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A14012	A letter written by Cutbert Tunstall late Byshop of Duresme, and Iohn Stokesley sometime Byshop of London sente vnto Reginalde Pole, Cardinall, then beynge at Rome, and late byshop of Canterbury.	Tunstall, Cuthbert, 1474-1559.; Stokesley, John, 1475?-1539. aut; Pole, Reginald, 1500-1558.	1560 (1560)	STC 24321; ESTC S111452	16,182	66

not exercise the chief office of the church in preaching and ministring of the sacramentes it is not requisite in euery body naturall that the heade shall exercyse ether al maner of offices of the body or the chiefe office of the same For albeit the heade is the highest and chiefe member of the naturall body yet the distribucion of life to al the mēbers of the body aswel tothe heade as to other members cometh from the hearte and is minister of lyfe to the whole body as the chief acte of the body This similitude yet hath not his ful place in a mystical body although the scripture speaking of kyng Saule saieth Cum esses paruulus in oculis tuis constituite caput in tribubus Israel When thou wert but of smale reputation in thine owne eies I made the head amongst the trybes of Israell And if a Kinge amongst the Iewes were Caput in tribubus Israël hoc est hominum videntium Deum per vmbram tempore legis multo magis princeps Christianus caput est in tribubus Israël hoc est vere per fidem videntiū Christum qui est finis legis The heade in y e tribes of Israell that is of men whiche see God by a shadowe in the tyme of the lawe muche more is a christian Kinge heade in the tribes of spirituall Israel that is of suche whyche by true fayeth see Chryst which is the ende of the lawe The office deputed to the Byshops in the mistical body is to be as eies to the whole bodye as almightye God saieth to the prophete Ezechiel Speculatorem te dedi Dom●i Israel I haue made the an ouer seer ouer the house of Israel And what byshope so euer refuseth to vse the office of an eye in the mysticall body to shewe vnto the bodye the righte waye of lyuinge whiche appertayneth to the spirituall eie to do shal shew him selfe to be a blynde eye and if he shall take other office in hande then appertayneth to the righte eye shall make a confusion in the bodye takynge vpon him an other office then is geuen to him of God Wherefore if the eie wyll take vpon hym the office of the whole heade yt maye bee answered vnto yt It canne not so do for it lacketh brayne And exaumples sheweth lykewyse that it is not necessarie alwaies that the heade shoulde haue the facultie or chiefe office of administration youe may see in a Nauye by sea where the Admyrall who is captayne ouer all doth not medle with stering or gouerninge of euery Shyp but euery Mayster particular muste directe the Shype to passe the Sea in breaking the waues by his sterynge and gouernaunce whyche the Admirall the heade of al dothe not him selfe nor yet hathe the facultie to doe but cōmaundeth the Maysters of the Shipe to do it And likewise many a captayne of greate Armies whiche is not able nor neuer coulde peraduenture shoote or breake a speare by his owne strength yet by his wisedom and commaundement onely he atchiueth the warres and attayneth the victorye And wher ye thinke that vnitie standeth not onely in the agreing in one faith and doctrine of the Churche but also in agreing in one heade if ye meane the very and onely heade ouer al the Churche oure Sauioure Christe Quem pater dedit caput super omnem Ecclesiam quae est corpus eius Whome the father hath set ouer all the Churche whiche is his bodye wherein all goode christiane men do agree ye saye trueth And if ye meane of any one mortal man to be heade ouer al y e Church y t to be the byshop of Rome we do not agree w t you For you do there erre in the true vnderstāding of scripture or els ye must say y t the said councell of Nice other most aūciēt did erre which diuided the administratiō of churches the Orient from the Occident and the Southe from the Northe as is before expresed And that Christe the vnyuersall heade is presente in euery churche the gospell sheweth Vbi duo vel tres congregati fuerint in nomine meo ego in medio eorum sum Where two or three bee gathered together in my name there I am in the myddes of theim And in an other place Ecce ego vobiscum sum vsque ad con summationem seculi