of the Arrians sayd That foure or fiue persons with their Athanasius woulde trouble the peace of the world To whom Liberius the Bishop of Rome answered That his solitude or fewnesse did not any whit diminish the worde of faith As for the declining estate of the Church wee are giuen to wit That when the sonne of man shall come before whose coÌ„ming Antichrist shall seduce the world Neque fides Matt. 24.12 37. neque charitas inuenta erit in terra isti dies erunt tanquaÌ„ dies Noah Lot There shall neither faith nor charity be found on the earth and those dayes shal be as the daies of Noah Lot c. The Eclipse then of this Moone shal be as it were vniuersal al the whole earth being put betweene the Church the sunne And therefore if we shall finde no other direction in such darknes then the multitude we shall haue no part with that litle nomber So much for multitude whereof the Papists make great account Nowe will I speake a litle of Succession which you my brethren take to bee a very substantiall argument of the trueth But Christ saith in the 23. of Matthewe In cathedra Mosis sedent Scribae Pharisaei By order of Succession the Scribes and Pharises sit in Moses chaire Annas and Caiphas touching Succession were aswel Bishops as Aaron and Eleazar Of Succession S. Paul saith to the faithfull at Ephesus Scio quod post discessum meum intrabunt lupi rapaces ex vobis ipsis exurgent viri peruersa loquentes I knowe that after my departure hence rauening wolues shall enter and succeede mee and out of yourselues there shall by Succession spring vp men speaking peruersly Therfore S. Hierome saith Non sanctorum filii sunt qui tenent loca sanctorum They bee not alwayes the children of holy men that by succession haue the places of holy men Notwithstanding the Pope himselfe will say as it is before alledged In Papasi desint bona acquisita per meritum sufficiunt quae a loci praedecessore praestantur If the Pope want good things by his own merits the good thinges which hee hath by SuccessioÌ„ of Peter his predecessor are sufficient And the glose vpon Petrus fecit Papas haeredes bonitatis suae Peter made the Popes heires of his goodnes by Succession And againe Papa recipit a cathedra sanctitateÌ„ The Pope receiueth his holines by succession of his chaire Such affiance sometime had the Scribes and Pharises in their succession therefore they sayde Ioh. 8.33 53. We are the children of Abraham Vnto vs hath God made his promises art thou greater then our father Abraham Iohn 9.29 As for Christ we know not from whence hee came or what can he shewe for his succession And when our Sauiour went about to reforme the abuses and errors they sayde vnto him Matt. 21.23 Iohn 2.18 By what power doest thou these things and who gaue thee this authoritie where is thy succession Vpon which wordes Beda saith Beda in Matth. 21. Intelligi volunt diaboli esse quod fecit They woulde haue the people vnderstand for that he had no solemne succession that al that he did was of the deuill Cyrillus Carena in Luc. 39. And Cyrillus frameth their words in this sort Tu ortus ex Iuda commissos nobis fasces vsurpas Thou beeing of the tribe of Iuda and therefore hauing no right vnto the priesthoode takest vpon thee the office that is committed vnto vs. Likewise Chrysostom imagineth the Pharises thus to say Chrysost in Mat. Hom. 39. Tu de sacerdotali familia natus non es Senatus tibi hoc non concessit Caesar non donauit Thou art not of the house of priests the Councill hath not graunted it thee the Emperour hath not giuen it thee Thus to mainteine themselues in credit for that they had succession and continuance from Aaron and sate in Moses chaire they kept Christ quite out of possession Matt. 23.2 and sayd vnto him then euen as you my brethren saye nowe vnto vs Who euer taught vs this pernitious doctrine before what ordinary succession of persons and vocation haue we what Bishop admitted vs who confirmed vs who allowed vs Therefore good christian hearers let not these the Papistes great wordes much abash vs. The Scribes Pharises in the like cases vsed the like language long ago But let me aske you a question Howe can you shewe any demonstration or probabilitie that the succession of your church is lawfull If there were any church that could alledge succession of persons it were the church of the Iewes for they were of the house of Aaron from the father to the sonne and besides them none might sacrifice Moreouer to them it was promised that they should continue so for euer And in deed when the Prophets exhorted them to reformation they had no other thing in their mouth but this Lex a Sacerdote non peribit neque consilium a sapiente neque verbum a propheta The lawe shall not perish from the priest nor the counsell from the wise nor the word from the Prophet But the spirit of the Lorde answered them Quomodo dicitis SapieÌ„tes sumus Iere. 