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The rocke of the Churche wherein the primacy of S. Peter and of his successours the Bishops of Rome is proued out of Gods worde. By Nicholas Sander D. of diuinity.
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Sander, Nicholas, 1530?-1581.
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1567
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with his own hands Exod. 28. 29. he erected an altar and offered publike sacrifice he did poure the bloud vpon the Altar and sprinckled the garment of Aaron with it And yet did he al these Priestlie offices being himself no Priest I marueile thatneither the letter of Gods word nor the reason and as it were the sowle thereof nor the authority of wise and lerned men can moue the Protestants to confesse that Moyses was in dede a priest and a sacrificer But if it be cleare that he was both a priest and a ciuil gouernour vsing the priestlie office in his own person and prescribing to others when thei shuld fight or punish malefactours much more in the tyme of the new TestameÌt Heb. 10. which must nedes be as perfit a state as the old law it is lawful for a bishop to haue the right of both offices in him gouerning the Ecclesiastical state by his own personal ministery aÌd the outward cares by the help of wise meÌ Gregorius l. 1. epi. 24 Quisquis regeÌdis fratribus praeest vacare funditus à curis exterioribus non potest sed tamen curandum magnopere est ne ab iis immoderatè deprimatur Who soeuer is set to rule his brethern he can not vtterly be uoide of âxternal cares But it is diligently to be ârouided that he be not ouer pressed with them But concerning the Ecclesiasticall state whereof I speake at this tyme the bishop of Rome neither condemneth any man for heresie or schisme to corporal death in his own person nor teacheth that any malefactours may be so condemned of any other ecclesiasticall person Which thing being not rightly vnderstood of the most part of meÌ hath made them affirme that the bishop of Rome in matters of faith persuadeth his religioÌ with fier and sworde 23. quaest 8. c. Sepe cuÌ sequeÌt Which to be farre otherwise both the whole body of the Canon law declareth and also experience testifieth To goe forward with our matter this is the greatest difference betwene the primacie of the Church and the dominion of wordlie princes that the teÌporal princes haue power only ouer the bodies whereas the rulers of the Church Math. 18. 1. Cor. 5. haue power vpon mens soules They geue the bodies of wicked men to corporal death these haue power to cleanse the soules and so to bring them to euerlasting saluation De Sacerdot lib. 3. Wherupon Saint Chrysostom saith Habent etiam terreni Principes vinculi potestatem verùm corporum solùm Id autem quod dico sacerdotum vinculum ipsam etiam animam contingit atque ad coelos vsque peruadit The earthlie princes haue power to bind also but only of the bodies But the baÌd of the priests whereof I speake doth touche the very sowle and reacheth euen to the heauens And not without a cause For our Lord said to Saint Peter Math. 16. To thee I will geue the keyes of the kingdom of heauen and whatsoeuer thow bindest vpon the earth shal be bound in the heauens and whatsoeuer thow loosest vpon the earth shal be loosed ân the heauens To these words of Christ which âre deriued to the Bisshop of Rome by âeanes of the chaier of Saint Peter âhe said bishop referreth all his power ând exerciseth it vpon the soules of meÌâoth in his own person and by others Leo. ep 82. who are called to susteine part of âhe Ecclesiasticall care and charge âhat is committed chiefelie vnto him whereas nothwithstanding the Princes of the world appeale not âo the lawe of the Gospell neither ân getting nor in gouerning nor ân establishing their Dominion and power Last of al this is to be inquired and coÌsidered whether the Bishop of Rome doth rule with such pietie lenitie affection and desire to helpe others and to bring them to Christ that he may seme to minister and to serue rather then to rule And in good sooth yf he doth it not as it is certain that he synneth greuouslie so for any such respect he leeseth not his primacie because the humilitie and mercie of the gouernour doth not so much appertaine to the substance of his authoritie Ioan. 11. Caiphas Pontifex as to the true perfection and merite of the man For like as they that preached Christ through enuie and emulatioÌ that they might raise aduersitie to S. Paule Philip. 