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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09868	A sermon preached at the consecration of the right Reverend Father in God Barnaby Potter DD. and L. Bishop of Carlisle, at Ely house in Holbourne March 15. 1628. By Christopher Potter D.D. provost of Queenes Colledge in Oxford. Hereunto is added an advertisement touching the history of the quarrels of Pope Paul 5 with the Venetians; penned in Italian by F. Paul, and done into English by the former author	Potter, Christopher, 1591-1646.; Sarpi, Paolo, 1552-1623. Historia particolare delle cose passate tra'l sommo pontefice Paolo V. e la serenissima republica di Venetia. English. Selections.	1629 (1629)	STC 20134; ESTC S114961	32,999	132

excellent matter of Christian meditation and discourse But the collections which they of the Popes side have drawne from hence are such and so frivolous that they are much more capable to move the spleene if the gravitie of the matter permitted then the judgement and are more properly confuted with a smile then with any strength of reason Here is one word in the Text pasce which the Cardinall Bellarmine hath so extended between his teeth that it hath a belly as large and fruitfull as the Trojane horse including whole armies of arguments for the Pope The Pope can desire nothing which this word will not give him He pretends to be a King as well as a Bishop and sayes his temporall power is as wide and broad as his spirituall And t is true sayes Bellarmine for Christ said to S. Peter Pasce id est Regio more impera play the Rex In the ancient Church when any heresie disturbed the publique truth and peace a grave assembly of Bishops was called and the Booke of God fairly laid open in the midst and out of it were all doubts determined Now Scriptures and Councills are needlesse for the Pope claimes to be supreame Iudge of all Controversies And * Lib. 4. de Rom. P. cap. 1. Bellarmine thinkes the claime to be well grounded upon this pasce in my Text. And t is a great wonder the Pope was never thought infallible in his judgement till this last Age since this * Ibid. c. 3. pasce implies that also so clearly And if the Heretiques doe not beleeve that he hath power to make new Articles of Faith and when they cry shame upon Pope Pius the 4. for adding twelve new Articles to the old Apostles Creed t is because they are ignorant and know not what pasce signifies Briefly this one word containes more matter then al the Bible besides it works miracles and makes the Pope omnipotent gives him all power not onely in heaven and earth but where God hath nothing to doe in Purgatorie For if you aske by what authoritie he takes upon him to pardon sinnes and soules after death to give or sell the Saints merits to dispense with oathes to depose Kings and dispose of their kingdomes or if he list to murther them If you looke into the Popes Lexicon you shall find that pasce expressely denotes all this authoritie and inables him to be not only a Prince or a Pastor or a Bishop but even a Butcher Well the repetition of these horrid fantasies shall bee their refutation Iustin Martyr saith well 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a grosse errour ever caries its Iustin M. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 owne conviction in its forehead I am sorie I have spent so much of my time and of your patience in moving this dunghill But these weeds and thorns lay in my way and I must needs cleare my passage I dismisle the Popes flatterers with my pitie and my prayers and say no more but this If they had any feare of God any shame of men any reverence to Antiquitie any feeling or care of conscience they would not dare thus profanely and leudly to dally with Scriptures or presume so to colour or cover their doctrine of devils under the name of God Thus farre I have digressed to follow the Theeves that would steale away the sense of my Text for so Gregory Nazianzene wittily sayes of Heretiques that they are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Orat. 3 6. ●ive de T●eol 4. And now that wee have done with the corrupt Glosse we may goe forward by Gods assistance with the Text. It containes as we have said the renewing of Peters commission wherein the parts or points observable are two First the authoritie of it Iesus said unto him Secondly the matter or summary of it Feed my sheepe Our Lord first calls and inables him to his office then directs him in it First he gives him power to execute his charge Iesus said unto him secondly he gives him instructions how to execute it Feed my sheepe Of both these in order very briefly For the first Peter takes not upon himselfe the honor of the Apostleship till he was called by Christ his Lord and God as were the rest of his fellowes In that calling of the Apostles some things were personall and peculiar to themselves others generall concerning all their lawfull Successors Bishops and Pastors The Apostles had an immediate vocation from Christ in person our calling is not of men but t is by men their 's neither of men nor by men They had an universall mission an unlimited jurisdiction an infallible assistance of the Spirit the gift of tongues and miracles All these were priviledges extraordinarie and passed with their persons But the warrant and worke of this Commission generally and equally belongs to all us as well as to all them None may usurpe the charge of a Bishop or a Pastor till Iesus say unto him Feed my sheepe And hence we learne two leslons of great importance and consideration 1. The Author of all lawfull 1 vocation to the holy Ministerie is onely Christ the Lord. Onely Christ exclusively to all men not to the two other Persons in the glorious Trinity which all equally concur to this externall worke God the Father hath placed in the Church a 1 Cor. 12. 28. Apostles Prophets Teachers Pastors c. And God the b Act. 20. 28. holy Ghost ordained the Bishops at Ephesus and elsewhere c Act. 1 3. 2. Separate me Paul and Barnabas for the worke whereunto I have called them For it belongs onely to the d Mat. 9. 38. Lord of the harvest to send forth labourers into his harvest and who should appoint e Mat. 24. 45. Stewards over the House but he who is Master of the House Father of the family This consideration must first helpe to animate our feeblenesse and add unto us an edge and courage against all the difficulties and discouragements which we shall meet in our holy calling Everie good Minister must looke to bee Theologus crucis not Theologus gloriae when hee enters upon this warfare hee may not dreame of an easie or lazie life to passe his time in pompe or pleasure like the glorious Clergie of Rome but he must prepare to play the man and fight it out not onely with absurd and unreasonable men but even with beasts as Paul did at Ephesus yea with devills And therefore he must buckle himselfe to his worke and know that hee must eate his bread if not with the sweating of his browes yet which is much sorer with the beating of his braines Wherefore S. Paul wanting a word able to expresse the grievous paines of our Ministery sets it forth in two both very sore and heavie ones Our calling is a 1 Thess 2. 9 and 2 Thess 3. 8 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a labor a travaile a tiring labour a miserable travaile a labour like that of reapers a travaile