whole state and condition of the church in all ages In which stories the practise of the church is plainely reported to haue ben such as thereby the Primacie of Peters successour may seeme to all men sufficiētly declared For perusing the ecclesiasticall stories with writinges of the fathers besyde many other thinges perteining hereto we finde these practises for declaration of this speciall auctoritie and power First that bishops of euery nation haue made their appeale in their weighty affaires to the Pope and allwayes haue sued to the See Apostolike as well for succour and helpe against violence iniuries oppressions as for redresse of other disorders Also that the malice of wicked persons hath ben repressed and chastised of that auctoritie by excommunication eiection and expulsion out of their dignities and romes and by other censures of the church Furthermore that the ordinations and elections of bishops of all prouinces haue ben confirmed by the Pope Beside this that the approuing and disalowing of councelles haue perteined to him Item that bishops wrongfully cōdemned and depriued by councelles by him haue ben assoiled and restored to their churches againe Lastly that bishops and patriarkes after longe strifes and contentions haue at length vpon better aduise ben reconcilied vnto him againe First Appellations the Pope for the appellation of bishops to the See Apostolike beside many oher we haue the knowen examples of Athanasius that worthy bishop of Alexandria and lighte of the worlde who hauing susteined great and fundry wronges at the Arianes appealed first to Iulius the Pope and after his death to Felix of Chrisostome who appealed to Innocentius against the violence of Theophilus of Theodoritus who appealed to Leo. Neither made bishops onely their appeale to the Pope by their delegates but also in certaine cases being cited appeared before him in their owne persons Which is plainely gathered of Theodoritus his ecclesiasticall storye who writeth thus Eusebius bishop of Nicomedia who was the chiefe pillour of the Arianes and they that ioyned with him in that factiō falsly accused Athanasius to Iulius the B. of Rome Iulius folowing the ecclesiasticall rule commaunded them to come to Rome and caused the reuerent Athanasius to be cited to iudgement regulariter after the order of the canōs He came The false accusers went not to Rome knowing righte well that theire forged lye might easely be deprehended In the cause and defence of Ihon Chrysostome these bishops came from Constantinople to Innocentius the Pope Pansophus B. of Pisidia Pappus of Syria Demetrius of the seconde Galatia and Eugenius of Phrygia These were suters for Chrysostome He him selfe treated his matter with Innocentius by writing In his epistle among other thinges he writeth thus Least this outragious confusion runne ouer all and beare rule euery where write I pray you and determine by your auctoritie such wicked actes done in our absence and when we withdrewe not our selues from iudgement to be of no force as by theire owne nature truly they be voied and vtterly none Furthermore who haue committed these euilles put you them vnder the censure of the church And as for vs sith that we are innocent neither conuicte neither fownde in any defaulte nor proued gyltie of any crime geue commaundement that we be restored to our churches agayne that we may enioye the accustomed charitie and peace with our brethren Innocentius after that he vnderstoode the whole matter pronounced and decreed the iudgement of Theophilus that was against Chrysostome to be voyed and of no force This whole tragedie is at large set forth by Palladius B. of Helenopolis in vita Ioannis Chrysostomi who lyued at that tyme. By this appeale of Chrysostome and by the whole handeling of the matter and specially by the purporte of his epistle to Innocētius the superioritie of the Pope is euidently acknowleged And so is it plainely confessed by Athanasius and the bishops of Egipte Thebais and Libya assembled in councell at Alexandria by these wordes of their epistle to Felix Vestrū est enim nobis manum porrigere etc. It is your parte saie they to stretche forth your helping hāde vnto vs because we are committed vnto you It is your parte to defende vs and deliuer vs it is our parte to seeke helpe of you and to obey your commaundementes And a litle after For we knowe that you beare the cure and charge of the vniuersall church and specially of bishops who in respecte of their cōtemplation and speculation are called the eyes of our lord as alwaies the prelates of your See first the Apostles then theire successours haue done Theodoritus that learned B. of Cyrus besyde the epistle he wrote to Leo for succour and helpe in his troubles in an other that he wrote to Renatus a priest neare about Leo sayeth thus Spoliarunt me sacerdotio etc. They haue violently robbed me of my bishoprike they haue caste me foorth of the cities neither hauing reuerenced myne age spente in religiō nor my hoare heares Wherefore I beseche thee that thou persuade the most holy Archebishop he meaneth Leo to vse his apostolike auctoritie and to commaunde vs to come vnto your councell or consistorie For this holy See holdeth the rudther and hath the gouernement of the churches of the whole worlde partly for other respectes but specially for that it hath euermore cōtinewed cleare frō stintche of heresie and that none euer sate in it who was of contrary opiniō but rather hath euer kepte the apostolike grace vndefyled In which wordes of Theodoritus this is chiefly to be marked that the holy See of Rome as he sayeth hath the gouernement of the churches of all the worlde most for this cause that it was neuer infected with heresie as all other churches fownded by the Apostles were For which cause that See hath euer hitherto of all christen nations and now also ought to be hearde and obeyed in all pointes of faith For that See though it hath failed sometymes in charitie and hath ben in case as it might truly saye the wordes of the gospell spoken by the foolishe virgins Matth. 25. our lampes be without lighte yet it neuer failed in faith as Theodoritus witnesseth and S. Augustine affirmeth the same Which speciall grace and singulare priuiledge is to be imputed vnto the prayer of Christ by which he obteined of God for Peter and his successours Euill lyfe of the B. of Rome ought not to seuer vs frō the faith of the churche of Rome that their faith shuld not fayle Therfore the euill lyfe of the bishops of Rome ought not to withdrawe vs from beleuing and folowing the doctrine preached and taughte in the holy churche of Rome For better credite hereof that is earnestly to be considered which S. Augustine writeth epistola 165. where after that he hath rehearsed in order all the Popes that succeded Peter euen to him that was Pope in his tyme he sayeth thus In illum ordinem episcoporum etc. In to that rewe of
only but as one suer of the victory before proufe of fight cast your gloue as it were and with straunge defyaunce prouoke all learned mē that be a lyue to campe with you Now if this matter shall so fall out as thouerthrowe appeare euidently on our syde and the victory on youres that is to witte if we can not bring one sentence for proufe of any one of all these articles out of the scriptures aunciēt councelles doctours or example of the primitiue churche yet wise and graue men I suppose would haue lyked you better if you had meekely and soberly reported the truth For truth as it is playne and simple so it needeth not to be set forth with bragge of high wordes You remember that old saying of the wise Simplex veritatis oratio the vtteraunce of truth ought to be simple But if the victory loth I am to vse this insolēt word were it not to folow the metaphore which your chalenge hath dryuen me vnto fall to our syde that is to saye if we shalle be hable to alleage some one sufficient sentēce for proufe of some one of all these articles yea if we shall be hable to alleage diuerse and sundry sentences places and authorities for confirmation of sundry these articles In this case I wene you shall hardly escape amōg sober mē the reproche of rashnes among humble men of presumptiō among godly men of wickednes Of rashnes for what can be more rashe then in so weighty matters as some of these articles import so boldly to affirme that the contrary where of may sufficiētly be proued of presumption for what can be more presumptuouse then in matters by you not thoroughly sene and weighed to impute ignoraunce and vnablenes to auouche thinges approued and receiued by the churche to all learned men a lyue Of wickednes for what is more wicked then the former case standing so to remoue the hartes of the people from deuotion so to bring the churche in to contempte so to set at nought the ordinances of the holy ghost As you folow the new and straunge doctrine of Theodorus Beza and Peter Martyr the prolocutours of the Caluinian churches in Fraunce whose scolar a long tyme you haue ben so you diuerte farre from that prudencie sobrietie and modestie which in their owtward demeanour they shewed in that solemne and honorable assemble at Poyssi in September 1561. as it appareth by the oration which Beza pronunced there in the name of all the Caluinistes In which oration with humble and often protestation they submitte them selues if cause shall so appeare to better aduise and iudgement as thoug they might be deceiued vttering these and the like wordes in sundry places If we be deceiued we would be gladde to know it Item For the small measure of knowledge that it hath pleased God to impart vnto vs it semeth that this transubstantiation etc. Item if we be not deceiued Item In case we be deciued we would be gladde to vnderstād it etc. But you Maister Iuell as though you had readde all that euer hath ben writtē in these pointes and had borne a waye all that euer-hath ben taught and were ignorant of nothing touching the same and none other besyde you had sene ought and were hable to saye ought saye meruelouse confidently and that in the most honorable and frequent audience of this Realme that you are well assured that none of your learned aduersaries no nore all the learned men a lyue shall euer be hable to alleage one sentence for any one of these Articles In the sermō fol. 49 and that because you know it therefor you speake it least happely your hearers shuld be deceiued Likewise in your answere to Doctour Coles first letter you saye speaking of these Articles you thought it best to make your entre in your preaching with such thinges Fol 6. as where in you were well assured we shuld be hable to fynde not so much as any colour or shadow of Doctours at all Where in you withdraw your self from plainenesse so much as you doo in your presumptuouse chalenge from modestie For being demaunded of D. Cole why you treate not rather of matters of more importāce then these Articles be of which yet lye in question betwixt the churche of Rome and the protestantes as of the presence of Christes body and bloud in the Sacrament of Iustification of the valew of good workes of the sacrifice of the Masse and of such other not vnwitting how much and how sufficient authoritie maye be brought against your syde for proufe of the catholike doctrine there in least all the world shuld espye your weakenes in these pointes you answer that you thought it better to begynne with smaller matters as these Articles be because you assure your self we haue nothing for cōfirmation of them Thus craftely you shifte your handes of those greater pointes wherin you know scriptures councelles doctours and examples of the primitiue churche to be of our syde and cast vnto vs as a bone to gnaw vpō this number of Articles of lesse weight a fewe excepted to occupie vs withall Which be partly concerning order rather then doctrine and partly sequeles of former and cōfessed truthes rather thē principall pointes of faith in th'exact treatie of which the aunciēt doctours of the churche haue not imployed their studie and trauaile of writing For many of thē being sequeles depending of a confessed truth they thought it needelesse to treate of them For as much as a principall point of truth graunted the graunting of all the necessarie sequeles is implyed As in a chayne Epist ad Gregoriū fratrem which comparison S. Basile maketh in the like case he that draweth the first lynk after him draweth also the last lynke And for this cause in dede the lesse number and weight of such auncient auctorities may be brought for th'auouching of thē And yet the thinges in them expressed be not iustly improued by any clause or sentence you haue sayde or vttered hytherto Verely M. Iuell if you had not bē more desyrouse to deface the catholike churche then to set forth the truth you would neuer haue rehearced such a long rolle of articles which for the more part be of lesse importance whereby you go about to discredite vs and to make the world beleue we haue nothing to shew for vs in a great part of our Religion and that you be to be taken for zelouse men right reformers of the churche and vndoubted restorers of the gospell As touching the other weighty pointes whereupon almost only your scoolemaisters of Germanie Suityerland and Geneua bothe in their preachinges and also in their writinges treate you will not yet aduenture the triall of them with making your matche with learned men and in the meane tyme set them forth by sermōs busyly among the vnlearned and simple people vntill such tyme as you haue wonne your purpose in these smaller matters Thus you seme to folow a sleight
