Selected quad for the lemma: christian_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
christian_n	bishop_n	church_n	presbyter_n	1,708	5	10.0860	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34014	Charity commended, or, A catholick Christian soberly instructed by J.C.	Collop, John.	1667 (1667)	Wing C5391; ESTC R16883	68,489	162

Gerson Occham Almain Echius Hosius Pigh●us Waldensis at quarrell about Originall of Spirituall power Abulensis Turrecremata Franciscus de victoria Alphonsus de Castro men whose very names speak battell aud writings not much unity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 will scarce prove a Rock of defence which implies a stone as well as Rock and the twelve Apostles were all stones which went to the foundation of Christianity No man not warp'd by prejudicate ignorance but may admit a primacy as great as those Princes his Holinesse dignifies with the titles of the most Catholique or most Christian. Peruse the Spanish Edicts and you shall find Cardinall Baronius book asserting Papall jurisdiction by King Ph●l●p lest it might raise the flames of contention in his Subjects made it self a Subject of the flames Peruse the Constitutions of the Gallican Churches nay even now see them menacing to ordain Bishops for Portugal the Pope refusing Reslect upon this darling Flanders and find Bruxels lately tearing his bull for a defamatory scroll by one rent to prevent many Take a view ●of Germany her Henries Fredericks 1. 2. here you shall find the story of the Eagle and Fox verifyi'd if the Eaglé touches but a Popeling the Fox fires his nest See the Eastern Empire whose substance was lost fighting about shadows nay the substance of Religion and Christs Image charity for a wooden one Finally let us look home and sweep our own doors from the ●irt which would cleave to them the first appellant here in England was Wilfrid Archbishop of York in the reign of Egbert and his Son Alf●ede the Popes Nuntio's in his behalfe were return'd with a Complement of honouring for grave lives and honorable aspects but they would not ' sent to their Legation See Anselms Contest about appeales to Rome answer'd with a Consuetudo regni mei est à Patre meo instituta ut null●us praeter licentiam Regis papa appelletur qu● Consuetud●nem regni toll●t potestatem quoque Coronam Regis violat Siquis inven●us fuer●t litter as vel mandatum ferens Domini papae c. Capiatur deo eo ●●cut de● Regis traditore Regn● c. if it was treason then reason will ●carce expect thee Reward of loyalty now should atte●d his missaries These you will not deny such as you call Catholick and cannot wonder if in those times they menac'd ponere murum pro Domino rege they now place one pro republicá and better learn'd by time Now with the Grec an Church they answer we know your pride cannot satisfie your A●arice and therefore leave you to your selves For his Patriarchate by Gods Law he hath none in this Land for 600 years after Christ he had none for the subsequent 600. intent to greater matters hee would have none above or against the Princes sword he can have none to subvert faith or oppresse his brethren 't is fit he should have none you must seek further for subjection to his tribunall this Land oweth him none Finally to bring you home and truth home to you reflect upon your own Rome in the time of budding Christianity Polycarp in Anicetus time comes to Rome yet makes no appeal Justin Martyr lives at Rome lends no suspition of such power hee names a prefect of the brethren calls all Christians High-Priests and so he being one may attain a pontificall dignity Iren●us calls Soter Anicetus Hyginus Pius Telesphorus Xistus Presbyters Dionysins Corinthius calls Soter a Bishop Apollinaris tells of Asiatick Churches excomunicating without the Roman The Gallican Churches in a dissention of Alcibiades and Theodotus not onely appeal'd to but the Roman Victor was oppos'd by Polycrates an Ephesian Bishop Nay even the name of Universall Bishop was so great a stranger to Rome that a Pope though it designd the comming of Antichrist was a name of blasphemy and to admit it was to lose the Faith and no Sciolist in History but may discern if the Foxes taile had not been peeld to the Lyons skin his Holiness might have now been but a petty Chaplain and squar'd his Religion to some magnifico's trencher and he may thank Saint Pauls sword which hath more advantag'd him then the Crosse keles of St. Peter Sect 5. Who would be ty'd to that infallibility which instead of adorning hath so dawb'd the Gospell that Christianity may be suspected for a Fable al relig●on pass for state policy while quatenus Cathed●a doceat this Nymph Egeria must inform the Roman Numa and to resist it be no lesse treason quam tentare arcana imperi and yet his Holinesse silence such prodigious pieces of masking foolery golden Legend Bridgets Revelations Metaphrastes Saints Monkish Chymaera's and pious frauds which for excellence and probability may parallel Lucian's true History render Pantagruel Orthodox make Don Quixot for the transportations of his phancy passe in opinion for a S. and a Gusman may be canoniz'd for a knave by revelation as well as a Ronsard tenter our Saviours miracles to an analogy with Hercules labours and your Divine Ar●sto make Saint John a groom to feed an Hippogriph with Celestiall Oates Indulgence to vice shames virtue out of countenance and the threed of falshood interwoven with the gold of verity makes even truth passe in the supposition of counterfeit Who would believe the treasurie of Pontificiall merits exceeds his Peters pence since no penny no Pater noster no our Father the Pope with Peter sure will scarce hold currant at Heaven gate Or believe a Purgatory above unnecessary injunctions and a fire in it above a Culinary one which he maintains by it in his Kitchin since he seems an adversary in the way and who agrees not with him quickly is cast into Prison and scarce gets out till hee paies the uttermost farthing Or the Priests when they cry edite bibite de hoc omnes and devour all themselves lie not Or mumming may not seem Religion where Religion may seem but a mask of Anticks That lies and phancies bee necessary for salvation since who believes them not Trent Councell salutes with an Anathema Or the Popes have not been the greatest Schismatiques since they have made more Schisms then others Churches have Articles of Faith That two Popes when they both do contradict each the other are both of them infallible Or injoyning severall Bibles I must peruse neither That the people was not mock'd by subtile divisors who instead of milk to instruct their souls milked their purses with the fictitious milk of the Virgin Mary visible in twelve places in the time of Henry the 8. That Saint Wilfrid's needle which opened to the penitent and clos'd to the guilty was not the needle the Camel Cable might passe through the rich man to Heav'n since who gave most was alwaies the most innocent Or a rood moving like to a Puppet by wyre and weeping the tears of a bleeding Vine gain'd not the Priests the blood