the yeare of Christe 913. was Pope and begotte Iohn the .11 Pope of that name in adulterie 54 Iohn the eleuenth in the yeare of Christe 916. kept Theodoca an impudent Harlot This Iohn was rather a warrier then an Apostle as Platina writeth At this tyme holynes fledde from the Popes to the Emperours 55 Iohn the twelfth in the yeare of Christ 934. sonne to Sergius was deposed by Leo the sixt 56 Stephanus the eight in the yéere of Christ 937. was so wounded in a ciuile sedition that hée was ashamed to come abroade all his lyfe tyme. 57 Iohn the 13. in the yeare of Christe 964. gyuen too all mischiefe to dyce cardes games robberies sacrilege fornication and to all other euyll actes from his youth whome Volaterane called a cursed man And Platina Monstrum hominis Hée cutte out the eyes of some of his Cardinalles their tounges their fingers handes noses and members Hée was accused that hée dyd not saye his Matynes and Houres that hée dyd not communicatâ— in his Masse that hée dyd make Deacons in his stables that hée dyd lye with twoo Sisters that in playing at dyce hée requyred the Deuill too helpe him hée made children Bishoppes hée deflowred Maydes and straungers made Lateranense that holy Pallace a Stewes and brothall house that hée dyd deflowre Stephana his fathers concubyne the Widowe Rayner and the Widowe Anne with her Niece put out his Spirituall fathers eyes hée hunted hée warred hée burned hée brake doores and wyndowes hée dranke and pledged the Deuill with wyne Wherefore hée was deposed and Leo placed But afterwarde his noble concubines caused him too bée restored and Leo deposed Hée ordeyned that the Emperoure should alwayes after that bée crowned of the Pope of Rome A man tooke him with hys wyfe and thrust him through with his dagger Hée made sainct Dunston beyng a Necromancer Archebishoppe of Canterburie 58 Boniface the seuenth in the yeare of christ 973. stale all the Treasure of Saint Peters church and fled too Constantinople and there solde it Hée returned to Rome and with that money payed his creditoures hyred Ruffians and deposed Iohn the .15 whome they had made Pope put out his eyes thrust him in prison where hée dyed miserably 59 Iohn the 16. in the yeare of Christ .983 a priests sonne was hated booth of the clergie and of the Laytie hée gaue all too hys kyndred 60 Syluester the second in the yeare of Christ 997. studied necromancie asked of the Deuill howe long he should be Pope The Diuell aunswered tyll hée should singe Masse at Hierusalem Hée fell sicke in a certeyne place in the church of the holy crosse called Hierusalem and there hearing an horrible noyse of Diuelles as Petrus Premonstratensis reporteth dyed 61 Iohn the 18. in the yeare of christ 1001. appoynted all soule daye perswaded by Odylo an Abbot who heard a pitifull noyse in mount Ethna supposing that there were the Soules departed and that Purgatorie was in that hill of Sicilia 62 Petrus Damianus a Cardinall writeth that Benedict the 8. Pope of that name in the yeare of Christe 1008. dyd appeare after his death sitting on a blacke horse to a Bishoppe one of hys acquayntance which Bishop being astonied with such a spectacle and vision sayde Arte not thou Pope Benedict whom wée know is dead Hée aunswered Sum ille infoelix Benedictus I am that vnhappie Benedict The Bishop aunswered How is it with you O blessed Father Then aunswered the Pope I am gréeuousâ—ie tormented but there is remedie ynough Goe thy waye and tell my brother Iohn who is nowe Pope that hée cause too be digged vp certein treasure hidden in the ground and gyue it too the poore Hée appeared also to Pope Iohn saying I trust to bée deliuered and woold to god that Odylo that holy Abbot would praye for mée that inuented purgatorie 63 Iohn the 20. of a Laye man was made Pope without any orders in the yeare of Christ 1020. 64 Benedictus the ninth in the yeare of chryst 1032. obteyned his popeshippe by Arte Magique and dyd Sacrifice to Diuelles in woodes and mountaynes and made woomen to followe hym thyther and to loue him by a Sparrowe Hée knewe what was doone in all the world Hée solde hys Popeshippe libris mille quingentis At this tyme came in the name of the Cardinalles This Benedict as hée was coniuring in the wooddes was strangled by the Deuill and after his death was séene of an Hermite in body lyke a Beare in head and tayle lyke an Asse and béeing demaunded how chaunsed it that hée was so transformed hée answered I lyue in this state bycause when I was Pope I liued without reason without Lawe without God. 65 Syluester the thirde in the yeare of Christe 1043. solde hys popeshippe to Gregorie The Cardinalles called this Gregorie a Murtherer Then there were at that selfe same tyme thrée Popes Benedictus was in the pallace Lateranense Syluester and Gregorie and Clement the second was elected the fourth 66 Damasus the second in the yeare of Christ 1048. inuaded by violence and made himselfe Pope by force at what tyme it was lawfull for euery man to aspire by what meanes hée could Quo iure quaque iniuria 67 Victor the seconde in the yeare of Christ 1055. was poysoned drinking in the Lordes Challyce 68 Alexander the second in the yeare of Christe 1062. after hée had â—ought a great battayle commaunded that no laye man should gyue any Benefice 69 Gregorie the seuenth in the yeare of Christ 1069. forbadde any Lay man to possesse Tithes he poysoned sixe or eight Popes hée caried about with him alwayes a booke of Necromancie of the which matter reade Benno at large hée excommunicated the Emperoure and made him to stande thrée dayes without the gate of the citie in a colde winter with his wyfe and his yong Sonne barefooted from morning to night without meat or drinke And when the sayde Emperour desired most humbly at the ende of the thrée dayes aunswer was made to him on this wyse O abhominable Antichrist the Popes holynes hath no leasure too speake with you But notwithstanding on the fourth day his familiare friend and Concubine Mathilda obteyned that hée might come too the Popes presence But neyther would gyue him his crowne ageyne neyther perdon him neyther absolue him from excommunication tyll hée should confirme by writing all his decrées which hée did and notwithstanding would not restore him 70 Calixtus the second in the yeare of Christe 1119. fought a battell with Gregorie the eight Pope of that name ouercame him and did set him vppon a Camell his head too the tayle and so brought him to Rome with such despite 71 Alexander the thirde in the yeare of Christe 1158. instituted that no man should marye his brothers wyfe Hée vsed the Kinge of Englande and the Kinge of Fraunce for
Hierom and others collect vntil the .8 yere of Claudius Secondly I proue by the order of time and place that he could not be at Rome vntill the second yeare of Domitian which was after the passion of Christ .52 or 53. yeares which should haue bin after the destruction of Hierusalem which was after Christ .73 yeares the 8. day of September In the second discourse I proue that neither Peter nor the Pope is the head of the Church confuting such obiections as they alledge to the contrary wherein yee shall finde their arguments refelled their Cannon law confuted the Popes errours in Doctrine detected their sillogismes answered and finally certain antitheses betweene Christ and the Pope prouing him Antichrist with an interpretation vppon the place of Paule 2. Thessalo 2. THE FIRST DISCOVRS wherein is proued that Peter was neuer at Rome PETER before Christes passion and deathe did not depart out of Iewrie but was eyther with Christe or with other of the Apostles or elles labored in his vocation for he was a fisherman as is proued by the Gospell of S. Mathew Cap. 4. versu 18. cap. 8. vers 14. cap. 10. vers 2. cap. 14. ver 28. cap. 15. ver 15. cap. 16. ver 16.17.22 cap. 17. ver 1.26 cap. 18. ver 21. cap. 19. ver 27. cap. 26. ver 33.35.37.69.75 Marc cap. 1. ver 16. cap. 3. ver 16. cap. 5. ver 37. cap. 8. ver 29. cap. 11. ver 21. cap. 13. ver 3. cap. 14. ver 29.33.37.54.66 cap. 16. ver 7. Luc cap. 5. ver 3.4.5.8.10 cap. 6. ver 14. cap. 8. ver 51. cap. 9. ver 28.32 cap. 12. ver 41. cap. 22. ver 31.34.55.60 Ihon cap. 1. ver 42. cap. 18. ver 11.15.16.17.18.25 cap. 20. ver 3.6 cap. 21. ver 2.7 ¶ VVhere Peter was the first yeare after Christes Ascension THE first yeare after the death and resurrection of Christ he was with the rest of the Apostles on the mounte Olyuet beholding the Ascension of Christe and then returned to Hierusalem lokinge for the descending of the Holy Ghost and there with the rest did chose Mathias in the place of Iudas and made an eloquent oration Acte 2. from the .14 vers vntoo the .41 And he taryed at Hierusalem and cured a lame man and in the Temple made an excellent Oration Then was he with the rest of the Apostles layde in prison and the next daye let out and examyned by what power they had cured the lame man vntoo whom Peter answered effectually neyther went hee out of Iudea that first yeare after Christes Ascension as apereth manifestlie From Hierusalem the Apostles sent Peter and Iohn to Samaria where Philippe the Deacon had layde the foundacion of Christes Religion and had conuerted the Samaritaines Peter and Iohn obteyned by prayer that they might receyue the Holy Ghost Peter and Iohn after they had preached in Samaria returned to Hierusalem and there hée remayned vntill the seconde yeare after Christes Ascension in the which yeare Paule was conuerted to the fayth as hée went to Damascus where he preached immediatly And in Arabia where hée preached thrée yeares and then returned to Hierusalem where Peter was with the reste of the Apostles Reade diligently the first chapter to the Galathians Uers. 16.17.18 Act. 9. Uer. 23.24.25 in the which verses conferred with the 17. and 18. vers of the first chapter to the Galathians yée shall vnderstande that after Paule had spent thrée yeares in preachinge in Arabia and at Damascus which is a Cittie of Syria neare vnto Arabia hée went being let downe by the wall in a basket from Damascus to Hierusalem where hée dyd fynde Peter and Iames with other Disciples Neyther was Peter at any tyme hithertoo out of Iurie In Iurie hée went about and came to Lydda a Towne of Iurie where hée cured Aeneas who had ben sicke of the pallesy eight yeares and at porte Iaphe in Iurie hée reâ—â—oâ—red Tabitha to lyfe From porte Iaphe Peter was sent for to Cornelius who was a Centurian at Cesarea a Cittie of Iurie also Peter when hée had instructed and baptized Cornelius and his howseholde returned to Hierusalem where the circumcysed reproued him for vttering the Gospell to the Gentyles who hée pacifyeth and persuadeth by his ‡ Oration This was the sixte yeare after Christes passion and the fifte yeare after Paules conuersion All that time that Paule was out of Hierusalem in â—harsis a Cittie of Lycia from whence Barnabas fetched him to Antioche a Cittie of Syria was Peter at Hierusalem and from thence went to the same citie of Antioche where Paule reproued him because that hée withdrewe himselfe from the Gentyles with whome hee did eate before that Iames came in with certeyne that were circumcised whom Peter feared to offend And this was seueÌ„ yeares from the conuersion of Paule And the eight from Christes passion which is not onely proued by order of tyme but also it is noted Galat. 