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A20573	A sermon preached at Saint Marie Spittle April. 10. 1615. By Thomas Anyan Doctour of Divinity, and president of Corpus Christi College in Oxon	Anyan, Thomas, 1580 or 81-1632.	1615 (1615)	STC 698; ESTC S115864	24,159	48

of the Church at this day remaines preserved If I were to dispute with a Papist I would not be so troublesome vnto him as to cause him to proue that Peter was ever at Rome that hee sate Bishop there that he died there or that the Pope is his lineall Successour which some of our Divines haue denied and to proue them all it is impossible but yeelding that yet tanquam datum non concessum nothing thence can be inferd for the support of the Romane Supremacie more then may be concluded for the Sea of Antioch or the Bishop of Ierusalem For at Antioch Peter first sate Bishop afterwards gouerned it by Evodius at Antioch the Professours of the Gospell were first called Christians and the place 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the City of God And if S t Peter's death or Martyrdome could adde such Soveraigntie to the place where hee died then much juster claime may be laide to this Supremacie by the Bishop of Ierusalem because Christ the great Pastor and Bishop of our soules did there suffer death for the Redemption of vniversall man But nor the one nor the other is a sufficient foundation to raise vp this Edifice of the Popish Hierarchie The Cōmission given to Peter was not singular but to others common with him the rest of the Apostles were authorized as well as he and that immediately from Christ their preheminence of binding and loosing as ample and as Christ was sent by his Father so sent he them what he said to one he said to all Pasce oves Feed my sheepe For it was a thing in the Evangelicall story with Christ vsual sometimes to direct his speech to one private man and no more as Arise and walke Lazarus come forth sometimes to direct his speech to one in the person of al as Vade noli ampliùs peccare Goe and sinne no more and to Peter Pasce oves Nam quod dicitur Petro dicitur omnibus What was said to Peter was said to all the Apostles saith Austin cap. 30. de Agone Christiano Now the reasons why Christ directed his speech to Peter in the behalfe of them all were these vel quia aetate senior vel charitate ardentior velne videretur reliquis abiectior quia negaver at Christum saith Occham lib. 4. Dial. 1. Tract 3. part c. 3. Either because he was more ancient or in charitie more ardent then the rest or else lest he should seeme to bee despised for the denyall of his Master But the Pope the pretended Successour of this Peter will not content himselfe with this Prioritie he will not only haue a Cheiftie of Order but of command and Power and because in all likelyhood Christ would haue his Church gouerned in the best forme of regiment that is and that of all States the Monarchie is best hence Sanders and after him Bellarmine lay it downe for a Praecognitum that the Government of the Church must needs be Monarchicall that this was committed vnto Peter and continued in his Successours whereby his Power is become illimited his Iudgement infallible and hee an Vniversall Bishop whose Diocese is the whole World The truth of this State-Maxime on which they build the Pope so high a Throne I will not dispute but keepe my selfe within the sphaere of mine owne Profession and for an vncontroll'd Answere to them all adde that limitation which I finde in the fore-cited Occham 3. Part. Dial. l. 3. Tr. 1. c. 30. Status Monarchicus est omnium optimus populo simul moranti non autem vni populo comprehendenti plures populos locis distantibus That Government is best where one beares Soveraigntie not many but so that it be over but one nation not manie or if over many yet not farre disjoyned Which limitatiō of Occham's I find strengthned with the authoritie of great S t Austin lib. 4. de Civ D. c. 15. Feliciores essent res humanae si omnia regna essent parva concordi vicinitate laetantia The estate of worldly things would bee much more happy if the whole world were divided out into small Kingdomes then if all should be sway'd by one supreme Commander That forme therefore of Gouernement is not so expedient for the whole as for each part for large and disioyned Circuits as for narrow bounds and as it is impossible for one temporall Monarch to weeld the Empire of the whole world either long or well so much more impossible it is for one man to manage all Ecclesiastique affaires and dispatch the weighty businesses of the Vniversall Church Better therefore were it for Peter or his Successours to bee as S t Austin tearmes him Tract 13. in Ioh. Oculus in corpore an Eye of the Church then to be so vast a Head of a body so farre dissevered lest that bee applied vnto him in the Comedy Hic quidem fungino genere est capite se totum tegit The Church of Rome is become a mushrome or like a Toad-stoole all Head and no bodie Yet hath the sweet desire of Ambition so enchanted the Chaire of the Scarlet Whore that rather then the Pope will loose this eminent Soveraigntie and command he will become the Patrone and maintainer of most enormous offenders and their offences thereby to procure support of his Antichristian Primacy For the best stake in the Pope's hedge is his owne Authority to maintaine his owne Infallibilitie and is now become stript of all saue the naked Decrees of Canonists and the Dreames of wel-fed Monks to which had he not of late annexed an omnipotent Power of Binding and Loosing of Approuing and Dispensing with things repugnant to all Laws as wel Naturall as Divine I might by way of prediction say of the Pope's Arrogancie that which was said to the Troians of the Grecian Horse haec in vestros fabricata est Machina muros The Pope's Supremacy had long since beene the destruction of him his Sea and City Hee is but a child and ignorant in the Histories of his owne times that doth not know that the cheefest proppe whereon the Pope stands and at this houre is sustained is his correspondency with the Spanish King and the House of Austria which hee first procured and now maintaineth by his dispensing and warranting of his incestuous and vnlawfull Mariages So that if the Spaniard should revolt from the Sea of Rome the Legitimation of his Successours would be questioned his Signiories endangered Which is the only reason of the consistencie of the Papacie claimed vnder the title of S. Peter which otherwise had ere this not beene at all or else reduced into a narrowe Diocese Opened his mouth S. Peter spake not rashly or without meditation making his words to breake the prison of his lips before the doore of his mouth was opened but he taketh the keyes of knowledge and Meditation in hand and therewith opened his mouth and then spake When I mused saith David there was a fire kindled and then I