Beholde I am wyth you vntyll the ende of the worlde By whiche it maye appeare Christe the vniuersall heade euerye where to be wyth his misticall bodye the Churche who by his spirit worketh in all places howe farre so euer they be distaunte the vnitie and concorde of the same And as for anye other one vniuersall heade to be ouer all then Christe hym selfe scripture proueth not as it is shewed before And yet of a further profe to take awaye the scruples that peraduenture do to youre apperaunce ryse of certayne wordes in some aunciente Authours and especially in S. Cyrianes epistles as the vnitie of the churche stode in the vnitie with the byshop of Rome though thei neuer cal him supreme head yf you preaslye weyghe and conferre all their sayinges together ye shal perceyue that they nether spake nor ment other thinge but when the byshop of Rome was ones lawfully elected and intronizate yf then anye other would by faction myght force or otherwyse the other liuynge and doynge his office enterpryse to put him down vsurpe the same byshopricke or exercise y e others office him selfe As Nouatianus did attempt in the time of Cornelius that then the sayde fathers reconed them good catholikes y t did cōmunicate with hym y t was so lawfullye elected and the custome was one primacie to haue a doo one with an other by congratulatorie letters sone after y e certentee of theyr election was knowen to kepe the vnitie of the church And they y t did take part or mainteine that other vsurper to be scismatiques because that vsurper was a Scismatike for that Quia non sit fas in eadem ecclesia duos simul esse episcopos nec priorem legitimū epm̄ sine sua culpa deponi That it is not lawful for two byshops to be at ones together in one churche Nor that the former byshop being lawful ought to be deposed gyltlesse w tout his fault be proued And this is not a prerogatiue of Rome churche more then of any other cathedrall speciall patriarchall or metropolitical church as appe reth in the. iii. epistle of the fyrste booke and in the eyght of the seconde and of the fourthe booke of Saincte Cypriane to Cornelius Whose wordes and reasons al that peraduēture might seme to conclude the vnitie of the church in the vnitie of y e byshop of Rome because they were all wryten to him in hys owne case maye aswell be writen to and of any other byshop lefully chosen possessed who percase shuld be lykewyse disturbed by any factions of ambitious heretikes as the byshops of Rome then were And where ye thinke

be called ether by God or by the Kynge And those Kinges that so do chiefelye do execute well their office So that the kinges highnes taking vpon him as Supreame heade of the Churche of Englande to see that aswell spirituall men as temporall do their dueties doth nether make innouacion in the Churche nor yet trowble the ordre thereof But dothe as the chiefe and the best of the Kynges of Israell did and as all goode christiane kinges oughte to doe Whiche office goode Christiane emperours alwayes toke vpon them in callinge the vniuersall counseles of all Countryes in one place and at one tyme to assemble to the entent all heresies troubling the church might be there extyrped calling and cōmaundinge aswell the byshope of Rome as other Patriarches and all Primates aswell of the east as of the west of the southe and of the northe to come to the saide Counceiles As Marlianus themperoure did in callinge the greate councell of Calcedon one of the iiii chiefe and firste generall councelles commaunding Leo then Byshope of Rome to come therto And albeit Leo nether lyked the tyme whyche he would for a season shoulde haue bene differred nor yet the place whiche he would haue had in Italie wher the Emperour by his owne commaundement had called it to Calchis in Asia yet he answered themperoure that he would gladly obey his commaūdemente and sente thither his agentes to appere ther for him as doth appere in y e Epistles of Leo to Martiane the Emperoure xli xlvii xlviii and in the. xlix epistle to Pulcheria Empresse And lykewyse desyreth Theodosius themperour to cōmaunde a concell of Byshops to be called in Italy for taking awaye suche contencions and troubles as at that tyme troubled the quietnes of the churches And in many mo epistles of the same Leo it dothe manyfestly appeare that themperours alwayes assembled generall