For where it is in Iohn that Christ by his death should ouercom death hell and all the world hée applieth it to the Pope of whom Iohn did not once dreame onlesse hée prophecied of him amongs other Antechristes in his Epistles whom hée there describâ—th And as for the place of Luke it is to be vnderstanded of Ciuill and temporall Magistrates and not of Spirituall and Mysticall inuâ—ntoures of Iniquities and so vnderstandeth Chrysostom Origen and Theodoret vpoÌ„ the .xiij. chapter of S. Paule to the Romanes prouing that all Bishopes such as wée call Spirituall men must needes bée vnder the Iurisdiction of Ciuill Magistrates obey them and paye them Tribute Besides this this Iames proueth as Augustinus de Ancona did .lxxx. yeares before him that the Pope had not only authoritie ouer all Kinges and Emperours that were Christend but also ouer Turkes Paymins bycause that Christ gaue his full authoritie too the Pope when hée ascended that Iuditiary power for these are his termes ouer euery creature because that hée left the Pope both the keyes Temporall and Spirituall The sixth Obiection Hée is the head of the Church that hath twoo keyes the one too open Heauen gates to his friendes the other to shutte out his ennemies And hée hath thrée Crownes bycause that hée is a Kinge a Cesar and a Bishoppe or rather bycause bée hath authoritie in Heauen Hell and Purgatorie or els as Gregorius Doctor Hispanus did preache in Cambredge hée sayd that the Pope was counted in Spayne the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost that was signified by his thrée crownes Moreouer in euery yeare of Iubile hée hath a golden hamer wherwith hée knocketh at the gates of Paradise Is this no preeminence is not hée the head that hath this authoritie I graunte that the flattering Glosers of the Canon lawe wryte such thinges but they are too foolish too bée credited too false and absurd too bée approued too ridiculous too bée aduouched and to detestable to bée admitted The 7. Obiection Hée that hath both the temporall and spirituall swoorde must néedes bée the head of the church but the Pope hath bothe Ergo hée is the head of the church I denie the Minor wée proue it thus Doo you not reade that Boniface the eight Pope of that name came out in a solemne feast daye in the apparel of a Bishop as gloriously as euer was Aaron with the spirituall swoord to frame the Spiritualtie withall And on an other feast day hée came out in the apparel of the Emperour with great pompe and glorie with a naked swoord shaking it and saying This is my swoord to correct the Temporall withall yea euen Kinges Princes and the Emperour I aunswere that this hée dooth by this rule Sic volo sic iubio stat pro ratione voluntas For that hée dyd without reason or authoritie The 8. Obiection Is not hée the head of the church that is aboue Kings Cesars and Councelles and aboue the whole world Innocent 9. quest 3. gloss ibi vlt. ext de elect significasti The 9. Obiection And though all the worlde should gyue sentence ageynst the Pope notwithstanding his sentence must stand bycause that hée maye dispense with all thinges Iud. Glossat de Capell Papa si vult c. The 10. Obiection The Pope is aboue all Councelles and Statutes de elect cap. signif I aunswâ—re If his authorities bée aboue councels then councelles bée vayne and néede not when as wée may goe to the head and spring who is aboue eyther councelles or Lawes For you say that all the lawes are in the chest of the Popes brest But wée credit not these sayinges bycause they are made by Popes without authoritie eyther of Gods woorde or of olde Doctors Wherefore this is that Antichrist that is described in the Reuelation cap. 13. cap. 17. cap. 18. The 11. Obiection Hée that hath the same authoritie that Peter had is the heade of the church But the Pope hath the same authoritie that Peter had Ergo the Pope is the head of the church I denie the Maior for Peter was not the head of the church nor any better then the other of the Apostles Moreouer Peter was a meere man and a meere man was not the head of a spirituall church The 12. Obiection Is not hée aboue all that can dispence with the law of nature with Moses with the olde Testament with the new TestameÌ„t with Christ Peter Paule and the rest of the Apostles I aunswere that none doth so but â–ª Antichrist For of Antichrist Paule writeth so in the second epistle to the Thessalonians the second chapter ver 4. But you say the Pope doth so Ergo the Pope is Antichrist The 13 Obiection There may no man Iudge of the the Popes dooinges neyther the Clergie neyther Kinges neyther Emperours â–ª Shal the Iudge of all bée iudged of any Is it not knowen through all the world that the church of Rome doth iudge all the worlde and it may bée iudged of none who dare dispute of the Popes dooinges who doubteth of the Popes holynesse who is in such authoritie If hée lacke goods déedes or any other thing it is ynough for him to trust in the predecessours of that place These blasphemies answereth Paule in the second to the Thessalonians second chapter ver 4. where hée writeth that this Antichrist maketh hym selfe God. The xiiii Obiection Remundus rufus a noble defendor of the holy Sea of Rome reasoneth thus the Pope is the cheife because he is the first in tyme reuerence and power In time for Peter was at Rome the fyrste Pope in reuerence for who is too be reuerenced more then he in power what Bishop what Prelate what Monarche is to be compared to him I answere to the firste that Peter was neuer at Rome and therefore was neither firste Pope nor last at Rome moreouer Paule was at Rome before him by the testimoni of their owne wryters And Peter was no bishop ergo no bishop of Rome Peter was an Apostle and no bishop A bishop kept in a certain place an Apostle went aboue euery where As for his reuerence what reuerence should the Pope haue aboue others if he wil be first hée must be last as Christ writeth As concerning his power what is it Who gaue it to him He is or ought to be a seruaunt no lorde a minister no maister a member of the body and not the head What if Rome were vtterly destroyed by the Turke as it may be and the Popes name glory dignitie and memory cleane extinguished where should the Romish church be where should bée all hir decrées should not all bée vtterly abolished shall not Christ destroy him with the sprite of his mouth The .xv. Obiection Do you not remember what Nicolaus the first Pope of that name did wryte He sayed and also determined that no christian magistrats should haue any
