of their ingenuity in Defence of the Popes Authority and that I saw not well what Advantage they could draw from the Infallibility of the Church which they maintained with so much ardor that doubled my attention to sound the depth of the matter and I found that by the help of this Infallibility they would conceal every thing so as to save the Popes Authority and all the Temporal Advantages which flow from it and I made no further doubt of it when I saw they applied it particularly to the Clergy excluding all the people and many men to the Pope alone excluding all other Bishops Since these Discoveries I have always held it as a Maxim wherein I have never been deceived which is That when any practice or Custom in the Church brings profit or honour to the Ecclesiasticks I presently suspect and examine it At length having a long time reflected upon all the abuses of this Papal Authority and having observed the Deplorable condition to which it hath reduced the Christian Religion as well without as within the Church and seeing it was that which having driven the Greeks and Protestants out of the Church is still the cause why they return not again unto its Communion and that it even draws strange Persecutions upon the Church from these scattered sheep by reason of the attempts of the Court of Rome and its favourers I at last resolved to publish this little Treatise to disabuse mankind in respect of the unjust and criminal Devotion which they have for the Papacy and also to purge the Church of it as well as of all other vices and misfortunes it hath there caused being perswaded that an Infallible fruit of this Reformation would be the Conversion of the Greeks Protestants Pagans Jews and Mahometans not to mention the Honour it would do to all the Catholick Princes whose Majesty and Greatness are vilified by this shameful subjection to and dependance on the Popes which make them to be despised by other Princes who have freed themselves from their Tyranny A Senator of Sweden told me one day a very good saying of Tacitus to this purpose Viri muliebria patiuntur Men act the parts of women which is as much as to say they are the Catamites of the Popes However since it is in their power to treat those as Hereticks and Enemies of the Church who oppose their Ambition and Interest I prepare my self against it and that doth not at all discourage me It is more Honourable to be hated by such people than loved Illi maledicent at tu Domine Benedices I know the Reader will in this Work of mine presently look after the Caracters of either Jansenist Calvinist or Lutheran or lastly of a man who could not be promoted to Benefices and many times he will think he hath found me As for Benefices I might perhaps have had one if I had had a mind to it but by the Grace of God I will have none nor have I need of any nor was I ever designed for it The Jansenists are as yet too much Papists to speak ill of the Papacy As for the Calvinists and Lutherans I wish they could be brought to own the opinions which I do and which I have no mind to betray in this my Book It is true they have both written often against this power but not with design that the Catholick Religion should be the better for it to which this Work wholly tends Whatever men will judg I think I ought not to renounce any truth because the Hereticks know it nor to put my eyes out rather than see the Injustice of the Papacy because the Hereticks see it If I had not here drawn the Picture of the Jesuits Religion it may be those they call the Jansenists would have suspected them to have been the authors of it as the present times go and for the Calvinists I am sure that in many places they will say that I do but gild over the Pill that they may the more easily swallow down the poyson as some people have said of the Book of Mr. de Condom they may judg of it what they please I have followed the sentiments which the reading of the Holy Scripture hath inspired me with and in which I am confirmed the more by reading the Fathers and the Ecclesiastical History and by making reflection upon all that I have seen in foreign Countries and upon what I see every day here If the Romanists hear this Work spoken of they will say without doubt as heretofore at the Council of Trent when Mr. de Faber made Remonstrances on the Kings behalf concerning the disorders of the Church Gallus Cantat they cried I have no better answer than what he made them Vtinam ad Galli cantum Petrus resipisceret let them come and renounce the Dominion and Tyranny they exercise over the Church and over the World and let our Bishops for time to come behave themselves like worthy Successors of this