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A03691	An ansvveare made by Rob. Bishoppe of VVynchester, to a booke entituled, The declaration of suche scruples, and staies of conscience, touchinge the Othe of the Supremacy, as M. Iohn Fekenham, by vvrytinge did deliuer vnto the L. Bishop of VVinchester vvith his resolutions made thereunto.	Horne, Robert, 1519?-1580.; Feckenham, John de, 1518?-1585.	1566 (1566)	STC 13818; ESTC S104234	173,274	272

as the Scripture knoweth not And y e matter wherabout that visitation is occupied for the moste part is directly against the Scriptures The personnes that may lawfully visit in your Canon Lawe visitation are Popes Legates from the side Legates sent and borne Legates and messengers of the Apostolike sea Patriarches Archebishoppes Bishoppes Archdecons Deanes Archepriestes Abbottes and other inferiour personnes hauinge iurisdiction All Archbishoppes whiche are Legates borne haue authority to visit their prouinces by double right to wit by right Legatiue and by right Metropolitane and so they may visit twyse in the yere All these visitours muste beginne their visitation with a solemne Masse of the holy ghost The Bishoppe and euery ordinary visitour must beginne his visitation at his Cathedrall churche and Chapter He must come into the Church where he visiteth and first kneele downe and pray deuoutly chiefly directinge his eyes and minde to the place wherein the honourable sacrament of Christes Bodie is hiddē and kepte The matters of the Canon Lawe visitation are in parte these The visitour ought to viewe diligētly whether the place where the Sacrament is kepte be cleane well garnished and close for the Eucharist and the holy Chrysme ought to be kept shut vnder locke and keye He must see that there be great lightes of waxe to geue light in that place Then must he visit the place of the holy reliques and of Baptisme And searche diligently what manner of place it is and whether it be kepte shut Besides this he muste visit the Aultares and litle Chappelles and must with his eies view he whole Church whether it be cleanly and cleane Then he must visit the vesselles and Church vestymentes whether they be cleane and kept in a cleane place as they ought to be and whether the vestymentes be ouermuche worne and broken and in case the visitour shall finde suche vestimentes vncleane rente and consumed with occupyinge he muste burne them in the fire and cause the ashes to be buried in some place whereby there is no passage But in any wise let him not suffer saith Socius purses or such like thinges to worldly vse to be made of the coopes or tunicles Last of all let him suruey the houses and possessions belonging to the Churche The Bishop dooth visit also to Bisshop enfantes and to consecrate or hallow Churches The visitour also shall enquire and examine whether any man knowe or beleeue or that the fame is that the Sexten the Treasurer or the Vesture keeper hath well and saufly kepte the vessels vestymentes and other thinges or ornamentes of the Churche as Masse bookes Grayles Antiphoners Legendes and other thinges appointed to diuine Seruice and whether any thinge moueable or vnmoueable be diminished and by whome wherefore whan and after what sorte whyther they be diligently present at the Dirigees for the dead And whether the vesture keeper or Sexten keepe warely and cleanely the Churche the Eucharist the Reliques the Founte the Churchyardes and suche other thinges And he shall examine the Priestes in the countrey in sayinge of their Masses But let euery visitour vnderstande saith mine authour that same the greatest quaestion or cōtrouersie which was betwixte three Rurall personnes or Priestes whereof two of thē stroue about the woordes of Consecration the one affirminge that the woordes are to be pronounced thus Hoc est corpus meus the other Hoc est corpus I thinke he should haue saide corpū meum These two chose a thirde Prieste who was taken to be better learned to be arbytour and to decide this high quaestiō ▪ whose answere was that he himselfe stoode euer doubtfull in this question and therefore insteede of these woordes of consecration did alwaies vse to say one Pater noster Furthermore the visitour must enquire whither the Layty make their cōfessiō once in the yeere and receiue the Eucharist at Easter And whether they be slowe or denie to paye their tythes and fruites The Archbisshop must in visiting any of his suffraganes exactly enquire and examine the Canōs and Clerkes of the Cath. Church whether they know beleeue or that the fame is that the Bishop hath couered and borne with some mens faultes for money or other tēporall cōmoditie Can you finde in y e Scriptures any one of these Visitours or any one of these weightie matters enquired of by