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A17511	A briefe treatise, conteynynge a playne and fruitfull declaration of the Popes vsurped primacye, written in Greeke aboue. vij. hundred yeres sens, by Nilus, an ancient archbyshop of Thessalonia and newly tra[n]slated into englyshe by Thomas Gressop student in Oxforde. Pervsed and allovved accordyng to the Quenes maiesties iniunctions; Peri tēs archēs tou papa. English	Cabasilas, Nicolaus, 14th cent.; Gressop, Thomas.	1560 (1560)	STC 4325; ESTC S107398	21,793	62

ofttēimes not of himself only but of other called a byshop without mention of any place For we reade Theodosius the moste glorious conqueror and always moste valyant greteth the byshop Cirillus without any mention of the place wherof he was bysshop But what shall we say of those whiche leaue out the title of a Byshop and vse onely their owne proper names Shall we saye that they are no byshoppes or that they haue a greatter dignitie then an vniuersall byshoprike for as muche as the Pope of Rome wyll be an vniuersall byshop bycause the place is not named whereof he is bishoppe There may many suche inscriptions and subscriptions be broughte out of bokes of authoritie wherin the name of the bishop is plainly omitted Furthermore our aduersaries affirm that y e name of apostolike agreeth only to the Pope whiche surely is very vntru For it is cōmon to other with him as it appeareth by the .xi. session of the vi synode where we rede in this wise Constantine the moste holy archdeacon of this holye catholike and apostolike churche and again in the subscriptions of the same synode we rede Peter an elder and one that supplieth the rome of the apostolike sea Alexandria I George the least of the elders one that occupieth the place of Theodorus Theophilactus an elder and vicegerēt to the apostolike throne of the holy sea and citie of our god Hierusalem haue subscribed And again loke in the first session of the .vij. synode which beginneth in this maner In the name of the lord Iesus Christ our tru god c. wherafter the rehersall of them that wer sēt frone Rome foloweth mention of the byshop of Constantinople in this sort Iohn and Thomas the mooste holye elders Monkes by profession and suppliynge the place of the apostlike seas of the easte This shall ye fynde in the beginnyng of euery acte in the .vii. synode Also in the subscriptions ye shall reade I Iohn by the grace of God an Elder and assistant to the Patriarke substitute of the .iii. apostolike seas Alexandria Antioche and Hierusalem folowyng the doctrine of the fathers and tradition of the churche geuynge finall sentence haue subscribed Also I Thomas by the grace of God an elder and primate of the habitation of the holy father Arsenius whiche is in Egypt beyonde Babylon substitute to the .iii. apostolike thrones Alexandria Antioche and Hierusalem folowyng the doctrine of the fathers and tradition of the churche geuyng finall sentence haue subscribed The lyke shall ye fynde in all their subscriptions Here ye maye playnely see that not onely the sea of Rome but also the seas of other churches ar called apostolike Wherfore if we weigh the matter according to reason either we shal equally esteeme all those seas and churches whyche as we haue declared are called Apostolike orels we shal not make so muche of Rome for this title seyng that it is not onelye propre vnto that churche But what shal we say to that where Chrysostome writynge to one affirmeth that al the priests of the new testament syt in Christes chayre lyke as they of the olde testament sat in the chaire of Moyses yea he sayeth that they haue a greater dignitie then thangels and archangels so that there can be no excellency in that he boasteth the sea Apostolike seyng that all byshops sytte in the chayre of Christe and haue a more ample dignitie then thangels themselues Agayne the Popes secte holde that it perteyneth by ryght to the Pope only to call togyther generall councels wherin they striue agaynst a manyfest truthe It is a wonder to see that the Pope is not ashamed to aduance hym selfe and to lyfte vp his combe in the churche for a matter wherof Kynges myght boast them selues I speake not this as thoughe I esteemed not the excellency of Kynges For vnto them we owe bothe honour and obedience But bycause the ecclesiasticall dignitie settyng at naughte all earthly glorye and rychesse shoulde desyre and seeke for a heauenly preeminence and renoume Therefore I wylle proue that this right pertayneth rather to kyngs then to bishops For so hath the Actes of the fyrst holy counsell of Nice To the holy and greate churche by the grace of god of Alexandria and to the learned brethern whiche are in Egypt Lybia and the fiue cities the byshops assembled and holdyng a great and holy synode at Nice sendeth gretyng For as much as vnto vs that are gathered togyther oute of dyuers cities and prouinces by the grace of God our most godly prince Constantine c. Also in the third or Ephesine councel we rede To the moste holy emperours and beloued of god Theodosius and Valentinian most mighty and victorius conquerours the holy Synod by the grace of god and the authoritie assembled in the citie Ephesus