of Prage againste their pronisse and the Emperoures saufconductes in the yeare of Christe 141â— Christ openeth the way to the kingdome of Heauen The Pope stoppeth it and neither wil entre himself neither will suffer other to entre VVicleffe in the yeare of Christ 13â—4 Bernerd Lutzeberge 2. Tom. council in Sessi 8. Constancienti Polydor. Aug. lib. 19. Christ and his woorde excommunicateth none without a great cause The Pope and his for euery trifle for the priests Tithes for a Pigge for a Goose for Aples and Peares And therefore sayeth Scotus in the yeare of Chryst 1300. desti 18. stut 4. men care not for his curse it is despysed and counted for vyle Christ left behinde him when he departed no money The Pope 25. thousand million of Ducates Matthaeus Palmerius Christ is the true Image of his Father The Pope is an Idoll which hath eyes and sée not eares and heare not as Robertus Gallus writeth in the yeare of Christ 1290. Christ had no earthly possession The Pope possesseth all which possession to bée gyuen by Constantine Marsilius Patauinus denieth Valla confuteth it and Cusanus and Cattalanus reproue it in the yeare of chryst 1496. Christ will haue no superioritie in Bishoppes The Pope calleth himselfe the chiefe of all Here I subscribe the woordes of Marsilius Patauinus who was in the yeare of Christ 1324. All Bishoppes should bée of equall authoritie neyther should the Pope haue any superioritie aboue other Bishoppes and much lesse aboue the Emperour or other ciuile Magistrates and Gouernours Summum iudicium debere penes esse verbum Dei not onely the Spiritualtie to bée called to the councelles but also the Layetie which are learned and godly The clergie and the Pope to bée subiectes to the Emperoure The church to bée the congregation of the faythfull Chryst to bée the head of the church Neyther dyd appointe any other Uicare or pope Bishoppes too bée elect of the church or clergie priestes to haue wyues that Peter was neuer at Rome The popes Synagoge to bée a Denne of Robbers the popes doctrine to carry men to eternal damnation Thus much Patauinus Christ sayeth that the Kinges rule the Gentyles But it shall not bée so emong you The pope sayeth that neyther Kinge nor Emperour hath any power authoritie or iurisdiction but of the pope neyther can bée of any force tyll they be annoynted consecrated and crowned by the Pope who hath full power aswell in thinges temporall as spirituall Thus writeth Ludouicus the 4. Emperoure of that name confuting the sayd presumptuous arrogancy of the Pope Iohn the 22. of that name Christ sayeth that the sentence and iudgement of Chaiphas and Pilate was vniust The Pope sayth that his sentence whither it be iust or vniust must be obserued reuerenced accepted defenced and feared This errour the sayd Emperour refelleth with many reasons and authorities Christ sayeth that his father hath gyuen vnto him all power The Pope sayeth that there is none Superiour to him Non habet superiorem The same Ludouicus proueth that the Pope may haue a superiour in earth if he offend by a councell hée may be deposed and corrected Christ deposed no Emperour The Popes did many as Iohn the 23. of that name deposed Ludouiâ—e in the yeare of Christ 1314. he was excoÌ„municated for an heretique and Scismatike he warred with 3. Popes the space of 33 yeares all the learned men in Europe were with the Emperour against the Pope Notwithstanding he cursed him and commaunded al Priestes Byshoppes Kinges and Princes to rebell against him in the yeare of Christ 1323. Christe commaundeth to bewarâ— of suche as come in longe gownes and Lambes apparell The Pope admitteth none els to his orders Helias Rubeus in the yeare of Christ 300. lib. 3. Christ sayth that his church is euery where wheresoeuer two or thrée be gathered in his name The Pope sayth that his is at Rome and of such as béeléeue in the Romish church all suche as wrote against VValdensis are of this opinion Iacob Riberia Christe his spirit in the Apostle willeth all men euen euerye Prelate Pope to obey the Emperours and other Magistrates The Pope aunswereth that that Text counselleth men too doo so but commaundeth not C. Soli. te titu de obedientia et Maioritate Thus aunswered the Pope Innocentius â–ª the 3. Emperour Baldione Paldiomus in the yeare of Christ 1205. Christ sought his owne The Pope other mens Christ homely apparel and diett The Pope gorgeous and sumtuous Christ peace The Pope debate Christ equetie The Pope iniquetie Petrus Blesensis wryteth thus and more in the yeare of Christ .1153 Christ shedeth no mans bloode The Pope rather followeth Romulus in murthering his brothers then Peter in feding his shéepe Adrianus the Pope of that name and Iohn Saresburiensis in the yeare of Christ .1150 Ant. tit 17. cap. 1.9 Molinaeus 11. There resorteth to Christe the poore in sprite the simple of harte the méek e and all the faithfull There resorte to the Pope in the yeare of Iubile proude prelates auaritious Archedeacons couetous Curates dotish Doctors dronken Dunsies monstrous Monks flattering Friers nyce Nunnes curious Curtesans theues bawdes brothels adulterers Idolaters with all the rest of the wicked rable I do not bring these Arguments collected out of the popish lawes and wryters for that they néede any confutacion but that men may learne with what stuffe and Trumperie they confirme their errours The Pope cannot Erre Obiection No man sinneth that is borne of God The Pope is borne of God Ergo the Pope sinneth not The fiist proposition is proued out of the firste of Iohn verse .9 The second I will proue by a Sillogisme in Barbara Euery one that is holy is borne of God Phe Pope is not only holy but also most holy Ergo euery Pope is borne of God. The first proposition is euident The second is proued by the Popes bulles which are more to bée credited then the Gospell for the Pope may interpret the Gospell how he will but no man may Interprete the Popes Bulles I aunswer Euery man sinneth The Pope is a man. Ergo the Pope sinneth The first proposition is proued by the .14 Psalme of Dauid ver 3. There is none that doth good no not one I wyll proue by a Sillogisme in Barbara the second proposition Euery creature reasonable and mortall is a man Euery Pope is a reasonable and mortall creature Ergo euery Pope is a man. The first proposition is proued by the deffinition of a man. The second proposition is proued by Athanasius Creede where he sayeth that Christ consisteth of a reasonable soule and a humane flesh And by the first to the Cor. 15. chap. ver 22.54 Rom. 6. ver the last And Hebrues the .9 ver 27. whereby euery man is proued too be mortall Obiection He that can make God is better then God The Pope can make God Ergo the Pope is
Apostles where was his swoord than where was his courageous stomacke Did not little Paule dryue great Peter awaye Wherfore yee see that the Pope founding his authoritie ambition vayne glory Supremacie dignitie and superioritie vppon Peter must needes fall it must needes bee grounded vppon errours and iniquitie That which hath twoo heades is monstruous but if Christ bée head as hée is the only head and the Pope also than is it a monstruous body But more monstruous is that body that hath thrée or foure heades for at once there were thrée or foure Popes together euery one called him self head Which of them was the head let them answer if they can if they can not let the head fall with the body If Rome make the Pope holy if the seate where the Pope is can not erre if his church bée catholique and vniuersall how chaunced it that at one time in the yeare of Christ 1411. Clement was Pope at Auenion in Fraunce Pope Vrbane at Roome Benedict the .xiii. succeded Clement at Auenion in Fraunce Gregorie the .xii. was the Pope at Rome Iohn Pope at Bononia and all deposed in the Councell of Constance One of these reuiled an other blasphemed an other cursed excommunicated calling one an other Antechrist Traytor Murtherer Sonnes of Beliall Seruantes of Satan Heretiques Scismatiques and Cruell Tyrauntes If the presence of Peter make the place too bée the best and of most authoritie why was not Hierusalem the chief Cittie the highe See and the Metropolitane of the whole worlde For there Peter preached first and conuerted many thousandes And ye can noâ— reade of one that hée conuerted at Roome when hée was neuer