one
word
or
question
moued
of
it
:
but
it
was
continually
vsed
as
the
mysterie
and
sacrament
of
Christes
body
and
bloode
.
In
which
sort
it
continued
in
the
best
parts
of
Christendome
,
in
the
best
times
,
still
:
vntill
at
the
length
the
Bishop
of
Rome
,
called
a
councell
at
Laterane
within
his
owne
prouince
of
Italie
,
in
the
which
this
decree
was
made
,
Con.
Later
anno
.
domini
.
1215.
Christi
corpus
&
sanguis
,
in
sacramento
altaris
,
sub
speciebus
panis
&
viniveraciter
continentur
:
transubstantiatis
,
pane
in
Corpus
,
&
vino
in
sanguinem
,
potestate
diuina
.
These
are
the
wordes
of
the
firste
Canon
of
the
councel
holden
at
Rome
,
in
Laterane
vnder
Pope
Innocent
the
third
,
and
called
the
great
Lateran
councell
,
kept
the
yeare
of
our
Lord
.1215
.
Of
the
which
Canon
the
wordes
doe
sounde
in
English
,
That
the
bodie
and
bloud
of
Christe
are
verily
contained
in
the
Sacrament
of
the
altar
vnder
the
formes
of
bread
and
wine
:
the
bread
beeing
transubstantiated
,
that
is
to
say
,
the
substance
of
it
turned
into
his
bodie
,
and
the
wine
into
his
bloud
,
by
the
power
of
God
.
This
notable
deuise
of
transubstantiation
coulde
not
be
found
out
for
the
space
of
twelue
hundred
and
fourtéene
yeres
after
Christ
:
his
Apostles
Euangelistes
,
Disciples
,
Doctours
,
generall
councels
,
knew
it
not
.
They
thought
the
wordes
of
the
sacrament
to
be
spiritually
meant
,
and
to
be
spoken
by
way
of
a
figure
:
as
S.
Augustine
,
to
cite
one
for
many
,
doth
say
expressely
,
that
in
these
wordes
,
Nisi
manducaueritis
carnem
filij
hominis
,
Augusti
.
de
doctrina
Christiana
lib.
3.
cap.
16.
&
sanguinem
eius
biberitis
,
non
habebitis
vitam
in
vobis
,
Figura
est
,
praecipiens
passioni
Domini
esse
communicandum
,
&
suauiter
atque
vtiliter
recondendum
in
memoria
quòd
pro
nobis
caro
eius
crucifixa
&
vulnerata
sit
.
Whereas
Christ
doth
say
,
Vnlesse
you
eate
the
flesh
of
the
sonne
of
man
,
and
drinke
his
bloud
,
you
shall
haue
no
life
in
you
:
this
is
a
figure
,
saith
S.
Augustine
,
or
a
manner
of
speech
commanding
vs
to
be
partakers
of
the
passion
of
Christ
,
&
comfortably
to
lay
vp
in
our
mindes
,
that
his
flesh
was
crucified
and
wounded
for
our
sakes
.
Moreouer
,
speaking
farther
vpon
the
same
wordes
,
on
the
sixth
Chapter
of
Saint
Iohns
Gospell
:
he
sheweth
what
it
is
to
eate
Christes
flesh
and
drinke
his
bloud
.
Hoc
est
ergo
manducare
illam
escam
,
August
.
in
Iohan.
tract.
26.
&
illum
bibere
potum
:
in
Christo
manere
,
&
illum
manentem
in
se
habere
.
This
is
therefore
to
eate
that
meate
,
and
drinke
that
drinke
:
to
dwell
in
Christe
,
and
to
haue
Christ
dwelling
in
him
.
Ac
per
hoc
,
qui
non
manet
in
Christo
,
&
in
quo
non
manet
Christus
:
procul
dubio
nec
manducat
spiritualiter
carnem
eius
,
nec
bibit
eius
sanguinem
,
licèt
carnaliter
&
visibiliter
premat
dentibus
sacramentum
corporis
&
sanguinis
Christi
:
sed
magis
tantae
rei
sacramentum
ad
iudicium
sibi
manducat
&
bibit
,
quia
immundus
praesumpsit
accedere
ad
Christi
sacramenta
,
quae
aliquis
non
dignè
sumpsit
,
nisi
qui
mundus
est
.
And
therfore
,
saith
Augustine
,
he
that
doeth
not
dwel
in
Christ
,
&
in
whom
Christ
doeth
not
dwell
:
doubtles
he
neither
eateth
spiritually
the
flesh
of
Christ
,
nor
drinketh
his
bloud
,
although
he
do
carnally
and
visibly
presse
with
his
teeth
the
sacrament
of
Christes
bodie
and
bloud
:
but
rather
he
doth
eate
and
drinke
the
sacrament
of
so
worthy
a
thing
to
his
iudgement
and
condemnation
,
because
he
doth
presume
,
being
vncleane
,
to
come
to
Christes
sacramentes
,
which
no
man
can
worthely
receiue
,
but
he
only
,
that
is
pure
and
cleane
.
By
Christes
words
therefore
,
béeing
wel
weighed
,
as
it
may
appeare
by
S.
Augustines
words
vpon
them
,
it
may
well
be
gathered
,
that
Christ
did
not
meane
any
transubstantiation
,
or
changing
the
substance
of
the
sacramentall
bread
into
his
natural
bodie
,
&
of
the
sacramentall
wine
into
his
naturall
bloud
:
but
a
mystical
&
spiritual
food
to
the
soule
,
wher
of
the
wicked
are
not
partakers
,
who
are
yet
partakers
of
the
sacramental
bread
&
wine
,
which
do
signifie
the
body
&
bloud
of
Christ
:
for
our
sauiour
doth
say
,
Iohn
.
6.
that
Whosoeuer
doth
eate
his
flesh
,
&
drink
his
bloud
:
hath
euerlasting
life
.
Wherfore
it
cannot
be
,
that
the
sacramental
bread
&
wine
should
be
the
verie
natural
bodie
&
bloud
of
Christ
:
for
as
much
as
the
wicked
,
who
shal
not
liue
for
euer
,
are
partakers
of
them
,
I
mean
of
the
bread
&
wine
in
the
sacrament
,
as
wel
as
the
godly
.
For
as
Paul
doeth
write
to
the
Corinthians
,
1.
Cor.
10.
Brethren
I
wold
not
haue
you
ignorant
,
how
al
our
forefathers
were
vnder
the
cloud
,
&
al
passed
through
the
sea
,
&
were
baptised
vnto
Moses
in
the
cloud
and
in
the
sea
:
Et
omnes
eandem
escam
spiritualem
manducarunt
,
&
omnes
eundem
potum
spiritualem
biberunt
:
bibebant
autem
de
spirituali
consequente
eos
Petrâ
:
Petra
autem
erat
Christus
.
And
they
did
al
eat
the
same
spirituall
meate
,
and
they
did
all
drinke
the
same
spirituall
drinke
:
For
they
did
drink
of
the
spirituall
rocke
that
followed
them
:
and
that
rocke
was
Christ
.
Wherein
we
sée
,
first
,
that
the
wicked
among
the
Iewes
,
with
whome
God
was
not
pleased
,
did
enioye
the
same
sacramentes
of
Christe
,
the
cloude
,
the
sea
,
the
meate
,
the
drinke
,
which
the
godly
did
:
yet
did
they
not
enioy
the
same
life
by
Christ
,
which
the
godly
did
:
for
it
followeth
in
Saint
Paul
,
that
God
was
not
pleased
with
many
of
them
,
Which
wordes
are
meant
of
the
wicked
.
Secondly
,
we
sée
that
the
godly
amongest
the
Iewes
did
eate
the
same
meate
,
and
drinke
the
same
drinke
,
that
the
godly
amongest
the
Corinthians
did
,
to
whome
S.
Paul
doeth
write
:
yea
that
Paul
him selfe
,
&
the
Apostles
did
.
Now
the
Iewes
did
it
,
In
spefuturi
Christi
,
In
the
hope
of
Christ
to
come
,
for
their
redemption
&
deliuerance
from
their
sinnes
,
and
from
death
.
whereof
it
ensueth
,
that
our
eating
&
drinking
,
in
certa
fiducia
praeteriti
Christi
,
in
true
beliefe
that
Christ
is
come
,
and
hath
redéemed
vs
,
and
shed
his
blood
for
vs
:
must
bée
the
partaking
of
a
meate
spirituall
,
and
a
spirituall
drinke
,
no
lesse
then
that
which
Paul
saith
,
that
their
fathers
did
eate
and
drinke
.
For
he
saith
plainely
.
They
did
eate
the
same
meat
,
and
drunke
the
same
drink
,
that
flowed
out
of
the
rocke
,
and
the
rocke
is
Christ
,
For
,
as
the
Iewes
did
it
in
a
figure
of
Christe
,
by
faith
,
in
whom
to
come
they
were
saued
,
as
Christ
doth
say
of
Abraham
,
Abraham
desired
to
see
my
day
,
Iohn
.
8.
he
saw
it
and
reioiced
:
so
are
we
taught
to
doe
it
,
in
remembrance
of
Christ
by
faith
,
in
whom
being
come
,
we
are
saued
,
wherevpon
our
sauiour
said
to
his
disciples
,
Luke
.
22.
Doe
this
in
remembrance
of
me
.
Which
Paul
declareth
farther
in
the
first
to
the
Corinthians
,
1.
Cor.
11
the
eleuenth
chapter
,
where
,
after
that
he
had
declared
the
maner
of
the
Lords
supper
,
he
addeth
to
both
the
parts
of
it
.
Hoc
facite
ad
mei
re
cordationem
.
Quotie
scunque
enim
manducabitis
panem
hunc
,
&
calicem
bibetis
:
mortem
domini
annuntiabitis
,
donec
veniat
.
Do
this
in
remembrance
of
me
,
saith
Christe
:
For
as
often
(
saith
Paul
,
expounding
the
wordes
of
Christ
)
as
ye
shall
eat
this
bread
and
drinke
of
this
cup
:
ye
shall
shewe
the
death
of
the
Lord
vntil
he
come
.
So
then
,
if
these
thinges
be
well
considered
,
which
I
haue
briefly
touched
out
of
the
wordes
of
Christ
,
declared
by
his
holy
euangelists
and
Apostles
:
the
godly
I
trust
,
shal
easily
perceiue
,
that
Pope
Innocent
the
thirde
could
by
no
autority
of
scriptures
proue
any
transubstantiation
in
the
sacrament
:
although
it
were
confirmed
by
neuer
so
greate
a
councel
of
men
,
assembled
at
Rome
,
hauing
in
it
,
as
they
say
,
Archbyshops
70.
Byshops
400.
Abbats
12.
Priors
conuentual
800.
besides
the
Orators
and
Ambassadours
of
Gréece
,
of
the
Romaine
Empire
,
of
the
kinges
of
Ierusalem
,
France
,
Spaine
,
England
,
Cyprus
,
and
other
kingdomes
.
Many
:
but
all
to
little
,
to
take
vppon
them
to
alter
and
change
the
ordinance
and
institution
which
our
Sauiour
Christ
had
with
his
owne
wordes
established
,
and
set
in
his
church
,
for
the
space
of
aboue
twelue
hundred
yeares
together
,
before
the
contrary
was
decréed
,
though
some
did
dreame
of
it
.
But
Pope
Innocent
was
sure
to
enact
there
what
he
wold
,
for
that
he
had
aboue
the
number
of
twelue
hundred
shauen
crounes
in
his
councel
with
him
:
so
that
neither
Princes
nor
Orators
of
Princes
might
hinder
his
pretenses
.
The
lesse
it
is
to
be
meruelled
at
,
that
the
byshop
of
Rome
would
take
vppon
him
so
proudly
to
be
aboue
al
other
byshops
,
yea
the
Emperours
themselues
,
and
kings
of
this
world
:
séeing
that
he
tooke
vpon
him
to
do
more
then
euer
Christ
did
,
that
is
,
to
make
Christ
our
creator
and
redéemer
of
a
péece
of
bread
,
whensoeuer
he
list
,
and
to
make
that
euery
one
of
his
priests
and
chaplens
might
do
the
same
also
:
as
them selues
haue
a
saying
,
Sacerdos
est
creator
creatoris
sui
,
The
priest
doth
make
his
maker
.
And
all
by
the
authority
of
this
Lateran
Councel
,
not
by
Christs
scriptures
.
And
all
for
the
aduancing
of
his
worldly
glory
,
&
extolling
of
his
clergie
throughout
all
Christian
kingdomes
,
which
after
came
to
passe
,
to
the
taking
away
of
the
goods
and
liues
of
a
great
number
of
good
true
Christians
:
who
would
not
beleeue
such
a
new
deuised
faith
of
the
sacrament
of
Christ
,
set
forth
so
lately
,
so
fondly
,
so
vngodly
,
neuer
before
allowed
as
any
point
of
our
christian
faith
,
for
the
space
of
so
many
hundred
yeres
after
Christ
,
as
I
haue
shewed
.
For
in
the
former
ages
the
godly
had
bene
taughte
,
that
Christe
according
to
the
presence
of
his
naturall
bodye
was
ascended
into
heauen
:
but
by
the
benefites
of
his
spirite
,
and
by
the
fruite
of
his
passion
,
he
is
alwayes
present
with
them
who
doe
beléeue
in
him
.
Wherof
he
gaue
them
a
most
liuely
moniment
,
and
pledge
,
in
the
blessed
sacrament
of
his
body
and
bloud
:
a
moniment
for
vs
to
remember
his
death
,
&
a
pledge
to
vs
of
euerlasting
life
,
with
out
transubstantion
of
the
breade
and
wine
,
or
any
alteration
thereof
at
all
,
otherwise
then
of
common
bread
and
wine
,
to
make
it
by
the
words
of
Christ
the
sacramental
bread
&
wine
,
the
signes
of
Christes
body
and
bloud
,
he
being
by
those
creatures
of
bread
&
wine
represented
to
vs
,
that
we
may
therby
with
the
mouth
of
our
faith
(
that
I
may
so
speak
)
receiue
spiritually
the
very
selfe
same
Christ
,
god
and
man
,
that
was
borne
of
the
virgin
Mary
,
suffered
death
for
our
sinnes
,
ascended
into
heauen
,
and
sitteth
on
the
right
hand
of
God
the
father
almighty
,
thence
shall
he
come
at
the
last
day
,
to
iudge
the
quick
&
the
dead
.
And
this
most
heauenly
maner
of
the
spiritual
receiuing
of
Christe
,
is
more
agréeable
to
our
christian
religion
,
then
is
the
Romish
dream
of
transubstantiation
,
which
doth
as
much
abhorre
from
religion
,
as
it
doth
from
reason
.
And
therefore
not
to
be
suffered
in
the
Church
of
Christ
:
but
vtterly
to
be
rooted
out
,
for
the
manifolde
absurdities
,
and
grosse
errors
,
that
spring
of
it
.
Thus
much
by
the
way
againste
the
Popish
heresy
of
transubstantiation
:
wherof
,
though
not
so
greatly
perteining
to
the
matter
,
that
I
haue
in
hand
,
yet
I
thought
good
to
say
somewhat
,
because
I
do
know
that
the
Pope
of
Rome
hath
lefte
this
errour
behind
him
,
in
the
hearts
of
many
simple
men
,
whome
God
of
his
mercy
lighten
,
that
they
may
féele
the
knowledge
and
comfort
of
the
truth
.
