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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	bind_v	heaven_n	key_n	5,660	5	10.7585	5	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16820	A treatise made in defence of the lauful power and authoritie of priesthod to remitte sinnes of the peoples duetie for confession of their sinnes to Gods ministers: and of the Churches meaning concerning indulgences, commonlie called the Popes pardo[n]s. By William Allen M. of Arte, and student in diuinitie.	Allen, William, 1532-1594.	1567 (1567)	STC 372; ESTC S100097	165,800	456

may pardon or reteine mans sinnes of all sortes as wel in the sacramente of penance al that be confessed as in publike iudgment what soeuer is by witnesse proued And as in this they maye at their pleasure where iustice requireth correcte the open offender by moste graue censures of Goddes Church so may the priestes giue due penaunce in the sacrament for the chastisment of suche sinnes as be to them confessed and for the satisfying of Goddes iustice by sinne violated The other text of holy scripture coÌ„teining Christes woordes to S. Peter seuerally A more peculiar prerogatiue geueÌ„ to S. Peter than to other Apostles by certayne notable circumstances of the letter and by woordes of great graunt spokâ—n singularly to him giueth the chief of all his Apostles in more ample termes and beneficial clauses this power and prerogatiue also To him it was onely said thou aâ—t Peteâ— which is as much to say as a rocke for oure Maister gaue him that name newe at his firste calling Ioan. 1. in significatioÌ„ of further intent and purpose which he here vttered and vpon this rocke will I sette my Church and hel gates shall not preuaile agaynste it That so sayd he thus spake in playne termes Et tibi dabo claues regni coelorum Et quodcunque ligaueris super terram erit ligatum in coelis quodcunque solueris super terram erit solutum et in coelis And to the wil I giue the keyes of the kingdome of heauen and what soeuer thou shalt binde in earth it shall be bounde in the heauens And what thow loosest in earthe it shal be loosed in the heauens Ibid. 21. This promise made vnto Peter and performed no doubt after his resurrection when he committed to him the feeding and gouernement of all his deare flocke both yong and olde doth excedingly importe a wonderfull incomparable soueraygntie and iurisdiction ouer mens soules For a mortall man to receiue the keyes of Christes kingdom by them to binde loose to locke out and lett in Keies of heauen vvhat they be before our maister Christe who had the full iurisdiction therin it was neuer heard of And when the holy Propheces doe meane to sette out the greate and passing power giueÌ„ by God the Father to his onely SoÌ„ne in earth they vse to expresse the same ofteÌ„ by the termes of keyes as when the prophet Esaie saith I wil lay the keyes of the house of Dauid vpon his shoulder he shall shutte and ther can none be hable to open and he shall open so that none can shutte agayne And Christ him selfe speaking to his beloued Iohn in the Apocalipse saith Cap. 22. I am the first and the last I am aliue and was dead before Apocal. 1. 3. and I haue the keyes of death and hell The keyes therfore euer signifyng power and gouernemeÌ„t of the houshold was giueÌ„ to Christ as to whom being the principall most excellent rectour of his own Church that he bought so dearly they most duely belong But he coÌ„municated vnto Peter as to his speciall steward that vse of the same for the gouernment of our soules with exceding much preheminence both in binding loosing Yet I do not remeÌ„ber that any of the olde writers doe put any greate differeÌ„ce betwixt the authorities of Peter the rest of the Apostles coÌ„cerning the remitting of sinnes which is a thing perteining indifferently to the whole order of priestod therfore no more proper to the Pope or Peter then to priestes Apostles thoughe Origen noted well that the iurisdictioÌ„ of Peter semed by those woords to be enlarged aboue the residue by that that our Sauiour sayde to him that what soeuer he bounde or loosed in earth it should be loosed or bound in the heauens wher to the rest he spake of heauen only in the singular number I speake only of this latter clause of binding loosing with the keyes therunto belonging For there is no doubt but great preheminence of rule iurisdictioÌ„ is promised before in the same text now recited elles where actually giuen vnto him more then to the rest of his brethern Neuerthelesse eueÌ„ this power of bindig loosing coÌ„mon to all the holy order was in him first seuerally planted for the