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A00670	A treatise against the necessary dependance vpon that one head, and the present reconciliation to the Church of Rome Together with certaine sermons preached in publike assemblies, videlicet 1. The want of discipline. 2. The possession of a king. 3. The tumults of the people. 4. The mocke of reputation. 5. The necessitie of the Passion. 6. The wisdome of the rich. By Roger Fenton Doctor of Diuinitie, late preacher of Graies Inne.	Fenton, Roger, 1565-1616.; Utie, Emmanuel, d. 1661.	1617 (1617)	STC 10805; ESTC S102068	104,035	162

as Paradise was for Adam it is too streight a prison for his Godhead Gen. 3. then since Man is become like one of vs let vs turne him into the wide world out of Paradise from Paradise to a fooles Paradise a little Garden a small City will not comprehend his godhead So shall the Bishop of Rome be vniuersall and like to Lucifer in Heauen and Adam in Paradise take vp the Rome of the second person in Trinity because One. Consid 3. Cap 4. But Saint Bernard thought it not lawfull for him to dismember the Churches at his pleasure to confound Order and to breake open the bounds of the Church which his fathers before had made Rom. 13. power he giues him and thinkes it vnlawfull to resist him power he hath a principall power but not a singular power his meaning is he hath an head aboue him vnto which other eminent members of the Church haue a reference as well as he Euery one knowes how the Fathers runne vpon the difference betwixt praesum and prosum betwixt dominion and dispensation betwixt possession and Law and so his Lordship which was prayed for in their Letanies in the time of Pius Quintus by the name of Dominus Apostolicus amongst the rest is by this discouered to be nothing but truely worse then Octanus and Tiberius his predecessors which refused the name of LORD because it was a Title of power but not of Piety So then his Ecce duo Gladij The two swords the one for the Church the other of the Church the one from the mouth of the Priest the other from the hand of the Emperour It is enough it is too much as deuout Bernard speakes And by this time we see the reason why the Pope aboue Rome and Rome aboue all Citties Inter Caput extulit vrbes haue exalted themselues These 5. things considered will cleere it 1 A primacy in regard of the Empire 2 The chiefe men elected Popes excellent Schollers woorthy Martyrs This made the people wing on that side 3 The Emperour translated to the East The Pope getting the vpper hand of his deputy at Rome the Emperor curbing the Bishop of Constantinople the Latine Church grew strong and the Greeke weake 4 The leuity of the Greeke Church giuen to nouelties distracted with heresies suffering of Bishops opposite to their Church euen within their walls was the cause that compelled the better sort of Bishops to appeale to Rome for succour and of the credit of that Sea 5 The Emperour still withdrawing his forces the Cleargy of Rome ouer-ballancing the temporalty Propter imperium gaue aduantage as stirrups for the man of Pride to raise himselfe by the helpe of Phocas and such wicked Pages that lifted him vp into that seate where now hee sits Although all the Fathers that speake of Order and Gregory and Hierome themselues so much runne vppon that worde Aequaliter yet now ambition teares in peeces those brazen steppes where Deuotion before did weare it selfe and we are wearied with the weight of this great head that is vpon vs that neuer yet could bee set vppon the shoulders of Russia and Armenia and other places and now wee may pray with DAVID Lord saue vs from the Horne of the Vnicorne because this head hath made the most precious home of the Church an Instrument of Murther and of diuision rather then Vnion Be it so that will not content them to be Lords ouer vs but our Faith also They will haue an infallibility of Determination That must depend vpon that Chaire and to this we must be reconciled and so we must thinke vnder paine of damnation This Question was canuassed at Cambridge before the King It must determine and therefore necessary One Tribunall necessary to determine matters of Faith Non vnum vniuersum supremum Tribunal saide the King vppon that ground The Deane of Paules Loquebatur in puncto Doctor Cary. as the Prouer be is His wordes were like goades and nailes sharp and sure How wittily and substantially did hee prooue that there was to bee had the last resolution of Faith that Christ instituted that infallible that it was most expedient to be so that Christ foresaw it to be so expedient