2. Uers. 11.12 â—3 14 Act. 13. Uers. 2. All that tyme that Paule and Barnabas were with the Gentyles Peter remayned at Hierusalem till their returne sauinge that hée conueyed himself at that Easter wheÌ„ Herode Agrippa was there for Herod Agrippa came froÌ„ Cesarea to HierusaleÌ„ the feast of Easter what time he beheaded Iames layd Peter in prison as is euideÌ„t in the 1.2 3.4 â— 9. ver of y 12. Chapter of the Actes And this was the twelueth yeare from Christ his passion and the eleuenth from the conuersion of Paule Peter fearing the tyrannie of Herode Agrippa after that the Aungell had delyuered him out of prison conueyed himselfe out of the waye and as the texte sayeth into an other place vntill Herode Agrippa should departe from Hierusalem which was immediatly after Easter purposing in his mind to make warre with the Tyrians Sydonians or as Luke vttereth more effectually tynomachem And as God would the sayde Herode Agrippa a great defendour of the Iewes Lawes and Ordinances and a persecutour of Christians dyed miserably the â—ame 13. yeare after Christes passion which was the thirde yeare of the Emperour Claudius for Agrippa the same yeare of Claudius was striekeÌ„ with the Angel eateÌ„ with woormes dyed miserably Thus may you sée euideÌ„tly y Peter went notout of Iurie vntill the iiij yeare of Claudius nor the neyther vntil the death of Claudius as I shall proue a litle after Now you maye sée y Peter was at Hierusalem in Iurie the first ij iij. yeare of Claudius as is euidently proued by Luke in the Actes of the Apostles Nowe let vs consider what place this was that Luke sayeth that Peter câ—nueyed himselfe too lesse that they should saye that hée conueyed himselfe to Rome Surely hée hidde him selfe secretely in some place of Iudea â–ª vntill that Herode Agrippa should returne to Cesarea where he purposed to haue prepared an armie ageinst
the Tyrians and Sydonians Wherefore Herode Agrippa returned after Easter to Cesarea where he died miserably After the death of Herode Peter was out of daunger for Iudea was ruled by the Lieuetenantes of the Romaynes as Festus Lysias and Felix which did rather presse the Iewes than the Christians as the historie of Iosephus declareth wherefore those seuen yeares that Paule and Bernabas departed from Antioche of Syria vnto the Gentyles Peter was in Iudea yea hée was at Hierusalem the 16. yeare after Christes passion and the 15. of Paule his conuersion as is manifest ‡ for there maketh Peter an Oration to the brethren and this was the sixte yeare of Claudius as is proued by the historie of the Actes written by S. Luke What authoritie haue the Papistes which affirme and sweare that Peter went to Rome the second yeare of Claudius But let vs procéede in the historie of their errours in this matter I will discourse a little after Peter was appointed at that same tyme a teacher of the Iewes and Paule of the Gentyles For sayeth Paule Barnabas and I were charged to preache to the Gentyles and Peter Iames and Iohn to the Iewes Were not the Romaynes Gentyles Was not Paule and Barnabas charged with them Notwithstanding after that Peter and Iohn had sufficiently instructed the Iewes they also taught the Gentyles Wherefore vnto the sixt yeare of Claudius which was the 16. yeare from Christe his passion And the 15. from Paules conuersion Peter neuer departed out of Iury sauing only to Antioche of Syria as I haue noted before Nowe I will declare the reste of Peters peregrination partly by suche testimonies as cannot bée refelled partely by probable argumentes necessarie coniectures and sufficient reasons As Peter did write to the dispersed Brethren in Pontus Galatia Bithinia Capadocia and Asia so did hée preache in them all * Nicephorus writeth that Peter preached in Palestina Syria Phenice Pontus Galatia Capadocia Bithinia and to bée bréefe in all the quarters of Asia and Europe Wherefore after this councell which is in the 15. of the Actes hée went out of Iury into Pontus Galatia Capadocia Asia and Bithinia Them hée instructed them hée visited them hée furnished with the Gospell them hée exhorted to faith to good woorkes to obedience to temperancie to doo their deuties with them hée taried and was conuersant so longe vntill that they had layde a foundacion buylded substantially vpon it What a long tyme hée taryed in Pontus and what Cities and Townes hée did instructe and brought from superstition to Religion from idolatrie to the Truthe from errour too the right waye from crueltie too lenitie and from all iniquitie to all patience iustice and humanitie Hée maye easely coniecture who readeth and knoweth the descriptions of Countries What a number of goodly Cities farre distant one from an other were in Pontus howe many in Bithinia In them stoode Chalcedon Nicomedia Apamia Heraclea and the great cittie Nicea where that famous councell was holden called The Counâ—ell of Nice What shall I speake of Asia in it standeth Troia Assum Autandros Addramitium Ephesus where Dianas Temple was had in suche honour Arogilium â–ª Milet Guidus Troas with many other mencioned in the Actes of the Apostles Who dooth not knowe but that Galatia is as great as any of the others Unto this S. Paule did write in his epistle to the Galathians in this Countrie stoode Antioche of Pisidia where Paule made an eloquent Oration Some parte of Galatia differeth in longitude from other some of it twoo or thrée degrees in latitude fiue or sixe And Ephesus which standeth in Ionia â–ª a Region of litle Asia differeth from Antioche of Pisidia which is in Galatia in longitude seuen degrées in latitude twoo For Ephesus in longitude is 57.20 minutes in latitude 37. and 40. minutes And Antioche in longitude 62.30 in latitude 39.15 And there is no lesse distance in the Cities of Capadocia Wherefore to passe ouer and through them leauing any monumentes and foundacions of Religion hée must néedes haue taried there a long tyme Consider the long iorney the vntowardnesse of the people the hard harted paynime Priests olde rooted superstitions their Forefathers customes and yée shall and maye bée easely persuaded that hée must néedes continewe in these Countries a very longe tyme Thus writeth Mantuan The Cities of Assyria Peter conuerted to the fayth There 14. yeares he dyd bestowe As Mantuan proueth and sayth And after this did passe the sea Capadoces Bithine Pontus Galace and lesser Asia Preaching the Gospell gracious Let it bée that hée was not aboue seuen or eight yeares in all these countries notwithstanding wée must bringe the historie to the 24. yeare after the passion of Christe and to the 23. of the conuersion of S. Paule and this was the 14. yeare of the Emperour Claudius Wherefore by this description and order of tyme and place â–ª neyther could hée bée at Rome the second yeare of Claudius neyther in his time And if Peter should haue ben put to death at Rome the 14. of Nero as the papistes affirme then could not hée haue ben Pope at Rome 2â— yeares and 7 â–ª monethes but onely 14. yeares But now I will procéede and declare that hée could not bée at Rome none of these 14 â–ª yeares of Nero â–ª whiche when I haue proâ—ed what can the Romishe Catholiques or the Romish church haue wherewith to proue their Romishe Peter After Peter had watered the drye barren countries of â—onâ—â—s Galâ—tia Capadocia Bâ—thinâ—a and Asia with the streames of the Gospell hée departed from thence into Egyptâ— â–ª there to doo the like â–ª for hée was at Alexandria as Nicephorus reporteth there ordeyned S. Marke bishop or rather an Ouerséeeâ— and Teacher to the resâ—e And this agreeth with Dorotheus in the lyfe of S. Marke who off riueth that hée was cast downe vpon the grounde by the â—dolaters â–ª and trailed by a rope put about his necke from a streat of Alexandria called Boâ—kolou the hogge heard vnto the places called aggelon of Aungelles or messengers When Peter had visited this Alexandria in Egypt whose longitude is 60.30 and latitude 31. and had planted the Gospell hée went to Babylon a citie in Egypt also where the longitude is 62.15 and latitude â—0 â–ª from whence hée wrote his first Epistle by Syluanus â–ª declaring that the same doctrine and grace which they sâ—oode in and hée hâ—d preached vnto them was true infallible and immortall True ageynst the enemie infallible to their expectation immortall in contineuance comfortable for the Soule necessary to saluation And this Babylon is meaned to â—ée that famous Citie of Egypt nowe called in the Hebrewe tounge Câ—â—rum where the Sultane lieth the circuite about is 13. or 14. Geâ—mane myles From this Peter wrote this firste Epistle whiche is manifest by the 15. verse of the fifth chapter where hee sayeth
