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A01507	A newyeares gifte dedicated to the Popes Holinesse, and all Catholikes addicted to the Sea of Rome: preferred the first day of Ianuarie, in the yeare of our Lorde God, after the course and computation of the Romanistes, one thousand, fiue hundreth, seauentie and nine, by B.G. citizen of London: in recompence of diuers singular and inestimable reliques, of late sent by the said Popes Holinesse into England, the true figures and representations whereof, are heereafter in their places dilated.	B. G. (Bernard Garter); Tunstall, Cuthbert, 1474-1559. Letter written by Cutbert Tunstall late Byshop of Duresme, and Iohn Stokesley somtime Byshop of London.; Stokesley, John, 1475?-1539.; Googe, Barnabe, 1540-1594.	1579 (1579)	STC 11629; ESTC S102867	65,066	113

Hoc erant vtique caeteri Apostoli quod fuit Petrus pari consortio praediti honoris potestatis Undoubtedly all the rest of the Apostles were the same that Peter was endewed with like equalitie of honour and power And Saint Hierome thus Cuncti Apostoli claues regni coelorum accipiunt ex aequo super eos Ecclesiae fortitudo fundatur All the Apostles receiued the keyes of the kingdome of heauen and vppon them as indifferently and equally is the strength of the Church grounded and established Which Saint Hierome also aswell in his commentaries vpon the Epistle to Titus as in his Epistle to Euagrius sheweth that the Premacies long after Christs ascention were made by the deuise of men where before Communi clericorum consilio singulae Ecclesiae regebantur etiam Patriarchales By the common agréement of the Clergy euery of the Churches were gouerned yea the Patriarchal Churhes The wordes of S. Hierome be these Sciant ergò episcopi se magis ex consuetudine quàm dispensationis Dominicae veritate presbyteris esse maiores Let the Bishops vnderstande that they be greater than other priests rather of custome than by the vertue and veritie of the Lords ordinaunce And in his Epistle to Euagrius he hath the lyke sentence addeth therevnto Vbieumque fuerit Episcopus siue Romae siue Eugubij siue Constantinopli c. Wheresoeuer a Bishop be eyther at Rome or at Eugubin or at Constantinople c. he is of all one worthinesse of all one priesthood And that one was elected which should be preferred before other it was deuised to the redresse of schismes least any one challenging too much to themselfe should rent the Church of Christ. These words onely of Saint Hierome be sufficient to proue that Christ by none of these thrée texts which be all that you and others doe alleage for your opinion gaue to Peter any such superioritie as the Bishop of Rome by them vsurpeth And that Peter nor no other of the chiefe Apostles did vendicate such Primacie or superioritie but vtterly refused it and therefore gaue preheminence aboue themselues to one that though he be sometimes called an Apostle yet he was none of the xij as Eusebius in the beginning of his seconde booke called Historia ecclesiastica doth testifie alledging for him the great and auncient Clearke Clementem Alexandrinum saying thus Petrus Iacobus ac Iohannes post assumptionem saluatoris quamuis ab ipso fuerant omnibus penè prelati tamen non sibi vendicarunt gloriam sed Iacobum qui dicebatur Iustus Apostolorum Episcopum statuunt Peter Iames and Iohn after Christs ascention into heauen although they were by him preferred wel ny before al other yet they challēged not that glory to themselues but decree● that Iames who was called Iustus should be chiefe Bishop of the Apostles By these wordes it is cleare that Iames was the Bishop of the Apostles not bicause as some men do glose he was elected by the Apostles but bicause he had thereby Primacy and honour of a Bishop in Ierusalem aboue the rest of the Apostles And one thing is especially to be noted and also meruayled at that the Bishops of Rome doe challenge this Primacie alonely by Peter and yet Saint Paul which was his equall or rather superiour by Scripture in his Apostolate among the Gentiles ▪ wherof Rome was the principall suffered at Rome wher Peter did and is commonly in all the Church Romaine ioyned with Peter in all appellations and titles of preheminence and both be called Principes Apostolorum the chiefe of the Apostles Uppon both is equally founded the Church of Rome the accounting of Bishops of Rome many yeares agréeth thervnto For Eusebius sayth that Clemens tertius post Paulum Petrum pontificatum tenebat That Clement was the third Bishop after S. Paul Peter reconing both them as Bishops of Rome yet therin preferring S. Paul. With lyke words saying of Alexander Bishop of Rome the Quinta successione post Petrum atque Paulū plebis gubernacula sortitus est Alexāder obteined the gouernāce of the people by successiō the first Bishop after Peter Paul. Irenaeus also as Eusebius recyteth saith Fundata aedificata Ecclesia beati Apostoli Lino officium episcopatus iniungunt After the Church was once founded buylded they charged Linus with the office of the Bishopricke of the holy Apostle Wherby appeareth that they both ioyntly constituted him Bishop of Rome receiued only their Apostleship enioyned vnto thē by christ And therfore if the Bishops of Rome challēge any preheminence of authority by Peter they shold aswell or rather by Paul