1. who was in Prison were notwithstanding true preachers albeit they preached with an euill intent and minde so albeit the bishop of Rome did rule like a potentate and did seeke his own glorie and not the glorie of God yet thereof it can not be brought to passe that he is not a true ruler and gouernour of the Church But it wold wel follow that he were an euil ruler Of which sort of men our Lord hath said Do those things which they say Matth. 23. but doe not those things which they doe But what arrogant presumption is âhis to thinck that the Pope doth good âeedes with an euill minde If he geue âântle answeres to them that in matâers of dout aske his counsell if he send âorth good decrees if he reconcile such âs are at variaunce yf he prouide careââllie for the necessarie affaires of the âhurch whie doe we iudge euil of that âhich is well done Or yf he doth euill ât any tyme what malice is it to scorne ât his nakednesse Genes 9. and with lawghter âo discouer his shame It is euident to all that will see that âhe bishop of Rome doth shew that humilitie and zeale which Christ requiâeth in the ruler of his Church He calleth vs nor bondslaues nor seruaunts nor subiects but all Princes he saluteth gentlie as sonnes and bishops as brethern And as for his owne person âhe writeth not himself neither Lord neither vniuersal bishop nor head of the Church but seruaunt of the seruaunts of God That euen by his name he may geue al men to vnderstand that he is that greatest and chefe ruler Luc. 22. who is as it were a minister and seruaunt And seing he doth and saith that which becometh the primate of the Church both to say and to doe it is our parte to iudge his well doing by that which is well said rather then to synne against the holie ghost whiles we desire to wrest that to an euill sense malitiouslie which was spoken and meant by him charitablie âf the diuerse senses which are in the holy scripture and namely about these words vpon this rock I wil build my Church and which is the most literal and proper sense of them The third Chap. AMONG manie other things wherein Gods word passeth all other sciences one is most notaâle in that not only the syllables and words which are writen there doe âxpresse the meaning of the holy Ghost âut also the things which are told and âeported by those words doe againe signifie and meane an other thing We âeade that Abraham had two sonnes
coÌmission of God to doe all thesâ things The Suprem gouernour may practise any thing properly belonging to his gouernmeÌt It is not possible for a man ãâã haue the supreame gouernment in ãâã Ecclesiastical causes by lawful power aââ right but that he should thereby haââ also power and right to execute any ãâã those things which belong to such Ecclesiastical causes as are vnder his gâuernment Marck the point I say not he is bound to executâ euery such matter as falleth vnder hââ gouernment or that it is decent for hiâ to doe it but that he may doe it anâ hath right and power to doe it if he bâ rightly the supream gouernour in thâ behalf An exaÌple in ciuil Matters For example the King who ãâã supream gouernour in the ciuil and teÌporal causes hath vnder him Iudges shriues maiors Capitains and constables If his maiesty will plaie the iudgâ in Westminster hal or the shriue in any sessions or the Capitain in warre he surelie may doe it concerning the right âf his Kingdome Yea he lacketh no âight nor lawfull power to play the Solâiour the Tailour the Mason Carâenter or Tanner albeit he perhappes doe lacke the cunning or experience âo exercise or practise those Artes so as they ought to be practised Likewise an Archbisshoppe or Priuate who hath Bisshoppes An exaÌple in Ecclesiastical matters Archedeacons Officials Priests and Clerks vnder him may by right of his Suâeriorie baptize anie childe blesse or geue benediction burie the dead approue their last wils by his own fact helpe a Priest to Masse cary the crosse in procession digge the graue and to be shorte he maie doe anie thing which anie man may doe who is vnder his iurisdiction If then the king haue the right and power of Supreme gouernement in al Ecclesiastical causes The applying of the rule to our purpose seing it belongeth to the right and power of Ecclesiastical causes that a man may preache baptize blesse or geue benedictioÌ to the people and administer the sacrament of Christes body and blood and binde or loose synnes it must needes be that the King euen by that