whom mention is made in the article afore this writeth in the life of saint Basile that a litle before he gaue vp his ghost he receiued a portion of the holy Sacrament which long before he had willed to be kepte to the intent it might be put in his graue with him at his buriall Which no man can cauille to be any other then the forme of breade onely It hath ben a custome in the latine churche from th'apostles tyme to oure dayes that on good Fridaye as well priestes as other christen people receiue the Sacrament vnder the forme of bread onelye consecrated the daye before called the daye of oure lordes supper commonly Maunde thursdaye and that not without signification of a singular mysterie And this hath euer ben iudged a good and sufficient communion And that in the greke churche also euen in the tyme of Chrysostome the cōmunion vnder the forme of breade onely was vsed and alowed it appeareth by this notable storye of Sozomenus a greke writer Historîae ecclesiast lib. 8. ca. 5. in graeco which because it is long I will here rehearse it onely in english remitting the learned to the greke When Ihon otherwise named Chrysostome gouerned the church of Constantinople very well a certaine man of the Macedonian heresie had a wife of the same opinion When this man had heard Ihon in his sermō declare how one ought to thinke of god he praysed his doctrine and exhorted his wife to conforme her selfe to the same iudgement also But when as she was leadde by the talke of noble womē rather then by her husbandes good aduertisemētes after that he sawe councell tooke no place excepte quoth he thou wilt beare me companie in thinges touching god thou shalt haue no more to doo with me nor lyue any further with me The woman hearing this promysing faynedly that she would agree vnto it conferreth the matter with a woman seruant that she had whom she estemed for trusty and vseth her helpe to deceiue her husband About the tyme of the mysteries she holding fast that which she had receiued stouped downe making resemblance to praye Her seruant standing by geueth to her secretly that which she had brought with her in her hand That as she put her teeth to it to byte it hardneth in to a stone With that the womā sore astoyned fearing leastsome euill shuld happē vnto her therefore which came by the power of God ranne forthwith to the bishop and bewraying her selfe sheweth him the stone hauing yet in it the printes of her bitte representing a straunge matter and a wonderouse colour and so with teares of her eyes besought forgeuenes promising her husband she would consent and agree to him If this seme to any incredible sayeth Sozomenus that stone is witnes which to this daye is kepte among the iewelles of the churche of Constantinople By this storye it is cleare 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Sacrament was then ministred vnder one kynde onely For by receiuing that one forme this woman would haue persuaded her husband that she had communicated with him and with that holy bishop Elles if bothe kyndes had then ben ministred she shuld haue practised some other shifte for the auoyding of the cuppe Which had not ben so easye The place of S. Basiles epistles ad Caesariam can not be auoyded by no shifte nor sophistrie of the gospellers These be his wordes All they which lyue the solitaire life in wildernes where is no priest keping the communion at home communicate them selues And in Alexandria and in Egypte eche one of the people for the most parte hath the communion in his house Here I might aske M. Iuell how they could kepe wine cōsecrated in small measures as shuld serue for euery mannes housel a parte in those countries of extreme heate specially in wildernes where they had neither priest nor deacon as in that place S. Basile writeth For lacke of whom they kepte it in store a long tyme that they might not be destitute of it at neede Agayne here I might aske him whether it was the forme of bread only or of wine also which christen men and specially women were wont deuoutely to receiue of the priestes Vide articulū priorem in their cleane lynnen or napkyns to beare home with them taking great heede that no fragments of it fell downe on the grownde as bothe Origen and also S. Augustine doo witnesse I thinke he will confesse that lynnen cloth is not a very fytte thing to kepe liquour in Though I might bring a great number of other places for the vse of one kynde which after the most common rule of the churche was the forme of breade yet here I will staye my selfe putting the reader in mynde that the communion hath ben ministred to some persons vnder the forme of wine onlye and hath ben taken for the whole Sacrament specially to such as for drynesse of their throte at their death could not swallow it downe vnder the forme of bread Serm. 5. de lapsis Whereas it appeareth by S. Cyprian and also by S. Augustine that the sacramēt was geuen to infantes in their tyme we fynde in S. Cyprian that when a deacon offred the cuppe of oure lordes bloude to a litle mayde childe which through defaulte of the nource had tasted of the sacrifices that had ben offered to deuilles the childe tourned awaye her face by the instincte of the diuine maiestie sayeth he closed fast her lippes and refused the cuppe but yet when the deacon had forced her to receiue a litle of the cuppe the yeax and vomite folowed so as that sanctified drinke in the bloude of oure lorde gowshed foorth of the polluted boilles If the Sacrament had ben geuen to this infant vnder the forme of breade before she would haue resused that no lesse then she dyd the cuppe that the deacon then would not haue geuen her the cuppe De cōsec distinct 4 can 4. si qui apud illos haereticos And that this may seme the lesse to be wondered at Ioannes Teutonicus that wrote scholies vpon Gratian witnesseth that euen in his tyme the custome was in some places to geue the Sacrament to infantes not by deliuering to them the bodye of Christ but by powring the bloude in to theire mowthes which custome hath ben vppon good confyderation abrogated in the church of Rome and kepte in the greke church as Lyre writeth vpon S. Ihon. The fourth councell of Carthago decreed Can. 76. if a mā in sicknes who was enioyned publike penaunce do demaunde his housel and er he dye fall in a phrenesie or becomme speacheles that the Sacrament be powred in to his mowthe To take this for the forme of wine we ar moued by the decree of the eleuenth councell Toletane Where it is sayde Can. 11. that the weake nature of man is wonte at the pointe of death to be so farre oppressed with drowth that it may be refreshed
them safest of all And in an other place Ad Enodiū epist 102. Si propter eos solos Christus mortuus est qui certa intelligentia possunt ista discernere penè frustrà in Ecclesia laboramus If Christ sayeth he dyed onely for them which can with certaine or suer vnderstanding discerne these thinges concerning God then is the labour we take in the churche in maner in vayne God requyreth not so much of vs how much we vnderstād as how much we beleue and through belefe how much we loue And when we shall all appeare before Christ in that dredfull daye of iudgement whe shall not be requyred to geue an accompte of our vnderstanding but faith presupposed of our charitie Now though the people knowe not the Latine tonge and albeit it were better The benefite of prayer vttered in a tonge not vnderstāded they had the Seruice in their owne vulgare tonge for the better vnderstanding of it yet as it is for as muche as it cōsisteth in maner all together of the scriptures that great profite cometh bothe to the reader and to the hearer of it Origen sheweth at large in the twētith homilie vpon Iosue Because it were ouer long to bring all that he sayeth there to this purpose the summe of the whole may thus be abbridged First that the heauenly powers and angelles of God which be with vs haue great lyking in our vtterāce of the wordes of the scripture Though we vnderstād not the wordes we vtter with our mowth yet those powers sayeth he vnderstand them and thereby be inuited and that with delite to helpe vs. And speaking of the powers that be within vs to whom charge of our soules and bodies is committed he sayeth that if the scriptures be read of vs they haue pleasure therein and be made the stronger toward taking heede to vs yea and that if we speake with tonges and our spirite praye and our sense be with out fruite And there he alleageth to that purpose the cōmon place of S. Paul to the Corinthiās calling it merueilouse and in maner a mysterie shewing how the spirite prayeth the sense being with out fruite After this he declareth the euill powers and our ghostly ennemies the deuill by our reading and hearing of the scriptures to be dryuen from vs. As by enchauntements sayeth he snakes be stayed from doing hurte with their venyme so if there be in vs any serpent of contrary power or if any snake waite priuely to mischiefe vs by vertue of the holy scripture rehearsed so that for wearynesse thou tourne not awaye thy hearing he is put awaye S. Augustine confirmeth the same doctrine where he sayeth In prologo Psalmorum psalmus daemones fugat angelos in adiutorium inuitat The psalme read deuoutly or heard putteth deuilles to flight and prouoketh angels to helpe At lenght Origen shewing how by meate or drynke we fynde remedie for sore eyes though we feele no benefite forthwith in eating or drynking he concludeth his speciall parte of the comparison with these wordes In this wise we must beleue also of the holy scripture that it is profitable and doth good to the soule etiamsi sensus noster ad praesens intelligentiam non capit although presently our sense doo not atteine the meaning or vnderstanding because our good powers by these wordes be refreshed and fedde and the cōtrary that is our aduersarie powers are weakned and put to flight At lenght making obiection to him selfe on the behalfe of his hearers as though they shuld laye this doctrine to his charge for excuse of taking further paynes in preaching and expounding the scriptures to them therto he answereth and sayeth No no we haue not sayd these to you for that cause neither haue we vttered these thinges to you for excuse but to shewe you in Scripturis sanctis esse vim quandam quae legenti etiam sine explanatione sufficiat that in the holy scriptures there is a certaine power or strength which is sufficient for one that readeth it yea without any expounding of it This sufficiencie he referreth I thinke to the procuring of the good powers to helpe vs and to the dryuing awaye the malice of the euill powers our ghostly enemies that they hurte vs not I trust wise godly and stedfast men who be not caryed about with euery wynde of doctrine will be moued more with the auctoritie of Origen a man allwayes in the iudgemēt of all the christē worlde accōpted most excellētly learned thē with the scorning of Caluine who speaking of the auncient latine Seruice vsed in England and Fraunce sayeth In Institutionib ad Ecclesiā ex sono non intellecto nullus penitus fructus redit that of the sownde not vnderstanded no fruite at all retourneth to the churche vsing that word of dispite that might better be spoken by a mynstrell of his pype and taburrette then by a preacher of the diuine Seruice Neither hereof with any milder spirite speaketh his disciple and subminister Theodore Beza the hote minister of the deformed churches of Fraunce Confessionis ca. 4. Sectiōe 16 Quaecunque preces ab aliquo concipiuntur eo idiomate quod ipse non intelligat pro Dei ludibrio sunt habendae What prayers so euer be made sayeth he of any man in a tonge that he vnderstādeth not they be to be taken for a mockery of God Who so euer here alloweth Caluine and Beza condemned of the churche must condemne Origen for this point neuer reproued nor touched of any that haue not spared him where so euer they could charge him with any errour If all prayers made in an vnknowen tonge be a mocking of God as Beza sayeth then were the prayers vttered by miracle in the primitiue churche with tonges which the vtterers them selues vnderstoode not after the mynde of Chrysostome a mocking of god for I see nothing whereby they are excluded from his generall saying and vniuersall propositiō Verely this teaching of Beza is not sownde I wene if he were out of the protection of his deformed churches and cōuented before a catholike bishop to geue an accompte of this doctrine he would steppe backe and reuoke that rashe saying agayne For els he shuld seme to graunt that God gaue at the begynning of the church the gifte of tonges to be mokte withall which were very absurde and blasphemouse S. Paul wisheth that all the Corinthians spake with tonges but rather that they prophecied If our newe maisters condemne the Latine Seruice in the Latine churche for that the people vnderstand it not thereof must it folowe that the English seruice so much of it as consisteth of Dauides psalmes which is the most parte be also cōdemned The like may besayde of other nations For how many shall we fynde not of the people onely but also of the best learned mē that vnderstand the meaning of them in what tōge so euer they be set forth S. Hilarie cōpareth the booke of psalmes to a