there as the former discours proueth Where gaue Christ and at what tyme the authoritie and prerogatiue of â—osinge and â—ynding Hée gaue it before his death and in Iurye than by good reason that tyme should bée better than this Iury holyer than Roome for many hundreth yeares after was Roome established Now bycause neyther tyme nor place is estemed among Christians but fayth in Iesu Christ there is the Church where Christians woorshippe him in veritie Then Rome is not too bée preferred before the whole world neyther a Cittie before Citties a Towne before Shyâ—es a small parte of Europe before Asia Africa and America Besides this why is not Antioche Pontus Galatia Cappadocia Bithynia Asia Egypte and Babylon too bee preferred seeing that there hée preached there hée planted there hée grafted there hee did sowe there hée watered there hée taught and instructed and brought the people from errour to truthe from Superstition to Religion from Tyrannie to Clemencie from Fraude too Synceritie from Dissimulacion and Hypocrisye too Ueritie from Auarice too Frankenesse from Wickednesse too Uertue from Earthly thinges too Heauenly thinges from the admiration of worldly pompe too the contemplation of heauenly thinges from Hell too Heauen from misery too felicitie and from earthly possession too the inheritaunce of Iacob too the bosome of Abraham too the possession of Isaac too the let of Danyell and too the Paradise of the blessed thief NOWE I haste too the confutacion of their Argumentes whereby they go about too proue that Peter and the Pope is the head of the Church But first I will declare a true history from tyme too tyme and that breifly what they were that were afore the Pope and howe the Churche of Rome came too such a prerogatiue and dignitie Christ him self disputed and reasoned with the Doctoures opposing aunswering and conâ—uting them So did Iohn the Baptiste so did the Apostles so did Stephan so Aquila Apollo and all other that had any of theise giftes which are repeted in sainct Paule And this order of euery man too vtter his gifte continued vntoo the tyme of Theodoret and vntoo the tyme of Gregorie the ninth Pope of that name as appereth by his lawe for hée made lawes that no Laye man should preache of whatsoeuer degrée hée were Noble man Gentle man and other An Elder and a Bishoppe were both one at the beginning Act. 20. vers 17.28 which two verses conferred will shewe you that there is no difference betweene an Elder and a Bishoppe The which Paule proueth and Hierom and Theodoret vpon the same chapter Paule in that place calleth Bishoppes Elders such as taughte the people and instructed them and Deacons such as prouided for the poore lyke too our Church Wardens Afterward they began too alter this order for Eusebius libro .4 .5 affirmeth that the Church was a virgin immaculate vntill the death of Iohn the Euangeliste and than errours to haue creeped in who dyed from the birth of Christ .xxv. yeares And about â— yeares after his death or before the Church began to haue one as cheef whom they called a President or one as an Ouersoâ—er of the people and here sayeth Beza the Deuill began to practise his peruersitie and laye the foundacion of his Tyrannye Euery Citie and Towne had a Bishoppe that taught them but emong them there was no Supremacie The Emperoures afterward which had certeyne principall Cities in euery Shyre one or more whereto all the countrie about resorted to the Law and to decide other matters gaue greater authoritie to the Bisshoppes of the Moother cities for so they were called then too the Bishoppes of other Uillages in the countrie And as they called the mother cities Metrapoleis or matrikous kathedras â–ª or meizonas poleis so dyd they call the Bishop or Minister thereof or Pastor protonton protenonta proestota or patriarchin or Metropolitin â–ª As they call the great Cities Moother Cities Moother Seates The first seates or greater Cities so did they call the priest therof or mynister or Byshop or pastour the first the chiefe the president a Patriarche or Metropolitane Wée reade in the councell of Nyce that Alexandria was chiefe ouer Egypt Lybia and Pentapolis and Antioche was chiefe ouer the countries about as Rome was in Italie Where was there any superioritie more at Rome then at Alexandria or at Antioche In the second councell holden at Constantinople it was decréed that the Bishop of Alexandria should gouerne the Cast countries that Antioche might haue that dignitie that was appointed in Nycene councell the Bishop of Thrace his countrie the Bishop of Pontus his the Bisshop of Rome Italie and so of all the rest Socrates in his historie repeteth seuerall Metropolitanes which are called Patriarches for they were booth of one Authoritie As Nectarius ouer Megapolis meaning Constantinople and Thrace Helladius ouer Pontus Basile ouer Cesarea of Cappadocia Otrius ouer Miletene in Armenia Amphilochius in Asia at Iconiam Optimus at Antioche of Pisidia Timothe to Alexandria of Egypt Pelagius to Laodicia Diodorus to Tharsus Meletius to Antioche The Bishoppe of Hierusalem to Hierusalem These same Metropolitanes they called also Archebishoppes They say the false framed Epistles ascribed to Clemens and
witnesse that these are the Scriptures as the heauenly bodyes that there is a God are the scriptures any better although they bée as testimonialles The church may bée witnesse the faythefull people may testifie that these are the scriptures and yet the scriptures perfect constant and certayne of them selues Augustine lib. 2. cap. 14.32 willeth Cresconius to omitte the authoritie of Cyprian and alledge the scripture the which if hée could hée would gyue place Ageynst Maximinus hée willeth him to let the councelles alone and bring scripture that thereby th◠truth myght be tryed The third Obiection The Pope is called in the first chapter of the Gospell of Iohn ver 42. Cephas and Cepha in the Gréeke toung is Caput a head Ergo the Pope is head of the church Your ignorance is intollerable you despise the tunges yée will rather cleaue to your olde errours and gloses then to séeke for the truthe You forsake the fountaynes and digge and drinke of pudles and kennelles You wrest and turne the scriptures from the meaning of Christe too satisfie your own opinions Your reading in the Texte Cephas which is a Syrian woorde thought that it had ben Cephale a gréeke woorde For saye you Cephas is an head in gréeke and commeth of Cephale and therefore you saye that Peter who was called Cephas is the head of the church when as Cepha the Syrian word which signifyeth a stone being turned into Gréeke soundeth Cephas Thus yée turned whyte into blacke y ée choppe ye chaunge ye turne ye peruerte and depraue all for lacke of knowledge For Christ sayeth that wheras Peter was called before Symon his name should be chaunged and called Cephas which is a stone as Iohn himselfe interpreteth it Bycause that not onely Peter but also all they that beléeue in Christ are lyuely stones As out of a stone commeth fyre so dooth burning charitie out of godly men As a stone or Rocke is stronge stedfast and firme so is euery Peter I meane euery Christian ageynst whose fayth no Tyrannie no Hell gates no persecution no affliction can preuayle What doo I saye doo they not preueyle yea they preuayle ageynst the bodye the Soule they cannot kyll The fourth Obiection Is not hée the chief and head that is firste named Is not a King named