Peter Iohn Paule Sylas Barnabas or by any of the Apostles in their Visitacions which were Scripturely Visitacions No surely it is not possible For these Idolatrous vanities are manifestly repugnante to the Holie Scriptures Amongest all the rable of these Canon Lawe Visitours ye can not finde in the Scriptures not so muche as the bare Title of one of them onelesse it bee of a Bishoppe whiche name applied to the man as the scriptures describeth the man that is called to that office can no more agree with a Cannon Lawe Bishoppe then with y e Ciuil lawe Bishop whose office was as it is sette forth in y e Digestes to haue the rule ouersight of al maner of victualles in the Cities as it were the chiefe clerke of the markets As the matter of the Apostles visitacions standeth directly against the greatest parte of the matter whereabout your Popish or Canon lawe visitacion is exercised Euen so the holy Scripture that you auouch for y e geuinge of y e holy Ghoste maketh nothing at all to proue your purpose For S. Luke in y e place speaketh not of an ordinary power that should remaine in the ministers of y ● churchfor euer but of a special gifte to woorke Myratles to geue that power to others which should continue but for the time whiles Christes Churche was to be erected and the woorde to be sounded thorough the worlde And therfore Chrisostome saieth That this gyfte perteyned onely to the Apostles For saith he the Conuertꝭ in Samaria had receiued before Peter and Iohn came the spirite of Remission of Sinnes But the spirite of Myracles that is the gyfte of tounges healinge propheciyng and such like which are the gyftes of the Holy Ghoste therefore are called the Holy Ghoste they had not as yet receiued There were many that by the power of Goddes spirite coulde woorke Myracles but to geue this power to others none coulde doo but the Apostles For that was propre and onely in them Marke nowe the sequele of your allegation for proufe of your purpose Thus you argue The Apostles gaue by the impositiō of their handes to the Samaritans the gyftes of Healinge Propheciynge of Tongues c. Therfore euery Bishop and priest hath power to geue the same gyftes to their flockes and cures There was neuer none so blinde or ignorantly brought vp in your cures belongynge to the Abbay of Westminster but that did well perceiue that neither your Bishoppes Abbottes or Priestes had or coulde do any suche seate They like Apes imitated the outwarde signe or ceremonie but the inwarde grace they wanted

Catholique Churche notified in the order of this general Councell the supreme gouernment in Ecclesiasticall causes is in the Emperour and ciuill Magistrates your opinion condemned by the vniforme agreement of 318. of the most Catholique Bishoppes in the worlde commendinge and allowynge for moste godly what so euer the Emperour did in or about this councell The occasion of this famous and moste godly councell was the great dissention kindled partly about a necessary Article of our beliefe partly about a ceremony of the Churche Arius incensed with ambitious enuie againste Alexander his Bishop at Alexandria who disputed in one of his lessons or treatises more subtily of the diuinitie than aduisedly as the Emperour layeth to his chardge quarelled Sophistically against him and mainteined an horrible Heresie Besides this the Churches were also deuided amongest them selues aboute the order or ceremony of kéepinge the Easter daie The Emperour sente Hosius with his letters as I saide before into the Easte parties to appeace the furious dissention about bothe these matters and to reconcile the parties dissentynge But when this duetifull seruice of the Emperour tooke not that effect whiche he wisshed and hoped for then as Sozomenus writeth he summoned a councell to be holden at Nice in Bythinia and wrote to all the chiefe Mynisters of the Churches euery where commaundinge them that they shoulde not fayle to bée there at the day appoynted The selfe same also dothe Theodoretus affirme bothe touchynge the occasion and also the summons made by the Emperour Eusebius also writinge the life of Constantine sheweth with what carefulnes the godly Emperour endeuoured to quenche these fiers And when the Emperour saieth Eusebius sawe that he preuailed nothing by sending of Hosius with his letters Considering this matter with him selfe saide that this warre against the obscure enemy troubling the Churche must be vanquished by an other meaning hym selfe Therefore as the capitaines of Goddes armie towardes his voyage he gathered together a Synode oecumenical and he called the Byshoppes together by his honorable letters and that they should hasten themselues from euery place These thinges touching the occasion and calling of this generall counsaile by