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A09849	A solemne contestation of diuerse popes, for the aduaunsing of theyr supremacie: quoted and collected faithfully out of their own canon law, according to the very wordes, stile, and tenor of the same theyr own canons, decres, decretales, clementines, extrauagantes, bulles, epistles, and commen glose vpon the same. Histories and stories of Romane bishops [et]c. In forme and wordes, as their are to be seane, and found by the quotations here vnto annexed	Foxe, John, 1516-1587, attributed name.; Catholic Church. Pope.	1560 (1560)	STC 20114; ESTC S114968	26,995	104

therefore let vs fight with them in the valles that is in the power of temporall possessions and so we shall preuaile ouer them O Okam in Dialogo parte 1. lib. 5. Oytanus But what sayeth the sentence of God to them let vs heare Bicause sayth he the Syrians say that the God of Mountance is there God and not the God of valles P Petrus de Palude Petrus de Tharam Petrus de Aliaco Panormitanꝰ therfore I will giue all this multitude into your hande and ye shall knowe that I am the Lorde What can be more effectually spoken to set forthe the maiestie of my iurisdiction whiche I receaued immediatly of the Lord of the Lord I saye and of no mā Alexander de A●es For where as Constantine themperour gaue to Siluester induyng him with this possession and patrimonie R Raymūdus in Sūma de Ca●●sibus Richardus Rabanus super Math. cap. 16. Rupertus Tu●itiensis that is so to be expoundid and taken not so muche for a Donatiō as to be coūted for a restitution made of that which tyrānously was takē frō him before And agayn where as I haue giuen at sondry times to Ludouicus and other Emperours of my temporall landes and possessions yet that was donne not so muche for anye recognising of homage to thē as for keping peace with thē For I owe to Emperours no dewe obediance that they cā cleame S Scotus Doctor Subtilis but they owe to me as to theyr superiour And therefore for a diuersitie betwixt there degree and mine in theyr consecratiō they take theyr vnction on the arme I on the head T Thomas Aquin And as I am superiour to them so am I superior to all Lawes and fre from all constitutions Which am able of my self and by my interpretation to preferre equite beyng not wryten before the lawe wryten V Vlricus Waldemꝰ cōfessionate De Sacramētis Hauinge all lawes within the chiest of my breste as is aforesayd And what so euer this my sea shal inacte approue or disproue all men ought to approue or reproue the same with out either iudging disputing doubting or retracting Such is the priuilege giuē of Christ in behalf of Peter to the church of Rome X Ioan. Dreido De Dogmatibus va●iis lib. 4. that what Countre so euer kingdom or prouince cheusing to them selfes Bisshops ministers although they agree with al other christes faithful people in the name of Iesu that is in faith and charitie beleuing in the same God and in Christ his trewe sonne and in the holy gost hauyng also the same Crede the same Euangelistes and scriptures of the Apostels yet not withstāding vnlesse their Bishops and Ministers take theyr origine and ordination from this Apostolike seate they are to be counted not of the Churche So that succession of fayth only is not sufficient to make a church except the Ministers take theyr ordination by thē whiche haue there successiō from the Apostels So theyr fayth supremacie the chayre of Peter keyes of heauē power to bind and loose all these be inseperable to the church of Rome so that it is to bee presumed that God always prouiding and sainct Peter helpyng the bishoprike diocese of Rome shal neuer defayle from faith And likewise it is to be presumed presupposed that the bishop of that Churche is alwayes good and holy yea though he be not alwayes good or destitute of his owne merites yet the merites of S. Peter predecessor of that place be sufficient for him who hath bequethed and lefte a perpetuall dewrie of merites with inheritance of innocencye to his posteritie Y Hugo in Glosa Dist. 40. c. Non Nos yea though he fall into Homicide or adultery he may sinne but yet he can not be accused but rather excused by the Murders of Sampson the theftes of the Haebrues the adultery of Iacob Z Glos. in Caus. 11. q. 3. cap. Ab sit And likewise if any of his clergy should be foūd embrasing a woman it muste be expoūdid and presupposed that he doth it to