that the Churche of Babylon dyd salute them and his sonne Marke who as Dorotheâ—â— writeth was burned at â–ª Alexandria in Egypt â–ª Now muste yée graunâ—e that Peâ—ers iourney from Pontus Cappadocia Asia Bithinia and Galatia to Alexandria and Babylon in Egypt was very long for they differ in latitude 11. or 12. degrées and therefore the tyme must bée prescribed in suche sorte as hée might not only taste of Nilus as the prouerbe is but also teâ—che the ignoraunte instructe the simple persuade the stubbeâ—â—o plantâ— good doctrine and manners deteste and banishe superstition and Idolatrie â–ª 〈◊〉 as you may reade euery where they woorshipped Cattes Eaâ—ues Crocodilles Dogges and such other beastes and were giuen ouer to Magicke and all other iniquities â–ª This required a longe tyme an whole body a carefull 〈◊〉 singuler diligence 〈…〉 will and a continewall perâ—euerance I knowe some call thys Babylon Rome by an Allegorie and other some Babylon of Chalde but their proofe is easely reproued their assâ—rtion vncertaine their opinion wauering and their iudgement without reason or authoritie For all others write of Markes béeing at Egypt and at Alexandria and there to haue preached that some Gospell which hée hath committed to writing And for the familiaritie that was betwéene Peter and Marke Peter calleth him his sonne And in déed hée was his Sisters sonne adelphidous â–ª But what néedeth vs any more proofe of Peters being in Egypt when as Peters woordes proue it If Marke suffered his marâ—yrdome the eight yeare of Nero his raigne as Hierome writeth in Catalogo And Eusebius Lib. 2. Cap. 24. And notwithstanding was at Rome the second or third yeare of the sayd Nero as is manifeste For that yeare Paule wrote the Epistle too the Collossians from Rome Than of necessitie Peter must haue ben in Egypt â–ª before the eight yeare of Nero his raigne because that Peter béeing in Egypt â–ª sayeth that Marke dooth salute the dispersed â–ª Brethren of Asia If before the eight yeare Ergo hée must néedes haue ben in Egypt some parte of Nero if some parte then was not hée at Rome all the tyme of Nero if hée was not at Rome vnto the 14. yeare of Nero and 11. yeares before than quaileth the opinion of the papistes that saye that hée was Pope at Rome twentie fiue yeares .7 monethes 7. wéekes 7. dayes For Peter must néedes haue bene in Egypt before the death of Marke for if Marke had ben dead Peter would not haue said that Marke had saluted the dispersed brethren But that this matter maye bée playnly perceyued and the inconstancie of Romishe Registers detected their fraude espyed and their errours â—efelled Consider that Peter was the third yeare of Callâ—gula cast in prison by Herode the ninth yeare after Christes passion and the eight yeare of Paules conuersion wherfore Peter fearing the tyrannie of Herode as I sayd before conueyed himself out of the presence of Herode And all the whyle that Paule and Barnabas preached to the Gentiles Peter remayned in Iudea which was about seuen yeres And thus are wee comme to the sixthe yere of Claudius the sixtenth afer Christes passion and the fiftenth of Paules conuersion After this Councell how long I can not certenlye coniecture hée tooke his iourney into Pontus Galatia Cappadocia Bithynia Asia where hée taried seuen or eyght yeares and more as I haue specified before Others apointe but * fyue yeares put to seuen yeares in which they saye hée was at Antioche By this order of tyme wée haue brought it too passe euen according too the prescription of the Papistes and after suche an infallible supputation that it can not bée denyed vnto the sixth yere of Nero which was the .xxx. yere after Christes passion and .xxix. after the conuersion of sainct Paul. In so much that hée could neyther bee .xxv. yeres at Rome neyther seuen moonthes neyther seuen dayes neyther one yeare of Nero. If any man can refelle any parte of this discourse wée will geue him thankes partelie for that hée shall delyuer vs out of errour and also for that hée shall set foorthe the truthe If Peter lyued after the death of Nero as this Historye declareth howe coulde hée bée put too deathe by Nero I haue proued before that hée was at Babylon in Egypte which is distant from Rome ten or eleuen degrées in latitude and in longitude .xxx. which must néedes bée a longe and tedious iourney For Babylon of Egypt standeth in 62.25 30.0 and Rome 36.40 41.40 It apereth that Peter was at Corinthe also for it is written that some holde of Paule some of Apollo and other some of Cephas which was Peter If the Corinthians had neuer séene Peter neuer herd of him neuer had ben conuersaunte with him why woold they haue holden of him It may bée that hée went to Corinth when hée was in lesser Asia which differeth not from Corinth aboue six or seuen degrées in latitude and as much in a manner in longitude Let vs comme too an end If hée suffred not deathe at Roome where died hée It appereth that hée died at Hierusalem bycause that hée was appointed a teacher of the Iewes For Christe saieth that â—ée sent too the Hierosolymitanes Prophets wyse men and learned men and hée prophicied that somme of them they shoulde kill and crucefye by these hee meaneth the Apostles and other teachers Which of all the Apostles was crucefied at Hierusalem But somme must needes bée crucefyed there or els Christes woordes should seeme not too bée true Wherfore Hierâ—m Lyra with the interlyned Glose vppon this place affirme that Peter wes crucefyed at Hierusalem by the Iewes Thus mutch as concerning the historie lyfe peregrination and death of Peter Those presumptuous and legend lyes with Festiuall fables whiche they aduouch are dissonant contrary and varyable among them selues Somme saye as Eusebius that Peter came too Roome the secound yere of Claudius somme the thirde somme the fourth as Damasus when as all this tyme hée was noot out of Iury. The discorde of writers causeth suspicion Discorde is contrary too concorde Where is truthe if concorde bee absent Consider their discorde Eusebius sayeth that Peter raigned at Roome .xxv. yeares Hierom. xxvii Beda xxix Damasus affirmeth that hee came too Roome in the tyme of Nero which was the fourtenth yeare of his Raigne and notwithstanding was at Roome whole .xxv. yeres twoo monethes and seuen dayes Howe is it possible that Peter came too Roome in the tyme of Nero and suffred in the last yere of Nero and yet taried there xxv yeres and all in the tyme of Nero who reigned but .xiiii. yeres Mendacem memorem esse oportet Can you make .xxv. of xiiii or xiiii too bee .xxv Buechingerus sayeth that Peter was at Roome .xxv. yeres seuen monethes and eight dayes Somme saye that Peter suffered at Roome the .xxxiii. yeare after the death of Christe somme the
.xxxviii. yeare Nicephorus sayeth that Peter was the first Bishop of Roome Clement in the first booke Recognit sayeth that Barnabas was the first that was at Roome and the firste that planted any Churche there Hierom sayeth that Peter was Bishope in the East fiue yeares Beda seuen yeares Nicephorus sayeth that Peter went from Antioche too Roome and from Roome too Antioche and agein from Antioche too Roome where hee suffered Fabularum plena sunt omnia Quo teâ—eam nodo mutantem Prothea vultus Omnia transformat sese in miracula rerum Ireneus and Dorotheus saye that Marke was alyue after the deathe of Peter and Paule other saye that hee suffered the eight yeare of Nero. As they doo disagree in Peter so doo they in the rest of the first Popes And thinke yee not that they disagrace Peter in making him of an Apostle a Bishope of a Disciple of Christ a Pope of Rome But too our purpose somme saye that Peter made Linus Cletus and Anacletus Bishoppes of Rome Somme saye that they were his fellowes cohelpers their foundacions are weake they leane too a broken staffe Somme saye that Clement succeded Peter with Linus and Cletus as cohelpers which as the sayd Scotus writeth in Anacletus lyfe denieth that they were eyther Bishops or Popes There is no mention of Cletus in any good Author neyther can it bée proued sufficiently whether euer there were any suche or no. Somme saye that hée was Pope twelue yeares other somme seuen The olde writers place Anacletus immediatlye after Clement eyther despising Cletus or els forgetting him or els being ignorant of any such omit him I cease too nomber all the discordes for Roome it self woolde scarse holde them all Nowe as wée haue proued by the truthe of the history that Peter was neyther at Roome xxv yeres neyther dyed there So let vs proue the same by probable argumentes that they maye perceiue their Churche too bée buylded vppon the sande If Peter had ben at Roome Luke woolde haue specified it who describeth the Apostles Actes diligently and exquisitely It is euident both by Suetonius Tranquillus and others and also by S. Luke that Claudius the Emperour did charge all the Iewes as they loued their lyues too departe out of Roome if Peter had bin there than which was the tenth yeare of Claudius and the .xx. after Christes passion and the .xix. of Paules conuersion without doubte somme mention woolde haue ben made of his tarying there or of his departure Paule saluteth Aquila Priscilla by name who were at Roome before the commaundment of the Emperour why did hée not aswell salute Peter with whome hée taryed .xv. dayes at Hierusalem If Peter had ben there had herd the proclamation of Claudius which hée must néeds haue heard if hée had ben there hée woulde haue shaken the dust of his féete following the precept of christ And neyther could hée haue taried at Roome neyther hée woolde hée could not bycause of Tyranny woolde not because the citie was not woorthie of such a message as hée brought with him How can they now saye that hée taried there .xxv. yeres vii monethes vii dayes But why did they not make Paule the first Pope séeinge that hée was not only appointed too bée a teacher too the Gentiles but also Luke affirmeth that hée was at Roome and Eusebius maketh him the first Bishop of Rome They woold rather haue made Paule an Heretique if they had could because that hée inueyeth so much ageinst the Antechrist of Roome There was one brought before a Iustice of the West countrie for religioÌ„ who aunswereth béeing demaunded of a matter of religion that Paule sayeth so Paule sayeth hée if Paule were here hée should go the same waye that thou shalt go ye were both worthie to bée burned I wolde cary a fagotte to burne you both Paule béeing at Rome in the tyme of Nero wrote to the Colossians saying that Epaphras Luke Demas saluted them Was Peter inferiour to them was hée not worthie to bée named were his salutacions to bée despysed wherfore if hée had ben at Roome hée woolde haue made mention of Peter béeing head of the Apostles And to Timothe hée writeth that Demas was reuolted Crescens was gone into Fraunce Titus into Dalmatia desiring him to bring Marke with him bycause only Luke was with him If Luke was there only surely Peter was not there And Paule writing to PhilemoÌ„ sayeth that Epaphras his felowe prysoner Marcus Aristarchus Demas Luke his cohelpers saluted him If Peter had ben there béeing an earnest professor of Christ should not hée haue beÌ„ apprehended as sone as Epaphras should not hée haue ben as good a helper as Demas as Ariâ—tarchus as Luke was hée not woorthie of naming Hithertoo I haue obserued as appereth by the texte too proue euery thing by order of tyme and place and also by other circumstances now I thinke it good also to recite the order that Hierom other old writers obserue in this matter who gather their historie out of Luke and Paule as wée do which order though it be not so probable to somme notwithstanding it maketh better for our purpose For after the order which I haue described hitherto Peter was at Hierusalem the sixt yeare of Claudius the Emperoure the .xvi. yeare of Christes passion the .xv. yeare of the conuersion of sainct Paule But Hierom and others will haue the Councell which was holden at Hierusalem in the .xv. of the Actes to haue beÌ„ the .xvii. yeare of Paules conuersion and in the eightenth yeare from Christes passion in the eight yeare of Claudius And they are persuaded by the first chapter to the Galatians vers xviii by the second chapter vers j. where Paule expressely maketh mention of .iij. yeares spent at Damascus and in Arabia and after those .iii. yeares too haue comme too Hierusalem too the Councell the .viii. yeare of Claudius With what countenance than can the Roomish catholiques saye that hée went to Rome the second yeare of the Emperour Claudius If wée interprete the places of the first and second chapter too the Galatians as Charles Molyneus an Aduocate of the highe Senate Parliament of Paris dothe than must wée saye that Paule continued at Damascus in Arabia and his retourne to Damascus full fyue yeares than .xiiii. yeare after both Paule Peter too haue ben at the Councell Than must wée afâ—rme that Peter was at Hierusalem the .x. or .xi. yeare of Claudius which was the .xix. or .xx. yeare after Christes passion And in the .xvii. or .xix. yeare of Paules conuersion which was the .xi. yeare of Claudius Peter departed to Antioche where hée was theÌ„ reprehended of Paule Then both by Molyneus supputation and by the other which wée haue recited before Peter coulde not comme too Roome the second yeare of Claudius And
