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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08784	The safegarde from ship-wracke, or Heauens hauen compiled by I.P. priest	Pickford, John, 1588-1664?	1618 (1618)	STC 19073; ESTC S113775	226,989	398

Calcedon whose authority is established by speciall acte of h anno 1. Elizabeth C. 1. versus sinem Parlament wher the authority of the fowet first generall councels is established I say this councell did offer the name of vniuersall Bishop to the Bishope of Rome which was no new donatiō but only a declaration of what he was in re before and his refusall vvas not of the thing but of the name vvhich might be taken in an ill sense as vvee see aftervvards in the Patriarch of Constantinople Our Puritan aduersaries do affirme and graunt i In their ●ittle Treatise in octauo intituled English Puritanisme c. printed anno 1605. pag. 26. That the high Priest of the Ievves vvas typically and in a figure the supreame head of the vvhole Catholicke church vvhich though say they it vvere visible only in the prouince and nation of levvry yet those of other nations and countreyes as appeareth by the history of the Ackes euē though they were Ethiopians vvere vnder this high priest and acknovvledged homage vnto him So that he vvas not a prouinciall Metropolitan but in very deed an Oecumenicall or vniuersall Bishop of the vvhole world c. In so much that it is there next adioyned And therfore the Pope of Rome vvho a lone maketh claime vnto and is in possession of the like vniuersall Supremacy hath more vvarrant out of the vvord of God for the same then any Metropolitan or Diocesan not dependent vpon him hath or can haue So that by the vvord of God either there must be no Metropolitanes or Diocesanes or else there must be a Pope These they M. Cartvvryght affirmeth k M. whitgiftes desc●te c p. 428. That the high priest vvas the head priest ouer all the vvhole church vvhich vvas during his tyme vnto our Sauiour Christ therefore if by this example vve vvill haue an Archbishope he must be such an one as may gouerne the whole church M. D Raynoldes saith l in his cōference p. 251. The lavv of Deutrenomy vvas made to establish a highest court of Iudgment in vvhich all harder causes Ecclesiasticall and ciuill might be determined vvithout further appeale M. Whitaker saith m de Sacra Scriptura p 466. I ansvveare those vvordes are to be vnderstood c. of the authority only vvhereby to decyde difficulties and controuersies vvhether they be ecclesiasticall by the minister or politicall and ciuill by the Magistrate that there might be alvvayes in both of them some man from vvhome it might not be lavvfull to appeale n E● Ibid. p 470. For othervvyse there vvould neuer be any end of contention These hee M. Bilson saith o in his perpetuall gouerment of Christs church pag 20. That the same did concerne matters vvhich vvere of greatest moment both ciuill and sacred and their sentence by Gods lavv no man might refuse vvithout punishment of death See the lyke assertion in M. Hooker in his preface before his bookes p pag 26. 27. 28. Ecclesiasticall Policy M. Penry a Puritan in his supplication to the high court of parlament saith how that forme of gouermēt which maketh our Sauiour Christ inferiour to Moyses is an impious vngodly and vnlawfull gouerment contrary to the word c. M. Whitaker saith q Contra Campianum rat 6. pag. 97. Gregory the great although then Pope of the Romane Church yet now he is with vs against you for what doth it but little concerne your Pope when whosoeuer calleth himself vniuersall Bishop him without further que●●ion he tearmeth the precursour or sorrunner of Antichrist c Iohn Bishop of Constantinople did first challenge it to himself c and a little after this title was taken from him and giuen to the Pope or Bishope of Rome But because the tittle or name of Vniuersall Bishop lieth open to a double acception or vnderstanding let S. Gregory himself explicate in what sense he tooke it to be the forerūner of Antichrist r lib. 4 ep 36 ad Eugenium Wherfore he saith yf one be called the vniuersall Patriarch the name of Patriarch is thereby taken away from the rest And againe s l. 7. op 69 ad Eusebium yf one be the vniuersall Bishop it remaineth then that you be not Bishops And againe t l ● ep 34 Ad Constant All others contemned he endeuoureth to be called the only Bishop In so much as Pelagius Gregories next prede●essour saith v in ● pist 1. Dilectis fratribus c. Pelagius Let no Patriarch euer vse this so Prophane a name or tearme because if one be called vniuersall Patriarch the name of Patriarch is taken way from the rest c. yet doth not Pelagius therfore reiect the primary of the Romane Church for in the same epistle nere the end he saith It is related to the Apostolicall seat that Iohn Bishop of Constantinople doth subscribe himself vniuersall Bishop and that by this his prescription he doth call vs to a generall councell when as all authority of calling a Synods or councell is giuen to the Apostolicall seat of S. Peter by speciall priueledge c. wherfore whatsoeuer you haue ordayned in your foresaid conuenticle c. I commaund by the authority of S. Peter Prince of the Apostles c. which authority also is deriued to his successours that all thinges which he there ordayned be voyd and frustrate c. let that conuenticle know and Iohn himself that vnlesse he do quicklie correct his errour wee will excommunicate them c. be earnest brethrē that Ecclesiasticall honour be not now diminished in our dayes or that the Romane s●at by the institution of our Lord the head of all churches be at any tyme bereaned or spoyled of her priuiledges any where Wherin Pelagius doth so aboundantly explaine himself that Osiander confesseth and saith x in epito c. Cent. 6. pag. 243. He is verie carne● against Iohn of Constantinople in that he doth arrogate to himself the title of vniuersall Patriarch and sheweth that by this Prophane title of vniuersall he doth take the name away from the other Patriarches c. yet in the mean tyme he contendeth that the Romane church is the head of all other churches bableth much of the priuiledges graunted by Christ to Peter Concerning Gregory that learned Caluinist Andraus Fric●● whome y martir Iob cōmpart 4. pag 77. Peter Martyr tearmeth an excellent learned man saith z Friccius lib. 2 de Ecclesia c. 10. pag. 57. Some ther be c that obiect the authoritie of Gregory who saith that such a title perteineth to the precur●our of Antichrist but the reason of Gregory is to be knowne as it may be gathered our of his wordes which he repeateth in many epistles that the title of vniuersall Bishop is contrary to doth gaine say the grace which is commonlie powred vpō all Bishops hee therfore that shall call himself the only Bishop taketh the bishoplie power from the rest