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I return to search a little further into the Councels The sixt general Councel the Councell of Carthage in which S. Austin was present did confirm the Cannons of the former Councells No ●ppeals to Rome infra chap. 11. declaring the powers of the Patriarks to be equall and the right of appealing to Rome by such as were condemned by the Arch bishop of their own Province was declared unnecessary S. Austin after that who was Bishop of Hippo opposing three Bishops of Rome Zozimus Boniface and Celestine in this so just a cause common to all provinciall Sees as appears by the ensuing report One Apiarius an African Priest being excommunicated and flying to Rome and being absolved by Zozimus the then Bishop of Rome Aurelins the Metropolitan of Afrie with the Councell wrote to Celestine the succeeding Bishop stiling him Dominus Frater and acquainting him that by the sixth Canon of the Councell of Nice ecclesiastick persons are to be committed to the charge of their Metropolitans appealing to provincials or generall Churches but not to any forraign See and reproving the absolving of Apiarius exhorted Celestine Nè induceret fumosum typum in Ecclesiam Christi quae lucem simplicitatis humilitatis praefert iis qui Deum diligunt did afterwards proceed against Apiarius enjoyning him penance notwithstanding the Bishop of Romes former absolving of him and this was acknowledged received of all Churches as an Evangelical truth acknowledged by the succeeding Bishop of Rome Gregory I. who lived An. Chri. 590. reputing the decrees of these first Councells equall with the Evangelists as proceeding from the same holy Spirit of God which he had promised to his Church Se suscipere quatuor prima concilia sicu● sancti Evangelii quatuor libros venerari fatetur and thus did the Church of o me continue in brotherly fellowship with the other Patriarks not claiming any Jurisdiction over the rest till Phocas the Emperours time which change was occasioned through a vvicked murder and having by that means acquired a superintendency over the other provincialls the succeeding Bishops have since practised Navigation in the Red See her universall Ark not knovving hovv to ansvver its helm in any clear and pure vvaters the brief of vvhich history follovvs in these fevv vvords Mauritius the Emperour having made John of Constantinople universall Patriark Gregory the Great John of Constantinople universall Patriarch Bishop of Rome writ against that and maintained that whosoever took upon him that stile was the forerunner of Antichrist and did in opposition of that stile assume to himself the title of servus servorum Gregory did not oppose that title in that sense the Doctor would have us to rake it folio 293. to wit that none should be universall Bishop thereby excluding others but to be Bishop of the universall Church it was in Gregories opinion lawfull a pittifull shift to excuse the unjust usurpations of Gregories Successors by this means he will tie universality to Rome in respect of the place not as Peter was universall Bishop and this distinction has destroyed all Bellarmines Arguments who would have the Church built upon Peter and all power of governing given to him which Gregory by the Doctors own distinction confessed calls Antichristian so that I would fain know how Rome can be a Universall Church since no Bishop can be a Universall Bishop for certainly it was not the Universall See before Peters coming and if he was not Universall Bishop how could he make it a Universall See I send this riddle back to the Doctor and desire he will recommend it to the Ignatian tribe to varnish over with a new paint For if this must passe for current that the Bishop of Rome is universall in respect of his See and that the gates of hell shall not prevail against locall Rome the world knows they maintain a lie as will appeare more at large in the fourteenth chapter of this Book ●t is plain to any judgement not aleady forestalled with a preoccupated conceit of Romes sophisticall delusions that Gregory writ against John of Constantinople his being universall Patriark for that it was an injury to Alexandria Rome Antioch c. that any should take upon them that title when both by the holy Scriptures and the judgements and decrees of the reverend Fathers of the holy Church the powers and Jurisdictions of Patriarks were declared to be alike The same Gregory when he was by Eulogius Patriarch of Al●xandria stiled universall refused the stile as derogatory to his Brethren and writing an Epistle to the said Eulogius he calls that stile new foolish perverse wicked and prophane and whosoever shall arrogate that stile he does the work of Satan to whom it was not sufficient to be alike and equall to other Angells Phocas made the Bi hop of Rome universall and did tax John of Constantinople for the same It hapned so that not long after this affront done to Alexandria Rome and the other Provinces that Mauritius was murdered by the means of Phocas who no sooner had perpetrated so vile and hainous an