Apostle This Work shall be divided into Three Parts which will contain so many Chapters In the first I shall prove that the Papacy hath no foundation in the Word of God and shall shew the vanity folly of those arguments which they pretend to draw from the Gospel In the second I shall make it appear that the Primitive Church never knew it and that in the darkest Ages there were ever some who opposed it and I shall confute many human reasons which for want of the Scripture and of the Fathers are made use of for its defence And in the third and last I shall examine all the pretended advantages which this Authority procures to the Church or to States and I shall shew that 't is so far from bringing any real good to the Church or to Catholick States that it is the cause of the Desolations of the Church and of the greatest part of the Disorders among all Christians of Ignorance Heresies Schisms and Irreligion that reign No man ought to be surprised that I conceal who I am in so perverse an age as we live in where Truth and Honesty as well as those who profess it are exposed to cruel Persecutions and wherein I shall have as many mortal enemies as there are worldly Catholicks and Papists and people in possession of Benefices without mentioning the Monks I have no reason to flatter my self with any great success this Book may have by reason of the extream disorder and irreligion of the Age and I do it more to discharge my self of the load lying upon me and for the consolation of my own mind than for any other thing as heretofore Petrarch said upon a like occasion Haec scribo non tam ùt saeculo meo prosim cujus tam desperata miseria est quam ut me conceptis onerem Animum scriptis soler I write these things not so much to profit the age I live in whose misery is so desperate as to unburthen my self of my own thoughts
hope from the good Intention that appeared in many Princeâ— so desirous of a Reformation would not consent to the calling a Council till at length having without success employed their utmost skill to hinder it they at last managed the matter so that the Pope was to convene it Charles the Fifth having basely parted with the Right he had to assemble it that it should be called in an Italian Town and that the Popes Legats should have the management of the whole Affair from that time there was no good to be expected from this Assembly In truth the Popes Legates did rule all aâ—cording to their own Fancy almost all the Bishops who assisted at it were Italians and the only Mark they all hit at was more and more to establish the almighty Power of the Pope wherein they easily succeeded except in this one point God did not suffer Heresy to triumph there But as for the Popes who were the Soul and only Organ of it sending every Week the Holy Ghost in a Cloak-Bag if the Heresy of Luther would have served their turn they would have chosen it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nay without all doubt if the Mahometan Religion would have conduced to the augmenting of their Power and Riches both they and all their Court would have embraced it presently This Council hath done the Church a thousand times more harm than good for it hath given the Protestants plausible Reasons of Obduracy and to us no greater assurance of the goodness of our Religion for as they carried it they made it a Work perfectly Humane Intrigue and Policy did all The Pope was there a Party and became himself the Judg. The Protestants could not be there seeing the Pope was the manager both of the Convocation and of the Suffrages which he got for Mony distributed about in Germany and Italy before the Assembly began And because he would be master some good Bishops who knew not how to manage it so well inesperti del maneggio as Cardinal Palavicini says of them offering to speak against the Popes Interest were treated many times unworthily by the Legates who gave no sort of Liberty Christian Princes as the Emperour Ferdinand Charles the Ninth and Albert Duke of Bavaria to whom they granted not one of their just Demands had no more reason to be satisfied To convince the World that it was only the advantage of the Popes which the Court of Rome sought after and not the Glory of God nor the Salvation of Men It is not necessary to relate at large all the base Intrigues which were unworthy of the Legates but only to consider the Decree which was there made against the reading of the Holy Scripture By this Decree all People were forbidden to read it without leave given them by their Ordinary who was to allow it to none but Clergy-men that is to say the People who were in possession of Benefices and whose Interest