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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

subiect and obedient to all ordinaunce of man for the Lords sake whether it be vnto the King as vnto the superiour or vnto the gouernours as vnto them that are sent of him for the punishment of euil doers and for the praise of them that doe well Rom. 13. As saint Paul did warne the Romanes and in the Romanes all Christians Let euery soule be subiect vnto the higher powers for there is no power but of God and the powers that be are ordeined of God Who so euer therefore resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God and they that resist shall receiue to themselues iudgement These lessons of Christe of Peter of Paul the ancient bishops of Rome did shewe by their example they thought them to pertaine not only to the laitie but also to the cleargie not only to the poorest but also to the richest Bishops They thought the same which Chrysostome doth write vpon Saint Paul that obedience to Princes is commanded to all estates Omnis anima potestatibus supereminentibus sit subdita Chrisostom in Epist ad Roma homilia 23. etiamsi Apostolus sis si Euangelista si propheta siue quisquis tandem fueris Neque enim pietatē subuertit ista subiectio Let euery soule be subiect to the higher powers though thou be an Apostle saith Chrisostome though an Euangelist though a prophet for godlines is not empaired by this obedience and subiection They thought that Constantine did the duetie of a godly Emperour who when a councel of Bishops assembled at Tyrus had wrongfully and vniustly condemned Athanasius he commanded them all to come to him spéedily at Constantinople that you may proue saith he Historia tripartit lib. 3. Cap. 7. the soundnesse and vprightnes of your sentence and iudgement Coram me quem proprium esse Dei ministrum neque vos negabitis Before me whome your selues can not denie to be the true and right seruant of God But after that the successors of Boniface had felt the sauour of the supremacie neither our sauiour Christes example nor his Apostles authoritie nor the iudgement of the fathers nor the practise of the godly bishops coulde kepe the Pope within his boundes in subiection to the Emperour but he exempted first himself from his power afterward al the cleargie and lastly brought the Emperour in subiection to him self taking the two swordes vpon him the spirituall and the temporall Then ceased the Popes to call the Emperours their Lords Greg. Episto lib. 4. cap. 76. passim as Gregorie the first did call them after his godly predecessors and they beganne to call them their sonnes and their children as nowe they vse to write vnto them Then did they make decrees that the ciuil magistrate should haue nought to deale with any of the cleargie Nouell constitut Iustinian where as before Iustinian the Emperour did gouerne and rule the highest of them as his lawes do shew the which are yet extant Then did they count them selues the onely Vicars of God on earth not acknowledging that in Princes which Eleutherius did in Lucius the auncient kinge of Englande whome he willed as Gods Vicar within his own kingdome to drawe him lawes out of the scriptures there by to rule his owne subiectes Then did they forbid that bishoprickes and spirituall liuinges shoulde be taken at the handes of lay mē no not of Emperours they made them selues Lords of them and therefore did condemne both such as gaue them otherwise and such as receiued them To be short they grewe to such outrage of presumption of rebelliō of ryot of tyrannie of extortiō of lust and all enormities that a man might knowe the trée by the fruites and the wise must néede abhorre that supremacie out of the which such villanies and abhominations did springe into the worlde Chap. 13. What fruites did springe out of the supremacie wherein the wicked mischiefes and abominatiōs of the Popes liues and dealinges are touched by their owne writers THese fruites of the supremacy of the Romane Byshoppes woulde be considered further in their liues and doings which if I shoulde endeuor to runne them ouer all such as pertaine vnto this purpose I shoulde neuer make an ende Wherefore I will touch but onely certaine of the chiefest as it were for a tast noting out of them as neere as I can the very naturall fruites of the Romish supremacie Amongest the which first there commeth in place their contention and ambition in procuring of the Popedome for the which there hath ben cōmonly such corruption such bribery such debate such imprisoning murthering poysoning all euill meanes vsed betwixt them that in Platina their owne secretarie and writer of their liues it is a common note in verie many of them that they were made Popes some by Mars some by monie some by fauour of friendes some by power of noble men some by sorcerie and magike some by like pollicies of the Deuill Platina in Iohanne 10. Pontifices ipsi a Petri vestigijs discesserant saith Platina The Byshoppes of Rome were now departed from Peters steppes Which complainte he doth make vppon occasion of their hatred conceyued by one of them against another through their ambition For Iohn the ix was vexed by Martine the seconde so that being imprisoned he was faine to escape by flight Martine the seconde made Pope through euill meanes did restore Formosus whome Iohn had depryued Afterwarde Formosus getting the rome by bryberie came in by periurie vnto it and liued in it accordingly Steuen the sixt that succéeded him did abrogate and repeale al the actes of Formosus whose body he digged also out of his graue cut off his two fingers wherewith he hallowed Priestes and cast them into the riuer After Steuen came Romanus Theodorus and Iohn the tenth who did repeale the actes of Steuen and restored Formosus actes to full authoritie againe Which villanous dealing of them one against an other enforceth Platina him selfe Platina in Formos 1. Stephan 6. Romano 1. Benedicto 4. Christophero 1. c. though otherwise fauouring the Popes to breake out into these complaintes that the vertue and honestie of the Bishops of Rome nowe was decayed that they did aspire and attaine vnto the office by ambition and briberie that hereof did spring their hatred one against an other when they were put beside it that of this hatred there a rose a cōmon custome which was almost kept alwayes afterward that what the former Bishops had done decréed their successors would either wholy or in part take away that these petie Popes for so he doeth call them did thinke of nothinge else but how they mighte deface the name and dignitie of their predecessors by repealing of their actes that when the Church did waxe wanton with honor and wealth there being no prince in Rome to represse mens wickednesse the loose licentiousnesse of sinne did bring foorth these beasts who through ambition and briberie did inuade the sée of