Chap.
7.
That
Christes
wordes
to
Peter
after
the
seconde
commission
,
when
hee
saide
thrise
vnto
him
,
Feede
my
sheepe
,
proue
not
any
supremacie
of
him
aboue
his
brethren
.
TO
returne
therefore
to
my
purpose
,
to
the
supremacie
of
the
Pope
,
which
I
haue
shewed
alreadie
how
little
ground
it
hath
,
either
on
Christes
commissions
,
or
on
Peters
being
at
Rome
,
or
on
the
foundation
of
the
Church
,
which
is
Christe
Iesus
:
I
come
to
that
which
the
Papistes
haue
so
much
in
their
mouthes
,
that
Christ
when
hee
appeared
last
to
his
Apostles
,
did
aske
of
Peter
thrise
,
whether
hee
did
loue
him
more
,
then
the
other
Apostles
did
.
Dixit
Simoni
Petro
Iesus
:
Iohn
.
21.
Simon
Iohannis
diligis
me
plus
his
?
Ait
ille
,
etiam
domine
tu
scis
quia
amo
te
.
dixit
ei
,
pasce
agnos
meos
&c.
Iesus
saide
to
Simon
Peter
,
Simon
the
sonne
of
Iona
,
doest
thou
loue
me
more
then
these
?
(
meaning
the
rest
of
his
disciples
there
present
.
)
Peter
aunswered
&
said
,
Lord
thou
knowest
that
I
do
loue
thee
.
Christe
saide
vnto
him
,
feede
my
lambes
.
He
saide
to
him
againe
the
seconde
time
:
Simon
the
sonne
of
Iona
louest
thou
mee
?
Peter
aunswered
,
yea
Lord
,
thou
knowest
I
loue
thee
.
Christe
saide
vnto
him
,
feede
my
sheepe
.
And
when
he
asked
him
the
thirde
time
the
same
question
:
Peter
beeing
sorie
he
asked
him
so
often
,
and
therefore
answering
him
,
Lorde
thou
knowest
all
thinges
,
thou
knowest
that
I
loue
thee
:
Iesus
said
vnto
him
,
feede
my
sheepe
.
Vpon
the
which
words
,
so
often
repeated
,
the
Bishoppes
of
Rome
faine
would
ground
their
authoritie
,
that
they
haue
the
vniuersall
cure
and
charge
of
all
Christes
flocke
:
so
much
the
more
,
because
Christ
demaunded
of
Peter
,
whether
he
loued
him
more
then
the
other
did
.
But
they
must
be
giuen
to
vnderstand
,
that
Christe
did
aske
Peter
that
question
,
in
respecte
that
he
had
iust
cause
to
loue
him
more
then
all
the
other
:
because
he
had
sinned
more
grieuously
against
Christ
,
in
denying
him
thrise
,
and
he
had
forgiuen
him
.
Now
reason
doth
require
,
Luke
.
7.
that
he
should
loue
more
,
to
whom
more
is
forgiuen
:
as
as
our
sauiour
doth
teache
.
And
vpon
this
place
Saint
Cyril
doeth
note
,
Who
doeth
adde
also
,
touching
the
thrée
demaundes
made
by
Christe
to
Peter
,
whether
he
loued
him
:
that
as
he
had
openly
denied
thrée
times
that
he
did
know
Christ
:
so
he
must
openly
confesse
thrée
times
,
that
he
did
loue
Christ
:
to
the
intent
,
that
he
might
recouer
the
honour
of
his
Apostleship
,
which
he
had
forsaken
as
it
were
,
by
denying
him
.
Cyril
in
Euangelium
Iohan
.
lib.
12.
Cap.
64.
Quia
cum
alijs
apostolatus
nomine
Petrus
ab
ipso
Christo
decoratus
,
ter
in
tempore
passionis
negauit
:
iure
nunc
ab
eo
terna
dilectionis
confessio
petitur
,
vt
terna
negatio
aequali
dilectionis
numero
compensetur
.
Because
that
Peter
being
aduanced
with
others
by
Christ
to
the
Apostleshippe
,
did
thrise
denie
him
at
the
time
of
his
passion
:
therfore
he
is
iustly
nowe
required
to
confesse
thrise
that
he
doth
loue
him
,
that
his
three
denials
may
be
recompensed
with
equall
number
of
loue
.
Ita
quod
verbis
commissum
fuit
,
verbis
curatur
.
So
the
offence
committed
by
wordes
,
is
cured
by
wordes
.
Which
iudgement
of
S.
Cyril
is
in
the
same
maner
confirmed
by
saint
Augustine
.
So
that
this
saying
of
Christ
to
Peter
did
not
giue
any
further
,
Augustinus
in
Euangel.
Iohan.
Tract.
123.
or
greater
authority
to
him
,
then
the
rest
of
the
Apostles
before
had
.
Which
beside
the
iudgements
of
Cyril
and
Augustine
,
might
be
proued
farther
by
sundrie
other
reasons
,
if
it
were
not
néedelesse
to
spend
more
wordes
about
it
.
Especially
,
sith
that
I
haue
already
proued
sufficiently
,
I
trust
,
the
equal
authoritie
giuen
by
our
sauiour
to
all
the
Apostles
.
Howbeit
,
that
it
may
be
farther
declared
,
that
one
of
them
should
not
chalenge
or
desire
authoritie
aboue
the
other
:
I
will
shewe
in
the
next
Chapter
,
how
Christ
did
forbidde
them
vtterly
to
claime
or
take
vnto
them
any
such
supremacie
:
commanding
them
to
followe
his
ensample
of
humblenesse
,
in
ministring
as
seruants
,
one
to
another
,
and
not
in
mastership
or
dominion
one
to
clime
aboue
another
.
Chap.
8.
That
Christ
did
not
giue
a
supremacie
to
one
of
them
aboue
another
,
but
did
expressely
forbid
them
all
dominion
and
superioritie
.
IN
the
Gospel
of
the
holy
Euangelist
saint
Mathew
the
twentie
chapter
,
it
is
written
,
that
our
Sauiour
by
occasion
of
the
ambitious
request
that
was
made
vnto
him
,
for
the
Zebedies
,
Mat.
20.
Iames
and
Iohn
,
did
call
his
disciples
vnto
him
,
and
saide
vnto
them
:
Scitis
quod
principes
gentium
dominantur
illis
:
&
qui
maiores
sunt
,
potestatem
exercent
in
eas
,
non
ita
erit
inter
vos
:
sed
quicunque
voluerit
inter
vos
maior
fieri
,
sit
vester
minister
:
&
qui
voluerit
inter
vos
primus
esse
,
erit
vester
seruus
:
sicut
filius
hominis
non
venit
ministrari
,
sed
ministrare
.
You
know
,
saith
Christe
,
that
the
princes
of
nations
haue
dominion
ouer
them
,
and
they
that
be
great
,
exercise
power
and
authoritie
vppon
them
.
It
shall
not
be
so
among
you
:
but
whosoeuer
will
be
great
among
you
,
let
him
be
your
minister
:
and
hee
that
will
be
chiefe
among
you
,
let
him
be
your
seruaunt
:
euen
as
the
sonne
of
man
came
not
to
be
serued
,
but
to
serue
others
.
Thus
our
Sauiour
,
wee
see
,
hath
expressely
forbidden
his
Apostles
to
haue
superioritie
and
dominion
ouer
their
fellowseruants
.
Which
as
it
is
witnessed
by
the
Euangelist
Sainte
Mathewe
:
Marke
.
22.
so
is
it
also
by
the
rest
of
the
Euangelistes
,
Saint
Marke
in
the
tenth
Chapter
,
Saint
Luke
in
in
the
two
and
twentie
:
our
Sauiour
in
each
of
them
vsing
his
owne
examples
,
who
was
in
the
middest
of
them
,
and
did
behaue
him selfe
as
a
seruaunt
vnto
them
,
not
like
a
Lorde
or
king
aboue
them
,
that
they
by
him
might
learne
modesty
,
to
humble
themselues
one
to
an
other
To
the
which
intent
,
in
the
Euangelist
Saint
Iohn
,
we
haue
a
notable
storie
of
Christes
example
in
this
point
:
howe
he
did
washe
the
feete
of
his
Apostles
,
and
gaue
them
the
like
instruction
vpon
it
.
Iohn
.
13.
Postquam
lauit
ergo
pedes
eorum
,
&
accepit
vestimenta
sua
:
cùm
recubuisset
iterum
,
dixit
eis
:
scitis
quid
fecerim
vobis
?
vos
vocatis
me
,
Magister
&
Domine
,
&
bene
dicitis
:
sum
etenim
.
si
ergo
ego
laui
pedes
vestros
,
Dominus
&
Magister
:
&
vos
debetis
alter
alterius
lauare
pedes
.
Exemplum
enim
dedi
vobis
,
vt
quemadmodum
ego
feci
vobis
,
ita
&
vos
faciatis
.
Amen
,
Amen
dico
vobis
,
non
est
servus
maior
domino
suo
,
neque
Apostolus
maior
est
eo
qui
misit
●llum
.
Si
haec
scitis
,
beati
eritis
,
sifeceritis
ea
.
So
after
that
he
had
washed
their
feete
,
and
had
taken
his
clothes
:
when
he
was
set
down
againe
,
he
saide
vnto
them
:
know
you
what
I
haue
done
vnto
you
?
you
call
me
,
maister
and
Lord
,
and
ye
say
well
,
for
so
I
am
.
If
I
then
your
Lorde
and
maister
,
haue
washed
your
feete
:
you
also
ought
to
wash
one
an
others
feet
.
For
I
haue
giuen
you
an
example
,
that
you
should
doe
,
euen
as
I
haue
done
vnto
you
.
Verily
,
verily
I
say
vnto
you
,
the
seruaunt
is
not
greater
then
his
maister
,
nor
the
Ambassadour
,
greater
then
he
that
sent
him
.
If
you
know
these
thinges
:
happie
shall
you
be
,
if
you
doe
them
.
Thus
we
sée
that
Christ
did
giue
expresse
commaundement
to
all
his
Apostles
,
that
they
shoulde
flie
ambition
of
hauing
rule
one
ouer
an
other
:
that
none
of
them
should
chalenge
superioritie
&
dominion
ouer
their
brethren
:
whereto
hee
did
giue
them
a
moste
notable
example
of
his
owne
humilitie
,
whch
he
willed
them
to
followe
,
acounting
them
happie
,
if
they
did
as
hee
willed
them
.
And
these
wordes
of
Christ
a
man
would
thinke
were
to
be
heard
,
credited
,
and
obeyed
,
if
they
were
recited
but
by
some
one
of
the
Euangelistes
:
but
now
to
the
intent
they
might
the
better
bée
obserued
and
kept
most
carefully
of
al
the
Apostles
,
&
so
of
all
the
ministers
of
the
Church
of
Christ
:
the
holy
ghost
hath
prouided
that
all
the
fower
Euangelistes
should
recite
and
repeate
them
in
diuerse
wordes
,
and
sundrie
times
:
all
to
one
effect
:
to
beate
in
hatred
of
ambition
into
the
mindes
of
his
disciples
,
and
keepe
them
at
vnity
in
that
equall
authoritie
which
hee
had
giuen
to
them
.
Which
the
auncient
Doctours
also
of
the
Church
do
teach
in
like
sort
,
to
the
same
intent
:
as
Saint
Cyprian
saying
of
the
Apostles
,
Cyprian
de
simplicitate
praelatorum
.
Hoc
erant
vtique
&
caeteri
Apostoli
quod
fuit
Petrus
,
Pari
consortio
praediti
,
&
honoris
&
potestatis
:
The
rest
of
the
Apostles
were
the
same
that
Peter
was
,
all
endued
with
like
felowshippe
both
of
honour
and
power
.
And
why
shoulde
not
Paul
be
chiefe
as
well
as
Peter
?
for
Ambrose
vpon
2.
Cor.
12.
hath
this
saying
Inter
Petrum
&
Paulum
quis
cui
praeponatur
incertum
est
.
Betwene
Peter
and
Paul
,
whether
ought
to
be
preferred
before
other
,
it
is
vncertaine
.
Hieronymus
in
epistola
ad
Euagrium
.
As
saint
Ierom
saying
of
all
Bishoppes
.
Vbicunque
fuerit
Episcopus
,
siue
Romae
,
siue
Eugubij
,
siue
Constantinopoli
,
siue
Rhegij
,
siue
Alexandriae
,
siue
Tanis
:
eiusdem
est
meriti
,
ejusdem
sacerdotij
.
Wheresoeuer
there
is
a
Bishoppe
,
at
Rome
,
or
at
Eugubium
,
at
Constantinople
,
or
at
Rhegium
,
at
Alexandria
,
or
at
Tanis
:
he
is
of
the
same
worthines
,
of
the
same
office
,
and
function
in
the
ministerie
.
As
many
others
,
to
be
shorte
,
speaking
against
such
ambition
do
say
the
same
in
substance
,
that
one
of
them
in
words
hath
vttered
:
Chrysost.
in
opere
imperfecto
in
Mat.
Homil.
36.
Quicunque
desiderat
primatum
in
terra
,
inueniet
confusionem
in
Coelo
.
Whosoeuer
desireth
primacy
in
earth
,
he
shall
finde
confusion
in
heauen
.
But
howsoeuer
the
fathers
haue
spoken
it
:
the
Pope
of
Rome
is
not
moued
with
it
.
What
merueile
,
sith
the
wordes
of
Christ
doe
not
moue
him
?
Nay
verily
I
thinke
,
that
if
Christe
him selfe
shoulde
haue
come
downe
from
heauen
,
and
haue
shewed
him selfe
to
some
that
haue
beene
Bishops
of
Rome
within
these
certaine
hundred
yeares
:
they
woulde
haue
vsed
him
,
I
feare
me
,
as
euill
as
euer
the
Iewes
did
:
so
far
are
they
from
yelding
vnto
any
thing
that
makes
againste
their
ambition
.
Chap.
9.
That
after
Christes
ascention
,
Peter
did
not
exercise
a
supremacie
ouer
his
brethren
,
neither
did
the
Apostles
yeeld
any
such
vnto
him
.
I
Haue
shewed
hitherto
,
that
Peter
the
Apostle
,
on
whom
the
Popes
of
Rome
do
ground
their
supremacie
,
had
not
by
Christs
commission
any
greater
power
and
authority
giuen
him
,
then
had
the
rest
of
his
Apostles
:
Nay
,
he
was
forbidden
,
as
were
the
rest
also
,
to
exercise
dominion
and
supremacie
ouer
others
.
Now
I
will
go
forwarde
,
and
shewe
that
as
Peter
had
no
suche
authoritie
committed
to
him
of
Christ
:
so
he
neuer
chalenged
,
nor
vsed
any
such
as
may
appéere
by
those
things
which
the
Apostles
did
after
Christes
ascension
,
set
down
in
the
booke
of
the
Acts
of
the
Apostles
.
Wherin
we
do
reade
,
that
the
Apostles
and
Disciples
gathered
together
,
Actes
.
1.
first
they
did
choose
Matthias
an
Apostle
,
in
the
place
of
Iudas
Iscarioth
:
not
by
saint
Peters
appointment
,
but
by
lot
.