it was to maintain things in the same condition they were in Thus did the Legates forbid what God had commanded generally to the whole World. And as Tyrants live in continual fear they thought themselves not yet secure but fearing that they had granted too much they made another Decree whereby they absolutely forbad all sorts of People to read it All their fear was that by the comparing the Papacy with the Kingdom of Jesus Christ People should discover the Imposture which they have put upon the Church whose Face they have disfigured and changed its very Nature making the Government of the Church a piece of Knavery and a Device to supplant all the Kings and Princes of the World confounding Heaven with Earth and destroying all Order both Divine and Humane The Hereticks make a more Christian Use of it for tho they have been so inconsiderate as to reject many Books of the Old Testament which are Canonical as the Apocrypha yet they do not only allow but recommend the reading of them and we find them bound up with their Bibles to be there read as well as the rest I make no doubt but that if the Legates had dared to do it they would have suppressed the Holy Books or at least razed out or changed all those places that were against them as the Inquisition hath done by many of the Ancient Authors How are they who are gone away from us scandalized at such Conduct as this What shame hath it not brought upon our holy Religion they cannot look upon us without abhorrence because we suffer such Abominations Expediret ut suspenderentur molae asinariae in collis eorum ut non scandalizarent pusillos istos It were expedient that Mill stones were hanged about their Necks that they might not scandalize these little ones This Example alone proves sufficiently that it was a profane and worldly Spirit that reigned in this Councâ—l It was the same Spirit that made them give a Ball at Trent to Philip the Second where it may be said that the Pope also danced in the Persons of his venerable Legates It was also the same Spirit that made them give up Religion wholly to the Popes Fancy which is evident by this because that having made many Decrees they say that they shall be of force without prejudice to the Authority of the Apostolick See that is to say that they shall have place no farther than the Pope himself pleaseth whereby they make the Council subject to the Pope which is a devilish Heresy condemned by the Councils of Constance and Basil. The Popes did in effect get by this Council as well as by the others dispencing both with them and themselves when they pleased as Palavicini says that if the Pope should be bound to observe Laws the Fountain of his Beneficence would be half drawn dry Se'l Papo vuol osservare quelle leggi il fonte della sua Beneficenza asciugarsi per meta He says in another place that the Council would not bind his hands who was able to do all things This Worldly Spirit is yet farther to be discerned by the Ambiguity which they have affected in many places which shews us that they had oftentimes no other design than to throw Dust in our Eyes they have also forbidden that any body should pretend to interpret reserving the knowledg of them only to themselves It is then clear by this account that there is never any good to be expected from any Council which the Pope shall call together or where he or his Creatures shall preside or which shall be assembled in Italy not only because of the multitude of Italian Bishops who would spoil all but because a Council of worthy Men would not be there in safety for the Italians would run to all sorts of Excess and Violence rather than suffer that the Spiritual Empire which they claim over all other Nations should be taken from them because they come all in for a share of the Plunder just as we see the Inhabitants of
God hath no other means to preserve his Church and that he needs such cursed Instruments as those to maintain it That you may make the better judgment of it it will not be amiss for me to speak briefly a word or two concerning the manner how this Tribunal proceeds against Heriticks upon what they call the Directory of the Inquisitors made in the Year 1585. you must know that this Directory was made for the Execution of the Bull de Coenâ Domini which is to be seen in summâ Francisci Tolet. de instructione Sacerdotum where there are eighteen sorts of Excommunications the first against Hereticks Favourers of Hereticks those who read or keep their Books without the permission of the Holy See. And under this pretence these Fellows have caused two of our Kings to be murthered It was this rare Excommunication that ruined Religion in England