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cause_n	body_n	great_a	life_n	1,451	5	4.1995	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11924	A Godlye sermon preached before the Queens Most Excellent Maiestie vpon the 17, 18, 19 verses of the 16 chapter of S. Mathew vvherein is contained the conclusion of a dialogue betweene Christ and his disciples, shewing breefely that the authoritie which the Pope of Rome doth challenge to himselfe is vnlawfully vsurped : very necessarie for these perilous times wherein the simple may perceiue their intollerable impietie, vsurping that office and action which euer appertayned vnto Christ only : published at the request of sundry godly and well disposed persons.		1585 (1585)	STC 22237; ESTC S2330	39,008	98

the same Epistle of his flesh his bones for saith he Christ nourisheth and cherisheth his Church Ephe. 5.30 because we are members of his bodie flesh and bones wherefore if the Church be the bodie of Christ and God hath appointed Christ to be the head thereof and that head be of the same nature and substance of the same flesh and bone the rest of the bodie is what cause is there to make any other head except we should thinke either that one head not to be sufficient to giue life and to rule the bodie or to be too mightie and of too great rule and authoritie and therefore do adioyne another thereunto as when two Consuls or Caesares be created of one place the one to abridge the others power and might But neither of these inconueniences can be feared in Christ and therfore we néede not to assigne another head to his bodie Besides the head of the Church is that part of the bodie which giueth life nourisheth and augmenteth the whole bodie of the faithfull vnto eternall life but who doth or can performe this but onely Christ euen as a man cherisheth his own flesh so nourisheth he the Church which consisteth of his own flesh and bone as the Apostle Paul testifieth he therefore is the onely head There is the same reason betweene Christ and his church that is betwéene man and wife as the same Apostle testifieth for as the husbande is the wiues head so Christ is the head of the church as the church is in subiection to Christ so the wiues to their husbands As Christ loued his church so wiues their husbands As wiues are their husbandes flesh so is the church the flesh of Christ So that then he that is the head of the church is the husband and spouse thereof For therefore he is the head because he is the husband but there is but one husband therefore whosoeuer shall make any other head of the church then Christ must also make another husbande if another husband then an adulterer and the church an harlot for one wife cannot haue two bridegromes or husbandes Paul sayth of the Corinthians I haue prepared you for one husband to present you a pure virgin to Christ Iohn Baptist in the Euangelist Iohn sayeth he is the bridegrome his Apostles be the only ministers frinds of the bridegrome they are only the makers of the mariage betwéen Christ his church How can Peter then be accounted as the head of Gods church Christ himselfe being the head and the husband thereof Let him therefore be estéemed as a minister frinde of the spouse as Christ himselfe hath termed him and all the rest of the Apostles and no further And surely it is not lightly to be regarded that after Christ had said to Peter thou art Peter and vpon this rocke will I build my church whereby they would establish a chiefetie preheminence giuen him ouer all other the Apostles and congregation of God arising this controuersie among them which of them should be the greatest and that euen then when he was readie to go to suffer depart from them supposing as it shoulde séeme after the departure of Christ some one of them should be chief and beare rule ouer the rest euen then our Sauiour Christ beateth downe vtterly that conceite and imagination of theirs shewing that rule and soueraintie belongeth vnto Kings and Princes The Kings of the Gentiles they reigne they beare rule they are called gratious Lordes But ye shal not be so it shal not be so among you whosoeuer wil be the chiefe among you let him be your seruaunt and he setteth himselfe an example before them that he came not to haue seruice done vnto him but to serue and to giue his life for the redemption of many Hereby although it were the especiall purpose of our Sauiour Christ to take away that ambition which reigned in his disciples by reason they dreamed to obtaine by him an earthly and terrestriall kingdome notwithstanding being so often occasioned to declare thorough their desire of soueraintie and rule and especially before his death passion whome after his death he would leaue his deputie and vicegerent of whome they should depende and be gouerned it may giue iust occasion to thinke that as when he was conuersant with them in flesh he would not giue any supremacie or preheminence to any one more than to another but made them all equall so also after his ascension he would haue them so continue especially the reason of Christ being such as is appliable to the whole course of this life This strife and contention would not haue risen if they had knowne at any time Christ had appointed Peter their chiefe gouernour or else might easily haue béene ended if aunswere had béene made by Christ that Peter was he who shoulde be in his stead after his death But what if this doctrine of theirs be contrary to the groundes of our faith shall we think then their interpretation to be true if Peter be the rocke wheron the church is to be built then must the church also beléeue in Peter for the church cannot be built but by faith and beliefe but to beléeue in Peter is to ascribe that to the creature which onely is to be yelded vnto the creatour and therefore it cannot want great impietie to giue this vnto Peter which they doe Besides the church of God containeth the whole companie of the faithful euen from the beginning of the worlde vnto the ende why then if Peter be the rocke of the whole and vniuersall church of Christ then must the faithfull that were before Peter was born be founded vpon Peter and depend on him as their head but to affirme that I think cannot want absurditie therefore except you will make euen the visible church of God to haue had many visible heads this their assertion must prooue but a vaine imagination If we further call to minde that which Paul writeth of Peter that hee was the Apostle of the Iewes onely and Paul himselfe the Apostle of the Gentiles can Peter be accounted the foundation and head of the vniuersall church when as to preach vnto the Gentiles belonged not to him this reason driueth Cardinall Poole into such streightes that whereas other of his adherents saye Peter was appointed head of the church here other immediatly after his resurrection he is compelled to saye that Peters supremacie tooke no place before Paules conuersion for that before that Peter could not represent the person of Christ and leaue twelue Apostles to figure vnto vs the twelue tribes of Israell Wherefore these things being well weyghed together first that the Apostle flatly setteth downe that no man can or ought to laye any other foundation then Christ himselfe the Corinthians seeking especially to depende vppon some one principally as their cheife teacher I denying it to bee lawfull for them to depende vppon Cephas himselfe who was Peter Secondly