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A09868	A sermon preached at the consecration of the right Reverend Father in God Barnaby Potter DD. and L. Bishop of Carlisle, at Ely house in Holbourne March 15. 1628. By Christopher Potter D.D. provost of Queenes Colledge in Oxford. Hereunto is added an advertisement touching the history of the quarrels of Pope Paul 5 with the Venetians; penned in Italian by F. Paul, and done into English by the former author	Potter, Christopher, 1591-1646.; Sarpi, Paolo, 1552-1623. Historia particolare delle cose passate tra'l sommo pontefice Paolo V. e la serenissima republica di Venetia. English. Selections.	1629 (1629)	STC 20134; ESTC S114961	32,999	132

they medled yet onely with the keyes not with the swords and confessed all the power they had or challenged to be meerely purely spirituall for the conduct and benefit of soules nothing at all directly or indirectly temporall And to fortifie all this claime whatsoever it was they were content to found it upon the majestie of their Sea being the peerlesse Imperiall Citie upon the Charters and Patents of Princes upon the pietie and sound faith of their Predecessors upon the generall and just consent of Christendome which had assigned them a prime place among other Patriarches in all Synods and Assemblies But their foreheads were yet too soft to plead any Scriptures for their pretensions or to derive their primacy from divine institution They beganne indeed to lay too violent hands and to put upon the racke those passages Tues Petrus and Dabo tibi claves and this Pasce oves in my Text but it was featfully and with reluctation of conscience with no purpose or with no hope to wring from them those horrible consequences which in succeeding times they were forced to countenance But when once the Prince of darknesse had overwhelmed all Europe with a blacke night of fatall ignorance when he had banished all good letters learning and languages when hee had silenced the Scriptures and hood-winkt the world then his work of darknesse went on apace and the mystery of iniquity was quickly advanced to that formidable height which at this day we see and lament Then began his Vicar at Rome to Pope it in earnest and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to appeare in his colours in his triple Crowne his two keyes in the one hand his two swords in the other and who but He He must now be saluted Head and Spouse of the Church universall a * See M. ●●d●l against Wadesworth cap. 4. p. 77 c Vice-God upon earth his judgement is infallible his jurisdiction infinite and his Monarchy boundlesse inclosing all Churches and Kingdomes all Bishops are but his Curates and all Kings his vassals and in few words all Nations must worship this Idoll For of him was meant that in Ieremie Gens regnum quod non servierit Ier. 27. illi eradicabitur The people or nation that will not serve him must be rooted out And good reason for he is Dominus Deus noster Papa 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 no more a mortall And the better to set out this Pageant unto the people not onely some shapes and shadowes of old Fathers and Councils but the Scripture it selfe our Lord Christ and S. Peter are brought upon the stage and forced to doe reverence unto the Pope For since Hildebrand and Boniface 8. this Papall Monarchy is no longer a likely opinion or a disputable probleme or an ancient tradition or prescription but t is now an indubitable article of the Creed a fundamentall point of religion nay * Bell. 〈…〉 de R P. Summa rei Christianae the onely necessary truth and Subesse Rom. Pontifici est de necessitate salutis Whosoever beleeves not in Iesus Christ and in the Pope cannot be saved That our poore Forefathers in the times of ignorance should be abused and amased with these holy frauds we wonder not but we pitie them rather For alas though they wanted not eies yet they wanted light to discover these impostures and tromperies But it exceeds all marvell that yet at this day in this age of light and learning these horrible Paradoxes should be still obtruded upon the Christian World and which exceeds all impietie the Scripture it selfe abused to guild this Idoll to colour this monstrous domination of the Pope and so the God of truth the word of truth constrained to countenance a thicke and palpable lie For you know how Baronius Bellarmine and the rest of that bran now plead for this Monarchie not any longer out of the Decretall Epistles or Constantines donation old Knights of the Post that were wont to depose for the Pope but out of the sacred Tables of holy Writ Wherein though there bee not one word or ●●llable to or fro 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nec vola nec vestigiū of the Pope or his power ●ave onely as hee is Antichrist yet these men with rare wit and skill have observed many new Mysteries in the New Testament and plainly a thing unknowne to all former generations see the Pope in many passages of the Text which I dare sweare the holy Euangelists and Apostles never saw nor intended They discourse with much learning of S. Peter and of his prerogatives how our Lord appointed him soveraigne Bishop of the Catholique Church and left him his Lieutenant upon earth planting in him a transcendent supereminent power of binding losing feeding c. which power other Bishops have not immediately from Christ but from S. Peter and by his delegation Well grant all this to be as true as it is all false but what followes Iam dic ●osthume de tribus capellis What 's all this to the Pope Why yes S. ●eter was Bishop of Rome and there he died and bequeathed all this soveraignty all these priviledges to the Bishops of Rome his Successors So then they talke much of S. Peter but they meane the Pope Gregory Nazianzene quotes a witty proverbe out of Herodotus which fits our purpose Vestem hanc Histiaeus Orat. