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A02797	An apologie or defence of the watch-vvord, against the virulent and seditious ward-vvord published by an English-Spaniard, lurking vnder the title of N.D. Devided into eight seuerall resistances according to his so many encounters, written by Sir Francis Hastings Knight	Hastings, Francis, Sir, d. 1610.	1600 (1600)	STC 12928; ESTC S119773	131,190	226

were more principall then others being sent with ioynt and equall commission ouer all the world and others by them ordained ouer particular congregations we gladlie yeeld but then were they all Archprelates in comparison of those whose calling was not Apostolik but Pastorlike and limited to a certaine congregation Peter onely was not as ye would haue him an Arch-prelate ouer the rest of the Apostles but they all were equall with him which thing Saint Ciprian plainely testifieth Hoc vtique erant coeteri Apostoli quod erat Petrus pari consortio praediti honoris potestatis the rest of the Apostles out of doubt were the same that Peter was endewed with the same fellowship both of honour and power But Sir why seeke you to shrowde your Popes Archprelacie vnder that of the Apostles for it is manifest that Christ gaue no such supremacie to anie one Apostle aboue the rest nay he forbad it saying That the Kings of the Gentiles raigne ouer them c. but ye shall not be so And whereas the promise of this Vniuersall iurisdiction seemeth to be made to Peter in these words To thee will I giue the Keyes of the kingdome of heauen c. it is plaine that where this promise is performed Iohn 20. Peter hath no more authoritie giuen him then the rest of the Apostles and the keyes to open and shut heauen to loose and bind sinnes is a like giuen to them all neither did that most humble seruant of Christ the blessed Apostle euer chalenge anie such preeminēt authority for as he entituleth himself an elder which is a title of dignitie so he calleth himselfe a fellow elder which importeth an equalitie with not a superioritie aboue the rest And when they of the circumcision contended with Peter about his preaching to the Gentiles vsing as it might seeme rough tearmes Thou wentest into men vncircumcised and hast eaten with them he answered not as his intruding successor that he is to iudge all men and to be iudged of no man but made a iust Apologie for himselfe and yeelded a sufficient reason for his fact As for that councell spoken of in the Actes the primacie of place to be as it were moderator seemeth to be giuen at that time not to Peter but to Iames as one of your owne side confesseth Postquam Pe●rus dixisse● c. After that Peter had spoken Iames by his Bishoplike authoritie gaue the definitiue sentence The rest of the Apostles did not acknowledge in him anie such preeminence of iurisdiction they shewed themselues to haue power to dispose of Peter as of anie other for the good of the Church and therefore when they heard that Samaria had receiued the word of God they sent vnto them Peter and Iohn Yea one Apostle Saint Paule publikelie reproued and withstood Peter to his face because he was to be blamed and to take away all occasion of stumbling from those that doe not wilfully blinde their eyes the same Apostle without tainte of pride saith of himselfe that he was nothing inferiour to the chiefest amongst the Apostles If then neither Christ granted nor Peter chalenged nor the rest of the Apostles acknowledged any singular Primacie of authoritie in Peter aboue them wee may safely subscribe to Cyprians conclusion before alleadged and the Popes vsurped Archprelacie shall remaine as it is indeede not a title of dignitie but a touch of intolerable insolencie The spirituall supremacie wherewith you infeofe your Archprelat as it is not grounded on Saint Peter who had no such if he had it yet the Pope shall neuer be able to proue himself Peters heire more then all other Bishoppes so began it long after Christ to be challenged and wanteth the testimonie of antiquitie The Councell of Nice which not the Bishop of Rome but the Emperour Constantine assembled in which himselfe was present and at his right hand sate the Bishop of Antioch which is called the chiefe or president of that Councell mentioneth foure Patriarches of Alexandria of Rome of Antioche of Ierusalem and appoynteth equall priuiledges to each of them Now where there is an equalitie of foure there is not an vniuersalitie of one aboue all The Councell of Chalcedon standeth for the dignitie of the Bishop of Constantinople and because that was now the Emperours seate and was called new Rome defined that it should