therfore whatsoeuer the Papistes buylde of Peter * it is soone shaken downe as grounded vpon the sandes If Peter continued full seueÌ„ yeares at Antioche in Syria as the Papistes affirme then coulde not hée haue ben at Roome vntill the .iiii. yeare of the Emperour Nero which was .xxvii. yeares after Christes passion By this discourse hée could not haue ben Pope at Roome .xxv. yeares as the Papistes dreame vnlesse that hé had lyued after Nero after Galba after Otho after Vitellius Vespasianus and Titus vnto the tyme of Domitianus as manifestly appereth by their Reignes For Nero reigned .x. yeares after the .iiii. yeares which I haue specified Galba .vii. monethes Otho .iii. monethes Vitellius .viii. monethes which was a yeare a half Vespasianus .x. yeares Titus .ii. yeares So that these .xxv. yeares that Peter should haue ben resident at Rome should haue â—atended too the .ii. yeare of the Emperour Domitianus So that Peter should not haue dyed in the tyme of Nero as the Papistes reporte who affirme with one voyce that Peter was crucefied at Rome with his héeles vpward his head downward the .xxxvii. yeare after Christes passion the .xiiii. yeare of Nero wheÌ„ as wée haue proued by their own reportes Chronicles Histories Authors that hée lyued .xv. yeares longer euen too the seconde yeare of the Emperour Domitian which was after the passian of Christ lii or liii yeares Hithertoo wée haue proued by the hiâ—tory and by argument and also by authoritie that Peter was neuer at Roome Now let vs confute their presumptions and obiections They obiect that the olde Authors saee that hée was there I answer that those olde Authors haue no staffe too stick too no scripture no sufficient authoritie not one woorde neyther out of the olde Testament nor of the newe Let vs confute Egesippus out of whom they haue all their fables whereby they woold proue Peter to haue bin at Roome First this fabulous and lying Egesippus is not hée that Eusebius maketh mention of Lib. fourth Cap. 8.22 For hée gathered his books out of the Ghospell â—ecundum Hebraeos Syros hée wrote commentaries wherin hée wrote the doctrine actes of the preaching of the Apostles in an homely simple stile inmanner of an history and did contend erfectually against Heretiques this fabulous Egesippus wrote in Greke Secondly this Author wryteth an highe stile affecteth an other kynd of phrase the other is an homely stile as HieroÌ„ noteth This suborned Egesippus wryteth fyue bookes of the destruction of Hierusalem out of Iosephus the other the actes of the church froÌ„ the passion of Christ to his own tyme which was after Christes natiuity about .145 yeares Thirdly the trew Egesippus wrote the actes of the preaching and doctrine of the Apostles out of the Ghospell secundum Hebraeos Syros this suborned Egesippus gathered his bookes out of Iosephus neyther doth Hierom nor Eusebius make mention of them Fourthly this Eusebius that wée haue maketh mention of Constantinople vnto the which the citie of Rome was equall in dignitie This was done in the tyme of the Emperoures Gratian and Theodosius in the yeare of Christ as Pantaleon noteth 383. The true Egesippus was about the yeare of Christe 146. and this Councell spoken of in the latter Egesypus was about the yere of Christ 383. so that now it is manifest that this latter Egesippus was 200. yeare and aboue after the former and therefore such a one as serued to set out fables for the mayntenance of the Pope his superstition reade more in Cornelius Gualterus vpon Egesippus and in Vilierius If a man doo well consider those fables that Egesippus writeth lib. 3. c. 2. how that Peter and Simon Magus dyd contende whyther of them should renine Nero his Cosen that was dead and how that if Peter could not doo it hée should dye for it and if Simon could not that Peter could doo it then Simon should suffer death And howe that Peter met Christ at the gates of Rome and asked of Christ Domine quo vadis And how that Christ answered I come ageyne to bée crucified and that Peter returned and was crucified with his héeles vpward It may bée easely coÌ„sidered that hée was one of the Popes friends c. Ireneus in the first chapter of his third booke writeth that Matthewe wrote his Gospell what tyme as Peter and Paule preached the gospell at Rome founded the hurch there If Peter was at Rome at that tyme when Mathewe wrote his Gospell then dyd not hée come to Rome in the second third or fourth yeare of Claudius as the Catholiques reporte For as yit Caligula was aliue and in the third yeare of his Empyre and reigne Matthewe wrote his Gospell Neyther was Paule at Rome in the tyme of Caligula in whose third yeare Matthew wrote his Gospell euen eight yeare after Christes ascension and 41. years after his natiuitie For it was 24. years after Christes deathe before Paule came to Rome Howe could Paule preache at Rome the eyght yeare after Christes ascenâ—ion when as hée came not to Rome vntill the 24. yeare after Christes ascension Could hée preache at Rome before that hée was there It was the seconde yeare of Nero that Paule came to Rome as shall appeare most manifestly to them that will conferre the 28. of the Actes of the Apostles with the order of tyme with the yeares of the Emperours and with Eusebius in Chronice and Hierome in the lyues of Ecclesiasticall writers Consider whether that Ireneus can make the 3. yeare of Caligula which was the eight yeare after Christes Ascension to bée the second yeare of Nero whiche was the 24. yeare after Christes ascension Nowe if Peter came not to Rome tyll Paule was there or if hée were there with Paule at any tyme then could not Peter bée there tyll the seconde yeare of Nero so that hée was neyther at Rome in the tyme of Caligula who reygned thrée yeare nor in the tyme of Claudius who reygned 14. yeare So that by this order and playne demonstration Ireneus woordes are neyther of force neyther woorthy to bée read much lesse to bée credited Hierome writeth that Peter came to Rome the second yeare of Claudius which is no trewer then this that the same Hierome sayeth that Peter was the prince of the Apostles Was hée the Prince of the Apostles when Paule withstoode and reproued to his face Galat. 2. ver 11. whom Christ called Satan who calleth himselfe but an Elder with the reste 1. Petr. 5. who was sent by the other Apostles Actes 8 Could Peter come to Rome the second yeare of Claudius when as Hierome himselfe in the same place sayeth that first hée went to Antioche where hée was Bishop and from thence hée went and preached to the dispersed Brethren in Ponto Gallatia Cappadocia Asia and Bithinia and then went to Rome the seconde yeare of Claudius and continewed there 25.
yeare If he came to Rome after that hée had bene at Antioche and in these other countries as Hierome reporteth then came not hée to Rome the seconde yeare of Claudius as the same Hierome contrudeth For this yeare was the sixt yeare of Nero which was after the second yeare of Claudius 17. yeare as I proue in this booke and as it foloweth necessarely by the computation of yeares and order of the historiographers As concerning Eusebius hée was an Arrian and gathered his historie out of those bookes that were condemned in codice Sancta Romana 15 â–ª dist 11. And when hée was an Arrian hée wrote this historie Tripart lib. 2. cap. 7. Read lib. 2. cap. 11. of the sayd Tripartit Hée is contrarie to himselfe for hée sayeth lib. 3. cap. 2. that Peter came not to Rome tyll the last yeare of Claudius read Molineus Rhenanus you shal find many mo reasons wherby ye may coÌ„fute Eusebius If ther bée any other authours in this errour they may be as easely reiected as these And if we are forbiddeÌ„ to ad any thing or take any thing away if the old authors may cause Peter to be at Rome without authoritie we may affirme that he was not at Rome with authoritie if they of their own heades hold that Peter was at Rome we may by euident demoÌ„strations assured arguments infallible reasons proue that hée was not at Rome If they say and not proue and wée booth saye and proue whether is of more Authoritie They saye that hée was at Rome 25. yeares and came eyther in the tyme of Claudius or Nero wée proue that all that tyme hée was eyther in Iurie Antioche Asia or Egypte They saye that Eusebius an Arian or counterfeyt Damasus sayeth so wée saye that Christian Luke and true Paule prooue the contrarie They write contraries wée concordances they obsurdities wée sensible argumentes they alleadge fables and wée truths They say that Peter was at Rome both quicke dead wée denie both They saye that Peter when hée died willed ClemeÌ„t then being at Rome to write to Iames of his death But Iames was dead by their owne authorities before Peter suffered seuen yeares for Iames was cast downe of the pynacle of the temple at Hierusalem the 30. yeare after Christes passion and Peter as they reported suffered 37. yeare after christes passion could Clement being alyue write to Iames being dead who should carry the letters If hée went to purgatorie who knewe where purgatorie was for than it was not inuented If hée were in Heauen thither ascendeth none with letters Perhaps Clement should sende the letters and laye them vpon Iames graue that he might rise on the night and reade them as in the councell of Nyce they say that Chasantus and Musonius two Bishops of the councell of Nice dyd subscribe to those matters that were concluded in the councel desired bythe rest who layd the actes vpon their graues requiring them to subscribe for a better assertion the next morning they resorted to their graues found both their handes subscribed They write that Eusebius reporteth that Peter was requesâ—ed of