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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14159	The refutation of ane ansuer made be Schir Iohne Knox to ane letter send be Iames Tyrie, to his vmquhyle brother. Sett furth be Iames Tyrie.	Tyrie, James, 1543-1597.; Knox, John, ca. 1514-1572. Answer to a letter of a Jesuit named Tyrie.	1573 (1573)	STC 24476; ESTC S101283	83,074	128

eternall our god to whose only voce the sheap of his pasture ar bound it is as laughful to ws to reiect that which proceadeth from man and not from god as is easie to ●hame to affirme it Maister Tyrie may know that we vse the wordes of the aucientis THE REFVTATION IT is said in the commun prouerb ane liar suld be of gude memorie in the beginning of zour buke ze affirmet the sacrifice of the Messe to haue bene receaued of auld in the papisticall kirk now be the contrar ze allege it to be of lait days inuentit Bot that zour impudēcie be knawē and manifest to all men I will adduce the plane and sure testimonies of the maist ancient fathers that euer hes bene in the kirk of God as cōcerning thais tua heades quhilkis inspe●iall aboue the rest apperis to zou to be destitute of all probatioun And to begin at the bischop of Rome quhome we affirme to be the successour of S. Petir quha was head and principall of the Apostol● Christ sa●eth vnto Peter thou art Peter ▪ and vpon this rock I will build my kirk ▪ In the quhilk word is he orda ned Peter the fundatioun or heid of his kirk vnto him he deliuerit the keyes of the kingdome of heuin and cōmitted vnto him efter his resurrectioun his scheape to be fed sua that thair is no scheip of Christ quhilkis ar nocht also the scheip of Peter a● sais S. Bernard The ministers quha thi● kis nocht thame selues comprehendit vnder the name of thais scheip quhilkis Christ comendit to petir mō cōfesse that thai ar nocht the scheip of Christ otherwais gif thai wil be the s●heip of Christ let thame obey Peter ād him that dothe succeid Peter in his office Now becaus the present cōt●●uersi● is quhou thais wordis of the scripture aucht to be vnderstand in the quhilk Christ cōmit●it has flock to Peter ▪ lat ws cōsidder in quhat maner the p●stours and doctures of the kirk euer s●n the dayes of the Apostolis hes interpreted thame And to begin at S Paul●s a win discipill S Dionise quha in his buke de diuinis nominibus affirmeth Peter to be the heid of all the Apostolis Anacletu● quha wes in the Apostols tyme ▪ saith that the holie Romā Apos●olicall kirk obtenit supremacie nocht of the Aposlolis bot of oure lord him self as he sayeth to Peter thow art Peter c. Thairfo●r this Apostolicall kirk is maid the head of vther kirkes by God and by none vther Victor quha wes nere vnto the tyme of the Apostolis and bischop of Rome pat in practise this authoritie quhen he excommunicatet all the kirkes of asia becaus that aggreit nocht with the Romane kirk And albeid that he wes admonissed be letters send frō Ireneus that he had nocht done discreitlie in that point zet no man euerfād falt with him for vsing of sic authoritie for all men did knaw and confesse that he had authoritie to excommunicat quhom he thocht meite and expediēt zepherin bischop ▪ q●ha wes hi successour did call the Romane kirk mother of all kirkes vnto the quhilk all con●rouersies auch to be brocht I omit becaus I wil be breue the testimoneis of vthers Papes quho perauenture may seme to forther thair a win caus althocht no suspitioun at all tuitching this mater culd euer enter into ony wyse mānis heid becaus thais ancient fathers wer maist holie men and also martyris quho sched thair blude for the trewth Bot lat ws speik of vtheris Ireneus bot becaus it wald be oure lang to number the successionis of all kirk●s declaring the traditioun of the gretast and most ancient kirk acknawlegit be all men and foundit at Rome be those tua maist glorious Apostolis Petir and Paul quhilk it receaued of the apostolis and be cōtinuatioun deducit vnto ws we confound all thais quha reasson vther wais then thay aucht For with the Romane kirk beresson of the preeminēt power thairof euerilk kirk of necessi●ie most aggre Tertullian wes ony thing hid from Pet●r quho wes callit the rock vpō quhilk the kirk suld be builded quha also obtenit the keyes of the kingdome of heuin and power to louss and bind in heuin and in erth And in ane vther place he acknaulegit in lykmaner the supreme authoritie of the bischop of Rome Cyprian efter all this Zit forther efter a fals and wrang bischop be the heretikis appointed to thame selues thay dar saill vpon the seas and cary litters from chismaticall and prophane persones vnto the cheir of Peter and principall kirk quhair vnitie of preisthed first began nather do that think that thai quhome to thai go vnto ar Romans quha●s fay● his commendet be the Apostill vnto quhome fals doctrine neuer culd haue acces And in the samyng epistoll heresies sais he or sectis had neuer other beginning than this that obediēce was nocht kepit to the preist of God and that ane preist is nocht thocht in the kirk of God to be the vicar of Christ. Athanasius with the rest quhilk wer present at the councell of Alexandria writeth in this sort to the Pape of Rome God has not despiseth the prayars and teiris of his seruandis but has appointed zou and zour pre decessouris that is to say the Apostoli call bischoppis in the tour of supremacie and hathe commandit zou to succur ws and to deliuer ws from all enemies for vnto zou is committit all the iugement of vther bischoppis Chryso●tome quhat God can be him self grant that is remissioun of synn●s he doth gif that unto man to the effect that his kirk suld remane immouable thocht mony wauis suld burst out vpon it with great force to the end alsuay tha● the heid and pastour thairof quha is bot ane fischar man in fermenes and stabitnes suld exceid the nature of the adamant no●ht withstanding the ha●ll warld wald resist 〈◊〉 So the father sayeth vnto Hieremie ●haue put the as ane pillar of yrne and as ane wall of bres bot the father dothe cōstitute Hieremie onlie oure a●e people and natioun bot Christ had constitute Peter our the haill world Op●atus Meleuitanus ignorance can nocht be obiecti● vnto the seing thou knawest that in the cietie of Rome the bischopp is seat wes placed first for Peter in the quhilk the said Peter satt quha wes heid of all the apost●lise for the quhilk caus he wes callit Cephas in quhome as in ane the vnitie of the kirk suld be cōceruet And efter he had numered all the bischoppis from Peter vnto Syricius he concludis in this maner All the world aggreit with ws in ane communion and societie with syricius as to zou says he mening of the Donatistis schaw the benining of zour kirk gif ze can Hierome wrtttis