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A03691	An ansvveare made by Rob. Bishoppe of VVynchester, to a booke entituled, The declaration of suche scruples, and staies of conscience, touchinge the Othe of the Supremacy, as M. Iohn Fekenham, by vvrytinge did deliuer vnto the L. Bishop of VVinchester vvith his resolutions made thereunto.	Horne, Robert, 1519?-1580.; Feckenham, John de, 1518?-1585.	1566 (1566)	STC 13818; ESTC S104234	173,274	272

Augustine or rather of Christes catholique Churche vttered by hym againste the Donatistes touching the Seruice authoritie power and care that kynges haue or ought to haue in causes spirituall or ecclesiasticall the whiche is also the iudgement of Christes catholique Church now in these dayes mainteined and defended by the true mynisters of the same catholique Churche againste all Popishe Donatistes with the force of Gods holy woorde bothe of the olde and new Testament euen as S. Augustine did before Who to prooue and confirme this his assertion to bee true against the Donatistes did auouche many mo examples than I haue cited out of the olde Testament As of the kyng of Niniue of Darius Nabuchodonozor others affirmyng that the histories and other testimonies cited for this matter out of the olde Testament are partly figures and partly prophecies of the power duety and seruice that kynges should owe and perfourme in like sorte to the furtherance of Christes Religion in the time of the new Testament The Donatistes in the defence of their heresy restrayned S. Augustine to the example and testimony of such like order of Princes Seruice in matters of Religion to be founde in the Scriptures of the new Testament meanyng that it could not be found in any order that Christe lefte behynde hym as you also fantasied when you wrote the same in your booke folowyng yea going euen cheeke by cheeke with them But S. Augustine maketh aunswere to you all for hym and me bothe Who rehcarsing the actes of the godly kynges of the olde Testament taketh this for a thyng not to be denied to wytte That the auncient actes of the godly kinges mentioned in the Propheticall bookes were figures of the like factes to be doon by the godly Princes in the time of the newe Testament And although there was not in the tyme of the Apostles nor of long tyme after any kynges or princes that put the same ordinaunce of Christ in practise all beynge infideles for the most part Yeat the seruice of kinges was figured as S. Augustine saieth in Nabuchodonozor and others to be put in practice when this of 71. Psalme should be fulfilled and all the kinges of the earth shall worshippe Christ and all nations shall serue him c. As yet in the Apostles time this prophecy sayth he was not fulfilled and now ye kinges vnderstande be learned ye that iudge the earth and serue the Lorde in feare with reuerence VVhen the christian Emperours and Princes saieth this catholique father shall heare that Nabuchodonozor after he had seen the marueilous power of almighty God in sauing the three younge men from the violence of the fire walking therin without hurt was so astonied at the miracle that he him selfe being before this but a cruell Idolatour began forthwith vpon this wonderous sight to vnderstande and serue the Lorde with reuerent feare Doo not they vnderstande that these thinges are therefore writen and recited in the Christian assemblies that these shoulde be examples to them selues of faith in God to the furtherance of Religion These Christian rulers therfore minding according to the admonition of the Psalme to vnderstande to be learned and to serue the Lord with reuerent feare do very attētiuely giue eare and marke what Nabuchodonozor after said for he saieth the Prophet made a decree or statute for all the people that were vnder his ●beissance that who so euer shuld after the publicatiō thereof speake any blasphemy against the almighty they should suffer death and their Goodes be confiscate Now if the Christian Emperours and kinges doo know that Nabuchodonozor made this decree against the blasphemers of God surely they cast in their myndes what they are bounde to decree in their kingdomes to witte that the selfe same God and his Sacramentes be not lightly set by and contemned Thus farre S. Augustin By whose iudgement being also the iudgement of the catholique church it is manifest y t the order rule and gouernement in Ecclesiasticall causes practised by the kynges of the olde Testament beynge figures and prophesies of the lyke gouernement and seruice to be in the kynges vnder the newe Testament is the order of gouernment that Christ left behynde him in the Ghospell and newe Testament and so directlye confuteth your erronious opinion Nowe I wyll conclude on this sorte that whiche I affirmed namely that kynges and Princes ought to take vpon them gouernement in Ecclesiasticall causes What gouernement orde and dutifulnes so euer belongyng to any God hath figured and promysed before hande by his Prophetes in the holy Scriptures of the old Testament to be perfourmed by Christe and those of his kyngdome that is the gouernement order and dutifulnes set foorth and required in the Ghospel or newe Testament But that faithfull Emperours Kynges and Rulers ought of dutie as belongynge to their office to claime and take vpon them the gouernement