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A07764	An homily upon these words of Saint Matthew, chap. 16.v.18 Tu es Petrus. Written first in French by that honorable and learned personage, Monsieur Du Plessis Mornay. And translated into English by I.V.; Homélie sur ces mots de sainct Matthieu. English.	Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623.; Verneuil, John, 1582 or 3-1647.	1615 (1615)	STC 18143; ESTC S100069	12,997	36

the inward what man is he be he never so arrogant that daies boast of it and as concerning the outward what shall he bee bee it what measure of grace it will that he hath receaued of God that it can suffice him not only for the whole world but even for the smallest province Adde that the Church being perpetuall and Peter mortall there can be no proportion betweene the labour of Peter which concludeth with his life and the building of the Church which is perpetuated through all ages otherwise it should haue fallen to ruine and tumbled down in the person of Peter But thou wilt obiect what order or what meanes hath Christ left vs for his outward ministery heare the Apostle when be ascended vp on high he led captivitie captiue and gaue gifts vnto men what gifts Ephes 4.8 he gaue some to bee Apostles some Prophets and some Evangelists some Pastors and teachers why for the perfecting of the Saints for the worke of the ministerie for the edifying of the body of Christ till we all come in the vnitie of the faith of the knowledge of the sonne of God vnto a perfect man vnto the measure of the stature of the fulnesse of Christ Dost thou not see how hee hath provided to bring his work even to its perfection and that without mentioning at all either of Peter for his princely Apostle or any other ministeriall head of the Church and where S. Paule speakes so expresly and so punctually in handling this matter ought wee to supply his sense nay rather are wee not bound to hold our peace committing that which remaines to the managing of our Lord the master of the house who alwaies in the palme of his hand doth beare its portraiture and conducts it with his spirit and having said to his Apostles parting from beneath Preach you to all nations baptize you c. that is to say performe your dutie every one of you in his place Mat. 28.20 every one in your vocation and this holy ministery hee added for their inward meanes And loe I am with you alway even vnto the end of the world Christ you see the sonne of God of the same essence with his father nor lesse jelous of his glory and therefore giue● is not to another or to any creature which he should haue done if on another he should haue caused or suffered to depend the salvation of his Church 5 Let vs say moreover that al Scripture as the Apostle teacheth vs is giuen vs ☞ for the consolation of the faithfull 2. Tim 3.16 we cānot deny that the scope of these words of Christ is to fortifie his Disciples against the temptations and persecutions which they were to expect by reason of the infallible continuance of the Church Tell me therefore thou Disciple of Christ where sindest thou most comfort in thy perplexities where most refreshings in thy soule when one tels thee that the Church of Christ is founded vpon the faith of Peter or vpon the true rocke which hee did here confesse vpon Cephas a mortall man yet a sinner subiect to the like infirmities that wee are the congealed rocke which the wether consumes or vpon the sonne of God that eternal rock that rocke which notwithstanding its firmnesse dissolved into the waters of comfort to quench thy thirst and distilled in hony to nourish thee in a desart barren countrey Verily if thou standest yet vnresolved in thy choyce harken vnto Christ consider S. Peter himselfe heare what Christ saith of an house built vpon this rocke The raine descended and the slouds came Math. 7.25 and the windes blew and beat vpon the house and it fell not the reason followeth for it was founded vpon a rocke The other quite otherwise being built vpon the vnstable sands and what more vnstable then a man that fell saith he and great was the fall of it V. 27. both sustained the same violence both the same flouds and the same tempest● but see where the difference consisted not in the stuffe not in the fastening not in the masse but onely in the foundation only in the situation On the other side marke S. Peter that great Apostle of Christ but alwaies a man who in this Chapter foure verses from this whereof we treate V. 23. tooke our Saviour apart and was so hardy as to rebuke him because he would needs goe vp vnto Hierusalem Insomuch that our Saviour in his holy anger was constrained to tell him Mat. 16. Get thee behind me Sathan thou art an offence vnto me for thou savorest not the things that bee of God If hee was an offence or a stumbling blocke to Christ how could hee choose but bee a cause of falling vnto the Church But see him againe vpon the point of combate after so many protestations of his constancie yea execrations how hee denies Christ with curses Christ whom before he had so hartely confessed and that being far from danger at the voice of a chamber-maid and of one simple dore-keeper canst thou yet imagine him to be hardy enough to withstand the gates of Hell which here yeelds himselfe conquered to a maid of Caiphas But it is not said that the gates of hell shall not prevaile against him but against it against the Church against him only as he is a mēber of Christ and a member of that Church 6 But here some perhaps will shake their heads as If I haue applied my selfe too much vnto the letter vnderstanding only the plaine song insinuating that there is another tablature another mistery in it Who ought to remember ☜ themselus of that rule which the fathers giue vs that there where wee finde one literall and naturall sense arising which instructeth our faith and manners and affords no place to any absurditie none to any inconvenient or contrary sense we must there sit downe without searching farther through figures or allegories for he which diues lower is in danger to trouble the cleere water and stir the mudde Nevertheles let vs see what it is that they can say what that Philosophers stone is which they pretend in these words Thou art Peter but withall let vs haue our eies about vs to discerne the false coine Tu es Petrus that is to say in the Roman speech I am sure neither in Greeke nor Latine thou art Bishop of Rome vpon thee as thou art such a one I will build the Roman Church and not only vpon thee not alone vpon thee Peter for there shall bee no more Bishops of Rome of that name but vpon thee Gregory vpon thee Adrian Alexander Iulius c. vpon every Bishop of Rome good or bad holy or profane Christian or Atheist be he what he will I will build the Church Catholike or vniversal visible in the Roman infallible in all kinds thee so much the more as being the head thereof Here Christian thou seest how to supply both Rome the Bishop