all this so much might easely be sayde as shuld serue to a whole volume But In this treatise seeking to auoide prolixitie hauing purposed to saye somewhat to this number of the other Articles and knowing this matter of the Primacie to be allready largely and learnedly handeled of others will but trippe as it were lightly ouer at this tyme and not sette my fast footing in the deepe debating and treating of it The Popes Primacie not of Man but of gods ordināce The first proufe of the Popes primacie scripture expoūded Matth. 16. First as concerning the right of the Popes primacie by gods lawe by these auncient autorities it hath ben auouched Anacletus that holy bishop and martyr S. Peters scholer and of him cōsecrated priest in his epistle to the bishops of Italie writeth thus In nouo testamento post Christum etc. In the newe testament the order of priestes beganne after our lord Christ of Peter because to him bishoprike was first geuen in the churche of Christ where as our lord saide vnto him Thou art Peter and vpon this rocke I will buylde my church and the gates of hell shall not preuaile against it and vnto thee I will geue the keies of the kingdome of heauen Wherfore this Peter receiued of our lord first of all power to binde and to lowse and first of all he brought people to the faith by vertue of his preaching As for the other Apostles they receiued honour and power in like felowship with him and willed him to be their prince or chiefe gouernour In an other epistle to all bishoppes alleaging the same texte for the Primacie of the See of Rome speaking of the disposition of churches committed to Patriarkes and Primates saith thus most plainely This holy ad Apostolike church of Rome hath obteined the Primacie not of the Apostles but of our lord Sauiour him selfe and hath gotten the preeminence of power ouer all churches and ouer the whole flocke of Christen people euen so as he saide to blessed Peter th'Apostle Thou art Peter and vpon this rocke etc. S. Gregorie writing to Mauritius the Emperoure against Iohn the bishop of Constantinople ambitiously claiming and vsurping the name of an vniuersall bishop proueth the bishop of Rome succeding in Peters chaier to be Primate and to haue charge ouer all the church of Christ by scriptures thus Cunctis euangelium scientibus liquet etc. Epist 32. It is euident to all that knowe the gospell that the cure and charge of the whole church hath ben committed by the worde of our lord to the holy Apostle Peter prince of all the Apostles for to him it is sayde Peter Ioan. 21. Luc. 22. louest thou me feede my sheepe to him it is sayd Beholde Sathan hath desyred to syfte you as it were wheate and I haue prayed for thee Peter that thy faith faile not And thou being once conuerted strengthen thy brethren To him it is saide Thou art Peter Matth. 26 and vpon this rocke I will buylde my church and the gates of hell shall not preuaile against it And vnto the I will geue the keies of the kingdom of heauen And what so euer thou byndest vpon earth shal be bounde also in heauen and what so euer thou lowsest on earth shable lovvsed also in heauen Beholde he receiueth the keies of the heauenly kingdome Cura ei totius Ecclesiae principatus committitur the power of bynding and lowsing is geuen to him the charge of the whole church and principalitie is committed to him Thus farre Gregorie But because our aduersaries though without iuste cause refuse the witnes of the Bishops of Rome in this article as vnlawfull witnesses in their owne cause were thei neuer so holy martyrs or learned confessours they may vnderstand we are able to alleage sundry other authorities to the confirmation hereof that be aboue all exception S. Cyprian declaring the contempte of the high Priest Christes Vicarie in earth to be cause of schismes and heresies writeth thus to Cornelius Pope and Martyr Neque enim aliunde haereses obortae sunt etc. Neither haue heresies or schismes rysen of any other occasiō then of that the Priest of God is not obeied and that one Priest for the tyme in the church and one iudge for the tyme in stede of Christ is not thoughte vpon To whom if the whole brotherhed that is the whole number of Christē people which be brethren together and were so called in the primatiue church would be obedient according to gods teachinges Secūdum magisteria diuina then no man would make adoo against the colledge of priestes no mā woulde make him selfe iudge not of the bishop nowe but of God after gods iudgement after the fauour of the people declared by theire voices at the Election after the consent of his felowbishops no man through breach of vnitie and strife would diuide the church of Christ no man standing in his owne conceite and swelling with pride would sette vp by him selfe abroade without the church a newe heresie Of all other authorities that of Athanasius and of the bishops of Egypte and Libya gathered together in a Synode at Alexandria is to be regarded Who making humble sute to Felix then bishop of Rome for aide and succour against the Arianes through the whole epistle confessing the supreme auctoritie of that Apostolike See vtter these very wordes Vestrae apostolicae sedis imploramus auxilium etc. In primo tomo Cōciliorum We humbly besech you of the helpe of your Apostolike See Because as verely we beleue God hath not despised the praiers of his seruantes offered vp to him with teares but hath constituted and placed you your predecessours who were Apostolike Prelates in the highest tower or supreme state In summitatis arce constituit and commaunded them to haue cure and charge of all churches to th' intent you helpe and succour vs and that defending vs as to whom iudgemēt of bishops is committed you forslowe not through negligence to delyuer vs from our enemies Now if the Apostolike church of Rome hath obteined the Primacie and preeminence of power ouer all churches and ouer the whole flocke of Christen people of our lord Sauiour him selfe as Anacletus saith If it be euident to all that knowe the gospell that the cure and charge of the whole church hath ben committed to the holy Apostle Peter Prince of all the Apostles by the worde of our lord as Gregorie witnesseth If the whole brotherhed that is to say all christen folke ought to obeye the one hygh Priest or bishop of God and the one Iudge that is Christes Vicare or in the steede of Christ for the tyme according to the preceptes and teachinges of God as Cyprian writeth If it be God that hath placed and ordeined the bishop of Rome in the highest state of the church as Athanasius with all the fathers of that Alexandrine councell recordeth If this I say be true then is
bishops that reacheth from Peter him selfe to Anastasius which now sitteth in the same chaier if any traitour had crepte in it shuld nothing hurte the church and the innocent christen folke ouer whom our lord hauing prouidence sayeth of euill rulers what they saye vnto you Matth. 23. doo ye but what they doo doo ye not for they saye and doo not to the intent the hope of a faithfull person may be certaine and such as being set not in man but in our lord be neuer scattered abroade with tempest of wicked schisme And in his 166. epistle he sayeth our heaueÌ„ly Maister hath so farre forewarned vs to be ware of all euill of dissension that he assured the people also of euill rulers that for their sakes the Seate of holesom doctrine shuld not be forsaken in which Seate euen the very euill men be compelled to saye good thinges For the thinges which they saye be not theires but gods who in the Seate of vnitie hath put the doctrine of veritie By this we are plainely taught that albe it the successours of Peter Christes vicares in earth be fownde blameworthy for euill lyfe yet we oughte not to dissente from them in doctrine nor seuer our selues from them in faith For as much as notwithstanding they be euill by gods prouidence for the suertie of his people they be compelled to saie the thinges that be good and to teache the truth the thinges they speake not being theirs but gods who hath put the doctrine of veritie in the Seate or chaier of vnitie which singulare grace cometh specially to the See of Peter either of the force of Christes prayer as is sayde before or in respecte of place and dignitie which the bishops of that See holde for Christ as Balaam could be broughte by no meanes to curse that people whom God would to be blessed And Caiphas also prophecied because he was high bishop of that yere and prophecied truly being a maÌ„ otherwise most wicked And therfore the euill doinges of bishops of Rome make no argument of discrediting their doctrine To this purpose the example of Gregorie Nazianzene may very fittely be applied of the golden syluerne and leadden seale As touching the valewe of metalles golde and syluer are better but for the goodnes of the seale as well doth leadde imprint a figure in waxe as syluer or golde For this cause that the See of Rome hath neuer ben defyled with stinking heresies as Theodoritus sayeth and god hath alwaies kepte in that chaier of vnitie the doctrine of veritie as Augustine writeth for this cause I saye it sitteth at the sterne and gouerneth the churches of the whole worlde for this cause bishops haue made their appellations thither iudgement in doubtes of doctrine and determination in all controuersies and strifes hath ben from thence alwayes demaunded Now that the B. of Rome had alwayes cure and rule ouer all other bishops specially of them of the East for touching them of the West church it is generally coÌ„fessed besyde a hundred other euideÌ„t argumentes this is one very sufficient that he had in the East to doo his stede three delegates or vicares now commonly they be named legates And this for the commoditie of the bishops there whose churches were farre distaÌ„t froÌ„ Rome The one was the bishop of Constantinople as we finde it mencioned in epistola Simplicij ad Achatium Constantinopolitanum The seconde was the bishop of Alexandria as the epistle of Bonifacius the seconde to Eulalius recordeth The third was the bishop of Thessalonica as it is at large declared in the 82. epistle of Leo ad Anastasium Thessalonicensem By perusing these epistles euery man may see that all the bishops of Grece Asia Syria Egite and to be shorte of all the Orient rendred and exhibited their humble obedieÌ„ce to the B. of Rome and to his arbitremeÌ„t referred their doubtes coÌ„plaintes and causes and to him onely made theire appellations Of the B. of Rome his punishing of offenders by censures of the church and otherwyse CorrectioÌ„s from the Pope as by excommunications eiection deposition and enioyning penance for transgressions we haue more exaÌ„ples then I thinke good to recite here They that haue knowledge of the ecclesiasticall stories may remeÌ„ber how Timotheus B. of Alexandria was excommunicated with Peter his deacon by Simplicius