bicause thei both soūded it both ther preached both ther suffred resigning that Bishopricke to Linus and all at once And if yée will peraduenture leaue to the former preaching there by Peter which by Scripture cannot be proued yet then at the least Saint Paul and his successours in Epheso should haue like Primacie ther bicause he founded first that church though Saint Iohn after that did buyld it as witnesseth Eusebius saying Ecclesia quae est apud Ephesum à Paulo quidem fundata est à Iohanne verò aedificata The Church which is at Ephesus in déede was founded of Paul but it was buylded of Saint Iohn And so Peter should haue no other Primacie in Rome but as Paul had in Epheso that is to say to be counted as the first preachers and conuerters of the people there to the faith of christ And as well might all the Bishops of Ephesus challenge the Primacie of all Nations both Gentiles and Iewes by Saint Paul Apostolum Gentium their founder as the Bishop of Rome by Saint Peter Apostolum tantum Circumcisionis in case hée were the first founder challenging Primacie ouer all But vndoubtedly this Primacie ouer all that the Bishops of Rome of late doe challenge was not allowed nor yet knowen nor hearde off amongst the auncient Fathers though they had the church of Rome in high estimacion as well for the notable vertuous déedes that the Clergie ther did shew and exercise abundantly to their neyghbours as witnesseth the sayde Eusebius alleaging the Epistle that Dionisius Alexandrinus wrote to Sother Bishop of Rome testifiyng the same As for the Citie of Rome was the most ample and chiefe Citie of all the world witnessing Saint Cyprian saying Planè quoniam pro magnitudine sua debeat Carthaginem Roma praecedere illic maiora grauiora commisit Certeinly bicause that Rome ought for hir greatnesse excell Carthage therefore there he committed the greater and more grieuous offences Which Saint Cyprian also when he had done certeine actes yea made certeyne determinations and statutes vnto the Bishop of Rome he did not submit them to his reformation or iudgement but onely signified his owne sentences to like him also And yet adding therevnto that if any Bishops meaning as well of Rome as of others which

toppe of one of the Towers a mightye stone vpon him But yet for all this the vnspeakeable malice of that sauage Tirant could not be restreyned for hée yet raysed against the said most godly Emperour the third Traytor whose name was Egbart a Marquesse and Cousin to the sayd Henry which Egbart was apprehended in a certayne Mill and by the Cesarians themselues miserably murthered Thus still the liuing Lord defended his seruant against the Pope that enuious Uicar of Sathan vnto whose pleasure his irremoueable mate Mathilda the Countesse called the Daughter of S. Peter all this while was whollie addicted and cléerely did forsake the Marquesse of Estensis hir husband whereby it came to passe as Lambertus Hirswaldensis writeth that al men mistrusted incest betwixt thē and the common fame was that Mathilda was the Popes aulter by stealth had vnlawful cōpany with him and yet notwithstanding this Pope did forbid honest wedlocke ●n Priests The Abbot of Vspergensis called Conradus de Bichtenaua in his Chronicle writeth thus muche more of the Pope It is manifest sayeth he that Heldebrand was not chosen Pope by God but by guile and golde intruded hymselfe into the Papacie for he ouerthrew all Ecclesiasticall Prelates disturbed the Kingdome of a Christian Emperour pretended the deathe of a peaceable Prince defended periured persons maynteyned malice raysed discord stirred vp contentions made diuorcements and vtterly abolished whatsoeuer séemed good amongst godly people This Pope oh notable hypocrite was the first Sathanical father whiche by excommunication depriued Ministers of theyr wiues and filled the world with all kinde of vicious loue in so much as that famous Citie whiche is spiritually called Apoc. 11. the Romane Church became afterwardes by his meane very Sodome and Aegipt by disordred Venus and wicked Idolatrie And maruellous Tragedies were made through Italy France Germany and England touching the sayd Pope whiche in this place were ouertedious to rehearse for this his ordinance was greatly misliked of by many learned men of that time in that there was in Germanie and France besides those which were in Englande and Italy aboue foure and twenty Bishops maried and so for the most part were all the Cleargie of their Dioces and they all stoutely defended their wedded estate These were the Popish actes of that diuelish monster He commaunded the Cleargie vnder payne of excommunication to take the vow of chastitie he forbad the Monkes to eate fleshe charged the Christiās to fast the Sabaoth he decréed offerings to be made in solemnization of Masses Liberius Arrianus as one Heretike loueth to preferre another was canonised and his feast as Benno sayth kept Holyday By hym were Priestes wedlocks alwayes renounced by his commandement tythes were payde to his sacrifices and vppon his controlment the King of Polonia lost his Crowne This Heldebrand condemned the opinion of that godly man Berengarius cōcerning the sacrament as it is said first practised the transubstantiation By his iudgement if a lay man possessed Tithes he committed sacriledge if he toke