8.8 lex Iehouae penes nos est vtique ecce ad falsitateÌ„ operatur stylus ad falsitatem operantur legis periti fecerúntne sapientes vt erubescerent consternatÃne sunt capti ecce verbum Iehouae spernunt eccuius rei sapientia inesset eis Howe say ye We are wise and the lawe of the Lord is with vs For it is in vaine that the pen is made and that there is a scribe wise men are confounded and seeing that they haue reiected the worde of the Lord what shal be their wisdome any more In like maner when the Iewes boasted to Iesus Christ that they were of the seede of Abraham Iohn 8.44 I know it wel saith he but the deuil is your father And in very deede this successiue and hereditarie wisdome crucified Christ and reiected saluation offred vnto them as also this self same successioÌ„ although it be only pretended worshippeth Antichrist and interteyneth her owne perdition Moreouer I demande what these alledgers of succession would haue answered to the Arrians Samosetans Nestorians c. who had their beginning continued from the first Bishops euen to themselues and namely to Nestorius and Samosetanus both which were lawfully called to the patriarchal churches the one to Constantinople and the other to Antioch Also what will you answere to the succession alledged by al the Greeke and east churches To be short to the reformed churches of England DeÌ„mark SwetheÌ„ a great part of Almaigne through all which there is at this daye this succession from Bishop to bishop from Pastor to Pastor If you wil alledge the Popes succession wee deny it you it is another question If simply succession you haue lost your cause If your doctrine then we gaine this poynt that the simple
it me and I shall haue it and in the hauing of it I shall magnifie thy Name extoll thy power marueile at thy mercy Thou hast had speciall regard to my fraile estate and safetie of my soule I had once lost the precious pearle of thy blessed Gospell Matth. 13.45 46. which is the true iewel of all christian ioy but by thy gratious gift I haue found it againe in consideration whereof Christian duety bindeth me to take the sacrifice of thankesgiuing Psal 116.12 13. and burne the same vpon the altar of an humble heart that the redolent perfumed incense thereof ascending vp into heauen Psal 51.17 may be acceptable to thy diuine Maiestie whose speciall delight is in such a burnt sacrifice and oblation A discouerie or laying open of my zeale in Poperie and howe I preached before that Antichrist of Rome and also of the causes of my most happie conuersion to the trueth IT is not yet a twelue-moneth past good Christian audience welbeloued brethren in our sauiour Christ since that before some of you nowe prysoners and thē my scholefelowes I preached as you knowe commaunded by our superiours at Rome in defence of the Romishe Religion which nowe God be thanked therefore being reduced by the godly and dayly counsell of the ryght worshipfull Syr Owyn Hopton Knight Lieutenant of her Highnesse Towre of London the strōg pith thy perswasions of learned Preachers which through his meanes and permission had accesse vnto me and the hearing of their fruiteful sermons confirmed by the true and liuely word of Christ Iesus I vtterly detest How earnest I was then in perswading the English Students to embrace Papistrie and in exhorting you sometimes my Scholefellowes as the Popes Apostles faythfully to doe your message constātly to take the crosse of Christ vpon you in all troubles and afflictions and couragiously to abide Martyrdome I thinke you haue in remembrance About halfe a yeere past Anno. 1580. I was also requested by the Prefect or Master of the English Studēts named father Peter Iesuite a Spaniarde borne to make a Sermon in the Latin tongue vpon the festiual day of Peter ad Vincula certayne English Doctours of the citie and some of the Popes Chappel with other strāgers being present at dinner I preached then contrary to the true Religion against faith the buckler of our defence the Towre of refuge the enemie of desperatiō the comfortresse of the afflicted and the perfecte way to saluation I preached also repugnantly to maintaine popish idolatrie against the heauenly Gospell the newe Testament and last wil of our Sauiour Christ Thus dyd I wilfully fyght agaynst Gods worde albeit my conscience cryed within me day night This is not the right way to get eternall life thou must worship God Apoc. 22.9 and not a stocke or stone Well it pleased God of his mercifull goodnesse to visite me with grieuous sicknesse both of bodie and minde two dayes after I made this Latin Sermon which was the Wednesday after S. Peter ad Vincula his day August 5. Truely then lying very sicke in my bedde and more like to die then liue conscience so pricked and disquieted me that I feared condemnation my conscience alwayes suggesting and as it were telling me Papistrie to bee