the Pope Nestorius B. of Constantinople by Celestinus Theophilus B. of Alexandria with Arcadius the Emperour and Eudoxia the Empreresse by Innocentius for their wicked demeanour toward Chrysostome How Dioscorus B. of AlexaÌ„dria was deposed though the whole secoÌ„de Ephesine councell stoode in his defence how Peter B. of Antioche was not onely put out of his bishoprike but also of all priestly honour How Photius was put out of the Patriarkeship of Constantiple into which he was intruded by fauour of Michael the Emperour at the sute of his wicked vnkle by Nicolaus the first Lib 3. epist 13. For proufe of this auctoritie the epistle of Cyprian which he wrote to Stephanus Pope in his tyme against Martianus the B. of Arelate in Gallia maketh an euident argument For that this Martianus became a maineteyner of the heresie of Nouatianus and therewith seduced the faithfull people Cyprian hauing intelligence of it by Faustinus from Lions aduertised Stephanus of it and moued him earnestly to directe his letters to the people of Arle by auctoritie of which Martianus shuld be deposed and an other put in his rome to th' intent sayeth he there the flocke of Christ which hytherto by him scattered abroade and woonded is contemned may be gathered together Which S. Cyprian would not haue written had the B. of Rome had no suche auctoritie CoÌ„firmations by the Pope For the Popes auctoritie concerning confirmation of the ordinations and elections of all bishops many examples might easely be alleaged as the request made to Iulius by the 90. Ariane bishops assembled in councell as Antioche against Athanasius that he would wouchesafe to ratifie and confirme those that they had chosen in place of Athanasius Paulus Marcellus and others whom they had condemned and depriued Also the earnest sute which Theodosius the Emperour made to Leo for coÌ„firmation of Anatolius and likewise that Martianus the Emperour made to him for confirmation of Proterius bothe bishops of Alexandria as it appeareth by their letters written to Leo in theire fauour And as for Anatoliê° Leo would not in any wise order and coÌ„firme him onlesse he would first professe that he beleued and helde the doctrine Vide Leonis epis 1â— which was conteined in Leo his epistle to Flauianus and would further by writing witnesse that he agreed with Cyrillus and the other catholihe fathers against Nestorius For this if nothing elles could be alleaged the testimonie of holy Gregorie were sufficient to make good credite Who vnderstanding that Maximus was ordered bisshop of Salonae a citie in Illyrico without the auctoritie and confirmation of the See Apostolike standing in doubte least
occupied a place at the table visibly by his diuine power there he helde his body in his haÌ„des inuisibly In expositione psal 13. For as S. Augustine sayeth ferebatur manibê° suis he was borne in his owne haÌ„des where nature gaue place and his one body was in mo places then one Verely non est abbreuiata manus domini the hande of our lord is not shortened his power is as great as euer it was And therefore let vs not doubte but he is able to vse nature finite infinitely specially now the nature of his body being glorified after his resurrection from the dead And as the lyuing is not to be sought among the dead so the thinges that be done by the power of God aboue nature are not to be tryed by rules of nature And that all absurdities and carnall grosnes be seuered from our thoughtes where true christen people beleue Christes body to be in many places at once they vnderstaÌ„d it so to bee in a mysterie Being in a mysterie Now to be in a mysterie is not to be comprehended in a place but by the power of God to be made present in sorte and maner as him selfe knoweth verely so as no reason of man can atteine it and so as it may be shewed by no examples in nature Whereof that notable saying of S. Augustine may very well be reported Aug. epis ad VolusianuÌ„ IteÌ„ Ser. 159. de tempore O homo si rationem à me poscis non erit mirabile exemplum quaeritur non erit singulare that is O man if herein thou require reason it shall not be marueilouse seeke for the like example and then it shall not be singuler If Goddes working be comprehended by reason sayeth holy Gregorie it is not wonderouse neither faith hath meede Gregorius in homil whereto mannes reason geueth proufe Iuell Or that the priest did then holde vp the Sacrament ouer his head Of the Eleuation or lyfting vp of the Sacrament ARTICLE VII OF what weight this ceremonie is to be accompted catholike ChristeÌ„ men whom you call your aduersaries M. Iuell knowe no lesse then you Verely whereas it pleaseth you thus to ieste and like a Lucian to scoffe at the sacramentes of the church and the reuerent vse of the same calling all these articles in generall thâ—… highest mysteries and greatest keyes of our religion without which our doctrine can not be maineteined and stand vpright vnderstand you that this a sundry other articles which you denye and requyrâ—… proufe of is not such ne neuer was so estemed The priestes lifting vp or shewing of the Sacrament is not one of the highest mysteries or greatest keyes of our Religion and the doctrine of the catholike churche may right well be maineteined and stande without it But it appeareth you regarde not so much what you saye as how you saye somewhat for colour of defacing the churche which whiles you go about to doo you deface your selfe more then you seeme to be ware of and doo that thing whereby among good christen men specially the learned you may be a shamed to shewe your face For as you haue ouer rashely yea I maye saye wickedly affirmed the negatiue of sundry other articles and stowtely craked of your assurance thereof EleuatioÌ„ of the sacrament so you hauâ—… likewise of this For perusing the auncient father writinges we fynde record of this Ceremonie vsed euen from the Apostles tyme foreward Saint Dionyse that was S. Paules scholer sheweth that the priest at his tyme after the consecration was wont to holde vp the dredfull mysteries so as the people might beholde them His wordes be these according to the greke Ecclesias hierarch cap. 3. Pontifex diuina munera laude prosecutus sacrosancta augustissima mysteria conficit collaudata in conspectum agit per symbola sacrè proposita The bishop after that he hath done his seruice of praising the diuine giftes consecrateth the holy and most worthy mysteries and bringeth them so praysed in to the sighte of the people by the tokeÌ„s set forth for that holy purpose On which place the auncient greke writer of the scholies vpon that worke sayeth thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 loquitur de vnius benedictionis nimirum panis diuini eleuatione quem Pontifex in sublime attollit dicens Sancta sanctis This father speaketh in this place of the lifting vp of the one blessing that is to saye of the one forme or kynde of the sacrament euen of that diuine breade which the bishop lifteth vp on high saying holy thinges for the holy In saint Basiles and Chrysostomes Masse we finde these wordes Sacerdos eleuans sacrum panem dicit Sancta Sanctis The priest holding vp that sacred bread sayeth Holy thinges for the holy In Saint Chrysostomes Masse we reade that as the people is kneeling downe after th' example of the priest and of the deacon the deacon seing the priest stretching forth his handes and taking vp that holy bread 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ad sacram eleuationem peragendam palam edicit attendamus to doo the holy eleuation speaketh out a lowde let vs be attent and then the priest sayeth as he holdeth vp the sacrament holy thinges for the holy Amphilochius of whom mention is made afore in the lyfe of S. Basile speaking of his wonderouse celebrating the Masse among other thinges sayeth thus Et post finem orationum exaltauit panem sine intermissione orans dicens Respice domine Iesu Christe etc. And after that he had done the prayers of consecration he lyfted vp the bread without ceasing praying and saying Looke vpon vs lord Iesus Christ etc. The same saint Basile meant likewise of the Eleuation and holding vp of the sacrament after the custome of the OccideÌ„tall churche Cap 27. in his booke de Spiritu sancto where he sayeth thus Inuocationis verba dum ostenditur panis eucharistiae calix benedictionis quis sanctorum nobis scripto reliquit Which of the sainctes hath lefte vnto vs in writing the wordes of Inuocation whiles the bread of Eucharistia that is to witte the blessed sacrament in forme of bread and the consecrated chalice is shewed in sight He speaketh there of many thinges that be of great auctoritie and weight in the church which we haue by tradition onely and can not be auouched by holy scripture Of shewing the holy mysteries to them that be present in the sacrifice In epist ad Ephes Sermon 3. in moral the olde doctours make meÌ„tion not sildom S. Chrysostom declareth the maner of it saying that such as were accompted vnworthy and heynouse synners were put forth of the churche whiles the sacrifice was offered whiles Christ and that lambe of our lord was sacrificed Which being put out of the churche then were the vailes of the aulter taken awaie to th'entent the holy mysteries might be shewed in sight doubteles to styrre the people to more deuotion reuerence and to the
hanging vp of it or for the Canopie Iuell Or that in the Sacrament after the wordes of Consecration there remayneth only the accidentes and shewes without the substance of breade and wyne Of the remaining of the Accidentes vvithout their substance in the Sacrament ARTICLE X. IN this Sacrament after consecration nothing in substaÌ„ce remayneth that was before neither breade nor wine but onely the Accidentes of breade and wine as their forme and shape sauour smell colour weight and such the like which here haue their being miraculously without their subiecte for as much as after consecration there is none other substance then the substance of the body and bloud of our lord which is not affected with such accidentes as the scholasticall doctours terme it Which doctrine hath alwayes though not with these precise termes ben taught and beleued from the beginning TransubstantiatioÌ„ affirmed and depeÌ„deth of the Article of Transubstantiation For if the substance of bread and wyne be chaunged in to the substance of the body and bloud of our lord which is coÌ„stantly affirmed by all the learned and auncient fathers of the churche it foloweth by a necessary sequell in nature and by drifte of reason that then the accidentes onely remaine For witnes and proufe whereof I will not let to recite certaine most manifest sayinges of the olde and best approued doctours S. Cyprian that learned bishop and holy martyr sayeth thus in sermone de coena domini Panis iste quem dominus discipulis porrigebat non effigie sed natura mutatus omnipotentia verbi factus est caro This bread which our lord gaue to his disciples chaunged not in shape but in nature by the almighty power of the word he meaneth Christes word of ConsecratioÌ„ is made fleshe Lo he confesseth the breade to be chaunged not in shape or forme for that remayneth but in nature that is to saye in substance And to signifie the chaunge of substance and not an accideÌ„tarie chaunge onely to witte from the vse of common breade to serue for Sacramentall bread as some of our newe Maisters doo expounde that place for a shifte he addeth great weight of wordes whereby he farre ouerpeiseth these mennes light deuise saying that by the almighty power of our lordes word it is made fleshe Verely they might consyder as they would seme to be of sharpe iudgement that to the performance of so small a matter as their sacramentall chaunge is the almighty power of gods worde is not nedefull And now if here this worde factus est may signifie an imaginatiue making then why may not verbum caro factum est likewise be expounded to the defence of sundry olde haynouse heresies against the true manhod of Christ Thus the nature of the bread in this sacrament being chaunged and the forme remayning so as it seme breade as before consecration and being made our lordes fleshe by vertue of the word the substance of bread changed into that most excellent substance of the fleshe of Christ of that which was before the accidentes remaine onely without the substance of breade The like is to be beleued of the wyne De consecrat dist 2 caâ— omnia quaecuÌ„que Nothing can be playner to this purpose then the sayinges of S. Ambros. Licet figura panis vini videatur nihil tamen aliud quam caro Christi et