authoritie power care and seruice of God their Lorde in matters of Religion or causes Ecclesiasticall was an order and dutifulnes for them prefigured and fore promysed of God by his Prophetes in the Scriptures of the olde Testament as S. Augustine hath sufficiētly witnessed Ergo. Christian Emperours Kynges and Rulers owe of dutie as belonging to their office to clayme and take vpon them the gouernement authoritie power care and seruice of God their Lorde in matters of Religion or Spirituall or Ecclesiasticall causes is the gouernement order and dutifulnes set forth and required in the Ghospell or newe Testament This that hath been already sayd myght satisfie any man that erreth of simple ignoraunce But for that your wilfulnes is suche that you delight only in wranglinge against the truthe appeare it to you neuer so playne and that no weyght of good proufes can presse you you are so slippery I wyll loade you with heapes euen of suche proufes as ye wyll seeme desirous to haue The holy Ghost describing by the Prophete Esay what shalbe the state of Christes Church in the time of the new Testament yea now in these our daies for this our time is the time that the Prophet speaketh of as S. Paule witnesseth to the Corinthians addeth many comfortable promises amongest other maketh this to Christes Catholique Church to witte Kinges shalbe Nourshing Fathers and Quéenes shalbe thy nources Nourishing Fathers saith the glose enterlined In lacte verbi In the mylke of the woorde meaninge Goddes woorde Lyra addeth This prophecy is manifestly fulfilled in many Kinges and Queenes who receiuing the Catholique Faith did feede the poore faithfull ones c. And this reuerence to be done by Kinges saith Lyra was fulfilled in the time of Constantine and other Christian Kinges Certainely Constantine the Emperour shewed him selfe to vnderstād his owne duety of nourishing Christes Church appointed by God in his Prophecy for he like a good tender and faithful Nourcefather did kéepe defende mainteine vpholde and féede the poore faithfull ones of Christ he hare them beinge

AN ANSVVEARE Made by Rob. Bishoppe of VVynchester to a Booke entituled THE DECLARATION OF SVCHE Scruples and staies of Conscience touchinge the Othe of the Supremacy as M. Iohn Fekenham by vvrytinge did deliuer vnto the L. Bishop of VVinchester vvith his Resolutions made thereunto DEC C. 23. Q. 5. Let the Princes of the worlde knowe that they of duetie shal rendre an accompte to God for the Church whiche they haue taken of Christe to praeserue For whether the Peace and Discipline of the Churche be encreased by faithfull Princes or it be loosed he dooth exacte of them an accompte who hath deliuered his Churche to be committed to their power Imprinted at London in Fleetstreate at the signe of the Oliphante by Henry VVykes Anno. 1566. The Praeface IT is nowe an whole yéere paste since I herde of a booke secretely scattered abroade by M. Fekenham emonge his fréendes And in April laste I came by a copie therof When I had redde the booke and perceiued bothe the matter and the maner of the mannes dooynges therein I sawe his proofes so sclendre and his maner of dealinge so shameles that I stoode in doubte what to doo whether to discouer the man by writinge or to shake him of with silence If I had not séene a further meaninge in his settinge foorth and publishinge the booke then he durste plainely vtter or then his cunninge coulde by any meanes Answeare vnto or then that I with a good conscience mought haue neglected I woulde haue paste it ouer with silence as a péece of woorke not woorthie of Answeare But séeing the chiefe ende and principall purpose intended as may be iustly gathered in publishyng the booke was to ingrafte in the mindes of the subiectes a mislikyng of the Quéenes Maiestie as though she vsurped a power and authoritie in Ecclesiasticall matters whereto she hath no righte to sclandre the whole Realme as though it were stranged and directly against the Catholike Churche renouncinge and refusinge to haue Communion therewith And vndre my name to deface the mynisters of Christes Churche I coulde not choose oneles I woulde wilfully neglect my duetie to her Maiestie shewe my selfe ouermuch vnkinde vnto my natiue Countrey and altogeather become carelesse of the Churche Mynisterie but take penne in hande and shape him a ful and plaine answeare without any curiositie Wherein I folowe the order of M. Fekenhams booke I make the proofes accordyng to his request and besides my proofes foorth of the Scriptures the auncient Doctours the Generall councelles and Nationall I make proofe by the continuall practice of the Churche in like gouernement as the Quéenes Maiestie taketh vpon her and that by suche Authors for a great sort of them as are the more to be credited in this matter for that they were moste earnest fautours of the Romishe sea infected as the times weare with muche superstition and did attribute vnto the sea of Rome and so to the whole Cleargie so muche authoritie in Churche matters as they mighte and muche more then they ought to haue done Their iudgementes and sentences shall appeare in readinge by the forme of letter for leuinge foorth the Latine to auoide tediousnes I haue put into English the Authours mindes and sentences and caused them for the moste parte to be Printed