Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	peter_n	pope_n	successor_n	2,110	5	8.9988	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07858	The hunting of the Romish foxe Presented to the popes holines, with the kisse of his disholy foote, as an odoriferous & redolent posie verie fit for his grauitie, so often as he walketh right stately, in his goodly pallace Bel-vidêre.	Bell, Thomas, fl. 1593-1610.	1598 (1598)	STC 1823; ESTC S101468	27,735	82

scrutetur perspicatius textum ac contextum scripturae si quadrare inuenerit laudet Deum qui non alligauit expositionem scripturarum sacrarum priscorum doctorum sensibus sed scripturae ipsi integrae sub catholicae ecclesiae censurae alioquin spes nobis ac posteris tolleretur exponendi scripturam sacram nisi transferendo vt ainnt de libro in quinternum If at any time a new sense occurre which is consonant to the text not dissonāt frō holy writt or doctrine of the Church although it swarne from the opinion of neuer so many fathers yet let the Readers iudge there of indifferentlye and according to equitie Let them remember to giue to euerie one his right because this priuiledge is onelie graunted to the writers of the holy scriptures that we must therfore beleue it to be so because they haue written so Let none therfore loath a newe sense of holie scripture because it dissenteth from the old Doctors but let him exactly consider the text and context of the scripture and if he find it to agree let him praise God who hath not tyed the exposition of the holy scriptures to the opinions of the olde Doctors but to the integritie of the scripture it selfe vnder the censure of the Catholique Church For otherwise neither we nor our posterities shall haue any hope to expound the scripture but onely to translate out of one booke into another Thus we heare the crye of a well mouthed hound to wit the verdict of our learned Caictain our great Thomist our religious fryer our Cardinall of Rome By whose graue resolution well worthy to be written in golden letters it is euident to euery child that no sense though neuerso new no exposition though neuer so strange no opinion though different from neuer so many fathers must or ought to be reiected if it be agreable to the holy scriptures And consequently it followeth by the said resolution that euerie trueth is to be tryed by the scriptures and none at all by the fathers Melchior Canus an other learned papist is of the selfe same opinion These are his expresse wordes Vbi ego si Thomistae omnes cum Scotist is existant si cum antiquis iuniores vellent contra me pugnare tamen superior sim necesse est non enim vt nōnulli putant omnia sunt in the logorum authoritate Wherein though all the Thomistes stand with the Scotists though the olde writers with the younge fight against me yet shall I of necessitie haue the vpper hande ouer them For all thinges doe not as some thinke rest in the authoritie of diuins And why shoulde any man depende vpon the iudgement of men seeing O Pope thine owne sweete Iesuite Bellarmine doth tell vs plainely that all Bishops doe so dissent among themselues and so swarue from the truth of the scripturs as he knoweth not in the worlde whom to followe These are his expresse wordes At sine dubio singuli episcopi errare possunt aliquando errant inter se quaudoque dissentiunt vt nesciamus quisnam eorum sequendus sit But without all doubt all Byshops may erre one after an other and they sometime doe erre and sometime dissent one from an other so as we cannot in the worlde tell whome it is best to followe Out of these wordes I note first that God who caused Balaams Asse to speake hath enforced our Iesuite against his will to confesse the truth I note secondly that there is no Bishoppe in the worlde but he both may erre and sometime doth erre and consequently that the Pope of Rome is eyther no Bishoppe at all by his owne Iesuites graunt or else that he both may erre and doth erre in deede Of which testimonie I make the the greater account because it proceedeth from a Iesuites mouth For none more forcible weapons can be vsed against the papistes then to beate them with their owne swordes I note thirdlie that by our Iesuites confession euerie Bishoppe hath so manie errours that the people cannot tell whom to followe I note fourthlie that since euerie auncient father both may erre and doth erre and that by popish grant there is no reason why the papistes shoulde vrge vs as they doe to stande to the censure of the fathers in euerie