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A00670	A treatise against the necessary dependance vpon that one head, and the present reconciliation to the Church of Rome Together with certaine sermons preached in publike assemblies, videlicet 1. The want of discipline. 2. The possession of a king. 3. The tumults of the people. 4. The mocke of reputation. 5. The necessitie of the Passion. 6. The wisdome of the rich. By Roger Fenton Doctor of Diuinitie, late preacher of Graies Inne.	Fenton, Roger, 1565-1616.; Utie, Emmanuel, d. 1661.	1617 (1617)	STC 10805; ESTC S102068	104,035	162

it is not relied vpon That which indeed is stood vpon and the very maine issue of the whole question es that Bellarmine pitcheth vpon deuised by some latter schoolemen a little before That the Apostles were all equall during their liues Mortuis autem Apostolis summa potest as in solo Petri successore permansit The Apostles for terme of life had as much authority as Peter but Peter as an ordinary Pastor for his successors and that by vertue of this Text Pasce Oues Peter as Pastor they as Delegates hee ordinary they out of speciall grace so as all their successors shall heereafter depend vpon Peters successors and deriue their power from them Where note by the way that the visible Church of Christ from the Ascension into heauen till the death of the Apostles which was aboue sixty yeares The Church I say had no one visible head all the Apostles were alike all supreame Gouernors and euer after though the circuit were farre greater and the people in the Church farre more vnruly yet it shall haue but one to gouerne all and he sometimes but a silly one God wott yet shall his charge bee greater his dignity more excellent and his command more absolute then euer Peters was for Peter had many peeres euery whit as good as himselfe But let vs follow the point This onely was Peters priuiledge aboue his fellowes That authority which hee had in common with the rest during their liues he might as the ordinary Pastor of the Church conferre it wholly vpon his successor of Rome so might no other What all that authority wholly I le be carefull for doing them any wrong Not their Apostolicall authority but all their Episcopall and Pastorall authority which is to be perpetually in the Church by vertue of this Pasce Popes doe not challenge to bee called immediately of Christ Apostles to haue seene Christ in the flesh as the Apostles did to worke miracles to be free from error in preachings and writings as the Apostles were sauing in their seate when they haue the Church about them That which is pastorall is perpetuall Peter is a Pastour by vertue of this Text Pasce Therefore he may conferre this authority vpon his successours so haue you their meaning let vs follow it It is a sure rule Species aequè participatur in Indiuiduis that which agrees to a man as a man agrees to euery man Quod conuenit homini vt homo singulis hominibus pastori vt pastor singulis pastoribus Now that which is sayd heere to Peter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 feede my sheepe is sayd to the Presbyters in the Acts of the Apostles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Act. 20.28 To feede the Church yea but they meane not that Peter is as an ordinary Pastor then somewhat must be added to this Text It s not pasce oues meas will carry it It must bee pasce prae caeteris or pasce pastores Either feede before the rest or feede them that feede else pascere Ecclesiam is as much as pascere oues if not more Heere is nothing singular in this text but the singular number thrice repeating of it alluding to the thrice denying of Christ which will not be for their credit to stand vpon for it is noted by an Ancient and let vs not forget it to be rather a stay of his weaknesse then a note of his greatnesse But let vs follow their conceit without Scripture Peter was cheefe Pastor of the whole Church therefore had power as Pastor to leaue that power to his successours Were not the rest of the Apostles Pastours as well as Peter had not they this power as well as hee I meane not Apostolicall but Episcopall and Pastorall which is perpetuall Heare what Bellarmine hath ingenuously deliuered from the consent of the ancient Lib. 4.24 Sicut me misit pater factos esse his Christiverbis Apostolos Christs vicartos immò ipsum Christi officium aut horitatem accepisse en Apostolica authoritate contineri omnem potestatem ecclesiasticam sicut me misit pater siquidem misit filium summa potestate praeditum That they