afore his subiectes The husbande before the wyfe Peter was first named I aunswere Is Priscilla better then hir husbande bycause that shée is first named in the text and Aquila after her But that cannot bée for S. Paule sayth that the man is the woomans head This woord Protos as Theophilacte interpreteth hath hys respect onely to his brother Andrewe who was called before and Peter after for they twoo were protokleti And notwithstanding that Peter is named first in some places yit is Andrewe named before him as in the first of Iohn ver 44. Philip sayeth Iohn was of the same Citie that Andrewe Peter were of And in the 24. ver of the 20. chaptes of Mathew the other 10. were offended with Iames Iohn In the which text Peter was not named the first but only with the rest We are forbidden to giue Supremacie too any Bishop Esoitai oi eschatoi protoi Kai oi protoi eschatoi oi eschatoi The fyfte Obiection The Popes may lawfully depose Emperoures For as the Moone taketh light of the Sunne so dooth the Emperour of the Pope And the Pope maye treade vppon the Emperoures necke as Pope Alexander dyd vppon the necke of Fredericke the seconde Emperour of that name And that was prophecied longe before by Dauid a friend of ours in these woordes Super Aspidem Basyliscum ambulabis conculcabis Draconem Leonem Thou shalt walke vppon the Adder and Basyliske and shalt tread vppon the Dragon and Lyon. O you Tyrauntes O you rebelles Where is your Truthe where is your Obedience Was it not spoken of Christe and so generally to all good men ageynst whome the force of the Deuill should not preuayle Doo you so intreat your Kinge and Prince Howe dare you bée so bolde as to call your Emperoure Aspis Basylick Lyon and Dragon much lesse ought you to tread vppon them too putte them too deathe and too depose them They haue authoritie by Gods woord too rule ouer you too haue you in subiection and not you them You alledge Scripture as though the Dyuell did too Christ and the next verse too that which the Dyuell alledged as though the Dyuell and the Pope were saying Matynes toogether The sixth Obiection Well say what ye will our holy Father may do what hée list What if hee should sell the whole world perhaps ye will say that it were Symonie but I will sweare vppon a booke that it were no Symonie though hée solde the whole world bycause that hée selleth but his owne for so our olde freind Dauid prophecied vppon him Omnia subiecisti sub pedibus eius oues boues pecora campi Thou hast put all thinges vnder his féete all shéepe and oxen yea all the beastes of the field O heauen O earth the Dyuell alledged Scripture more probably Surely Dauid speaketh of man too whom God hath giuen all thinges for his vse commoditie and Allegorically too Christ whom hée hath made Lorde and King ouer all The seuenth Obiection Did not Pope Agatho write in an Epistle to the Emperours in the fourth Action of the Synode at Constantinople that the church of Roome did neuer erre neyther was possible that it should erre Is not this ynough Is it not a goodly saying Is it not woorthy too bée embraced O what a goulden sentence is this Where can you read the lyke I assure you it is not possible too bée answered I answer that I am able too proue that euery Pope hath erred if synne bée errour Moreouer the most iust man sinneth seuen tymes and hée that sayeth that hée hath no sinne is a lyer there is no truth in him The eight Obiection Panormitane an Archebishoppe did affirme and reason in a Councell at Basile in the .xxxix. Session that the Pope ought too bée aboue all Bishoppes I answer that the sayd Panormitane made an Oration too that effect and made the Pope Lorde ouer the Church notwithstanding the Bishoppe of Argens Iohn Segouius and Fraunces de Funx Diuines confuted that errour in the said Councell proued Pope Eugenius the fourth of that name to bée a relapse and an heretique bycause that hée tooke vpon him too dissolue transporte prorogue that Councell Can hée bée Lorde ouer the Church that should bée a minister and as hée wryteth him self Seruus seruorum Peter willeth no man no Bishoppe too rule ouer the Chuch but too bée ruled by the Church The ninth Obiection Oraui pro te Petre ne deficiat fides tua I haue prayed for thée Peter that thy fayth should not fayl thée Hée can not erre whom Christ prayeth for
The sayd Poole dyd saye that Zuinglius opinion in the Sacrament was most probable which hée could bée content to followe if the Church of Rome had not decréeed the contrarie The 17. Obiection None hath power ageynst the Pope no more then the Axe ageynst the Hewer I aunswere that hée maye well bée compared to a Hewer which by his Axes and cruell tyrauntes hewe downe the good tymber and if hée could would cut off the Emperours and Princes neckes The 18. Obiection You heretiques obiect that the Canon Lawe sayeth that Balaam when hée was reproued of his Asse figureth the Pope and Prelates and the Asse their subiectes Ergo saye you heretiques the Pope may bée reproued of his subiectes but that is no example to bée followed For it pleaseth not our holy father to bée Balaam or his Asse I aunswere that if yée admitte other partes of the Canon Lawe why will yée not admitte this Dooth Balaam signifye Prelates Surely your own Lawe subuerteth it selfe For whether was Balaam or his Asse wyser If his Asse as shée was in déed then are the Popes subiectes wyser For the law sayeth that the Asse signifye them The 19. Obiection The Pope may not bée accused of any cryme niether of murther neither adultery neyther symonie or such lyke I aunswere Is not murther contrarie to the sixte commaundement Is not adulterie ageynst the seuenth And theft ageinst the eight And Symonie an offence ageynst the holy ghost And other vyces ageynst holesome doctrine Besydes this neyther murther nor adulterie shall enter into the kingdome of God. The 20. Obiection Hée that disobeyeth mée is as much to bée cursed as hée that denieth the Omnipotencie of God. I aunswere that this is the voyce of Antichrist and therfore not woorthie to bée aunswered The 21. Obiection It maye séeme well verifyed of mée that was spoken of Christ Psalm 8. Omnia subiecisti sub pedibus eius oues boues vniuersa pecora campi volucres coeli pisces maris Thou hast subdewed all things vnder his féete Shéepe Oxen and all cattell of the field the birdes of heauen and the fishes of the sea I aunswere Is not hée the child of perdition that chalengeth that which was proper to Christe and compareth him selfe wyth God 2. Thess. 