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A20606	The rockes of Christian shipwracke, discouered by the holy Church of Christ to her beloued children, that they may keepe aloofe from them. Written in Italian by the most reuerend father, Marc Ant. de Dominis, Archb. of Spalato, and thereout translated into English; Scogli del christiano naufragio, quali va scoprendo la santa chiesa di Christo. English	De Dominis, Marco Antonio, 1560-1624.	1618 (1618)	STC 7005; ESTC S117489	73,138	191

from affoording to any of them a pretended title of greatnesse aboue the rest of his fellowes that when as they diuers times cast out words among themselues and disputed concerning Soueraigntie he alwayes checked them Luke 22.26 and would haue them to remaine as brethren and ioyntly to attend his seruice and mine and to keep themselues from affecting dominion either ouer me or among themselues And when he tooke his leaue of them at his departure vp into heauen they still dreaming on this idle fantasie and asking him whether he would then restore the Kingdome to Israel Actes 1.6 namely that hereby they might know which of them should bee exalted aboue the rest they had the repulse of him in this behalfe with intimation that they should attend and that ioyntly with equall charge and office no other thing then to be throughout the world witnesses vnto him of his resurrection Certes if euer there were a time for him to speake plaine and to declare that hee left in his roome his Lieutenant Peter or some other to bee their and mine Head then most of all it behooued when in regard of his bodily presence he gaue them his farewell and yet he then recommended me his Spouse to them all together ioyntly and equally that they might employ their attendance on me Hane sponsam suis amicis sponsus abiens commendauit Aug. cont 2. Gaud. epist lib. 2. cap. 12. Which is well obserued by my holy doctor S Augustine There was no reason for it nor decencie in it that I beeing his Spouse and an vniuersall Mother should bee domineered ouer and lorded by any one of mine owne members mine owne sonnes nay mine owne seruants As for my Peter certainly he neither exercised nor euer chalenged any such soueraignety ouer me or ouer his Collegues and fellowes neither did he pretend to be an vniuersall Pope or only Vicar-generall of Christ One of the first actions of employment about me after the ascent of my Spouse into heauen was the ordayning of Deacons which should take care of the widowes and poore And this action was neither performed nor gouerned by Saint Peter but by all the twelue Apostles ioyntly This being my perpetuall ordinance Actes 6.2 as I haue receiued it from my Spouse that my Ministers and Officers all together ioyntly should treat concerning the externall good guidance of my family So likewise when there were some to bee sent into Samaria Actes 8.14 to finish the good worke of their conuersion Saint Peter was so farre from taking vpon him to send whom hee pleased that hee himselfe was by the whole body of the Apostles chosen and sent thither as one of the many When the first controuersie brake out in Antioch concerning the obseruation of the ancient Iudaicall Ceremonies to whom did Paul and Barnabas thinke they ought to haue recourse for certaine resolution in that point Surely if Christ had left Saint Peter his Vicar they ought to haue addressed themselues to him principally yet did they say among themselues and resolue that it behooued them to goe vp to Ierusalem to consult about this question with the Apostles Actes 15.2 and Elders of that City Which accordingly was done and there was gathered a Councel and that summoned and ordered not by Peter alone but the Apostles of themselues ioyntly met together with the Elders also And howsoeuer Saint Peter as the most stept in age and the most ancient Apostle and much respected by the rest of the Apostles was the first that deliuered his opinion yet Saint Iames prosecuting the same did further adde of his owne did strike vp the matter And the publique letters dispatched in that behalfe were not stiled in the name of Saint Peter but of all the Apostles and Elders in common Neither was it a sleight checke or reproofe wherewith St. Paul openly tooke vp Saint Peter Galat. 2.11 for halting in the instruction of the faithfull which hee might doe beeing the Apostles were in their office and care of my affaires all of them equall and euen brothers among themselues And howsoeuer yee read in the Gospell that Christ said to Peter Thou art Peter Matth. 16.18 and vpon this rocke will I build my Church yet are ye not therefore to deeme that Peter had hereby committed vnto him any dominion or command ouer mee or that hee was entrusted with a larger cure then the rest of the Apostles For these words according to the interpretation of them communicated to me by the spirit of my Spouse and declared by my most sincere pure and holy Doctors import that that confession made by Saint Peter saying Thou art Christ the Sonne of the liuing God must bee that Rocke whereon was to bee grounded that faith which is indeed my foundation and supporter By this Rocke is also vnderstood he whom Peter confessed euen Christ who is my true foundation whereon and not on Peter I was built for if Peter had bene my foundation certes more then once should I haue fallen by his falls Matth. 26.70 But if any man will presse yet further Galat. 2.12 that Christ doth in these words promise that I should bee built vpon Peter let him vnderstand withall that to build my house is nothing else but to get and prouide petras stones and to reare them vp in my walles that is to say to preach the Gospell to conuert the vnbeleeuers and to bring them home to mee And forasmuch as Peter was to bee of all the twelue or rather by the default of Iudas eleuen Apostles the most feruent and most diligent in conuerting a many of soules therefore to him as to a principall Minister and Builder there was a prediction made of the worke which hee was to performe and that I was to be built vpon him namely that Christ had especiall confidence in his care for the building of my house as being more zealous then the other ten Apostles But it followeth not thence that hee was the onely builder or that hee was chosen for the onely Architect or Chiefe-builder for the other Apostles also were Masteres of this Art and laid to their hands for the rearing vp of my Fabrique and in speciall Saint Paul laboured more abundantly 1. Cor. 15.10 then they all and so surpassed euen Saint Peter himselfe in edifying me and hath acquit himselfe for a skifull Master-builder 1. Cor. 3.10 In like maner when ye heare it said to Saint Peter Matth. 16.19 I will giue thee the keyes of the kingdome of heauen and whatsoeuer thou shalt bind vpon earth shall bee bound in heauen and whatsoeuer thou shalt loose on earth shall bee loosed in heauen yee are to remember that the same was also spoken to all the rest of the Apostles So likewise though the keyes were promised to Peter Matth. 18.18 yet it was neuer said to him I will giue the keyes to thee onely And when this promise was performed