Also in the ende of the counsel of Calcedonia ye shal fynd in the inscription of the holy Synode The holy great and vniuersal Synode assembled by the grace of God and the decree of our moste holy emperours at Calcedonia in Bythinia to the moste holy and blessed archbysshop of Rome Leo. That therfore it appertayneth to the dignitie of christen kynges to calle generall councelles it may sufficiently appere by the places nowe alledged But lette vs brynge foorthe that also where byshop Leo wrytyng to the emperour Theodosius humbly desyreth as a great benefyte that he wolde prouyde a prouinciall Synode to bee gathered in Italy Which truely he wold not haue craued with suche humilitie if he had thought before that it was his owne right The wordes of his epistle are these All our churches and all our priestes moste humbly with teares beseeche your clemency that accordyng to byshop Flauians booke ye vouchesafe to commande a prouinciall councel to be assembled in Italy If it moue any man that Peter ended his lyfe at Rome he ought muche more to be moued with that the Sonne of God suffered at Ierusalem his passion most holsom to mankynde But peraduenture somme manne wyll saye that the Fathers dydde attribute muche vnto the Churche of Rome I aunswere they dydde it not because they thought that God gaue any greate prerogatiue to that sea but partelye for the desyre of good order the strengthe and profyte wherof is great For by order thynges bothe in heauen and earthe are preserued and maynteyned and partely as desyrous to obserue goddes commandementes preuent one an other in geuing honor c. orels bicause they endeuored to imitate thexample of humilitie professed by Christ to his disciples in washing their fete and such lyke no table counsels and holsome examples lefte vnto vs. S Paule writinge to the Corinthians calleth him selfe their seruaunte for Christes sake yea the Pope in the beginninge of all his letters calleth him selfe a seruaunt of seruauntes What meruayle is it thenne yf the fathers some what debased themselues afore hym and graunt hym as we haue declared the chiefe degree in honour Last of all our aduersaries

of Peter But here som man may lay Ios not the Pope than wholly the successor of Peter He is truly But in that he is a bishop onely as euery byshop that was ordeyned by hym whiche surely were very many and as euery byshop is the successour of the Apostle of whom he was made or in whose place he techeth And after this sort aswell Peter as other tShapostles had many successours which were byshops only and nothyng elles For Peter was both an apostle and also chiefe of the Apostles But the Pope is no apostle muche lesse chiefe of the apostles for thapostles dyd neither make nor ordeyne Apostles but onely pastours and teachers Moreouer Peter was a Doctoure of all the worlde and so were the reste of the Apostles for the Lorde sayde to hym as well as to the reste of the Apostles Go and preache the Gospel to all nations But the Pope is onely byshoppe of the Citie of Rome and so is he called Furthermore Peter made one byshop at Antioche an nother at Alexandria and an other in an other place but the 〈◊〉 may doo nothyng like Besydes 〈◊〉 Peter may ordeyne the byshop of 〈◊〉 but the Pope can not so doo 〈◊〉 conclude It was sayde to Peter ●●thout condicion What soeuer thou ●●●dest shall be bounde and what so ●●er thou losest shalbe losed in heauen ●ut when Peter ordeyned the byshop 〈◊〉 Rome he commanded hym to bynd 〈◊〉 lose that which worthily ought to be ●●sed or bound Beside al this whatsoe●er Peter taught either by preachyng ●rityng it is knowen vndoubtedly to be the doctrine of the holy ghoste But of the Pope no suche thynge maye be thought Wherfore the Pope hath not all the prerogatiues giftes and priuiledges of Peter by succession but those onely whiche euery bishop ordeyned of Peter hath that he may bynd and lose baptise and preache and to bee shorte bryng into the way those that are seduced and doo other dueties belongyng to a mynister Thirdly wheras they saye that it is not possible that the pope shoulde falle from the truthe that truely passeth all the gyftes and vertues of Peter hym selfe yea although the Pope must n●des haue had theim all by Succession ▪ For he good man full sore agaynst h●● wyll erred more then ones But he 〈◊〉 I woulde fayne knowe whether th● Pope may or hath at any tyme falle● into the crimes of lyeng couetousnes vayneglorye or other lyke vyces or whether it be impossible that he shulde offende at all Lette theym denye it if they bee not ashamed to lye openly If then it be manyfest that euen he may sometymes offende and synne agaynst conscyence in as muche as he is a manne veryly yt maye happen also that in matters of Relygion he maye bee deceaued The truthe whereof Saincte Paule wytnesseth wrytynge vnto Timothe on this wyfe Hauyng saythe and a good conscience whyche some men not regardynge haue made shypwrecke in matters of Faythe Beholde here we heare that he whose conscience is wounded maye be sycke in faythe Therefore yf the Pope haue not alwayes his conscience free from all offence and this euyll is ioyned with errour in faythe it foloweth of necessitie that they lye