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A35128	Labyrinthvs cantuariensis, or, Doctor Lawd's labyrinth beeing an answer to the late Archbishop of Canterburies relation of a conference between himselfe and Mr. Fisher, etc., wherein the true grounds of the Roman Catholique religion are asserted, the principall controversies betwixt Catholiques and Protestants thoroughly examined, and the Bishops Meandrick windings throughout his whole worke layd open to publique view / by T.C.	Carwell, Thomas, 1600-1664.	1658 (1658)	Wing C721; ESTC R20902	499,353	446

of such Superiour Courts to receive and determine Causes of Appeal To prevent as much as might be all occasion of Complaints in this kinde the Council of Sardica provided this expedient that no Ecclesiasticks under the degree of Bishops should usually be allow'd to appeal to Rome which may easily serve to reconcile all seeming contradiction in Authours touching this matter And it must be observ'd that though the Canons prohibit Priests and inferiour Clergy-men to appeal out of their own Province yet they forbid not the Pope to call what causes of theirs he sees necessary before him although indeed in the business of Apiarius the Pope properly speaking did neither call him out of his own Province to be heard by himself nor yet admitted his appeal but remanded him back to his proper Judges with command they should hear his cause once again and do him right in case it were found that any injustice had been used towards him in the former Sentence However Bishops were never prohibited the liberty of appealing to Rome by any Ecclesiastical Canon whatever 'T is true indeed the Africans in their Epistle above-mention'd thought good by way of Argument and Deduction to extend the Canon prohibiting Appeals even unto Bishops causes but the general custome of the Church was ever against them as is manifest by what hath been said 10. The Fathers in the sixth Council of Carthage petition'd I confess the Pope not easily to give ear to those who appeal'd to Rome from Africk especially where the crimes were manifest They except also against the manner of proceeding in the case of Apiarius and some others in which the Popes Legats sent into Africk carried not themselves as Judges but rather as Patrons and Advocates of the appealers Wherefore the Prelates at that Council request his Holiness he would rather please to give power to some in Africk to end such causes then send from Rome such as should give encouragement to Delinquents ne fumosum Typhum Saeculi in Ecclesiam Christi videretur inducere Lest otherwise say they his Holiness should seem to introduce the swelling pride or haughtiness of the world into the Church of Christ which ought to be the School and Mistress of Humility We confess also that in the times of Pope Zosimus Boniface the first and Pope Celestin there was much searching into the Records of the Nicen Council to finde the matter of Appeals therein decided The occasion was this Pope Zosimus to shew his proceedings in that affair to be not onely just but Canonical had by a little mistake the errour probably being rather his Secretaries then his own cited the Council of Nice for his Right touching Appeals whereas it should have been the Council of Sardica in the Canons whereof that Power is clearly allow'd the Pope Now this Council of Sardica being rather an Appendix of the Council of Nice then otherwise and called presently after it consisting likewise for the most part of the same Prelates and assembled for no other end but to confirm the Faith of the Nicen Council and supply some Canons necessary for the Discipline of the Church what matters it that such a mis-citation of one Council for another happened or how does it prejudice the Popes right Did the African Fathers or any other Catholique Authour of succeeding ages ever charge the Pope with falsifying the Canons upon this account as Protestants now do let them shew this if they can CHAP. 16. Of the Title of Vniversal Bishop ARGUMENT 1. The Title of Universal Bishop often given by Antiquity to the Bishops of Rome but never used by them 2. Though the Bishops of Constantinople assum'd the Title yet they never conceiv'd it did exempt them from the Jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome 3. A double signification of the Term Universal Bishop the one Grammatical the other Metaphorical and how they differ 4. St. Gregory condemn'd it onely in the first sense asserting the second expresly to himself 5. Phocas gave no new title to Boniface but onely declar'd that the Title of Universal Bishop did of right belong to the Pope and not to the Bishop of Constantinople 6. St. Irenaeus not rightly translated by the Bishop 7. Ruffinus corrupts the Nicen Canons and the Bishop mistakes Ruffinus 8. The