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A14014	A sermon of Cuthbert Bysshop of Duresme made vpon Palme sondaye laste past, before the maiestie of our souerayne lorde kyng Henry the. VIII. kynge of England [and] of France, defensor of the fayth, lorde of Ireland, and in erth next vnder Christ supreme heed of the Churche of Englande.; Sermon made upon Palm Sunday	Tunstall, Cuthbert, 1474-1559.	1539 (1539)	STC 24322A; ESTC S118679	34,494	96

parable saith The good sede be the chyldern and inheritours of the kyngedome so the kyngedome that Christe seeketh here in erthe is a spirituall and heauenly kyngedome And Christe sayde to Pylate in the .xviii. chapiter of Iohn̄ My kyngdome is not of this worlde And therfore those that go about to make of Christis spyrytuall kyngdome a worldly kyngdome do falle into errour of some heretykes that loke that Christe after the daye of iudgement shall reygne with all his sayntes here in erthe carnally in Hierusalem as the Iewes doo beleue that Messias is yet to come and whan he shall come he shall reigne worldly in Ierusalem ¶ So we doo see that Chryste lefte the worldely kyngedomes to prynces of the world as is before expressed But he commytted the preachynge of this heauenlye kyngedome to his apostels gyuynge to them lyke commission and equall auctoritie to preache teche the same through all the worlde sayeng in the last chapyter of Mathewe after the wordes before declared that all power was gyuen to hym in heuen and in erthe Go ye forthe and teache all nations baptysynge theym in the name of the father and of the sonne and of the holy goste teachynge them to kepe all those thynges whyche I haue commaunded you Christe also in the .xx. chapter of Iohn sayde the euenynge after his resurrection whan he appered to his disciples the dores beinge shutte As my father hath sente me I do sende you and after he had so sayde he brethed vppon them sayinge Whose synnes so euer ye shall forgyue be forgyuen and whose synnes ye shall reteyne be reteyned And lykewyse had saide to them all before his death in the .xviii. chapter of Mathewe what thynges so euer ye shall bynde vppon erthe shal be bounde in heauen and what thynges so euer ye shall lose vppon erthe shal be leused in heauen whiche power he gaue to them all equally and like as well to all the resydewe as to Peter whiche auctoritie Christe declareth in the x. chapter of Luke to be hyghe and to be regarded of all men and not to be contemned in any wyse sayinge He that herith you herith me and he that herith me hereth my father of heuen that hath sent me And he that despiseth you despyseth me and he that despyseth me despyseth my father of heuen that hath sent me At the day of iugemente Sodoma and Gomorra whiche harde not of Christ shal be in better case than such despysers shalbe ¶ But here the byshoppe of Rome steppeth in and saith Peter hadde auctorite gyuen to him aboue all the resydue of the apostels for Christe sayde to hym in the xvi chapiter of Matthewe Thou arte Peter and vpon this rocke I shall bylde my churche and I shall giue the the keis of the kyngedome of heuen and what so euer thou shalt bynde vpon erthe shalbe bound in the heuens This sayde Christ. And sayncte Peter is buryed at Rome whose successor I am ▪ and oughte to rule the churche as Peter dyd and to be porter at heauen gates as Peter was And Christe sayde also to Peter after his resurrection Fede my shepe whiche wordes he spake to hym onely so that therby he had auctoritie ouer all that be of Christis flocke and I as his successour haue the same and therfore who soo wyl not obey me kynge or prince I wyl curse him and depriue hym his kyngedome or seignorie for all power is gyuen to me that Christe had and I am his vicar general as Peter was here in erthe ouer all and none but I as Christe is in heuen This ambitious and pompouse obiection is made by him and his adherentes and hath of late yeres moch troubled the worlde and made discention debate and open warre in all partes of Chrystendome and nourysshed the same But yf the bysshoppe of Rome wolde take those places after the right sense of thē ▪ as both the apostels them selfes taughte vs and all the auncient beste lerned and mooste holy interpretours do expound them the worlde shulde be more at quietnesse than it is where nowe by wronge interpretation the scripture is peruerted and an other gospell in that poynt preached vnto vs than euer the apostels preached soo that thoughe an aungell came fro heuen and wolde tell vs suche newe expositions of those places as is now made to turne the wordes which