an idolatrous and superstitious religion Yet for all that I thought that religion to haue bene best although I disputed often against the same insomuch that many of my scholefelowes suspected me to haue bin an heretike for so terme they Protestantes Act. 24.14 One of you that was prefecte of our chamber in the Englishe Seminarie may easely gather that I was no true louer of the Gospel when as I so sharply spake and preached against the professors therof And how vnwisely I slept in the coldest time of the yere the last winter vpon hard boards forsaking my bedde 1. Reg. 18.28 Luk. 18.12 howe I scourged my selfe with whipcordes and how I fasted twise in the weeke you may coniecture by this that I was a Papist which woulde seeke so to shorten mine owne life you knowe also how I tooke thereby a vehement cough with continuall spitting which since your departure grewe to a dangerous disease wherof I thanke God I am nowe recouered My Confessor dyd aduise me to such and so extreme discipline and correction of my bodie as had I stil followed his directions I had bene dead yer nowe and put in the grotte for graues haue they none at Rome but Vawtes If this be good or wholsome counsel for a man so to correct himself that hee shall bee the cause of his owne death iudge you But I left those superstitions and suffered reason to rule my wil before it was too late and hauing recouered my health I presented my selfe before the Pope and obteyned leaue to goe to Rheims for that the ayre there was more tēperate I had before that time made an Oration a Sermon in the Latin tongue presēted before the Pope and foure Cardinals and before all them that were with the Pope in the Consistorie If you my brethren yet prisoners within the Towre deny the assertion thereof yet to your shame and my credit they that shall goe to Rome for pleasure sake may safely goe to the Popes Protonotary dwelling fast by Saint Peters church in the inquisitory palace or to any of his clarkes and there make inquisition of my name which is registred in three great paper volumes of such as are alwaies present wryting in chambers to whom all men without daunger may resorte where turning to my name they shall finde the Sermon and Oration conteyning tenne sheetes in Paper for the which the Pope gaue me great thankes and so did the Cardinals with all the rest Moreouer which I had almost forgotten being before the Pope I had a wallet for foure Priestes and a Doctor others full of Agnus deis Grana benedicta Medellas Crosses and Beades with other trasshes and forasmuch as I had neuer before that tyme seene the Pope blessing wallets I did hold the wallet before him and would haue had him to hold it vpon his lappe and so to haue blest it with his red cappe Well I neuer drewe backe my hand from him vntill extraordinarily he had blest it three times which before that time as I thinke was neuer seene So that England is happie which hath gotten such a wallet with so many blessings wherby perhaps they may deliuer their Grandsiers apace out of purgatory it is a strange thing to see what vertue may be thrust into a wallet O vnwise people that trust to such trasshes If I had money plentie I would get you a thousand blessings but God blesse vs all from such hypocriticall benedicities Well concerning my iourney I forsooke Fraunce came not at Rheins but traueiled thorowe Germany and arryued in Englande and was within eight dayes taken prisoner and brought to the Towre and being there kept in prison
no cauill The signification and substance of the Sacrament is to shew vs how we are fed with the body of Christ that is that like as materiall bread feedeth our bodie so the body of Christ nayled on the crosse embraced eaten by faith feedeth the soule The like representatiō is also made in the Sacrament of Baptisme that as our body is washed cleane with water so our soule is washed cleane with Christes blood Therefore S. Aug. saith Nisi Sacramēta similitudinem quandam earum rerum quarum Sacramēta sunt haberent omninò Sacramenta non essent If Sacraments had not a certaine likenes and representation of the thinges whereof they be sacraments then in deede they were no Sacraments This representation Rabanus Maurus lib. 1.23 expoundeth thus Quia panis corpora confirmat ideò ille congruenter corpus Christi nuncupatur quia vinum sanguinem operatur in carne ideo refertur ad sanguinem Because not the accidents or formes of bread but bread it selfe confirmeth the body therefore it is conueniently called the body of Christ And because wine worketh bloud in the flesh therfore it hath relatiō vnto the blood so likewise saith Druthmarus in Matth. cap. 28. Vinum laetificat sanguinem auget ideo non inconuenienter sanguis Christi per hoc significatur This I speak briefly of the sacrament of your Masse Reade the olde and newe Testament marke if you finde any one word