2. ver 4. They saye hée is all in all and can doo all that God can doo Claue non errante Doo you not vnderstande by Oxen the Iewes and Heretiques by cattell Paganes by shéepe Emperours Princes and Prelates by birdes the Aungelles and Potentates of heauen ouer whom hée hath power and whom hée doth excell in foure pointes in Iurisdiction in administration of the Sacramentes in knowledge and in reward By the fishes of the sea are meaned the soules of purgatorie as Gregorie the Pope dyd deliuer the Emperour Traiane out of hell The 22. Obiection The Popes law sayeth that if any of his Clergie should bée found embracing a woman it must bée expounded and presupposed that hée doth it to blesse hir I aunswere that wée may not onely absteyne from dooing of euill but also from all suspicion of euill The 23. Obiection The Pope in his supremacie is Abell in gouernement the Arche of Noe in Patriarchdome Abraham in order Melchisedech in dignitie Aaron in authoritie Moses in seate Iudiciall Samuell in zeale Helias in méeknesse Dauid in power Peter in vnction Christ. I aunswere the Pope cannot bée Abel for the Pope persecuteth and Abell was persecuted The Arche figureth the Mystical body of Christ but the Pope presumeth to bée the head Ergo hée is not the Arche Abraham gaue Tithes the Pope receyueth ergo hée is not Abraham Melchisedech hée is not for none is after the order of Melchisedech but Christ onely As Paule proueth euidently But the Pope is not Christ Ergo not Melchisedech Moreouer Melchisedech is without father or mother beginninge or ending the Pope is not Aaron ruled not ouer Kings the Pope ruleth ouer the whole world Ergo hée is not Aaron Moses ruled ouer Iurie the Pope ouer Asia Africa Europe America heauen Angels hell damned soules and the poore wretches of purgatorie Ergo c. Samuell graunted his authoritie to a securall Prince euen to Saul the pope denieth it ergo he is not Samuell Helias killed the priests of Baall the Pope promoteth suche like ergo hée is not Helias Dauid forgaue his enemies the pope reuengeth ergo he c. The Emperour Nero persecuted Peter as they write but the Pope persecuteth Emperours ergo c. Christ was anoynted of the holy ghost the Pope of men ergo he is not Christ. The 24. Obiection We haue a place out of Dauid Psal. 19. ver 4. say the Papistes which no heretique can deny Their sound is gone thorowgh the whole world In omnem terram exiuit sonus eorum The sound of our holy father and of his successours is gone through the world his pardones his legates his belles his bulles his commissions his grace his power his prerogatiue his athoritie is in euery corner of the earth I answere that this place of Dauid proueth that the merueylous workes of God as the Starres the Moone the Sun and the descryption of the heauenly bodies declare that ther is a God and bycause that Dauid expresseth the matter more effectually in his naturall toung thus he sayeth Hashamaim mesapperim Cheuod el oumaguas hiadeue magid harachiang tom leiom iabbiang omer velaiel lelaiela iecaue daguath En omer veen debarim beli nishmaug colam Be cal haharets iatsa cauam ou bictse tebel nullehem lashemesh sham ohel bahem Ve hu Cerhathā iotse mecuppatho iashis che gibbor larats orac mictse hashamaim motsao ou to couphato gual chet sotham ve en iustar me canematho Hitherto I haue repeted confuted althogh they nede no confutation they were so falsely alleged some obiections although not al which they collect out of the Scriptures or out of other probable authors Now I will note certein such absurdities as they bring out of their lawes decrées decretals out of such as haue for lucre promotiō for flatterie bestowed their time in vttering absurdities and such absurdities as do more effectually ouerthrowe deface their dooings then any of our answers or confutations can These I thought good to signifie least that any man should thinke that the tyme is euyll bestowed in writing them worse in reading and worst of all in printing Ye shall therefore vnderstand that there is nothing so abhominable nothing so absurde so vnreasonable and contrarie to all sense whiche they dare not bothe speake write printe aduouche and also defend As for example What say they though Iulius the second Pope dyd throwe Peters keyes into Tyber and swore an horribe othe that séeing they would profite nothing hée would trye what Paules swoord could doo And what though Iulius the thirde blasphemed for his
hoggos fleshe saying putano de Dio dispetto de Dio bring mée my hogges fleshe And likewyse for his Peacock when one asked why hys holynesse was so mooued hée aunswered If God caste Adam out of Paradise for eating of an Aple what would you haue mée too doo for my Peacock Is not my peacock better then an Aple And thus they aunswer such blasphemies that in that the Pope was a man hée offended but in that hée was Christes Uicegerent hée could not sinne For saye they though hee were a desperate man yet the seate and place maketh him holye Now I come to their Obiections which they alleage out of their Canons and Doctours The first Obiection HE is saye they the head of the Church that ruleth the whole world But the Pope ruleth the whole world â–ª Ergo hée is the head of the Church I denye the Minor. They proue it by Thomas the irrefragable Doctour in these woordes The Pope sayeth hée is chiefe Bishoppe For as a King ruleth his realme so doth hée the whole world and Bishoppes for his helpe and ease are ioyned in euery citie as Iudges Thom. secund secund 4.98 art 9. 4.20 art 4. What an argument is this of Thomas of Aquine Is it a good comparison to compare a subiect with a King or rather preferre him before the kinge of the Romanes 1 Where was his authoritie when Nero persecuted as they saye Peter 2 Was not Linus as they reporte the second Pope at Rome in the yeare of Christ 82 Where was his vniuersall power where was his might when hée was put to death of Saturninus the Consul of Rome who was inferiour to Vespasian being Emperour at that tyme 3 Did not Domitian kill Anacletus an 84. 4 Did not Trayane fasten an anker aboue Clementes necke and cause him to be cast into the sea anno 102. 5 Was not Euarestus murthered by the same Emperour 6 Did not Aurelianus the Liuetenant the like to Alexander an 121. 7 And was not Pius killed in the tyme of Antonius verus an 121 8 And likewise Anicete an 159. And Sother an 169. 9 And Eleutherius beheaded an 177.191 10 And Zepherinus in the tyme of the Empe. Aurelius an 220. 11 And Caâ—ixtus in the time of Seuerus apprehended beaten with clubbes cast in prison throwen out of a window headlonge and his body cast into a pitte an â—26 12 And Vrbanus at the same tyme banished and at length killed an 233. 13 And Pontianus at the same tyme was banished into Sardinia tormented afflicted and suffered death ano 239. 14 And Autherius in the tyme of the Emperour Maximinus an 243. 15 And Fabianus vnder Decius An. 250. 16 And Cornelius also anno 253. 17 and Lucius vnder Valerianus ann 255. 18 and Stephan vnder Galienus beheaded an 257. 19. Sixtus the second of that name was likewyse martyred An. 267. 20. So was Dionysius An. 277. 21. So Felix an 282. 22. So Eutichianus an 283. 23. So Caius anno 295. 24. So Marcellinus an 303. 25. So Marcellus anno 308. 26. So Eusebius an 309. 