sanguis post consecrationem credendum est Although sayeth he the forme of bread and wyne be sene yet after consecration we must beleue they are nothing elles but the fleshe and bloud of Christ After the opinion of this father the shewe and figure of breade and wyne are sene and therefore remaine after coÌ„secratioÌ„ And if we must beleue that which was breade and wyne before to be no other thing but the fleshe and bloud of Christ then are they no other thing in dede For if they were we might so beleue For beleefe is grownded vpon truth and what so euer is not true it is not to be beleued Hereof it foloweth that after consecratioÌ„ the accideÌ„tes and shewes onely remayne without the substaÌ„ce of breade and wyne De SacrameÌ„tis lib. 4. cap. 4. In an other place he sayeth as much Panis iste etc. This bread before the wordes of the SacrameÌ„tes is bread as sone as the coÌ„secratioÌ„ coÌ„meth of bread is made the body of Christ Againe in an other place he sayeth most plainely De ijs qui initiaÌ„tur That the power of consecration is greatter then the power of nature because nature is chaunged by consecration By this father it is euident that the nature that is to saye the substance of breade and wine by consecration being chaunged into the body and bloude of Christ their natural qualities which be accidentes contynewing vnchaunged for performance of the Sacrament remayne without the substance of bread and wyne According vnto the which meaning Theodoritus sayeth videri tangi possunt sicut prius Dialog 2. IntelliguÌ„tur autem ea esse quae facta sunt creduntur The breade and wyne may be sene and felte as before coÌ„secratioÌ„ but they are vnderstaÌ„ded to be the thinges which they are made and beleued We do not in like sorte sayeth S. Augustine take these two formes of breade and wine after coÌ„secratioÌ„ as we tooke them before In lib SeÌ„tent Prosperi de coÌ„se dict 2. ca. Nos autem Sith that we graunt faithfully that before consecration it is bread and wyne that nature hath shapte but after consecration that it is the fleshe and bloud of Christ that the blessing hath consecrated De verbis domini SecunduÌ„ LucaÌ„ Sermone 28. In an other place he sayeth that this is not the bread which goeth in to the body meaning for bodily sustenance but that bread of life qui animae nostrae substantiam fulcit which susteineth the substance of our soule No maÌ„ can speake more plainely hereof then Cyrillê° Hierosolymitanus an olde auctor who wrote in greke and is extant but as yet remayning in written haÌ„de and commen to the sighte of fewe learned men His wordes be not much vnlike the wordes of the scole-doctoures Praebetur corpus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in specie siue figura panis Item praebetur sanguis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Christes body sayeth he is geuen vs in forme or figure of bread Againe his bloud is geuen vs in forme of wine A litle after these wordes he sayeth thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 etc. Ne mentem adhibeas quasi pani vino nudis sunt enim haec corpus sanguis vt Dominus pronunciauit Nam tametsi illud tibi sensus suggerit esse scilicet panem vinum nudum tamen firmet te fides ne gustatu rem dijudices quin potius pro certo ac comperto habe omni duhitatione relicta esse tibi impartitum corpus sanguinem Christi Consyder not sayeth this father these as bare bread and wyne For these are his body
and bloud as our lord sayde For although thy sense reporte to thee so much that it is bare bread and wyne yet let thy faith staye thee and iudge not thereof by thy taste but rather be right well assured all doubte put a parte that the body and bloud of Christ is geuen to thee Againe he sayeth thus in the same place Haec cum scias pro certo explorato habeas qui videtur esse panis noÌ„ esse sed corpus Christi item quod videtur vinum non esse quanquam id velit sensus sed sanguinem Christi ac de eo prophetam dixisse panis cor hominis confirmat firma ipse cor sumpto hoc pane vtpote spirituali Where as thou knowest this for a very certainetie that that which semeth to be wyne is not wyne albeit the sense maketh that accompte of it but the bloud of Christ and that the prophete therereof sayde bread strengthneth the hart of man strengthen thou thy selfe thy harte by taking this bread as that which is spirituall And in 3. Catechesi this father sayeth Panis Eucharistiae post inuocationem sancti Spiritus non amplius est panis nudus simplex Sed corpus etc. The bread of the Sacrament after prayer made to the holy ghost is not bare and simple bread but the body of Christ Now sith that by this doctours plaine declaratioÌ„ of the catholike faith in this point we ought to beleue and to be verely assured that the bread is no more bread after coÌ„secration but the very body of Christ and the wyne no more wyne but his pretiouse bloud though they seme to the eye otherwise though taste and feeling iudge otherwise and to be shorte though all senses reporte the contrary and all this vpon warrant of our lordes word who sayde these to be his body and bloud and that as he teacheth not in the bread and wyne And further sith we are taught by Eusebius Emisenus in his homilies of Easter to beleue terrena coÌ„mutari transire the earthly thinges to be chaunged and to passe againe creaturas conuerti in substantiam corporis Christi the creatures of bread and wyne to be tourned in to the substaÌ„ce of our lordes body and bloud which is the very traÌ„substantiation Transubstantion In Liturgia And sith Chrysostom sayeth Panem absumi that the bread is consumed awaie by the substance of Christes bodye And Damascen Lib. 4. de orthodoxa fi c. 14. In Mar. 14 bread and wine traÌ„smutari supernaturaliter to be chaunged aboue the course of nature and Theophylact the bread transelementari in carnem domini to be quite tourned by chaunging of the elementes that is the matter or substance it consisteth of into the fleshe of our lorde and in an other place In Matth. 26. ineffabili operatione traÌ„sformari etiamsi panis nobis videatur that the bread is traÌ„sformed or chaunged into an other substantiall forme he meaneth that of our lordes body by vnspeakeable working though it seme to be bread The treatises of these greke vvriters haue ben set forth of late by one Claudius de Sainctes Finally sith that the greke Doctours of late age affirme the same doctrine among whom Samona vseth for persuasion of it the similitude which Gregorie Nyssene and Damascen for declaration of the same vsed before which is that in consecration such maner transubstantiation is made as is the conuersion of the bread in nourrishing in which it is tourned into the substance of the nourrished Methonensis like S. Ambrose would not men in this matter to looke for the order of nature seing that Christ was borne of a virgine besyde all order of nature and sayeth that our lordes bodye in this Sacrament is receiued vnder the forme or shape of an other thing least bloud shuld cause it to be horrible Nicolaus Cabasila sayeth that this bread is no more a figure of our lordes bodye Cap. 27. neither a gifte bearing an image of the true gifte nor bearing any description of the passioÌ„s of our Sauiour him selfe as it were in a table but the true gifte it selfe the most holy bodye of our lord it selfe which hath truly receiued reproches contumelies stripes which was crucified which was kylled Marcus Ephesius though otherwise to be reiected as he that obstinatly resisted the determination of the Councell of Florence concerning the proceding of the holy ghost out of the sonne yet a sufficient witnes of the Greke churches faith in this point affirming the thinges offred to be called of S. Basile antitypa that is the samplers and figures of our lordes bodye because they be not yet perfitely consecrated but as yet bearing the figure and image referreth the chaunge or transubstantiation of them to the holy ghost donec Spiritus sanctus adueniat qui ea muter these giftes offered sayeth he be of S. Basile called figures vntill the holy ghost come vpon them to chaunge them Whereby he sheweth the faith of the Greke church that through the holy ghost in consecration the bread and wine are so chaunged as they maye no more be called figures but the very bodye and bloud of our lord it selfe as into the same chaunged by the comming of the holy ghost Which chaunge is a chaunge in substance and therefore it may rightly be termed traÌ„substaÌ„tiation TransubstaÌ„tiatioÌ„ which is nothing elles but a tourning or chaunging of one substance into an other substance Sith for this point of our religioÌ„ we haue so good auctoritie and being thus assured of the infallible faith of the churche declared by the testimonies of these worthy fathers of diuerse ages and quarters of the worlde we may well saye with the same churche against M. Iuell that in this Sacrament after consecration there remayneth nothing of that which was before but only the accidentes and shewes without the substance of bread and wyne And this is a matter to a Christen man not hard to beleue For if it please God the almightie Creator in the condition and state of thinges thus to ordeine that substaÌ„ces created beare and susteine accideÌ„tes why may not he by his almighty power coÌ„serue and kepe also accideÌ„tes without substaÌ„ce sith that the very hethen philosophers repute it for an absurditie to saye primam causam non posse id praestare solam quod possit cum secunda that is to saye that the first cause whereby they vnderstand God can not doo that alone which he can doo with the secoÌ„d cause where by they meane a creature And that this being of accidentes without substance or subiecte in this SacrameÌ„t vnder which the bread not remaining the bodye of Christ is present maye the rather be beleued it is to be consydered that this thing tooke place at the first creatioÌ„ of the world Basilius hexaemeroÌ„ hom 6 Damas li. 2. cap. 7. Paulê° Burgensis Gene. 1. after the opinion of some Doctoures Who do affirme that that first light which was at
Iuell denyeth Irenaeus receiued the same from Saint Iohn the Euangelist by Polycarpus Saint Iohns scoler He declareth it with these wordes Eum qui ex creatura punis est accepit gratias egit dicens Libro 4. cap. 32. Hoc est corpus meum Et calicem similiter qui est ex creatura quae est secundum nos suum sanguinem confessus est noui testamenti nouam docuit oblationem quam Ecclesia ab Apostolis accipiens in vniuerso mundo offert Deo De quo in duodecim prophetis Malachias sic praesignificauit Non est mihi voluntas in vobis dicit Dominus exercituum Malac. 1. munus non suscipiam de manu vestra He tooke that which by creation is bread and gaue thankes saying this is my body And likewise the cuppe full of that creature which is here with vs and confessed it to be his bloud and thus taught the newe oblation of the newe testament which the churche receiuing of the Apostles doth offer to God through the whole worlde whereof Malachie one of the twelue prophetes dyd prophecie thus I haue no lyking in you sayeth our lord almighty neither will I take sacrifice of your handes because from the rysing of the sunne to the going downe of the same my name is glorified among the nations and incense is offered to my name in euery place and pure sacrifice for that my name is great among the nations What can be vnderstanded by this newe oblation of the newe testament other then the oblation of that which he sayde to be his body and confessed to be his bloude And if he had offered bread and wine onely or the figure of his body and bloud in bread and wine it had ben no newe oblation for such had ben made by Melchisedech long before Neither can the prophecie of Malachie be vnderstanded of the oblation of Christ vpon the crosse for as much as that was done but at one tyme onely and in one certaine place of the world in Golgoltha a place without the gates of Ierusalem neare to the walles of that citie Concerning the sacrifice of a contrite and an humbled heart and all other Sacrifices of our deuotion that be mere spirituall they can not be called the newe oblation of the Newe testament for as much as they were done as well in the olde testameÌ„t as in the newe neither be they all together pure Wherefore this place of Irenaeus and also the prophecie of Malachie wherewith it is confirmed must nedes be referred to the sacrifice and oblation of the body and bloud of Christ dayly throughout the whole world offered to God in the Masse which is the externall Sacrifice of the churche and proper to the newe testament which as