blesse hyr Furthermore the Pope say they hath all the dignities all power of all Patriarches In his primacie he is Abell In gouermente the Arche of Noe In Patriarchdō Abraham In order Melchisedech In dignitie Aaron In autoritie Moses In seat iudiciall Samuel In zeale Helias In mekenes Dauid In power Peter In vnction Christ. Du bist das Antichrist My power they saye is greater than all the sainctes For whome I confirme no manne maye infirme I maye fauour spare whome I please A Glosa in c. 11. q. 3. Si inimicus to take frō one and to giue to an other And if I be ennemy to anye man al men ought to eschew that person forthewith and not to tary and loke whyle I bid them so to do All the earth is my diocese and I the ordinarie of al meune hauing the autoritie of the Kinge of all kinges vpon subiectes I am all in all aboue all B Hostiensis in cap. Quāto D● trāsl praeb so that God him selfe I the vicare of God haue both one Consistorie C Ex summa casuum fratris Baptistae and am able to do almoste all that God can doe Claue non errāte D Ex Citatione Hen. Bulling De fine seculi Orat. Prima Item ex citatione Iacobi Andreae aduersus Hosiū lib. 5. Item ex citatione Hierom. Marij in Actis 2. Diei Itē it is said of me that I haue an heauēly arbitrement and therfore am able to chaunge nature of thinges Substantialia vnius applicando alteri And of nothing to make thinges to be and of a sentence that is nothing to make it stande in effect In all thinges that I liste my wyll to stand for reason For I am able by the lawe to dispense aboue the lawe De cōcessione praeb ca. Proposuit and of wrōg to make Iustice in correcting Lawes chaūgyng thē You haue herd hytherto sufficiētly out of my Doctors nowe you shal heare greater things oute of mine owne decrees E Pope Nicol●us● Dist. 96. c. Satis Reade there Dist. 96. c. Satis F 11. q. 1. Sacerdotibus also Caus 11. q. 1. ca Sacerdotibus G 12. q. 1. c. Futuram Also 12. q. 1. cap. Futurā Do not you finde there expressed how Constātinus the Emperour sitting in the generall Councel of Nice called vs Prelates of the Churche all Gods H Decretal De Transl. episc● cap. Quanto Agayn reade my Canon Decretal De transl episc cap. Quanto Doe you not see theyr manifestlye expressed howe not manne but God alone separateth that which the Bisshoppe of Rome doth dissolue separate Wherfore if those thinges that I do be said to be done not of manne but of God what canne you make of me but God Agayn if Prelates of the Churche be called

and rypenes and deliuered out with such grauitie of deliberation that nothing is thought in it necessary to bee alterid or retractid G Pope Symmachus Caus. 9. q. 3. Aliorū Wherefore it is manifest testified by the voyce of holy bishops that the dignitie of this my seat is to be reuerenced thorow the whole world in that all the faithfull submit themselfes to it as to the head of the whole body H Ibidem Wherof it is spoken to me by the Prophet speaking of the arche if this bee humiled whether shall you runne for succour wher shal your glory become Seyng then this is so that so holy Bishops scriptures do witnesse with me what shall we saye then to suche as wil take vpon them to iudge of my doynges to reprehend my procedinges or to require homage and tribute of me to whome all other be subiecte I Pope Grego●rius 6. q. 3. Scriptu est Againste the firste sorte the Scripture speaketh Deutero thou ought not to putte thy sithe in an other mans corne Whiche thinge to attempt against me what is it but plain sacrilege K Caus. 17. q. 4. Sacrileg Glosa Accordinge to my canonists which thus define sacrilege to consiste in three thinges eyther when a man iudgeth of his princes iudgement or whan the holy daye is prophaned or when reuerence is not giuen to Lawes and Canons L 2. q. 7. cap. Plarūque Glosema Gratiani ¶ Item Agaynste the second sort maketh the place of the boke of kinges where we reade the arch of God was brought from Gabaa to Hierusalem and in the waye the Arch inclinyng by reason of the vnruly oxen Ozias the Leuite put to his hand to help and therefore was stroken of the Lord. By this Arch is signified the Prelates by the inclination therof the fall of Prelates M Ibidem whiche also be signified by the Angels that Iacob did see goyng vp comming doune the lader N Ibidem Also by the Prophet wher he saith He bowyd down the Heauēs and came down c By Ozias and by the vnruly Oxen are mente our subiectes