haue equall priuiledges with olde Rome and in Ecclesiasticall matters bee of equall power with it By which it is apparant that to Rome and afterwardes to Constantinople some respect of honor was giuen in regarde of the Emperours seate but neither had primacie of power ouer all Iohn Bishop of Constantinople first challenged this vniuersall spirituall Supremacie about 600. yeares after Christ against whome Gregorie of Rome did mightilie oppose himselfe expostulating with him in an epistle Quid tu Christo c. What answere wilt thou make to Christ the head of the vniuersall Church in the account of the last iudgement that thus goest about by the name of vniuersall Bishop to make all his members subiect to thee But that which Constantinople sought Rome shortly after obtained and whereas Constantinople in seeking it did shew himselfe to be the forerunner of Antichrist as Gregorie of Rome then professed Rome in getting and maintaining it sheweth that Antichrist hath there setled his seate But this is not the highest Arch to which this your Archprelate of Rome mounteth he claimeth a ciuill Monarchie and authoritie ouer all Kings and Kingdomes vnder this title of Supremacie saying that Princes hold not their Crownes immediately of God but of him and that he hath power to set vp and pull downe Princes and to giue away their Kingdomes at his pleasure So one of his Chaplaines saith that the authoritie of Christ is principallie in the Pope and that the Pope doth call the Emperour to be coadiutor to him in temporall things By which we may see that vnlesse it had pleased the Pope there should haue been no King nor Emperour yea of that counterfeit Donation of Constantine they saie imagining it to be true that he gaue therein nothing to the Pope but restored his owne sith the Pope is Christes Vicar whose is the earth and the fulnes therof And Boniface the viij in the yeere 1300. one day came forth arraied in his pontificalibus like a Pope the next daie in Imperiall Robes with a naked sword carried before him causing it to be proclaimed that he was both Pope and Emperour and had the Empyre both of heauen and earth Wee haue onely taken a short scantling of the Popes Archprelacie which is so farre from being grounded vpon Peter that his spirituall Supremacie was not knowne till aboue 600. yeeres after Christ and his temporall ouer Kings and Kingdomes to depose and alter them hath not been acknowledged of anie Christian Prince to this daie Philip King of France writeth to the same Boniface the viij claiming both

they obey all the lawes therof Inward loyaltie differeth from outward obedience the first we owe alwaies the second in all things we may not yeeld I hope Sir you will not accuse the Apostles of disloyaltie who yet obeied not all the commaundements of their Princes nor of want of loue to their countrie though they yeelded not to all the lawes thereof But you will proue by sundrie examples and that of the Scripture that we are not bound alwaies to loue our countrie as by the examples of Abraham and Lot yea that we may rebell against Prince and Countrie by the example of Ieremie Ieroboam and Iehu Did Abraham or Lot cease to loue their countrie because at Gods speciall commaundement they left it or did not the Prophet Ieremie loue his countrie because by speciall Reuelation and appointment from God he perswaded the people to deliuer vp Ierusalem into their enemies hands for whose destruction foreseene and by God reuealed vnto him he breaketh forth into that patheticall exclamatiō Oh that my head were full of water and mine eies a fountaine of teares that I might weepe daie and night for the slain of the daughter of my people For who●e deliuerance he so often so heartily praied and was forbidden by the Lord to praie any more for them whose destruction after it happened he bitterlie bewailed in his mournful lamentations do these things proue he loued not his country Or because the Lord himselfe did rent the kingdome out of the hands of Salomon gaue ten Tribes to Ieroboam from Rheboam Salomons sonne And because he also expreslie commanded Iehu to destroy the whole house of Ahab his master doth it hence follow that subiects may be disloiall and rebell against their Princes who but a Popish Parasite would make such conclusions The generall proposition I trow holdeth true that no man may commit murther though Abraham by Gods commaundement speciall and extraordinarie might lawfullie haue slaine his owne sonne and that no priuate man may vsurpe the sword though Phinehes extraordinarilie moued did execution vpon Zimri and Cozbie A priuiledge is no law In summe