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A08326	An antidote or treatise of thirty controuersies vvith a large discourse of the Church. In which the soueraigne truth of Catholike doctrine, is faythfully deliuered: against the pestiferous writinges of all English sectaryes. And in particuler, against D. Whitaker, D. Fulke, D. Reynolds, D. Bilson, D. Robert Abbot, D. Sparkes, and D. Field, the chiefe vpholders, some of Protestancy, some of puritanisme, some of both. Deuided into three partes. By S.N. Doctour of Diuinity. The first part.; Antidote or soveraigne remedie against the pestiferous writings of all English sectaries	S. N. (Sylvester Norris), 1572-1630.	1622 (1622)	STC 18658; ESTC S113275	554,179	704

O Peter enioy thy primacy and rare preheminence glory in thy dignity graunted thee by Christ and be alwayes vigilant ouer his flocke Raigne O supreme Pastour raigne thou still as head vnder him as leader of his campe as Prince of his people and that which now thou canst not performe by thy self discharge at least by thy successor the Pope of Rome in whose care and vigilancy the exercise of thy function still continueth as the subsequent Treatise shall declare THE ELEVENTH CONTROVERSY VPHOLDETH The Popes Supremay against D. Bilson and D. Reynoldes CHAP. I. MASTER BILSON treading the sleps of his fore-father Caluin requireth Bils par 1. p. 10 4. of vs to proue three things before we install the Pope in his Pontificall Sea First You must shew saith he That Peter was Supreme Gouernour of all the Church Next that this dignity was not proper to Peters Person but common to Peters Successour c. Lastly you must shew which of Peters Chaires must haue Bilson ibi Peters Priuiledge that is why Rome rather then Antioch or as Caluin vrgeth rather then Ierusalem where Christ died Caluin l. 4. ●nst c. 6. § 21. and yielded vp as it were the visible head-ship of his Church I am content to obserue this method and satisfie him in these three points The first I haue already demonstrated in the precedent Treatise the second and third I am now to declare 2. Touching the second the wordes which Christ spake the reasons which moued him to impart a Supremacy to Peter do consequently conuince it be deuolued to his Successour The words of Christ are these Thou art Peter vpon this Rocke will I build my Church c. My Church Mat. 16. saith he not a patt or portion of his Church not that part only which florished in Peters daies but all his whole Church which euer was since Christ his time or euer shall be vntill the end of the world But this could not be Chrysost Demonstr quod Christus fit Deus Ioan 21. built vpon Peter in his owne person he being deceased so many yeares agoe therefore it must be builded vpon some other insteed of Peter and so as Iohn Chrysostome eloquently discourseth still continue In like manner when our Sauiour said to Peter Pasce oues meas Feede my Sheepe did he not command him to feed all his Sheepe did he not lay a charge vpon him which he should neuer forgoe Chiefly seeing the office of a Pastour is an ordinary and perpetuall office and as long as there are any Sheepe to be fed so long there ought to be some Pastour to feed them which because Peter performed not in his owne person these many hundred yeares there must needes be some other to execute it in his roome in respect of whom S. Peter may be still said to accomplish his duty and feed the Sheepe entrusted to his charge Whereupon Ieo s●r 2. de sua assumpt S. Leo writeth of Peter In whom the care of all Pastours with the custody of the Sheepe committed vnto him still perseuereth and whose worthy dignity in his vnworthy Successour faileth not In the Councell of Calcedon when an Epistle of Leo the Pope Concil Calcedon act 2. act 3. was read all the Fathers cried out that Peter spake by the mouth of Leo. And when sentence was pronounced against Dioscorus the Patriarch of Alexandria the whole Councell deliuered that Leo endued with the authority of Peter the Apostle deposed Dioscorus 3. Whereby it is euident that the Pastorall priuiledge granted to Peter was not restrayned to him but extended to others not giuen him as a priuate but as a publike person and therefore still to continue to them that succeed I presume you are not ignorant that a King being a publike person still continueth that he is said in the Law neuer to dy and the dignities granted to him are common to all the heyres and inheritours of Stow in his Chronicle in the yeare of our Lord 1521. pag. 865. his crowne As the thrice worthy Title of Defender of the Faith giuen to King Henry the eight by Leo the tenth Pope of that name for writing against Luther descended to