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A08908	Foure paradoxes 1 A byshop and a minister is all one. 2 A byshoppe or deacon shoulde not bee called Grace, Lord, or exercise such authoritie. 3 A popish priest is no lawful minister of the gospel. 4 Canon chauncellours, & officials are no meete officers in the churche of God.		1570 (1570)	STC 19185; ESTC S101477	7,082	26

LVCRECIA-ROMANA ¶ Imprinted at London in Paules Churchyarde at the signe of the Lucrece by Thomas Purfoote ¶ FOVRE PARADOXES 1 A Byshop and a Minister is all one 2 A Byshoppe or Deacon shoulde not bee called Grace Lord or exercise such authoritie 3 A popish Priest is no law ful Minister of the gospel 4 Canon Chauncellours Officials are no meete Officers in the Churche of God. Actes 14. Quae doctrina noua haec What new doctrine is this 1 A Byshop and a Minister is all one Let a man so thinke of vs as of the Ministers of Christ and Disposers of the secretes of God. A Byshop must be vnreproueable apte to teache c. Lykewyse must Deacons c. Paule and Timothee the Seruantes of Iesus Christ to all the Saintes in Christ Iesus which are at Philippi with the Byshops Deacons c. The Elders which among you I beseche which also am an Elder Whereof I am made a Minister by the gyft of the grace of God geuen vnto me c. Take heede therefore vnto your selues and to all the flocke wherof the holy Ghost hath made you Ouerseers c. Wee are Gods Labourers ye are Gods husbandry Who also hath made vs able Ministers c. Thus in the place of the Ministers of the law as Priestes Leuites there be onely two kynde ▪ of Ministers vnder the Gospell Byshops Deacons and the Byshops haue sundry names as Ministers Disposers Seruants Elders Ouersears Labourers Prophets Euangelists Preachers Apostels and yet all are one Betwene a Byshop and a Minister there is almost no difference for the charge of the Church is committed to the Minister the thynges which are spoken of the Byshop do appertayne to the Minister The Minister differeth not frō the Byshop the order is all one None of vs appointeth him selfe to be a Byshop of Byshops nether driueth hys Felowes into a necessitie of obedience The ordering of a Byshop and of a Minister is one for they be both the Disposers of Gods secretes A Priest and a Byshop are but one thyng and before that by the inflaming of the Deuyl partes were taken in religion c. The Churches wer gouerned by the common consent of the Priestes The Apostel teacheth playnelyt that the Byshops Ministers are all one The things spoken of the Bishops do belong vnto the Ministers neither is the one aboue the other A Byshop rather by custome then by Gods lawe is aboue the Minister yea in times past one Minister did ordayne an other Hierome seemeth to matche all Byshops together as if they were all equally the Apostels successors and he thinketh not anye Byshop to bee lesse then an other for that hee is poorer nor greater then an other for that he is rycher c. And further he thincketh that a Byshop is no better then any Priest There is but One onely hie Priest in the new Testament Antichrist had hys begynnyng when the custome began that Byshops shoulde bee preferred before Priestes The Pastors haue all one charge with the Apostels For Bishops to haue large Diocesses is a filthy disease When the Church began to haue one chiefe as a President or Ouersear of the people then the Deuyll began to practise his peruer●itie and to lay the foundation of his tyranny There is no difference betwene a Byshop and a Minister Byshops and Priestes are equall All Byshops are Ministers and the rest are Deacons A Pastor of the Church is a person which is called lawfully by ●he authoritie and commaundement of God vnto the cure of soules to teache the doctrine of the Gospell and to minister the Sacramentes Is it so horrible an heresy to say that by the scriptures of God a Byshop and a Priest is all one An Elder and a Byshop were bothe one at the beginning Act. 20. ver 17. 