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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	highness_n	power_n	successor_n	2,068	5	9.8990	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08569	A learned and very eloquent treatie [sic], writen in Latin by the famouse man Heironymus Osorius Bishop of Sylua in Portugal, wherein he confuteth a certayne aunswere made by M. Walter Haddon against the Epistle of the said bishoppe vnto the Queenes Maiestie. Translated into English by Iohn Fen student of Diuinitie in the Vniuersitie of Louen; In Gualtherum Haddonum de vera religione libri tres. English	Osório, Jerónimo, 1506-1580.; Fenn, John, 1535-1614.	1568 (1568)	STC 18889; ESTC S100859	183,975	578

thinke that this word high mai not be born in the dignitie of a bishop why do you not in like māner detest the name of highnes in the Maiestie of a king No say you it was very wisely prouided that al the magistrats and Princes in Englād shuld haue one supreme Prince whom they shuld al reuerēce and by whose power ād autority they shuld be al restrained for otherwise it cannot be chosen but that there would be stirred vp muche trouble and discord to the great peril of the whole realme I thinke you say truly And therefore I affirme in like manner that in the Churche whiche ought to be alwaies one it is necessarie that there be one supreme power of a high bishop whose authoritie all other Bishops should reuerence For otherwise it must needes be that there arise much debate and manie pestilent sectes to the great ruine and decaie of the Churche and that the Church be brought therby into verie great daunger For if within the space of fourtie yeares sence a great peece of Germanie and afterwardes England fel from the Bishop of Rome so many s●ditions haue risen emongest the Princes of your Religion that they cā not possibly agree neither with other mē neither yet within them selues what ende thinke you wil ensew in case al Christendome the which God forbid being thereunto procured and moued by your diligence and vnreasonable meanes should rebel with the like outrage and madnes It remaineth therefore that as in England there is one supreme power whiche comprehend●th al other Princes vnderneth it so there be also in the Churche one supreme authoritie the whiche al other inferiour powers must willingly and diligently obeie For otherwise it is not possible that the crewel tempestes risen in the Churche should euer be slaked or the flames of discord quenched or the ciuile warres ended Now for so much as Christ is the authour of peace Whosoeuer wil saie that they wil haue but one only bishop which is our Lord Iesus Christe and by the religious pretēce of this worde wil open a gap to so manie opinions and to so much pestilent dissensiō thei are lyers No they doe rather fight against Christ and worshippe Satan the authour of debate and discorde But contrarie wise such as honour and reuerence the bishoppe of Rome as the Vicare of Christ for that respect only bicause he is the lieutenant of Christ in the earth they doe in deede acknowledge only Christ to be the high Priest And yet you saie that by this your rebellion and contempte you doe not cut and māgle the coate of Christ but only geue a touch at the Bishop of Romes cloke And by and by after you bring in these wordes Neither doe we laie open the waie as you saie to sedition but we doe dāme vp the path the ▪ which goeth downe through his lic●ntious lead to the great decaie of good manners Of this lead and of your notable reproch I haue spokē before with as much modestie as the matter would suffer me But of this your base vile and shamelesse boldnes when you say that you haue not rent and torne the coate of Christ but rather that you haue by this your most wicked rebellion made a goodlie prouision that good manners should not decaie I can not wel tel what to say to you Dare you seing euerie where as you doe that there are so many diuisions of pestilēt sectes with so much debate and discord that there is no certaine faith emōgest you no agreemēt in Religiō that your confessiōs are changed almost euerie day your beleefes and Creedes corrected that the olde places of doctrine are disanulled and new set vp that manifold sectes ariseth daily and the old Church is diuided in many parts how dare you I say report that this your falling from the Church hath not māgled the coate of Christe When you see with your eyes that pride arrogancie disobedience stubbernes saucie talke slaunderous report fleshlie pleasure naughtines dishonesty tumult and sedition goeth vp and downe freely and vncōtrolled wheresouer your maisters put their foote with what face dare you say that you haue