were spoken for spirituall auctoritie of preachynge the worde of god and ministringe of the sacramentes to a worldly auctoritie we oughte to reiecte hym as saynt Paule saythe in the fyrst chapiter to the Galathiens ¶ But to open the true sense of the scripture in the places aforesayd it is to be obserued that Christe in the sayd .xvi. chapiter of Mathewe asked his dyscyples whom men dyd say y t he was whervnto after answere giuen by thē diuersly some sayinge that he was Iohn̄ Baptist some saying y t he was Ely some saying that he was Ieremie or oone of the prophetes Christe asked them whom do ye say that I am whervnto Peter answered for thē al for of al them the question was asked as he was always redy to make answer Thou arte Chryste the sonne of god that lyueth Iesus answered Blessed be thou Symon the sonne of Iona. for flesh and bloud hath not reueled this vnto the but my father whiche is in heuen And I say to the Thou arte Peter and vpon this rocke I shall bylde my churche and the gates of hell shall not preuayle agaynste it that is to saye vpon this rocke of thy confessyon of me to be the sonne of god I shall bylde my churche For this confession conteyneth the hole summarye of our faythe and saluation Which confessyon fyrste was spoken by the mouthe of Peter Who of all the .xii. apostelles that Christe chose to sende into the worlde to preache his word was the fyrst that with his mouthe vttered that confessyon and knowlegynge by which all Christen men must be saued and without whyche noo man can be saued as it is written in the x. chapter to the Romains by Paul The worde of faythe that we do preache is at hande in thy mouthe and in thyne harte for if thou confesse with thy mouthe oure lorde Iesus and with thy hart do beleue that god raysed hym frome death to lyfe thou shalt be saued Upon this fyrst confession of Peter and not vpon the person of Peter the church is bylded As Chrysostom expoūdeth that place in the .xxvi. sermon of the feast of Pentecost saying Not vpon the person of Peter but vpon the fayth Chryst hath bylded his churche And what is the faithe This. Thou art Christ the sonne of god that liueth what is to say Upon this rocke that is vpon this confession of Peter And with this sayenge of Chrisostome all auncient exposytours treatynge that place do agree For if we shulde expound that place that the Churche is bylded vppon the persone of Peter we shuld put an other foundation

apostelles so that all they be in the foundation set vpon Christ the very rocke whervpon the hole church standeth So lykewise in the .xxi. chapter of the Apocalypse it is wrytten that the wall of heuenly Hierusalem the citie of almyghtye god whyche is the churche Christis espouse hath .xii. foundations and in theym the names of the .xii. apostels wrytten soo that the name of Peter is not there wrytten onely for the .xii. apostels throughe all the worlde as well as Peter preached Christ to be the sonne of god who is the very rocke whervpon all our fayth is founded ¶ Sayncte Cyprian also saythe in his boke of the simplicitie of prelates that all the apostels had equall power and dignitie gyuen to them by Christ. And bycause all shulde preache done thynge therfore the begynnynge therof fyrste beganne by one whiche was Peter Who confessed for them all that Christ was the sonne of god that lyueth sayinge further that in the churche there is one offyce of all bysshops wherof euerye man hath a parte allotted holly vnto hym Nowe if the byshop of Rome may medle ouer all where he wyll then euerye man hath not holly his parte for the bysshop of Rome maye medle in his parte with hym soo that he hath it not holly which is agein Ciprian ¶ And where Christe sayd that he wold gyue to Peter the keyes of heauen that was sayd to hym not for hym selfe onely but for the hole churche Whiche confessynge the faithe that he dyd shulde haue the keys of heauen as well as he as saint Augustin sayth expoundynge the gospel of Iohn in the fyfty treaty ¶ And as to the auctoritie of the laste chapter of Iohn̄ where Christ said thrise to Peter Fede my shepe after he hadde confessed to loue Christ thrise asked that place is as Cyrillus sayth expoundynge the same thus to be vnderstande that bicause Peter hadde thrise denyed Christe wherby he thought hym selfe he had loste his apostelshyp Christe to comforte hym ageyne and to restore hym to his offyce that he had loste asked hym thrise whether he loued hym and so restored him ageyne to his offyce Whiche els he durste not haue presumed vnto sayeng to hym Fede my shepe With whiche exposition the ancient