and it is a wonder that it does not destroy it every where else In his 20 th Book you find that all those are excommunicated who say and confess that the Council is above the Pope and who appeal from his Decrees to the Council so that a Man cannot be a true Christian without being excommunicated by the Pope We must no longer believe the Gospel but become the Popes Creatures to avoid these terrible Excommunications In the 21 st Chapter of Cardinal Tolet his Collection there is a Bull which does excommunicate all Princes who lay new Taxes upon their People without the Pope's permission This was not much amiss indeed for by it you see that all Soveraign Princes are made Slaves to the holy See. A Man must have lost his Senses not to see that it is the Spirit of the Devil which possesseth this Geneâ—ation of Vipers In his 27 th 28 th and 29 th Chapters all Chancellours Presidents Councellours and Soveraign Courts of Justice are excommunicated if they hinder the Clergy in any manner whatsoever to exercise their Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction against all Persons according to the Decrees of the Council of Trent whereby they will destroy all Political Authority and make the Clergy Masters of it for you must know that the Council of Trent whose Decrees were all made at Rome before ever matters were proposed at Trent established Ecclesiastical Immunities according to the Decretals of Boniface the Eight This it was that made many worthy Prelates in France formerly press so hard to have this Council received there and that wicked Wretch Miron Archbishop of Angiers write so insolently against the Parliament for which he very well deserved to be hanged At length having thundred out a great many other Excommunications they declare that whosoever shall remain a whole Year in these sorts of Excommunications shall for their Contumacy be declared Hereticks Chap. Cum Contumacia de Hereticis in 6. and it is a favour too that they do not turn them into Hobgoblins There is nothing in all this but what is sottish horrible and diabolical yet there are People who at this day dare not publickly detest it Nay there are several in France who shall maintain it at their utmost peril and even die for it as almost all the Monks and many others who for the sake of Jesus Christ himself would not lose this Point Hitherto this Tribunal of the Inquisition hath been abhorred in France but no thanks to the Monks but the Parliaments they say Ecclesia mavult suffundere sanguinem quam effundere And during the Minority of Lewis the thirteenth all the Chairs of the Doctors and Preachers rung with this impious and abominable Doctrine that the Pope was the Monarch of the Church could excommunicate depose and put Kings to death And to the end that these Holy Laws should be put in Execution these infamous Creatures have wrote a Book which they call the Directory of the Inquisitors in the the Year 1585. wherein they establish that they are all impious Persons and Enemies to the Church who do not allow of the Extravagants of Boniface and all the Decretals of the Popes who declare that the Church hath the Power of both Swords to destroy all those who will not submit to it In the third part of this Directory Commentary the thirteenth there are three methods of proceeding against Hereticks viz. by Accusation by Delation and by Inquisition In Matters of Faith Accusation is not allowed of because they say that it is very dangerous and full of Contention the Crime of Heresy must be proved Judicially and Canonically which cannot be done without some difficulty so that the Treasurer of the Inquisition becomes the Accuser for this reason quia non est obnoxius poenae talionis because he is not obnoxious to the Punishment of Retaliation neque aliis poenis quas falsi Accusatores pati solent nor to any other Punishments which false Witnesses are wont to suffer So that there is no other way but by Delation and Inquisition and let a Man but apply himself to the Syndic of the Inquisition or to the Inquisitor to accuse any body and there 's an end of him In this third part of the Directory Commentary the 28 th towards the latter end there are these words In crimine Haereseos propter ejus Enormitatem omnia testimonia recipiuntur omniumque voces interpretationes audiuntur etiam inimicorum hominum perjurorum lenonum meretricum infamium In case of Heresy by reason of the Enormity of the Crime all Evidences are allowed of and the Word and Accusation of all sorts of People are to be heard even of Enemies those that are perjured Pimps Whores and those of the worst Reputation And that which is as good as this is that two