after this rebellion set the manners of men in good and seemelie ordre The thing it selfe speaketh dailie examples declare neither doe the open assises no neither secret parlars hold their peace But let vs now see howe worshipfully you confute that my discourse as touching the Monarchie of the holie Church You say In the best time of the Church there was one God and one faith That is true But now neither is there one God nor one faith emongest the ministers of your gospel For one offereth vp diuine honour to pleasure an other to madnes some to the bealie and some to railing Luther hath one faith Bucer an other Zwinglius hath one and Caluin an other And yet you say Peter had his Prouince Paule had his and Iames his and other had other Prouinces And yet did not this separation of their persons disioine the vnitie of their saith What conclude you then maie it be gathered by these things that you saye that Peter when he was resident in one Prouince had no preeminence ouer the rest of the Apostles That is not wel cōcluded of these things that you haue spoken For now euery Bisshoppe hath his Prouince and the Bisshop of Rome hath his And yet are we all subiect vnto him by the lawe of God It foloweth In processe of time many of the Bishops of Rome were Martyrs and were sacrificed vnto God by prophane and vngodlie Princes but Crownes had they none vnlesse it were the Crownes of Martyrdome This extraordinarie soueraintie of Popedome they knew not Yes M. Haddon it is wel knowen that the most blessed Princes and soueraignes of the Church of Rome them selues to witte Clement and Euaristus and Lucius and Marcellus and Pius the which atteyned the Croune of Martyrdome with very great glory whom neither ambition nor any other vnlauful desire moued to seke for that supreme honoure do beare witnes against you For their writinges declare plainely that their iudgement was that the soueraintie of the vniuersal Churche was euer in the Church of Rome What should I here reherse Ireneus Augustine and al other holy Fathers What shoulde I here vnfolde the memorie of al the antiquitie Of the new writers reade if it please you Eckius the B. of Rochester Cocleus Pighius and such other most excellēt men both for vertue and learning and you shall see how ignorant you are in this mater of the supremacie They dispute and contend not with reprochful wordes not with lies not with impudēcy but with testimonies of the holie Scriptures but with the authorities of the holy Fathers but with examples of the vnspotted antiquitie and they presse their aduersaries and proue them to be not onely wicked felowes but also very mad and frantike mē But how is it possible that you should vnderstand these thinges What time could

you and your companions I pray you what can be spoken more plainely and cleerelie then those woordes Thou arte Peter saith Christ and vpon this rocke I wil build my Churche And what so euer thou shalt bind vpō the earth it shalbe boūd in heauen And againe I haue prayed for thee that thy faith faile not and thou being turned confirme thy brethren And many other places of like effect which do manifestly proue that Peter had a Prerogatiue aboue the rest of the Apostles But you wil saie for al this that these testimonies of the holy scriptures which we haue alleged are expoūded farre otherwise of the new Apostles I wil set against the authoritie of your Apostles the authoritie of S. Ambrose Augustine Hierome Basile and all other holie men that haue with their writings geuen light to the Church of Christ But now your Doctours wil answere that although it be true that the supreme authoritie was graunted to Peter yet foloweth it not that it was geuen to his successours also Why then I aske you an other question Did Christe set vp a Church to continue but for one mans life Or els minded he to establish it for euer If he appointed that his Church should stande so little time he didde not so great a thing as was to be looked for of his infinite bountie and wisedome for so muche as he bestowed so much labour and diligence yea and shedde so muche bloud about a cōmon weale whose cōtinuance was limited within the bounds of so short time If he minded that his church should cōtinue for euer then doubtlesse he set it in such order as should in al chaunges and alterations of times be mainteined and kept If it be then euident as it is most euident and plaine that Peter had a Superioritie ouer the rest of the Apostles it must needes folowe that the same preeminence or principalitie of right apperteineth to al suche as haue succeded in Peters roome and charge Or els in the Church of Christ which is one it might seeme there was ordeined not the order of the