Afterward
the
multitude
of
the
Disciples
chose
seuen
deacons
:
whom
they
set
before
the
Apostles
,
Actes
.
6.
and
they
prayed
,
and
laide
their
handes
vpon
them
.
When
the
Gospel
of
Christ
was
receiued
in
Samaria
:
Actes
.
8.
the
Apostles
,
who
heard
of
it
at
Ierusalem
,
sent
Peter
and
Iohn
vnto
hem
,
to
instructe
them
farther
,
&
confirme
them
in
the
faith
,
with
the
giftes
of
the
holie
Ghost
.
When
Peter
had
preached
the
Gospell
to
the
Gentiles
,
and
was
accused
of
the
brethren
,
because
he
went
in
to
men
vncircumcised
,
and
did
eate
with
them
:
he
giueth
an
account
of
his
fact
vnto
the
brethren
,
Actes
.
11.
and
so
is
acquited
as
it
were
of
them
.
All
the
which
thinges
done
by
Peter
and
the
Apostles
,
doe
shewe
,
that
Peter
vsed
not
any
supremacy
ouer
them
:
but
did
behaue
himselfe
as
their
equal
rather
,
taking
no
more
vpon
him
in
elections
,
then
they
did
,
going
when
they
sent
him
to
preach
where
they
thought
good
,
content
to
giue
to
them
an
account
of
his
doeinges
.
Nowe
we
must
remember
it
appeareth
by
the
scriptures
,
that
Peter
was
of
greater
boldenesse
,
and
audacitie
,
then
any
of
the
twelue
Apostles
.
When
Christ
asked
of
them
,
Matth.
16.
who
do
you
say
that
I
am
:
Peter
answered
for
them
all
.
When
Christe
did
shewe
vnto
them
,
that
he
must
go
to
Ierusalem
,
&
there
be
put
to
death
:
Matth.
26.
Peter
tooke
him
aside
and
did
rebuke
him
for
it
.
When
there
came
a
great
company
with
clubbes
and
swordes
in
the
night
to
take
Christ
,
and
carrie
him
to
the
high
priests
:
Peter
nothing
fearing
the
number
of
the
men
,
did
stretche
out
his
hand
,
and
drawe
his
sworde
,
and
stroke
the
seruaunt
of
the
highe
prieste
,
and
cut
off
his
eare
.
By
whiche
and
many
suche
tokens
saint
Peter
shewed
himselfe
to
haue
suche
stoutnes
and
courage
,
that
we
may
well
coniecture
,
if
he
had
had
any
supremacie
and
authoritie
aboue
the
rest
of
the
Apostles
,
such
as
the
Papistes
giue
vnto
him
:
his
stomache
was
better
,
then
that
hee
woulde
haue
lost
it
,
and
neuer
haue
taken
any
part
of
it
vpon
him
.
Haec
ratio
reperitur
in
quaestionibus
tubingensibus
in
titulo
de
primatu
Romani
pontificis
.
Which
maketh
me
to
thinke
,
that
he
had
no
supremacie
,
sith
that
he
did
not
exercise
any
part
of
it
,
as
his
behauiour
in
the
Acts
of
the
Apostles
doth
shew
.
And
this
,
albéeit
I
haue
proued
it
by
other
of
his
déedes
already
:
yet
it
may
be
séene
more
clearely
,
by
that
which
is
written
in
the
15.
of
the
Actes
,
where
the
councel
is
set
forth
that
was
helde
by
the
Apostles
and
Disciples
at
Ierusalem
.
In
the
which
councel
,
although
the
bookes
of
councels
set
forth
by
the
Papistes
doe
report
,
that
Peter
was
heade
,
and
as
it
were
,
the
Iudge
,
and
chiefe
ruler
of
it
:
yet
if
a
man
do
reade
the
wordes
of
saint
Luke
in
the
Actes
of
the
Apostles
,
Actes
.
15.
Peter
shuld
séeme
rather
in
that
councell
to
be
one
of
the
meanest
,
out
of
doubt
,
not
the
chiefest
.
For
it
is
the
common
and
auncient
order
,
that
wheras
matter
doth
come
in
question
to
be
argued
,
the
meanest
vseth
to
begin
,
and
so
as
they
are
of
greater
authoritie
,
for
age
,
or
degrée
,
or
knowledge
,
or
such
respect
,
they
doe
follow
orderly
,
vntill
that
the
chiefest
speake
last
,
and
take
vp
the
matter
.
Wherefore
those
bookes
of
councels
,
Summa
conciliorum
,
Fr.
Barth
.
Carranzae
.
and
the
abridgement
of
them
,
which
doe
make
Peter
to
be
head
of
the
councell
holden
at
Ierusalem
,
which
was
holden
vnder
him
,
being
the
first
Pope
as
they
fondly
speake
of
him
:
they
doe
say
more
of
him
,
than
they
can
proue
out
of
the
actes
of
the
Apostles
:
out
of
the
which
they
must
proue
whatsoeuer
they
report
of
this
councell
,
or
else
they
forge
it
.
For
there
it
is
written
,
that
when
Paul
and
Barnabas
had
proposed
the
matter
whereof
the
controuersie
was
:
Peter
did
first
begin
to
declare
his
minde
of
it
,
after
great
disputation
.
And
when
Peter
had
saide
,
then
Barnabas
and
Paul
spake
their
mindes
also
.
When
they
helde
their
peace
,
Iames
ended
the
matter
,
giuing
his
sentence
and
iudgement
of
the
controuersie
.
The
truth
of
al
the
which
,
that
it
may
be
the
more
manifest
,
I
will
set
downe
the
very
wordes
of
Saint
Luke
,
as
they
are
writen
in
the
Actes
:
so
farre
foorth
as
they
pertaine
to
the
declaring
of
this
matter
.
Then
came
downe
certaine
from
Iudea
,
and
taught
the
brethren
,
saying
:
except
ye
be
circumcised
after
the
manner
of
Moses
,
Actes
.
15.
ye
can
not
be
saued
.
And
when
there
was
great
dissention
and
disputation
by
Paul
and
Barnabas
against
them
:
they
ordeined
that
Paul
and
Barnabas
,
and
certaine
other
of
them
,
should
go
vp
to
Ierusalem
vnto
the
Apostles
and
Elders
,
about
this
question
.
And
when
they
were
come
to
Ierusalem
,
they
were
receiued
of
the
Church
,
and
of
the
Apostles
and
Elders
:
and
they
declared
what
things
God
had
done
by
them
.
But
,
said
they
,
certaine
of
the
sect
of
the
Pharisees
which
did
beleeue
,
rose
vp
,
saying
:
that
it
was
needful
to
circumcise
them
,
and
commaund
them
to
keepe
the
lawe
of
Moses
.
Then
the
Apostles
and
Elders
came
together
to
look
to
this
matter
.
And
when
there
had
bene
great
disputation
,
Peter
rose
vp
,
and
said
vnto
them
.
Ye
men
and
brethren
,
ye
knowe
that
a
good
while
agoe
,
among
vs
,
God
chose
out
me
,
that
the
Gentiles
by
my
mouth
should
heare
the
worde
of
the
Gospell
,
and
beleeue
.
And
God
which
knoweth
the
hearts
,
bare
them
witnesse
,
in
giuing
vnto
them
the
holy
Ghost
,
euen
as
he
did
to
vs
:
and
he
put
no
difference
betweene
vs
and
them
,
after
that
by
faith
he
had
purified
their
hearts
.
Nowe
therefore
why
tempt
ye
God
,
to
lay
a
yoke
on
the
disciples
neckes
,
which
neither
our
fathers
nor
we
were
able
to
beare
?
But
we
beleue
through
the
grace
of
the
Lorde
Iesus
Christ
,
to
be
saued
,
euen
as
they
doe
.
Then
all
the
multitude
kept
silence
,
and
heard
Barnabas
and
Paul
:
which
tolde
what
signes
and
wonders
God
had
done
among
the
Gentiles
by
them
.
And
when
they
helde
their
peace
:
Iames
answered
,
saying
.
Men
and
brethren
,
hearken
vnto
me
.
Simeon
hath
declared
,
howe
God
did
first
visit
the
Gentiles
,
to
take
of
them
a
people
vnto
his
name
:
And
to
this
agree
the
words
of
the
Prophets
.
Which
words
Iames
hauing
rehearsed
,
doth
in
this
sorte
conclude
and
end
the
matter
.
Wherefore
my
sentence
is
,
that
we
trouble
not
them
of
the
Gentiles
,
that
are
turned
to
God
:
but
that
we
write
vnto
them
,
that
they
abstaine
them selues
from
filthinesse
of
idols
,
and
fornication
,
and
that
that
is
strangled
,
and
from
bloud
.
Vpon
this
sentence
and
iudgement
of
Iames
,
it
séemed
good
to
the
Apostles
and
Elders
,
with
the
whole
Church
,
to
send
chosen
men
of
their
owne
companie
to
Antiochia
with
Paul
and
Barnabas
:
to
wit
,
Iudas
,
whose
syrname
was
Barsabas
,
and
Silas
,
which
were
chefe
men
among
the
brethren
:
and
they
wrote
letters
by
them
after
this
manner
.
The
Apostles
and
Elders
and
the
brethren
,
vnto
the
brethren
which
are
of
the
Gentiles
,
in
Antiochia
,
and
in
Syria
,
and
in
Cilicia
,
send
greeting
.
For
as
much
as
we
haue
heard
,
that
certaine
which
departed
from
vs
,
haue
troubled
you
with
wordes
,
and
cumbred
your
mindes
,
saying
,
ye
must
be
circumcised
,
and
keepe
the
lawe
:
to
whom
we
gaue
no
such
commaundement
:
it
seemed
therefore
good
to
vs
,
when
we
were
come
together
with
one
accord
,
to
send
chosen
men
vnto
you
,
with
our
beloued
Barnabas
and
Paul
,
men
that
haue
giuen
vp
their
liues
for
the
name
of
our
Lorde
Iesus
Christ
.
We
haue
therefore
sent
Iudas
and
Silas
,
which
shall
also
tell
you
the
same
things
by
mouth
.
For
it
seemed
good
to
the
holy
Ghost
and
to
vs
,
to
lay
no
more
burthen
vppon
you
,
then
these
necessarie
thinges
:
that
is
,
that
ye
abstaine
from
things
offered
to
idols
,
and
bloud
,
and
that
that
is
strangled
,
and
from
fornication
:
from
which
if
ye
keepe
your selues
,
ye
shall
doe
well
.
Fare
ye
well
.
This
Epistle
containing
the
decrée
of
the
councel
,
agréeth
fully
with
that
which
Iames
before
did
speak
,
when
he
gaue
his
iudgement
of
the
matter
that
was
in
question
.
Sauing
that
in
the
Epistle
it
is
said
,
Visum
est
spiritui
sancto
&
nobis
:
It
seemed
good
to
the
holy
Ghost
,
and
to
vs
.
It
is
not
saide
,
Visum
est
spiritui
sancto
&
Petro
,
It
seemed
good
to
the
holy
Ghost
,
and
to
Peter
:
but
to
the
holy
Ghost
and
to
vs
,
meaning
the
Apostles
,
the
Elders
,
and
the
brethren
,
the
whole
congregation
of
Christe
at
Ierusalem
.
Wherfore
in
the
councel
where
Peters
supremacie
should
appeare
chiefly
,
there
appeareth
none
at
all
:
and
sith
that
neither
he
claimed
any
,
neyther
the
rest
did
giue
him
any
,
it
is
to
be
thought
he
had
not
any
.
If
any
man
thinke
otherwise
,
he
beléeueth
not
S.
Peter
,
1.
Pet.
5.
who
calleth
himselfe
compresbyterum
,
a
companion
and
fellowe
of
the
Elders
of
the
Church
,
and
forbiddeth
them
to
play
the
Lordes
ouer
Gods
heritage
.
Which
ouerthroweth
his
Supremacie
,
whom
the
Papistes
do
call
,
Sanctissimum
dominum
nostrum
Papam
,
Our
most
holy
lord
the
Pope
.
God
giue
them
grace
to
acknowledge
with
vs
,
him
that
is
in
déede
our
most
holy
Lord
,
our
Lord
and
Sauiour
Iesus
Christ
.
Chap.
10.
That
in
the
primitiue
church
of
Christe
,
the
Bishop
of
Romes
supremacie
was
not
acknowledged
,
as
it
is
proued
by
the
foure
principal
and
first
generall
councels
,
which
tooke
order
against
it
.
THat
the
supremacie
of
the
Bishop
of
Rome
hath
not
any
ground
in
the
holy
Scriptures
,
neyther
in
the
commissions
of
our
sauiour
Iesus
Christe
,
neyther
in
the
practises
of
his
holy
Apostles
:
I
hope
it
is
manifest
to
such
as
are
desirous
to
search
out
the
truth
,
by
that
which
hitherto
hath
bene
saide
.
Nowe
if
we
goe
forward
from
Christ
and
his
Apostles
to
the
ages
which
ensued
:
we
shall
easily
perceiue
,
that
it
was
not
receiued
of
the
primitiue
Church
,
nay
,
it
was
repressed
,
when
it
beganne
to
take
roote
,
and
spread
abroad
amongst
them
.
The
which
doth
appeare
by
the
foure
principall
&
first
generall
councels
:
wherein
the
Christian
Bishops
did
assemble
them selues
together
,
to
the
rooting
out
of
heresies
,
and
ouerthrowing
of
disorders
,
which
began
to
bud
in
the
Church
of
Christe
.
The
first
of
these
councels
,
Histor.
tripa
.
lib.
2.
was
the
councel
of
Nice
:
at
the
which
there
were
present
thrée
hundred
and
eightéene
Bishops
,
beside
a
great
number
of
other
learned
men
,
called
together
by
the
good
Emperour
Constantine
the
great
,
in
the
yeare
of
our
Lorde
thrée
hundred
twentie
&
seuen
,
or
there
about
,
against
the
heresie
of
Arrius
.
But
to
passe
ouer
other
things
handled
in
the
councel
,
touching
the
authoritie
of
the
Bishop
of
Rome
,
this
decrée
was
made
,
Con.
Nicen.
can.
6.
in
the
sixt
Canon
.
Mos
antiquus
perduret
in
Aegypto
,
&
Libya
,
&
Pentapoli
,
vt
Alexandrinus
Episcopus
horum
omnium
habeat
potestatem
:
quoniam
quidem
Episcopo
Romano
parilis
mos
est
.
Similiter
autem
&
apud
Antiochiam
caeterasque
prouincias
,
honor
suus
vnicuique
seruetur
Ecclesiae
.
Let
the
ancient
customes
continue
in
Egypt
,
and
Libya
,
and
Pentapolis
,
that
the
Bishop
of
Alexandria
haue
the
gouernement
ouer
them
all
:
For
the
Bishop
of
Rome
hath
the
like
order
.
Likewise
at
Antioch
,
and
in
other
Prouinces
,
let
the
due
preeminence
and
honour
be
reserued
vnto
euery
Church
.
Which
wordes
doe
not
giue
any
supremacie
to
the
Bishop
of
Rome
aboue
all
other
Churches
:
but
they
doe
limit
him
the
bounds
of
his
owne
iurisdiction
,
no
lesse
then
they
doe
others
.