manyfestly whiche say that the Pope can not fall from the veritie of Christes relygion Yea it is a kynde of defection to defyle the conscience with synne as S. Paule wytnesseth sayeng They professe God in woorde but in theyr deedes they denye hym Howe then maye it bee that the Pope maye possyblye denye GOD in woorke and deede and not in woorde and doctrine Certaynly Honorius the Pope fell frome the syncere doctrine and therfore was condempned by the syxt Synode as it maye euidentely appeare in the .xvi. decree of the sayd Synode where it is said It behoueth that they whome we haue alreadye pronounced condemned and by the cōmon decree haue put out of y e holy praier bokes be also openly proclaimed accursed Thā according to the laudable custome the princis beyng mentioned it foloweth forthwith Cursed be Theodorus Pharanites the heretike Cursed be the heretike Sergius Cursed be the heretike Kyzius Cursed be Honorius the heretike Cursed be the heretike Pirrhus accursed be all that fauoure heretikes But for the more euident truthe lette vs brynge toorthe an other testimonye out of the oration of the holy Synode to the Emperour We remoue sayth the Synode frome the lymittes of the churche and worthyly accurse all new and vayne sermes with theyr inuenters suche as are especially Theodorus Pharanites Sergius Paule Pirrhus and Peter who sometyme ruled this churche of Constantinople and also Cirus the prieste of Alexandria and Honorius bishop of Rome If that Honorius bishop of Rome were an heretike possible it is then that the pope may faile in veritie of doctrine neither shall the wordes of the Lorde be vayne and false although the Pope erre whiche he spake of the church that the gates of hell shulde not preuayle agaynst it for the true doctrine is preserued in other byshops and doctours Here also we may playnly see that it was not sayde of the sea of Rome that the church of God was theron builded For that were to hard and not indifferent from the seruilitie and bondage of the Iewes to bynde the congregation of God to Rome For Christ buylded his churche himselfe vpon the doctrine and confession of Peter and all those that kepe and mayntaine the lyke faith and profession that Peter dydde And where as pope Agathon boasteth that his church neuer went from the truth it is no meruayle consyderynge what face suche men haue But lette suche honest men take it for a warnyng that they wrest not the truthe of the matter to their owne talke but rather let them tempre their tonges to the truth of the matter And percase Pope Agathon was moued so to write either bicause the state of his matter dyd so require as it hapned ofttymes that he so wrote orels bycause the churche of Rome in dede hath not often departed from the truth Otherwyse if that without exception and condition it were symply true howe coulde that sayeng be verified All are gone astraye and are become wycked there is none that dothe good no not one Besyde that we may well saye that Agathon spake of the tyme past because the church of Rome hath not erred afore tyme and not of the tyme to come as thoughe it were vnpossible that it should euer be deceiued Certainely Agathon wrote that before the .vi. Synode neyther dyd he yet vnderstand the thynges wherof the Synode entreated Also it wer no meruayle yf that holye synode wherein so many holy fathers were gathered togither shulde espye and see that whiche he beyng but one man could not sufficiently perceaue And that these thynges are true it may wel be gathered by an Epistle of Pope Leo who succeded next after Agathon and alowed the vi synode For so

sayth Leo in his epistle written to the Emperor conceruynge the said sinode Also we holde accursed the authors of the new heresy thatis to wite Theodorꝰ bish of Pharanite Cirus of Alexādria Sergius Pirrhus Paule Peter successours rather thā bishops of the church of Constātinople and also Honorius who hath not beautified this Apostolike church with doctrine lefte by the apostles but rather hath assayed with prophane treason to subuert the vnsported and pure faithe In the fourth place where as our aduersaries say that the pope is after the same sort and fashion superiour to the Bishop of Constantinople as the saide Bishop is to the Byshop of Cesaria or to any other Byshop vnder hym that truelye as it is manifestelye false so maye it in no wise be suffered for certaynly the Bishop of Rome is therfore called first because the Bishop of Constantinople in respect to hym is second in order and worthynesse But the bysshop of Constantinople in respecte of the bysshop of Cesaria is not called fyrst neyther the sayd byshop neyther any other of these that are vnder hym hath the seconde degree or place of dignitie as nexte vnto hym But he is so fyrst of them that ar vnder hym that as though he were alone he hath none adioyned to hym that maye in anye poynt as seconde in degree be compared with him in worthines The bishop of Cesarea is not called seconde in respect of the bishop ●f Constantinople But first in comparison of theim that with him at subiect to the bishop of Cōstātinople of the which one is secōd to hym another thirde an other fourth And that the primacye of the bishop