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B00958	Homelies sette forth by the righte reuerende father in God, Edmunde Byshop of London, not onely promised before in his booke, intituled, A necessary doctrine, but also now of late adioyned, and added thereunto, to be read within his diocesse of London, of all persons, vycars, and curates, vnto theyr parishioners, vpon sondayes, & holydayes.	Bonner, Edmund, 1500?-1569.	1555 (1555)	STC 3285.2; ESTC S103088	74,513	149

the thyrde time doest thou loue me and he aunswered and sayde Lorde thou knoweste all thinges thou knowest that I loue thee He sayde vnto him feede my shepe This processe of Scripture hath in it many circumstaunces to be noted The fyrst is that other Apostles beynge than present and amongest them euen he of whom Christ did euer make very much of that is to say S. Iohn yet our Sauiour Christ dyd dyrecte his speach and talke but to Peter onelye signifienge the matter wherof he dyd speake to appertayne to Peter chieflye and pryncipallye and not in so speciall a sorte to anye one of the apostles els Another and seconde circumstaunce to be here considered is that oure sauioure dyd aske Peter moost earnestly whether he loued him more than did the other apostles And the thyrde cyrcumstaunce is in that Christe dyd commytte both his lambes and his shepe vnto hym These cyrcumstaunces I saye and other suche like well considered doo conuince and clearelye proue that the hyghe charge ouer all the churche militant was especially committed to Peter And to this purpose maketh and serueth an other talke of our sauiour vnto S. Peter written in the .xvi. of Mathew where the texte is in this maner Venit autem Iesus in partes Caesareae Philippi Math. 16. interrogabat discipulos suos dicens Quem dicunt homines esse filium hominis At illi dixerūt Alij Ioannem Baptistam alij autem Heliam alij uero Hieremiam aut unum ex prophetis Dicit illis Iesus uos autem quem me esse dicitis Respondens Simon Petrus dixit Tu es Chrictus filius Dei uiui Respondens autem Iesus dixit ei Beatus es Simon Bariona quia caro sanguis non reuelauit tibi sed pater meus qui in coelis est Et ego dico tibi quia tu es Petrus super hanc petram aedificabo Ecclesiam meam portae inferi non praeualebunt aduersus eam Et tibi dabo claues regni coelorum Et quodcunque ligaueris super terram erit ligatum in coelis quodcunque solueris super terram erit solutum in coelis That is to saye Iesus came into the coastes of Cesarea Philippi and he asked his disciples sayinge Whom doo men say the sonne of man to be And they aunswered some Iohn Baptiste some Helias some Hieremias or one of the prophetes Iesus sayd vnto them But who saye you that I am Then Simon Peter made aunswer and sayde Thou art Christ the sonne of the liuinge God And Iesus answered and sayd Blessed art thou Simon the sonne of Ioanna for fleshe and bloude hath not this reueiled and opened vnto the but my father whiche is in heauen And I saye vnto the that thou arte Peter or a rock and on this rocke I wyll buylde my church hell gates shal not preuayle agaynst it And I wyl gyue vnto thee the keyes of the kingdō of heauē whatsoeuer thou shalte bynde vpon earth shal be boūd also in heuē whatsoeuer thou shalt lose vpō the earth shal be loosed also in heauē These wordes of Christ were spokē longe before that Christe gaue that other cōmaūdemēt to Peter to feede hys flocke and that thynge whyche is perfourmed in the other woordes is here promysed in these woordes In the other woordes oure sauioure dothe presently put him in authoritie saying Feede my Lambes feede my shepe In these woordes he dooeth but promyse the sayde authority vnto him sayenge Vnto thee wyll I gyue the keyes of the kyngedome of heauen and what so euer thou loosest or byndest in earth shal be loosed or bounde in heauen The lyke of this did our sauiour neuer speake to any one of the Apostles els seuerally but onely generally For generally to Peter and to the reste being al together sauing Thomas who was absent Christ sayed the woordes whyche are writtē in the .xx. Iohn 20. of Iohn it is to witte Receyue you the holy ghoste whose synnes ye remyt they are remytted and whose synnes ye retaine Math. 18. they are retained And in the .xviii. of Mathew Christ sayeth vnto the twelue What so euer thynges you shal bynde vpon the earthe shal be bounde also in heauen whatsoeuer you shal lose vpō the earth shal be losed also in heauē Yf our sauiour Christ had not intended to gyue vnto Peter a speciall authoritie aboue the rest what nede was there to speake this seuerallye vnto Peter seing he had spoken it generally to them all before And what thing ment he els when in the presence of al the twelue he promised to gyue vnto Peter the keyes of the kingdome of heauē sauing a speciall priuilige or prerogatyue to Peter Our Sauiour through his heauenly wysedome perceyuynge that it is most necessarye one to be ouer a hole multitude specially being a multytude congregated of so infinite a number of people and of so sondry nations as is the catholyke churche did appoynte S. Peter to that offyce and Peter hauinge receyued such charge at Christes handes did incontinentely practyse and exercise the same and all the rest of the Apostles dyd gyue place vnto him Act. i. And therefore in the first of the Actes it is written howe that after Christes ascension incontinently S. Peter rose vp in the myddest of the faythfull and moued them to goo to the election of one that should succede in Iudas rowme which offyce he vndoubtedly woulde not haue taken vpō him but that our sauiour Christ had Authorised him in such sorte as is before declared In the .ii. Actes 2. of the Actes it is wrytten howe that in the presence of all the Apostles S. Peter tooke vpon him to speake in all their names to the people on whitsonday in the morning streighte after that they had receyued the holye Ghoste in the likenes of clouē tunges In the third of the Actes it is writtē Actes 3. how that S. Peter healed a lame mā which was lame from his mothers wombe and that when the people wondred at so straunge a myracle the sayd Peter made an oration vnto them Act. 4.5.6 In the fourthe of the Actes and in the fyfte and syxt there is the lyke and in manye other places of the same booke All whyche places of scrypture oughte to perswade euery godlye harte to thynke that oure sauiour dyd gyue vnto sainct Peter that authoritie aboue all the reste of the Apostles vpon hys hoole churche for an vnytye and good order to be kepte in the same And yet for your better contentation herein you shal here the authorities of the Aunciente fathers in this behalfe Origene Origenes a greeke wryter whyche was wythin two hundred yeares after Christe in hys exposition made vpon the .vi. Chapiter of S. Paules Epistle to the Romaynes wryteth thus Petro cum summa rerum de pascendis ouibus traderetur et super ipsum tanquam super terram fundaretur ecclesia nullius confessio