are all the Vicars of Christ that they haue all the office and authority of Christ himselfe hauing alledged the fathers to this end hee inferres thus Vbi vides idem dari Apostolis per illa verba ego mitto vos quod Petro fuit promissum per illatibi dabo claues postea exhibitum per illa pasce oues meas id est iurisdictionem plenissimam etiam exteriorem Bellarmine concludes that that full and outward iurisdiction that was promised to Peter in the keyes and exhibited to him in his pasce was also giuen to all the Apostles in their generall Commission Sicut me misit iam sumus ergo pares These Texts that we haue troubled you withall leaue them equall why may not then the rest of the Apostles make their successours in other Churches aswell as Peter at Rome and if we may credit Ecclesiasticall writers so they did Iames left Simeon to succeed him at Ierusalem Simeon left Iustus Iustus left Zacheus and so along Iohn left Polycarpus in Smyrna as Tertullian auouches Paul left Timothy at Ephesus Titus in Creete Dionysius at Athens as Eusebius All this they confesse Where are we now Wee are come to a narrower issue so narrow that it crowdes the supremacy in peeces for how can the successours of Paul of Iohn and of the rest depend vpon Rome They fetch it from the other Apostles They immediately from Christ as you haue heard Sicut me misit Bellarmine sayes It is a prerogatiue which is not found in Scripture but in other authors as in Iohannes de Turrecremata Peter was made Bishop by Christ and Peter made all the rest of the Bishops why Alioquienim cum omnes Apostoli plurimos Episcopos in varijs locis constituerint si Apostoli ipsi non sint facti Episcopi à Petro certè maxima pars Episcoporum non deducet originem suam à Petro. If not the Apostles then not the greatest part of Bishops take their originall from Peter then we are vndone Bellarmine makes an obiection If Peter made Iudas Bishop our answer is Iudas was no Bishop no In the Acts Let another man take his Bishopricke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That 's but praefecturam Did he make Iohn Bishop the Disciple whom Iesus loued did he make Paul Bishop who does so glory that his authority came not of men or by men Galat. 1.1 Then comes in Bellarmine In Apostolica authoritate contineri omnem potestatem Ecclesiasticam sicut me misit In good time now the Popedome is conteined in the Apostleship had Campian got vs at such a vantage how he would haue gloryed with his spectatum admissi risum teneatis amici I do protest I haue beaten my braine to reconcile them in this point and I cannot I would gladly haue a sentence of a Father that Peter made Paul Bishop or Iohn

via sacra Abraham came out of Chaldea so must they out of their Sects before they come to these two things set downe in the Text. The Foundation The Rocke The Building The Church Verse 17. The Rocke imports first a foundation and the surest vpon which the rest of the grunsels are layd what this Rocke is poynts to the premises to that Rocke which Peter discouered before and layd hold on that rocke which flesh blood had not reuealed vnto him but the father in the 17. verse As thou art Peter which signfies a Rocke so vpon this Rocke which thou hast discouered Lib. 6. de Trinit Lib. 61 9. in Luc. Hom. 55. in Matth. Vlt. Tract in Ioh. Serm. 3. de verb. Retra 1.21 will I build my Church So saith Hillary Super hanc confessionis petram Ecclesiae aedificatio est So Ambrose Fundamentum Ecclesiae sides est So Chrysostome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vpon faith and confession So Augustine Super hanc petram quam confessus es edificabo Ecclesiam meam And in another place De verb. Dom. And in his Retractations he confesseth that he hath expounded it of Peter in some places recals it Christ the son of the liuing God is the ground besides which none other can bee layd Or that Christ is the sonne of the liuing God is the first ground of truth whereupon the Church is built vp in faith and knowledge of that rocke which is permanent wee say the first ground and principle of Christianity whereupon the rest of the gruncels and articles of Christian faith are layd and out of which the other are deriued The Logicians make a question which is the first principle in reason whether one or many but this is the first in faith and the very rocke of all Lue 17.6 In the 17. of Luke ver 6. The kingdome of God is compared to a seede The least of all seedes and to one graine of that seede for as our articles are not many so are they contained