king Edward passed to Queene Mary and Queene Elizabeth and now perseuereth in our most potent and dreadfull Soueraigne King Iames. The honour likewise M. Bilson enioyeth of being Prelate of the Garter is annexed to his Sea and deriued to him from his Predecessors The same is seene not only in Titles and Prerogatiues of honour but in priuiledges also of power imparted to Citties Dukedoms Common-wealths or publike Magistrates both Ecclesiasticall and Temporall who as they neuer faile so neither the honours dignities and prerogatiues they once enioy Such was the Primacy communicated vnto Peter not personall but publike Chrysolog in epist a● Euty●h Read S. Aug. in Psal 44. vpon those words For thy Fathers Sonnes are born to thee that is For Apostls Bishops succeding in their roome not proper to him but common to his Successours in whom he euen now suruiueth speaketh and feedeth the Sheepe of Christ with the food of heauenly doctrine as S. Peter Chrysologus Bishop of Rauenna declareth writing thus in his daies Blessed Peter who liueth and gouerneth in his owne proper seat deliuereth the verity of faith to them that seeke it 4. The reasons which caused our blessed Redeemer to aduance Peter to this soueraigne dignity were all for the behoofe and benefit of the Church First to preuent schismes Secondly to appease dissensions Thirdly to settle it in peace Fourthly to endow it with a most perfect forme of a Common-wealth All which enforce that it was not a priuate grace annexed to Peters person but a publike priuiledge conueyed to his Successours For if these things be now as behoofull and necessary to the Church as then why should she not still enioy them Is Christ become lesse carefull of his Church then heretofore Or hath this faultlesse Virgin the pure Spouse of our Lord committed any fault by which she should be depriued of the benefit he bestowed vpon her If she be the same well ordered Campe how is she disappointed of her guide and Captaine If the same Ship how sayleth she without a Pilot If the same body how is she separated from her Head How is she become so prodigious a monster as to haue a visible body with an inuisible head because if none succeeded Peter the visible body of the Church hath had this long time no other then Christ Titus Liuius The Protestants will haue the church first gouerned by Christ alone next by the Apostles then by al Bishops after by Kings and Free stats whē they were conuerted to the faith by Queen Elizabeth a woman by King Edward a Child Dan. 2. Luc. 1. her inuisible head 5. If none succeeded Peter the whole state of the Church is altered and changed changed from a Monarchy to Aristocracy from the administration of one

In 6. Syn. gen act 4. 9. ●6 with Sergius with the Monothelites their wills and operations who for this cause are enrolled in the rancke of heretikes and aboue 1000. yeares ago condemned by Pope Agatho in the sixt generall Councell 23. Wherefore to draw to an end I intreate you all who peruse this Treatise if the filth sucked out these miry puddles haue not dammed vp the passage of truth if these dregges of heresyes haue not quenched in you all sparkes of grace renounce the Patrons of such iniquity beware the infection of their folly the fury of them who proclaime Christ a Priest Christ a Mediatour according to his Deity and acknowledge with vs how he dischargeth these dutyes only as man notwithstanding how his actions his Sacrifice his prayers and teares were all of infinite and incomparable merit through the excellency of his diuine person Which I would to God his Royall Maiesty would also vnderstand for whose worthy satisfaction I haue diligently laboured to decide this question THE TENTH CONTROVERSY DEMONSTRATETH The Primacy of S. Peter against D. Bilson and D. Reynoldes CHAP. I. ARISTOTLE the chiefe and Prince Arist ● 3. polit ● 5. 6. 7 of Philosophers assigneth three seuerall manners of gouerning a Common-Wealth For eyther many of the meaner sort beare sway or some few of the Nobility or only one as absolute Soueraigne If many it is called Democracy if few Aristocracy if one a Monarchy The first is often ruined with the tumults and garboyles of the vnconstant and diuersly-headed multitude The second commonly deuided with the strifes and factions of the ambitious Peeres The third as it is lesse subiect S. Thom. de regim principum l. 1. cap. 1. 23. ● to diuision so most conuenient as S. Thomas learnedly noteth to order guide and keepe many in peace and vnity the finall scope to which all gouernments should be directed and all rulers ayme 2. Whereupon Plato Aristotle Isocrates and diuers other affirme in peace in warre in managing al affaires Plato in polit Arist l. 3. polit c. 11. 