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cause_n	bishop_n	emperor_n	pope_n	2,535	5	6.7022	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68595	A briefe and piththie summe of the Christian faith made in forme of a confession, vvith a confutation of all such superstitious errours, as are contrary therevnto. Made by Theodore de Beza. Translated out of Frenche by R.F.; Confessio Christianae fidei. English	Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605.; Fills, Robert, fl. 1562.	1565 (1565)	STC 2007; ESTC S101755	149,544	418

the fyrst place I wyl speake of the Pope for as much as he calleth himselfe head of the Church with the Cardinals the Suffraganes Officials Proctours Vicars Chaplains Prouostes Priors with all their sequels I put in the seconde place the Archbyshoppes Bishoppes Curates Cannons Priests Deacons subdeacons Clarkes and such other officers As concerning the order of S. Peter and S. Paule ▪ S. Iherome wytnesseth sufficiently as appeareth also by theyr epistles For in y ● beginning there was no dyfference betweene Priest and Byshop But if they wyll regard that which hath happened since the bishop of Rome hath be not his limites and bondes assigned as the other ▪ Metropolitanes ▪ had in the fyrst counsell of Nicene confyrmed by the subsequence ▪ When S. Irene and S. Ciprian wrote to the Bishoppe of Rome yea in reprouing him sharplye did they call him by any other name then brother and fellowe Gregory the fyrst ▪ dyd he not detest the name and offyce of head Byshop or Patriarke declaring in more then twelue sundrye textes that it is the verie tytle of Antechriste Who hath conuocated the auncient vniuersall Sinodes Who hath assygned the place and the time Who hath enioyed namely the Bishoppes of Rome as well as all other to be there but the Emperour If they beléeue not vs nor the actes of the Counselles let them beléeue the requestes intercessions and excuses contayned in the Epystles of Leo the first a man amonge the rest full of ambition whiche neuerthelesse did not once thinke of that which his Successours hath vsurped Gregorie the first which they holde as a Saint did he cal the Emperour any otherwyse then his soueraigne Lorde Namely did not he witnes that it is by the commaundement of the Emperour that he was Bishoppe Much lesse then dyd the Pope make the Emperours In the tyme of Constantine in the cause of a Byshop of Carthage named Cecilian was not the Bishoppe of Rome with other Bishops Delegates as Iudges appoynted by the Emperour And afterwarde because there was an appeale from his iudgement the Byshop of Arle was hée not sent as Delegate by the Emperour for to knowe the cause of the appeale When Leo the first would extoll his preheminence by his Embassadours in the counsell of Calcedon although that whiche he pretended was a small thing in respecte of that which is done since was it not put backe and denyed quycklie by the Counsell Was it not expressely forbydden in the counsel Mileuitane where as Saynte Augustine was that from Affrica they should not appeale ouer the Sea And when thrée Popes one after another to wéete Zozinius Boniface and Celestine alleadged in the sixt counsell of Carthage a false Canon of the counsell of Nicene for to vsurpe iurisdyction ouer Affrica this falsehood was it not dyscouered and condempned by expresse letters In the whiche it is also declared to Celestine that hée hath not to doo to sende neyther Legates nor other of his parte into Affrica for as muche as it was not so ordayned in the Churche nor in no wyse to be receyued Now these testimonies being most true and certain by what tytle doth he call himselfe successour of Saint Peter and heade of the Churche vnder the shadowe of ordynaunces which they alleadged notoriously false and attributed vniustly to thrise whom they lyst As hath heretofore bene sayde and partlie also made by them selues after theyr owne appetyte agaynst God and all the auncient decrées of whome they woulde seeme to be the defenders Or shall it be for that about the yeare 607. Boniface the fowrth dyd bye fyrst of this horrible monster Phocas murderer of Maurice the Emperour his Maister the tytle of vniuersal head or Bishop which Gregorie his predecessour so earnestlye dyd refuse saying that it was the verye manifest tytle of Antichriste Or shall it bee because that Zacharie and Steuen the seconde for the rewarde of theyr cruelties and infamous treasons receyued the seigniorie of Italye whiche they afterward dyd call the patrimony of saint Peter This shall suffice them for this tyme for if it be néedefull to enter into further matter there is well wherewith to banket them of another sort Concerning Cardinals it were néedefull that they shoulde fyrst of all declare from whence they bee come the whiche were verye diffycill for them Certaynly if we wyll beléeue the godly iuglyng of that Synode which they haue attrybuted to Syluester Pope theyr natiuitie dyd begin at Constanstine But there is yet worsse then in so long a tyme and in so many Counsels so many bookes of the auncient Doctours there is made no more mencion of my Lord Cardinals tytles then if they had neuer béene hatched Wherefore if there were any then it must appeare that their office charge was very small And in déede it is euydently sene by that which they alledge of Syluester that they were none other but Deacons that is to say dystrybuters of the goodes of the poore euery one in hys quarter of the Towne of Rome at that time being deuided in 7. quarters which they called Cardines It is then no maruayle though they be not named by such thynges as concerne the affayres of the true doctrine or the gouernement thereof wherein they are not séene neyther doo they vnderstande what it meaneth But afterwarde when theyr Byshoppe was exalted the Priests of Rome would also bée a lofte and by this meanes the name of Cardinall was geuen to them and their authority encreased and grew vp For it was more then reason but that they shoulde haue part of the bootye And for to hyde or dissimule theyr originall they haue agreed to be called Cardinals as if they were those vpon whom the catholyke Churche were stayed as a gate hangeth vpon his post For Cardo signifieth a gate or doore poste But they are not determyned to leaue their tytle so long as they adde to them as Saynt Crosse Saynt Sabine and other The which declare yet playne their oryginall and firste offyce Yet that not withstandyng by a long space it was thought a straunge thing that a Cardynall of Rome should hold a Bishoprike for he could not haue it at Rome where hée must doo hys offyce of Elder or of Deacon and so féede his flocke And for to bee a Byshoppe and not to preache was a thyng no lesse straunge then to sée a Shephearde dwell in a Citie and be called Shephearde and to receyue the wages without kéeping or féeding any Sheepe Farre was it from theyr custome to bée absent from theyr charge and offyce or to haue a Vicar vnder them and yet lesse to kéepe them in the courts of kings and Princes and to be charged with Abbyes and Byshoprikes But after the horrible confusion was come then theyr charges and offyces were conuerted into dignities and my Lorde the Pope desyred no better then by these traffykes and meanes to entertaine himselfe with Kings