As
it
is
more
plainely
declared
by
Ruffinus
:
who
writing
in
his
storie
the
thinges
that
were
done
at
the
councel
of
Nice
,
doth
say
,
that
it
was
decréed
in
this
Canon
,
Ruff.
hist.
ecclesiast.
lib.
1.
cap.
6.
Vt
apud
Alexandriam
&
in
vrbe
Romana
vetusta
consuetudo
seruetur
:
vt
vel
ille
Aegypti
,
vel
hic
suburbicariarum
ecclesiarum
sollicitudinem
gerat
:
That
at
Alexandria
,
and
the
citie
of
Rome
,
the
auncient
custome
be
kept
:
that
the
Bishop
of
the
one
haue
care
ouer
Egypt
,
the
other
ouer
the
Churches
that
are
about
the
citie
of
Rome
.
And
thus
much
of
the
councel
of
Nice
,
which
was
the
first
.
The
second
generall
councel
was
holden
at
Constantinople
:
Histor.
tripertit
.
lib.
9.
where
there
were
assembled
a
hundred
and
fiftie
Bishops
,
called
together
by
the
Emperour
Theodosius
,
about
the
yeare
of
the
Lord
thrée
hundred
foure
score
and
fiue
,
for
the
suppressing
of
the
heresie
of
Macedonius
,
In
the
which
councel
,
touching
the
preeminence
and
authority
of
the
Bishops
,
Concil.
Constantinop
.
Canon
.
2.
this
decrée
was
made
.
Episcopi
qui
super
dioecesin
sunt
,
and
ecclesias
quae
extra
terminos
eorum
sunt
,
non
accedant
:
neque
confundant
&
permisceant
ecclesias
.
Sed
secundum
regulas
constitutas
,
Alexandriae
quidem
Episcopi
gubernent
ea
solùm
quae
sunt
Aegypti
:
Episcopi
orientis
,
solius
orientis
curam
gerant
,
seruatis
honoribus
primatus
ecclesiae
Antiochenae
,
qui
in
regulis
Nicenae
Synodi
continentur
:
sed
&
Asianae
dioecesis
Episcopi
,
ea
quae
sunt
in
Asia
tantummodo
gubernent
:
Ponti
autem
episcopi
Ponticae
tantùm
dioecesis
habeant
curam
:
Thraciae
verò
,
ipsius
tantummodo
Thraciae
.
Bishops
that
haue
the
charge
of
a
diocesse
,
let
them
not
com
vnto
the
Churches
which
are
without
their
bounds
,
neither
let
them
confound
or
mingle
the
Churches
.
But
accordinge
to
the
Canons
and
orders
appoynted
,
let
the
Bishops
of
Alexandria
deale
with
the
gouernement
of
Aegypt
onely
:
the
Bishops
of
the
East
only
with
the
East
,
reseruing
the
priuilege
and
preeminence
of
honor
to
the
Churche
of
Antioche
,
accordinge
to
the
rules
of
the
councell
of
Nice
.
In
like
sort
the
Bishops
of
diocesse
in
Asia
,
let
them
gouerne
onely
Asia
:
and
the
Bishops
of
Pontus
,
the
diocesse
of
Pontus
:
and
the
Bishops
of
Thracia
,
the
diocesse
of
Thracia
.
Nowe
as
this
decrée
was
made
by
them
in
generall
,
touching
al
Churches
for
the
gouernment
and
rule
of
them
,
howsoeuer
in
places
and
order
of
dignitie
they
set
one
aboue
another
,
as
Rome
firste
,
Histor.
tripertit
.
lib.
9.
Cap.
13.
Constantinople
next
:
so
in
the
Epistle
written
from
the
most
of
them
to
the
Bishops
of
the
West
,
neither
do
they
submitte
all
their
doinges
to
Damasus
Bishoppe
of
Rome
:
neither
giue
they
greater
titles
vnto
him
,
then
to
the
rest
,
but
onely
name
him
first
:
neither
come
they
to
the
councel
of
Rome
at
his
request
,
whereof
they
giue
this
reason
one
among
others
,
that
they
haue
not
the
consent
of
their
fellowe-bishops
in
their
prouinces
so
to
doe
.
Whereby
it
is
manifest
that
at
the
time
of
this
councel
of
Constantinople
,
the
prouinces
were
gouerned
by
their
owne
Bishops
:
the
Bishops
in
generall
by
their
councels
and
assemblies
:
neither
was
there
any
one
Patriarch
set
ouer
them
,
(
as
the
Bishop
of
Rome
would
be
,
who
therfore
claymeth
this
supremacie
)
though
there
were
many
patriarches
appointed
in
that
councell
vnto
sundrie
prouinces
,
as
it
is
declared
in
the
Tripartit
storie
.
Historia
tripartit
.
lib.
12.
The
third
generall
councell
was
celebrated
at
Ephesus
,
about
the
yere
of
our
Lorde
foure
hundred
thirty
thrée
,
by
the
commaundement
of
the
Emperour
Theodosius
the
younger
,
who
called
together
two
hundred
Bishops
into
that
Citie
,
to
quenche
the
heresies
of
Nestorius
.
And
in
this
assembly
,
by
occasion
that
was
giuen
them
to
speake
of
the
authoritie
of
certain
Bishops
ouer
others
,
through
complaint
made
by
the
Bishoppes
of
Cyprus
against
the
Bishop
of
Antioch
,
Concil.
Ephesin
.
Can.
8.
as
vsurping
ouer
them
:
first
,
they
do
forbidde
the
Bishop
of
Antioche
to
ordeine
Bishops
in
Cyprus
,
giuing
the
Bishops
of
Cyprus
full
authority
to
ordeine
their
owne
Bishops
themselues
.
Then
do
they
decrée
the
same
point
in
generall
of
all
other
diocesses
and
prouinces
wheresoeuer
:
that
no
Bishop
doe
vsurpe
and
take
vpon
him
the
gouernment
of
another
prouince
,
whiche
was
not
before
,
and
from
the
beginning
vnder
him
or
his
predecessors
:
that
if
any
haue
done
so
,
and
by
force
haue
brought
a
prouince
in
subiection
to
him selfe
,
he
shall
restore
it
,
least
the
Canons
and
orders
of
the
fathers
be
broken
,
and
vnder
colour
of
holy
function
in
the
gouernement
of
the
Church
,
Potentiae
tumor
,
The
swelling
ambition
of
bearing
rule
,
of
dignitie
,
doe
priuily
créepe
in
:
and
so
at
vnwares
by
little
and
little
we
lose
that
libertie
which
our
Lorde
Iesus
Christe
the
redéemer
of
all
men
,
hath
purchased
vnto
vs
with
his
own
pretious
bloud
.
Whiche
discourse
at
length
is
shut
vp
in
the
councell
with
these
verie
wordes
:
Placuit
igitur
sanctae
&
aecumenicae
Synodo
,
vt
singulis
prouincijs
pura
&
inuiolata
,
quae
iam
inde
ab
initio
habent
sua
iura
seruentur
:
vt
vnusquisque
metropolita
,
secundum
priscum
&
&
solitum
morem
,
rerum
faciendarum
aequabiliter
facultatem
obtineat
,
propriumqueius
firmum
possideat
.
Quòd
si
quis
superbia
contumaci
definitis
obuiam
ierit
:
hunc
abrogatum
iri
placuit
toti
sanctae
&
oecumenicae
Synodo
.
It
hath
therefore
seemed
good
to
all
this
general
councell
,
that
euerie
prouince
should
keepe
wholy
,
without
any
breache
or
empairing
at
all
,
their
auncient
rightes
&
liberties
,
which
they
haue
had
from
the
beginning
:
that
euerie
Metropolitane
,
according
to
the
olde
and
accustomed
manner
,
doe
freely
enioy
the
like
and
equall
power
of
doing
thinges
belonging
to
them
:
and
eache
keepe
surely
and
safely
his
owne
right
.
If
any
puffed
vp
with
pride
doe
go
against
these
determinations
:
it
hath
pleased
all
this
holie
and
general
councel
,
that
he
shal
be
depriued
.
By
the
which
decrée
of
the
councel
of
Ephesus
,
it
is
most
manifest
that
the
Bishop
of
Rome
may
not
meddle
within
the
prouince
of
any
other
:
whiche
yet
the
Bishoppes
of
Rome
did
,
endeuouring
still
to
clyme
vp
by
little
and
little
ouer
other
Bishops
,
till
they
might
ouerlooke
them
all
.
Concil.
Carthagin
.
6.
As
it
doth
appeare
by
the
councel
of
Carthage
,
whereat
Saint
Augustine
was
present
,
and
by
sundrie
others
.
But
this
ambition
was
repressed
,
both
by
those
prouincial
councels
,
and
by
the
general
of
Ephesus
,
which
but
now
I
spake
of
:
according
to
the
iudgement
whereof
,
the
Bishop
of
Rome
should
be
depriued
,
because
he
doth
meddle
with
the
prouinces
of
others
.
Euagrius
lib.
2.
Hist.
Ecclesiast.
Summa
conciliorum
.
The
fourth
generall
councell
was
holden
of
Chalcedon
a
Citie
of
Bithinia
:
where
there
met
sixe
hundred
and
thirtie
bishops
,
béeing
called
together
by
the
Emperour
Marcianus
,
against
the
heresie
of
Eutyches
.
And
here
,
although
there
be
more
great
and
manifest
printes
and
tokens
of
an
aspiring
minde
in
the
Bishop
of
Romes
deputies
,
whome
he
did
send
vnto
that
councell
:
notwithstanding
the
fathers
of
the
councell
did
allowe
no
lesser
priuiledge
and
preeminence
of
honour
to
the
Bishop
of
Constantinople
,
then
to
the
Bishop
of
Rome
.
Concilium
Chalcedon
.
Can.
28.
Howbeit
this
decrée
which
I
haue
heard
say
,
and
the
learned
doe
know
it
,
is
in
the
Gréeke
copies
of
the
councell
of
Chalcedon
,
the
eight
and
twentieth
Canon
in
the
latine
Booke
called
Summa
conciliorum
,
An
abridgement
of
councels
,
is
wholy
left
out
:
for
what
cause
,
a
wise
man
may
easily
coniecture
.
Yet
the
Frier
,
who
did
set
forth
this
abridgement
of
councels
,
setting
forth
againe
the
councell
of
Chalcedon
(
after
the
Canons
of
it
)
in
an
other
sorte
,
out
of
a
new
translation
,
Concilium
Chalced.
actione
.
16.
as
he
doth
say
:
doth
shew
in
this
second
copie
of
the
councel
,
in
the
sixtéenth
action
,
howe
the
Bishop
of
Romes
deputies
,
hearing
of
that
decrée
,
wherein
the
fathers
allowed
the
like
authoritie
and
dignitie
to
the
Bishop
of
Constantinople
,
as
to
the
Bishop
of
Rome
,
did
whine
and
mutter
at
it
.
In
so
muche
that
one
of
them
stoode
foorth
,
and
saide
,
that
the
Sée
of
Rome
,
the
Sée
apostolike
(
as
he
calleth
it
)
must
not
in
their
presence
be
so
humbled
and
oppressed
.
Notwithstanding
,
for
all
the
mislyking
and
grudging
of
the
Bishoppe
of
Romes
deputies
,
who
would
not
consent
vnto
it
:
the
councell
did
alter
no
word
of
their
determination
,
but
did
conclude
the
point
,
as
they
before
agréed
of
it
.
Thus
I
haue
shewed
that
in
the
fower
principall
and
first
generall
councells
,
the
supremacie
of
the
byshoppe
of
Rome
,
which
hee
doeth
claime
ouer
all
Byshoppes
,
was
neuer
allowed
:
nay
,
by
those
councels
he
was
restrayned
,
though
not
so
straitly
as
he
deserued
,
yet
within
his
own
Prouince
,
no
lesse
then
other
Metropolitanes
and
patriarks
as
they
called
them
.
Wherby
it
may
appeare
,
how
falsely
Master
Fecknam
did
auouch
and
affirme
in
the
Parliament
house
,
at
the
beginning
of
the
raigne
of
our
Soueraigne
Lady
&
gratious
Quéene
Elizabeth
,
Anno
primo
Reg.
Elizabethae
.
when
the
Popes
supremacie
was
entreted
of
,
that
to
renounce
the
authoritie
of
the
sée
of
Rome
,
was
to
condemne
the
iudgement
of
these
fower
notable
councels
,
the
councell
of
Nice
,
of
Constantinople
,
of
Ephesus
,
of
Chalcedon
:
for
asmuch
as
they
acknowledged
,
saide
M.
Feckenam
,
the
Bishoppe
of
Rome
to
be
their
chiefe
heades
and
iudges
,
and
were
obedient
vnto
them
.
The
whiche
his
report
howe
notably
it
is
vntrue
:
the
indifferent
reader
,
I
truste
,
may
perceiue
in
part
by
that
which
I
haue
saide
:
and
shall
perceiue
a
great
deale
better
,
if
hee
peruse
the
councels
them selues
,
and
the
stories
ecclesiasticall
which
doe
entreate
of
them
.
Chap.
11.
Howe
Boniface
the
thirde
aboue
Six
hundred
yeares
after
Christ
,
did
first
gett
the
title
of
vniuersall
Bishop
,
and
the
preeminence
of
supremacie
by
the
graunt
of
Phocas
a
wicked
Emperour
.
WHen
as
the
Church
was
planted
by
our
sauiour
Christ
after
his
ascention
:
all
the
Apostles
,
&
after
the
Apostles
all
Bishops
were
equall
.
At
the
first
generall
councell
,
some
Byshoppes
of
the
chiefe
Cities
did
lift
their
heades
aboue
their
brethren
:
yet
were
they
stil
equall
amongest
themselues
.
At
the
councels
which
followed
,
the
Bishoppes
of
Rome
,
and
of
Constantinople
,
Rome
that
had
beene
,
Constantinople
that
was
the
seat
of
the
Emperour
,
by
reason
of
their
princely
and
Emperiall
Cities
,
were
counted
chiefe
among
the
rest
:
Yet
equall
one
with
an
other
,
chiefly
at
the
councell
of
Chalcedon
,
as
I
haue
shewed
.
But
ambition
neuer
resteth
,
till
it
doe
clime
aboue
all
.
The
Bishoppe
of
Rome
gotte
the
supremacie
at
the
last
:
but
the
Patriarke
of
Constantinople
was
busie
first
with
it
.
For
in
the
time
of
Mauricius
the
Emperour
,
Iohn
the
Patriarke
of
Constantinople
did
chalenge
to
himselfe
the
title
of
vniuersall
Bishoppe
:
calling
for
that
purpose
a
councell
of
the
Grecians
,
Platina
de
vitis
Pontific
.
Rom.
in
Gregorio
primo
.
and
maintayning
himselfe
in
it
,
by
the
authoritie
of
the
Emperour
:
who
as
he
willed
other
Byshoppes
to
make
that
account
of
him
,
&
accordingly
to
obey
him
:
so
namely
he
required
it
at
the
handes
of
Gregorie
the
first
,
Bishoppe
of
Rome
,
to
whom
he
wrote
purposely
touching
this
matter
.
Gregorius
lib
episto
.
4.
cap.
76.
&
lib.