12. l. 4. cap. 2. Isocrates oratione 3. this to be the most diuine forme of a Common-Wealth where one most singular man hath the supreme power and administration of things which both God and Nature confirmeth For in the mystery of the most holy Trinity there is the Father from whom the Sonne and the Holy Ghost who from the Father and the Sonne as from one only origen or beginning proceedeth They euery way equall in properties distinct in Persons three are only one in ouer-ruling and disposing all things Amongst the immortall spirits and quires of Angels there is one illuminated by God who giueth light to the rest In the Heauens there is one first moueable by which the inferiour orbes and planets are moued One Sunne from whence the light of the Stars is borrowed and influence of the signes in the Zodiacke determined In earthly thinges in this little world of man there is one hart from which the arteryes and vitall spirits one braine from whence the sinewes one lyuer from which the veines channels of bloud haue their head or of-spring in euery element there is one predominate quality Amongst the birdes the Eagle among the beasts the Lyon among the fishes the Whale doth also dominier In Trees Cyprian tract do Idolorum ●anitate Hearbes and Plants in Townes Villages Families priuate Houses the like head-ship or Monarchy might be shewed if it were not too long for my professed breuity in so much as S. Cyprian writeth The very Bees haue their guide and captaine whome they follow Apo. 2● 2. Cant. 6. 3. Mat. 13. v. 38. 41. Ioan. 10. 16. Luc. 10. 34. 1. Tim. 3. ●● 3. Now sith the Church of Christ militant vpon earth is a perfect yet spirituall Common-wealth sith it is An holy Citty A campe well ordered and established by the wisest Captaine Gouernour and Law-maker that euer was Who doubteth but that he placed in it the most worthy Regiment of all others that Monarchicall preheminence which in all his other creatures so perfectly raigneth especially for that he resembleth it to A kingdome to A sheepefold to An Inne to An House in which one King one Pastour one Host one Maister beareth sway For that it ought to be correspondent to the ancient Mat. 16. 18. 19. Synagogue in which one High-priest answerable to the celestiall hierarchies and orders of Angels among whom one Seraphim is chief And who was this visible Monarch this Ministeriall head of the Church vnder Christ but S. Peter To whom our Sauiour said Thou art Peter and vpon this Rocke will I build my Church and the gates of Hell shall not preuaile against it And I will giue to thee the Keyes of the Kingdome of Heauen and whatsoeuer thou shalt binde vpon earth it shall be bound also in the Heauens and whatsoeuer thou shall loose in Earth it shall be loosed also in the Heauens In which sētence foure rare prerogatiues are promised vnto Peter and by euery one of them his supereminent dignity aboue the rest of the Apostles manifestly declared 4. For first he calleth him Rocke by which Metaphore he doth insinuate that he as a Rocke or Stone vnmoueable Amb. ser 47. Orig. hom 5. in Exod. saith S. Ambrose vpholdeth the whole weight and fabrike of Christian worke That he saith Origen is the great foundation or most solide stone vpon which Christ builded his Church Secondly he addeth To thee I will giue the Keyes of the Kingdome of Heauen by which words is signified all power to enact or repeale Lawes sommon or confirme Councels appoint or displace offices consecrate or degrade Bishops all power and authority which is requisite for the rule gouernment or instruction of the Church For euen as when the keyes of a Citty are giuen vp to the Magistrate the administration and rule of the State is surrendred into Greg. l. 4. epi. 32. Luc. 11. 52. Apoc. 1. v. 18. his hands so now when the Keyes of the kingdome of Heauen are imparted to Peter The whole charge and principality of the Church as S. Gregory writeth is committed vnto him And whereas there be two sorts of Keyes the Key of knowledge to teach and instruct of which S. Luke You haue taken away the Key of knowledge and the Key of authority and iurisdiction to guide and gouerne whereof S. Iohn speaketh I haue the Keyes of death and of Hell and Esay I will giue the Key of the house of Dauid vpon his shoulder Both these Keyes were here delegated vnto Peter by Isa 21. v. 22. It was vsuall amongst the Hebrewes to giue power and authority by the Keyes vid. Azor. Insti mor. p. 2. c. 9. the one he had the Chaire of infallible doctrine to decide all controuersies and define all matters of faith by the other the scepter of Ecclesiasticall gouernment to rule order correct and