his brethren fellowes to departe out of Rome least Nero should persecute him to death Peter went out at their request when he came to the gate he met Christ and saide thus God saue you Syr whether goe you you were best to returne here is to hotte béeing for you and mée Then sayd Chryste doost thou not know mée Peter O Peter Peter returne hither I am come to suffer ageyne Naye sayeth Peter God forbidde I will goe and so Peter returned and suffered at Rome This doctrine taught Doctor Smith I heard him in Whitengton colledge in London in Quéene Maries dayes Hée moued manye affections and tolde the tale on this wyse Maysters sayeth hée you are in a great errour as concerning the blessed Sacrament and all your trust was in Cranmer Rydley Latymer As for Latymer hée sayd in open disputation in Oxforde that hée had no learninge in that matter but out of Cranmers booke Besydes this I disputed with Latymer 20. yeares agone and then hée hadde no learning As for Cranmer hée sayde that his learninge came from Rydley And as for Rydley I disputed with him my selfe now at Oxeford the other day and I proued my Argument thus Ille cui Christus obuiauit Romae fuit Romae At Christus obuiauit Petro Romae Ergo Petrus fuit Romae Hée whom Christ met at Rome was at Rome But Christ met Peter at Rome Ergo Peter was at Rome By this Argument I proue twoo thinges and singuler mysteries of our fayth First that Peter was at Rome ageynst them that clatter that Peter was neuer at Rome Secondly that if Peter met Christ bodely as Abdias reporteth and whiche I am sure is true or else suche an auncient and holy Father would neuer haue written it Then consequently hée maye bée aswell bodely in the blessed Sacrament as hée was met bodely To this Rydley stoode lyke a block and féelinge hym selfe conuicted aunswered nothing Then sayde I Cur non respondes haeretice haereticorum haereticissime Dyd not I handle hym well Then denyed hée the minor which I proued thus Christ met Peter goeing out of Rome and sayed good morrowe Peter whether goest thou Peter aunswered good morrowe good man whether goest thou Then sayde Chryste I goe to Rome too suffer what sayeth Peter I trowe onlesse I take my markes amisse you are Ihesus Christe good Lorde howe doo you I am glad I haue met you here Then sayd hée to Peter goe backe and suffer or else I must et pro te me When Rydley had heard this my profe and Abdias authoritie a Doctoure auncient and irrefragable hée aunswered neuer a woorde And thus I cenfuted Rydley in the audience of a thousand that hée hadde not one woorde to saye yet you sayâ— that Christ was neuer in earth since the Ascension bodely beléeue with mée that hée is vnder fourme of bread and wyne Let this argumente of myne confounde you as it did Ridley your chief champion Thus mucth Doctoure Smith and more in Whitengton colledge churche in London standing in the streat called towre Ryall a little aboue the thrée Cranes in the Uynetrée If saye the papistes wée holde not and defende ageynst these heretiques that Peter was at Rome than our churches estimation is doone our prerogatiue perisheth our preeminence no better then others our glorie diminished our holinesse empayred our authorities annihilated our honors negnected our dissimulation detected our customes waâ—e colde our perdones peruerted our Iubilees iested at our Religion rayled vppon and all our pompe fall to nothing I aunswere Peter sought no such vanities Christ willeth him that would presume aboue the rest to bée inferiour to the rest Paule gaue no place to Peter Chrysostome sayeth that hée that in earth séeketh supremacie shall finde in
Apostles where was his swoord than where was his courageous stomacke Did not little Paule dryue great Peter awaye Wherfore yee see that the Pope founding his authoritie ambition vayne glory Supremacie dignitie and superioritie vppon Peter must needes fall it must needes bee grounded vppon errours and iniquitie That which hath twoo heades is monstruous but if Christ bée head as hée is the only head and the Pope also than is it a monstruous body But more monstruous is that body that hath thrée or foure heades for at once there were thrée or foure Popes together euery one called him self head Which of them was the head let them answer if they can if they can not let the head fall with the body If Rome make the Pope holy if the seate where the Pope is can not erre if his church bée catholique and vniuersall how chaunced it that at one time in the yeare of Christ 1411. Clement was Pope at Auenion in Fraunce Pope Vrbane at Roome Benedict the .xiii. succeded Clement at Auenion in Fraunce Gregorie the .xii. was the Pope at Rome Iohn Pope at Bononia and all deposed in the Councell of Constance One of these reuiled an other blasphemed an other cursed excommunicated calling one an other Antechrist Traytor Murtherer Sonnes of Beliall Seruantes of Satan Heretiques Scismatiques and Cruell Tyrauntes If the presence of Peter make the place too bée the best and of most authoritie why was not Hierusalem the chief Cittie the highe See and the Metropolitane of the whole worlde For there Peter preached first and conuerted many thousandes And ye can noâ— reade of one that hée conuerted at Roome when hée was neuer there as the former discours proueth Where gaue Christ and at what tyme the authoritie and prerogatiue of â—osinge and â—ynding Hée gaue it before his death and in Iurye than by good reason that tyme should bée better than this Iury holyer than Roome for many hundreth yeares after was Roome established Now bycause neyther tyme nor place is estemed among Christians but fayth in Iesu Christ there is the Church where Christians woorshippe him in veritie Then Rome is not too bée preferred before the whole world neyther a Cittie before Citties a Towne before Shyâ—es a small parte of Europe before Asia Africa and America Besides this why is not Antioche Pontus Galatia Cappadocia Bithynia Asia Egypte and Babylon too bee preferred seeing that there hée preached there hée planted there hée grafted there hee did sowe there hée watered there hée taught and instructed and brought the people from errour to truthe from Superstition to Religion from Tyrannie to Clemencie from Fraude too Synceritie from Dissimulacion and Hypocrisye too Ueritie from Auarice too Frankenesse from Wickednesse too Uertue from Earthly thinges too Heauenly thinges from the admiration of worldly pompe too the contemplation of heauenly thinges from Hell too Heauen from misery too felicitie and from earthly possession too the inheritaunce of Iacob too the bosome of Abraham too the possession of Isaac too the let of Danyell and too the Paradise of the blessed thief NOWE I haste too the confutacion of their Argumentes whereby they go about too proue that Peter and the Pope is the head of the Church But first I will declare a true history from tyme too tyme and that breifly what they were that were afore the Pope and howe the Churche of Rome came too such a prerogatiue and dignitie Christ him self disputed and reasoned with the Doctoures opposing aunswering and conâ—uting them So did Iohn the Baptiste so did the Apostles so did Stephan so Aquila Apollo and all other that had any of theise giftes which are repeted in sainct Paule And this order of euery man too vtter his gifte continued vntoo the tyme of Theodoret and vntoo the tyme of Gregorie the ninth Pope of that name as appereth by his lawe for hée made lawes that no Laye man should preache of whatsoeuer degrée hée were Noble man Gentle man and other An Elder and a Bishoppe were both one at the beginning Act. 20. vers 17.28 which two verses conferred will shewe you that there is no difference betweene an Elder and a Bishoppe The which Paule proueth and Hierom and Theodoret vpon the same chapter Paule in that place calleth Bishoppes Elders such as taughte the people and instructed them and Deacons such as prouided for the poore lyke too our Church Wardens Afterward they began too alter this order for Eusebius libro .4 .5 affirmeth that the Church was a virgin immaculate vntill the death of Iohn the Euangeliste and than errours to haue creeped in who dyed from the birth of Christ .xxv. yeares And about â— yeares after his death or before the Church began to haue one as cheef whom they called a President or one as an Ouersoâ—er of the people and here sayeth Beza the Deuill began to practise his peruersitie and laye the foundacion of his Tyrannye Euery Citie and Towne had a Bishoppe that taught them but emong them there was no Supremacie The Emperoures afterward which had certeyne principall Cities in euery Shyre one or more whereto all the countrie about resorted to the Law and to decide other matters gaue greater authoritie to the Bisshoppes of the Moother cities for so they were called then too the Bishoppes of other Uillages in the countrie And as they called the mother cities Metrapoleis or matrikous kathedras â–ª or meizonas poleis so dyd they call the Bishop or Minister thereof or Pastor protonton protenonta proestota or patriarchin or Metropolitin â–ª As they call the great Cities Moother Cities Moother Seates The first seates or greater Cities so did they call the priest therof or mynister or Byshop or pastour the first the chiefe the president a Patriarche or Metropolitane Wée reade in the councell of Nyce that Alexandria was chiefe ouer Egypt Lybia and Pentapolis and Antioche was chiefe ouer the countries about as Rome was in Italie Where was there any superioritie more at Rome then at Alexandria or at Antioche In the second councell holden at Constantinople it was decréed that the Bishop of Alexandria should gouerne the Cast countries that Antioche might haue that dignitie that was appointed in Nycene councell the Bishop of Thrace his countrie the Bishop of Pontus his the Bisshop of Rome Italie and so of all the rest Socrates in his historie repeteth seuerall Metropolitanes which are called Patriarches for they were booth of one Authoritie As Nectarius ouer Megapolis meaning Constantinople and Thrace Helladius ouer Pontus Basile ouer Cesarea of Cappadocia Otrius ouer Miletene in Armenia Amphilochius in Asia at Iconiam Optimus at Antioche of Pisidia Timothe to Alexandria of Egypt Pelagius to Laodicia Diodorus to Tharsus Meletius to Antioche The Bishoppe of Hierusalem to Hierusalem These same Metropolitanes they called also Archebishoppes They say the false framed Epistles ascribed to Clemens and
