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A00670	A treatise against the necessary dependance vpon that one head, and the present reconciliation to the Church of Rome Together with certaine sermons preached in publike assemblies, videlicet 1. The want of discipline. 2. The possession of a king. 3. The tumults of the people. 4. The mocke of reputation. 5. The necessitie of the Passion. 6. The wisdome of the rich. By Roger Fenton Doctor of Diuinitie, late preacher of Graies Inne.	Fenton, Roger, 1565-1616.; Utie, Emmanuel, d. 1661.	1617 (1617)	STC 10805; ESTC S102068	104,035	162

or any of the Apostles The onely colour I finde that Peter Iames and Iohn made Iames the lesse Bishop of Ierusalem as Eusebius and others doe record not Bishop but Bishop of Ierusalem giuing him an especiall care of that Church Iames was Bishop before saies Bellarmine It s included in his Apostolike power A Bishop may be a Bishop though hee be design'd to no place nay though he be an heretique capable of no place yet he may ordaine Quis enim Catholicorum ignorat Ordinatos ab haereticis verè esse Ordinatos quando Ordinator haeretieus verè Episcopus fuerat adhuc erat saltem quantum ad Caracterem Is it possible any indifferent minde should beleeue it that the Euangelist St. Iohn that Eagle of the new Testament could not ordaine Polycarpus or any in the Churches of Asia without Peters leaue or that Paul could not ordaine Timothy vnlesse he had power from Peter This is the last refuge If it will not hold Maxima pars Episcoporum non deducet originem suam a Petro. The greater part of Bishops haue not their originall from Peter Then the Church of Rome is not that onely Church but there may be saluation without it So the question is at an end TRACT Vlt. THese issues and desperate distinctions are forced from them Bel lib. 1.23 de R. P. Quia passim docent veteres Romanam Ecclesiam esse matrem omnium Ecclesiarum ab ea omnes Episcopos habuisse consecrationem dignitatem suam quod non esset verum nistin eo sensu quod Petrus qui Episcopus fuit Romanus omnes Apostolos omnesque alios Episcopos ordinauit because it is the mother Church it is therefore so you see them driuen to this issue 2 It is conceited that Christ intends nothing in Peter aboue his fellowes but onely that the successors of Rome may be great who are not once mentioned or prophecied of in Scripture Cyrus prophecyed by name should not the holy Ghost neyther by Peter nor any other giue vs some inkling of him vnder whose wings alone we must seek saluation except wee will haue him mentioned vnder the title of Antichrist wee haue it not The Church of Rome is spoken of by Paul hee glories as if it were his Church in the first chapter to the Romanes Rom. 1.4 Peter doth not so much as once name it vnlesse they will haue it vnder the name of Babilon 3 Bellarmine doth ingenuously giue ouer Scripture in the entrance to the first booke and the three and twentith chapter diuiding it from the rest Hactenus quae ex diuinis literis colliguntur addemus nunc quae ex varijs authoribus decerpsimus A man will hardly hazard his estate vpon so nice a difference without maxim bookcase or any authority in Law and should wee relye our soules vpon so narrow so new and so perplexed a Diuine In this great point as we are directed so let vs looke vpon that place in the Corinthians 1. Cor. 4.6 That no man presume aboue that which is written and then we shall find that in the Ephesians Eph. 2.19 Now therefore wee are no more strangers and forreiners or heretiques but Citizens with the Saints and of the houshold of God and are built vpon the foundation of Apostles and Prophets Iesus Christ himselfe being the head corner stone Let this bee euer our hold and wee shall neuer fall And to conclude let vs goe on euen with our aduersaries so farre as they leade vs in the right way but if they carry vs into vnknowne tractes and dangerous passages let vs there protest a separation from them and then we shal shew our selues to be right Protestants indeed Let vs looke also with a vigilant eye as some religious men did after corruption grew thicke vpon that Church and then wee shall see that wee cannot communicate with her in this point and others which she professes and practises without shipwrack of conscience which corruptions if we should reckon they would swell beyond the proportion of our present proiect which if a simple man cannot behold when he is assaulted by the Bishop of that Sea for present reconciliation let him ingenuously plead ignorance rather then yeeld and tell him plainely he knowes him not and that his mind is bent to know God and himselfe if he haue any reference to God hee will acknowledge him in his due place In the meane time we pray for diuine knowledge out of the scriptures that the beames of that celestiall light may double her reflection vpon our hearts and so warme our affections with the loue of the Truth that wee may bring forth the fruits of it in a Christian Life Amen Deo Trino vni Gloria FINIS A MOTIVE DEDICATED TO THE Honourable Society of the Gentry in Grayes Inne by E. 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RIGHT WORTHY GENTLEMEN ALL this Treatise stands vpon that Vnion spoken of by St. Paul to the Ephesians Ephes 4.4 There is one body and one spirit euen as you are called in one Hope of your Vocation One Lord one Faith one Baptisme one God and Father of you all which is aboue all and through all and in you all To preuent distraction and preserue the vnity of the Church To limit out the naturall branches besides those that are cut off by schismes or pared away by the censures of the Church to set out the truth of the Redeemer according to the Doctrine of Faith and the couenant of Baptisme here are the bonds of peace combined in one head not in the Church which had their circular Epistles written for communion Coloss 4.16 Acts 15.6 nor in the Synods of the Church which had their Councels for the composing of diuisions These are but confirmations no beginnings of that vnity which is pretended A peace there is pretended or as the Author saies a reconciliation what peace saith Iehu to Iezabel Pacem do vobis pacem meam Relinquo vobis sufficit Domine pacem quam tu relinquis excipio Relinquo quod Retines Giue mee leaue to set these feete of durt vpon that golden image of him whom you did admire and I doe imitate he did conuince you let me onely moue you by that which followes Vpon that Scripture there are 3. things grounded 1. That the Church is vnited in Christ 2. After him in Peter 3. after Peter in the successours of Rome In the two last poynts he ioynes an issue and findes that vnity of a visible head and that Vna Sancta Catholica Ecclesia Decreto Bonif. in the Decretall and that subiection thrust vpon euery creature with a Declaramus dicimus definimus esse de necessitate salutis not to be trust vp in One when we haue done I hope this thirteenth article shall be thrust out of our Creede First for Peter The same reprehension Mat. 20 26 Mat 9 23 Mat 19 28 Rev 21 17 Acts 1. Acts 8 14. the same commission the same promise the same glory