of Rome and stand amazed at it contrary to the intention of him which gaue it and him which craued it And indeed hast thou no pitty to see the word of Christ so racked being now made a snare to the simple a laughing-stocke to the prophane and blasphemy to the meredulous But let vs proceed on a little further vnder this I ordaine thee Monarch both of things temporal and things spirituall soveraigne king Bishop together of spiritual to controle the old and new Testament to dispense against the Gospell and against the Apostle to make new articles of faith to be aboue all councels and when thou traylest men by thousands into hell I would haue no man question thee why dost thou this Of temporall to dispose of all the world to distribute it at thy pleasure as if it were thine owne heritage to raigne over kings to arraigne indite them to depose them to absolue their subiects from their oath of allegiance to expose their estates for a pray their persons to murther to bestow their kingdomes on whom it shal please thee and lastly to change their tenures to fealtie or convert their territories to thine owne demaines Pitty will here stricke thee into honour though hardly canst thou beleeue it But the Iesuites boast consists in this that of this they are not ashamed The bookes of Mariana of Eudaemon Iohannes of Becanus of Suarez and of a thousand others doe swell with these assertions the Cardinals make them authentique Bellarmine writing against the King of England Baronius against the Venetians And the Pope menaceth with fire the edicts of our Parliament which burne them the Sorbone with excommunications if she rest not contented with them Poore deluded Christian thou never couldest well imagine a protection or multiplication whereby to reape more profit then an hundred from one loe here thou maist gaine aboue a thousand frō one stone and at this day this ●an article of faith and such a one that to defend it and overshadow it there is nothing which the court of Rome leaues vnattempted so that to retaine it it passeth not greatly to forgoe halfe her controversies yea to renounce the holy Scriptures and the articles of all the Creeds Wouldst thou fame see an experiment hereof thou good Catholike Goe confesse thy selfe vnto a Iesuite say vnto him father I am in some scruple whether I may purchase my salvation in the Church of Rome or not I doubt of Purgatory of prayer for the dead because I haue not evidently read them in the Scriptures After hee hath checkt thee for reading of them who enforceth thee saith he to pray for thē and indeed you shall never see Iesuits in places of buriall and in the Abbayes which they possesse they little regard the intention of the first founders but convert the profit to other vses Another saith vnto him Father I haue no devotion to pray vnto Saints because I see no example thereof neither in the olde nor new Testament After hee hath demaunded of thee who in Gods name hath taught thee so much it is not free for thee will he say either to pray or not to pray vnto them if thou wilt who wil so nee●ly presse cōtrole thee pray to God abide in the Church Likewise of the Images dost thou not obserue that in our Churches wee haue few or none and those we haue are plaine and little garni hed But let an Huguenote come and say thus vnto them I would willingly accommodate my selfe vnto you many reasons and much more interests doe carry mee on but I cannot beleeue this reall presence lesse can I bee perswaded to adore the host least thereby I fall into Idolatry to how many of such kind of men haue they said stand not vpon that that beleefe will come to you at leasure In Spaine it selfe they obserue not men so narrowly for some adore the host standing Turne a new lease and albeit that thou beest a good Catholike yet if thou saist vnto them Father I doubt somewhat of the preheminence of the Pope and of that Monarchy whether it hath so large an extent as some make it to haue these tearmes of his being Gods vicegerent of his omnipotency doe wound my conscience they are straight in an vproare an inexpiable blasphemie and an Anatheme If thou thinkest but to dull the edge of this blade or bend this temporall sword if thou receavest not the thrust of it with thy naked breast thou art a dead man hadst thou saith enough to remooue mountaines from one place to another hadst thou as much charitie as to suffer thy selfe to be burnt for thy brethren yet the Ocean were it turned all into holy water could not expiate thee there is no peace for thee in this life nor remission in the world to come 7 This article notwithstanding cannot be drawne from this place and besides ☞ to it all that which followeth i● the Scripture is contrary for betweene these words Tu es Petrus c. and Paulus Quintus is Monarch of things both temporall and spiritua what depthes haue they to fill how many Theses to prooue and syllogismes to compose as first that Peter was at Rome that there hee constituted his Apostolicall Sea that as being Bishop of Rome Christ conferred vpon him that Monarchy that hee ●aue him authorititie to bequeath it to his successors and that this Pope which now liveth succeeds him in his Chaire his vocation and his doctrine of which they shall never bee able sufficiently to confirme the least And as for the Scripture it is altogether contrary vnto it For cōcerning the spirituall power Christ intending that which we here handle cuts of the question which arose from the ambition of the sonnes of Zebedie Mat. 20.26 whosoever will be great amongst you let him be your Minister c. And the Disciples which often mooued this doubt Mat. 9.34 who should bee the greatest amongst them one while vpon the way another while vpon the point of his passion presupposed not that it was Peter because they had not yet apprehended the mystery which some pretend to find in this passage but cōsh ained ●ur Saviour to propose vnto them Mark 9.33 Luk● ●●6 sometimes the conditions of a little child for their example sometim● to menace thē with ruine if here on earth they ent●rtained aspiring cogitations sometimes to suggest vnto them that ●anc●●e which they should hold on high in his kingdome and all but to diver them from these imaginary Monarchies S. Paule likewise speakes freely That he built vpon no other mans ●●n 1● foundation that hee was nothing inferiou● vnto Peter Gal. 2. ●● and that hee withstood him to the face but Peter himselfe after the resurrection of our Lord then when it behoved his Vicar most o● al to manifest himselt vnto the world provided not pleno●ure for the Apostleship of Iudas Act. 1.15 was not president in the Councell of