Irenaeus sayeth the church receiued of the Apostles and the Apostles of Christ Now let vs heare what S. Cyprian hath written to this purpose Because his workes be common Lib. 2. epist 3. to be shorter I will rehearse his wordes in English If in the Sacrifice which is Christ none but Christ is to be folowed soothly it behoueth vs to obey and doo that which Christ dyd and coÌ„maunded to be done For if Iesus Christ our lord and God very he him selfe be the high priest of God the father and him selfe first offered sacrifice to God the father and coÌ„maunded the same to be done in his remeÌ„braunce verely that priest doth occupie the office of Christ truly who doth by imitation the same thing that Christ dyd And then he offereth to God the father in the church a true and a perfite sacrifice if he begynne to offer right so as he seeth Christ him selfe to haue offered This farre S. Cyprian How can this Article be auouched in more plaine wordes he sayeth that Christ offered him selfe to his father in his supper and likewise coÌ„maunded vs to doo the same Here we haue proued that it is lawfull and hath alwaies from the begynning of the newe tâ—stament ben lawfull for the priestes to offer vp Christ vnto his father by the testimonies of three holy martyrs two Grekes and one Latine most notable in sundry respectes of antiquitie of the rome they bare in Christes churche of learning of constancie of faith stedfastly kepte to death suffred in places of fame and knowledge at Paris at Lions at Carthage Our aduersaries crake much of the sealing vp of their newe doctrine with the bloud of such and such who be writteÌ„ in the booke of lyes not in the booke of lyfe whom they will nedes to be called martyrs Verely if those Moonkes and freres Apostates and renegates wedded to wiues or rather to vse their owne terme yoked to sisters be true martyrs then must our newe Gospellers pull these holy fathers and many thousandes mo out of heauen For certainely the faith in defence of which either sorte dyed is vtterly contrary The worst that I wishe to them is that God geue them eyes to see and eares to heare and that he shut not vp their hartes so as they see not the light here vntill they be throwen awaye into the owtward darkenes Matt. 15. where shall be weeping and grynting of teeth Leauing no small number of places that might be recited out of diuerse other doctours I will bring two of two worthy bishops one of Chrysostome the other of S. Ambrose confirmig this truth Chrysostomes wordes be these Pontifex noster ille est qui hostiam mundantem nos obtulit ipsam offerimus nunc Chrysost in epist ad Heb. Homil 17. quae tunc oblata quidem consumi non potest Hoc autem quod nos facimus in commemorationem fit eius quod factum est Hoc enim facite inquit in mei coÌ„memorationem He is our bishop that hath offered vp the hoste which cleanseth vs. The same doo we offer also now which though it were then offered yet can not be consumed But this that we doo is done in remembraunce of that which is done For doo ye this sayeth he in my remembraunce S. Ambrose sayeth thus In Psalm 38. Vidimus principem Sacerdotum ad nos venientem vidimus et audiuimus offerentem pro nobis sanguinem suum sequamur vt possumus Sacerdotes vt offeramus pro populo sacrificium etsi infirmi merito tamen honorabiles sacrificio Quia etsi Christus non videtur offerre tamen ipse offertur in terris quando Christi corpus offertur We haue sene the prince of priestes come to vs we haue sene and heard him offer for vs his bloud Let vs that be priestes folowe him as we maye that we may offer sacrifice for the people being though weake in merite yet honorable for the sacrifice Because albeit Christ be not sene to offer yet he is offered in earth when the body of Christ is offered Of these our lordes wordes which is geuen for you and which is shedde for you and for many Here S. Ambrose exhorteth the priestes to offer
Iuell requireth or no it shall not greatly force The credite of the catholike faith dependeth not of olde proufes of a fewe newe cōtrouersed pointes that ben of lesse importaunce As for the people they were taught the truth plainely when no heretike had assaulted their faith craftely The doctrine of the churche The doctrine of the churche is this The body of Christ after due consecration remayneth so long in the Sacrament as the Sacrament endureth The Sacrament endureth so long as the formes of breade and wine continewe Those formes continewe in their integritie vntill the other accidentes be corrupted ad perishe As if the colour weight sauour taste smell and other qualities of bread and wine be corrupted and quite altered then is the forme also of the same annichilated and vndone And to speake of this more particularly sith that the substance of bread and wine is tourned into the substance of the body and bloud of Christ as the scriptures auncient doctours the necessary consequent of truth and determination of holy churche leadeth vs to beleue if such chaunge of the accidentes be made which shuld not haue suffised to the corruption of bread and wine in case of their remaindre for such a chaunge the body and bloud of Christ ceaseth not to be in this Sacrament whether the chaunge be in qualitie as if the colour sauour and smell of bread and wine be a litle altered or in quantitie as if thereof diuision be made into such portions in which the nature of bread and wine might be reserued But if there be made so great a chaunge as the nature of bread and wine shuld be corrupted if they were present then the body and bloud of Christ doo not remaine in this Sacrament as when the colour and sauour and other qualities of bread and wine are so farre chaunged as the nature of bread and wine might not bear it or on the quātities syde as if the bread be so small crōmed into dust and the wine dispersed into so small portiōs as their formes remaine no lenger thē remaineth no more the body and bloud in this Sacramēt Thus the body and bloud of Christ remayneth in this sacrament so long as the formes of bread and wine remaine And when they faile and cease to be any more then also ceaseth the body and bloud of Christ to be in the Sacrament For there must be a conuenience and resemblaunce betwen the Sacraments and the thinges whereof they be sacraments which done awaie and loste at the corruption of the formes and accidents the sacraments also be vndone and perishe and consequently the inward thing and the heauenly thing in them conteined leaueth to be in them Here because many of them which haue cutte them selues from the churche condemne the reseruation of the Sacrament Of reseruation of the Sacrament and affirme that the body of Christ remayneth not in the same no longer then during the tyme whiles it is receiued alleaging against reseruation the example of the Paschall lambe in the olde lawe Exod. 12. wherein nothing ought to haue remained vntill the morning and likewise of manna I will rehearse that notable and knowen place of Cyrillus Alexandrinus Ad Colosyriū Arsenoiten Episcopū citat Thomas parte 3. q. 76. his wordes be these Audio quòd dicant mysticam benedictionem si ex ea remonserint in sequentem diem reliquiae ad sanctificationem inutilem esse Sed insaniunt haec dicentes Non enim alius fit Christus neque sanctum eius corpus immutabitur Sed virtus benedictionis viuifica gratia manet in illo It is tolde me they saye that the mysticall blessing so he calleth the blessed Sacrament in case portions of it be kepte vntill the nexte daie is of no vertue to sanctification But they be madde that thus saye For Christ becōmeth not an other neither his holy body is chaunged but the vertue of the consecration and the quickening or lyfe geuing grace abydeth still in it By this saying of Cyrillus we see that he accompteth the errour of our aduersaries in this Article no other then a mere madnes The body of Christ sayeth he which he termeth the mysticall blessing because it is a most holy mysterie done by consecration once consecrated is not chaunged but the vertue of the consecration and the grace that geueth lyfe whereby he meaneth that fleshe assumpted of the word remayneth in this sacrament also when it is kepte verely euen so long as the outward formes continewe not corrupte Or that a Mouse or any other worme or beaste maye eate the body of Christ Iuell for so some of our aduersaries haue sayd and taught What is that the Mouse or vvorme eateth ARTICLE XXIII VVhereas M. Iuell imputeth this vile asseueratiō but to some of the aduersaries of his syde he semeth to acknowledge Iuell cōtrarieth him selfe that it is not a doctrine vniuersally taught and receiued The like may be sayde for his nexte Article And if it hath ben sayd of some onely and not taught vniuersally of all as a true doctrine for Christen people to beleue how agreeth he with him selfe saying after the rehearsall of his number of Articles the same none excepted to be the highest mysteries and greatest keyes of our religion For if that were true as it is not true for the greatest parte then shuld this Article haue ben affirmed and taught of all For the highest and greatest pointes of the catholike Religion be not of particular but of vniuersall teaching Concerning the matter of this Article what so euer a mouse worme or beaste eateth the body of Christ now being impassible and immortall susteineth no violence iniurie no villanie As for that which is gnawen bytten or eaten of worme or beaste whether it be the substaunce of bread as appeareth to sense which is denyed because it ceaseth through vertue of consecration or the outward forme onely of the Sacrament as many holde opinion which also onely is broken and chawed of the receiuer the accidentes by miracle remayning without substance In such cases happening contrary to the intent and ende the sacrament is ordeined and kepte for it ought not to seme vnto vs incredible the power of God consydered that God taketh awaie his body from those outward formes and permitteth either the nature of breade to retourne as before consecration or the accidentes to supplye the effectes of the substance of breade As he commaunded the nature of the rodde which became a serpēt to retourne to that it was before when God would haue it serue no more to the vses it was by him appointed vnto The graue autoritie of S. Cyprian addeth great weight to the balance for this iudgemēt in weighing this matter who in his sermon de lapsis by the reporte of certaine miracles sheweth that our lordes body made it selfe awaye from some that being defyled with the sacrifices of idols presumed to come to the communion er they
To conclude the being of Christes body in the Sacrament is to vs certaine the maner of his being there to vs vncertaine and to God onely certaine Iuell Or that Ignoraunce is the mother and cause of true deuotion and obedience MAister Iuell had great nede of Articles for some shewe to be made against the catholike churche when he aduised him selfe to put this in for an Article Verely this is none of the highest mysteries nor none of the greatest keyes of our Religion as he sayeth it is but vntruly and knoweth that for an vntruth For him selfe imputeth it to D. Cole Fol. 77. in his replyes to him as a straunge saying by him vttered in the disputation at Westminster to the wondering of the most parte of the honorable and worshipfull of this realme If it were one of the highest mysteries and greatest keyes of the catholike religion I trust the most parte of the honorable and worshipfull of the realme would not wonder at it Concerning the matter it selfe I leaue it to D. Cole He is of age to answere for him selfe Whether he sayde it or no I knowe not As he is learned wise and godly so I doubte not but if he sayde it therein he had a good meaning and can shewe good reason for the same if he may be admitted to declare his saying as wise men would the lawes to be declared 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so as the mynde be taken and the word spoken not alwayes rigorously exacted August de Trinit lib. 1. cap. 4. Haec mea fides est quoniam haec est catholica fides This is my faith for as much as this is the catholike faith THE CONCLVSION EXHORting M. Iuell to stande to his promise THus your Chalenge M. Iuell is answered Thus your negatiues be auouched Thus the pointes you went about to improue by good auctoritie be proued and many others by you ouer rashely affirmed clearly improued Thus the catholike Religion with all your forces layd at and impugned is sufficiently defended The places of prouses which we haue here vsed are such