27. So Melchiades an 314. The Papistes say that all these were Popes I praye you how ruled they all the world as Thomas sayeth the Popes doo where was their auctoritie aboue all Kinges Princes Emperours and Monarches If of God or of Peter or of them selues why did they not resist why were they put too death If they had none as none they had in deede than of whom had the Popes following their power tyrannie to kill innocentes to depose Emperours to disgrade Bishoppes to rule in hell heauen earth and purgatorie to absolue à poena culpa to do what they lust to oppresse banish and murther The second Obiection Well say what you will the Pope is meruelous for hée hath his name of merueling And hée is to be wondered at bycause hée is Peters vycegerent in the earth for hee hath his name of Papae an Interiection of merueling And without doubt hée occupieth not the place of a pure man but of the true god Textus est in Codice in t corpor de transl Episcopi I answer You say that hée hath his name of Papae an Interiection of merueiling in deede the Reuelation and Paule sayeth that Antechrist when hée shall come which is the Pope shall woorke meruailes and do false myracles by Necromancie and iniquitie The third Obiection Hath he not a great preeminence when as no man neyther may nor dare aske him in any matter why he doth so De poen dist ex perso The fourth Obiection Neyther is the Pope Peters vicegerent but hee occupieth the roome that Peter occupied Gloss. in Clement vna de iure iur in verb. vicar The fifth Obiection Doo you not knowe that the Popes name is chaunged in hys Creation Consecration and enstalling that by the chaunging of the name the man may likewise bee chaunged For where hée was a pure man before now is hée become the Uicegerent of the true God as in example Who was a cruell tyraunt before is nowe chaunged and called Clemens Hée that was hurtfull is now Innocent Hée that was a maleface Boniface and so foorth of the rest Hath not the Pope both the swoordes Is not hée an heretique that breaketh the constitution of the Pope or that holdeth that the Pope is not able to make a constitution hée is a paynim that wil not obey the Pope The Pope may depose the Emperoure without a Councell yea with a cause or without a cause Stat pro ratione voluntas These Obiections are thus to bée aunswered that as none of these are conteyned in the scriptures no more are they to bée credited than fables of Homer or Ouide In chaunging their names they detect their hypocrisie who will beléeue that the chaunginge of a mans name will make an euill man a good man of a dishonest an honest Besydes this is not the Pope a man still though hée bée anoynted consecrated enstalled and entromyzed Is not an Axe an Axe though hée haue a Childes coat vppon his backe ought hée to rule the Empernur Is not hée bounde too gyue too Caesar that which is Caesars Notwithstanding one cursed Iames de Terano Chamberlayne to Vrbane the sixt Pope of that name in the yeare of Christ 1385. interpreteth this place of Luke of the Emperours before Christes passion but after that Chryste was ascendeth into heauen as victor and conquerour hée writeth thus When I shalbée lifted vp from the ground I will drawe all too my selfe that is sayeth the sayd Iames I will take away all Empire Kingdomes Iurisdictions and Dominions of the worlde from the Emperours and Kinges and gyue them too the Pope who when hée hath subdued them and brought them in subiection hée may vse the Royaltie riches gorgeous apparell and all other thinges as subiect too him This cursed Iames as Molineus termeth him is too bée condemned of treason for forging a false coyn
power aboue the Pope bicause that hée is called god as Antonius writeth tit 16. If no magistrate haue iurisdiction ouer him if no man may appeach him if he be god is he not worthy to be the head of the Church I graunt that he taketh vpon him all these tytles and so the deuel would haue done who moued Christ to sitte downe and worship him and hée would gyue to him the whole world Wherfore hée is the Abomination of desolation the childe of perdition Behemoth Bel Beliall a Dogge a Dragon a Traytour the Deuell a Théefe an Idoll a Wolfe a Serpent Leuiathan The 16. Obiection The place nor the Pope cannot erre but onely in that that hée is man but in that that hée is Christes Uicegerent hée cannot erre how saye you by this cracke mée this nutte And although that Peter Bembus calleth Alexander the sixte a murtherer and likewise Iulius the third yet wée protest that if Bembus had ben learned in our Canons and Gloses hée would not haue written so I maruayle what men meane to speake so ageynst our holy Father séeing hée can make of nothing something of iniurie iustice potest facere de nihilo aliquid de iniusticia iusticiam mutare quadrata rotundis Pauor post hoc in c. The Pope calleth himselfe to witnesse bycause there is none greater by whom hée may sweare Though Paule writeth and willeth that a Bishoppe should bée without faulte notwithstanding the Pope may dispence with him though he be an vnthrift a Ruffyan a lyer a théef a coniurer a periured man suche like Geminianus lib. 8. cap. 49. Iesu good Lord what and howe mightie a Prelate is our holy father the Pope hath not hée authoritie ouer the Aungelles in heauen and also ouer the damned soules in hell as Petrus Costus reporteth I aunswere that all these sayings are full of iniquitie and rather to bée punished by the Magistrate with the swoorde then answered with the pen. The 17. Obiection How say you to this golden sentence Sext. decret that the Pope maketh the place holy and therefore Rome is without spotte or wrincle I answer if he be an euil man he depraueth the place and that the Pope is euill his frutes do declare The 18. Obiection What if the Pope sayeth Busgradus carie all the worlde too hell with him or beléeue that there is no life to come as some did or be an homocide or a Sodomite or as blasphemous as Iulius the thirde or as euell as the deuill or if he blaspheme the virgin Mary as a ruffian as the said Iulius did we must beleue that wée must be saued by him or elles wée must be dampned without redemtion for whatsoeuer he dothe wée must beleue it as an article of our faith for who may or dare aske him why he dothe so What shall wée answere to these blasphemies they are not worthy to bée repeted to horrible to be mentioned to absurde to be confuted to vile to enter into any mans eares The xix Obiection How answer you this authentical sentence of the glose of the Prologe of the Clementines that the Pope is neither god nor man sed Neuter inter vtrunque If he be neither god nor man but neuter betwene them both than is he a monster or if he bée neither god nor man he is surely the deuel or else some Antechrist The xx Obiection Is not he the head of the Church that is better then the virgin Mary but the Pope is better then the virgin Mary Ergo hée is the head of the Church What if I should denye the Maior ye could not proue it but I will deny the Maior hée that can make him that is better then the virgin Marye is better then the virgin Marye But the Pope can make a priest which is better then the virgin Mary Ergo the Pope is better then the Uirgin Marye A priest is better then the virgin Mary in this poynt that she bare Christ but once but the priest euery daye I could answer this by the like absurditie of yours after this sorte You say that a priest can make god But hée that can make god is better then god Ergo the priest is better then god But the Pope can make a priest if the priest who is an inferiour can make god what can the Pope make who is superiour to a priest Surely a thing aboue god doth not the Pope in making of god exalt him selfe aboue god Therfore he is that man of sinne and child of perdition that is spoken of in the second to the Thessalonians cap. 2. ver 3. and .4 The 21. Obiection Hée is the head of the church that can gyue the names of dignitie and tytles to all Princes Kinges and Monarches and may crowne them But the Pope can doo this Ergo the Pope is the head of the church I denye the Minor. I proue it thus What King hath not his tytle gyuen of the Pope name one if you can To bée brief hée gaue this tytle to the Frenche King to bée Christianissimus most Christian King and to the King of England to bée Defensor fidei Defendour of the fayth I graunt hée did this but hée chalendged this authoritie falsely and then hée did as the scripture prophecied that hée should doo Exalte himselfe aboue all power The 22. Obiection