offence but his guilty conscience contracted many dark jealousies upon his soul and presented to his phansie many sad and fearfull apprehensions one amongst the rest was that Italy would certainly shake off all Faith and Allegiance to such a Monster of mankind who had justly provoked their dissents to obey him who had forfeited all their loves and affections by his bloudy violation of the Bonds of Nature and Civility by this his barbarous assassination of his Liege Lord and Soveraign and thereupon he casts upon all essaies which way to preserve his Western Territories the garden of his new acquired Empire and calling to mind the respect the inhabitants thereof bore to their Metropolitans and that the affront done to him by setting the Constantinopolitan above him was thorn in his side and had bred in him a grudge towards the then murdered prince Mauritius He to engratiate with the people of those parts and to engage a pragmaticall Orator to blandish his foul murder did resolve with himself to make the then Bishop of Rome Universall Bishop which he accordingly did by vertue of which Donation and by their own strengths and policies since the present Bishop thereof claim this title and Jurisdiction which their Predecessors did condemn in another from which bloudy founder they took this Prerogative and in a full measure of tyranny and against all divine Right Ecclesiasticall and against the doctrine of that See whilest any other had that Prerogative will needs perswade the world that the present Church of Rome is the only Catholique Church Yet blessed be God the light of the Gospell having shined in several Nations of this Western world by the means of S. Paul who God ordained by his grace hereunto hath taken such root in many Churches of the same that they will not admit of this Antichristian usurpation of the Romish See according to

and reflecting upon the curiosity of some who would be over-scrutinous to examine the points of this Commission by the rule of the holy Writ at last they concluded upon this result That it must be de fide received that his holiness is the only exposito● and by the same rule of gradation an Evangelist to deliver new Scripture of the old and new Testaments The Pope abuses the Scriptures and having perswaded some and forced others into this opinion without care for the souls upon earth without respect of Saints and Angels in Glory and without all fear of the Almighty God of heaven he commands the holy writ which was the dictates of the holy Spirit of God to be blotted wrested mangled and tortured at his will and pleasure making no more account thereof then if it were but the Embryo of a Bear which by the licking of its dam were to receive shape and perfection And if there be any text which doth impugne this his usurped unlimited power it must not be suffered to pass the Press before first it be either rubbed over with his holiness index expurgatorius or else brushed with his Ghostly interpretation As for example Josh 1.18 the people professing an unlimited power to Joshua in all things to obey him The words in all things are expunged in the Rhemish translations for it stood not with his holiness interest and prerogative to let them be for a president For if the people of God were in all things to be obedient to their Prince this spoiles his holiness claime to command in temporalibus wherefore it was thought fit to send these words to the index expurgatorius Object The Doctor in his book fol. 59. argues the truth of Romes doctrine for that she has not corrupted or extinguished the text that being easier to do then to change her doctrine To which I answer Resp The Scriptures which Rome hath she received from other churches and those Churches from whom Rome received them sending aswell to other places as to Rome copies of those holy writs it would much ashame her to alter them in respect that true original Copies would be produced against her to her condemnation but the Bishop of Rome being to teach these Scriptures within his own precincts and territories he as times served to advantage himself might and has in many places strained courtesie to wrest the sense delivering to the people doctrines not warranted by this holy writ which he might with more confidence do in respect that no other Bishop was to meddle in his diocess and he by the favour of Princes being accounted summus pontifex wherefore reason tels that his doctrine and traditions are more questionable then his translations of the Scriptures for he needed not much to alter the Scriptures in respect it matters not what they say being but dead letters without the spirit of his holiness interpretation Yet so much did they dote upon the pomp and vainty of this world and upon that lordly height they have aspired to here upon earth that the divel did bewitch them to alter that text of Joshua which did directly gainesay such their dominion and power though by reason of their new preheminence they being above councels and the onely infallible expositors of the divine oracles they needed not so to have done