the Emperour are affirmed to be true also by Nicephorus the Ecclesiasticall historian Yea the whole counsayll in their letters to the Churches in Aegipt and the East partes doo testifie the same Synode to be called by the Emperour saiyng The great and holy Synode was gathered together at Nice by the grace of God and the moste religious Emperour Constantine c. The Bishoppes as I said before when they thought them selues or their Churche iniuried by others were wont to appeale and flie vnto the Emperour as the supreme gouernour in al matters and causes Temporall or Spirituall the whiche appeareth moste playne to be the practise of the Church by these Bishops called vnto the Nicene counsaill For when they came to Nice supposing them selues to haue nowe good oportunitie beyng nighe vnto the Emperour to reuenge their priuate quarelles and to haue redresse at the Emperours handes of suche iniuries as they thought them selues to susteyne at others byshops handes eche of them gaue vnto the Emperour a Libell of accūsatiōs signifiyng what wronges he had susteyned of his felowe Bishoppes and prayed ayde and redresse by his iudgement The Emperour forseyng that these pryuate quarelings if they were not by some policy and wyse deuise sequestred and layde aside would muche hynder the common cause tooke deliberation appointing a day against the which they shuld be in a readines and commaunded them to prepare and bring vnto him all their libelles and quarelling accusations one against an other Marke by the waie the craft and practise of Sathan to stay and ouerthrow good purposes that euen the godly fathers and Bishoppes wanted not their great infirmities preferring their own priuate trifles before the weighty causes of Gods Churche And the wisdome zeale and humblenes of this moste christiā Emperour who so litle estemed his own honour and authoritie that he wold rather seeme to be inferiour or for the time no more than equall with his subiectes to the ende he might by his humbling of him selfe aduance and exalt Gods glory to the edifiyng and quietnes of his Churche The day came whiche was the day before the first Session should be in the councell as Socrates saith the Bishoppes did not sleape their owne matters but had their billes in a readines and deliuered them vnto the Emperour This vigilant noursefather vnto Gods Churche had cared and deuised so diligently for the common cause as the Bishoppes had doon for their priuate quarelles and therefore when he had receiued their Libelles very politiquely saieth bicause he woulde irritate none of them for that tyme That the daie of generall iudgement should be a fitte time for these accusations and Christe the Iudge then woulde iudge all men As for me it is not leafull to take vpon me the iudgement of suche Priestes accused and accusing one an other Whereunto neuertheles he added this priuy nippe to pynche them withall For of all other thinges saith he this is least seemely that Bishoppes shoulde shewe them selues suche as ought to be iudged of others And so caused the Libelles to be cast into the fire giuing them an earnest exhortation to peace and quietnes The next daye after after they assembled at the Emperours palayce he commaunded them to go into the councell house to consult of the matter the councell house was within Themperours pallayce trimly furnished with seates aptly ordred for suche purpose as it were in rowes They entred in and wayted without any doinges till the comming of the Emperour whose seate was of gold placed at the first beginning of the rowes who being entred and placed in his feate maketh an oration vnto them declaring the contētions sprong vp amongest them selues to be the occasion wherfore he called them togither and the ende is saith he that this disease might be healed through my ministery After this he maketh an earnest exhortatiō mouing them to quietnes forgiuing one an other for Christ commaundeth saieth he that who will receiue pardon at his hande shall also forgiue his brethren After this moste graue exhortation to vnitie and concorde in truthe he giueth them leaue to consult of the matters in hande prescribeth vnto them a rule whereby they muste measure trie and discusse these and all other suche disputations and controuersies in matters of Religion to witte Sanctissimi spiritus doctrinam praescriptam The doctrine of the moste holy spirite before writen For saieth he the bookes of the Euangelistes and of the Apostles and also the prophecies of the olde Prophetes doo euidently teache vs of Goddes meaning VVherefore laiyng a syde al discorde of enemitie let vs take the explications of our questions out of the saiyngs of the holy Ghost When the parties waxed warme in the disputations and the contention somwhat sharp then