in one which is the first and that this is mole minimum but virtute maximum it is cleere for in it as a seede the rest are contained If then we be settled in our hearts There is a possibility of rest and a facility of beleeuing the rest that followes If that man Christ was the image of his father by whom all things were made he might easily preserue his mothers virginity and so be borne of a virgin If we beleeue that this man was true God then we may as easily beleeue that he was able to suffer the Iewes to crucifie kill bury his body and raise it vp againe by the power of his diuinity if Christ by whom all things were made of nothing bee able to gouerne then is he able to rectifie and restore all by the resurrection of the body to eternall life This was first reuealed by the Angell at his conception He shall be called the sonne of the most high Luc. 1.32 2. Installed the Head of the Church at his Baptisme This ground was first reuealed Mat. 3.17 not by an Angell but by his owne father Matth. 3.17 and when Iohn Baptist was to beare witnesse Ioh. 1.34 Ioh. 1.34 I saw and beare record that this is the sonne of God 3. When hee was about to goe out of the world at his transfiguration Mat. 17.5 This is my beloued sonne heare him This is the ground of all that the beloued Disciple makes so much of in his Epistle 1 Ioh. 4.15 1. Ioh. 4.15 Whosoeuer confesses that Iesus is the sonne of God in him dwelleth God and 1. Ioh. 5.5 Who is hee that ouercomes the world 1 Ioh. 5.5 but he that beleeueth that Iesus is the sonne of God he hath gotten heere this very seed and ground of all 4. Heere the rocke is reuealed to Peter from heauen expressed by Peters confession Therefore they that beleeued Christ did first lay holde on this Nathanael in the first of Iohn Ioh. 1.49 Rabbi thou art the sonne of God The Centurion at his death in the 27. of Matthew Mat. 27.54 Doubtlesse this is the sonne of God Therefore this is the first sparke of Christian faith that fals into the heart 5. Did Christ tell Peter this Rocke Let vs then see vpon what rocke Peter built for hee was a master-builder Looke the last Catholique Epistle the first Chapter 2 Pet. 1.14 and the foureteenth verse Seeing I know the time of my departure is at hand I must lay downe this my Tabernacle euen as our Lord Iesus Christ hath shewed me Verse 15. Verse 15. I will endeauour therefore alwaeyes that I may bee able to haue remembrance of these things after my departing How endeauour Verse 16. Verse 16 For wee follow not deceiueable fables with our eyes wee saw his Maiesty For verse 17. Verse 17. hee receiued honour and glory of his father when a voice came from him Verse 18. This is my beloued sonne in whom I am well pleased This voice we heard in the eighteenth when it came from heauen being with him in the holy Mount This hee confirmed by the Prophets Verse 19. The sure word of the Prophets Though as a light in a darke place not so manifestly shining as afterwards And that he may confirme this confirming authority of the Prophets verse 20.21 hee sayes Verse 20.21 It was an inspiration from the holy Ghost and therefore Peter had beene ouerseene that if Christ had poynted to Peter in these words Super hanc petram if Peter poynted not the Church to the successors of Rome super hanc petram especially knowing of his departure taking his fare-well making his last Catholique Epistle he poynts onely to this rocke that Christ is the Sonne of God 6. That other master-builder so soone as euer the scales fell from his eyes Act. 9.20 straight-way hee preached Christ in the Synagogue That he was the sonne of God 7. The Eunuch receiued Baptisme and all exacted at his hands was the confession of this poynt Act. 8.37 I beleeue that Iesus Christ is the Sonne of God Did Philip teach him that he and his Queene of Aethiopia must goe after to Rome as before to Ierusalem I thinke hee troubled his head with no such points so still this is the first ground whereupon the rest are built and therefore no maruell though Sathan hath so malitiously from this day opposed this poynt From the beginning did the gates of hell oppose it Mat. 4.3 Mat 4 3. So soone as euer Sathan enters hee begins If thou be the Sonne of God At his death The houre and power of darknesse Math. 27. Mat 27 40. Sathan did then set his instruments against that Rocke If thou be the Sonne of God come downe from the Crosse and we will beleeue thee After the Ascension the most generall and pestilent heresie that euer was of Arrianisme opposed this ground Sathan well