or rather thus that corruption of Joshua was before the late councels of Lateran and Trent which made the Pope above councels and it behoved them to blot out such words as did impugne their other power of lording it over Kings and Princes but since these councels they may now put them in againe For it is no matter what the Scripture says for his holiness will give such an exposition as shall not destroy his own interest and since those councels such exposition though it be never so contradictory to the word of God it must de fide be received O tempora O mores Saint Basil saith they which have been brought up in Gods word will not suffer one syllable of her doctrine to be betrayed what then shall we think of the fathers of Rome's Church that practice as time serves these tricks upon those sacred letters These divine writs the dictates of Gods holy Spirit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 no marvel if they make bold with the fathers mis-translating and altering their writings and crying up their own traditions making their own mole-hills mountaines and making the fathers like unto Moles whose nature as Aristotle saith is never to open her eyes till she be dead and so they make the fathers being dead to witness things they never dreamed on or saw being living as I have shewed in the tenth Chapter If these divine oracles of God must not escape the venom of their claws if these must not be delivered to the people without corruption I know not how we may give faith or credit to her traditions the vanity of which I will briefly discover in this ensuing Chapter CHAP. XIII That because all things were not written the Church may deliver traditions such as she derives from the doctrine of the Apostles or ancient fathers That the Scriptures are to judge of those traditions That Rome is to be blamed for her traditions because they are against Scripture THe Jews say That when Moses was with God on the Mount and received the written law that he had unwritten law likewise delivered him by word of mouth for certainly say they God staid not fourty dayes and fourty nights on the mount to keep Geese nor needed he stay so long to interpret the law of the tables wherefore they conclude that Moses received traditional law which he taught Joshua Joshua the elders the elders the Prophets the Prophets taught the people Now because those their traditions were uncertaine the sects of the Pharisees sprung up and Essenes obtruding new traditions as simply necessary and a more perfect Rule of Sanctity then that that was writ whereupon our Saviour in the seventh of Mark reproves them saying They worship me in vaine teaching for doctrines the commandments of men and yet in the 23 of Mat. he hath commanded us saying All that they bid you observe that observe and do but after their works do not for they say and do not These two texts seem to impugne each other but the fathers of the premitive Church have resolved this knot and reconciled these texts by this exposition that all traditions agreeable and consonant to the holy word are to be observed but such traditions of the Scribes and Pharisees as were not agreeable to the holy word of God were to be rejected We confess that all things which Christ and his Apostles did No traditions but such as are agree able to the word of God are to be embraced were not written according as is expressed Joh. 21. vers ult And that the Apostles had order to teach the people whatsoever Christ had commanded them but as we allow this so by no meanes

Popes Law This is that which every one must swear to maintain before he be admitted into the General Councel and whose blinde obedience is to be pitied as much as the Popes presumptuous ruling by this counterfeit Record is to be lamented And I much wonder the Christian Princes will suffer the Pope upon such groundless and unjust terms to be Lord Paramount over them whenas the warrant by which he claims this power is meerly void in it self for that it wants their concurrence Nor is it credited as authentick as many of the Romane Bishops and Popes practising the contrary have been honest witnesses Pliny says It is the nobleness of the Eagle to leave part of her prey for other birds Whence it is that other birds of prey still follow after the Eagle to feed upon her scraps But if the Crow presume to come too neer the Eagle she lets her feel her talons and in stead of being fed the Crow becomes a prey her self And will the Germane Eagle suffer himself to be out-towred and cuffed with an Italian Rook It argues a degenerating spirit from the true Eagle to suffer it and gives occasion to the world to suspect that he is that bird the Eagle throws out of her nest and not one of those which the Eagle ciscovering Majestick rays in their eyes n●urishes up and carries on her wings above the common region here belowe The ancient Bishops of Rome never tasted of this sowre grape and I wonder how the later Popes came to set their teeth on edge Resist not evil was Christs precept Matth. 