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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17511	A briefe treatise, conteynynge a playne and fruitfull declaration of the Popes vsurped primacye, written in Greeke aboue. vij. hundred yeres sens, by Nilus, an ancient archbyshop of Thessalonia and newly tra[n]slated into englyshe by Thomas Gressop student in Oxforde. Pervsed and allovved accordyng to the Quenes maiesties iniunctions; Peri tēs archēs tou papa. English	Cabasilas, Nicolaus, 14th cent.; Gressop, Thomas.	1560 (1560)	STC 4325; ESTC S107398	21,793	62

the rome of the Pope in the said sinode Moreouer it is manifest in that the sinode calleth it selfe alwais vniuersall And it had not ben true so great a company of bishops wold haue feared to be taken in a manyfeste lye Besides that the .vii. holy synode sayth in the first decree therof We willingly gladly imbrace the godly cōstitutiōs and we confirme their stedfast and vndefyled authoritie as those that the trumpettes of the holy ghoste hath ordeyned that is to saye the apostles and holy fathers that haue bene gathered togither in dyuers places for the selfe same purpose For they inspired with the spirite of god decreed those thynges that they thought profytable Whome they accursed we accurse also whome they haue suspēded we suspend whom they haue deposed we depose And to be short when they by any other meanes dydde punyshe we also doo taxe in lyke maner Sainct Paule who was taken vp into the thyrd heauen and to whom those thynges were reueled that are not laufull to bee spoken of cryeth out that the maners of the holye ought to be farre from all couetousnes and that they shulde be content with their owne estate and condition Therfore seynge that neyther the .vi. Synode at the first comyng togyther neither the seuenth hath meddled with the constitutions of the apostles and the names of the .vi. vniuersall synodes but the sayd sixthe synode being iterate and renewed hath supplied the defecte therof it is manyfest that the .vii. Synode speaketh of the canons of the said .vi. counsel More ouer where as the Synode accursethe those that regarde not the authoritie of the decrees Is it not a terrible thyng yea is it not ynough to moue any stony hart Besides that the bishop of Rome hym selfe so long as he agreed with the churches of the east dyd so muche approue and allow the decrees of this synode that Adrian the fyrst wrytyng to Taratius archebishop of Constantinople with great admiration cōmendeth hym bycause he dyd so constantely obserue these decrees Whiche may appere by the very wordes of his epistle whiche forth with I wyll alledge We doo perceaue sayth he by the synodall epistle how earnest your profession is in the right faith and how great a zele ye haue towardes the holy congregations and the .vi. holy Synodes and towardes the venerable and sacred Images whyche surely is wonderfull and wrothy great admiration Wherin it is playnely to be seene that in the laudable godly and right canons of the sixte synode that worshipful picture is allowed in which the lambe shewed by demonstration with the finger of the precursor is liuelie expressed which beinge receued of vs as a figure of grace doth represent vnto vs the true lambe by the lawe that is to wete Christ him selfe Therfore we receauyng the olde fygures sygnes and shadowes as tokens of the truthe and markes geuen to the churche dooe acknowledge the grace and truth as they that thynke it to be the fulnes of the law To the end therfore that that image may in liuely coloures he expressed to all mens eyes whiche representeth in manhoode the lambe that taketh away the synnes of the worlde that is to say our God we thynke good that from hensefoorth instede of the olde lambe there be a newe erected in the churches of God to the intent that we maye consyder the raysynge vp of the basenes of gods word and he put in mynde of that common welthe wherein he lyued in the flesshe and also be led as it were by the hande to the contemplation of his Passion and moste wholsome deathe by whiche the freedome of the worlde was purchased That therfore this cannon was alowed of Pope Adrian and that it is the .lxxiii. of the synode now mencioned the autenticall bookes do testifie But no man can sufficiently meruayle at the vnstedfastnesse and lyghtnesse of the Popes adherentes not only for that they nowe hate and deteste the holye generall counselles whyche sommetyme they allowed but also that the Popes theym selues are at varyaunce one with an other For as wee reade euen nowe Pope Adrian meruaylousely commendethe these decrees but Innocentius or some other reiecteth theym If any manne wyll affirme that the Pope is not subiecte to the lawes and rules of the Fathers he trewelye in no wyse is to bee suffered For that were moste vnwoorthy that the Pope shoulde not esteeme the Fathers by whome he hathe obteyned that dygnytie of prehemynence whereof we spake beefore Moreouer yf the Pope contempne decrees he despiseth his owne authoritie for he hymselfe hathe made many and so by the testimonye of Paule he maketh hymselfe an offender But we haue shewed and declared that he is bounde to gyue accompte bothe of his doctrine and also of his other gouernance and regiment ecclesiasticall so that he is of necessitie subiecte to the constitutions of the fathers and counsels Certainly it were not right that any man shuld reuerence the Pope as a Father seyng that he hymselfe regardeth nought so many holy Fathers Nowe the Popes adherentes saye that he is not byshop of any one place but that he is symply a Byshop that is to say Byshop of all the world Wherin truely they speake against the truth For fyrst we haue proued already that he is of one degree with other bishops and as a man woulde say in one order with theym Besyde that the synodes when by occasion they make mention of hym as it oftetymes happeneth alwaies they call hym Byshop of Rome So that yf he be byshop of Rome he is out of doubt a bishop of some determinate place onlesse perhappes any man deny Rome to be a certayne place but per aduenture some man wyll say that the Pope when he writeth to other termeth not hymselfe bysshop of Rome but symply a byshop wherby he declareth hym selfe to bee byshop of no one certayne place but of all the worlde To whom we may answer that he attempteth to proue matters of most importaunce with ouer lyght I wyll not say triflyng reasons Whiche kynde of profe yf we would vse we myghte more easily ouerthrowe the Popes dignitie then they establyshe the same For where as he nameth hymselfe by the vsed name of the common dignitie a byshop and not Pope neyther chiefe of all priestes with the whiche and other lyke titles his adherentes flatter hym it is a taken that the Pope hymselfe acknowledgeth his owne estate and testifieth the same foorthewith by his title But neyther we mynde to striue with suche stronge reasons in so weighty a matter agaynst the Pope neither he in vsyng these argumentes doth any more preuayl then if he shuld attempt to wrethe a rope of sande For if there wer so great force in this kynd of reasonyng then Cyrillus also shuld haue such highnes in honor y t he shuld be byshop of all the worlde yea that so much the sooner then the Pope in that he is