his supreamicy should also haue power and right to preache to baptise to geue benediction to administer the sacrament of Christes supper and to binde or loose synnes A farther declaration I say not that he by his supremacie hath cunning either to preache or to baptize or to geue benediction or to administer the sacrament of Christes supper or to play the tailer or the mason but that no law right and power doth or can forbid him to doe these things if in these things he be the supreme gouernour so that if he otherwise had cunning he might with praise no lesse preache and baptise and geue benediction or administer the sacrament of Christes supper then he might build a howse with his own haÌds or cutte a garment yf he were cuÌning âherein But now if all the world confesse 2. Para. 20 non est tui officij ô Rex sed sacerdotuÌ domini âhat à King by his kinglie office doth âot only lack knowlege but also hath no âight or power at al to preache to bapââze to geue benediction or to conseârate the sacrament of Christes supper ãâã a although otherwise he be most cunâing and excellently lerned except âe haue the office of a priest also geuen âim and be lawfullie sent and authoriâd by the imposition of the hand of âriesthood doutlesse it ought to be conâessed 1. Tim. 4. that a King by his kinglie office âath no right or supreme power at all in âcclesiastical causes vnlesse it be comâitted to him from the bisshop And âhat as wel because he of him self can âot practise those causes though he wold as euen our aduersaries coÌfesse âs also because his power be it neuer ãâã roial reacheth not so high as the âower of spiritual gouernmeÌt appointed by Christ doth And surely no man by the commission which he onely hath to rest or to prison men maie also hang them or burn them For the lesser authority doth not coÌprehend the greater Say now M. Horn whether to celebrate our Lords supper and to preache Gods word and to absolue or bind sins it be a lesser or a greater ministery theÌ the Kings authoritie If it be lesser you haue reason on your side For then a greater power may comprehend it being the lesser But if it be incomparablie greater to minister vnto men the heauenly Sacraments then to minister iustice in temporal things if that be a higher power which toucheth the soule then that which only toucheth the body then by what meanes extend you the commission of a King which hath to do with lesse maters not only to the commission of a Priest In the booke agâinst M. FeenâÌ but also aboue it You bring many examples euil applied to make an apparance of somewhat But they al concerne matters of fact which are for many circumstances subiect to much wrangling But either it was no good Prince who medled of his own authority with disposing holy matters Or if he were otherwise good that deed was not good Or if he did it wel he did it by coÌmission from a Prophet or froÌ a high Priest Or he was deceiued by flatterers Or els being forced by necessity which is vnder no law he only sought the publike peace in that his deed and not to set himself ordinarily aboue the spiritual gouernmeÌt For howsoeuer the deeds of men be vncertaine deceitful aÌd vnknowen in al their particular circuÌstances the word of God can not fail which saith to Peter and to other Bishops after him Feed my sheep Ioan. 21. Here I aske whether the King or Emperour who is christened be Peters sheep or no If he be not he is not only not aboue the Church but he is not at all of the Churche If he be his sheepe then I say boldly that as it is against the law of nature which neuer can be wholie changed for a shepe to rule his shepheard in anie manner of such sort wherein he is the shepheard euen so it is vtterly impossible for anie King or Prince to be in anie respect of Ecclesiastical gouernment aboue his own pastour who soeuer he be for the time And yet farther to make this matter more plaine be it that a Christian King doth take vpoÌ him the supreame gouernment in Ecclesiastical matters What if a bishop being called before him Epist 32. sequeÌt say boldlie as S. Ambrose in a like case did may it please your maiestie to coÌmaund my goods my laÌds my body my life it shal be at your coÌmandemeÌt But as for the ordering and gouerning of my bishoprike I will not yeld it to you because Christ and not your maiestie committed the same to me what could that Christian King doe to that bishop more theÌ Nero or Traian might haue done Could he excommunicate him by his roial power M.