6.
cap.
194.
But
Gregorie
hauing
receiued
the
Emperours
letters
,
wrot
backe
again
vnto
him
,
that
the
name
and
title
of
vniuersall
Byshop
,
which
Iohn
did
take
vppon
him
,
is
a
newe
,
proud
,
vaine
,
foolishe
,
presumptuous
,
and
blasphemous
name
:
that
whosoeuer
doth
either
call
him selfe
so
,
or
desire
to
be
called
,
he
in
this
his
pride
is
a
forerunner
of
Antichrist
.
Wherefore
he
maketh
this
humble
request
vnto
the
Emperour
,
that
hee
will
represse
this
proude
attempt
of
Iohn
:
who
by
the
swelling
puffe
of
vaine
glorie
doth
lift
vp
his
necke
against
the
Lorde
almightie
,
and
the
ordinaunces
of
the
Fathers
.
As
for
my selfe
,
saith
he
,
I
trust
in
the
Lord
that
Iohn
shall
not
bowe
my
necke
vnto
him
,
no
not
with
swordes
.
Which
as
hee
writeth
boldly
vnto
to
the
Emperour
:
so
doeth
he
write
also
to
the
Patriarke
Iohn
him selfe
,
Epistolarum
lib.
4.
cap.
82.
exhorting
him
to
abstaine
from
the
vsurping
of
so
foolishe
and
arrogant
a
name
.
And
what
saith
he
,
wilt
thou
aunswere
at
the
daye
of
iudgement
to
Christe
the
heade
of
the
vniuersall
Church
:
who
goest
about
to
set
all
his
members
vnder
thee
,
by
this
name
and
title
of
vniuersall
Bishoppe
.
But
in
conclusion
,
what
soeuer
Gregorie
could
say
,
either
to
the
Emperour
,
or
to
the
Patriark
,
the
Emperour
being
inflamed
with
wrath
and
anger
against
Gregorie
,
for
refusing
to
yeeld
to
the
Patriarks
pride
,
did
call
his
soldiers
out
of
Italy
who
before
did
defende
it
against
the
Lombardes
,
Platina
in
vita
Gregorii
primi
.
and
exhorted
the
Lombardes
to
set
vppon
the
Romanes
,
and
to
besege
the
citie
of
Rome
,
which
Agilulfus
the
king
of
Lombardes
did
:
and
continued
his
siege
a
whole
yeare
against
the
citie
,
putting
it
to
great
distresse
.
But
they
defended
so
well
them selues
against
him
and
all
his
power
:
that
at
the
last
he
was
faine
to
raise
his
siege
,
returning
home
to
Millan
with
great
dishonour
,
through
the
gratious
prouidence
of
Almighty
God
.
So
Gregorie
withstoode
Iohn
:
not
suffering
the
title
of
vniuersall
Byshoppe
to
be
giuen
him
.
Gregor.
Epist.
lib.
7.
cap.
30.
Neither
woulde
he
him selfe
accepte
it
,
when
Eulogius
the
Bishoppe
of
Alexandria
in
his
leters
did
giue
it
to
him
,
whom
he
requesteth
not
to
giue
him
the
proud
name
and
title
:
which
he
would
haue
to
be
denyed
no
lesse
to
him
then
to
others
.
But
that
which
the
figtrée
,
the
vine
,
and
oliue
did
refuse
:
the
bramble
tooke
vppon
him
,
as
it
is
written
in
the
Iudges
.
Iudg.
9.
That
which
Gregorie
refused
,
and
willed
all
godly
Byshoppes
to
refuse
:
Boniface
the
thirde
,
the
successor
of
Gregorie
in
the
see
of
Rome
,
Platina
in
vita
Bonifac.
3.
not
onely
tooke
it
,
but
also
sought
it
.
For
after
that
Mauricius
the
Emperour
was
trayterously
murthered
by
Phocas
:
Boniface
being
puffed
vp
with
as
great
pride
as
euer
was
Iohn
the
Patriark
or
greater
,
neuer
ceased
from
making
suite
vnto
Phocas
,
that
he
might
bée
proclaimed
vniuersall
Byshoppe
,
the
generall
Vicar
of
Christ
on
earth
,
vntill
he
did
obteine
it
,
which
was
about
the
yeare
of
our
Lorde
sixe
hundred
&
fiue
.
Cent.
7.
fol.
●29
.
And
this
is
the
first
birth
of
the
Popes
supremacie
and
vniuersall
dignitie
:
which
came
not
from
our
Sauiour
Christ
,
but
from
the
Emperour
Phocas
a
traitour
and
murtherer
of
his
Lorde
and
master
.
Who
,
as
he
murthered
his
maister
,
the
Emperour
Mauricius
,
euen
that
Mauricius
who
woulde
haue
giuen
the
supremacie
to
Iohn
the
Patriarke
of
Constantinople
:
so
he
himself
,
who
gaue
it
to
Boniface
Bishop
of
Rome
,
was
after
murthered
by
his
Leiutenantes
,
Heracleonas
and
Heraclius
.
A
iust
iudgement
of
God
,
for
his
gret
iniquities
:
amongest
the
which
this
was
not
the
least
,
that
he
did
foster
the
ambition
of
the
Bishoppe
of
Rome
,
promoting
him
to
the
supremacie
:
out
of
the
which
there
issued
afterwarde
so
great
calamities
to
the
Church
of
God
.
Chap.
12.
How
the
Popes
hauing
gotten
the
supremacy
ouer
al
Bishops
did
clime
higher
and
higher
,
vntill
they
had
it
also
ouer
Princes
and
Emperours
.
AFter
that
the
Bishop
of
Rome
had
obteined
the
title
of
preeminence
ouer
all
other
Bishops
and
Churches
by
the
graunt
of
Phocas
:
the
successours
of
Boniface
,
to
whom
the
graunt
was
made
,
were
very
busie
stil
,
hauing
gotten
an
inch
,
to
make
it
an
ell
:
and
get
in
their
whole
bodies
,
where
they
had
gotten
in
their
heads
:
I
meane
,
to
increase
and
augment
the
authoritie
,
whereof
the
title
they
had
purchased
.
Wherein
they
trauelled
so
painfully
,
and
did
spéede
so
wel
,
that
they
set
themselues
at
length
in
the
possession
of
that
supremacie
,
which
they
clayme
at
this
day
:
whereby
they
did
not
onely
set
themselues
aboue
Bishops
,
but
also
by
craftie
meanes
they
crept
cleane
out
of
the
Emperours
iurisdiction
,
and
by
little
and
little
raised
vp
them selues
aboue
all
the
Emperours
,
and
princes
of
the
earth
.
So
that
in
processe
of
time
,
when
they
had
growen
from
Bishops
to
be
Popes
,
they
grew
from
Popes
to
be
princes
,
nay
aboue
Princes
:
yea
according
to
S.
Paules
prophecie
of
Antichrist
,
2.
Thess.
2.
they
did
sit
as
God
in
the
Temple
of
God
.
For
to
consider
the
degrées
and
pointes
of
their
exaltation
,
and
chaunge
of
their
state
,
how
they
crept
from
their
humilitie
to
the
throne
of
their
supremacie
,
and
settled
themselues
in
it
:
first
wheras
before
they
were
subiect
to
the
Emperours
,
and
coulde
not
be
made
Bishops
of
Rome
without
their
consent
,
and
allowing
of
the
election
:
they
gott
their
election
into
their
owne
handes
,
so
that
they
néeded
not
the
Emperours
consent
,
yea
they
made
Emperours
,
the
stoutest
of
them
at
the
length
to
be
subiect
vnto
them
,
and
gladde
to
haue
them
their
good
Lords
.
Platina
,
their
own
man
,
in
the
storie
that
he
writeth
of
the
Popes
liues
,
is
a
sufficient
witnes
of
it
:
for
in
the
life
of
Pelagius
the
second
,
hauing
shewed
howe
the
cleargie
did
choose
him
Bishop
of
Rome
,
he
saith
,
Platin.
de
viti●
pontificum
Romanorum
in
Pelagio●
.
that
at
that
time
the
Cleargies
election
of
the
bishop
was
nothing
worth
,
vnlesse
that
the
Emperour
had
allowed
his
election
.
But
this
was
before
that
Boniface
had
gotten
the
title
of
supremacie
.
Afterwarde
,
as
the
same
Platina
doeth
shewe
,
though
for
a
while
the
Emperour
had
still
to
deale
with
their
elections
,
yet
they
often
grudged
at
it
,
Platina
in
Paschali
.
1.
Adrian
.
3.
Leone
9.
Gregorio
.
7.
and
sometimes
did
it
without
him
,
and
saide
they
ought
so
to
doe
,
and
at
the
last
made
a
law
that
the
Pope
should
bee
chosen
by
the
cleargy
of
Rome
,
and
the
Emperours
authoritie
should
haue
nothing
to
doe
in
it
.
Moreouer
the
Bishops
of
Rome
before
that
time
,
as
all
other
bishops
,
were
subiecte
and
obedient
to
their
Emperours
and
Princes
.
They
were
called
to
generall
councels
,
by
the
writtes
and
commaundementes
of
Emperours
,
and
they
obeyed
:
as
before
I
shewed
of
the
foure
principall
councels
summoned
by
Constantinus
Theodosius
,
and
Martianus
.
Neither
onely
did
they
obey
,
when
they
were
summoned
to
councels
:
but
in
all
other
thinges
they
did
behaue
them
selues
,
as
it
becommeth
subiectes
to
their
souereigne
Lordes
.
Matt.
22.
As
our
sauiour
Christ
had
taught
them
:
who
both
did
pay
tribute
him selfe
vnto
Cesar
,
and
commanded
his
Disciples
to
giue
to
Cesar
,
that
whiche
is
Cesars
,
and
was
obedient
vnto
the
Emperours
Lawes
euen
vnto
death
,
Matt.
26.
and
neuer
tooke
vppon
him
to
disobey
so
much
as
the
Emperours
ministers
,
or
officers
whatsoeuer
.
As
they
had
learned
of
Peter
:
who
saith
to
all
the
faithfull
,
1.
Pet.
2.
Subditi
estote
omni
humanae
creaturae
propter
Deum
:
siue
Regi
,
quasi
praecellenti
;
siue
ducibus
,
tanquam
ab
eo
missis
,
ad
vindictam
malorum
laudem
,
verò
bonorum
:
Be
you
subiect
and
obedient
to
all
ordinaunce
of
man
,
for
the
Lords
sake
:
whether
it
be
vnto
the
King
as
vnto
the
superiour
,
or
vnto
the
gouernours
as
vnto
them
that
are
sent
of
him
,
for
the
punishment
of
euil
doers
,
and
for
the
praise
of
them
that
doe
well
.
Rom.
13.
As
saint
Paul
did
warne
the
Romanes
,
and
in
the
Romanes
all
Christians
:
Let
euery
soule
be
subiect
vnto
the
higher
powers
,
for
there
is
no
power
but
of
God
:
and
the
powers
that
be
,
are
ordeined
of
God
.
Who
so
euer
therefore
resisteth
the
power
,
resisteth
the
ordinance
of
God
,
and
they
that
resist
,
shall
receiue
to
themselues
iudgement
.
These
lessons
of
Christe
,
of
Peter
,
of
Paul
,
the
ancient
bishops
of
Rome
did
shewe
by
their
example
,
they
thought
them
to
pertaine
not
only
to
the
laitie
,
but
also
to
the
cleargie
not
only
to
the
poorest
,
but
also
to
the
richest
Bishops
.
They
thought
the
same
which
Chrysostome
doth
write
vpon
Saint
Paul
,
that
obedience
to
Princes
is
commanded
to
all
estates
:
Omnis
anima
potestatibus
supereminentibus
sit
subdita
:
Chrisostom
.
in
Epist.
ad
Roma
.
homilia
.
23.
etiamsi
Apostolus
sis
,
si
Euangelista
,
si
propheta
,
siue
quisquis
tandem
fueris
.
Neque
enim
pietatem
subuertit
ista
subiectio
.
Let
euery
soule
be
subiect
to
the
higher
powers
:
though
thou
be
an
Apostle
,
saith
Chrisostome
,
though
an
Euangelist
,
though
a
prophet
:
for
godlines
is
not
empaired
by
this
obedience
and
subiection
.
They
thought
that
Constantine
did
the
duetie
of
a
godly
Emperour
,
who
when
a
councel
of
Bishops
assembled
at
Tyrus
had
wrongfully
and
vniustly
condemned
Athanasius
:
he
commanded
them
all
to
come
to
him
spéedily
at
Constantinople
,
that
you
may
proue
,
saith
he
,
Historia
tripartit
.
lib.
3.
Cap.
7.
the
soundnesse
and
vprightnes
of
your
sentence
and
iudgement
,
Coram
me
quem
proprium
esse
Dei
ministrum
,
neque
vos
negabitis
,
Before
me
whome
your selues
can
not
denie
to
be
the
true
and
right
seruant
of
God
.
But
after
that
the
successors
of
Boniface
had
felt
the
sauour
of
the
supremacie
:
neither
our
sauiour
Christes
example
,
nor
his
Apostles
authoritie
,
nor
the
iudgement
of
the
fathers
,
nor
the
practise
of
the
godly
bishops
coulde
kepe
the
Pope
within
his
boundes
,
in
subiection
to
the
Emperour
:
but
he
exempted
first
himself
from
his
power
,
afterward
al
the
cleargie
,
and
lastly
brought
the
Emperour
in
subiection
to
him self
,
taking
the
two
swordes
vpon
him
,
the
spirituall
and
the
temporall
.
Then
ceased
the
Popes
to
call
the
Emperours
their
Lords
,
Greg.
Episto
.
lib.
4.
cap.
76.
&
passim
.
as
Gregorie
the
first
did
call
them
,
after
his
godly
predecessors
:
and
they
beganne
to
call
them
their
sonnes
,
and
their
children
,
as
nowe
they
vse
to
write
vnto
them
.
Then
did
they
make
decrees
,
that
the
ciuil
magistrate
should
haue
nought
to
deale
with
any
of
the
cleargie
:
Nouell
.
constitut.
Iustinian
.
where
as
before
,
Iustinian
the
Emperour
did
gouerne
and
rule
the
highest
of
them
,
as
his
lawes
do
shew
,
the
which
are
yet
extant
.
Then
did
they
count
them selues
the
onely
Vicars
of
God
on
earth
:
not
acknowledging
that
in
Princes
,
which
Eleutherius
did
in
Lucius
the
auncient
kinge
of
Englande
:
whome
he
willed
as
Gods
Vicar
within
his
own
kingdome
to
drawe
him
lawes
out
of
the
scriptures
,
there
by
to
rule
his
owne
subiectes
.
Then
did
they
forbid
,
that
bishoprickes
and
spirituall
liuinges
shoulde
be
taken
at
the
handes
of
lay
men
,
no
not
of
Emperours
:
they
made
them selues
Lords
of
them
,
and
therefore
did
condemne
both
such
as
gaue
them
otherwise
,
and
such
as
receiued
them
.
To
be
short
,
they
grewe
to
such
outrage
of
presumption
,
of
rebellion
,
of
ryot
,
of
tyrannie
,
of
extortion
,
of
lust
,
and
all
enormities
:
that
a
man
might
knowe
the
trée
by
the
fruites
,
and
the
wise
must
néede
abhorre
that
supremacie
,
out
of
the
which
such
villanies
and
abhominations
did
springe
into
the
worlde
.