of Rome is not lose and free as though it were a monarchye but vnited with others as the dignities of felowes in office are conioyned togyther betweene them selues yet may be easily proued For the xxxvi Canon of the foresayd Synode hath these wordes Renuyng the decrees of the hūdred and fifty holy fathers who helde a counsell in this imperiall Citie preserued of God And of the vi hundred and thirty gathered togyther at Calcedonia we doo ordeyn and constitute that the sea of Constantinople haue equall dignitie with the sea of olde Rome haue as much priiledge in matters ecclesiasticall as the sayd sea seynge that it is nexte vnto it and next to Constantinople lette the bishop of the great citie Alexandria haue place and after him let the bishop of Hierusalem be placed If so be that the Pope doo therfore chalenge to him dominion ouer other bicause he is first named and hath the fyrst degree in honour he must lykewise grant the same power to the bysshop of Constantinople bycause he is named seconde ouer them that in order folowe hym the byshop of Alexandria and others And also to the bishop of Alexandria who is named thirde authoritie ouer the bishop of Antioche and to the byshop of Antioche who is fourthe power ouer the byshop of Ierusalem who hath the .v. place in noumber and order But this were neyther iuste neyther any thyng els but a disturbance of the churche of God And hereby maye we perceyue that the byshop of Rome is not superiour to the byshop of Constantinople in lyke sorte as the sayd byshop is to the byshop of Cesarea for asmuche as the bishoppe of Constantinople ordeyneth bothe the bish of Cesarea and al other subiecte to hym But the byshoppe of Rome ordeyneth neyther the byshop of Cōstantinople neyther any other Metropolitan But that it may more euidently apere that the Pope hath no power ouer all other byshops let vs rede the .vi. canon of the Nicen coūsell wher it is playnly commanded that the Byshop of Alexandria shulde rule somme churches the byshop of Rome other and other the byshop of Antioche Neither maye any of them medle in others proince Lette the olde custome take place whiche was that the bysshop of Alexandria shulde be chiefe and haue the highest dignitie in Egypte Lybia and the .v. cities bycause this is a custome with the byshop of Rome also Lykewise at Antioche and in other prouinces lette the primacie hyghnesse dignttie and authoritie of the churches he maynteyned Here ye playnely see that the canon of Nice commaundeth the olde custome to be kept and al men to be content therwith whiche custom dothe attribute and preserue to euery churche his owne worthinesse so that the churche of Alexandria shoulde rule some the churche of Antioche other that is to say those whiche are in bothe Syrias The churche of Rome other and other the Churche of Ierusalem euen those as the seuenth Cannon of the Synoda appoynteth whiche are Phenicia Palestina and Arabia and to Constantinople by the .xxviii. Canon of Calcedonia the churches of Asia Pontus and Thracia Therefore all Metropolitanes that are contente with their owne churches kepe the decree the lawe and ordinance And yf any manne not contente with his owne desyrethe an nothers he trewely oughte to bee counted a breaker of custome and of the decrees of holye Fathers for as muche as the decree of Nice doothe straightly forbydde it and wylleth the olde vsage herein to bee folowed If the Canon hadde deuyded the worlde betweene other Metropolites and hadde geuen nothynge vnto the Bysshoppe of Rome but onely haue sayde That he oughte to rule the reste then myghte a manne of lykelyhoode haue gessed that he oughte all togyther to rule all congregations of the whole worlde and that all other as welle Byshops as Metropolitanes are vassalles and subiecte vnto hym euen as to the Bysshoppe of Constantinople other Bysshoppes of his prouynce that ar his inferiours Nowe seeynge that sundrye countreyes are appoynted to the Bysshoppe of Rome other to the Bysshoppe of Alexandria and other to the bysshop of Constantinople no more are they subiect to hym then he is to theym Then our aduersaries say that the Pope hathe prouocation in matters ecclesiasticall and that therefore he is chiefe of all other The same prouocatione hathe the byshop of Constantinople and yet therby hath he neyther authoritie neither iurisdiction of other Metropolitans Therefore neyther the Pope oughte to let or hynder the iurisdiction of other Metropolites And that it may appeare that I haue sayde truely that the byshop of Constantinople hath prouocation I wyl alleged the .ix. canon of the .iiii. Synode or coūsell of Calcedonia If one clerke haue an action against an other let hym not leaue his owne bysshop and runne to the secular iudge but lette the matter be fyrst debated afore his owne bishop or at the least by thaduise of their owne byshop let theim take suche a iudge as bothe the parties shall bee contented with If any doo otherwise he shall bee in daunger of the decree If any clerke haue an action agaynste his owne byshop or any other lette the matter bee tried afore the Synode of the same prouince And yf any byshoppe or clerke haue a complaynte agaynst the Metropolitane let