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 n●mero 4. quidèm consuit induit autèm Aristagoras Peter must make this coat but the Pope must weare it As he in the Orator extolled eloquence to the heavens that himselfe might bee advanced with it so here all these praises of S. Peter are intended for the Pope the businesse is his though Peter must beare the name Here is nothing sowne or reaped I wis for Peter unlesse onely this He that lived and died a poore Apostle is after his death crowned a Monarch but the Crowne fits the Popes head better then his and t is therefore set upon him onely by way of ceremony and hee comes in onely as a mute person upon the stage to make roome for the Pope and solemnly to lead him in by the hand And here all the passages betweene Christ and Peter all the words of the one all the actions of the other are examined with a curious scrupulosity and all at length by the helpe of two or three syllogismes make clearly for the Popes advantage I need not tell you what good stuffe these good wits have extracted out of those other words Dabo tibi claves and Oravi pro te Petre not to goe farre my Text is a most memorable example of their singular wit and dexteritie in abusing of Scripture Mirth is unseasonable in discourses of moment and for a Christian to laugh at blasphemy is to approve it it beseemes him much better to lament it with teares of bloud My Text I confesse is very rich and plentifull in the sense and as by and by we shall see will readily offer us much

excellent matter of Christian meditation and discourse But the collections which they of the Popes side have drawne from hence are such and so frivolous that they are much more capable to move the spleene if the gravitie of the matter permitted then the judgement and are more properly confuted with a smile then with any strength of reason Here is one word in the Text pasce which the Cardinall Bellarmine hath so extended between his teeth that it hath a belly as large and fruitfull as the Trojane horse including whole armies of arguments for the Pope The Pope can desire nothing which this word will not give him He pretends to be a King as well as a Bishop and sayes his temporall power is as wide and broad as his spirituall And t is true sayes Bellarmine for Christ said to S. Peter Pasce id est Regio more impera play the Rex In the ancient Church when any heresie disturbed the publique truth and peace a grave assembly of Bishops was called and the Booke of God fairly laid open in the midst and out of it were all doubts determined Now Scriptures and Councills are needlesse for the Pope claimes to be supreame Iudge of all Controversies And * Lib. 4. de Rom. P. cap. 1. Bellarmine thinkes the claime to be well grounded upon this pasce in my Text. And t is a great wonder the Pope was never thought infallible in his judgement till this last Age since this * Ibid. c. 3. pasce implies that also so clearly And if the Heretiques doe not beleeve that he hath power to make new Articles of Faith and when they cry shame upon Pope Pius the 4. for adding twelve new Articles to the old Apostles Creed t is because they are ignorant and know not what pasce signifies Briefly this one word containes more matter then al the Bible besides it works miracles and makes the Pope omnipotent gives him all power not onely in heaven and earth but where God hath nothing to doe in Purgatorie For if you aske by what authoritie he takes upon him to pardon sinnes and soules after death to give or sell the Saints merits to dispense with oathes to depose Kings and dispose of their kingdomes or if he list to murther them If you looke into the Popes Lexicon you shall find that pasce expressely denotes all this authoritie and inables him to be not only a Prince or a Pastor or a Bishop but even a Butcher Well the repetition of these horrid fantasies shall bee their refutation Iustin Martyr saith well 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a grosse errour ever caries its Iustin M. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 owne conviction in its forehead I am sorie I have spent so much of my time and of your patience in moving this dunghill But these weeds and thorns lay in my way and I must needs cleare my passage I dismisle the Popes flatterers with my pitie and my prayers and say no more but this If they had any feare of God any shame of men any reverence to Antiquitie any feeling or care of conscience they would not dare thus profanely and leudly to dally with Scriptures or presume so to colour or cover their doctrine of devils under the name of God Thus farre I have digressed to follow the Theeves that would steale away the sense of my Text for so Gregory Nazianzene wittily sayes of Heretiques that they are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Orat. 3 6. ●ive de T●eol 4. And now that wee have done with the corrupt Glosse we may goe forward by Gods assistance with the Text. It containes as we have said the renewing of Peters commission wherein the parts or points observable are two First the authoritie of it Iesus said unto him Secondly the matter or summary of it Feed my sheepe Our Lord first calls and inables him to his office then directs him in it First he gives him power to execute his charge Iesus said unto him secondly he gives him instructions how to execute it Feed my sheepe Of both these in order very briefly For the first Peter takes not upon himselfe the honor of the Apostleship till he was called by Christ his Lord and God as were the rest of his fellowes In that calling of the Apostles some things were personall and peculiar to themselves others generall concerning all their lawfull Successors Bishops and Pastors The Apostles had an immediate vocation from Christ in person our calling is not of men but t is by men their 's neither of men nor by men They had an universall mission an unlimited jurisdiction an infallible assistance of the Spirit the gift of tongues and miracles All these were priviledges extraordinarie and passed with their persons But the warrant and worke of this Commission generally and equally belongs to all us as well as to all them None may usurpe the charge of a Bishop or a Pastor till Iesus say unto him Feed my sheepe And hence we learne two leslons of great importance and consideration 1. The Author of all lawfull 1 vocation to the holy Ministerie is onely Christ the Lord. Onely Christ exclusively to all men not to the two other Persons in the glorious Trinity which all equally concur to this externall worke God the Father hath placed in the Church a 1 Cor. 12. 28. Apostles Prophets Teachers Pastors c. And God the b Act. 20. 28. holy Ghost ordained the Bishops at Ephesus and elsewhere c Act. 1 3. 2. Separate me Paul and Barnabas for the worke whereunto I have called them For it belongs onely to the d Mat. 9. 38. Lord of the harvest to send forth labourers into his harvest and who should appoint e Mat. 24. 45. Stewards over the House but he who is Master of the House Father of the family This consideration must first helpe to animate our feeblenesse and add unto us an edge and courage against all the difficulties and discouragements which we shall meet in our holy calling Everie good Minister must looke to bee Theologus crucis not Theologus gloriae when hee enters upon this warfare hee may not dreame of an easie or lazie life to passe his time in pompe or pleasure like the glorious Clergie of Rome but he must prepare to play the man and fight it out not onely with absurd and unreasonable men but even with beasts as Paul did at Ephesus yea with devills And therefore he must buckle himselfe to his worke and know that hee must eate his bread if not with the sweating of his browes yet which is much sorer with the beating of his braines Wherefore S. Paul wanting a word able to expresse the grievous paines of our Ministery sets it forth in two both very sore and heavie ones Our calling is a 1 Thess 2. 9 and 2 Thess 3. 8 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a labor a travaile a tiring labour a miserable travaile a labour like that of reapers a travaile

trechery For conclusion let me bespeak intreat you Reverend Fathers Brethren in the words of a divine Apostle Act. 20. 28. Take heed to your selves and to all the flock wherof the holy Ghost hath made you Bishops to feed the Church of God which he hath purchased with his own bloud 1 Pet. 5. 2. Feed the flock of God which dependeth on you caring for it not by constraint but willingly not for filthie lucre but of a ready mind Not as if ye were Lords over Gods heritage but that you may be ensamples to the flocke And when the Chiefe Shepheard shall appear you shall receive an incorruptible Crowne of glory Soli Deo gloria Pag 4 lin 17. for Soe read Loe. Pa. 24. l. 19. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 An Advertisement to the Reader touching the History of the Quarrels of Pope Paul 5. with the State of Venice The Translator to the Reader IN a more perfect Copie of that Historie pretended to bee printed at Lions but indeed at Venice M DC XXIV which I have lately seene by the courtesie of my worthie and learned friend M. W. Boswell there is annexed at the end by the same judicious Author of the Historie and wanting in that Copy of Geneva which before I followed a particular and memorable Information touching some essentiall circumstances in the Accommodation of that great Difference Which because it is the life of the whole History and serves much to cleare the Venetian cause from the forgeries of the Court of Rome which was the Authors maine intention I have thought meet here to communicate it with the