as your selfe allowe for good and lawfull The scriptures examples of the Primitiue church aunciēt Councelles and the fathers of syx hundred yeres after Christ You might and ought likewise to haue allowed Reason Traditiō Custome and auctoritie of the Church without limitation of tyme. The maner of this dealing with you is gentle sober and charitable Put awaye all mystes of blynde selfe loue you shall perceiue the same to be so The purpose and intent towardes you right good and louing in regard of the truth no lesse then due for behoofe of Christen people no lesse then necessary That you hereby might be enduced to bethinke your selfe of that wherein you haue done vnaduisedly and stayde from hasty running forth prickte with vaine fauour and praise of the world to euerlasting damnation appointed to be the reward at the ende of your game that truth might thus be tryed set forth and defended and that our brethren be leadde as it were by the hāde from perilous erroures and dāger of their soules to a right sense and to suertie Now it remaineth that you performe your promise Which is that if any one cleare sentēce or clause be brought for proufe of any one of all your negatiue Articles you would yelde and subscribe What hath ben brought euery one that wilfully will not blindefold him selfe may plainely see If some happely who will seme to haue both eyes and eares and to be right learned will saye hereof they seene heare nothing no marueill The fauour of the parte whereto they cleaue hauing cutte of them selues from the body the dispite of the catholike religion and hatred of the church hath so blinded their hartes as places alleaged to the disproufe of their false doctrine being neuer so euident they see not ne heare not or rather they seing see not Matt. 13. ne hearing heare not Verely you must either refuse the balance which your selfe haue offred and required for triall of these Articles which be the scriptures examples councelles and doctours of antiquitie or the better weight of auctoritie sweaing to our syde that is the truth founde in the auncient doctrine of the catholike church and not in the mangled dissensions of the Gospellers aduisedly retourne frō whence vnaduisedly you haue departed humbly yelde to that you haue stubbernly kickte against and imbrace holesomly that which you haue hated damnably Touching the daily Sacrifice of the Church commaunded by Christ to be done in remembrance of his death that it hath ben and may be well and godly celebrated without a number of communicantes with the priest together in one place which you call priuate Masse within the compasse of your syx hundred yeres after Christ That the communion was then sometymes as now also it is and may be ministred vnder one kynde Of the publike Seruice of the church or commō prayers in a tonge not knowen to all the people That the Bishop of Rome was sometyme called vniuersall bishop and both called and holden for head of the vniuersall church That by auncient doctoures it hath ben taught Christes body to be really substantially corporally carnally or naturally in the blessed Sacramēt of the aulter Of the wonderous but true being of Christes body in mo places at one tyme and of the Adoration of the Sacrament or rather of the body of Christ in the Sacrament we haue brought good and sufficient proufes alleaging for the more parte of these Articles the scriptures and for all right good euidence out of auncient examples councelles or fathers Concerning Eleuation Reseruatiō Remayning of the Accidentes without substance Diuiding the hoste in three partes the termes of figure signe token etc. applyed to the Sacrament many Masses in one church in one daye the reuerent vse of Images the scriptures to be had in vulgar tonges for the common people to reade which are matters not specially treated of in the scriptures by expresse termes all these haue ben sufficiently auouched and proued either by proufes by your selfe allowed or by the doctrine and common sense of the churche As for your twelue last Articles which you put in by addition to the former for shewe of your courage and confidence of the cause and to seme to the ignorāt to haue much matter to charge vs withall as it appeareth they reporte matter certaine excepted of lesse importance Some of them conteine doctrine true I graunt but ouer curiouse and not most necessary for the simple people Some others be through the maner of your vtterance peruerted and in termes drawen from the sense they haue ben vttered in by the church Which by you being denyed might of vs also be denyed in regard of the termes they be expressed in were not a sleight of falsehed which might redounde to the preiudice of the truth therein worthely suspected Verely to them all we haue sayde so much as to sober quiet and godly
wittes may seme sufficient Now this being so what you mynde to doo I knowe not what you ought to doo I knowe right well I wishe you to doo that which may be to your owne and to the peoples soule helth that being by you and your felowes deceiued depende of you to the setting forth of the truth to the procuring of a godly concorde in Christes church and finally to the glory of God This may you doo by forsaking that which perhappes semeth to you truth and is not that which semeth to you learning and is but a floorishe or vernishe of learnig that which semeth to you cleare light and is profounde darknes and by retourning to the church where concerning the faith of a christē man is all truth and no deceite right learning Ioan. 1. and the very light euen that which lightneth euery man coming into this worlde which is there to be fownde onely and not elles where for as much as the head is not separated from the body O that you would once mynde this seriously M. Iuell As for me if either speaking writing or expending might further you therto I shuld not spare tonge nor penne nor any portion of my necessary thinges were it neuer so dere I would gladly powre out all together to helpe you to atteine that felicitie But ô lord what lettes see I whereby you are kepte from that good Shame welth of your estate your worldly acquaintance besyde many others But Syr touching shame which alwayes irketh those that be of any generositie of nature if you call your better philosophie to counsell you shall be taught not to accōpte it shamefull to forsake errour for loue of truth but rather willfully to dwell in errour after that it is plainely detected As for the welth of your estate which some assure you of so long as you maineteine that parte I can not iudge so euill of you but that you thinke how fickle and fraile these worldly thinges bee and how litle to be estemed in respecte of the heauenly estate which remaineth to the obedient children of the church as the contrarie to the rebelles Apostates and renegates Touching your acquaintance what shall the familiaritie of a fewe deceiued persons staye you from that felicitie which you shall acheue with the loue and frendship of all good men of whose good opinion onely ryseth fame and renome Luc. 15. and also with the reioising of the Angels in heauen This your happy chaunge the better and wiser sorte of men will impute to grace mightely by gods power in you wrought Genes 1. 2. Cor. 4. which sundreth light from darknes and maketh light shyne out of darknes Neither shall they iudge that inconstancie where is no chaunge in will but onely in vnderstanding Where the will remaining one alwayes bent to the glorie of God the deceiued vnderstanding is by better instruction corrected and righted there is not inconstancie to be noted but amendment to be praysed Neither shall you in this godly enterprise be alone Many both of olde tyme and of our dayes haue gone this waye and haue broken the yse before you Eusebius of Caesarea in Palaestina Beryllus of Bostra in Arabia and Theodoritus of Cyrus in Persie who forsooke haynouse heresies against Christ and by grace retourned to the catholike faith againe So haue done in our tyme Georgius wicelius Fridericus Staphylus Franciscus Balduinus and many mo Thus hauing called to my mynde the consyderations that are like to withholde you from yelding to the catholike faith frō retourning to the church and from performing your promise I fynde no bandes so strong to kepe you fast in the chayer of pestilence which this long tyme you haue sitten in that through Gods grace working humilitie and denyall of your selfe in your hart whereof I spake in my preface you shuld not easely loose and be in libertie where you might clearly see the light spredde abroad ouer the whole Church and espie the darknes of the particuler sectes of your newe gospell which you lyued in before But all this notwithstanding peraduenture your hart serueth you to stande stowtly according to the purport of your chalenge in the defence of the doctrine you haue professed and for which you haue obteined a bishoprike thinking great skorne to be remoued frō the same by any such meanes as these to you may seme And now perhappes you enter into meditation with your selfe and conferēce with your brethren to frame an answere to this treatise and by contrary writing to fortifie your negatiues Well may you so doo But to what purpose I praye you Well may you make a smoke and a smooder to darken the light for a tyme as men of warre are wont to doo to worke a feate secretly against their enemies But that can not long continewe The smoke will sone vanishe awaye the light of the truth will eftesones appeare Well may you shutte the light out of a fewe houses by closing dores and windowes but to kepe awaye the bright sunne frō that great Citie which is set on high vpon a hill doo what ye can Matt. 5. therein all your trauaill your deuises and endeuours shall be vaine and frustrate As iron by scowring is not onely not consumed but kepte frō ruste and canker and is made brighter so the church by the armures and hostilitie of heretikes is not wounded but through occasiō strengthened styrred to defence and made inuincible When it is opressed then it ryseth when it is inuaded then it ouercometh When by the aduersaries obiections it is chekte and controlled then it is acquitted and preuaileth Wherefore talke preache and write against the doctrine of the church whiles ye will ye shall but spurne against the stone where at ye may breake your shynnes and be crushed to pieces Matt. 21. Act. 9. the same not moued Ye shall but kicke against the pricke Ye shall but torment youre owne conscience condemned in your owne iudgement Tit. 3. as witting that ye resist the church and for the lyfe to come encreace the heape of euerlasting damnation All the reward ye shall wynne hereby is the vaine fauour of a fewe light and vnstable persons by you deceiued Whom the blastes of your mutable doctrine shall moue and blowe awaye from Gods floore the church Matt. 3. like chaffe the good and constant people remaining still like weighty and sownde wheate The argumētes and reasons you shall make against the doctrine of the church may happely persuade some of the worldly wise who be fooles in Gods iudgement as the reasons of them that haue commended infamouse matters Phauorinus Synesius Glaucus apud Platonem Cornelius Agrippa Erasmus haue persuaded some Of whom one praised the feuer quartane an other drōkennes an other baldnes an other vnrighteousnes and in our tyme one ignorance and an other foolishnes Which by the authours hath ben done onely for an exercise of wittes and rather to the wondering then corrupting of