Chap.
13.
What
fruites
did
springe
out
of
the
supremacie
,
wherein
the
wicked
mischiefes
and
abominations
of
the
Popes
liues
and
dealinges
are
,
touched
by
their
owne
writers
.
THese
fruites
of
the
supremacy
of
the
Romane
Byshoppes
,
woulde
be
considered
further
in
their
liues
and
doings
:
which
if
I
shoulde
endeuor
to
runne
them
ouer
all
,
such
as
pertaine
vnto
this
purpose
:
I
shoulde
neuer
make
an
ende
.
Wherefore
I
will
touch
but
onely
certaine
of
the
chiefest
,
as
it
were
for
a
tast
:
noting
out
of
them
,
as
neere
as
I
can
,
the
very
naturall
fruites
of
the
Romish
supremacie
.
Amongest
the
which
first
there
commeth
in
place
their
contention
and
ambition
in
procuring
of
the
Popedome
,
for
the
which
there
hath
ben
commonly
such
corruption
,
such
bribery
,
such
debate
,
such
imprisoning
,
murthering
&
poysoning
,
&
all
euill
meanes
vsed
betwixt
them
:
that
in
Platina
,
their
owne
secretarie
and
writer
of
their
liues
,
it
is
a
common
note
in
verie
many
of
them
,
that
they
were
made
Popes
,
some
by
Mars
,
some
by
monie
,
some
by
fauour
of
friendes
,
some
by
power
of
noble
men
,
some
by
sorcerie
and
magike
,
some
by
like
pollicies
of
the
Deuill
.
Platina
in
Iohanne
10.
Pontifices
ipsi
a
Petri
vestigijs
discesserant
,
saith
Platina
.
The
Byshoppes
of
Rome
were
now
departed
from
Peters
steppes
.
Which
complainte
he
doth
make
vppon
occasion
of
their
hatred
,
conceyued
by
one
of
them
against
another
,
through
their
ambition
.
For
Iohn
the
ix
.
was
vexed
by
Martine
the
seconde
:
so
that
being
imprisoned
he
was
faine
to
escape
by
flight
:
Martine
the
seconde
,
made
Pope
through
euill
meanes
,
did
restore
Formosus
,
whome
Iohn
had
depryued
.
Afterwarde
Formosus
getting
the
rome
by
bryberie
,
came
in
by
periurie
vnto
it
,
and
liued
in
it
accordingly
.
Steuen
the
sixt
that
succéeded
him
,
did
abrogate
and
repeale
al
the
actes
of
Formosus
,
whose
body
he
digged
also
out
of
his
graue
,
cut
off
his
two
fingers
,
wherewith
he
hallowed
Priestes
,
and
cast
them
into
the
riuer
.
After
Steuen
came
Romanus
,
Theodorus
,
and
Iohn
the
tenth
,
who
did
repeale
the
actes
of
Steuen
,
and
restored
Formosus
actes
to
full
authoritie
againe
.
Which
villanous
dealing
of
them
one
against
an
other
,
enforceth
Platina
him selfe
,
Platina
in
Formos
.
1.
Stephan
.
6.
Romano
.
1.
Benedicto
.
4.
Christophero
1.
&c.
though
otherwise
fauouring
the
Popes
,
to
breake
out
into
these
complaintes
:
that
the
vertue
and
honestie
of
the
Bishops
of
Rome
nowe
was
decayed
:
that
they
did
aspire
and
attaine
vnto
the
office
by
ambition
and
briberie
:
that
hereof
did
spring
their
hatred
one
against
an
other
,
when
they
were
put
beside
it
:
that
of
this
hatred
there
a
rose
a
common
custome
,
which
was
almost
kept
alwayes
afterward
,
that
what
the
former
Bishops
had
done
&
decréed
,
their
successors
would
either
wholy
or
in
part
take
away
:
that
these
petie
Popes
(
for
so
he
doeth
call
them
)
did
thinke
of
nothinge
else
,
but
how
they
mighte
deface
the
name
and
dignitie
of
their
predecessors
,
by
repealing
of
their
actes
,
that
when
the
Church
did
waxe
wanton
with
honor
and
wealth
,
there
being
no
prince
in
Rome
to
represse
mens
wickednesse
,
the
loose
licentiousnesse
of
sinne
did
bring
foorth
these
beasts
,
who
through
ambition
and
briberie
did
inuade
the
sée
of
Peter
:
finally
,
that
these
Bishops
had
but
short
liues
,
bicause
God
did
quickly
take
them
out
of
the
earth
,
as
it
were
certaine
monsters
.
And
these
are
the
testimonies
that
Platina
doth
giue
of
this
trimme
succession
of
the
Romane
Bishops
,
following
one
an
other
,
when
yet
their
power
was
lesser
,
and
their
supremacie
not
growen
so
high
.
If
I
should
goe
forward
to
speake
of
their
behauiour
,
who
came
after
these
men
,
and
did
succéede
them
in
that
sée
:
as
namely
of
the
crueltie
of
Sergius
the
third
,
Platina
in
vitis
horum
pontificum
.
who
did
behead
the
carcase
of
Pope
Formosus
,
long
after
he
was
dead
:
of
the
beastlinesse
of
Iohn
the
thirtéenth
,
a
man
euen
from
his
youth
giuen
ouer
to
filthy
lustes
,
and
all
dishonestie
of
life
:
of
the
sacriledge
of
Boniface
the
seuenth
,
who
being
driuen
of
the
citizens
out
of
Rome
,
did
rob
Saint
Peters
Church
of
iewels
,
and
making
money
of
them
,
returned
to
buy
the
Popedome
:
of
Iohn
the
sixtéenth
,
who
to
enrich
his
kinsemen
,
spared
neyther
heauen
nor
earth
,
regarding
neyther
Gods
honour
,
nor
the
Churches
commoditie
:
of
Siluester
the
second
,
who
gaue
him selfe
vnto
the
diuell
,
that
he
would
helpe
him
to
be
Pope
,
vpon
condition
that
he
should
haue
him
wholy
after
his
death
:
of
Benet
the
ninth
,
Siluester
the
third
,
Gregorie
the
sixt
,
of
whom
the
first
solde
,
the
other
bought
the
dignitie
,
and
stroue
together
for
it
,
thrée
most
ougly
monsters
as
Platina
doth
call
them
,
and
to
passe
ouer
the
rest
,
of
Alexander
the
vi
.
in
our
owne
dayes
,
who
wasted
and
spoyled
all
Italy
most
miserably
to
make
his
bastarde
Borgia
Cesar
a
Prince
:
and
hauing
at
the
length
certaine
of
the
richest
Cardinals
at
supper
,
did
minde
to
poyson
them
to
haue
their
riches
for
his
bastarde
,
Onuphrius
in
vita
Alexandri
sexti
.
but
him selfe
was
poysoned
through
the
errour
of
his
butler
,
who
mistakinge
the
flagon
gaue
the
good
wine
to
the
Cardinals
,
and
to
the
Pope
the
poyson
:
If
further
I
shoulde
speake
of
all
their
straunge
and
horrible
scismes
and
contentions
,
when
two
or
three
were
made
Popes
at
one
time
,
and
raised
their
thrones
at
once
in
diuerse
places
,
of
the
which
kind
themselues
doe
number
thirtie
scismes
,
some
of
them
lasting
for
fiftie
yeares
together
,
as
namely
that
for
which
the
councell
of
Constance
was
assembled
by
Sigismund
the
Emperour
,
because
the
state
of
Christendome
was
troubled
then
with
three
Popes
,
all
chosen
by
Cardinals
.
The
firste
Pope
in
Italy
,
the
seconde
Pope
in
Fraunce
,
the
thirde
Pope
in
Spaine
,
and
none
would
yéeld
to
other
:
the
very
rehearsal
of
these
and
the
like
pointes
,
would
I
feare
be
tedious
,
and
I
coulde
say
no
more
of
them
,
than
that
which
Platina
doth
say
often
,
O
quantum
degenerarunt
isti
Pontifices
a
suis
maioribus
:
Alas
howe
greatly
do
these
Bishoppes
degenerate
from
their
auncesters
.
Or
rather
that
which
the
Apostle
doth
write
to
the
Romanes
,
he
spake
it
of
the
Gentiles
,
it
was
fulfilled
in
the
Popes
:
Bicause
they
knewe
God
,
Rom.
1.
and
did
not
glorifie
him
as
God
,
but
became
vaine
in
their
owne
imaginations
,
and
turned
the
glory
of
the
incorruptible
GOD
into
the
similitude
of
the
image
of
a
corruptible
man
:
therefore
God
gaue
them
vp
to
their
hearts
lustes
,
vnto
vncleannesse
,
vnto
vile
affections
,
vnto
reprobate
mindes
.
Wherefore
,
to
leaue
the
rest
which
might
be
saide
touching
these
fruites
of
the
Romish
supremacie
,
to
the
further
search
and
consideration
of
the
godly
reader
:
onely
this
I
can
not
choose
,
but
I
must
expresly
note
,
as
the
chiefest
pearle
of
their
supremacie
,
that
after
they
had
gotten
the
loftie
title
of
it
by
the
graunt
of
Phocas
,
of
Emperours
subiectes
,
they
became
the
Lords
of
Emperours
,
commaunding
what
they
list
,
deposing
whome
they
list
,
as
though
they
were
the
souereigne
kings
of
all
the
earth
.
First
Constantine
the
Pope
did
onely
resist
Philippicus
the
Emperour
,
refusing
to
plucke
downe
images
as
he
commaunded
him
.
Then
Gregorie
the
second
,
when
Leo
the
Emperour
gaue
him
the
same
charge
,
did
take
away
from
him
his
Empire
in
Italie
:
and
Gregorie
the
third
did
both
depriue
him
of
the
Empire
,
and
of
the
fellowship
of
the
faithfull
.
But
in
this
point
Gregorie
the
seuenth
,
who
was
named
Hildebrand
,
before
he
was
Pope
did
farre
passe
all
his
predecessors
:
for
whereas
before
that
time
the
Emperour
had
authorite
to
giue
byshopriks
and
other
spiritual
liuings
,
through
all
his
dominions
:
Gregory
the
seuenth
tooke
authoritie
vppon
him
to
forbidde
the
Emperour
to
giue
any
such
liuinges
,
threatening
him
withall
,
that
if
he
did
giue
them
,
hee
woulde
condemne
both
him
,
and
whosoeuer
shold
receiue
them
.
Which
commaundement
of
the
Pope
for
as
much
as
Henrie
the
Emperour
missliked
,
thinking
it
vniust
,
and
would
not
therefore
obey
it
:
Gregorie
the
Pope
excommunicated
him
,
and
depriued
him
of
his
Empyre
,
assoyling
all
his
subiectes
of
their
allegeances
vnto
him
,
and
charging
them
withall
that
they
shoulde
not
obey
him
.
Wherevppon
a
parte
of
his
Empire
did
rebell
,
and
great
warres
were
raised
against
him
by
the
Saxons
:
which
,
and
other
discommodities
that
did
ensue
I
will
not
stande
vppon
.
Onely
I
do
note
the
presumption
of
these
Priests
who
both
rebell
them selues
againste
their
Lordes
and
Emperours
and
stir
vp
others
to
rebellion
,
vnder
the
colour
of
their
supremacie
.
Whereof
we
neede
not
to
séeke
for
the
proofe
in
Gregory
the
seuenth
,
who
did
so
abuse
the
good
Emperour
Henrie
,
we
haue
had
experience
of
it
at
home
within
our
owne
realme
,
which
Pius
the
fifth
did
raise
to
rebellion
against
our
gratious
Quéene
Elizabeth
:
whome
the
Lorde
defende
for
euer
,
as
hee
did
then
defend
her
:
when
Pope
did
curse
her
,
he
did
blesse
her
.
But
to
knit
vp
this
point
of
the
fruites
of
the
Popes
supremacie
,
this
is
the
summe
of
all
,
that
they
doe
seeke
their
owne
dominion
,
the
honour
,
the
wealth
,
the
pleasures
of
this
worlde
:
they
will
rather
spoile
Princes
and
Emperours
all
of
their
right
,
then
any
part
of
their
preeminence
or
commodities
shal
be
empaired
.
Vppon
this
ground
to
satisfie
their
ambition
,
their
coueteousnesse
,
their
lustes
,
beside
dominions
in
Italie
,
which
with
Italian
policies
by
the
discorde
of
kings
and
Emperours
they
haue
gotten
into
their
hands
:
they
haue
endeuored
to
take
away
,
as
I
haue
shewed
in
Hildebrand
and
might
at
large
in
sundrie
others
,
which
I
omit
for
breueties
sake
,
they
haue
don
I
say
whatsoeuer
they
could
to
take
away
from
Emperours
,
Kings
,
noblemen
,
gentlemen
,
and
all
the
temporalitie
,
as
they
did
terme
it
,
their
liberties
of
patronages
,
donations
&
presentations
of
al
spiritual
promotions
,
in
al
kingdomes
and
countries
,
reseruing
to
themselues
either
alone
,
or
especially
full
power
,
&
authoritie
to
giue
bishoprickes
,
and
Abbayes
,
and
Prebendes
,
&
personages
,
and
other
such
liuings
.
And
al
to
maintain
their
inordinate
ambition
,
their
excesse
of
riot
,
their
imperial
pompe
,
their
fleshly
sensualitie
,
which
are
the
naturall
children
of
the
Romish
supremacie
,
the
daughter
of
coueteousnes
&
pride
,
the
mother
of
mischiefes
and
all
abominations
.
Chap.
14.
Howe
the
Princes
of
England
made
many
lawes
and
statutes
,
against
the
Popish
supremacie
long
before
the
time
of
King
Henrie
the
eight
,
who
did
roote
it
out
wholy
.
THus
hauing
;
hitherto
shewed
&
declared
,
how
the
supremacy
,
and
Papacie
of
Rome
,
béeing
not
planted
by
Christe
and
his
Apostles
,
was
rooted
first
in
the
Church
by
Boniface
the
third
,
and
afterward
spreade
abroade
farther
and
farther
by
his
successours
,
so
that
it
grew
and
brought
forth
the
poysoned
fruites
,
which
I
haue
rehearsed
:
Now
it
doeth
remaine
,
that
I
proceede
to
shew
how
it
hath
ben
rooted
out
of
the
Church
of
England
by
godly
princes
of
famous
memorie
:
whose
examples
some
princes
haue
,
I
wish
all
princes
of
the
earth
would
follow
.
And
herein
I
shall
euidently
discouer
and
refute
their
errour
,
who
béeing
counted
men
of
good
knowledge
and
iudgement
,
haue
borne
me
in
hand
,
that
the
power
&
authoritie
of
the
Pope
of
Rome
was
neuer
banished
out
of
this
our
countrie
,
vntill
that
King
Henrie
the
eight
did
expell
it
,
in
the
xxvj
.
yeare
of
his
raigne
,
in
the
yeare
of
our
Lord
a
thousand
fiue
hundred
thirtie
&
foure
.