coÌ„meÌ„datioÌ„ of vnitie order De simplicitatâ— prelatorum as S. Cyprian saith so the same authoritie geuen to other might yet after a sort be deriued from his fullnes of power and prerogatiue as from a founteyne But we wil not stand hereon nowe nor yet to put difference betwixt these woords and termes loosing or remitting binding or reteining nor to dispute whether these two textes more proprely signifie the authoritie and iurisdction geuen to the spirituall Magistrates for punishing by temporal pain enioyned and releasing by mercie as they see occasion the same appointed penance againe or els it proprely concerneth the very release of sinne it self or reteining the sinne which they vppon iust causes wil not forgeue These things would grow to ouer tediouse a tale and ouer curiouse for the simple whoÌ„ I would most helpe in these matters and I shal briefly touch so muche hereof as is necessarie hereafter when I shal dispute of pardons For in deede these two textes of binding and losing as wel spoken to Peter as to the residue afterwarde shall be the ground of our whole discourse there and therefore til then we must touch these textes no farther but as in common perteineth to remitting or reteining sinnes For they are brought indifferentlie of the holy Fathers with that foresaid words of S. Iohn in which as I haue declared the very institution of penance and Priestes iudgement of our soules and sinnes be most proprely grounded Therefore that by al these woordes so often vttered by our Sauiour you may wel perceiue the very litteral and vndoubted meaning to be that Priests haue authoritie by Christes warraunt effectually to remit and reteine sinnes I wil recite one or two notable places of most auÌ„cient Fathers that they ioyning with such plaine woordes of sundrie places of scripture may make all most sure to such as can by any reasoÌ„ be satisfied First I alledge the saing of S. Maximê° an old author a blessed saint Homil. In natali Petri Pauli He doth by conference couple together these textes wheroÌ„ we now stand thus he speaketh very pithely therefore you shal heare his own woords Ne qua vos fratres de creditis Petro clauibê° regni more no straruÌ„ clauiuÌ„ cogitatio terrena ê‘moueat clauis caeli lingua est Petri quam singulorum merita censendo Apostolus vnicuique regnum caelorum aut claudit aut aperit Non est ergo clauis ista mortalis artificis aptata manu sed data Ã Christo potestas est iudicandi Denique ait eis qnorum remiseritis peccata remissa erunt quorum detinueritis detenta erunt Thus he saith in our tung Least

any earthly cogitation moue you to thinke of any succh materiall keyes as we occupie in earth when you heare of committing the keyes of the kingdom to Peter Keie of heauen vvhat yt ys you must thus vnderstaÌ„d that the key of heauen is Peters woord or tunge because the Apostle weighing well euery of oure desertes openeth or shutteth to euery man the kingdoÌ„ of Christe This key therefore is not made by mortall mannes hande but it is the power of iudgment giuen by Christ To be brief he saith to them all whose sinnes you shal forgiue they shal be forgeueÌ„ c. Thus saith Maximus ioyning together fittly two textes for one purpose out of both maketh a most forcible argument that the iudgment of oure soules which is a passing authoritie that very letting in keping out of heaueÌ„ is addicted by the keyes to Peters the Apostles ministerie For which cause also S. Gregorie calleth all Christes Apostles and the iust occupiers of their roomes the dores by which meÌ„ must enter into heauen or euerlastingly bide our which is a fearfull saing to all suche as contemne their authoritie His woordes be these Quid cuncti Apostoli nisi sancta ecclesiae ostia existunt cÃ¹m eis dicitur Cap. 16. lib 28. in Iob. Accipite spirituÌ„ sanctuÌ„ quoruÌ„ remiseritis pecc c. ac si illis apertÃ¨ diceretur per vos ingrediuÌ„tur ad mehi quibus vos ipsi paÌ„ditis et repelleÌ„tur quibus obseratis what are all the Apostles elles but the doores of holy Church seing it is sayde to theÌ„ take you the holy ghost whose sinnes you doe forgiue they be forgiueÌ„ eueÌ„ as thoughe in plainer termes it had beÌ„ spoken thus by you all must enter that will come vnto me those I saye to whoÌ„ you opeÌ„ the doore by loosing of their sinnes those shall be put backe that you locke out Hyherto S. Grerie This woÌ„derful authoritie caused S. Hilarie thus to make exclamatioÌ„ O holy and most happy men for the desert of youre faith yow haue obteyned the keyes of heaueÌ„ De Trin. lib. 6. and now the whole right both of bindiÌ„g aÌ„d loosing in heauen and earth is assuredlie in you But that