thing Nay they ought to giue vs leaue to examine their writinges Ad amussim scripturarum according to the true meaning of the scriptures because the greate papistes Caietanus Canus and Bellarminus doe all three graunte the same as is alreadie prooued Adde heereunto the sente of the nexte hounde The 16. Hound TEll me O Pope doest not thou take awaye all freedome and libertie graunted of olde time to all assemblies and synodes Doest not thou denie voyces and definitiue sentence to all persons in all counsels euen to the Emperour himselfe admitting none though neuer so learned but Bishoppes onely to iudge of doubtes in faith or religion doest not thou absente thy selfe from all counsels and yet reseruest all iudgement to thy selfe sitting in thy chaire at home doest thou not with all this take thy Bishops sworne euen when they are made Bishops to defende thy papall Tyranny and lawes whatsoeuer I wote it is so and I haue proued it in my booke of Motiues I will neuerthelesse in this place briefely shewe the same by the testimonie of three Romish Houndes The first hounde is Gregorie who was himselfe the late Bishoppe of Rome His expresse words in his decreetals are these Ego N. episcopus ab hac hora sidelis ero S. Petro sanctaeque Romanae ecclesiae dominoque meopapae N. eiusque successoribus Canonicè intrantibus sequitur papatum Romanae ecclesiae regulas sanctorum patrum adiutor ero ad defendendum retinndum contra omnes homines sic me Deus adiuuet haec sancta euangelia I Iohn Fisher Bishoppe will from this day forwarde be faithfull to saint Peter and to the holy Church of Rome and to my Lorde Boniface the Pope and to his successours chosen canonicallie and I will bee an helper to defende the popedome or papall authoritie and the rules of the holie fathers against all people so God me helpe and the holie Gospell Out of these wordes it may be easilie gathered that the decrees of late Romish counsels are in these our daies of no force at all The reason is euident because none but Bishops haue definitiue voyces in the saide counselles neyther can the saide Bishops decree any thing against eyther the Pope or the Church of Rome For as we see by the Popes tyrannicall constitution nowe alledged all Bishops are sworne to be faithfull to my Lorde the Pope and to defend whatsoeuer he hath set downe against all people in the worlde Te second hound is Bellarmine our Romish Iesuite whose expresse wordes are these Istum iuramentum non tollit Episcoporum libertatem quae in conciliis necessaria est iurant

enim se fore obediētes summo Pontifici quod intelligitur donec Pontifex est dum iubet ea quae secundum Deum sacras canones iubere potest sed non iuràt se nō dicturos quod sentiunt in concilio vel se non deposituros ei● si haeretioū esse conuincant This oth taketh not away the liberty of Bishopps which in counsels is necessarie For they sweare that they will be obedient to the Pope which is to be vnderstood so long as he is Pope and while hee commaundeth those thinges which he may commaund agreeable to God and the holy cannons but they sweare not that they will not speake what they thinke in the counsell or that they will not depose him if they proue him to be an heretique Out of these wordes of the Iesuite I note first that he sawe right well that this oth bringeth no small discredite to the late Romish religion in regarde whereof hee seeketh many shiftes to saue the Popes credite if it might bee I note secondly that all clergie-men admitted to giue voyces in counsels are sworne wholy to obey the Popes constitutions I note thirdly that the said persons are sworne to beleeue that the Pope cannot erre in his iudiciall decrees of faith or manners that no counsels are of force without the Popes confirmation that all counsels confirmed by him are approued by the holy Ghost that he can excommunicate and depose all Emperours Kinges Queenes and Bishops in the Christian worlde that hee can deliuer by his free pardons all soules out of purgatorie and a thousand other thinges of like homelie qualitie for all such matters are contayned in the Popes holie holie cannons and consequently in their most lamentable othe I note fourthlye that they are sworne to admitte his decrees who as they beleeue may be an heretique I note fiftlye that they are sworne to admit his iudgement in all matters of faith whome yet them selues maye iudge and depose for heresie Fie fie vpon all filthy popery I note sixtly that the popish fundamentall article in appointing the Pope