God might commaund Ieremie to will the Iewes to yeeld to the Chaldeans and Ieroboam to take tenne tribes from Rehoboam and Iehu the kingdome from Ioram because he alone beareth rule in the kingdomes of the earth and he may giue them to whom he will he may set vp one and pull downe another but this proueth not that at the Popes bidding anie may play the lustie swash buckler and pull the Princes by force from the Throne which your defender of Catholikes laboureth stronglie to proue Therfore this position is not for ought this wrangler can alleadge to be controlled that euery Christian ought to striue to keepe these three sound within his brest his conscience before God his loyaltie to his Prince and his loue to his countrie And that his owne example of Athanasius will verifie who was farre from disloyaltie to his Prince or want of loue to his countrie for to shew his loyaltie to his Prince he departed at his Princes commaundement from his countrie which he ceased not to loue though for a time he did leaue it I neuer resisted the commaundements of your highnesse saith he no no God forbid I should But will you yet further see the liuely picture of an impudent cauiller because I say that all obedience is due to the Soueraigne Magistrate alleadging the wordes of the Apostle That we must subiect our selues to all manner ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be vnto the King as to the superiour c. And first he exclaimeth all obedience is due to Princes yea all obedience c. crying out of the conscience of an Atheist or of a seruile minde c. If I had said we must obey our Princes in all things I had vsed the Apostles phrase concerning the obedience of children towardes their parents Children obey your parentes in all things shall anie Atheist then crie out against the Apostle Children must obey their parentes in all things yea in all things a conscience of an Atheist a seruile mind c. But as the Apostle by all things meaneth all such things as are not contrarie to Gods commaundement as he elsewhere expoundeth himselfe Children obey your parents in the Lord so is my meaning as cleare as the light that we must obey Princes in all things that imply not disobedience to God generall and vnlimited obedience we teach not to vow and performe to anie man it being due onely to God who cannot erre in the things he commaundeth Wee neuer held our selues in that sort bound to any King or Emperour though your Iesuites vow such obedience to their Superiours The very Poet may teach that Omne sub Regno grauiore Regnum est Each kingdome here a greater hath aboue Therefore sith earthlie King are vnder the King of Kings wee must so obey the inferiour as wee disobey not the Superiour The highest King hath set downe his law to earthlie Kings as well as others in the two tables if they presume to make a law contrarie to this lawe therein we are not to obey It was not disloyaltie in the AEgyptian Midwiues in forbearing to murther the male-children of the Israelites at Pharaohs commaundement nor in Obadiah in hiding the Lordes Prophets contrarie to Achabs will neither in the Apostles in not forbearing to preach in the name of Iesus at the Rulers commaundement they did as they ought preferre obedience to God before obedience to man when they cannot both stand together By all obedience then it is plaine that I meant true and sincere obedience from the heart not dissembling obedience onlie for feare as the Apostle when he perswadeth the Philippians to walke worthie of the vocation whereunto they are called with all humblenes of minde meaneth by all humblenes true sincere inward humilitie not counterfeite and hypocriticall And if mallice had not here lost both her eyes and her wits this scoulding cauiller might haue seene that in the very entrie to this point of obedience I doe manifestlie affirme it for I say these three things euery man ought to keepe sound within his breast first his Conscience before God secondly his Loyaltie to his Prince thirdly his Loue to his Countrie Now how is it possible a man should keepe sound his Conscience before God which I set in the first place if hee obey his Prince in things against God nay that I place first because it must be the director of vs in our Loue and Loyaltie both to Prince and Countrie If the Lawes of the Prince or Countrie commaunde any thing contrarie to it wee ought in such things not to obey our Prince and for such things we may flie our Countrie but yet not rebell or fight against them as you seeke to perswade saying that Christ alloweth greatlie of them that despise Father Mother Countrie and Kinred yea