18. which two verses conferred wyll shew the same Therefore they often tymes acknowledge and confesse an equalitie and condition among the Apostels For if that Matthias receaued a part of that Ministerie which was as well committed to Peter as others then none of them obtayned the whole whereby he myght be called the Head or Lord of others neither could Peters authority in preaching the Gospell be greater then eyther Iohns or Matthias because they all receaued but one and the same commaundement of the Lord Iesus as is playne The seuen starres are the Messengers of the seuen Congtegations Starres bee called Angels Angels be Gods Messengers Pastors of Churches so called in the second third chapter of Malachie The seuen starres in signification are the Messengers of Gods woord or the Apostolique Preachers appoynted to the seuen Congregatiōs in Alia and in them to all the world Christ gaue the lyke authority vnto euery one of the Apostels This is the mynde of the English church at Geneua in their Annotations before the Chapters and vpon the new Testament This is the consent of the Church of Scotland this the opinion of all the reformed Churches in Europe And thys is mynde of S. Paule in the .xx. of the Actes and of Hierome and Theodorete vpon the same place Obiec ∣ tion Marke the Euangelist was Byshop of Alexandria Iames and Symon Cananeus were Bishops of Hierusalem Peter was Bishop of Antioche Ignatius succeeded Peter in that Bishopricke Policarpus was bishop of Smyrna and so of others Epiphanius also wryteth in the defence of a Bishoplike distinction and authoritie therefore to haue Bishops is a thyng allowed by the autority of the primitiue Church Answer That there should be Bishops is a thing graunted but that they should be aboue the Ministers as that is plainly denied so cannot the cōtrary be lightly proued For s Marke was none otherwyse Bishop at Alexandria then S. Thomas preaching to the Meedes Parthians and Persians Saynt Iames and Simon Cananeus were but as Simon Zelotes preachyng in Mauritania and Aphricke Peter was in no ampler sort Byshop of Antioche the Iudas Thaddeus preaching in Mesopotamia Ignacius was at Antioche as Onesimus at Ephesus Polycarpus was at Smyrna but as Simon was at Bostrum As for Epiphanius fuit Episcopus voluit arrogāter suam tueri dignitatem he was a Bishop and he would arrogantly maintaine and vpholde hys dignitie Questiō Hereunto we may adde a question whether it hath bene or maye bee profitable to the Churche of God that one Minister should be set on hygh and aboue the rest Answer First touching Rome this political superiority hath set him on horsbacke and a gog on all hys pryde whereby the Church of God was and is afflicted Christian Princes iniured religion vtterly subuerted and superstition mainly defended Then concerning Englande thys preheminence in Priestes was the cause why William Rufus Henry the first were troubled by Anselmus Henry the second molested by Thomas Becket

and so administer the Sacramentes Answer No for it was not lawfull in the primitiue Church for the Conuertes without further calling to bee Ministers of the Sacramentes And if a meere Lay man is no lawfull Minister no more is the papal Priest Againe if a turkish Priest beyng conuerted may not yet administer the Lordes Supper nor without further calling Baptize anye no more may the papisticall Priest It is heresie to affirme that the Pope Cardinals Bishops wythall his kyngdome bee of the Church of God which is meke al pure holy Wherefore considering the premises weighing the practise of the Apostels and looking to the order of the primitiue Church we maye reason thus for it is effectuall None being ordayned by the synagog of Antichrist is a lawfull Minister All popish Priestes are ordayned by the synagog of Antichrist Therefore no popishe Priest is a lawfull Minister 4 No Canon Chauncellour or popish Officiall is a meete Officer in the Church of God. They are ignorant in the woord of God skylfull in the Popes law onelye geuen not to reforme thynges rightlye but to ●ake and reape theyr own commodity they are friendes to the