directly or indirectly secretly or plainely which speaketh nigh or farre of the sacrifice of your Masse which is in controuersie betweene vs. Contrariwise see if you doe not finde therin from line to line that Christ is the onely sacrifice once offered vp for all that there is one onely washing in the bloud of Christ that there is one only God to be called vpō in the onely name of Iesus Christ If you finde there the doctrines which we cōdemne then in heart voyce condemne vs and cry fagot fire against vs. If not recant then be sory for your errors cry God the Queene mercy Be sorowful that you haue miscalled our soueraigne Lady and that you haue sayd you would burne her bones and burne all them of her most honorable counsel that fauoured not your cursed attempts eyther aliue or dead Many of whose names I could rehearse but for certaine causes I wil put the first letter of their names let L. serue the roome of a Lorde and S. of a Knight B. for a Bishop c. L.K. who is dead L. T. who is aliue E. L. aliue E. B. aliue E. W. aliue E. H. S. F. K. S. F. W. S. H. S. M. R. of L. Ar. B. of C. M. D. of C. and all such as haue punished or fauoured not their idolatrous religion B. of L. M. D. of P. L. D. of Yor. L. B. of Win. who is dead B. of Salisb D. of Salisb M. I. F. preacher at London D. H. at Oxenforde D. F. preacher at Cambridge with diuers others vpon whom you sayd you would shew no mercy A man had neede to take heede of such as yet you are who make men beleeue for all this their spight and malice towards their own natiue soyle which they greatly wish to be destroyed with fire sword famine this am I able to verifye by such as are already conuerted to the trueth of Christ his Gospell and yet I haue omitted many things of their hatred practises against this Realme of Englād that they hazard their liues to saue our soules from hell whereas in very deede they haue wrought as much as lieth in them our eternall damnation and so inwardly are rauening woolues what do they teach our Englishmen but that the Pope is supreme head that if they will be saued they must acknowledge the Pope to be soueraine Lord This they teach without proofe of scripture Saint Cyprian sayth Cyprian de simplic praelat in senten Episc in lib. 1. Epist 5. Vnum esse Episcopatum cuius quilibet Episcopus tenet suam partem integrā sine diuisione Praeterea nullum sui tēporis vocasse aut fecisse seipsum Episcopū Episcoporum aut tyrannide suos sibi subiecisse socios That is that there is but one Bishopricke of which euery Byshop holdeth his part wholy without any diuision Also that none of his time eyther called or made himselfe Bishop of Byshops eyther made through tyrannie his companions subiect to his obedience Also he complayning that prophane men Schismatiques withdrew themselues to the Byshop of Rome sayeth that there were none that did so but certeyne desperate and wicked felowes perswading themselues that the Bishops of Affricke haue lesse power then the Bishop of Rome Saint Chrysost sayeth in homil 83. in Matt. cap. 23. Quicunque Episcoporum primatum in terra desiderabit confusionem in coelis reperiet et qui caput omniū esse contendet non cōputabitur in numero seruorum Christi Whosoeuer sayth hee of the Byshops shall desire supremacie in earth he shal finde confusion in heauen and he that shal desire to be the chiefe he shall not be reputed in the number of the seruants of Christ Loe here the fathers of your owne Church say that the Pope is not supreme head As for scriptures reade them throughly and you shal not finde one onely text to ground your supremacie vpon Wherfore good brethren seeing that your owne Doctors speake against you bee reconciled with me that am conuerted by Gods grace and the industrie of his instrumēts the right worshipful sir Owyn Hopton knight the Queenes Maiesties Lieutenant of this towre of London diuers godly preachers Be with me reconciled I say and let vs with one accord embrace the truth and become loyall and obedient subiectes to our soueraigne Lady Queene Elizabeth who so graciously fauourably dealeth with vs that whereas forsaking our countrey submitting our selues to the gouernment or rather tyrannie of an Italian priest wee haue deserued the heauie wrath of our louing Queene to be punished with death by our recantation our trespasse may be forgotten life graunted wee brought into fauour againe Wherefore my louing brethren considering the promise of the bountifull clemencie of our gracious Queene ready at al times to pardō our rebellious and traiterous offences committed against her Maiestie and the dayly labour that this right worshipful knight sir Owyn Hopton by name taketh to cōuert vs to the trueth of the Gospel recant recant cast not away wilfully your bodyes and soules to endlesse paine shorten not your dayes which God hath lent you here vpon earth to do good and make not