iudge ouer all controuersies is quite ouerthrowne turned vpside downe in this Bellarminus his explication For when hee saieth while he commaundeth c. he granteth euery Bishop freedome to examine and to iudge of the Popes cōstitutions Which libertie if they would constantly performe all true christians would agree with them For none that beleeue rightly in God will deny obedience to the Pope When soeuer he preacheth or teacheth any thing which is ag●eeable to God holy cannons But true christians finding his canons to be disholy his decrees to be against God thinke as Bellarmine heere teacheth them that they may iudge his bad dealing and are not bound to obey him The thirde hound is Melchior Canus whose expresse wordes are these Decreta quoe a legatis contra sedis apostolicae traditionem apprebentur non habent Romanae ecclesiae authoritatem nec aliter se habent quam si a consilio sine legatis prodijssent Sequitur solidam auctoritatem quam in confirmandis fratribus dogmatibus Petrus habet in legatos transferre non potest The decrees which the legates shall approue against the tradition of the Church of Rome haue no authoritie from the Church of Rome neither are they of any more force then if they had proceeded from the counsell without consent of the Legates The sound authority which Peter hath in confirming his brethren and decrees he can not transferre vnto his Legates Thus writeth Canus that great piller of Popishe Doctrine Out of whose wordes I note first that decrees of counsels be of no force without consent of the Popes Legates I note secondly that the decrees of counsels euen when they haue the consent of the Legates are for all that of no force when the Legates condiscend to any thing against the Popes minde I note thirdly that the Pope cannot giue or translate his authoritie to the legates and consequently that the Pope doth no little abuse the whole world when he calleth together all Byshoppes in the world and yet will allowe nothinge that they do vnlesse it be the same that he decreth in his chaire at home The 17 Hound TEll me O precursor of Antichrist if thou be not that Antichrist himselfe doest not thou take vpon thee to depose Kings and to dispossesse them of their Scepters and regalities doest not thou chalenge authoritie to make Kings doest not thou tell them that they haue not their power from God but through thee and thy meanes I wote it is so thy domicican Fryer Syluester reprooueth it thy Iesuite Bellermine confirmeth it and thy sworne Vassals Campion Ballard and their complices did put the same in execution Syluester hath these expresse wordes nec obstat quod potestas imperialis est adeo concessa secundum multa iura quia est a deo mediante Papa quia eam concedit non vt homo sed vt vicarius dei Nec sunt sic distinctae potestates spiritualis scilicet temporal●s quin vna alteri subaliernetur ad instar solis Lunae nec sunt distinctae quasi semper sint in diuersis sed quia sunt ordinata ad distincta scilicet spiritualia temporalia in vno eodemque summo pontifice est vtraque in summo It skilleth not that many lawes affirme imperiall power to be of GOD. For it is but from GOD by the Popes meanes who granteth it not as man but as the Vicar of GOD. Neither are the two powers the spirituall and the temporall so disti●ct but that they remaine subordinate the one to the other after the resemblance of the Sunne the Moone Neither are they distinct as being alwaies in diuers subiectes but as ordeyned to distinct thinges spirituall and temporall For they both are in one and the same Pope euen in the highest degree These wordes gentle Reader neede no interpretation they are full of open blasphemie as all that haue eyes may see Bellerminus hath these wordes Childericum deposuit Papa in eius locum Pipinum Caroli magni patrem regem creari iussit The Pope deposed Childericus and commaunded to place Pipinus father to Charles the great in his throne Againe in an other place the same Bellermine hath these expresse wordes at si isti ijdem principes conantur auertere populū a fide omnium consensu possunt debent priuari suo dominio But if these princes goe about to auerte the people from the faith of the Church of Rome for so he meaneth then by the consent of all they may and must be dispossessed of their scepters Regalities Againe in the second Chapter he saith thus quod si Christiani elim non deposuerunt Neronem Dioclesianum Iulianum apostatam ac valentem Arianū similes id fuit quia deerant vires temporales Christianis If the