that the Church could not be one body without it that there could not be without it a iust vniting of the parts of the Church that there could be no vnity of Faith that without it Hereticks could not be conuinced nor lay men in the Church that the vnity of the Church was more preserued by it that no Heresies were condemned without that Bishops consent and that hce had the definitiue sentence If any were giuen by others yet they had recourse to the Pope for confirmation as in the Mileuitan Councell So pithily disputing that it was enough to haue plucked out a mans eyes as the preaching of Paul to the Galathians and led him by a blinde Iesuiticall obedience to thinke so The King certainly admired the frame of his arguments and therefore impatient of interruption bad them let the Deane goe on A frame indeed Aut hoc inclusi ligno occultantur Achiui Aut aliquis latet error equo ne credite Teucri I had not spoken so much of him but in remembrance of S. Iohns That hath brancht out this goulden Candlesticke to beautifie one of the most famous Churches in this King dome Greg. ep Reg. 12. Indu 11. cp 7. S. Pauls in the time of Gregory the Great complained for want of light this cannot howsoeuer in the other I am sure not in the spirituall sence I haue done with him euen in his Relation something may be collected to vnsettle that opinion of dependance vpon the person of that One as cheefe in matters of faith because wee take our leuell of beleefe rather from the matter then the person you shall know him by his fruits Mat. 7.15 nnt his fruits by him It is Christs order not Quis but Quid. The Pope as a Graduate or Catholique Priest may erre not in his Chaire There is not Quid but Quis not what he speaks but what he is the order of Christ peruerted and so giue me at the last leaue to perswade you by the second point That this dependance vpon this one person may bee a cause rather of diuision and separation then of that Reconciliation that is so much implied and so furiously perswaded Now let vs looke backe and see whether wee can be reconciled to that Church which before that head could be set on that bodie caused more distractions and bloud-shed of the Lords seruants then was in any part of Christendome And why did Chrysostome complaine in his time that the Bishop of Rome had filled the Churches with bloud and defiled the holy Eucharist with murthers well it might haue beene preuented if Peters successour had done to his fellow Bishops as Peter to Paul Gal. 2.9 giuen the right hand of fellowship or if they would as Gregory doth

and whatsoeuer is not grounded vpon his promise hath but a sandy foundation whose promise doth establish euery mans right which houldeth his right from God and so professes This did Iacob know and this did he acknowledge It was the phrase of Esau his brother Gen. 33.9 and the manner of his speech that hee vses speaking of his possessions Brother I haue enough Like the rich miser in the Gospell Soule take thine ease thou hast enough laid vp for many yeares but Iacobs answer is in another tenor God hath had mercy on mee therefore I haue all things Doubtlesse euery good thing and euery perfect gift commeth downe from aboue from the Father of lights but shall wee obserue out of the Pronoune Tibi vpon whom this gift is bestowed It is that wherein the goodnesse and power and wisedome of God did most gloriously manifest it selfe 3 Tibi 1 To thee Iacob whom I haue chosen of purpose before thou wast borne that thou mayest giue all glory to mee Before thou hadst done good or bad I saide Iacob haue I loued 2 To thee I giue it whom I deliuered from the bloudy hands of Esau that sought thy life from the treacherous conspiracy of him whom I ordained to be thy seruant and to bow to thee and by this thy deliuerance I witnesse that thou art preserued for some excellent worke 3 To thee will I giue it to whom I haue reuealed this Ladder the onely true way to heauen by which the gate of Heauen is open vnto thee and a continuall commerce is had betwixt heauen and earth by which I standing at the toppe will bee thy GOD and my Angels shall bee thy fellowes Ascending and Descending to defend thee and thy Dominions To thee will I giue whom I haue so instructed in the knowledge of my Sonne CHRIST who is the onely Ladder that knits heauen and earth together the sole mediator betwixt God and man the foote of whose humanity standeth vpon earth the top of whose Diuinity reacheth vnto Heauen Endeuour more and more to settle and establish this Ladder in the land where thou sleepest and this Ladder shall establish