an ende of thē in a bad cause Allowe not the Popes supremacie canons of council decrees of fathers constitutions of men rites and ceremonies pardons and indulgences inuocation of saintes merites by workes pilgrimage masses diriges trentalles images pictures reliques altars shrines liues of fayned saintes false miracles visions dreames fantasies such other trashes without warrāt of Gods worde as it appeareth to the world in your sermōs Romish postils And in fine be not Pharises set not light by the Gospel of Iesus Christ forsake not the law of God to folowe after the traditions of men In vanum mihi seruiunt saith our sauiour Christ in the Gospell of saint Matthew 15. cum nihil aliud docent quà m traditiones hominū In vaine do they serue me while they teach such doctrines as are nothing but the commandements of men Say not that there be seuen sacraments seeing the Church of God receiueth but two numero paucissima August de doct Christi lib. 3. cap. 9. ad Ianuar Epi. 118. of the smallest number as Augustine writeth which are Baptismus trinitatis nomine cōsecratus cōmunicatio corporis sanguinis ipsius Baptisme halowed in the name of the trinitie and the communicating of his blessed body and blood figured in the olde Testament by the circumcision and the paschall lambe Repent my brethren repent and crye to God for grace and mercy Let it neuer grieue you to returne from these princes of darkenes the deuill and the Pope And in deede what haue you seene in the court of Rome Christ in exile and Antichrist reigne in his stead Beelzebub the iudge wolues let loose and the lambes in the stocks Ah good God who shall deliuer the world from this oppression who shall gather together the sheepe who shall reproue and conuince the wicked pastors Shall there neuer be a limitation and ende of this intolerable mischiefe Howe long shal the Pope and his shauelings who haue neyther fayth godlines nor trueth deceiue thy poore sheepe Howe long shal the sonne of perdition reigne ouer thy flocke who being but a man lifteth vp him selfe aboue Kings yea aboue Angels and aboue the heauen of heauens and hath caused men to dispute that hee is not * Pope Innocentius De transl C. quanto Prohoem Clement Glossa Papa stupor mundi The Pope is the wonder of the world simply a man but a partaker of the diuine nature with Christ and that he hath the fountaine roote of the spirite of Christ in him To be short whereas thou O Christ hast submitted thy self vnder heauen earth and hell he wil cōmaund kings angels Gloss extrau de sede ad Apostolatus Distinct 40. C. si Papa deuils all vnder colour of the key of the word which thou hast deliuered to thy ministers I aske thou being God and made man for the saluation of the worlde how it can bee that this man which maketh himselfe God shoulde be any other then that sonne of perdition come for the perdition of the worlde Thou that hast bene wounded for our transgressions and smitten for our iniquities with whose stripes we are healed gouerne helpe and succour thy flocke let Antichrist perish and be discomfited by the breath of thy holy mouth and abolished by the brightnesse of thy blessed wished comming Come Lorde Iesu come quickly for thy names sake Let all the people saye Amen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 FINIS ¶ Jmprinted at London by Christopher Barker Printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie Anno 1581.
succession of persons without the succession of doctrine is nothing worth With this sentence of Pope Adrian the fourth I end to discourse any further of antiquitie of persons Succedimus non Petro in pascendo sed Romulo in parricidio We succeede not Peter in feeding but Romulus in killing And so is it truely for you shall haue no Pope that teacheth the people howe to liue in the true feare loue of God but such an one as persecuteth and killeth the Christians that cherefully embrace and comfortably receiue the glad tydinges of the Gospell Thus being commanded to instruct the ignorant and to feede them with the heauenly word of God he practiseth tyrannie against them Wherfore this is an euident signe that if wee should seeme to grant which in no case is to be graunted the succession of Peter vnto your Bishop of Rome that he doeth farre degenerate from the diligence of Saint Peter who had more care to saue soules then to become riche famous in the face of the earth yea to haue all men subiect vnto him euen Emperours and kings to kisse his foote Your Pope doeth alter from the doings of S. Peter for Saint Peter neuer warranted to any man the possession of heauen for monies sake but your Pope like a good pedler setteth all things to sale and he that bringeth most shal in heauen beare the greatest swaye Wherefore these wordes of Baptista Mantuanus are true speaking of the vnhappie state of Rome venalia nobis Templa sacerdotes altaria