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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	foot_n	lord_n	wash_v	4,431	5	10.4086	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18573	The rooting out of the Romishe supremacie Wherein is declared, that the authoritie which the Pope of Rome doth challenge to him selfe ouer all Christian bishops and churches, is vnlawfully vsurped: contrarie to the expresse word and institution of our sauiour Iesu Christ: who did giue equall power and authoritie to all the apostles, bishops, and ministers of his Church, whereof he is the true corner stone, and only heade. Set foorth by William Chauncie Esq.	Chauncie, William.	1580 (1580)	STC 5103; ESTC S107788	51,564	146

vos debetis alter alterius lauare pedes Exemplum enim dedi vobis vt quemadmodum ego feci vobis ita vos faciatis Amē Amen dico vobis nō est servus maior domino suo neque Apostolus maior est eo qui misit ●llum Si haec scitis beati eritis sifeceritis ea So after that he had washed their feete and had taken his clothes whē he was set down againe he saide vnto them know you what I haue done vnto you you call me maister and Lord and ye say well for so I am If I then your Lorde and maister haue washed your feete you also ought to wash one an others feet For I haue giuen you an example that you should doe euen as I haue done vnto you Verily verily I say vnto you the seruaunt is not greater then his maister nor the Ambassadour greater then he that sent him If you know these thinges happie shall you be if you doe them Thus we sée that Christ did giue expresse commaundement to all his Apostles that they shoulde flie ambition of hauing rule one ouer an other that none of them should chalenge superioritie dominion ouer their brethren whereto hee did giue them a moste notable example of his owne humilitie whch he willed them to followe acounting them happie if they did as hee willed them And these wordes of Christ a man would thinke were to be heard credited and obeyed if they were recited but by some one of the Euangelistes but now to the intent they might the better bée obserued and kept most carefully of al the Apostles so of all the ministers of the Church of Christ the holy ghost hath prouided that all the fower Euangelistes should recite and repeate them in diuerse wordes and sundrie times all to one effect to beate in hatred of ambition into the mindes of his disciples and keepe them at vnity in that equall authoritie which hee had giuen to thē Which the auncient Doctours also of the Church do teach in like sort to the same intent as Saint Cyprian saying of the Apostles Cyprian de simplicitate praelatorum Hoc erant vtique caeteri Apostoli quod fuit Petrus Pari consortio praediti honoris potestatis The rest of the Apostles were the same that Peter was all endued with like felowshippe both of honour and power And why shoulde not Paul be chiefe as well as Peter for Ambrose vpō 2. Cor. 12. hath this saying Inter Petrum Paulum quis cui praeponatur incertum est Betwene Peter and Paul whether ought to be preferred before other it is vncertaine Hieronymus in epistola ad Euagrium As saint Ierom saying of all Bishoppes Vbicunque fuerit Episcopus siue Romae siue Eugubij siue Cōstantinopoli siue Rhegij siue Alexandriae siue Tanis eiusdem est meriti ejusdem sacerdotij Wheresoeuer there is a Bishoppe at Rome or at Eugubium at Constantinople or at Rhegium at Alexandria or at Tanis he is of the same worthines of the same office and function in the ministerie As many others to be shorte speaking against such ambition do say the same in substance that one of them in words hath vttered Chrysost in opere imperfecto in Mat. Homil. 36. Quicunque desiderat primatū in terra inueniet confusionem in Coelo Whosoeuer desireth primacy in earth he shall finde confusion in heauen But howsoeuer the fathers haue spoken it the Pope of Rome is not moued with it What merueile sith the wordes of Christ doe not moue him Nay verily I thinke that if Christe him selfe shoulde haue come downe from heauen and haue shewed him selfe to some that haue beene Bishops of Rome within these certaine hundred yeares they woulde haue vsed him I feare me as euill as euer the Iewes did so far are they frō yelding vnto any thing that makes againste their ambition Chap. 9. That after Christes ascention Peter did not exercise a supremacie ouer his brethren neither did the Apostles yeeld any such vnto him I Haue shewed hitherto that Peter the Apostle on whom the Popes of Rome do groūd their supremacie had not by Christs commission any greater power and authority giuen him then had the rest of his Apostles Nay he was forbidden as were the rest also to exercise dominion and supremacie ouer others Now I will go forwarde and shewe that as Peter had no suche authoritie committed to him of Christ so he neuer chalenged nor vsed any such as may appéere by those things which the Apostles did after Christes ascension set down in the booke of the Acts of the Apostles Wherin we do reade that the Apostles and Disciples gathered together Actes 1. first they did choose Matthias an Apostle in the place of Iudas Iscarioth not by saint Peters appointment but by lot Afterward the multitude of the Disciples chose seuen deacons whom they set before the Apostles Actes 6. and they prayed and laide their handes vpon them When the Gospel of Christ was receiued in Samaria Actes 8. the Apostles who heard of it at Ierusalem sent Peter and Iohn vnto hem to instructe them farther confirme them in the faith with the giftes of the holie Ghost When Peter had preached the Gospell to the Gentiles and was accused of the brethren because he went in to men vncircumcised and did eate with them he giueth an account of his fact vnto the brethren Actes 11. and so is acquited as it were of them All the which thinges done by Peter and the Apostles doe shewe that Peter vsed not any supremacy ouer them but did behaue himselfe as their equal rather taking no more vpon him in elections then they did going whē they sent him to preach where they thought good content to giue to them an account of his doeinges Nowe we must remember it appeareth by the scriptures that Peter was of greater boldenesse and audacitie then any of the twelue Apostles When Christ asked of them Matth. 16. who do you say that I am Peter answered for them all When Christe did shewe vnto them that he must go to Ierusalem there be put to death Matth. 26. Peter tooke him aside and did rebuke him for it When there came a great company with clubbes and swordes in the night to take Christ and carrie him to the high priests Peter nothing fearing the number of the men did stretche out his hand and drawe his sworde and stroke the seruaunt of the highe prieste and cut off his eare By whiche and many suche tokens saint Peter shewed himselfe to haue suche stoutnes and courage that we may well coniecture if he had had any supremacie and authoritie aboue the rest of the Apostles such as the Papistes giue vnto him his stomache was better then that hee woulde haue lost it and neuer haue taken any part of it vpō him Haec ratio reperitur in quaestionibus tubingensibus in titulo de primatu