Hée that curseth when and whom hée will is the head of the church But the Pope can both curse and blesse when and whom hée will. Ergo the Pope is the head of the church I denie the Minor. I proue it thus Was not England cursed by the Pope and our holy father Iulie the thixde of that name dyd of his meere mercie gyue one droppe of Christes bloode reserued at Rome to perdon England withall or rather of his holynesse and absolute power perdoned Englande In the yeare of Christ 1553. the 19. daye of October non obstantibus constitutionibus ordinationibus Apostolicis ▪ caeterisque contrarijs quibuscunque Notwithstanding the constitutiones and ordinances of the Apostles or any other whatsoeuer they bée to the contrarie Are you not ashamed to take the honour from God and gyue it to a man From the Creator and gyue it to the creature you saye that though the Apostles or any other in whiche woordes both God and Christ are conteyned dyd ordeyne and decrée the contrarie that the Popes blessing muste preuayle his iudgement stande and hée to bée all in all The 23. Obiection Pelagius many yeares agone ordeyned that the church of Rome had not her authoritie of men or of Synodes but of christ And Gregorie the seuenth Nicolas the third were more playne For they concluded that the Pope was the Supreme head without all controuersie I aunswere that by these it is manifest that it was 560. yeares after Christ before that any mencion was made of any supremacie for these twoo first forged supremacie that which was first is most
of quick and dead is either God or as good as God The Pope is Iudge both of quicke and dead Ergo the Pope is either God or as good as God. The assumption is proued in Bernerd Lutzenburge a Fryer of great learning in the Scriptures and in Extra qui filij sunt legittimi C. per venera Ext de sententia Excom C. a nobis et 24. q. 2. Papa constitutus est iudex viuorum et mortuorum I aunswer He that is to bée iudged in the laste day is not the Iudge of the quick and dead But the Pope is to be iudged in the last day Ergo he is not the iudge of the quick and dead Obiection He that can prohibite matrimonie is aboue Christ The Pope can prohibite matrimonie Ergo the Pope is aboue Christ. Protasis is proued by Mathew the â—9 ver 6. Prochiphis or Chimma in extra vagant de conuersi Symperaga is euident of thother the Sillogisme is in Darij I aunswer He that prohibiteth Matrimonie is an Infidele and hath the spirite of errour The Pope prohibiteth Matrimonie Ergo the Pope is an Infidele and hath the Spirit of errour therfore Antechrist The first proposition is proued by Paule the .1 Tim. cap. 4. verse 1.2.3 The Sumption or assumption the Pope affirmeth in his Cannon Law as I haue alledged before and the conclusion is manifest and the Silogisme is in Darij Obiection That which other men are the Pope is not Other men are synners Ergo the Pope is none I aunswer That which other men are the Pope is not Other men are Christians Ergo the Pope is none ¶ An Interpretation of the place of Paule 2. to the Thess. 2. which describeth Antechrist I meane the Pope Except there come a departing first THEODORET calleth this departing Antechrist who shall seduce the world and drawe men from the trueth Who is the man of sinne which vsurpeth all the aucthoritie of the diuel and the operation of whom is the childe of perdition bicause hée destroyeth himselfe and others He shall sitte in the Temple of God which is mens myndes and shall sitte the highest in all assembles councells and places and shew himselfe as a God and shall call him the god Moasim a strong stoute and mightie God some vnderstand this departing too bée when the Romaine Empyre béegan too decaye in the tyme of the Emperour Heraclius when the Turkes and Saracenes departed from the Romaine Empyre vnto Mahuemite and folowed the superstition vaneties and subtyle sect of the great Turke Augustinus confesseth his ignoraunce in the vnderstanding of this place Notwithstanding saieth hée some meane by Antechrist the whole bodye of sinne the whole malygnant Churche with theyr Captayne Antechrist and so sitte in the Church as though he were the onely Church and now ye know what withholdeth and what is the cause of his delaye and why that this pestilent membre of Satan doth not apeare euen the Romain Gmpire letteth for tyll it béegin to deminishe he shall not vtter himselfe by the misterie of iniquitie some vnderstande Nero some Heresies by him that witholdeth some vnderstand the Romaine Empire as Ambrose and others as I sayd before some the grace of God and the might of his spirit some gods appointment and decrée who assigned Antechrists tyme but Theodoret vnderstandeth it of the Gospell which must be preached ouer all the world Christs Religion published euery where adolatrie vanquished false doctrine detected superstition abolished and then shall Antechrist appeare Christ shall subdue this Tyraunt with the rodde and teath of his mouth Esai 11. verse .4 euen by his woorde and by godly men expert in his Lawe The body of sinne is Antechrist false prophets and false Christs Math. 7. verse .15 cap. 24. verse .24 Théeues and robbers Iohn the 10. verse .1 Antechrists kingdome coÌ„sisteth in ambition domination arrogancie false doctrine fables visions reuelations pardones and such other abhominations The abhomination of desolotion is knowen by notes of Antechrist false doctrine in this host and that host and in euery Alter with his naturall bodye He is knowen by Tyrannye by all manner of myscheife he is the man of sinne for he doth not only sinne himselfe but also causeth other to sinne For the Pope sayeth that if he sel the whole world he selleth but his owne or if he cary innumerable sorte of soules to hell with him there may no man aske him why he doth so He is the childe of perdition and man of sinne bicause that he is a man in déede and in mans nature and taketh vppon him the operation of the deuill for God elected Christ who in his humain nature should redeme vs and bring vs to saluation euen so doth the deuel choose a very man who should supplant seduce peruert and destroy calling himselfe Christ and God and aduouching theÌ„ to be false gods whome before he reuerenced as true gods The Temple of GOD he calleth Christs Church and congregation where he will vsurpe the highest seate and place boasting himselfe for God. Antechrist shall neither be deuell nor féende but a very man in whome shall dwell whoie Satan bodely He sitteth in the Church of God as God he shall persecute the godly chaunge the Lawes of God and eealt himselfe aboue GOD and compell all men all Lawes all Regions to be subiect to his authoritie He shal feigne chastetie and contynencie to deceiue men withall Gregorye the fyrst of that name calleth him the forerunner of Antechrist who taketh vppon him to be an vniuersall priest bicause in pride and presumption hée preferreth him selfe before others but this doth the Pope Therfore he is Antechrist Gregorie calleth him Antechrist who sendeth out his preachers to teache that the Sabboth day or Sunday ought not to bée laboured vppon and to folowe the Iewes in obseruing the rites of the law and so cause the Sabboth to bée reuerenced But the Pope doth this Ergo the Pope is Antechriste After that Iohn in his Reuelation had described the firste beaste whiche was the Romaine Empire to bée a defacer of Christe and a persecuter of the Christians hée inferreth the second beast too come out of the earth souoring of earthly things and hauing two hornes as the Lambe of Christ had the one horne is the worldly kingdome of the Pope which consisteth in vsurping For he called himselfe a king and not only a king but also created kings Emperours and deposed them The other horne is the priesthode of the Pope For he hath authoritie in heauen and earth and therfore hath two keys the one for Heauen gates the other for hell gates Two swordes the one to subdue the Emperours withall the other to rule the Clergie He and his giue the holy Ghost and grace and therefore in auriculer confession in his pardones in making of priests He speaketh like a Dragon euen like the deuell who seduced Adam and made him offend against all the commaundements