hoggos fleshe saying putano de Dio dispetto de Dio bring mée my hogges fleshe And likewyse for his Peacock when one asked why hys holynesse was so mooued hée aunswered If God caste Adam out of Paradise for eating of an Aple what would you haue mée too doo for my Peacock Is not my peacock better then an Aple And thus they aunswer such blasphemies that in that the Pope was a man hée offended but in that hée was Christes Uicegerent hée could not sinne For saye they though hee were a desperate man yet the seate and place maketh him holye Now I come to their Obiections which they alleage out of their Canons and Doctours The first Obiection HE is saye they the head of the Church that ruleth the whole world But the Pope ruleth the whole world â–ª Ergo hée is the head of the Church I denye the Minor. They proue it by Thomas the irrefragable Doctour in these woordes The Pope sayeth hée is chiefe Bishoppe For as a King ruleth his realme so doth hée the whole world and Bishoppes for his helpe and ease are ioyned in euery citie as Iudges Thom. secund secund 4.98 art 9. 4.20 art 4. What an argument is this of Thomas of Aquine Is it a good comparison to compare a subiect with a King or rather preferre him before the kinge of the Romanes 1 Where was his authoritie when Nero persecuted as they saye Peter 2 Was not Linus as they reporte the second Pope at Rome in the yeare of Christ 82 Where was his vniuersall power where was his might when hée was put to death of Saturninus the Consul of Rome who was inferiour to Vespasian being Emperour at that tyme 3 Did not Domitian kill Anacletus an 84. 4 Did not Trayane fasten an anker aboue Clementes necke and cause him to be cast into the sea anno 102. 5 Was not Euarestus murthered by the same Emperour 6 Did not Aurelianus the Liuetenant the like to Alexander an 121. 7 And was not Pius killed in the tyme of Antonius verus an 121 8 And likewise Anicete an 159. And Sother an 169. 9 And Eleutherius beheaded an 177.191 10 And Zepherinus in the tyme of the Empe. Aurelius an 220. 11 And Caâ—ixtus in the time of Seuerus apprehended beaten with clubbes cast in prison throwen out of a window headlonge and his body cast into a pitte an â—26 12 And Vrbanus at the same tyme banished and at length killed an 233. 13 And Pontianus at the same tyme was banished into Sardinia tormented afflicted and suffered death ano 239. 14 And Autherius in the tyme of the Emperour Maximinus an 243. 15 And Fabianus vnder Decius An. 250. 16 And Cornelius also anno 253. 17 and Lucius vnder Valerianus ann 255. 18 and Stephan vnder Galienus beheaded an 257. 19. Sixtus the second of that name was likewyse martyred An. 267. 20. So was Dionysius An. 277. 21. So Felix an 282. 22. So Eutichianus an 283. 23. So Caius anno 295. 24. So Marcellinus an 303. 25. So Marcellus anno 308. 26. So Eusebius an 309. 27. So Melchiades an 314. The Papistes say that all these were Popes I praye you how ruled they all the world as Thomas sayeth the Popes doo where was their auctoritie aboue all Kinges Princes Emperours and Monarches If of God or of Peter or of them selues why did they not resist why were they put too death If they had none as none they had in deede than of whom had the Popes following their power tyrannie to kill innocentes to depose Emperours to disgrade Bishoppes to rule in hell heauen earth and purgatorie to absolue à poena culpa to do what they lust to oppresse banish and murther The second Obiection Well say what you will the Pope is meruelous for hée hath his name of merueling And hée is to be wondered at bycause hée is Peters vycegerent in the earth for hee hath his name of Papae an Interiection of merueling And without doubt hée occupieth not the place of a pure man but of the true god Textus est in Codice in t corpor de transl Episcopi I answer You say that hée hath his name of Papae an Interiection of merueiling in deede the Reuelation and Paule sayeth that Antechrist when hée shall come which is the Pope shall woorke meruailes and do false myracles by Necromancie and iniquitie The third Obiection Hath he not a great preeminence when as no man neyther may nor dare aske him in any matter why he doth so De poen dist ex perso The fourth Obiection Neyther is the Pope Peters vicegerent but hee occupieth the roome that Peter occupied Gloss. in Clement vna de iure iur in verb. vicar The fifth Obiection Doo you not knowe that the Popes name is chaunged in hys Creation Consecration and enstalling that by the chaunging of the name the man may likewise bee chaunged For where hée was a pure man before now is hée become the Uicegerent of the true God as in example Who was a cruell tyraunt before is nowe chaunged and called Clemens Hée that was hurtfull is now Innocent Hée that was a maleface Boniface and so foorth of the rest Hath not the Pope both the swoordes Is not hée an heretique that breaketh the constitution of the Pope or that holdeth that the Pope is not able to make a constitution hée is a paynim that wil not obey the Pope The Pope may depose the Emperoure without a Councell yea with a cause or without a cause Stat pro ratione voluntas These Obiections are thus to bée aunswered that as none of these are conteyned in the scriptures no more are they to bée credited than fables of Homer or Ouide In chaunging their names they detect their hypocrisie who will beléeue that the chaunginge of a mans name will make an euill man a good man of a dishonest an honest Besydes this is not the Pope a man still though hée bée anoynted consecrated enstalled and entromyzed Is not an Axe an Axe though hée haue a Childes coat vppon his backe ought hée to rule the Empernur Is not hée bounde too gyue too Caesar that which is Caesars Notwithstanding one cursed Iames de Terano Chamberlayne to Vrbane the sixt Pope of that name in the yeare of Christ 1385. interpreteth this place of Luke of the Emperours before Christes passion but after that Chryste was ascendeth into heauen as victor and conquerour hée writeth thus When I shalbée lifted vp from the ground I will drawe all too my selfe that is sayeth the sayd Iames I will take away all Empire Kingdomes Iurisdictions and Dominions of the worlde from the Emperours and Kinges and gyue them too the Pope who when hée hath subdued them and brought them in subiection hée may vse the Royaltie riches gorgeous apparell and all other thinges as subiect too him This cursed Iames as Molineus termeth him is too bée condemned of treason for forging a false coyn
cannot Canonize That the Pope dooth not iustifye all those places proue which proue Christ too bée our onely Heade Redéemer Iustifyer and Glorifyer To Canonize is to glorifie to giue felicitie to make a Sainct of a man and to introduce him into eternall ioye and this dooth only christ Ergo not the Pope which Paule proueth by this climax this gradation this induction and sorites Whom God hath predestinate them hée hath called whom hée hathe called them hée hath iustified and whom he hath iustified them hée hath glorified But the Pope can predestinate no man Ergo neyther iustifye them then neyther Glorifie them and per consequens not Canonize them Wée maye woorshippe neyther the Uirgine Marie neyther the Apostles neyther any Saincte neyther make holy dayes or Temples for them muche lesse Canonize them which comprehendeth all these This dooth Epiphanius proue at large Tom. 2. in 27. Haeresie and Theodorete vpon the second Chapter too the Collossians August contra Faustum lib. 2. cap. 21. de Ciuit. lib. 10. cap. 1. lib. 21. cap. 26. lib. 22. cap. 10. vppon the Psalme 113. Ambros. vppon Rom. 1. and the Councell of Laodicia The second Obiection Hée that cannot erre can Canonize Sainctes But the Pope cannot erre Ergo the Pope can canonize sainctes I denie the Minor. For I will alleadge out of theirâ— owne Authoures suche Testimonies as they write by the which ye shal perceyue that the Popes dyd aswell erre in doctrine as in maners The first Mà rcellinus in the yeare of Christ 295 denyed Christ offered to Images and Idolles Notwithstanding hée repented him and suffered death after that for Christ. 2 Liberius in the yéere of Christ 354. through ambition became an Arian 3 Damasus in the yeare of Christe 368. after muche slaughter done in a church at Rome was made Pope 4 Sericius in the yeare of Christ. 382. prohibited the Priestes of the West churches to bée maried and deuorced them that had maried wydowes and excluded second mariage 5 Anastasius the first in the yeare of Christ 392. reiected them from the ministerie that had any mayme 6 Innocentius the first in the yeare of Christ 406. decréed that the Séea of Rome should bée preferred before all others and too bée iudged of none Hée caused too annoyle the sick persons he compelled them which he called Heritiques to come to the Catholique fayth of Rome by violence Romana fides inquit Mantuanus id est falsa He graunted to such as had bin all the daies of their lyfe cursed and wicked pardon and repentance of their sinnes in the panges of death He excluded from the clergie seculer Soldiars and such as had bin twyse maried 7 Sozimus decréed that the Sea of Rome could decrée nothing against the woord of God and he was in the yeare of CHRIST â–ª 420. 8 Bonifacius in the yeare of Christe 423. turned Vigiles intoo fastes 9 Xistus or Sixtus in the yeare of Christe 440. made Peters chaynes a Saint 10 Celestinus the first in the yeare of Christ 430. made Introitum of the masse with the Graduall with the Responsories 11 Leo in the yeare of Christ 445. made the holy sacrifise the immaculate Hoste more He commaunded Sonday to be kept holy day he instituted procession he was cursed and excomunicated by the Bishop of Alexandria 12 Hilarius in the yeare of Christe 463. confirmed the generall councelles published the common Law remoued from the degrées of the Church them that had bin twise maryed and them that had maryed Wydowes and them that were lame and firste forbad priestes to weare lay mens apparell 13 Simplicius in the yeare of Christ 475. did much contend with the Bishoppe of Rauenna to encrease his authoritie 14 Foelix the third of that name in the yeare of Christe 481. excluded them that were Baptised or rebaptised of heretiques from the ecclesiastical Chiualrie He made Michelmas daye against the councell of Laodicia 15. Gelacius the second in the yeare of Christe 489. decréed that neyther he nor his successours should be iudged of any man in the earth 16 Anastatius in the yeare of Christ 496. fauored the Euthichians and Nestorians 17. Simachus in the yeare of Christ .498 after longe strife with Laurence and Peter was Pope He patched and framed the masse in order he decréed that no Councell should bée of force any where without the Popes presence 18. Hormisda in the yeare of Christ .513 ordeined after he was at quietnes with the East Churches that the decrées of the fathers and Councelles shoulde binde all Nations wheras at the firstâ— they were ordeyned for certaine Persones and Countries 19. Iohn the first in the yeare of Christe .525 ordeyned that y Emperour shoulde bée vnder the Subiection