O Ibidem Then like as Ozias was strucken for putting his hand to the Arch inclining no more must subiectes rebuke there Prelates goynge awry P Ibidem ¶ His itae Albeit here may be answered again that all be not Prelates whiche so be called for it is not the name that maketh a bishop but his life Q Pope Vrbanꝰ 23. q. Tributū Agaynst the thirde sort of suche as would brynge vs vnder the tribute and exactions of seculare men maketh the newe Testament where Peter was bid to giue the grot in the Fishes mouthe but not the head nor the body of the fishe No more is the heade or body of the Churche subduid to Kings but only that whiche is in the mouthe that is the externe things of the church And yet nor they nether R Ibidem ¶ Quamuis For so we reade in the booke of Genesis that Pharao in time of darth subduyd all the land of thegiptians but yet he ministred to the Priestes so that he toke nether there possessions from them nor there libertie If then the prelates of the Churche muste be nether iudged nor reprehendid nor exacted howe muche more ought I to be free from the same S Pope Benedictus Extr. De aut et vs● pallij c. Sāsta which am the Bishop of bishops head of prelates For it is not to bee thought that the case betwixt me and other prelates betwixte my sea T Pope Stephanus Dist. 19. Enimuero other churches be like V Pope Pelagius Dist. 21. Quamuis Although the whole catholike and apostolike Churche make one brydechamber of christ yet the cathol Apost church of Rome had the preeminence giuen ouer al other by the mouth of the lord him self sayng to Peter Thou art Peter c X Dist. 21. De● cretis Thus a discretion and difference must be had in the church as it was betwixt Aaron and his Children Y Pope Anaclotus Dist. 21. in non● betwixt 72. disciples the 12. Apostels betwixt thother apostels and Peter Z Pope Bonifacius Greg. Dist. 89. Ad ●oc Wherfore it is to be cōcludid that their must be an order difference of degrees in the Churche betwixt powers superiour and inferiour without which order the vniuersite of the whole can not consist A Ibidem For as amongst the Angelicall creatures aboue in heauen there is set a differēce and inequalitie of powers orders some be Angels some Archangels some Cherubin Seraphines B Dist. 89. cap. Singula So in the Ecclesiasticall Hierarchie of the Church militant in the earth priestes must not be equall with Bishops Bishops must not be like in order with Archebishops with Patriarches or Primates C Ex Citatione Bull. Decr. 5. Ser. 3. Who cōteyne vnder them three Archbishops as a Kynge conteineth three Dukes vnder him In the whiche nūber of patriarches cometh in the state also of D De officio Archipresby● in Glosa Cardinals or Principales so called bicause as the dore turneth by his hinges so the vniuersall churche ought to be ruled by them E 〈…〉 The nexte and hiest order aboue these is mine whiche am Pope differyng in power and maiorite and honor reuerentiall from these and al other degrees of men F Ex 3. Parte Sūmae maioris b. Antonini For the better declaration whereof my Canonistes make 3. kindes or power in earth Immediata whyche is mine immediatly from God Deriuata which belongeth to to other inferiour prelates frō me G Pope Innocēt 3. De sacra vnctione Qui venisset Ministralis belongyng to Emperours and Princes to minister for me for the which cause the anointing of princes and my cōsecration doth differ for they are anoynted only in the arme or shoulders in the head to signify the differēce of power betwixt princes and me H Pope Nicolaꝰ Dist. 22. cap. Oēs This order therfore of Priestes Bishoppes Archbishops Patriarches other as a thyng moste conuenient my churche of Rome hath set institute through all churches folowing therin not onlye the example of the Angelicall army in Heauen but also of the Apostels I Pope Clemēt Dist. 80. cap. In illis For amongst them also ther was not an vniforme equalite or institution of one degree K Pope Anacletꝰ Dist. 22. c. Sacrosancta But a diuersitie or distinctiō of autorite and power albeit they were all Apostels together yet it was graunted not withstanding to Peter thēselfes also agreyng to the same that he should beare dominiō and superioritie ouer all the other apostels L Ibidem Quasi vero Petrꝰ nō a Petra sed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ducatur And therfore had his name giuen him Cephas that is head or beginning of the apostelhode