in Latine letters that the English reader may know and decerne the Authours sayinges from mine If this that I haue done woorke that effect in the Englishe Reader whiche he ought to séeke and I doo wishe I haue wonne that I wrought for but otherwise let men saie and iudge what they liste I haue discharged my conscience and shewed the trueth Anno Domini 1565. Feb. 25. Rob. Wynchester AN ANSVVEARE TO Maister Io. Fekenham Maister Fekenham The declaracion of such scruples and stayes of conscience touchyng the Othe of Supremacie as M. Iohn Fekenham by vvritinge did deliuer vnto the L. Bisshop of VVinchester vvith his resolutions made thereunto The Bisshop of Wynchester THe proprety of him that meaneth to declare rightly any matter doone is to set foorth the trueth without malice to obserue the due circumstances of the matter persones times and to vse simple plainesse without guileful ambiguities This Title is so replenisshed with vntrue reporte ambiguous sleightes without the note of any necessary circūstance y t there is not almost one true woorde therein wherby you geue at the first a taste to the indifferent reader what he must looke for in the sequele You pretende and would haue your friendes to thinke that the first fower chiefe pointes set foorth in your booke were deuised by you put in writing and so deliuered vnto me as the matter and grounde whereuppon the conference to be had betwixt me you should stande And that I made therunto none other but suche resolucions as it hath pleased you vntruely to report In the first parte you conueigh an vntrueth vnder a coulorable and ambiguous meaning in these woordes as M. Iohn Fekenham by vvritinge did deliuer vnto the L. Bisshop of VVynchester In the other parte you make an vntrue reporte without any coloure at all I doo graunt and will not denie that you deliuered to me a booke whiche I thanke God I haue to shewe whereby to disprooue you The same will declare the time when the place where the occasion wherefore the personnes to whome the booke was written and what is the matter in generall therein conteyned Whereunto must be added at what time the same was deliuered vnto me vpon what occasion and to what ende All whiche circumstances you omitte in your booke published least you shoulde haue bewrayed your selfe and haue appeared in your owne likenesse The booke by you deliuered vnto me touchinge the Othe was writen in the Tower of London as you your selfe confessed and the true title thereof doth plainely testifie in y e time of the Parliament holden Anno quinto of the Q. Maiestie Ianuarij 12. at whiche time you litle thought to haue soiourned with me the winter followinge much lesse meante to deliuer me the scruples and staies of your conscience in writinge to be resolued at my handes And although you woulde haue it seeme by that you haue published abroade that the cause why you wrote was to be resolued at my hande yet the trueth is as you your selfe reported that you your Towerfellowes hearinge that the Statute mooued for the assuraunce of the Quéenes royall power would passe be established did conceiue that immediatly after the same session Commissioners should be sente vnto you to exact the othe Wheruppon you to be in some areadines to withstande and refuse the duetie of a good subiect not without healpe of the rest as may be gathered deuised the matter conteyned in the booke committed the same to writinge and purposed to haue deliuered it for your aunsweare touchinge the Othe of the Supremacie to the Commissioners if they had come This may appeare by the title of that booke that you firste

coastes vnto a generall Councell in his letters of Sommons to Donus but committed to Agatho Bishoppe of Rome Donus beinge dead he admonisheth him of the contētion betwixt the sea of Rome and Constantinople he exhorteth him to laie aside all strife feruencie and malice and to agrée in the trueth with other addinge this reason For God loueth the trueth and as Chrysostome saithe He that wilbe the chiefest amongst all he must be mynister vnto all by whiche reason made by the Emperour it may séeme that the pride of those twoo seates striuinge for superioritie and supremacie was a great nourishment of the Schisme whiche was chiefly in outwarde shewe onely for doctrine He protesteth that he will shew him selfe indifferent without parcialitie to any parte or faction onely séeking as God hath appointed him to keepe the Faith that he had receiued wholy and without blotte He exhorteth and commaundeth the Bishoppe of Rome not to be an hinderaunce but to further this Councell with sendinge suche as are fitte for suche purpose The Bishoppe of Rome obeyeth the Emperours commaundement And the like letters the Emperour sendeth to George Bishoppe of Constantinople and others The Emperour sat in the councell him selfe as President and moderatour of all that action hauinge on his right hande a greate companie of his Nobles and of his Bishoppes on his lefte hande And whan the holy Ghospelles was broughte foorth and laide before them as the iudges whose sentence they ought to followe as it was also wonte to be doone in the forenamed Councelles The deputies for the Bishoppe of Rome standeth vp and speaketh vnto the Emperour in moste humble wise callinge him moste benigne Lorde affirminge the Apostolike seate of