of the Pope 20. Foelix the fourth in the yeare of Christe .526 commaunded masses to be had only in a halowed place and y the Clergie should bée deuided from the people The Clergie in the quire and the people benethe in the bodie of the Churche and that men lying at the pointe of deathe shoulde bée aâ—oyled â–ª 21. Vigilius in the yeare of Christ .537 decréed that Rome should bée the mistres and mother of all other Churches 22. Pelagius the first in the yeare of Christ .556 put in too the masse to pray for the dead and committed an Heretique to the seculer Magistrate to bée punished â–ª This Pope did affirme first of all other that the Supremacie of the Bishope of Rome was geuen of Christ and not of any Sinode or of men 23. Iohn the thirde in the yeare of Christ .563 decréed agaynste his predecessour that none ought to bée called an highe Prieste or an vniuersall Bishope 24. Pelagius the second in the yeare of Christe .577 added many thinges to the masse he put Subdeacons from theire wiues and from other Ecclesiasticall ofâ—â—ces and made seauen fourmed Letanies to appease the wrathe of God for the great Pestilence y was at Rome 25. Gregory the first in the yeare of Christ .590 did many thinges well and many thinges euill hée called himselfe seruaunt of seruaunts and forbad that any shoulde be called a generall Bishop He put many things to the masse Letanies Processions Antiphonas Psalmodies Alleluya Nine Kirieleysons Offertorie thrée peticions in the Canon He forbad them that fasted to eate flesh milke chéese or egges and graunted at certain tymes of the yeare forgiuenes of their sinnes hée forbad monkes to Baptise or Images to bée broken 26. Sabinianus in the yeare of Christe .607 Appointed the day houres to bée deuided and knowne by Ringing of Belles and Lampes to burne in the Temples and caused Gregorius his Predecessoures bookes to bée burned 27. Bonifacius the thirde in the yeere of Christ .610 obteyned of Phocas the Emperour that he might be called Pope and Supreme heade and cheife Prince of all Bishops
They say that the Pope cannot erre in doctrine thoughe hée offend in manners ¶ One Pope against another 1. Did not Stephan the first Pope in the yeare of Christe .260 decrée that suche should not bée rebaptised which did reuolt and were heretiques Sistus or Sixtus in the yeare of Christ .260 decréed the contrarie the one must nedes erre 2. Marcellinus in the yeare of Christ .295 denied Christ offred to Images and Idolles but repēted and suffered death afterward for Christe 3. Liberius in the yeare of Christ .351 through ambition became an Arrean His successors condempned that opinion 4. Iulius the second in the yeare of Christe .1502 graunted Kinge Henrie the eight to marry his brothers wife whatsoeuer ordinaunces either of the Apostles or any other are to the contrarie Sozimus in the yeare of Christ .420 decréed the contrary 5. Simachus in the yeare of Christ .498 did striue with Laurence and Peter and they with him 6. Anastasius the 2. in ths yeare of Christ .496 fauoured the Eutichians and Nestorians his predecessors and Successors condemned his opinion 7. Pelagius in the yeare of Christ .556 did affirme that the Supremacie of the Bishope of Rome was giuen of Christe 8 Iohn the third in the yeare of Chryst 563. decréed the contrarie And so dyd Gregorie the first in the yeare of Chryst 590. 9 Sabinianus in the yeare of Christe 607. caused Gregorius hys predecessours bookes to bée burned 10 Boniface the third in the yeare of Christ 610. obteyned of the Emperour to bée called Pope and Supreme head and chiefe Bishop of all Bishoppes Iohn the third in the yeare of Christ 563. and Gregorie the first after Christ 590. decréeed the contrarie 11 Leo the thirde Pope of that name in the yeare of Chryste 810. graunted to the Emperoure too electe and confirme the Pope Hadrianus the thirde in the yeare of Chryst 883. decréeed the contrarie 12 Stephan the sixt Anno 897. abrogated the actes of Formosus his predecessour Romanus in the yeare of Chryste 903. disannulled the Actes of his predecessoure Stephanus and approued the Actes of Formosus 13 Syluester the firste Anno. 310. permitted Priestes to haue wyues Nicolas the first in the yeare of Christ 861. decréeed the contrarie with many mo 14 Gregorie the tenth Anno. 590. and Martine the first Ann. 647. denye Priests to haue concubines Donus dyd graunt the contrarie Anno. 670. 15 Sergius in the yeare of Christ 907. deposed his predecessoure Chrystopher and made himselfe Pope 16 Iohn the twelfth in the yeare of Christ 934 was deposed by Leo the 6. 17 Boniface the 7. deposed Iohn the 15. 18 There were thrée Popes togyther all ready too cutte one an others throte 19 Alexander the third in the yeare of Christ 1158. forbad any man to marye his Brothers wyfe Iulius the second dyd the contrarie ALL THE POPES AGAYNST CHRIST Here I haue added certeyne Antitheses declaring the difference betwéene Christ and the Pope whereby yée maye know him to bée that Antichrist mentioned in Paule 2. to the Thessalonians 2. Chapter Uer. 4. CHRIST obeyed the Scriptures and would doo nothinge agaynst them The Pope dispenseth ageinst them ageinst the Apostles ageinst the Euangelist ageinst Moyses ageinst the old Testament and new For sayeth Hocstrate hée is an heretique that cleueth to the scriptures Agrip. art 2. Christ maketh no difference of meates and dayes The Pope dooth Christ had not where hée might reste his head The Pope hath houses and pallaces Christ admitteth mariage The Pope forbiddeth it The Pope sayeth that Christ dwelleth in Temples made with mens handes The sprite of Christ in Paule denieth it Christ prayed onely to his father The Pope to sainctes and new inuented hallowes Christ willeth vs in this lyfe to be recōciled to our aduersarie The Pope in the next Christ in the earth The Pope in his Purgatorie Christ will haue none to be superiour in his church none too bée supreme head but himselfe The pope maketh himself the head and vniuersall Bishop Christ admitteth and commaundeth matrymonie The Pope prooueth by this place of Paule Romanes the fifth and eight cap. that maried men cannot please God Qui habitant in carne Deo placere non possunt Paule meaneth that carnall men and such as are gyuen ouer too all sensualitie cannot please god The Pope sayeth they that are maryed dwell in the fleshe and therefore cannot please god If they please not God ergo the Diuell If the Diuell then are all men seruauntes to the Diuell Thus reasoned Innocentius the 8. Pope of that name Christ alleadgeth Scripture for him and his fathers will. The Pope alleadgeth his owne will and pleasure and denieth that hee should shewe any reason of his actes If any requyre it hée is offended hée rageth hée persecuteth and addeth alwayes this verse of Iuuenal as Hildebrand otherwise called Gregory the seuenth did Sic volo sic iubeo stat pro ratione voluntas Gerochus one of the greatest friends that Hildebrand had writeth so vpon him and his lyfe Christ commaunded Peter and his successoures too put vp hys swoorde Hildebrande willed his to drawe it For hée tooke vpon him too binde loose curse absolue Hée excommunicateth the Emperour hée satte in the church of God as God aboue all that is woorshiped for god Hée pronounced that hée could not erre hée inuented fables hée corrupted scriptures by false interpretation too serue his luste and affirmed that whatsoeuer hée did was the law of God. Christ sayeth that hée that calleth another Racha should be in daunger of iudgement Pope Hidebrande calleth others beastes dastardes fooles stockes blockes and Asses Christ refused to bée made a King. The Popes doo not only not refuse but also fight for it Christ forbad periurie manslaughter ciuile warres murther treason The Pope caused his Priestes too preach that these mischiefes pleased God and such like as to rebell ageynst the Emperour to robbe to burne steale kyll spoyle shead bloud to oppresse their neighboures Hée hath in his foreheade writen Nomen contumeliae the name of despyte I am GOD I cannot erre c. Reade Auentinus and Hillircus and yée shall sée that the Pope is very Antichrist and the little horne in Daniell Christ exhorteth to charitie The Pope to debate Christ to the studie of Gods woorde The Pope from that knowledge If sayeth Arnulphus in the yeare of Christ 991. in a Sinode before a great nomber of Bisshoppes the Pope though hée bée gorgeous though hée sitte in a seate of state with purple Robes glistering with golde if hée bée without charitie and haue learning onely hée is Antichrist sitting in the seate of God boasting himselfe as hée were god If hée haue neyther charitie nor learning hée is an Image or Idoll no more able to aunswere then
He doth graunt miracles hée maketh fire too discend from Heauen By fyer is vnderstanded the holy Ghost and the Pope promiseth to giue the holy ghost in giuing of orders saying Receiue ye the holy ghost Moreouer there is no sinne so horrible no offence so greuous which he will not forgiue for money By Fyer may be vnderstand his thundering boult of Cursing and Excommunication whereby he did strike the Monarches Princes and Kings of the earth He that will not worshippe the Image of the beast which is the dominion prerogatiue and authoritie of the Pope shalbée murthered by him and his proctors The Image of the beast is his aucthoritie ceremonies candells Sacramentes Hosts Wafecakes Housling Priests Friers Nonnes Monkes Hermetes Religious men Purgatorie Pardones Penitentiaries Curtesanes Masses Dirges Abbotts Beades Beaderos Crosses Coniurings holy Bread holy Water holy Salte Palmes holy Blood of Hayles prayers for the dead Limbus patrum Limbus puerorum praying to Saincts Superstition Idolatrie Images Idolles Pilgremages Rosaries Ladies Psalters and Regine coelorum Aue Maria stella Bulles Extreame vnction I will so plainly declare the nature of Antichrist and in such sorte that you shall vnderstande that the Pope muste néedes bée Antichrist There were onely six Monarchies from the deluge to the ende of the Worlde The first the Assirians the second the Babylonians or the Chaldes the thyrd the Medes or Persians the fourth the Grecians or Macedonians the fift the Romains and Germans the sixt is the Pope and the Emperour which were diuided out of the whole Romayne Empyre before it was diminished Daniel doth not touch the Empire of the Assirians for it was past before his tyme and this Image was séene at Babilone What néeded any Prophecie of a thinge that is past Neither is there any Prophesie of a thing that is past but of a thinge too come And therefore sayeth Daniel God shall shevv to the King things to come The head of this Image signifyeth the Monarchy of the Chaldes and Babylonians The siluer breast and armes the Medes or Persians