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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33411	St. Peter's supremacy faithfully discuss'd according to Holy Scripture and Greek and Latin fathers with a detection and confutation of the errors of Protestant writers on this article : together with a succinct handling of several other considerable points.	Clenche, William.	1686 (1686)	Wing C4640; ESTC R5309	132,726	227

v. 1. Videt Johannes Angelum habentem Clavem Abyssi And accordingly it was antiently us'd in Orphicis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thus you may see I need not be beholden to that Passage in Isaias to prove Peters Power granted him by the gift of the Keys but because I mention'd it as an Argument I shall say a little in its defence and make some Reply to your Objections First you say That it cannot be prov'd that Sobna or Eliakim were of the Priests Order To this I answer that you cannot disprove but that they were This I am sure of that I have better Authority which avouches they were than you have that they were not As for your Pretensions to the Hebrew Tongue should I grant them just and permit you to pass Muster for a Rabbi yet it do's not at all follow that I should be so conceited of you as to equalize you to St. Hierom whose knowledge in that Language was so great as all ought to veil to him So I judge it my safest way not to exorbitate from his Translation impress'd by the stamp of the Catholick Church But to keep to the Point the Hebrew word Sochen which is no novelty in that Language is liable to different meanings But I find St. Hierom to translate Ingredere ad Sochen thus Ingredere ad eum qui habitat in Tabernaculo ad Sobnam Praepositum Templi The Septuag says thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which was a place in which the Priests did abide whilst they serv'd in the Temple thence they were called Pastophori Pastus signifying either the Sacerdotal Pall or Lodging And thus St. Cyril on Book 2. Comments on Isaias upon the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 says 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This place is in the Temple Hence this Sobna is called Praepositus Templi and the Prophet deters him from the excision of his Sepulcher because God would transplant the Priesthood Thus v. 18. 't is said Coronans te coronabit c. which Corn. a Lapide observes is rendred in the Chaldee Auferet a te Tiaram The Septuag says Auferet stolam coronam tuam gloriosam by which is meant Corona Tiara Pontificalis And accordingly I find St. Cyril to call the Stola 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Holy Sacred And in his Second Book of his Comments on Isaias speaking of Eliakim 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That the Sacerdotal Honor was conferr'd on him is manifest by his promising to Crown him and saying I will give you the Stola Oeconomy and Power to be able to rule the People subject to you Now as for Sobna his being called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I find St. Cyril to solve that Objection in his Second Book of Comments on Isaias 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He inveights against Sobna the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who had got the High-Priesthood but abus'd it Your other Argument to cut him off from being High-Priest is because he is called Praefectus Domûs scilicet Regiae as you add by which you would have him to be only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Steward of the Kings House but you must understand that the Temple was called Antonomasticè Domus and accordingly our Savior when he drove the Buyers and Sellers our of the Temple told them that his House was call'd Domus precationis c. Now if Josephus makes no mention of them as you affirm that at best is but a Negative and so inconcludent I find he is silent of several things which the Scripture makes mention of he takes no notice of Gods punishing the Israelites for their murmuring whilst the Flesh of the Quails stuck betwixt their Teeth I hope I may have the liberty to believe it tho' he be found mute herein but if his Authority be so swaying with you I shall hope you will not disbelieve Absoloms Hair to have weigh'd two hundred Sicles and that it could scarcely be powl'd in Eight days time Then you say that the High-Priests of the Jews were Types of Christ not of Peter That they were Types of Christ in some Sense cannot be deny'd so was Salomon for his peaceable Reign Christ being styl'd Princeps pacis so was Isaac carrying the Wood to burn the Sacrifice as Christ did the Wood of the Cross and Jonas for abiding Three Days and Nights in the Whales Belly as Christ was in the Sepulcher and Joseph sold by his Brothers as he was by Judas And many more Types might be mention'd but this is not worth the insisting on and it may easily be prov'd that the Jewish High-Priests were Typical of the Christian if the Point were material I am sure St. Cyprian in his Epistles Expounds those things which are said concerning the one of the other The next thing you affirm is That by the Keys in that place is not meant any Supreme Authority either in Church or State such as the Romanist's claim for Peter and his Successors for Sobna and Eliakim if Priests were subject to King Hezechias and the Kings in those Days and many Ages after were Supreme in all Causes both Ecclesiastical and Civil To this I answer that 't is not necessary to my purpose to go about to prove what is meant by the Keys mention'd by Isaias St. Peters Authority being not grounded upon that but on the words in St. Matthew Et dabo tibi Claves As for the other part of your Assertion That the Jewish High-Priests were subject to the Jewish Kings whom you affirm to be Supreme in all Causes both Ecclesiastical and Civil and to have govern'd Church Affairs both de facto de jure I find my self oblig'd to make some Reply to it as likewise of Christian Princes to whom from the Jewish you descend But I would more willingly have declin'd treating of this Point knowing how nice and dangerous it is to handle it and that now I walk per ignes suppositos cineri doloso But because you have so fairly thrown it in my way and being treating of the Keys it will seem fit to clear their Authority I cannot well avoid taking some notice of it which I shall here do making a short halt in taking up this Atalanta's Apple which you seem to have drop'd to impede my course It may appear strange that I who am of the Laity should write in favor of the Clergy and that you who are a Divine should endeavour to establish Laicocephalism and depress the Clergy robbing it of its just Rights and thereby becoming false to your own Coat But if this be well inspected there is much to be said in your Vindication for you knowing that your New Religion was begun and hitherto maintain'd by the Secular Power cannot but in gratitude and policy give it the preference however you may perhaps in this present conjuncture be willing to recal part of what you have so prodigally granted The first you mention to have govern'd Church Affairs both de facto de jure is Moses