Rome to be subiect vnto him as the seruaunt vnto the Maister and beséechinge him that he will commaunde those that tooke parte with the Bishoppe of Constantinople whiche had in times paste brought in newe kindes of speache and erronious opinions to shewe from whence they receiued their newe deuised Heresies The Emperour commaundeth Macarius Archebishoppe of Antioche and his side to answeare for them selues And after diuerse requestes made by him to the Emperour and graunted by the Emperour vnto him the Emperour commaundeth the Synode to staie for that time In the next session after the selfe same order obserued as in the firste Paulus the Emperours Secretarie beganne to put the Councell in remembraunce of the former daies procéedinge The Emperour commaundeth the Actes of the Chalcedon Councell to bée brought foorth and redde At length whan a manifest place was alledged out of Leo the Pope the Emperour him selfe disputed with Macarius on the vnderstandinge thereof The Secretary hauinge offered the bookes of the fifte Councell the Emperour commaundeth the Notary to reade them The Notary beganne to reade and within a while the Popes Legates risinge vp cried out this Booke of the fifte Synode is falsified and there alledged a reason thereof wherewith the Emperour and the iudges beynge mooued beganne to looke more narrowly to the booke and espyinge at the laste that three quaternions was thruste into the beginninge the Emperour commaunded it shoulde not be redde Note here that the Popes Legates were but the plaintife parties in this Councell and not the Iudges thereof the whiche more plainely followeth eyther parties striuynge vppon a like corrupte place The Emperour commaunded the Synode and the Iudges whiche were Lay men to peruse the Synodicall bookes and to determine the matter whiche they did George the Archebishop of Constantinople most humbly beséecheth the Emperour that he will cause the letters whiche Agatho the Pope and his Synodo sent vnto the Emperour to be redde ones againe the Emperour graunteth his request In the nexte session the order and fourme obserued as in the firste the Emperour commaunded firste of all Pope Agatho his letters to be redde in the whiche letters is manifestly confessed by the Pope him selfe so well the Emperours supreme gouernment in Ecclesiasticall causes as the Popes obedience and subiection vnto him in the same For in the beginninge he declareth what pleasure and comforte he conceyued of this that the Emperour sought so carefully that the sincere Faith of Christe shoulde preuayle in all Churches that he vsed suche mildenes and clemencie therein followynge the example of Christe in admonishynge him and his to geue an accompte of their Faith which they preached that beinge emboldened with these comfortable letters of the Emperour he perfourmed his ready obedience in accomplishinge the Emperours praeceptes effectually That he made inquisicion for satisfiynge of his obedience to the Emperour for apt men to be sente to the councell the whiche thing saith the Pope to the Emperour the studious obedience of our seruice woulde haue perfourmed soner had it not been letted by the great circuite of the Prouince longe distances of place He protesteth that he sendeth his Legates accordinge to y t Emperours commaundement not of any sinister meaninge but for the obedience sake to the Emperour whiche saith he we owe of dutie He maketh a confession of his faith concerning the controuersie adding the testimonies of many auncient fathers And he dooth proteste that he with his Synode of the Westerne Bishoppes beleueth that God reserued the Emperour to this tyme for this purpose That he the Emperour occupiynge the place and zeale of our Lorde Iesu Christe him selfe here in earth shoulde giue iust iudgement or sentence on the behalfe of the Euangelicall and Apostolicall truthe In the next session the Emperour sitteth as Presidēt and Moderatour accompanied with many of his nobles sitting about him On his right hande sate Georgius the Archebishop of Constantinople called newe Rome and those y e were with him on the other side vpon the Emperours lefte hande sate the Legates of the Archebishop Agatho of olde Rome these two as agent parties When they were thus set the Emperours Secretary brought foorth the Ghospelles putteth the Emperour in mynde what was done the session before and desireth his maiestie to cause Macarius his party to bryng out likewise their testimonies as the Legates from Agatho of olde Rome had done for their party The Emperour cōmaundeth Macarius obeith and desireth that his bookes may be redde the Emperour commaundeth they should so be After the shewing of the allegations on bothe sides the Legates of olde Rome desier the Emperour that they may know if the aduersaries agree on the tenour of their two forsayde suggestions The aduersaries beseche the Emperour that they might haue the copies of them the Emperour cōmaundeth that without delay their request should be fulfilled The bookes were brought foorth and sealed with the seales of the Iudges either of the parties This againe proueth that the Popes Legates were none of the Iudges but one of the parties And so in the eight nynth and tenth action the same order of doyng is obserued in like sort as before in suche wise that no one in the Synode