vpon him to giue benefices he was an Heretike and he that so receiued them of a lay man was giltie of Idolatrie And at length he made his leaden sworde so strong that by force therof he from thenceforth kept down the stéeled sceptre of the Empire These things and manye more like to them the Papistes at this day put in vre After long forbearance Henry the Emperour armed himselfe against the wicked practises of Heldebrand and in the yeare of our Lord God .1083 in the Synode at Brixis layd his lewde dealings to his charge worthyly put him from his Papacie and substituted another Bishoppe in his place whom he called Clement the third and sent his power to Rome whereby he expelled Heldebrande out of the Citie which done he led Clement into Sainte Peters Churche arrayed in his Bishops roabes there created him Pope and broughte the Citie to such penurie that they were constrayned to entreate for peace But Heldebrande whyche was foresaken and reiected of the Romaines fled to Salerna bycause he woulde not come in Caesars sighte whiche was done in the yeare of our Lorde 1086. where he ended in banishment miserably his tirāous life wherin he had slaine by sword famyne poyson and other kinds of death so great a number of men Howbeit the Papists make their boast that this minister of Sathan did many notable miracles after his death and after that as Sigebert witnesseth a certayne Prieste which died in Saxon had séene him tormented in Hel. Antonius and Vincentius doe both say that this Heldebrande in the houre of his death called vnto him a certaine Cardinal and did confesse that he had grieuously offended for that he by the Diuels enticemente hadde raysed vproares discorde hatred and open wars amongst men and he commāded this Cardinal to go vnto Henry to aske pardon of him for the offences whiche the sayde Heldebrande hadde committed against him A Comparison betwixt Christ and the Pope Those that wright against this Monster are Hugo Candidus Cardinall of Prenestyne Walramus Bishop of Niemburgh Venericus Bishop of Vercella Rolandus Priest of Permensis Sigebertus Gemblacensis and diuers other And Benno numbreth thirtene Cardinals which sharply did reproue him And I my selfe dare expresse against the saide Pope the fifth Chapter of Esay the Prophete who in the figure of Christe and his Uineyarde séeth and foretelleth the abhominations of Rome the sincke and puddle of all wickednesse of the which Chapter I will expresse thée some part the whole Chapter thou mayest reade when thou wilt for God be praysed the Quéenes Maiestie hathe layde that Booke of saluation open to all men to reade And these that follow are part of the sentences of that Chapter Viz. Therefore commeth my folke into captiuitie bycause they haue no vnderstanding Their glory is famished with hunger and their pryde is marred for thirst Therefore gapeth Hell and openeth hir mouth maruellous wide that their pride boasting and wealth with suche as reioyce therein may descend into it Thus hathe man a fall and is broughte lowe and the high looke of the proude shal be layde downe But the Lord of hostes shall be exalted in iudgemēt and God that is holy is praysed in righteousnesse Then shal the sheepe eate in order and the rich mans landes whiche were layde waste shal the straungers deuour Woe bee vnto them that drawe wickednesse vnto them with cordes of vanitie and sinne as it were with a Carterope ▪ Woe be vnto them that call euil good and good euill which make darkenesse light and light darkenesse that make sowre sweete and sweete sowre Wo vnto them that are wise in their owne conceite and thinke themselues to haue vnderstanding Woe bee vnto them that are strong to sup vp wine and expert men to set vp drunkennesse These giue sentence with the vngodlye for rewardes but condemne the iust cause of the righteous Therefore like as fire licketh vp

were of the contrary opinions to him would otherwise thincke or doe hée would not then his sentences should be to thē preiudiciall or compulsorie but to follow their owne wits customes Tum quod vnusquisque Episcoporum habeat sui arbitrij libertatem tum quod vnusquisque praepositus rationem sui actus sit Domino rediturus Partly for that euery one of the Bishops hath libertie of his owne will and partly for that euery gouernour shall make an accompt to God of his owne déede as it appeareth plainely in his Epistle to Stephanus and Iulianus And in the third Epistle to Cornelius towardes the ende speaking of the refuge that one Felicissimus à Nouatian after the condemnation in Affrica made to Rome he impugneth such appeales saying that Quia singulis pastoribus portio gregis est asscripta quam regat vnusquisque gubernet rationem sui actus Domino rediturus statutū est ab omnibus nobis aequumque pariter ac iustū censemus vt vniuscuiusque causa illic audiatur vbi est crimen admissum Forasmuch as euery pastour hath his flocke by portion committed to him which euery one ought to rule gouerne and must giue accompt to the Lord of his administration it is decréede of vs all and wée thinke it both méete iust that euery mans cause and plea should there be heard where the crime is committed This holy excellent Clarke and Martyre S. Cyprian would neuer haue either impugned their refuges to Rome from their owne primates or so obstinately holden and