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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08908	Foure paradoxes 1 A byshop and a minister is all one. 2 A byshoppe or deacon shoulde not bee called Grace, Lord, or exercise such authoritie. 3 A popish priest is no lawful minister of the gospel. 4 Canon chauncellours, & officials are no meete officers in the churche of God.		1570 (1570)	STC 19185; ESTC S101477	7,082	26

Kyng Iohn by Steuen Langthon Henry the third by Edmunde Edward the first by Iohn Peckham and Robert Winchelsey kyng Richard with Williā Bishop of Ely so of other kinges who euery one in his time had som what to do with Byshops Archbishops and Cardinals so that the end of this superiority is the dishonouriug of God the troubling of Princes the heaping together of great wealth abusing of the goodes of the Church and molesting wringing of all christian people Thus wee see it manifestly proued if selfe wyl and ambition raygne not that no primacie eyther in the Pope or in any other Priest maye bee mayntained And we haue it proued by the holy Ghost in S. Paule and in S. Peter Chrysostome concludeth so Aerius affirmeth it Augustine aloweth it Cypriā so saith Ambrose agreeth thereunto Theophilact confesseth it Hierom auoucheth it Panormitan so writeth Erasinus so thinketh it is the mynde of Theodorete of Musculus of Bullinger of Peter Martir of Caluin of Beza of Gualter of other the godly and learned wherfore to conclude we may wel reason thus All things disagreing from the godly and learned-mens iudgement from the holy Ghost his teachyng are to be reiected Therfore that one Minister shoulde be aboue his fellowe brethren is to be reiected Adde hereunto the Minor then the argument holdeth in Darij Seyng that the degree of a Byshop and of a Pastor doo not differ by the law of God it is euident that if any Pastor or Curate make anye godly ordinaunce in his Church it is confirmed by the law of God. 2 A Byshoppe or Deacon shoulde not bee called Grace Lord Honour or exercise such authoritie Ye know that the Lordes of the Gētiles haue dominion ouer them and they that are great exercise authoritie ouer them but it shal not be so among you They that beare rule ouer them are called gratious Lordes but ye shall not be so Feede the flocke of God which dependeth vpon you c. not as though ye were Lordes ouer Gods heritage Wee preache not our selues but Christ Iesus the Lorde and our selues your Seruantes for Iesus fake He that is called to a Bishoprick is not called to a Soueraigntie but vnto the seruice of the whole Church Let Bishops vnderstād that they are Ministers and not Lordes He that truly succeedeth Paule wil say with hym not as though wee were Lordes ouer your fayth but helpers of your ioy We ought not to bee lyfted vp on high and to seeme mightie The lust of strife and desire and of Lordship raygne there They shal know openly by manifest scriptures our fained hipocrisy and that we ought not to be Lordes of the Parlamēt nor to haue any place of worldly honour amōg the people Here was an ensample howe they ought to knowe nothing of Prynces affaires whose dutye it is to preache teache heanenly matters The king keeping his Parlamēt with hys Barons the Archbishops and Byshops being shut forth it was enacted The Bishop of Rome ought to be the Minister of the Church If Christ the sonne of God came not to be ministred vnto but to minister serue how then can hys Vicar haue any dominion or be called Lord as you Panormitan will affirme They do euyl that seeke to be Byshops to the intent they would be notable aboue the rest The Bishop was not so aboue the rest in honor and dignitie that he had a dominion ouer his fellowes Dominions and hygh authorities bee as it were stops and impedimentes to the attaining of eternal felicitie and they are to bee cast awaye and contemned c. Byshops maye not bee Princes and Lordes of any place but of their own housholde for it is contrary to bee a Byshop and Prince for to be a Byshop is to be a Minister faithfull Seruant But because they did loue the worldly kingdome and lordship more then the kingdome of heauē as Christ here chargeth them that they wyll bee great and be called Lordes c. Wher it is a Ministerie that is here entreated of it is foolishnes and great absurditie vnder colour therof to seeke reuerence of the people or to exercise tirānical lordship ouer thē Therefore the Popes kyngdome is of this world For here one sorte are your Grace your Holynes your Fatherhood an other my Lord Byshop my Lord Abbot my Lord Prior an other Maister Doctor Father Bacheler master Parson Maister Vicar and at the last cōmeth in simple Sir Iohn eueri one raygneth ouer other with might and haue euery Ruler his Pryson his Iayler his chaynes his tormentes Thou wilt say thou canst not see how ther should be any good order in that kingdome wher none were better then other and wher the Superiour had not a law to compel the inferiour with violence It belongeth onely vnto the Prince to haue ful power ouer all worldlye courses for the Bishops may not vsurpe any power that belongeth vn to the sworde so that S. Paule taketh all men from their subiection Origene taketh awaye all crimes from their correction Here it appeareth euidentlye by the Law of God by the example of our sauiour Christ by the holy wrytinges of the Apostels and by the exposition of the auncient fathers and others that neither the Byshop of Rome nor anye other Byshop or Deacon ought to haue take the name of gracious Lordes nor yet that they should exercise any such authoritie and therefore wee maye hence reason thus Al Successours of the Apostels ought to shunne the titles of gracious Lords All our Byshops are Successours of the Apostels Therefore al our Byshops ought to Thunne the titles of gracious Lordes Againe Nothyng disagreing from the scriptures is to be allowed But that a Minister would bee called Grace or Lord is disagreing from the scriptures Therefore it is not to be allowed 3 A popish Priest is no law ful Minister of the gospel A Byshop must bee vnreprouable c. apte to teache c. but a papal Priest is no such man. The Ministers must bee chosen by the Faithfull with praiers fastyng and in the assembly of the faithfull but the popish Priest is chosen by an Idolater without true praiers or fasting and in the companye of irreligious Papistes therefore he is no true Minister He which is lawfully ordayned holdeth the Apostolicall Euangelicall tradition is a Minister but such a one is not the poipish Priest the proofe is playne The Sinagoge of the Pope is more aduersarie to Christ then the Turke therfore his Priestes are no lawfull Ministers of the Gospell Consider the definition of a Pastor and it must needes euidentlye appeare that a popish Priest is no lawfull Minister Question If a popish Priest refuse his papacie being cōuerted vnto the Gospell may he not be a Minister without any further calling