The Belly and Thighes of brasse the Gresians or Macedonians The Legges of Yron were the Romans who subdued al the world The foote of Yron signifieth the Pope who breketh the power of the Emperour as yron doth the clay for the Pope had all Europe at his commaundement hée crouned Emperoures and hee deposed them he warred against them and subdued them hée possessed Italy and thrust the Emperour into Germany Let vs declare how the Pope who is signified by the féete of yron did subdue the Emperour who was named by the foote of claye Gegory the fyrst Pope of that name in the yeare of Christ .600 wryteth that it had bin offered diuers tymes that the Pope of Rome myght haue called the vniuersall Byshop but none of them would take it vpon them or vse that word and title Notwithstanding the same Gregory inuehing against Iohn the Patriarcht of Constantinople who would haue bene called the vniuersall Bishopp signifieth to the Emperour Mauritius and to his wife Augusta that Rome should chalenge that honor and Superioritie and that it was iniquitie to depriue the successour of Peter of that honor considering that it was sayd to Peter thou art Peter Et super hanc petram aedificabo Ecclesiam meam Wherin Gregorie offended duble first in misunderstanding or rather peruerting the place and wordes of Christ meaning by the rocke Peter when as Christ is the rocke and Peter but a member deriued from the rocke as of Christ Christians secondly that hée gaue occasion to his successoures to chalenge and aspire to that superioritie and dignitie Cursed Phocas in the yere of Christ .605 killed the good Emperour Mauritius with his wife and children and at the request of Boniface made the seate of Rome the cheife seate of all churches and that the Pope of Rome should bée preferred before all others And although that Phocas a most damnable Emperour who killed his Master and Emperoure Mauritius gaue this preminence to the pope of Rome notwithstāding he could not be elected without the assent of the Emperour of Constantinople the Exarch of Italy of the people of Rome Constantinus the 4. Emperor of that name graunted to Benedictus the second Pope of that name in the yeare of Christ .685 that the Pope might be elected without the assent of the Emperour of Constantinople or the Exarch of Itly only by the Clergie and people And in the yeare of Christ .1063 in a counsell at Mantua where Berengarius was compelled to recant his opinion of the Sacrament it was decréed that the Pope should bée only elected of the Cardinalles without assent of any others now began the Popes to do all to rule all compell all Emperoures Kinges and Princes to their orders and to bée subiect to them Gregory the 3. Pope of that name about the yeare of Christ .695 resisted the Emperour of the east Leo the .3 who had caused al maner of Images to be pulled downe and burned and them that would not do it to suffer death This Gregory resisted this excommunicated Leo this caused the Images to be more worshipped then euer they were Pope Zacharias in the yeare of Christe .743 caused the King of Fraunce called Chilpericus to be made a Monke and placed one Pipin by the meanes of the nobles of Fraunce and made him king who enriched the Pope Thus Zacherias the Pope with his successor Stephen the second Pope of that name dyd pardon and absolue Pipinus with the rest of the nobilitie of Fraunce of their othe obediēce which they ought to the king Chilpericus lately deposed This Stephen did first ordain that he his successors shold be born of mens shoulders Carolus magnus succeded his sonne Pipinus in the yeare of Christ .800 was created crouned Emperour by Leo the third Pope of that name Ludouicus succeded his Father Carolus in the empire of the west enriched the pope Paschalis his successors exceadingly For he with his grandfather Pipinus his father Carolus gaue to the Popes aboue .60 Ylands Countries Cities shires Towns dominions prouinces which are repeted in Campanus others Otho magnus the Emperour of the Germains in the yere of Christ 938. gaue all these that his predecessors had giuen to the pope for his soules health for his sonnes soule for his forefathers souls After this time the pope toke vpon him al worldly dominion power also of heauē hell purgatory No man may iudge the Pope nor his doings Causa 9. quest 3. C. patet The pope may iudge all none the Pope Neither may any man dispute of his doings .17 quest 4. c. si quis suade Dist. 79. c. extremo What if the Pope shold corrupt many by his example Pope Boniface answereth this dist 40.4 si Papa If the Pope shall cary innumerable people by
nihilo Prostratis veniam digitis ego porrigo tensis quod si contectes id mea sella potest Calceus expurgat culpas mortalibus aegris et caligae viduas vsque beare solens Sic quidam de Papa Papa stupor mundi Deus est numenque benignum Europae fasces orbis et vrbis habet Atque Asiae decus atque Africae splendor barathrique Inmen agit furias imperioque premit Solus ab occasu dominari solus ab ortu debet quaque notus quà boreasque ruit Huius sanguineum fulmen formidat Olympus caelestes animi caelicoleque timent Saturnus metuit ne se detrudere caelo tentet Romani fertilis ira Iouis Ex erebo manes citat ad subsellia Romae quasque cupit furias ex acheronte ciet Troianum è stigiis inuito dite lacunis elicit hoc Christum posse negare licet Haec Christus potuit dum vixit fotre fatetur at nunc posse negat Papa Petrique cohors Christus non potuit damnatos manibus vllam largiri veniam sed bene Papa potest Dat veniam tostis flammatis ignibus orci ille dat eterni gaudia falsa poli Ille auâ—o vendit coelum coelestia cessant numina tam magnum dinumerare bonum De Roma meretrice Babilonica ROMA quid insanis quid in impietate triumphas quid nectis fraudes stupraue faeda colis Concubitus vetitus cordi est puerilis amorque impurus cultus vana superstitio Dicitur illa quidem meretrix et adultera turpis agnosâ—it plures quae vitiata viros Illa vrbs non alâ—ter coluit quae numina plura scortum est Hoc Babylon impia Roma facit Vrbs Romana potest meretrix Babylonia dici quae coluit spreto numina plura deo Illa deos coluit plures simulachra laresque quaest um diuitias gaudia falsa dapes Pompas uxuriam ventrem puerosque dolosque atque malos genios stupra venena lupas Papa fuit quondam meretrix peperitque plataea quid queris testes testis imago tibi Cuius imago tibi Romae stat conspicienda si dubitas propter Roma petenda tibi Sin statuae minime fidas confide quod Abbas Verspergensus ait famaque vera docet FINIS Where Peter was the first yeare after Christes Ascension Act. 1. ver 9.10.11 Act. 1. ver 12. Act. 2. ver 4. Act. 1. ver 26. Act. 3. ver 6 7 Act. 3 ver 12. Act. 4. ver 3.6.7.8 Act. 5. ver 1 2 3 27 29. Act. 6. ver 2. Peter sent to Samaria Act. 8. ver 5.14.15.16.20.21.22.23 Act. 8. ver 15. The seconde yeare aâ—ter Christes ascension The 3. yeare after Christes ascension The 4. yeare after Christes ascension Peter at Hierusalem the 5. yeare after Christs ascension Peter at Lidda Peter at porâ— Iaphe Act. 9. ver â—â— 34 40.41 4â— Peter with Cornelius at Cesarea Act. 10. ver â— 24 25. The 6. yeare after Christes ascension Act. 11. ver 2. vnto the 18. The 7. yeare after Christes ascension The 8. yeare from Christes ascension From the death of Christe 11. yeares Peter at Hierusalem The 12. yeare from Christes ascension Act. 12. ver 17. Act. 12. ver 17 19 and 20. From the death of Christ .13 Act. 12. ver 13 Peter in Iuâ—y the 4. yere of Claudius Act. 12. ver 17. Act. 12. ve 20 Act. 23. ver 26. cap. 24. ver 7 22 â–ª 24. and cap. 25. ver 12 16 17 18 25 and ca. 26. ver 28 13 22. Act. 13. and 14 The 13 14 15 yeares after Christe The 16. yeare after Christes ascension Act. 15. ver 4 6 7. Galat. 2. ver 1 Theophilus lib. 9. in the conuersion of Paul. Beâ—a in Act. Uincent Galat. 2. ver 7 8 9. From the death of Christ 16. Where Peter preached 1. Peter 1. ver 1. Eusebius lib. 3. cap. 1. Lib. 2. cap. 35. Pontus The 17. 18. yeare after Christes ascension Where Peter preached Bythinia The 19. â—0 yeare after Christes ascension Act. 19. Galatia The 21. 22. yeare after Christes asceÌ„sion Act. 13 Nota euery degreâ— is lx myles Asia The 23. yearâ— after Christes ascension Capadocia The 24. yeare after Christes ascension Mantuan Fast. 6. From Christ 24. Peter was not at Rome in the tyme of Nero. Peter in Egypt Nâ—â—â—phorus lib. 14. cap. 39 S. Marke Babylon in Egypt 1. Petr. 5. vâ—r 12. Munsterus Gâ—ographus 6. Sâ—rabo 17 Pâ—olâ—m 4. Cicero 〈…〉 Nicephorus 2. c. 15. cap. 43. Nicephorus Lib. 2. cap. 43 i. Petr. 5. ver 13. Colo. 4. v. 10 Lebeus in the conuersion of Paule A breefe repetition Act. 12. ver 13. Act. 13. and 14 Act. 15. ver 7. Leut â–ª 1. lib. 2. cap. 10 Buâ—â—hinger Afore Christs passion 30. yee must ascribe some yeares to this long iourney 1. Corinth 1. ver 12. Peter dyed not at Rome Gala. 2. ver 7 Maâ—th 13. ver 34. Euthim vpon Math. 23. Peter crucified at Hierusalem Euseb 2. ca. 25 The inconstaÌ„cy of them that affâ—rme y Peter was aâ— Rome Michaell Buechinge rus It was not Damasus worke but thrust in by â—â—yer Crab. Molin contra aâ—us Pap. Buechingerus Niceph. 3. ca. lib. 14. ca. 39 Buechingerus BibliaÌ„der life of Marke Euseb. 3. cap. 2. 4 Lib. 5. ca. 9 Marianus Scotus The firste that planted Religion at Rome were neyther Byshops nor Popes Ecclesiast histo Cento 1. Peter was not at Rome Act. 18. ver 2 After Christe 20 Rome 16. ver 3. Gala. 1. ver 18 Act. 13. ver 5â— Mar. 6. ver â— Luk. 9. ver â— Act. 28. ver 16 Euseb. lib. 3. cap. 21. cap. â—â— Coloss. 4. ver 12 14. 2. Timothe 4 ver 10. and 11. Epih. theodoret To Philemâ—n ver 23 and .24 The old Authors discours vppon Peter The yeare of Christ. Act. 15. ver 7. Molineus After Christ the 18 19. yeare Act. 15 After Christs passion the 20 yeare After Christ the 23.24 252· 6 â–ª 27. Ecclesiast his Ceut 1. libr. 2. cap. 10. After Christe 27. yeare Molyneus coÌ„tra Abusus Papâ—rum Peter not at â—ame Egesip liâ— 3. cap â— Buechingerus Sab. Lo. â—iopol The. 1. obâ—ection Deâ—tro 4 ver 2. Prouerb 30 ver 6. Apocal. 22. ve 12.19 Molineus proueth himan Arriâ— in his book against the Pope 2 Obiection Epistola â–ª decretales â—illir Iames his death Eusebi 2. cap. 23. Monst G. 〈◊〉 Lebeue Poliâ—or libr. 6. cap. ◠〈…〉 Plato Uolaâ— Niceph. libro â— cap. 23. Egesippus 3 cap 2. 3 Obiection Doc. Smith there hee was Curaâ—e Doctor Smithes Sermon Doctor Smithes Argument 4. ObiectioÌ„ The solution of the .4 Obiâ—câ—ion Galat 2. ve 11 Chrysost vpoÌ„ the 20. of Mat. Hiero. ad Euan distinct 93 can legimus distinct 95. Can. Din. The second Discourse Theodoret. vpon the Colos. cap. 2. ver 19. Christe is the head of the Church Ephes. 4. ver 16. The first Argument Ephe. 1. ver 23 The Pope is not the heade of the Church The 2. Argument The 3. Argument Luk 5. ver 21.