holy expositours of that place do agree ¶ And where it is sayde that those wordes were spoken onely to Peter wherby he ought to haue a preeminēce aboue the other Saynt Paule in the .xx. chapiter of thactes proueth the contrarye Where saynt Paule sayde to all the bysshops assembled at Milete Take heede to youre selues and to all your flocke in whiche the holy gooste hath put you to gouerne his churche whiche worde To gouerne is in the origynall texte of Greke Pimenin the same worde that Christe spake to Peter and doth signify to fede and gouerne the shepe as the shepeherde ought to do so that saynte Paule sayth that the holye gooste hath ordeyned all byshops to fede their flocke as saynte Peter was bydden do Saynt Peter also in the laste chapiter of his fyrste epystle sayth Ye that be priestes fede the flocke of god emongeste you whiche worde there spoken to all pristis is the same worde that Christe spake to Peter ¶ So it appereth playnely by the scriptures afore sayde conferred to gether that nother the .xvi. chapter of Mathew nor the .xxi. of Iohn do proue that Peter had power auctoritie or dygnitie gyuen by Chryste ouer all the other that they shulde be vnder hym and yet his primacie that he firste of al the apostels confessed our fayth that Christe is the sonne of god with whiche his confession all the apostels dydde consente and preched the same standeth still And all that wyll be saued must folow that lesson that he first taughte vs to confesse And soo the bysshoppes of Romes power ouer all whiche he wolde proue by those places wrong alleged for his pourpose vtterly qualeth and is not proued ¶ Besides this whan Faustinus legate to the byshop of Rome alleged in the .vi. counsel Carthaginense that the bysshop of Rome ought to haue the orderynge of all great matters in all places by his supreme auctoritie he alleged no scripture for him for at that time no scripture was thought to make for it but he alleged vntruely the fyrste generall counsayle Nicene in whiche Arrius the heretyke was condemned to make for that pourpose Which after the boke was brought forth and no suche article founde in it but the contrarye yet the counselle at that tyme sent to Constantinople Alexandria and Antioche where the patryarchall sees were to haue the true copye of the counsel Nicene Whiche was sent vnto theym and also from Rome whether they sente alsoo for that pourpose And after they founde noo suche article in it but in the fyfth chapyter therof the contrarye that all causes ecclesiasticall shulde eyther be deterymned within the diocese or elles yf any were greued than to appeale to the counsel prouinciall and there the matter to take ful ende so that for no suche causes men shulde go out of their prouince the hole counsell Carthaginence wrote to Celestine at that tyme beinge bysshop of Rome that sens the councel Nicene had no suche article in it as was vntrewely alleged by Faustinus but the contrarye they desired hym to absteyn after to make any more suche demaunde denouncynge vnto hym that they wold not suffre any cause great or small to be brought by appele out of their countrey And thervpon made a lawe that no man shuld appeale out of the countreye of Aphrike vppon peyne to be denounced accursed Wherwith the byshop of Rome euer after held hym content and made no more busynes with them seinge he had nought to saye for hym selfe to the contrary And at this counsel amongest other saynt Augustine was presente and subscrybed the same whyche he wold not haue done if he had knowen or taken any parte of the gospel or of the scripture to be contrary ¶ It is also determyned in the .vi. article of the sayd counsel Nicene that in the orient the byshop of Antioche shoulde be chiefe in Egypte the byshop of Alexandria About Rome the byshop of Rome and lykewise in other countreyes metropolitans shulde haue their preemynence so that the bysshop of Rome neuer hadde medlynge in those countreys ¶ And in the next article folowynge the byshop of Hierusalem which citie before had bene distroyed and almoste desolate is restored to his olde prerogatiue to be the chiefe in Palestyne and the countrey of Iure whiche churche of Hierusalem if places shulde be regarded shoulde be the chiefe for there was accomplysshed the mistery of our redemption and Christ hym selfe the eternall worde and sonne of god there preached in personne and after his ascencion all the apostels disciples and sayncte Paule also preached there in person the hole .xii. apostels began fyrst there as Christ had commanded to haue the saying of Esai the prophete in the .ii.