Reader done out of Italian into English with fidelity as followeth BEing a thing which hath never happened that a Breve of Censures so solemnly published by the Pope and resisted with so great constancy should be abolished without any writing or act done in Rome it hath bred in many persons a curiosity to know the truth of all passages in this businesse and hath given matter to those who in all such contestations would seeme to have the victory and are wont to countenance their Designes with forged writings to use also this same artifice upon this present occasion And therefore they have in this case also counterfaited 4 writings to wit 1. A Breve unto the Card. of Ioyeuse which gives him faculty to take away the Censures 2. An Instrument of Absolution by the said Cardinall dated 21 April 3. An Instrument of the delivery of the Prisoners and 4. A Decree of the Senate for the restitution of the Religious and for releasing the sequestration of the revenewes of such Ecclesiasticks as were gone out of the State Which writings they have not dared to divulge in formall Copies but onely dispersed underhand some abridgments of them with intention it may be that after some time when they may not be so easily detected and confuted as at this present they may be produced and pretended to be true yea and so to be beleeved of necessity as this Policie hath often well succeeded to These men who have many times given colour to many such false writings prejudiciall to divers Princes Now purposing to speake particularly of all those foure false writings we will begin with the first which containes a forged Breve unto the Card. of Ioyeuse giving him power to take away the Censures Whether the Pope hath indeed dispatched such a Breve unto the said Card. prescribing him a form of Absolving from the Excommunication Protestation Reservation and other clauses the summaries whereof are scattered abroad I can neither affirme nor deny Onely I will say that many times at Rome they publish such Breves though they that have interest never saw them which yet are extant and yet the memory doth remaine in the Histories that all the Businesse had passed quite contrary to that which in such Breves is reported Gregory 2. having commantled Alphonsus King of Spaine that leaving the office of the Mozarabes he receive that of Rome Innocentius 3. writeth lib 9. epist 2. that it was accordingly received yet all the Historians of Spaine do agree that the King would never endure any alteration in this office nor admit the Romane In Cap. 1. de postul Praelatorum Innocent 3. in the yeare 1199. saith that the Interdict against France because the K. Philip Augustus had put away his wife Isemberg was observed in that Kingdome Notwithstanding all the French Historians with one voice accord that it was not observed and that the King punished all such of his Clergy as dared to execute the desires or to approve the pretensions of the Pope I will further add that many times when such Bulls have beene published under the name of the Popes they themselves have beene constrained afterwards to deny them or confesse them to have beene extorted Adrian the 2. anno 870. sent a severe Monitorie to Charles the Bald K. of France commanding him to forbeare to seize upon the Kingdome of Lotharius his deceased Nephew and to the same effect writing his Letters to the Prelates and Nobilitie of the Realme The King neverthelesse prosecuting his purposes answered the Pope with freedome and bitternesse Wherefore his Holinesse in his reply to the King first amply commends the Royall vertues wherewith he heard that he was adorned then testifies his great good will towards him and concludes that if hee had formerly received from him any Letters of another tenor or of a more hard or sharp or rough stile hee prayes him to beleeve that he was surprised and that they were stollen from him unawares or when he was sick or happely counterfaited The Lawyers doe all consent that no man can prove himselfe to have Iurisdiction over another by showing a Citation or Decree or Sentence unlesse he can show that the Citation was intimated and the Decree obeyed and the sentence put in execution Be it that the Pope did dispatch this Breve in question unto the Cardinall of Ioyeuse which I neither beleeve nor deny yet seeing it was here never seene either by the Prince or by any publike Minister nor even by any private person of this State so far as that is knowne what ever it contain that cannot bee any prejudice to the Reasons and Rights of this Republique And if any will pretend to found or inferre ought upon this Breve it belongs to him to make proofe that it was received or else presented or finally at least seene or known or brought to some mans notice nothing of which is true in this whereof we speake And if in time to come any Breve be fained or produced of what tenor soever it ought not to prevaile against the faith and testimony of true histories which will beare witnesse to Posterity that no Breve at all passed in this action Wherefore it remaines onely to be considered what the Cardinall hath done or executed Concerning which there is 2 dispersed a certaine Instrument of one