5.39 But the Pope is so far from this Rule that he will not do good to them that have been benefactors to him Kings have been kinde nursing fathers to the Church of Rome and will she be so unnatural to cast them off now that by their indulgence she is grown to a riper state Kings granted he● precedency above her sister-Churches Kings have endowed her above them and in necessity have relieved her Popes and will the Pope now lik● the Wolf in the Fable devour the Crane that took the bone out of her throat Will the arrogant Hop having overtopped the Pole by which it grew think to bear up its weak head above its first supporter Sure these are practices which do little become a Spiritual Father an Universal Head of Christs Church who by how much his head is lifted on high should be more given to good works to piety to humility to charity and to patience and that the rather because on such an one in so eminent a place all eyes are fixed and should there finde examples of Godliness which might be as a heavenly light to guide them unto their Lord and Master Christ Jesus But I should wrong Romes Church should I for some mens faults condemn all All are not Tares that grow in that field In these last days Satan is more busie to throw in his seed because his time is short But heretofore she had Bishops which never laid claim to these unjust demands Wherefore that I may make the present Pope ashamed of this his unjust claim I will produce the godly practices of his predecessors to his own condemnation Notwithstanding all the shifts and tricks the Jesuites use The ancient Bishops of Rome modern Popes have obeyed the Emperour Ante ch 10 and cha 4. to maintain this strange power they ascribe unto his Holiness they fall short to give satisfaction to any reasonable man that hath not given himself up to a stupid sense to believe all they say be it right or wrong And who please to reflect upon the practices of former Ages will finde this to be a meer Innovation and in●roachment upon the Temporal power Melciades Bishop of Rome acknowledged Constantine the Great to be Supreme even in things Spiritual The same Constantine called a Councel at Aralatensis excluding Melciades out of it Where was then his Supremacie either in Spiritual or Temporal affairs Did not Damasus Siritius and Anastasius acknowledge Theodosius the elder their Supreme Lord and submitted unto him whenas Flavianus was accused before the Emperour for intruding into the See of Antioch who was by the Emperour freed against their wills as Theodor witnesses Lib. 5. cap. 23. Innocent the first obeyed Arcadius when he bid him call a Councel for the examination of Chrysostomes cause Gregory the Great being commanded to publish a Law made by Mauritius desired to be excused and shewed his reasons against it but those not prevailing he submitted and did publish the Law as appears by his Epist 61. lib. 2. cap. 100. S. Ambrose ante ch 10 S. Ambrose being commanded by Valentinian to allot a Church in Millain for the Arrians his answer was He would not willingly but being compelled he had learned not to resist And this is by some much pressed How that he did utterly withstand it How that he did excommunicate Theodosius the elder and made him do Penance For my part I do not credit the story for it is not likely that there was any such ruffling betwixt them whenas it appears by the testimony of all Writers that whenas Theodosius had freed the Empire from all troubles he retired himself to Mallain where S. Ambrose was Bishop and leaving off the charge of the Empire to his two sons Arcadius and Honorius he died in peace at Millain And certainly if there had been any such clashing betwixt them he would have made choice of some other place for his retirement Besides it doth not stand with S. Ambrose doctrine for he affirms Preces lachrymae sunt arma Ecclesiae He never taught that it was lawful to take vengeance upon the Supreme Magistrate as his Epist contr Auxentius doth witness He freeth Kings from all Laws made by man as appears in his book Apolog. David cap. 10. pag. 386. Rex nullis legibus tenetur humanis homini non peccavit David cui non tenetur abnoxius Now if he should inflict Penance upon the Emperour it was against this doctrine and so the Papists wrong S. Ambrose in fathering a practice upon him which was contrary to his profession Wherefore I suspect this tradition of the Church of Rome in this point that S. Ambrose should make Theodosius the Emperour do penance It may be he enjoyned Penance to Theodosius after he was become a private man during his retirement at Millain and after he had left off the Regiment of the Empire to his sons but that is no warrant for the Pope to do the like to the Emperour or any other King for that if he did so it was a punishment inflicted not upon the Emperour but upon Theodosius being a private man And as this makes nothing for the Pope in this particular point so may he not arrogate this by reason of his Universality granted by Phocas for that his predecessors never claimed or was it allowed or intended by the Emperour that he should have this power by vertue