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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34067	Friendly and seasonable advice to the Roman Catholicks of England by a charitable hand.	Comber, Thomas, 1645-1699.	1677 (1677)	Wing C5468; ESTC R1768	62,503	180

we have proved there are more Christians in the World who deny this Supremacy of Rome than there are who do acknowledge it And if the belief of this Infallible Headship be the reason why you receive other Articles of Faith this then is the most fundamental Article of all others and ought to be the best attested And if our Lord Jesus had designed to make S. Peter and his Successors at Rome not at Antioch such Supream Infallible Judges we may expect he would have set down this Article plainly in Holy Scripture and not have left his sole visible Vice-gerent to the suspicion of bearing witness to himself As for that place Matth. xvi Thou art Peter and upon this Rock will I build my Church it is indeed by the Popes in their Forged Decretals expounded as a confirmation of their pretences to Supremacy but the Fathers take this Rock not for S. Peter's Person but for his Faith which he confessed and for Christ himself the Object thereof So S. Augustine Nazianzen S. Cyril S. Chrysostome S. Ambrose and Hilary expound the place and if so this belongs no more to S. Peter than to the rest of the Apostles who confessed the same Faith and belongs no otherwise to the Pope than as he varies not from S. Peter's Faith and so far it belongs to all Orthodox Bishops with respect to their several Churches And for the Keys of the kingdom of Heaven ver 19. they were given as much to the other Apostles as to S. Peter Matth. xviii 18. as also the aforesaid Fathers do observe being all equally sharers in the Power of the Keys and all Foundations as well as S. Peter so that S. Cyprian plainly tells us The rest of the Apostles were as great as Peter endowed with an equal share of Honour and Power Nor do we find that ever S. Peter pretended to any Power over the other Apostles Peter James and John though preferred by Christ saith Eusebius before the rest challenged not to themselves the glory of Primacy but chose James the Just Bishop of the Apostles And if any were greatest it was S. James who was President in that first Council at Jerusalem and did determine the Question there though S. Peter was present Yea Clemens Bishop of Rome in the first Decretal Epistle a good evidence against the Inventors thereof styles this very S. James Bishop of Bishops governing the Holy Church of the Hebrews at Jerusalem and also all the Churches which were every where founded by the Providence of God And an Ancient Council calls Jerusalem the Mother of all Churches but as for the Primacy of Rome there is no genuine Author for the first Three Centuries takes any notice of it and Aeneas Sylvius afterwards Pope confesseth There was little respect paid to Rome before the Nicene Council If Polycrates and the Asian Bishops had known of this Infallibility and Supremacy they would not have opposed Pope Victor's Opinion nor despised his Excommunication so boldly as they did neither would Irenaeus who calls the Bishops of Rome no more but Presbyters have presumed to reprove the same Victor for his arrogance and indiscretion as we find he did S. Cyprian surely never heard of this Power of the Roman Bishop who calls Cornelius Bishop of that See no more but Brother and Colleague and gives to Pope Stephen his Successor at Rome the Titles of False Apostle Schismatick friend to Hereticks and enemy to Christians utterly despising his Judgment and not regarding his Determinations Besides if this Supremacy had been believed in the first Ages of the Church the Roman Bishops sense would have been enquired of concerning all controverted places of Scripture his Decrees cited to silence Hereticks and all Appeals must have been made finally to him He also should have called and presided in all eminent Councils whereas Cardinal Cusanus affirms That the Emperours or their Deputies were Presidents in Eight General Councils Nor did the Fourth General Council at Chalcedon suppose that the Roman Bishop had any Supremacy given him from Christ when that Council saith Rome hath justly had the Priviledges given unto it by the Fathers because it was the Seat of the Empire and for the same Reason they grant equal Priviledges to the Bishop of Constantinople Yea S. Gregory Bishop of Rome saith The Fathers of the Council of Chalcedon were they who offered his Predecessors the Title of Universal Bishop which yet they accepted not And to convince us that this Vniversal Supremacy is a late Device it is evident that it was not only unknown to others in the first Age but to the very Popes themselves as these few Instances will shew Liberius Bishop of Rome An. 350. sending the Confession of his Faith to Athanasius desireth his Approbation thereof That I may know saith he whether I am of the same Judgment with you in matters of Faith and that I may be more certain and readily obey your commands And when the Bishop of Constantinople began to call himself Vniversal Bishop Pope Gregory in his Epistle to Mauritius the Emperour saith He admires at the Arrogance of assuming this New Title which none of the Bishops of Rome had ever accepted of a Title blasphemous to Christian Ears and with many other words he inveighs against this Title as unfit for any Christian Bishop as may be seen at large in his Epistles And in his Epistle to Eulogius Patriarch of Alexandria he is displeased that Eulogius writes to him by the proud Title of Universal Bishop desiring him wholly to forbear that language for saith he That is a diminution to you which is afforded to another beyond what reason doth require And he there tells Eulegius That the Council of Chalcedon had offered this Title to the Old Bishops of Rome but they would not accept it Of which he gives this Reason in another Epistle Because if one Patriarch be called Universal the name of Patriarch is taken from the rest And so little did Pope Boniface think of deriving his Supremacy from Christ that with intreaty he obtained of the intruding Emperour Phocas to decree That the Roman Church should be Head of all Churches as the Ancient Historians witness But this Imperial Constitution will scarce justifie the Supremacy and Jurisdiction which the Pope now claimeth over all the World and it utterly destroys the pretences of a Divine Right to it It would be too tedious to relate at large all the steps by which the Bishops of Rome attained to their present Grandeur I shall therefore only note that the first Ages began early to complain of his Encroachments and Ambition and all succeeding Times frequently opposed the Pope's Pretences herein The Sixth Council of Carthage allowed not his claim of Appeals The Bishops of France complain of his sending a Legate to Dedicate a