Witnesses of this sort are sufficient even against a King and without being obliged to let him know who the Witnesses are See Commentary the 23 48 120 124. there are these words Quod si reus instaret postularetque ut sibi concederetur defensio secundum Juris Ordinem per consequens ut Testium nomina simul cum dictis eorundem sibi ederentur audiendus non esset si fortassis ob id gravari se diceret appellaret talis appellatio non esset admittenda sed eâ non obstante imo vero eâ rejectâ tanquam frivolâ injustâ ad ulteriora Judicii acta est intrepidè procedendum That if any guilty Person doth insist upon and require liberty to make a Defenee according to the ordinary course of Law and by consequence that the Names of the Witnesses together with their Depositions should be delivered him he is not to be heard And if for thâ—s reason he shall say that he is hardly dealt with and shall appeal such his Appeal is in no wise to be allowed but that notwithstanding nay it being wholly rejected as frivolous and unjust he is vigorously to be proceeded against even to the utmost Acts of Judgment And the good natur'd Inquisitors give this Consolation
but it is 〈◊〉 that they should beg at least if it be voluntary and for that 〈◊〉 their number ought to be diminished and they of them that aâ—e â—ich should keep them that are poor let them all apply themselves to work and to study as heretofore they did It would be very well done abâ—olutely to retrench some of these Orders that are so chargeable to the People Pope Alexander the Seventh did very well in suppressing two Orders that were as good as those that are now remaining the one was called the Order of the Cross and the other of â—he Holy Ghost And in Spain they have done very well never to endure among them the Capucins The Council of Toledo did heretofore ordain that no new Religious Order should be suffered to be established in the Church ne nimia Religionum diversitas gravem in Ecclesia Dei confusionem parturiat There are no People that hate or destroy one another more than the different Orders of the Mendicants because they hinder one anothers Trade and there are no People in the World that debauch the Women more than they the Secular Priests are Angels in comparison they are in so good Credit and Esteem that they are not endured in the Court of our Kings and they have no access to it Their Principle of blind Obedience is both foolish and impious which may cause and many times hath been the occasion of horrible Disorders in the Estates and Families of our Kings It is a Principle which makes the Pope whom their Superiors implicitly obey Master of our Lives and of the State for these Superiors are always as ready to inspire the Monks with all sorts of Opinions how horrible soever they be provided they serve the Pope his Designs for this reason I have often wondered that some Law hath not been made in the State against the perfidiousness of the Monks and Jesuits from the example of two of our French Kings whom they have murthered and that it hath not been declared that if any such thing shall happen for time to come all these People should be driven out of the Kingdom There is no other means to hinder the Court of Rome from doing the same things hereafter The Parliament of England hath lately enacted somewhat like this to secure the Life of their King against the Monks No Clergy-man ought to be received without subscribing the Condemnation of the impious Bull de Coenâ Domini which is a bottomless Gulf of Impieties Heresies and Inhumanities And till the Monks and Jesuits shall solemnly renounce and condemn this accursed Bull it will be no great Injustice done them to accuse them of attempting against the Lives of Kings If any Man did suspect me to be an Arrian and I knew it and could justify my self from such cursed Opinions and did it not the World would have reason to impute to me all the Consequences of thâ—s pernicious Heresy It is well known that all the Monks and particularly the Jesuits have by their fourth Vow obliged themselves to the Execution of this infernal Bull. It was the Monks who living in Idleness corrupted and falsified many Ecclesiastical Books they have counterfeited many other Books full of Lies and set them out under the Names of good Authors They are every where known for People who by their Artifices under pretext of Religion are the ruine of most Families whose Substance they cunningly suck in themselves It is they who have vilified and discredited the true Orthodox Priests drawing the People after themselves by false appearances of Mortifications They are good for nothing but to move Seditions and to bring People to