councelles by their commaundementes And in the syxe Councell general it appereth very plainely that at that tyme the byshops of Rome made no claim nor vsed tyttle to call theim selfe heddes vniuersal ouer all the catholyke churche as there dothe appere In subscriptione seu salutati one synodica suggestionis antedictae Whiche is thus ad verbum Pijssimis dominis sereniss victoribus triumphatoribus dilectis filijs dei dn̄i nostri Iesu Christi Constantino Magno imparotori Heraclio Tiberio Augustis Agatho episcopus seruus seruorum dei cum vniuersis sy nodis subia cētibus cōcili● apostolicae sedis In y e superscriptiōor salutaciō of y e foresaid sinodical preāble which is thus worde for worde To the moste godly Lordes and most noble victors and conquerours y e welbeloued chyldren of god of our Lord Iesu Christ to Constantine the great Emperoure to Eraclius and Tiberius Cesars Byshop Agatho the seruaunte of the seruauntes of god withall the conuocations subiect to the councell of the sea Apostolique sendeth greetinges And sayth expressing what countryes he reckened and comprehended in that superscription or salutaciō It foloweth that these were vnder his assembly whiche were in the Northe and Easte partes So that at that time the Byshop of Rome made no such pretence to bee ouer and aboue all as hee nowe dothe by vsurpation vendicatinge to him selfe the spirituall kyngedome of Chryste by whyche he raygneth in the heartes of all faythfull people and then chaungeth it to a temporall kyngedome ouer and aboue all kynges to depose theim for hys pleasure preachynge thereby Carnem pro spiritu terrenum regnum pro coelesti in damnationē nisi resipiscat suam The fleshe for the spirit and an earthely kingdom for an heauenly to his owne damnacion yf he repente not Where he oughte to obeye hys Prynce by the doctrine of Saint Peter in hys fyrst epistle saying Subiecti estote omni humanae creaturae propter deum siue regi quasi praecellenti siue ducibus tanquam ab eo missis ad vindictam malefactorum laudem verô bonorum Be ye subiecte to euerye mans ordinaunce for the Lordes sake whether to the kinge as to the chiefe whether to the dukes as sente of him to the punishment of the euil doers to the praise of the good Againe S. Paule Omnis omnia potestantibus sublimioribus sub dita sit with other thinges before alleged So that this his pretensed vsurpacion to be aboue all kynges is directly againste the scriptures geuen to the churche by the apostles whose doctrine whosoeuer ouerturneth can be nether Caput nor Infimum membrum ecclesiae Wherfore albeit ye haue heretofore stycked to the said wrongfully vsurped power moued thereto as ye wryte by your conscience yet sythens now ye see further yf ye luste regarde the mere truth and suche auncient authours as you haue bene writen to of in tymes paste we would exhort you for the wealth of your soule to surrender into the Byshop of Romes handes your red hat bi which he seduced you trustinge to haue of you beynge come of a noble bloode an instrument to aduaūce his vaine glorye whereof by the sayd hat he made you participante to allure you thereby the more to hys purpose In whiche doynge ye shall retourne to the truth from whiche ye haue erred Do youre duety to your soueraigne Lord from whome ye haue declyned And please thereby almyghtye GOD whose lawes ye haue transgressed And in not so doynge ye shall remayne in erroure offendynge bothe almyghtye GOD and youre naturall soueraygne Lorde whom chiefly ye oughte to searche to please Whiche thinge for the good mynde that we heretofore haue borne you wee praye almightie God of his infinite mercy that you do not Amen FINIS Imprynted at London in Paules churche yearde at the the signe of the Brasen serpente by Reginalde Woulfe Anno Domini M. D. L X. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum Luke 15. Mat. 18. 1. Cor. 3. Luke 22. 1. Petri. 5. Act. 20. De simplicitate clericorum Contra Io●inianum Cap. 1. super Titū Lib. 3. cap. 21. Lib. 5. cap. 6. Lib. 3. cap. 23. Lib. 4. ca. 23. Epistola 16. 2. Vide duas Epistolas ad bonifacium pp. 1. ot conciliorum Fol. 307. 308. Dist. 16. Viginti Hist. tript Lib. 4. cap. 16. Apoca. 21. Mat. 28 Esd. 2. 1. Reg. 15. Eze. 3. Mat. 18. Mat. 28. August epist. 162. Rom. 13. ● Par. 28. 2. Par. 16. 2. Par. 19. 2. Par. 16. Epist. 81. Actione 4. 1. Pet. 2. Rom. 13.