the Readers Would God of all the writinges of your sect against the catholike faith which be no lesse besyde reason and truth the intent were no worse the danger ensuing no greater And as for commendation of those vnsemely and vnworthy thinges those Rhetoricians haue not brought good and true reasons but onely a probabilitie of talke right so for confirmation of your negatiue diuinitie and of many newe straunge and false doctrines you haue no suer proufes but shadowes colours and shewes onely that perhappes may dasell bleare eyes and deceiue the vnlearned but the learned wise and by any wayes godly wise will sone contemne the same For they be assured how probably so euer you teach or write that the church allwayes assisted and prompted by the holy Ghoste the spirite of truth in pointes of faith erreth not and that against truth allready by the same spirite in the vniuersall church taught and receiued no truth can be alleaged As he is very simple who being borne in hande by a Sophister and driuen by force of sophisticall arguments to graunt that he hath hornes thinketh so in dede and therfore putteth his hande to his forehed So who so euer through your teaching fall from the catholike Church into the errours of our tyme from the streightnes of Christian lyfe into the carnall libertie of this newe gospell from deuotion into the insensibilitie which we see the people to lyue in from the feare of God to the desperat contempte of all vertue and goodnes hereby they shewe them selues to be such as haue vnstable hartes which be geuen ouer to the lustes of their fleshe which haue no delite ne feeling of God which like Turkes and Epicures seeking onely for the cōmodities and pleasures of this world haue no regard of the lyfe to come But the godly sorte whose hartes be established with grace who pant and labour to lyue after the spirite continually mortifying their fleshe whose delite is to serue God vvho be kepte and holden vvithin the feare of God though they geue you their hearing and that of constraint not of vvill yet vvill not they geue you their lyking nor consenting Wherefore M. Iuell seing we haue performed that which you haue ouer boldly sayde we were not able to doo seing for proufe of these Arcicles we haue brought more then you bare your hearers in hande we had to bring seing you perceiue your selfe herein to haue done more then standeth with learning modestie or good aduise seing in case of any one clause or sentence for our parte brought you haue with so many protestations promysed to yelde and to subscribe vnto vs seing by performing your promise you may do so much good to the people and to your selfe seing nothing can be iustly alleaged for keping of you from satisfying your promise and retourning to the church againe seing so great respectes both of temporall and of heauenly prefermentes inuite you and call you from partes and sectes where you remayne with most certaine danger of your soule to the safe porte of Christes church seing by so dooing you shuld not doo that which were singular but common to you with many others men of right good fame and estimation finally seing if you shall as allwayes for the most parte heretikes haue done continew in the professiō of your vntrue doctrine and trauaill in setting forth erroneouse treatises for defence of the same you shall gaigne thankes of no other but of the lightest and worst sorte of the people and persuade none but such as be of that marke we trust you will vpon mature deliberation in your sadder yeres chaunge the counsell which you lyked in your youth we trust you will examine better by learning the newe doctrine which you with many others were drawen vnto by swea of the tyme when by course of age you wanted iudgement we trust you will call backe your selfe frō errours and heresies aduisedly which you haue maineteined rashly and set forth by word and write busyly and therein assured your selfe of the truth confidently Thus shall your errour seme to procede of ignorance not of malice Thus shall you make some recompence for hurt done thus shall you in some degree discharge your selfe before God and men thus shall you be receiued into the lappe of the church againe out of which is no saluation whether being restored you may from hence forth in certaine expectation of the blessed hope Tit. 2. leade a lyfe more acceptable to God to whom be all prayse honour and glorie Amen A TABLE OF THE ARTICLES VTTERED AFFIRmatiuely against M. Iuelles Negatiues OF Masse vvithout a number of others receiuing the Communion vvith the priest at the same tyme and place vvhich the gospellers call priuate Masse Folio 9. Of Communion vnder one kynde Fol. 31. Of the church Seruice in learned tonges vvhich the vnlearned people in olde tyme in sundry places vnderstoode not Fol. 50. Of the Popes Primacie fol. 75. Of the termes really substantially corporally carnally naturally fovvnde in the Doctours treating of the true being of Christes body in the blessed Sacramēt Fol. 96. Of the being of Christes body in many places at one tyme. fol. 104. Of the Eleuation or lyfting vp of the sacramēt fol. 109. Of the vvorshipping or adoration of the sacramēt fol. 111. Of the reuerent hanging vp of the sacrament vnder a Canopie fol. 121. Of the remaining of the accidentes vvithout their substance in the Sacramen◠fol. 123. Of diuiding the sacrament in three partes fol. 128. Of the termes figure signe token c. by the fathers applyed to the sacrament fol. 129. Of pluralitie of Masses in one church in one daye fol. 138. Of images fol. 145. Of the peoples reading the Bible in their ovvne tonge fol. 153. Of secrete pronouncing of the Canō of the Masse fol. 161. Of the priestes auctoritie to offer vp Christ to his father fol. 164. Of the priestes saying Masse for an other fol. 172. Of applicatiō of the benefites of Christes death to others by meane of prayer in the Masse fol. 173. Of opus operatum vvhat it is and vvhether it remoue synne fol. 174. Of calling the sacrament lord and God fol. 176. Of the remayning of Christes body in the Sacrament so long as the accidentes be entier and vvhole fol. 182. VVhat is that the Mouse or vvorme eateth fol. 184. VVhat this pronoune Hoc pointeth in the vvordes of consecration fol. 185. VVho are the sacramentes of Christes body and bloude the accidentes or the bread and vvyne fol. 185. Of the vnspeakeable maner of the being of Christes body and bloude vnder the formes of bread and vvyne fol. 186. A TABLE OF THE CHIEFE pointes in these Articles vttered The number shevvth the leafe a the first syde b the second syde of the leafe etc noteth the matter further prosecuted in that as folovveth ATTICLE I. NO Masse priuate in it selfe but in respecte of circumstances 9. a. The terme Priuate in respecte of the Masse
it easely sene vpon how good grownde this doctrine standeth whereby it is affirmed that the bishop of Rome his Primacie hath his force by gods lawe and not onely by mannes lawe much lesse by vniust vsurpation The scriptures by which as well these as all other holy and learned fathers were leadde to acknowledge and confesse the Primacie of Peter and his successours were partly such as Anacletus and Gregorie here alleageth and Cyprian meaneth as it appeareth by his third treatise De simplicitate praelatorum and sundry mo of the newe testament as to the learned is knowen of which to treate here largely and piththely as the weight of the matter requyreth at this tyme I haue no leisure neither if I had yet myght I conueniently performe it in this treatise which otherwise will amount to a sufficiēt bignes and that matter throughly handeled will fill a right great volume Wherfore referring the readers to the credite of these worthy fathers who so vnderstoode the scriptures as thereof thei were persuaded the Primacie to be attributed to Peters successour by God him selfe I will procede keping my prefixed order The 2. proufe coūcelles Whereas the preeminence of power and auctoritie which to the bishop of Rome by speciall and singular priuiledge God hath graunted is commended to the worlde by many and sundry councelles for auoiding of tediousnesse I will rehearse the testimonies of a fewe Amonge the canons made by the three hundred and eighten bishops at the Nicene Councell which were in number 70. and all burnt by heretikes in the East church saue xx and yet the whole number was kepte diligently in the church of Rome in the originall it selfe sent to Syluester the bishop there from the councell subscribed with the said 318. fathers handes Vide Frācisc Turrianū lib. 3. charact dogmat the 44. canon which is of the power of the patriarke ouer the Metropolitanes and bishops and of the Metropolitane ouer bishops in the ende hath this decree Vt autem cunctis ditionis suae nationibus etc. As the patriarke beareth rule ouer all nations of his iurisdiction and geueth lawes to them and as Peter Christes vicare at the beginning sette in auctoritie ouer religion ouer the churches and ouer all other thinges perteining to Christ was Maister and ruler of christen princes prouinces and of all nations So he whose principalitie or chieftie is at Rome like vnto Peter and equall in auctoritie obteineth the rule and souerainetie ouer all patriakes After a sewe wordes it foloweth there If any man repine against this statute or dare resist it by the decree of the whole councell he is accursed Iulius that worthy bishop of Rome not long after the councell of Nice in his epistle that he wrote to the 90. Ariane bishops assembled in councell at Antioche against Athanasius bishop of Alexandria reprouing them for theire vniust treating of him saith of the canons of the Nicene councell then freshe in their remembrance that thei commaunde Non debere praeter sententiā Romani pontificis vllo modo concilia celebrari nec episcopos damnari That without the auctoritie of the Bishop of Rome neither Councelles ought to be kepte nor bishops condemned Againe that nothing be decreed without the Bishop of Rome Cui haec maiora ecclesiarum negotia tam ab ipso domino quà m ab omnibus vniuersorum conciliorum fratribus speciali priuilegio contradita sunt To whom these and other the weighty matters of the churches be committed by speciall priuiledge as well by our lord him selfe as by all oure brethren of the whole vniuersall councelles Among other principalle pointes which he reciteth in that epistle out of the Nicene councelles canōs this is one Vt omnes episcopi etc. That all bishops who susteine wronge in weighty causes so often as nede shall require make their appeale freely to the See Apostolike and flie to it for succour as to their mother that frō thence they may be charitably susteined defended and deliuered To the disposition of which See the auncient auctoritie of th'Apostles and their successours and of the canons hath reserued all weighty or great ecclesiasticall causes and iudgementes of bishops Athanasius and the whole companie of bishops of Egypte Thebaida and Libya assembled together in councell at Alexandria complaining in their epistle to Felix the Pope of the great iniuries and griefes they susteined at the Arianes alleageth the determination of the Nicene councell touching the supreme auctoritie and power of that See Apostolike ouer all other bishops Similiter à supradictis patribus est definitum consonanter etc. Likewise saie they it hath ben determined by common assent of the foresaide fathers of Nice that if any of the bishops suspecte the Metropolitane or theire felowbishops of the same prouince or the iudges that then they make their appeale to your holy See of Rome to whom by our lord him selfe power to binde and louse Matt. 16. by speciall priuiledge aboue other hath ben graunted This much alleaged out os the canōs of the Nicene councell gathered partly out of Iulius epistle who wrote to them that were present at the making of them which taketh awaye all suspicion of vntruth and partly out of Athanasius and others that were a great parte of the same councell For further declaration of this matter it were easy here to alleage the councell of Sardica the councell of Chalcedon Ca. 4. ca. 9 certaine councelles of Aphrica yea some councelles also holden by heretikes and sundry other but such store of auctorities commonly knowen these may suffise The Christen princes that ratified and confirmed with their proclamations and edictes The 3. proufe Edictes of Emperours the decrees of the canons concerning the Popes Primacie and gaue not to him first that auctoritie as the aduersaries doo vntruly reporte were Iustinian and Phocas the Emperours The wordes of Iustinianes edicte be these In authēt de Eccles tit Sancimus secundum canonum definitiones sanctissimum senioris Romae Papam primum esse omnium sacerdotum We ordeine according to the determinations of the canons that the most holy Pope of the elder Rome be formest and chiefe of all priestes About three score and ten yeres after Iustinian Phocas the Emperour in the tyme of Bonifacius to represse the arrogancie of the bishop of Constantinople Lib. 4. historiae lōgobardicae cap. 36. as Paulus Diaconus writeth who vainely and as Gregorie sayeth contrary to our lordes teachinges and the decrees of the canons and for that wickedly tooke vpon him the name of the vniuersall or oecumenicall bishop and wrote him selfe chiefe of all bishops made the like decree and ordinance that the holy See of the Romaine and Apostolike church shuld be holden for the head of all churches The 4. proufe doctoures Of the doctours what shall I say verely this matter is so often and so commonly reported of them that their sainges laide together would scantly be