you may fullie beholde their right herein consider his notable woordes vpon the alledged place of S. Matthew Super Math. 18. Ad terrorem metus maximi quâ— in praesens omnes continerentur immobile seueritatis Apostolicae iudicium praemisit vt quâ—s in terra ligauerint id est peccatorum nodis innexos reliquerint Som read CoÌ„fessione for coÌ„cessione quos soluerint concessione scilicet veniae receperint in salutem in Apostolicae conditione sententiae in caelis quoque aut soluti sint aut ligati That is to say To the terrour and feare of al men and necessarie keping of them in awe and discipline Christ premised the immouable iudgement of the Apostles seueritie that whom so euer they bound in earth that is to say left fast tied in the bandes of sinnes and whom they loosed that is to witte by mercie receiue to the benefite of pardon that the same person so bound or so released in the same case that the Apostles left them should be in the heaueÌ„s either loose or fast Thus farre S. Hilarie by whom we euidentlie may learne in what carefull case all men be that passe this life not loosed by them whose sentence in earth is so surelie ratified in heauen aboue no lesse how the woords of Christ vttered somtimes in termes of binding loosing other times in remitting reteining doe literally signifie But I will adde S. Chrysostomes testimonie thervnto the rather because our Aduersaries do abuse his woordes sometimes against confession whiche necessarily hangeth on the authoritie of Priesthode in remission and reteining sinnes as anon I shall declare That I be not ouer tediouse I wil reporte his saying in English onelie Those saith he that dwel in earth and are conuersant amongst men Lib. 3. de Sacer. haue receiued power and commission to dispose and dispense such things as be in heauen A povver geuen to Priestes that vvas neuer geuen to Angels yea these meÌ„ haue receued power such as neither God either gaue to Angels nor yet Archangels for it was neuer said to theÌ„ what so euer you bind in earth it shall be bound in heauen and what soeuer you loose in earth it shall be loosed in heauen Earthlie Princes in deed haue power to bind but that perteineth to the bodies of their subiectes onely but the bonde which I nowe talke of that is proper to the power of priestes toucheth the verie soule it self and is so ample that it reacheth to the heauens aboue yea and that so largely that what so euer the priestes doe beneth the very selfe same God wil allow and ratify in heauen aboue and so the Lorde wil confirme the iudgement and sentence of the seruauntes Thus farre spaeketh Chrysostome His woords be so playn that to stand long on them for farther proofe of my matter then the verie face of the sentence dooth importe it were vayne For man may here rather merueyle to see suche straunge power vpoÌ„ Christes woords giueÌ„ to the holy order yet that to be so litce estemed of wicked men so litle regarded euen of the honester sorte of simple folkes that fewe either seeke after their iudgmeÌ„t in causes of their soules or duely honoure that power in them which passeth all other prelacie that euer either maÌ„ or Angell receued in this greate contempt I say of most holy thinges wickednes is rather to be woÌ„dered at lameÌ„ted then by long reasoning to be confuted The sequele of true thinges is so plain in it selfe the diuers places of scripture so answer iustly eche to other that Fathers so coÌ„sonantly coÌ„firme that knowen meaning of the same the verie termes of so many scriptures writen at diuers tymes by sundrie of the Euangelistes so fal vpoÌ„ one vndoubted sense that we may rightly conclude the power to be in all cafes giuen to the Apostles of remission of sinne And vpon such knoweÌ„ termes I make this argument against the aduersaries They treuly and properly doe remitte sinnes vpoÌ„ whose senteÌ„ce in earth the pardoÌ„ of God immediatly ensueth in heauen but Goddes pardon vndoubtedly foloweth the priestes pardon in remission in earth Claue non errante ergo they assuredlie remitte sinnes The maior is manifest the minor hangeth vpon playne scripture thrise told which first appoynted man to loose in earth then that God shall in the same instant forgiue in heaueÌ„ God shall coÌ„firme the seÌ„teÌ„ce of his seruauntes saith S. Chrysostom mans iudgment saith Hilarie shall be as a sentence preiudiciall to God in heauen And thus farre for the woordes of Christ att this present and farther streingth shall more and more be gathered vnto them by diuers partes of all the processe folowing That the same power of remitting and reteining

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