Disobedienee and when ever the Interest of their Monarch the Pâ—pe is concerned they think the Blood of their Enemies as meritorious as that of the Cross. The Humility they boast of is a very pleasant thing when at the same time they take place of their Elders and of People of Quality They pretend to have renounced Vanity more strictly than the Secular Priests and yet these Asses are called Father Father as heretofore the Pharisees Rabbi Rabbi they cause themselves also to be stiled Reverend Fathers and pretend to have Merit enough besides to obtain their own Salvation and to impart the overplus to others They call themselves Father Raphaels Father Cherubims and Father Seraphims with such like Names which are Marks of Vanity and Folly with which there can be neither Humility nor Piety Their Generals also manage the matter fairly to have the same Respect shewed them in the Courts of Princes as the Ambassadours of the greatest Kings These Gentlemen are all sworn Enemies to the Holy Scripture as well as to the Court and they do all they can to render the reading of it suspicious they heretofore did what they could to abolish it because it made as much against them as the Popes In the Year 1192. they made a new Gospel upon the Dreams of a Carmelite named Cyrill this was to suppress the Gospel of Jesus Christ and their own they called the Eternal Gospel wherein they taught that God the Father reigned under the Law God the Son under Grace and that the Holy Ghost was now going to reign by the Establishment of four Orders of Mendicants and that for the future Men could not be saved but by this Gospel that that of Jesus Christ was imperfect and that the Sacraments were of no great use This Gospel was preached almost all Europe over by the Jacobines and Franciscans and it was very near being received in the University of Paris but there remained yet some worthy Men who opposed and made it be condemned but seeing these new Evangelists had the favour of the Holy Father the Doctors of the University were forced to go to Rome where at length they obtained that this Book should be condemned and burned but privately for fear of decrying the four Orders of Mendicants and also that the Book of the University of Paris should be burned much after the same manner as heretofore at Bezancon at the beginning of Luther's Revolt which drew many Towns after it the Magistraâ—e of Bezancon fearing that this Fire should reach thither forbad all sorts of People to speak of God either Good or Evil. And there falling out lately a Dispute between some Divines of the Sorbonne at Paris some of whom do hold with the Jesuits that we may be saved without loving God and others on the contrary that we ought to love God whereupon both the one and the other were forbidden to speak of it so that the matter yet remains undecided whither we ought to love God or no or whither the Gospel of the Monks or of Jesus Christ be the true one The Author of the Book against this new Gospel is called William de St. Amour de periculis novissimorum Temporum See in Matthew Paris At length the Monks had Credit enough having procured several Bulls to be given out against the Book to
contra Charitatem militare That which is made for Charity 's sake ought not to militate against Charity The Lawyers say that sacra alienari non possunt Holy things cannot be alienated And what is there more sacred than the Zeal with we ought to have for the Glory of God for the Propagation of the Faith and the spiritual good of the Church So that there is no Oath Treaty nor Agreement but ought to give place to the good and safety of the Church and the Salvation of our Souls This is lâ—ke the Oath which Pirates or Robbers on the High-way force them to swear whom they take Prisoners who to save their Lives promise to be faithful to them and to tâ—em what Service they can The Lawyers do maintain that these Oaths are not binding A piratis aut latronibus capti liberi permanent Qui a latronibus captus est servus latronum non est nec postliminium illi necessarium est It is an undisputable Maxim Non posse Deum obligare creaturam ad non obediendum sibi The Lawyers also say that a Man cannot renounce the Right he hath to defend himself which is natural much less a Prince Thus there is no Reason Divine nor Humane but doth indispencibly ingage Princes to renounce the Papacy and to re-establish the Church in that Liberty which Jesus Christ hath left to it But as for the Papacy it is like the ancient Idols of Paganism which when the Christians did renounce they knâ—w well their Vanity when they examined into the thing but they still reserved a certain trâ—mor fatuus leporiâ—us