mainteyned his determinations in the counsels of Affrike contrary to the opinion of the Bishop of Rome and to their customes without any submission by woord or writing if the primacie ouer all which the Bishops of Rome doe challenge and vsurpe had bene grounded vpon the plaine Scriptures as you with some others doe thinke And it is to bée supposed also that hée would in all his Epistles to them haue called them Patres or Dominos Fathers or Lords as superiours and not alwaies Fratres collegas brothers and fellowes in office as but his fellowes which yet more plainly doth appere by the Actes of the Counselles of Africke in Sainct Augustines time by the which it is euident that though the faith of Christ was by the Romaines first brought into Africke as Saincte Augustine doth confesse yet it was not read nor knowne that the Bishoppes of Rome vsed or challenged any exercise of souereignetie in Africke vnto this time And yet then hée did not challenge it Iure diuino but Praetextu definitionis cuiusdam canonis in concilio Niceno That is by the right of Gods woorde but by the pretence of a certeine canon supposed to bée in the counsaile of Nice Which article could neuer be found though it were then very diligently sought for through all the principal Churches of the East and South But onely alleadged of Iulius Bishop of Rome out of his owne librarie And you may bée well assured that if these in Scriptures had made for it neither the Bishop of Rome would haue left that certeine proofe by Scriptures and trusted onely to the testimonie of an article of that counsaile doubted on vnlikely to be founde Nor yet Sainct Augustine with his holy and learned company would haue resisted this demaunde if it had bene either grounded vpon Scriptures or determined in that or other counsayle or yet had stand with equitie good order or reason Howbeit the largenesse and magnificence of buildings of that Citie and auncient excellencie and superioritie of the same in temporall dominions was the onely cause that in the Counsailes where the Patriarchall seas were set in order the Bishoppe of Rome was lotted in the first place and not in any such constitution made by Christ as appeareth well by that that Constantinople béeing at that time of this ordering of the Patriarchall seas by the Emperours most amply enlarged béeing before a small towne and of no renowne and by them most magnificently builded and aduaunced worldly wyth all titles prerogatiues and priuiledges temporall like vnto Rome and therefore called Noua Roma Newe Rome was therefore aduaunced also to the second sea and place Antiochia in the East where Sainct Peter first tooke the chaire before he came to Rome and Christian men had there first their name gyuen them Yea and Hierusalem which was the first Mother Citie of our faith and where Christ himselfe first founded the fayth reiected with Alexandria to the thirde fourth the fift places bicause at that time they were not in so high estimation in the world though in the faith of Christ all they were auncientes and some of them Mothers to Rome Truth it is that the Bishops of the Orient for debates in matters of the faith amongest themselues made sutes to the Bishop of Rome but that was not for the Superioritie of iurisdiction vpon them but bicause they were greatly deuided And those countries as well Byshoppes as others much infected with the heresies of the Arrians whereof the Weast was in a manner cléere And among the Orients none were counted indifferent to decide those matters but where all suspect of affection for one cause or other wherefore they desired the opinions of the Bishops of the West as indifferent vntangled with affections of any of those partes and incorrupted with any of the Arrians as appeareth by the Epistles of Sainct Basil written in all their names for the sayde purpose In the which also it is especially to bée noted that their suite was not to the Bishop of Rome singularly or by name but as the titles doe shewe to the whole congregation of the Bishoppes of Italy and Fraunce or of the whole West and sometyme preferring the French Bishops saying Gallis Italis and neuer naming the Romanes And for a cléere proofe that the auncient Fathers knewe not this primacie of one aboue all wée néede none other testimonie but their determination in the counsell of Nice that Alexandria and Antiochia and vniuersally all other primates should haue the whole gouernaunce of their confine countries likewise as the Bishop of Rome had of his Suburbicans And this determination proueth also that your thrée Scriptures ment nothing lesse then this primacie ouer all For God forbid that wée should suspect that counsell as ignoraunt of those plaine Scriptures to the which sith that time all Christendome hath leaned as the anker of our faith And if you like to reade the auncient ecclesiasticall histories there you may sée that Athanasius other Patriarkes did execute that primacie as in making consecrating and ordering of Churches Bishoppes and Clarkes in their countries East and South as the Bishops of Rome in that time did in the West and North. And if ye would yet any thing obiect against any of these witnesse then for to eschewe contention and for a finall conclusion let the Bishop of Rome stand to his owne confession made many years