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cause_n	church_n	pope_n	rome_n	4,587	5	6.8117	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11074	Meditations of instruction, of exhortation, of reprofe indeauouring the edification and reparation of the house of God.	Rous, Francis, 1579-1659.	1616 (1616)	STC 21342; ESTC S100007	103,738	488

action had not come to passe whereas we should reason this If this action had not beene appointed to come to passe these effectual meanes had not falne out Then run we to see the true cause of things euen to Gods prouidence and purpose which to the godly is a sure rest and refuge since therby al euents must turne to the best to Gods children though effected by the malice and wickednesse of men For this purpose of God is rooted in Loue and loue purposeth all for the good of that which it loueth so through whatsoeuer kinde of actions it passeth it still remaineth one vnchangeable bringing forth stedfastly fruit proportionable to the roote of loue Gods purpose cannot be hindered or altered by men but passeth along conquering and preuailing vnchanged it selfe and changing all things to it selfe and it owne goodnesse So Shimei his cursing might produce a blessing to Dauid and Iudas treason did procure the saluation of mankinde 59 Consisting of Parts 1. Part. It is a strange thing that in this broad day light any man should stumble at the Popes supremacy in spirituall much lesse in temporall matters If with the Apostles wee will but testifie what we see we on whom the truth clearely shineth cannot chuse but see that this supremacy is a thing much yonger then the Christian Religion which prospered before it was and that much better then since Religion was put out to nurse vnto it If we will begin with Christ Christ equally endoweth his Apostles with power of binding and loosing and equally appoints al nations vnto them If Christ should haue said That on Peter he would build his Church which he speaketh of him only who only is the Rock 1. Cor. 10. yet Peter answering for all should receiue this in the behalfe of all for whom hee answered For since it was forbidden to all of thē to tell who Christ was it seemes all ioyned with Peter in the knowledg and confession of Christ and so all had interest in the benefit of that knowledge and confession Againe if at that time it should only haue beene spoken only to Peter wee haue another Scripture which equalleth the other Apostles with him euen in the building of the Church while it sayeth the Church is built vpon the foundation of the Apostles so that the Apostles are ioyned together promiscuously not differently towards the making vp of the foundation Besides Paul plainely answereth that he is not a whit inferiour to the chiefest of the Apostles that he had of Peter the right hand of fellowship not of inferiority which most cuts off the Pope from claiming vs who are Gentiles by Peter and turnes him ouer to fetch his especiall claime by Paul Paul saith that the Apostleship of the circumcision or Iewes was committed to Peter and of the Gentiles especially to him To this Eusebius giues his testimony saying that Peter though cōming among the Gentiles yet preached only to the Iewes withall brings forth his first Epistle as that which was directed particularly to his own charge the Iewes And this indeede best fitteth with the History which reporteth that Peter and Paul exercised their Apostleships together at Rome which might most orderly be performed if the one taught there the Circumcisiō the other the Gentiles Therefore let the Pope take heed how he robs Paul to giue vnto Peter for hee robbes his best title to giue to his worse but hereafter let him find some new exposition of building the Church so vpon Peter that Paul also may haue a great part in the foundation wheron the Church is built Now if we descend from the Apostles betweene whome if there be any oddes in right to vs it appeares to be on Paules side to examine whether any such supremacy descended from among them to the succeeding ages wee shall finde none in diuers hundred years The church of Rome indeede was a famous Church founded by the Apostles flourishing with godly Bishops and Martyrs and full of Saints and therefore by many holy men great and large titles were giuen to her and her Bishops in letters and writings So might shee for the eminencie thereof be called the first Church or the chiefest Church and the Bishops the Bishops of the chiefest Church but a meane vnderstāding knows there is great oddes betweene being first in order and a head in gouernment And this the practise of those times plainly declared for though they had giuen neuer so many good words to the Bishops and Church of Rome yet as soone as the Bishop of Rome intermedled with their gouernment they presētly rose vp against him so did Cyprian yea a councell of African Bishops and among them Saint Austin walled vp their countrey from the command of the Romane Bishops Euen in the very matter of excommunication wherein is the pretented eminēce of their power Irenaeus a Bishop of France the Popes neighbour reprooued Victor a Bishop of Rome for excōmunicating the Churches of Asia vpon the obseruation of Easter And when Constantinus vniustly checked Liberius the Bishop of Rome for maintaining the cause of Athanasius with these words How great a part of the world art thou that thou alone shouldest iustifie a wicked man and trouble the peace of the world neither Constantinus acknowledged any supremacy in Liberius neither did Liberius in his answer though hee had occasion giuen to tell how great and Catholike a head hee was thereby iustifie his doings To conclude for particulars are infinite and this matter is commonly handled at length by a councel Christendome was committed to fiue Patriarches of Rome Constantinople Alexandria Antioch and Ierusalem of which Rome was the first but had no more authoritie ouer the rest then the second had ouer the third the authoritie of no one being subalterne or subiect to other And the proportionable practise of diuers of these Patriarches yet standing giueth hereunto confirmation But the same corruption of mans nature which in a clowne stirreth vp an ambitious desire to be a gentleman of a gentleman to become a nobleman and of a nobleman to become a king being in a Pope as much as in other men hath wrought the same effect in him that it hath in others And so from being a Patriarch he hath laboured to bee the head of the Patriarches that is an vniuersall Patriarch and from being and vniuersall Patriarch to be an vniuersall Emperour So Ambition still ascends making one degree of honor but a stayre whereon to mount it selfe vp to another and by this meanes at length hee is come to that all-comprehending toppe wherin he meetes iust with the title prepared for him by Saint Paul As God in the temple of God aboue al that is called God But he must remember that thereunto are annexed these two other titles the man of sin and the sonne of perdition 2. Part. These things beeing so euident most lamentable it is that there should bee plotted and deuised an ignorance so grosse that it