the land to thee and thy seede for euer Thou well perceiuest what Ladder this is no peeced ladder as some dreamers haue dreamed but intire of it selfe the way to heauen is not peeced out eyther by Saint or Angel or any other but by Christ alone standing on earth reaching along vnto the highest Heauen Neither is this way so easie as some haue slaunderously reported that wee teach and as flesh and bloud is prone to beleeue wee shall not be carried to Heauen in a Fether-bed but we must climbe a Ladder If we be carried as Elias was in a chariot t' will be a fierie Chariot If we will climbe we must take paines for the way is long and the impediments many That our Church did euer teach a Theoricall Faith without practise is a meere slander Wee must apprehend and lay hold on this Ladder with the hand of Faith climbe euery steppe of it with the feete of our affections in being conformable to the Sonne of God or else wee shall neuer attaine that which we expect so hath God predestinated his to be Rom. 8.29 1 The first steppe is his Conception and Birth vnto which wee must bee conformable in our regeneration and new birth 2 To his Circumcision in the cutting the Foreskinne of our hearts that wee may bleed in remorse for our wicked life 3 To his infancy by conuerting and becomming as little children else we can neuer enter into the kingdom of God 4 To his Baptisme by our washing and purification from dead workes 5 To his Life by learning his humility meekenesse patience and obedience to his Fathers will 6 To his Death by mortification and fruites of repentance which if it bee a godly repentance What care will it worke What indignation What feare what zeale what reuenge euen to the crucifying of our selues vnto the World 7 To his Resurrection in newnes of life good works but here commonly wee make a stand as though wee were out of breath if one of the Sonnes of thunder do not vrge vs forward 8 To his Ascension by deuotion hauing our conuersation in heauen where Christ sits at the right hand of God From the foote of his conception to the height of his Ascension we must climbe if euer we meane to reigne with him this Ladder did God reueale to Iacob which Iacob did well consider therefore saith God to thee will I giue the land that thou maist settle this Ladder in the land 4 To thee Iacob will I giue it that thou maist bee as thy name is a supplanter or a wrastler to supplant Esau and all prophane Edomites out of the holy Land to wrastle with many crosses and all impediments which hinder GODS glory and good gouernment for the old Serpent is a supplanter still and will neuer leaue biting at the heeles to make vs fall backward from God Christians thought themselues secure when Gouernours who vsed before to persecute them were become Christians Great cause they had to reioyce but none to bee secure Imperatores factisunt Christiani sed nunquid Diabolus factus Christianus Though Emperors become Christians and the most sincere Christians become Emperors so long as the Deuill is aliue and Walketh Iacob must wrestle still that hee may become Israell to preuaile with God and man Pray wee that our Iacob may so preuaile as Israell did not so much by his sword as by his true sincerity 5 To thee Iacob and thy seede Heere will I rest and proceede no further The promise was to thy progenitors in part but to thee intier I was the God of Abraham but in the line of Isaak only I made a promise to Isaak but in the line of Iacob but to thee and thy seede without limit The family of Abraham was diuided betwixt Isaak and Ismael whom men called Ismaelites The family of Isaak was diuided into Iacob and Esau and his were called Edomites but the family of Iacob vnited all the Tribes which became one Church one Body one Kingdome knowne by the name of Israel and doubtlesse had Salomon preserued that vnity and vniformity of Religion which before was established the house of Iacob had neuer beene diuided But Salomon diuided religion wherein Gods kingdome consisteth betwixt God and idols therefore did God in his iust iudgement rent his kingdome betwixt Ieroboam and Rehoboam But in Iacob it was vnited wherein hee was a type of the chiefe corner stone Christ Iesus who vnited many Nations into one euerlasting Kingdome A fit subiect for Simeons song Mine eyes haue seene thy saluation which thou hast prepared to be a light to lighten the Gentiles and to bee the glory of thy people Israell an admirable patterne for Princes how to carry themselues in their kingdomes For such was the dispensation of God that tooke away contempt on one side and enuy on