For
it
is
certaine
,
and
shal
be
clearely
proued
,
that
many
yeares
before
that
King
Henrie
the
eight
was
borne
,
or
King
Henries
Fathers
Father
,
the
kinges
of
this
Realme
haue
made
lawes
and
statutes
,
against
the
Bishop
of
Rome
his
authoritie
and
iurisdiction
,
whiche
he
did
wrongfully
clayme
and
vsurp
within
their
dominions
,
and
therefore
they
did
iustly
remoue
it
and
expell
it
.
To
the
which
purpose
it
must
be
firste
considered
,
that
vnder
the
colour
of
the
decrées
aboue
mentioned
,
the
Popes
did
take
vpon
them
to
preferre
strangers
vnto
the
roomes
of
Archbishops
and
bishops
throughout
the
Realme
of
England
,
many
yeares
together
:
and
to
place
whom
they
list
Abbots
,
and
Priors
in
any
religious
houses
,
when
so
euer
that
the
places
were
voide
:
neither
onely
to
present
vnto
all
manner
of
religious
houses
,
but
also
to
Prebends
,
Prouostries
,
Deanries
,
Parsonages
,
and
such
like
.
Which
thinges
as
they
were
done
to
the
great
impeachment
of
the
kings
dignitie
and
crowne
imperiall
of
the
Realme
:
so
did
they
tend
also
to
the
disinheritance
after
a
sort
,
of
his
maiestie
,
of
his
counsellours
,
of
the
nobilitie
,
of
other
his
subiectes
,
which
had
by
inheritaunce
the
giftes
of
such
liuings
:
and
to
the
great
losse
of
the
whole
countrie
,
by
decay
of
hospitalitie
,
and
conueying
of
our
treasures
out
of
the
Realme
,
through
the
meanes
of
straungers
,
who
were
preferred
to
these
liuinges
and
spirituall
promotions
.
For
redresse
of
which
faultes
,
the
nobles
and
commons
of
this
Realme
,
at
the
Parleament
holden
at
Carlile
in
xxv
.
Anno.
Domini
.
1296.
yere
of
the
raigne
of
King
Edward
the
first
did
present
and
exhibite
a
bill
into
the
Parleament
,
of
all
the
inconueniences
and
iniuries
offered
to
the
kinges
maiestie
,
the
nobles
,
and
commons
by
the
Bishop
of
Rome
.
Wherevpon
the
Parleament
tooke
order
,
and
enacted
,
that
from
thence
forth
the
Bishop
of
Romes
authoritie
shold
take
no
place
within
this
Realme
in
any
such
matters
:
if
he
dealt
in
any
,
they
should
be
voide
and
of
none
effect
.
Which
act
made
againste
the
Bishop
of
Rome
,
because
there
was
no
penaltie
set
vpon
such
as
did
mainteine
or
suffer
his
doings
to
preuaile
against
the
order
taken
:
therefore
not
long
after
the
death
of
this
good
king
Edward
the
first
,
Edward
the
second
his
sonne
,
being
king
,
a
man
of
no
suche
courage
as
his
father
was
,
neither
hauing
leasure
thorough
his
great
troubles
with
the
Earle
Mortimer
and
the
Quéene
his
wife
to
looke
to
such
matters
,
the
Bishop
of
Rome
did
spring
againe
to
doe
what
he
would
.
The
substance
of
this
Act
,
made
by
king
Edward
the
first
,
is
not
recited
in
the
statutes
of
the
xxv
.
yere
of
his
raigne
:
because
it
is
wholy
mentioned
in
the
first
part
of
the
statute
made
the
xxv
.
yere
of
King
Edward
the
third
.
At
the
which
time
,
in
a
Parleament
holden
at
Westminster
,
the
same
petition
and
Act
made
at
Carlile
was
returned
,
Anno
Domini
1350.
cap.
1.
and
more
ample
order
taken
withal
against
the
Bishop
of
Rome
.
For
it
was
prouided
there
and
enacted
,
that
whosoeuer
did
fetche
from
Rome
,
or
take
any
such
prouisions
to
disturbe
any
presentation
or
election
made
in
this
Realme
,
or
the
persons
that
were
in
possession
of
any
spirituall
promotions
:
that
the
prouisors
and
disturbers
,
their
procurators
,
executors
,
notaries
,
and
attournies
,
should
be
attached
,
and
laid
in
prison
,
without
baile
,
or
mainprise
:
there
to
remaine
vntil
both
they
had
answered
the
king
such
fine
and
raunsome
as
shold
be
taxed
at
his
pleasure
:
and
also
had
agréed
with
the
partie
wronged
:
neither
should
they
be
deliuered
vntill
they
had
put
in
sufficient
sureties
neuer
to
attempt
any
suche
thing
afterward
.
Cap.
1.
Againe
in
the
xxvij
.
yeare
of
his
raign
in
the
Parleament
holden
at
Westminster
,
the
same
statute
was
inlarged
,
and
the
penaltie
made
,
that
the
offenders
therein
if
they
came
not
to
answere
at
their
day
in
proper
person
,
and
were
found
culpable
,
they
should
forfaite
all
their
landes
,
and
goodes
,
their
bodie
should
remaine
in
prison
,
&
out
of
the
kinges
protection
.
It
appeareth
farther
in
the
xxx
.
yeare
that
an
excōmengment
,
as
they
do
tearme
it
,
was
certified
by
the
Pope
:
whiche
was
disallowed
by
the
Iustices
,
and
the
bringer
thereof
should
haue
bene
hanged
and
drawne
,
if
the
Chancelour
of
England
had
not
prayed
to
the
king
for
him
.
In
the
xxxviij
.
yeare
,
the
like
acte
was
made
,
for
such
as
procured
any
citations
or
processes
from
the
court
of
Rome
:
that
their
procurers
and
attourneyes
should
haue
such
punishmentes
and
forfaitures
as
are
before
mentioned
.
Now
in
the
time
of
king
Richard
the
second
,
who
did
next
succéed
him
,
there
was
a
statute
made
the
thirtéenth
yeare
of
his
reigne
,
Anno
Domini
.
1363.
Cap.
1.
in
the
Parleament
at
Westminster
,
againste
prouisors
of
benefices
,
with
this
penaltie
:
that
they
should
be
out
of
the
kings
protection
,
and
forfeit
the
benefice
.
But
in
the
sixtéenth
yeare
of
his
reigne
,
Cap.
15.
the
same
king
made
more
full
and
straite
lawes
against
the
Bishop
of
Rome
:
whereby
he
banished
his
whole
authoritie
out
of
this
realme
,
enacting
,
that
no
processe
from
Rome
should
be
allowed
:
Yea
further
,
Cap.
5.
that
if
any
subiect
of
this
realme
should
receiue
,
or
fetch
from
Rome
,
or
set
forth
any
maner
Citations
,
Presentations
,
Fulminations
,
Buls
,
or
any
other
things
against
the
kings
regaltie
&
crowne
:
he
being
conuict
thereof
,
should
loose
and
forfet
all
his
landes
and
goods
to
the
king
,
&
his
body
to
be
at
the
kinges
pleasure
,
and
out
of
his
protection
,
and
in
the
cause
of
praemunire
.
The
same
punishment
also
appointed
for
him
,
who
so
euer
should
sue
any
appeale
to
Rome
.
King
Henrie
the
fourth
which
succéeded
Richard
,
in
the
second
yeare
of
his
reigne
,
in
the
parlament
holden
at
Westminster
,
An.
Do.
1401.
Capit.
3.4
.
did
likewise
make
a
lawe
,
that
no
spirituall
or
religious
person
,
secular
or
regular
,
should
take
any
maner
of
promotion
or
liuing
spiritual
,
or
offices
in
any
spiritual
houses
,
by
any
prouisions
of
Licences
or
Buls
from
Rome
,
vnder
the
payne
contained
in
the
praemunire
,
as
in
the
first
&
fourth
Chapter
of
that
statute
is
declared
.
Againe
in
his
sixt
yeare
,
at
the
parleament
holden
at
Couentrie
,
Capit.
1.
there
was
a
lawe
made
to
ease
Archbishops
and
Bishops
of
their
great
exactions
,
taken
by
the
Pope
and
his
officers
of
his
chamber
,
for
their
first
fruites
.
Againe
in
his
seuenth
yeare
,
an
other
lawe
was
made
touching
the
Licences
and
Pardons
graunted
from
Rome
to
the
incumbents
of
any
benefices
,
that
whether
they
were
graunted
,
or
to
be
graunted
,
they
should
be
vtterly
voyde
,
and
of
none
effect
.
Againe
in
his
ninth
yeare
,
bycause
the
Archbishoppes
and
Bishoppes
of
this
realme
,
Capit.
8.
were
after
their
elections
greatly
troubled
by
the
Bishoppe
of
Rome
,
it
was
enacted
that
the
elections
of
Archbishops
,
Bishops
,
Abbats
,
Priors
,
and
other
spirituall
persons
,
should
be
frée
from
all
manner
of
interruptions
and
incumbrances
of
the
Bishop
of
Rome
.
An.
Do.
1407
It
were
tedious
to
goe
forward
in
the
like
sort
with
the
Princes
that
followed
:
but
by
this
taste
the
wise
may
easily
perceiue
,
howe
no
lawe
could
bridle
the
vnruly
vsurpation
of
the
Pope
of
Rome
,
but
almost
vnder
the
reigne
of
euery
Prince
,
for
the
space
of
two
or
thrée
hundred
yeares
,
they
were
compelled
to
renue
olde
,
and
make
newe
prouisions
and
actes
of
Parliament
against
him
:
Notwithstanding
all
the
which
,
his
dealings
were
so
outragious
,
and
gathered
eftsoones
new
strength
:
that
they
could
neuer
be
throughly
repressed
,
vntill
that
God
did
raise
vp
our
noble
Prince
of
famous
memorie
King
Henrie
the
eight
,
who
perceyuing
and
vnderstanding
,
as
well
by
his
owne
iudgement
and
knowledge
,
as
also
by
the
learned
Cleargie
of
his
realme
,
howe
the
Bishops
of
Rome
haue
of
long
time
fallen
away
from
the
sound
and
pure
religion
of
Christ
,
by
their
corrupt
doctrine
and
abhominable
pride
:
extolling
them selues
,
not
onely
aboue
all
Bishops
,
but
also
aboue
all
Emperours
,
Kings
,
and
Princes
of
the
earth
:
disobeying
the
authoritie
of
rulers
and
magistrates
,
whom
the
Lord
set
ouer
them
,
whom
Christ
did
obey
,
whome
the
Apostles
were
subiect
to
:
speaking
lyes
through
hypocrysie
,
as
they
of
whom
S.
Paul
doeth
prophecie
,
1.
Tim.
4.
forbidding
to
marrie
,
and
commanding
to
abstaine
from
meates
,
which
God
hath
created
to
be
receiued
with
giuing
of
thanks
,
of
them
who
beléeue
and
knowe
the
truth
:
&
to
come
to
the
chiefest
point
,
deuising
blind
,
erronious
,
prophane
&
vngodly
meanes
of
obtaining
saluation
,
by
gadding
in
pilgrimage
,
by
oblations
to
images
,
by
kissing
of
reliques
,
by
numbring
of
Pater
nosters
and
Aue
Maries
vpon
beades
,
by
going
barefoote
and
barelegged
,
by
créeping
to
crosses
,
by
their
pardons
a
poena
&
culpa
,
with
a
number
of
péeuish
toyes
and
superstitious
ceremonies
,
to
the
blemishing
of
true
faith
,
the
anchorhold
of
all
Christians
,
grounded
on
assured
hope
of
saluation
,
by
the
death
&
passion
of
our
sauiour
Christ
,
which
is
empaired
by
Poperie
:
the
the
Noble
Prince
therfore
,
King
Henrie
the
eight
,
séeing
and
considering
these
detestable
enormities
,
and
wicked
vsurpation
of
the
Pope
of
Rome
,
did
vtterly
banish
his
counterfet
authority
out
of
this
realme
of
England
,
with
the
appurtenances
of
it
.
Which
hauing
him selfe
begun
in
part
to
doe
,
he
had
it
confirmed
with
the
consent
of
the
whole
realme
,
by
statute
and
lawe
made
in
the
eight
and
twentie
yeare
of
his
reigne
,
at
a
Parleament
holden
at
Westminster
,
An.
Do.
1536.
Capit.
10.
to
the
great
comfort
of
all
his
faithfull
subiectes
,
to
the
reuiuing
of
the
dignitie
of
his
imperiall
crowne
,
and
most
of
all
to
the
true
honour
and
glory
of
the
Almightie
.
After
this
noble
King
,
there
succéeded
the
godly
worthie
Prince
his
sonne
,
King
Edward
the
sixt
,
who
not
onely
confirmed
that
lawe
against
the
Bishop
of
Rome
,
but
further
procéeded
in
the
establishment
of
true
religion
.
And
of
late
againe
(
albeit
)
some
interruption
grewe
in
the
time
of
Quéene
Marie
,
Our
most
vertuous
and
gratious
Souereigne
,
Quéene
ELIZABETH
,
following
the
godly
steps
of
her
noble
father
and
brother
,
had
it
inacted
in
her
first
parleament
,
that
the
authoritie
of
the
Bishoppe
of
Rome
,
and
of
al
other
forraine
power
,
and
potentates
,
spirituall
and
temporall
,
should
vtterly
be
driuen
away
,
and
remoued
out
of
all
her
maiesties
territories
&
dominions
:
&
that
vpon
such
penalties
vnto
all
her
subiectes
,
that
to
vpholde
,
maintaine
,
or
set
forth
any
such
forraine
authoritie
within
this
realme
,
it
is
in
some
pointes
and
degrées
high
treason
:
so
that
they
lose
and
forfaite
their
liues
,
landes
,
&
goodes
,
who
are
guiltie
of
it
.
A
statute
that
may
séeme
seuere
,
and
is
perhappes
accounted
of
some
ouerrigorous
:
but
they
who
marke
it
wisely
cannot
choose
,
but
sée
howe
sharpe
tooles
were
necessary
to
roote
out
this
wéede
,
which
many
godly
Princes
before
King
Henrie
the
eight
did
endeuour
to
nip
of
by
sundrie
good
lawes
,
but
it
budded
still
againe
,
&
brought
forth
such
blossomes
,
or
rather
fruits
,
of
rebellion
,
ambition
,
coueteousnes
,
hipocrisie
,
&
wicked
superstition
,
as
it
was
to
be
feared
woulde
haue
poysoned
the
whole
lande
,
had
not
our
gratious
prince
vsed
such
sharpe
instrumentes
to
roote
it
out
vtterly
.
Chap.
15.
A
short
repetition
of
the
pointes
proued
,
witha
conclusion
of
the
whole
.
And
an
exhortation
to
the
people
of
Englande
to
embrace
this
truth
,
with
all
the
heauenly
doctrine
of
Christes
religion
.
WHerefore
I
doe
wishe
euen
from
the
very
botome
of
my
hearte
,
that
euerie
faithfull
subiect
,
and
right
Christian
man
woulde
weigh
both
this
point
,
&
al
the
rest
,
which
I
haue
saide
,
to
satisfie
his
conscience
in
this
matter
of
the
supremacie
:
least
they
builde
vppon
sande
,
not
on
the
rocke
,
Iesus
Christ
.