Bishop even with Calvins help cannot clear himself of the Authority of St. Irenaeus 9. St. Epiphanius miscited and mistaken by the Bishop 10. Primacy and Supremacy in the Ecclesiastical sense all one and as necessary in the Church of Christ now as in the Apostles times AFter many windings the Bishop leads us at last into a Trite and beaten way falling upon the Question of John Patriarch of Constantinople so much censur'd by St. Gregory for assuming the title of Universal Bishop an objection satisfi'd a hundred times over yet though never so clear in it self the Bishop still endeavours to overshadow it with difficulties and amuse his Reader To the end therefore all obscurity may be taken away and the truth clearly appear I think it not amiss in the first place to set down the whole matter Historically as I finde it registred in the Monuments of the Church 1. Know then that the Title of Universal or Oecumenical Bishop in Ecclesiastical History was anciently attributed to the Bishop of Rome This no man can deny that reads the Acts of that famous General Council of Chalcedon where in a Letter approv'd by the whole Council and afterward by order of the Bishops there assembled inserted into the Acts thereof the Priests and Deacons of Alexandria style Pope Leo The most Holy and most Blessed Oecumenical or Universal Patriarch of great Rome c. The National Council of Constantinople did the same to Pope Agapet calling him their most holy Lord the Archbishop of old Rome and Oecumenical Patriarch Agapet c. John Bishop of Nicopolis with others styles Pope Hormisda Universi orbis terrarum Patriarcha which is in full sense the same with Oecumenical Constantinus Pogonatus the Emperour in the third Council of Constantinople which is the sixth General calls Leo the Second Oecumenical Pope as witness both Baronius and Binius So likewise did Basil the younger Emperour with Eustathius Bishop of Constantinople as appears by the Acts of their Reconciliation Yea Balsamon himself notwithstanding his known rancour against the Roman Sea is forc'd to acknowledge that the Greeks had an ancient custom to style the Bishop of Rome Oecumenical or Universal POPE nevertheless it cannot be shown they ever made use of this honourable Title but rather contented themselves with that of Servus Servorum Dei as relishing more of Humility and Apostolical meekness Whereas on the contrary the Bishops of Constantinople have for many hundreds of years usurp't it in all their Briefs Letters c. as appears by the Greek Canon Law it self viz. in the Titles of Sisinnius German Constantin Alexius and several other Patriarchs 2. It is further observable that

LABYRINTHVS CANTVARIENSIS OR DOCTOR LAWD'S LABYRINTH BEEING AN ANSVVER TO THE LATE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBVRIES RELATION OF A CONFERENCE BETWEEN HIMSELFE AND Mr. FISHER ETC. WHEREIN The true grounds of the ROMAN CATHOLIQVE Religion are asserted the principall Controuersies betvvixt Catholiques and Protestants throughly examined and the Bishops MEANDRICK vvindings throughout his vvhole vvorke layd open to publique veivv By T. C. Prepare yee the way of our Lord make streight the paths of our God Crooked things shall become streight and rough wayes plaine Isa. 40. 3. 4. PARIS Printed by IOHN BILLAINE 1658. THE AVTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE READER AS I know my selfe to baue been mou'd with noe other impulse then that of Charity in composing this booke so doe I coniure the Reader to carry the same minde along with him in the perusing of it It is a great mistake to thinke that heate of disputation for the finding out of truth is a cooling of Charity Debates of this kinde are not so much breaches of freindship as a meanes to vnite vnderstandings in the beleefe of truth If contentions in Schooles for interest of ones priuate opinion only or some worldly glorie be esteem'd no violation of amity amonge disputants surely to contend meerly out of zeale to saue soules cannot be thought inconsistent with Charity In this contest our warre is not against the person but the errours of our neighbour in which to be silent would in some degree make vs criminal and responsable to God for our neighbours ruine If any man wonder why an answer came forth no sooner let him consider that my Lord Bishops booke was publish't not long before the time of our publique distractions in which it concern'd vs rather to prepare for the next world then answer books that defended the Church of England which was then in so bleeding a condition that it might haue been thought as vnhandsome to impugne it as to fight with a dying Aduersarie But the heate of the warre beeing ouer and many of the Prelatique party who together with our selues did daily entertaine a confidence of the happy