He doth graunt miracles hée maketh fire too discend from Heauen By fyer is vnderstanded the holy Ghost and the Pope promiseth to giue the holy ghost in giuing of orders saying Receiue ye the holy ghost Moreouer there is no sinne so horrible no offence so greuous which he will not forgiue for money By Fyer may be vnderstand his thundering boult of Cursing and Excommunication whereby he did strike the Monarches Princes and Kings of the earth He that will not worshippe the Image of the beast which is the dominion prerogatiue and authoritie of the Pope shalbée murthered by him and his proctors The Image of the beast is his aucthoritie ceremonies candells Sacramentes Hosts Wafecakes Housling Priests Friers Nonnes Monkes Hermetes Religious men Purgatorie Pardones Penitentiaries Curtesanes Masses Dirges Abbotts Beades Beaderos Crosses Coniurings holy Bread holy Water holy Salte Palmes holy Blood of Hayles prayers for the dead Limbus patrum Limbus puerorum praying to Saincts Superstition Idolatrie Images Idolles Pilgremages Rosaries Ladies Psalters and Regine coelorum Aue Maria stella Bulles Extreame vnction I will so plainly declare the nature of Antichrist and in such sorte that you shall vnderstande that the Pope muste néedes bée Antichrist There were onely six Monarchies from the deluge to the ende of the Worlde The first the Assirians the second the Babylonians or the Chaldes the thyrd the Medes or Persians the fourth the Grecians or Macedonians the fift the Romains and Germans the sixt is the Pope and the Emperour which were diuided out of the whole Romayne Empyre before it was diminished Daniel doth not touch the Empire of the Assirians for it was past before his tyme and this Image was séene at Babilone What néeded any Prophecie of a thinge that is past Neither is there any Prophesie of a thing that is past but of a thinge too come And therefore sayeth Daniel God shall shevv to the King things to come The head of this Image signifyeth the Monarchy of the Chaldes and Babylonians The siluer breast and armes the Medes or Persians The Belly and Thighes of brasse the Gresians or Macedonians The Legges of Yron were the Romans who subdued al the world The foote of Yron signifieth the Pope who breketh the power of the Emperour as yron doth the clay for the Pope had all Europe at his commaundement hée crouned Emperoures and hee deposed them he warred against them and subdued them hée possessed Italy and thrust the Emperour into Germany Let vs declare how the Pope who is signified by the féete of yron did subdue the Emperour who was named by the foote of claye Gegory the fyrst Pope of that name in the yeare of Christ .600 wryteth that it had bin offered diuers tymes that the Pope of Rome myght haue called the vniuersall Byshop but none of them would take it vpon them or vse that word and title Notwithstanding the same Gregory inuehing against Iohn the Patriarcht of Constantinople who would haue bene called the vniuersall Bishopp signifieth to the Emperour Mauritius and to his wife Augusta that Rome should chalenge that honor and Superioritie and that it was iniquitie to depriue the successour of Peter of that honor considering that it was sayd to Peter thou art Peter Et super hanc petram aedificabo Ecclesiam meam Wherin Gregorie offended duble first in misunderstanding or rather peruerting the place and wordes of Christ meaning by the rocke Peter when as Christ is the rocke and Peter but a member deriued from the rocke as of Christ Christians secondly that hée gaue occasion to his successoures to chalenge and aspire to that superioritie and dignitie Cursed Phocas in the yere of Christ .605 killed the good Emperour Mauritius with his wife and children and at the request of Boniface made the seate of Rome the cheife seate of all churches and that the Pope of Rome should bée preferred before all others And although that Phocas a most damnable Emperour who killed his Master and Emperoure Mauritius gaue this preminence to the pope of Rome notwithstāding he could not be elected without the assent of the Emperour of Constantinople the Exarch of Italy of the people of Rome Constantinus the 4. Emperor of that name graunted to Benedictus the second Pope of that name in the yeare of Christ .685 that the Pope might be elected without the assent of the Emperour of Constantinople or the Exarch of Itly only by the Clergie and people And in the yeare of Christ .1063 in a counsell at Mantua where Berengarius was compelled to recant his opinion of the Sacrament it was decréed that the Pope should bée only elected of the Cardinalles without assent of any others now began the Popes to do all to rule all compell all Emperoures Kinges and Princes to their orders and to bée subiect to them Gregory the 3. Pope of that name about the yeare of Christ .695 resisted the Emperour of the east Leo the .3 who had caused al maner of Images to be pulled downe and burned and them that would not do it to suffer death This Gregory resisted this excommunicated Leo this caused the Images to be more worshipped then euer they were Pope Zacharias in the yeare of Christe .743 caused the King of Fraunce called Chilpericus to be made a Monke and placed one Pipin by the meanes of the nobles of Fraunce and made him king who enriched the Pope Thus Zacherias the Pope with his successor Stephen the second Pope of that name dyd pardon and absolue Pipinus with the rest of the nobilitie of Fraunce of their othe obediēce which they ought to the king Chilpericus lately deposed This Stephen did first ordain that he his successors shold be born of mens shoulders Carolus magnus succeded his sonne Pipinus in the yeare of Christ .800 was created crouned Emperour by Leo the third Pope of that name Ludouicus succeded his Father Carolus in the empire of the west enriched the pope Paschalis his successors exceadingly For he with his grandfather Pipinus his father Carolus gaue to the Popes aboue .60 Ylands Countries Cities shires Towns dominions prouinces which are repeted in Campanus others Otho magnus the Emperour of the Germains in the yere of Christ 938. gaue all these that his predecessors had giuen to the pope for his soules health for his sonnes soule for his forefathers souls After this time the pope toke vpon him al worldly dominion power also of heauē hell purgatory No man may iudge the Pope nor his doings Causa 9. quest 3. C. patet The pope may iudge all none the Pope Neither may any man dispute of his doings .17 quest 4. c. si quis suade Dist. 79. c. extremo What if the Pope shold corrupt many by his example Pope Boniface answereth this dist 40.4 si Papa If the Pope shall cary innumerable people by