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heaven_n	light_n	night_n	rule_v	2,440	5	10.1833	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10442	A confutation of a sermon, pronou[n]ced by M. Iuell, at Paules crosse, the second Sondaie before Easter (which Catholikes doe call Passion Sondaie) Anno D[omi]ni .M.D.LX. By Iohn Rastell M. of Art, and studient in diuinitie	Rastell, John, 1532-1577.	1564 (1564)	STC 20726; ESTC S102930	140,275	370

hym For when the owtward person ys mistaken and good wyll shewed vnto it the error happening ys quickelye forgeuen and the inward affection ys iustlye considered But lett vs goe further Loth I am here to ●●pp vp and to open vnto yow the high misteries and secretes of their lerning and the force and strength of their reasons Yet at this tyme the importunitye of them forceth me so to doe c. These be his wordes But I will tell yow Master Iuell if yow will be ruled by counsel and doe as wyse and lerned men haue done here before neuer goe front your purpose and make an end of that which you haue taken in hand And if any be importunate answer them that yow will be at leisure an other tyme and then talk at large of their obiectiōs But now it ys owt of your purpose to intreate of any thing which doth not appertein vnto the masse But contention hath no eares and when al is sett in and vpon the tong owt it must that which burneth in the stomake althowgh it agreeth no better then Germaines lippes whose tongues we see by experience in this world how farr they sound one countrarye to the other Lothe I am sayeth he which is verye seldome in men of hys religion which take it for a great perfection and zeale not onlye to dallie with mens argumentes but also to deface their lyues and to speake the worst they can of the highest priest in Christendom But thankes be vnto God that there ys one shamefast man in their syde And then good master Iuell if in deed you be lothe as you seeme to speake lett all extraordinarie matters passe by and folow onlye your purpose For why will you encumber your selfe with the highe misteries misteries and secretes of their lernyng the masse alone hauing sufficient argument to make .20 Sermons vpon it Well there ys no remedie allthowgh he be lothe to open the secretes of owr lernyng yet the importunitye of them sayeth he forceth me so to doe Wherin althowghe I nothing doubt but that he preached withowt troble and that he myght haue done what he would and haue preached in the lent especiallie of the passion or some matter parterning to pretie withowt bringing of question or controuersie yet lett vs suppose that some one was importunate and lett vs harken how properlye master Iuell doth answer his appetite But remember Sir that yow keepe promys least yow be thought to haue gone owt of your ware for nothing and remember that yow ryp vp and open the high misteries and secretes of their lernyng not skoffyng lyke a benchewhistler but reasonyng lyke a preacher Fyrst then to begyn with the head marke yow well sayeth he and waighe this argument God made two lightes in heauen the greater to rule the daye the lesse to rule the night ergo there be two powers to rule the world the Pope that resembleth the sonn and the Emperor that is less then he and likened vnto the moone This is an argument of theires vsed by Innocentius tertius Syr I pray yow before Innocentius who vsed this argument or conclusion Then I aske whether this text of Genesis was the cause that the Pope should be greater then an Emperor yf you can not tell what to answer to the first you are not skillfull inowgh in owr misteries how great also is your knowledge and reading that before Innocentius tertius yow dare well say that no man euer vsed the same verie argument or similitude And if to the second yow saye that the Sonn and Moone were the cause for which Christians dyd make the distinction betweene Pope and Emperor you maye goe to schoole agayne and lerne yowr Catechisme for any knowledge or vnderstanding which yow haue in secret mysteries whereas before Innocentius dayes the Pope was higher then the Emperor the argument of the Sonn and Moone being not alleaged for that purpose Yf yow were Cicero and for loue of your client would make a pretie lye and me●ie to delite my Lord the Iudge and deceaue therewith his circunspection and grauitie the Ethnykes for your so doing might dispense at their pleasure with you and geue that praise and name vnto you that you be a trym felow of a goodlie fyne witt and a pleasaunt and such a one good Iupiter send me might they say at my need but emong Christians in so great a question as the sowle cummeth vnto in open pulpitt a famouse scholar a Bishopp by calling to moue ernest expectation as though he would rypp vp the high misteries of the Catholike faith and to recyte but an argument of Innocentius onlie which he rather for garnisshing of his letters to the Emperor then strength of the similitude in it selfe and by it selfe dyd roundelye alleage furth vnto hym and to make as though that were the best argument and most secret misterie of the papiste● it ys not for a sage person matter place or audience Vnto yow M. Iuell if one should talke of this question how much the dignitie of a pope were better then the rome of an Emperor he should neuer alleage Innocentius tertius or the glose Not bycause they are to be contempned in them selues but rather bycause yow doe sett so litle by them And yet it may be proued vnto you all that which Innocentius would conclude by the alluding vnto the sonn and moone which God made at the beginnyng Therefore I doe graunt vnto you that Innocentius argument ys not of great good force against an ethnyke and heretike and yet I save the cōclusion of the church standeth for all that this argument may fall But if it were an high misterie it could not be so easelie lett to faile ergo then yow haue declared or confuted yet no misteries of owre religion Now that there be two states of ruling in the church of Christ it ys plaine by this that the one which is temporall euerye man doth see of the other which is spirituall the psalmist doth prophe●ie saying in steede of my fathers their ●ounes are borne vnto the meanying the Apostles and Bishoppes their successors them shalt thow apoynte princes and rulers ouer the whole earth And this is proued also by the Apostle commaunding the Bishoppes of Ephesus to take heede vnto them selues and also the whole flocke in which the holyghost hath sett and made you Bishoppes that yow should gouerne the churche of God which he hath purchased by his blond Then how much not only pope or prelate but euerie simple priest ys higher and honorabler then the greatest Emperor of the world not onlie the wordes and writinges of holie men but their factes rather and behauyors doe geue an euidon● testimonye As S. Martin being inuited with much a doe vnto Maximus the Emperor his table and hauing the cup first geauen vnto hym that he should begin vnto the Emperor not withstandyng the exceading great feast and honor which was he stowed vpon