heauēly Monarchie but the gouernement of manie And then what knot or band of concord were there in the Churche By whose authoritie shoulde the tempestes risen in it be asswaged By whome should seditious opinions and sects be rooted out By whom should pride and stubbornes be restreined and kept vnder if there had ben no man appointed in the Church from the beginning by whose authoritie all men should be kept in order No we for so much as the church of Christ is simple and one and one it can not be vnlesse there be in it one only Prince furthermore being euidente and plaine that Christ ordeined one onely ruler in his Church whom al men should acknowledge and obeie finally being out of al doubt that this preeminence apperteineth to the Successours of Peter and that none of al the aūcient Fathers endewed with the spirit and grace of God euer doubted but that the bishops of Rome were the successours of Peter as bothe their writinges and the common agreement of the vniuersall Church declareth with what sprite were your newe Apostles moued to bring in this new Gospellish doctrine to distourbe the order appointed by Christe to breake the bande of vnitie and concord to shake the very Rocke and staie of the Churche But lest some man shuld thinke that these thinges were wrought of them without any cause in the world I wil briefly declare what their deuise or rather what the fetch of Satā was in this enterprise It was vnpossible that euer the pestilēt sects should gather any strēgth except the authoritie of the Bishop of Rome had ben first weakned For how could the mischieuous weede haue growen any long time whereas it was a very easy matter with the authoritie of the Bishop of Rome ▪ forthwith to cut it doune so soone as it appeared aboue the groūd Take vs saith the spouse of Christ the litle foxes that destroy the Vineyardes This request of the spouse who shalbe able to fulfil if noman haue authoritie to suppresse the malice and lewdnes of heretikes before it waxe great For it is manifest that by the foxes are vnderstode heretikes And therfore S. Paul in his second epistle to the Thessaloniās saith that Antichrist shal not come before he great reuoltīg or departure frō the catholike Church of Christ It is therefor necessari for these yong Antichrists which as S. Iohnsaieth do in figure and significatiō represent the great Antichriste to come before they can bring their purpo●ed mischief to passe not only to depart them selues frō the Church and from the supreme ruler of it but also to solicite and procure to the like departure all such as they mind to carie away and make their disciples and this is the cause that al heretikes whose chiefe endeuour and principal intent is to ouerthrowe the catholike Church do first of al assaile this fortresse do here plant their ordinaunce doo here make their battery do here vndermine to ouerrhrow the forte For they see that if this fortresse were once ouerthrowen and wonne they may frely sow the seades of al naughtines and to the ruine and decaie of manie flee vppe and downe through the worlde whether so euer thei list without any cōtrol or checke And to passe ouer the olde Heretikes this was the cause whie Hus●e endeuoured to ouerthrow the authority of the Bishop of Rome This was also the meaning of Hierome of Prage when he went about to weaken the authority of the said bishop This was the way by the which FrierLuther thought vtterly to destroy the Catholike church This was the traine by the whiche in Englād a gap was vnaduisedly opened to al suche errours as sence that time haue followed Nowe the railes and barres being after this manner broken downe and the gates laid wide open it was a very casie matter for al vile and desperate felowes to rush in to mangle and teare in peeoes the vnitie of the Churche to bring in so many wicked errours suche horrible sectes suche a rable of pestilent opinions one directly against an other ▪ The Zwinglians fight against the Lutherās The Anabaptists kepe continual warre with the Zwinglians What should I here reherse the heretikes called heauenly Prophetes the Interimnists and such other names of sectaries What should I saie of the hatred malice brawling and discorde within them selues What shoulde I speake of their variety and incōstancy in opiniōs Yea and such as are of one sect are not al nor alwaies of one opinion Many points of their Doctrine they correct they alter and chaunge the● turne in and out they blot out the old they make newe nowe they pull downe and now they set vp they can not wel agree neither with other men nor yet with them selues What saye you to this Sir Are not these thinges true Can you saie that al such as are sprōg of Martine