Let
vs
consider
that
our
sauiour
did
not
graunt
it
to
any
of
his
Apostles
:
nay
he
did
expressely
forbidde
such
ouerruling
and
dominion
amongest
them
.
Let
vs
remember
,
that
as
it
was
not
giuen
by
him
to
Saint
Peter
:
so
neyther
did
Saint
Peter
practise
it
,
nor
the
Apostles
attribute
it
vnto
him
.
Though
it
had
beene
giuen
to
Peter
amongest
the
rest
:
yet
what
reason
is
it
that
the
Bishoppe
of
Rome
should
be
his
heire
in
it
?
syth
we
reade
not
in
the
scriptures
that
Peter
euer
was
at
Rome
:
which
we
should
haue
redd
doubtles
,
if
it
had
ben
of
so
great
weight
.
Herevnto
we
must
adde
,
that
in
the
primitiue
Church
this
preeminence
was
not
acknowleged
,
either
to
,
or
by
the
Bishoppes
of
Rome
.
The
godly
Bishoppes
of
that
Citie
,
who
many
of
them
were
martyres
,
did
not
take
it
vppon
them
.
The
fower
first
principall
and
generall
councels
assembled
out
of
all
Christendome
,
did
not
yeelde
it
vnto
them
.
What
haue
we
then
to
do
with
Boniface
the
thirde
,
to
whome
the
title
of
supremacie
was
graunted
firste
by
wicked
Phocas
?
What
haue
wee
to
doe
with
Boniface
his
successors
:
who
haue
sat
in
the
chaire
of
pestilenc
and
haue
made
their
scepter
a
scepter
of
iniquitie
?
shall
wee
rather
followe
them
,
then
Christ
,
then
Peter
,
then
the
Apostles
,
then
generall
councels
,
then
godly
Bishoppes
of
Rome
?
Shall
we
not
be
wise
,
and
learne
to
make
a
difference
betwéene
the
first
Byshoppes
that
were
in
the
Citie
,
frée
from
such
ambition
:
and
betwéene
the
later
,
who
swarued
from
their
stepes
?
For
as
they
did
followe
Christe
and
his
Apostles
in
preachinge
and
teaching
the
holy
word
of
God
,
in
ministring
the
sacramentes
in
plaine
and
humble
manner
:
in
ordering
well
the
flocke
of
Christe
by
good
and
wholesome
discipline
:
so
these
of
the
other
side
,
after
that
they
had
obteined
the
supremacy
of
the
Emperour
,
they
encreased
the
séedes
of
errour
and
superstition
,
which
before
were
cast
,
and
fell
away
more
&
more
from
Christs
example
&
doctrine
,
making
them selues
a
newe
priesthoode
,
&
framing
it
after
the
manner
of
the
priesthoode
amongest
the
Iewes
,
both
by
chaunging
the
ministration
of
the
Lordes
supper
into
a
sacrifice
propitiatorie
,
and
an
oblation
for
the
sinnes
of
the
liuing
and
of
the
deade
,
though
they
were
not
partakers
of
it
:
and
also
by
deuising
to
themselues
such
gaye
and
disguised
vestures
of
cloth
of
golde
and
siluer
,
of
veluet
&
such
other
stuffe
,
so
that
not
Aaron
was
apparailed
more
gorgeously
than
they
.
But
this
was
the
least
faulte
:
yet
out
of
doubt
a
fault
.
For
our
sauiour
Christ
did
not
abrogate
the
ceremonies
of
the
lawe
of
Moses
,
to
bring
in
others
like
vnto
them
.
But
other
thinges
were
greater
,
and
most
of
all
to
be
condemned
in
these
Byshopps
of
the
supremacie
:
that
they
deuised
new
wayes
and
meanes
for
men
to
obtaine
forgiuenes
of
their
sinnes
and
euerlasting
life
,
such
as
neither
Christ
our
sauiour
did
ordeine
,
neither
did
they
aduaunce
the
glory
of
Christ
,
our
onely
sauiour
.
For
they
deuised
that
men
might
bee
saued
by
their
owne
workes
,
and
by
praying
to
images
,
and
by
going
a
pilgrimage
,
and
by
setting
vp
of
candles
before
the
pictures
of
saintes
,
and
by
purchasing
of
Pardons
from
the
Bishop
of
Rome
,
specially
,
if
they
were
pardons
called
a
Poena
&
culpa
,
and
by
trentals
,
and
diriges
,
and
by
Masses
of
Requiem
,
&
of
Scala
coeli
,
and
by
their
tapers
of
waxe
,
and
by
their
sacring
belles
,
and
clackes
,
and
by
their
pascall
,
and
by
their
pax
,
by
their
sensinges
and
solemnities
,
by
their
deuout
créeping
to
crosses
and
wearing
of
cowles
of
Moonkes
,
and
such
other
a
thousande
trumperies
,
holy
creame
,
holy
oyle
,
holy
bowes
,
holy
ashes
,
holy
breade
,
holy
water
,
to
keepe
them
from
euill
spirites
,
and
I
know
not
what
.
Thus
they
ledde
the
people
from
their
faith
,
and
trust
in
the
bloode
and
death
of
our
sauiour
Iesus
Christ
,
to
put
their
faith
and
trust
in
the
Popes
indulgences
,
and
in
such
other
blinde
illusions
:
to
the
great
daunger
of
their
soules
,
&
the
dishonour
of
the
Lorde
.
Neither
contented
with
this
corruption
of
doctrine
,
they
brought
in
a
greater
confusion
of
discipline
:
calling
away
the
elections
of
Bishoppes
,
and
handling
of
Church
matters
,
vnto
the
courte
of
Rome
:
where
the
Market
was
,
for
spirituall
promotions
,
for
deciding
of
controuersies
,
for
bying
out
of
sins
,
for
keeping
of
concubines
,
for
cleansing
of
purgatorie
,
for
engrosing
of
liuings
,
for
non
residence
vpon
them
,
&
for
what
not
?
All
was
at
Rome
,
and
might
be
had
from
Rome
for
money
.
The
Lordes
vineyeard
did
lie
waste
.
The
Church
was
become
a
denne
of
theeues
.
Wherefore
,
good
Christian
brethren
and
countrimen
,
syth
the
light
of
the
Gospell
hath
opened
these
thinges
vnto
vs
:
let
no
man
deceiue
vs
vnder
colour
of
antiquitie
,
or
by
saying
,
thus
and
thus
our
forefathers
haue
thought
many
hundred
yeares
past
,
and
therefore
it
is
good
.
For
if
you
wil
haue
respect
to
antiquitie
:
them
doe
,
I
beseech
you
,
as
I
haue
here
done
:
beginne
at
our
sauiour
Christs
time
,
and
so
come
downe
to
ours
,
as
it
were
by
steppes
,
and
you
shall
sée
that
there
is
as
great
difference
betwixt
the
primitiue
Church
of
Christ
for
fiue
or
sixe
hundred
yeares
,
and
these
latter
times
of
darkenes
which
followed
the
light
,
as
is
almost
betwixt
white
and
black
in
colour
,
or
God
and
the
deuill
in
goodnesse
.
For
the
Bishoppes
of
Rome
in
these
latter
ages
haue
ben
so
cleane
contrarie
in
all
respectes
to
Christ
,
that
the
Prophecie
of
saint
Paul
to
the
Thessalonians
doth
séeme
to
be
fulfilled
in
them
:
2.
Thess.
2.
in
that
he
doth
say
,
there
should
be
a
departing
first
from
the
faith
,
and
then
the
man
of
sinne
shoulde
be
disclosed
,
euen
the
child
of
perdition
,
which
is
an
aduersarie
to
God
,
and
exalteth
him selfe
against
the
most
highest
.
Which
words
,
what
Antichrist
can
they
describe
more
liuely
,
then
the
Pope
of
Rome
?
For
to
passeouer
his
falling
from
the
faith
,
and
his
corruption
of
doctrine
which
I
haue
already
noted
,
as
Christ
was
moste
humble
and
méeke
:
so
the
Popes
are
moste
hautie
and
proude
.
As
Christ
was
most
simple
and
poore
:
so
the
Popes
are
moste
subtil
and
ful
of
treasures
.
Iohn
.
18.
As
Christe
saide
his
kingdom
was
not
of
this
world
:
so
the
Popes
doe
lift
them selues
aboue
the
Princes
of
this
worlde
.
As
Christe
went
lowly
vpon
the
ground
:
so
the
Popes
must
be
carried
aloft
on
mens
shoulders
for
feare
of
touching
the
ground
.
As
Christe
in
apparell
,
behauiour
,
and
conuersation
,
applyed
himselfe
to
common
men
:
so
the
Popes
in
these
thinges
doe
resemble
rather
the
maiestie
of
Emperours
.
They
may
be
wel
compared
to
the
Pharisées
whom
Christe
did
liken
to
painted
tumbes
,
Matt.
23.
which
appeare
beautiful
in
the
vttersides
,
but
are
within
,
ful
of
dead
mens
bones
and
all
filthinesse
.
Such
are
the
Bishops
of
Rome
,
most
rich
in
robes
of
cloth
of
Golde
,
their
very
shooes
set
with
pretious
stones
:
but
within
,
their
soules
moste
filthie
,
with
riot
,
couetousnesse
,
ambition
,
and
other
worldly
vices
,
as
their
liues
do
shew
,
which
are
set
forth
vnto
the
world
by
Platina
and
others
,
men
that
knewe
them
well
,
and
were
conuersant
about
them
.
Wherefore
,
sith
it
is
manifest
that
vnder
colour
of
holines
pretending
to
be
Christes
Vicars
,
they
are
Christes
aduersaries
,
euen
his
greatest
aduersaries
,
with
drawing
his
people
from
their
speciall
trust
in
him
to
their
own
errours
and
wicked
superstitions
:
therefore
nowe
,
good
Christian
brethren
,
let
vs
followe
the
counsel
of
the
Scriptures
.
Iohn
.
12.
Dum
lucem
habemus
,
ambulemus
in
ea
:
While
we
haue
the
light
,
let
vs
walk
in
the
light
,
euen
in
the
light
of
the
Prophetes
and
Apostles
.
Whereby
Christ
doth
teach
vs
the
falsehode
of
Antichrist
,
that
we
may
flye
from
him
,
and
from
all
his
workes
of
darkenesse
:
that
we
may
detest
his
vniust
supremacie
,
and
erronious
doctrine
,
and
fantasticall
ceremonies
,
and
all
the
dregges
of
Babylon
.
Matt.
11.
Venite
ad
me
omnes
qui
laboratis
&
onerati
estis
,
&
ego
reficiam
vos
,
saith
our
Sauiour
Christ
.
Come
vnto
me
all
ye
that
are
wearie
and
laden
,
and
I
will
refreshe
you
.
I
will
refreshe
you
,
saith
our
Sauiour
:
he
calleth
moste
comfortably
vnto
him selfe
,
all
,
which
are
trouble
and
afflicted
in
mind
,
thorough
the
consideration
of
the
grieuousnesse
of
their
sinnes
,
whiche
deserue
eternall
death
,
and
are
ready
to
cast
them
into
desperation
:
and
he
doeth
promise
them
,
that
hee
will
ease
them
,
without
suing
to
Rome
for
pardons
,
or
hauing
Masses
,
or
trentals
,
or
diriges
,
or
other
such
foolish
fansies
of
men
.
But
he
willeth
them
to
come
vnto
himselfe
,
Matt.
1.
who
was
called
Iesus
,
that
is
to
say
,
a
Sauiour
,
by
the
commaundement
of
God
,
because
that
he
should
saue
his
people
from
their
sins
:
of
whom
saint
Iohn
doth
say
,
1.
Iohn
.
2.
Si
quis
peccauerit
:
aduocatum
habemus
apud
patrem
,
Iesum
Christum
iustum
:
&
ipse
est
propitiatio
pro
peccatis
nostris
:
non
pro
nostris
autem
tantùm
,
sed
etiam
pro
totius
mundi
.
If
any
man
,
sinne
,
saith
Iohn
the
Euangelist
,
we
haue
an
aduocate
or
Mediatour
with
God
the
Father
,
Iesus
Christ
the
iust
:
and
he
is
the
propitiation
,
the
pacifier
of
God
,
obteining
mercy
for
our
sins
,
yet
not
for
ours
only
,
but
also
for
the
sinnes
of
the
whole
world
.
Wherefore
sith
the
Pope
doth
teach
vs
to
haue
other
mediatours
&
aduocates
to
the
Father
,
euen
the
saints
,
whom
himselfe
and
his
Cardinals
haue
canonized
,
and
doth
leade
men
so
many
wayes
,
as
though
they
might
be
saued
by
them
,
where
as
our
Sauiour
Christ
is
the
onely
way
,
Iohn
.
8.
the
trueth
and
the
life
:
let
vs
leaue
this
false
priest
,
and
his
buls
,
and
his
pardons
,
and
the
rest
of
his
trumperies
,
and
let
vs
thinke
well
of
our
godly
princes
,
who
haue
cut
out
the
rootes
of
his
supremacie
,
whence
all
the
poyson
doth
flowe
.
For
the
staying
of
the
whiche
,
least
it
shoulde
bee
receyued
into
the
bowels
of
the
Realm
,
and
corrupte
the
whole
bodie
:
manye
godly
Princes
heretofore
beganne
that
worke
,
by
making
sundry
lawes
and
statutes
,
which
in
our
dayes
King
Henrie
the
eight
,
King
Edward
the
sixt
,
and
our
gratious
Quéene
Elizabeth
haue
brought
to
good
end
,
through
the
great
mercy
of
God
.
That
which
our
Sauiour
saide
,
is
fulfilled
herein
:
Math.
15.
Omnis
plantatio
quam
pater
meus
coelestis
non
plantauit
,
eradicabitur
:
Euery
plant
which
is
not
planted
by
my
heauenly
father
,
shall
be
pulled
vp
by
the
roote
.
The
light
of
Christes
Gospell
hath
openly
disclosed
to
vs
that
man
of
sinne
,
and
childe
of
perdition
,
which
taketh
on
him
to
sit
in
the
temple
of
GOD
,
as
God
.
It
is
manifest
that
his
supremacie
,
with
all
his
errours
builded
on
it
,
are
plantes
which
were
not
planted
by
God
our
heauenly
father
.
God
wil
therefore
roote
them
out
,
according
to
his
promise
:
vpon
the
which
promise
,
in
part
fulfilled
already
,
we
are
to
make
our
daily
prayers
,
that
he
will
more
and
more
fulfill
it
:
that
he
will
roote
out
all
,
spéedily
,
and
throughly
,
not
onely
out
of
our
Church
of
England
,
but
out
of
all
peoples
consciences
:
that
the
seruants
of
God
may
be
ioyned
altogether
in
one
Christian
faith
,
setting
their
whole
confidence
in
Iesus
Christe
alone
,
the
sonne
of
the
liuing
GOD
,
who
suffered
cruell
death
,
and
shed
his
pretious
bloud
for
the
raunsome
of
all
our
sinnes
,
as
many
as
beléeue
in
him
,
that
he
might
ioyne
vs
to
him selfe
,
and
present
vs
to
his
father
,
making
vs
partakers
of
his
owne
glory
with
him
.
Which
the
Lord
graunt
vs
of
his
infinite
mercy
,
through
our
mediatour
and
sauiour
Iesus
Christ
.
Amen
.
FINIS
.