Pope they are foes to all good Protestantes and shoulde suche haue any gouernment in a reformed Church If it was thought good at Basil when reformation began to dysplace .xii. popish Senatours shall it bee necessarie for vs to retayne popishe Chauncellours and papal Proctors For Canonistes to haue authority to excommunicate absolue suspende and interdicte what is it but to embrace the Popes kingdome styll The Canon lawe is full of heresies and shall the professors thereof bee Iudges in Christes Church Examine the state of the Church by the space of a thousand yeares before the said lawes wer prescribed and you shall finde that the congregation of God did safelye runne rowardes heauen vnder the sweete yoke of our Lord. The Officials of Archbishops for the most part are vnlearned and vnable men besides that men of yuell conditiōs taking thought for nothing but onely for money c. besydes this the Laitie are miserably spoyled and robbed of their goods by these lyght and vyle Officials In whose conscience there is no sparke of Christian pity and godlynes but onely a wicked desire and couetousnes Which thyng the Archbishops Bishops if they were in deede suche as they are called that is to say Pastors and Shepheards of Christ without doubt they would no longer suffer or cōmit Christes flocke to such wycked offensiue Pastors to be fed and nourished What shal we accompt of those in whose Court S. Paule is no doctor Nay let vs breake their bands and cast their coardes from vs. Well the primitue Church neuer knew such Crowes the Kyte of Rome bred them they be hys broode not ours they lyue onelye vppon hys foode and where shall wee haue to feede them It is manyfest that the Officials and Commissaries as they call them doo vse an vngodlye libertie and power not to be suffered And what helpeth it to haue manye Counsayles Assemblies and Parlamentes if Byshops wyll suffer nothing to be reformed contrarye to their mynde So long as this tyranny remayneth how can the Churche bee healed Surely so many as allow the Popes ordinaunces and mayntayne his doctrine traditions and inuented seruice to honour God wyth they infect and pollute them selues wyth Idolatrye and blasphemous opinions they are gyltie also of all the bloude of the faythfull whych the Pope doth persecute they minishe also the glorye ●● 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 the saluation of hys people for as much as they confirme errours and abominable wyckednes vnto all theyr posteritye for euer FINIS ROM VIII If God bee wyth vs who can be against vs 1. Cori. ● 2. Cor. 10 ▪ 1. Timo. 3 ▪ Titus 1. Philip. ● Colos 1. 1. Petee ● Ephe. 3. Actes 20 ▪ 1. Cori. 3 ▪ 2. Cori. 3. Lamb. in suis para doxis Chrys in Timoth. cap. 5. Aerius Augu. de bap lib. 3 cap. 3. Cypri in Concil Carthag Ambr. in Timo. 1. cap. 3. Hiero. in epist. ad Tit. ca. 1. Idem ad Euagr. Theoph in Titū Panor cap. 4. de consuet Eras in schol in epist. ad Euagriū Muscul in locis cōmu Bullyng serm 58. in Apo. Caluin lib. 4. Institu Pet Mar in lib. Iu. Beza in cap. 1. ad Philip. Herm● Bod●s Hameltonus VVestmether Spangel bergius Iewel cōtra Harding R. T. in suo opu in quo di lucide apparet Petrum nō fuisse Romae Radul Gualter Tigurin in Acta apostol cap. 1. Apoc. 1 Bvlling serm 6. Bale Cypr. de simplic prelatorum Melanet in opusc de vtraque parte Sacramenti c. Math. 20 Luke 22 1. Pete 5. 2. Cor. 4. Orig in Esaiam homil 7 Hieron ad Nepo tianum Bern. ad Eugeniū Chryso sermo Gregor Nazian ad Procopium Barnes in sua supplic Eras in Mark. 12 Tēpore Edouardi primi Episco Aragen Segoni us in cōcil Basil Musc i● locis cōmun Caluin lib. 4. ca. 4. ser 2. Gardin de vera obediēt Francisc Lābert An Gil super Micheā Gualter Tiguri in Acta Apost Guiliel Tyndal Tyndal Barnes Roma 13. Orig in Roma cap. 13. Barbara Feri 1. Tim. 3. Actss. 14. Titus 1. Cypr lib epist. 4. Francise Lamber ad princip lan san ●amberus in pa ●ad Celarent Querimoni● hanc habuere principes German in Concil Norenberg an 1523. Psalm 2 Melanc in suo opusc de vtraque parte sacramē● Ibidem Idem