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A27449 Rome tyrannical, idolatrous and heretical the origine of her errors with an answer to her objections : also three short sermons of repentance against swearing and drunkenness preached to the ships company before Admiral Aylmer and several captains / by Peter Berault. Berault, Peter. 1698 (1698) Wing B1956; ESTC R30222 55,952 193

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Peter after he had confessed him to be that Christ and the Son of the Living God Thou art Peter and upon this Rock I will build my Church But these words give no Superiority to St. Peter above the other Apostles only they shew that the Church is builded not upon the Person of Peter but upon the Rock namely upon Christ whom St. Peter confesses to be the Son of the Living God For as saith St. Paul 1. Cor. 3. 11. That Rock was Christ and other foundation can no man lay but that which is laid already namely Jesus Christ And in the second Chapter to the Ephesians he saith That the Church is built upon the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles Jesus Christ himself being the head stone in the corner Where then can they find that St. Peter was made Prince of the Apostles and had Pre-eminence or Authority over them They say it is when Jesus Christ gave unto Peter the Keys of Binding and Loosing I answer that Christ therein gave no more Authority to St. Peter than to the rest of the Apostles for he doth not say I give unto Thee but I will give unto Thee which Promise was afterwards perform'd and when it was perform'd the Keys or the Power of Binding and Loosing was given not only to St. Peter but also unto all the rest together Go ye saith Jesus Christ Matth. 28. 19. unto all nations Baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you And in the twentieth Chapter of St. John he speaks thus Receive ye the holy Ghost whatsoever sins ye remit they are remitted unto them and whatsoever sins ye retain they are retained By these words ye may clearly see that Jesus Christ speaks unto all the Apostles and not to Peter only And so it is evident that St. Peter receives no more Power than the rest of the Apostles I grant that St. Peter may be called the first of the Apostles in the way of reckoning or as it is commonly seen amongst Men who though they be equal do notwithstanding determine one amongst themselves to whom without being greater than the others leave is given to speak first St. Matthew 10. 2. did mean nothing else when he said Now the names of the twelve Apostles are these the first Simon who is called Peter He doth not distinguish him from the others but by the order of counting If he be then the first of the Apostles it is only by the way of reckoning For the Scripture tells us Ephes 2. 20. That the Church is no less builded upon the others than upon him when she saith that the Faithful are builded upon the Foundation of the Prophets and Apostles and that there is no other Foundation nor other Head-stone to prop the Church but Jesus Christ on whom the whole Edification is laid He is the chief and principal Foundation all the others are only subalterne and dependent It is then impossible that St. Peter be the Foundation of the Church more than are the other Apostles and consequently have more Authority For as I have already made it appear Jesus Christ spake to all his Disciples gathered together when he said Matth. 18. 18. Whatsoever ye shall bind on Earth shall be bound in Heaven and whatsoever ye shall loose on Earth shall be loosed in Heaven He sends them all as his Father had sent him He equally makes them his Ambassadors and gives no more Power or Authority to one than to the other Where was Peter's Supremacy or Authority when St. Paul Gal. 2. 11. withstood him to the Face because he was to be blamed And where was Peter's Pre-eminence when in the Council held at Hierusalem where the Apostles were present St. James and not St. Peter did Rule in the Action And when there was a dispute among the Apostles which of them should be accounted the greatest Luke 22. 25. Jesus Christ said unto them The Kings of the Gentiles exercise Lordship over them and they that exercise authority upon them are called Benefactors but ye shall not be so but he that is greatest among you let him be as the younger and he that is chief as he that doth serve If the greatest ought to be as the younger and he that is chief as he that doth serve what Authority has he over the rest Since then the Pope's Authority over the other Bishops is grounded by the Church of Rome upon St. Peter's Authority over the other Apostles and since St. Peter has no such Authority over them it follows that the Popes have none over the other Bishops This is confirmed by the Popes themselves For John Bishop of Constantinople aiming to be the first and have the Title of Universal Bishop Gregorius Bishop of Rome withstood him and in his 54th Epistle to the Empress speaks thus of him By this Pride and Vanity what is foretold but that the time of Antichrist is at hand and art like Lucifer who making no account of that Happiness he had in common with the whole Army of Angels aspired to a singularity over all the others saying as it is written in Isaiah I will raise my Throne above the stars of Heaven And in 28 Epistle he affirms That whosoever takes the Title of Universal Bishop to himself he cannot be less than Antichrist And St. Hierome ad Evag. saith That the Bishop of Eugubium or any other the least See is equal to the Bishop of Rome For they are all joyned in the same Commission they must serve in the Church and be diligent to discharge that great Charge which their Master Jesus Christ has eaqually laid upon them 3. I say that the Popes have no Power to Depose Kings and Princes from their Thrones and are not above them For the pulling down of Princes God has reserved to himself alone that Power for it is he that putteth down the Mighty from their Seats and Exalteth them of low Degree By me saith he the Kings Reign and Princes bear Dominion He removes Kings and setteth up Kings wherefore since it is God that has this Authority proper to himself which way can the Popes claim it without Injury to the Power of God and to that of Kings whereunto they ought to be submitted They say it is by reason of their Keys as it appears in the Bull of Excommunication which the Pope Sixte the fifth thundered in the year 1585 against Henry King of Navarre and the Prince of Conde wherein he saith That the Authority given to St. Peter and his Successors by the infinite Power of God is above all Powers upon Earth that it belongs to that Authority to cause the Laws to be observ'd and punish the Offenders by pulling them down from their Seats how Powerful soever they be This is the Origine and the Ground of the Popes Authority over all Men and of Deposing Kings and Princes from their Thrones But