Sacra coronae Ignis thura preces coelū est venale Deusque Amongst vs in Rome churches priestes altars masses crownes fire incense prayer and heauen are set to sale yea God himselfe amongst vs may be had for mony Budaeus sayth Sanctiones Pōtificiae nō moribus regendis vsui sunt sed propemodum dixerim argentariae faciendae autoritatem videntur accommodare The Popes canons serue not nowe to guyde mens liues but if I may so say they serue rather to make a banke to get money Bernard of Clunice sayeth thus Roma dat omnibus omnia dantibus Omnia Romae cum pretio Rome giueth all things to them that giue all thinges All things at Rome wil passe for money Yea euen in the Popes own Decretals you shall find it noted thus in sexto de elect electi potestat fundamēta in margine Roma est caput auaritiae ideo omnia ibi venduntur Rome is the head of al couetousnes therfore al things there are set to sale Yea Thomas Becket himself whom you call a saint whose festiual day about Christmas time you keepe with great solemnitie Gul. Neub lib. 2. cap. 15 25. a fewe of his bones you keep in such reuerēce that God himselfe is not honored so much whē for his wilfull disobedience treason cōmitted against his prince he had fled for ayde and succour to Rome and sawe that nothing woulde be wrought there without mony wrote thus thereof to the Bishop of Menze Mater Roma facta est meretrix prostituta est pro mercede Rome our mother is become an harlot and for money and meede layeth her selfe to sale To be short you know that our fathers long sithens were wont to say Curia Romana non captat ouem sine lana The court of Rome wil not take the sheepe wtout the fliece Iohn 2. Matth. 21. Christ sometime thrust such byers sellers brokers and coarsers out of the Temple but contrariwise you haue receiued in byers and sellers and thrust out Christ and so haue turned the house of God into a denne of theeues Saint Paul sayth thus vnto the people of Ephesus Argentum aurum nullius concupiui I haue desired no mans golde or siluer Vpon which wordes in the glose it is noted thus Per hoc lupi cognoscuntur qui talia concupiscunt Hereby they that desire such things are knowne for wolues Saint Hierome saith Hierom. 1. quaest 1. lib. Nunquam diuinatio Quia Prophetae pecuniam accipiebant prophetia eorum facta est diuinatio For that the Prophets fel to taking of money therfore their prophecy was become a soothsaying that is to say it was of the Deuill and not of God This I saye that according to your dealing hee that is poore is not like to go to heauen but the rich is sure to be saued Nowe you alledge succession of places not farre vnlike to the Iewes who will inclose orbem in vrbe the whole worlde in one citie but we see that God hath chosen many out of Ierusalem the Church is not tyed therunto God hath suffred by his righteous will many Christiā churches to be turned into the tēples of the Turks as that of Ephesus founded by S. Paul S. Iohn that of Bonne in Barbarie where Saint Austin preached c. And further it is sayde there expresly Glossa communis in eum versiculum Apocal 12.8 c. that the Church of God for a long time by reason of the persecution of Antichrist shal retire herself into the wildernes as the common glose it selfe doeth expounde If euer there were church that might alledge succession of place it was Ierusalem for of it was said Deut. 12.11 2. Sam. 7.10 1. King 8.29 Dominus in hoc Templo in aeternum habitabit The Lord wil euermore dwell in this house Also ◠King 21.7 Psal 132.14 Elegi 〈…〉 hanc domum vt nomen meum 〈◊〉 in perpetuum maneat I haue chosen this house to the end that my name may dwell there for euer And therefore the Priests had no other answere to al the Prophets that reprooued them but this Templum Domini Iere. 7.4 Templum Domini The Temple of the Lorde the Temple of the Lorde But see what the Lorde himselfe answereth vnto them Ite sayth he ad locum meum in Shiloh vbi habitauit nomen meum a principio c. Go and see Shiloh I haue chosen it from the beginning for my house nowe see what I haue done vnto it for the wickednes of my people I wil do euen so to the place which I haue giuen vnto you and to your fathers But if you will that I dwell there amend your wayes turne from your euil deedes Now therefore I say if God hath forsaken his owne Temple for the iniquitie of the Priestes euen then when he had none besides erected in the whole worlde must we tye our selues to the church of Rome or to any other place where all the clymates of the world are equally his temple I can not but maruaile why any of our countrey men shoulde take the church of Rome to be the mother church of all churches and the same to be an article of our faith We are not expresly commanded by the word of God to acknowledge the church of Rome Caput mundi the head of the worlde neyther is it expressed in holy scripture that we are condemned