fear and impliâ—iâ—e respect as Gersâ—â— says for them because that from their Infancy they had their Minds greatly aâ—â—ected with the Power of these Idols It is just the same thing with us and the Pope â—er still Idolum nihil â—st in Mâ—â—do And I am perswaded that we should have a great deal of difficulty before we could turn him briskly away It were to â—e wished that he would do himself Justice and give Glory to God but what liâ—â—lihood is there of that They will always keâ—p the Titles of Hâ—ad and Spouse of tâ—e Church if they would be contented with the latter there might be found out a way to be rid of them which would be for the French Church to give them once for all the same Portion as Pâ—ilip the Second gave to his Eldest Dâ—uâ—htâ—r whâ—n he married hâ—r to the Duke of 〈◊〉 he gave her a Cruâ—iâ—â—x anâ— an Iâ—age of our Laâ—y but upon condâ—tion that he shâ—uld never hâ—ar her speak â—f aâ—y tâ—ing â—ore and that shâ— shoâ—lâ— renounce for ever all other Pretâ—nsiâ—ns â—oth fâ—r her sâ—lf â—nd all â—â—r 〈◊〉 as this Princess did but if thâ—y will not â—e the Spouse at thiâ— Pâ—iâ—câ— the sureâ—t way is absolutely to â—reak with thâ—m and to â—â—nd them to the Whoâ—e of Babylâ—n lâ—st aâ— length Gâ—d câ—nsume us alsâ— in thi◠〈◊〉 FINIS The design of this undertaking The necessity of a Reformation acknowledged by many of the Church of Rome Testified in writing by some of their most eminent Authors See the Preface to the Discourse of the Holy Eucharist in the two great Points of the Real Presence and Adoration of the Host. The present Treatise an Instance of it That the Author of this Book was indeed of the Roman Religion The occasion of his first searching into the Truth of his Religion That he continued in many things to the last in opposition to the Protestants Instances of it That the Ch. of R. is the visible Ch. of Christ. Moyons surs c. part 2. pag. 92 93. Edit de Cologne 1681. 2. Corporal Presence Ibid. pag. 103. Ibid. p. 105 107. P. 109. 3. Communion in one kind Ibid. p. 99 100 109 110. 4. Invocation of Saints Ibid. p. 112. Pag. 113. Pag. 114. His Book reprinted by the A. B. of Tholouse See le Jansonist convainca de vaine sophistiquerie pag. 91. He is therefore to be excus'd if he sometimes speak against us The design of his undertaking the Conversion of all Hereticks The method he has taken the most likely to do this 2 Cor. iv 4· Luke i. 79. The sum of his Project No likelihood that the Papists will ever consent to it What use we are to make of it Ephes. iv 14. Jude 3. 2 Pet. iii. 18. * Aeneas Silv. in Gest. Conc. Basil. * â—otus Orbis se Arianum esse miratus est Hieron * Origen in Mar. chap. 16. Tract 1. ‡ Cypri de simplicitate Praelat * Ambr. in Epist. ad Eph. cap. 2. †Ambr. in Psal. 32. ‖ Hieron in Psal. 40. * Idem in Mat. 8. * August in Johan Tract 124. * August de Verbo Dom. Serm. 60. ‖ Chrysost. in Matth. 16. * Chrysost. in Sermone de Pentecost * Gregor Nyss. lib. de vita Mosi◠†Sal. 13. Tom. 1. lib. com in Epist. Pauli * Cypr. de Unitate Ecclesiae †Origen in Math. Tract 1. * St Hilary lib. 6. de Trinitate in the Council of Ephesus there is an Epistle of the Council of Alexandria where are these words Petrus Johannes aequales sunt ad alterutrum dignitatis †Hieron contra Jovian lib. 1. cap. 14. * Hieron in Mat. 16. ‡ August in Joh. Trac 118. Id. in Epist. Joh. Tract 10. * August in Joan. Tra. 124. †Idem in Joan. Tract the 10. Theoph. in Mat. chap. 16. †Leo in Anniver die assumptionis suae ad Pontif. Sermone 3. †Palavicini lib 4. c. 6. * Marsilius Patav. p. 2 c. 15. ‡ Hierom in Math. cap. 16. * Idem in Esaiam cap. 14. * St. Amb. cap. 4. lib. 2. de Cain Abel †August in Johan tract 124. †Aug. in Johan tract 123. cap. 210. St. Cyril in Joh. lib. 12. cap. 64. * Cypr. de unitate Ecclesiae * St. Aug. de Pastor Idem in sermone de Petro Paulo * Chysost lib. 2. de sacerdote St. Peter the 1. c. 5. v. 1.2.3 * Conc. Basil apud Aene. Sâ— in gestis Concil †Acts cap. 8. v. 14. * Acts 11. v. 1. * 1 Corin. chap. 11. v. 5. †Math. 28. v. 20. * John 20. v. 22.23 ‖ Gal. 2. v. 9 Gal. 2. v. 7. * Origen in Numeros Hom. 3. * Dorot. Tyrensis in Synopsi ‡ Hierom in Matth. cap. 23. lib. 4. Lyran in 1 Petri. (a) Caus. 84. q. 5. Can. rogamus (a) Clem Epis. 1. Fratri Domini Episcopo Episcoporum c. * Lib. 1. Recognitionum ubi Petrus (b) Iren. apud Eusebium lib. 5. cap. 26 27. (a) Cusan lib. 1. cap. 14. * Amb. de Incarnatione c. 14. (b) Cyprian in Conc. Carth. sive de Sent. Episcoporum (b) Cyprian lib. 3. Epist. 21. (c) Id. Ep. 30. (d) Idem de Aleatoribus (e) Idem ad Puppienum Ep. 66. (f) Idem in Epist. 55. (g) In Conc. Africano Art. 6. (h) Concil â—icen Can. 6. (i) Cusan de Coâ—cord