return and restauration of our gracious Souereign King Charles the second seeming to conclude that my Lord of Canterburies booke was an impregnable piece in regard wee had not attempted to assault it I thought I should performe a worke acceptable to God and very satisfactory to the wishes of Catholiques if I framed an answer so often called for by our Aduersaries In perusall of the Bishops booke I found so many affected Windings and artificiall meanders especially in that important controuersie of resoluing our Fayth where he ought chiefly to haue aym'd at perspicuity that I could not chuse but looke vpon it as a Labyrinth and haue therfore soe styled it in my answer I intend not to make my Reader spend time in vnnecessary Preambles which I wish him rather to imploy in seeking satisfaction within my booke I shall therfore in this preface only take notice of some few things which the Bishop vrges against vs in his dedicatory Epistle to his late Maiestie of glorious and deare memorie The Bishop charges Mr. Fisher with downright disloyalty for publishing contrary to the Kings express command the Relations of the Conferences which he had with the Bishop and Doctor White because sayth he Mr. Fisher was charged vpon his allegiance not to sett out or publish what passed in some of the conferences till his Maiestie gaue further licence To which I answer his Maiesties command even as here sett down by the Bishop doth only forbid the publishing of what pass't in some of these conferences so that for ought appeares what pass't in other some might be publisht without further licence Secondly 't is auerr'd by A. C. that not Mr. Fisher but his Aduersaries first transgress't this precept of his Maiestie by diuulging false reports to the preiudice of Mr. Fisher's person and cause by reason whereof Mr. Fisher was forced for the iust and necessary vindication of himselfe and the Catholique cause to deliuer some copies to his friends Thirdly who made most hast in publishing what had passed in these Conferences appeares likewise out of W. I. from whome the Bishop frames all this charge against Mr. Fisher. Some may perhaps maruaile sayes W.I. why these Relations came out so late it beeing now long since the Aduersaries haue giuen out false reports both in speeches and print So that it seems by this not Mr. Fisher but his Aduersaries were the first prouokers both in speeches and print and by consequence the only transgressours of his Maiesties command Neither are those of Mr. Fishers profession so apt to complayn and cry out Persecution without cause there beeing then persons of great Authority about the King inciting his Maiestie to put the penall and sanguinary Laws against vs in rigorous execution to say nothing of those who were then actually persecuted Nor does the Bishop so much cleere as contradict himselfe in this particular while he first sayes pag. 11. of his Epistle God forbid I should euer offer to persuade a persecution in any kinde or practise it in the least and yet in the very next lines adds God forbid too that your Maiestie should lett the laws viz. against Catholiques and Catholique Religion sleep forfeare of the name of persecution If Mr. Fisher and his fellowes doe angle for his Maiesties subiects as the Relatour pretends 't is only to bring them the safe to Heauen and by which only they themselues hope to arriue thither it is not to draw them into the beleefe of any assertions repugnant to loyaltie and Christian vertue but such as their Teachers will be euer ready to maintayn both with their pens and liues To fish in this manner deserues neither hanging drawing nor quartering but is conformable to the ancient commission which in the person of the Apostles these anglers as he calls them receiued from Christ. Matth. 4. 18. follow mee and I will make you Fishers of men Neither doth Mr. Fisher or any of his profession allow or vse any such netts as the Relatour mentions pag. 11. Epist. that is they neither practise nor hold it lawfull to dissolue oaths of Allegiance to depose or kill Kings to blow vp states for the establishing of QUOD VOLUMUS c. All which out of his Charity and professed forbearance towards vs the Bishop does very kindely infinuate both to his Maiestie and the Reader But our answer is wee yeeld to none in all Christian and true allegiance to our Souereign Lord the King which wee haue in times of tryall so manifested to the world that wee hope there are not many euen amonge our Aduersaries but are conuinced of our reall fidelitie and though some perhaps will talke more and sweare more yet none vpon all iust occasions will doe more in defense of his Maiesties sacred Person rights and dignity then those of our profession This is certain Roman-Catholiques alone can glorie in this that whereas in these