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A00769	A sermon had at Paulis by the co[m]mandment of the most reuerend father in god my lorde legate, and sayd by Ioh[a]n the bysshop of Rochester, vpo[n] qui[n]quagesom sonday, concernynge certayne heretickes, whiche tha[n] were abiured for holdynge the heresies of Martyn Luther that famous hereticke, and for ye kepyng and reteynyng of his bokes agaynst the ordinance of the bulle of pope Leo the tenthe.	Fisher, John, Saint, 1469-1535.	1526 (1526)	STC 10892; ESTC S109701	31,994	64

sede Petri apostoli cui pascendas oues suas post resurrectionem dominus commendauit vsque ad presentem episcopatū successio sacerdotum It holdeth me fyrste to be one of the churche the continuall succession that I se of popes one after an other fro the fyrst sittyng of Peter in the See apostolice to whom our sauiour commysed his flocke to be fedde vnto this present tyme. This holy doctour saint Augustyne cōsidred what name Christe gaue vnto Peter ▪ callynge hym Cephas whiche is as moche to saye as Petra or ●apis And he marked also well what promyse our sauioure dyd make vnto hym sayenge Et super hanc petram edificabo ecclesiam m●am And he obserued farther more howe that amonge all the other apostles onely the succession of Peter doth continue and to se the promyse of our sauiour thus truely put in effecte This was some thynge that made saynt Augustine to folowe constantly the doctryne of the churche An other is this Tenet ipsum cotholice nomen quod nō sine causa inter tam multas hereses ista ecclesia sola obtinuit That is to say and this thyng also kepeth me fast in the doctrine of the churche that this congregation whiche is deriuied from the see of Peter hath amonge so many heresies and agaynst so many heretickes only and nat withoutē cause opteyned this name Catholica that it is called the catholicke churche These two thynges dyd conferme and establisshe saint Augustine in the catho like faith And truely who that depely weyeth al these thynges shall thynke the same I say if he cōsydre depely with hym selfe fyrst that suche a maner of name Pet receiued of our sauiour Christe he was called Cephas whiche is as moche to saye as a stone This no man can denye Seconde if he considre howe that our sauiour sayde vnto Peter that vpon that stone he wolde buylde his churche agaynst the whiche the gates of helle shulde nat preuayle Thyrde if he remembre besyde this howe vnto the same Peter he seriously cōmysed his flocke to be fedde and to be gouerned Fourth if he considre that the true christen people whiche we haue at this day was deriuied by a continuall succession from the see of Peter For where is nowe the christen people of the region of Scithia whiche came of the succession of saynt Andrewe Be they nat nowe infidels Where is nowe the people of Ephesus and of all Asia whiche came of the succession of saynt John̄ Be they nat infidels Where is nowe the people of bothe Aethiops whiche came of the succession of saynt Mattheu saynt Mathye Be they nat infidels And breuely to say where is all the other people whiche came of the succession of the other apostles either they nowe be infidels or els schismatickes or other wyse deuided from the churche of Christe Fynally if he put vnto these that onely the successiō of Peter in dispite of al their ēnemyes dothe yet continue and yet beareth the name of the veray catholicke churche and so shall do vnto the worldis ende he shall se euidently that this multitude and this successiou is the veray churche of Christe agaynst the whiche the gates of hell shal neuer preuaile Thus than ye se whiche is the good erthe I say the multitude of christen people whiche hitherto by a continuall succession was deriuied from the see of Peter But nowe let vs here what conditions our sauiour The conditiōs of the good erth adioyneth vnto this good erthe he sayth hi sunt qui in corde honesto et bono Pardō me though I reherse the wordes aft the greke boke for they make better agaynst our ēnemies he sayth In corde honesto et vono Here be iij. conditions Fyrst in corde The fyrste cōdition Act. 4. that is to saye of one harte and mynde accordyng as it is writen Mustitudinis credentium erat cor vnum et anima vna All that multitude that beleued in Christe was of one harte and of one mynde that is to say they were nat deuided by contrary doctrynes And therfore lykewise saynt Paule writyng vnto the Corinthies sayth Idem loquamini 1. Cor. 1. omnes et non sint inter vos dissidia sed s●itis integrum corpus eadem mente et eadē sententia That is to say speake ye all one way and let there be no contrary opinions amonge you but be ye as an holle body of one mynde and of one sentence Syth that Luther with his secte is of an other mynde and sentence and of a diuerse harte and opinion fro the churche as I haue shewed before it is manifest by this fyrst condition that they be excluded fro this good erthe and fro this succession of christen people whiche we call the churche catholicke As for vs it is certeyne that we come derectly of this succession and ioyne fully with the fathers in all their doctrynes Contrariwyse Luther dispiseth them and their doctrynes as I sayd before and there he deuideth hym selfe frō the doctryne of the churche and fro this good erthe For what is the doctryne of the churche but the doctryne of the fathers Nat many yeres ago as Luther cōfesseth hym selfe he ioyned with the fathers and with the churche as we do but nowe he hath cutte hym selfe fro the churche We cam nat out of hym and of his secte but all they cam out of vs and so haue deuided them selfe from vs. We styl kepe and folowe the doctryne whiche hath bene lefte vnto vs by the gratious fathers men of singular lernynge and excellent holynes whiche by the holy goost had the continuall gouernance of the churche vnto this day as saint Paule doth witnesse in the Actis of the apostles as I sayd before We than that folowe suche doctrynes as haue bene lefte vnto vs by these gouernours which went before vs be of one harte and mynde with them and with the churche And Luther with his adherentes whiche wyll nat accepte and alowe these doctrynes be of a dyuerse harte and mynde fro the fathers and haue so deuided them selfe fro the churche Wherfore it is manifest that they wante this fyrst condition of the good erthe they be nat of one harte and of one mynde with vs. The seconde condition is honesto that is honeste The sec●● condition and fayre For the greke worde is indifferent to bothe The lyght of true faith whiche is a clere brightnes without any errours moche doth honeste and make beautious the harte of a christen man For withouten hit there is no honeste nor beautie in a soule Sine fide impossibile est placere deo This faith can nat be in the Lutherians but remayneth only in the succession of the churche wherof we come But the Lutherās as I sayd be deuided from the churche and their faith is a clene contrarye doctryne from ours and agaynst all them that were in the same succession before vs. It is also full of