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A10823	A blovv for the pope, or, A discourse had in S. Giles Church, in Elgen of Murray at a conference with certaine papists, plainely prouing that Peter was neuer head of the Church : with a short register of all the attempts and murthers vpon kings and princes in our time by the persuasion of the Iesuits.	Robertson, Bartholomew, fl. 1620.	1615 (1615)	STC 21096.5; ESTC S3099	24,053	74

A BLOVV FOR THE POPE Or A Discourse had in S. GILES Church in Elgen of Murray at a Conference with certaine Papists plainely prouing That PETER was neuer Head of the Church With a short Register of all the Attempts and Murthers vpon Kings and Princes in our time by the persuasion of the Iesuits REVEL 14. 8. And there followed another Angell saying It is fallen It is fallen Babylon the great Citie for shee made all Nations to drinke of the wine of the wrath of her fornication Hieronymus Heretici conuicti ad contentiones prosiliunt August de Ciuit lib. 14. cap. 20. Non Theologi sed Cynici mores conuitiari allatrare LONDON Printed by G. Eld for Roger Iackson neere the Conduit in Fleetstreet 1615. To the Right Honorable Lord IAMES Lord HAYES Maister of his Maiesties great Wardrobe THe Spirit speaketh euidently That in the Later dayes some shall depart from the Faith and shall giue heede vnto Spirits of Error and Doctrines of Deuils And surely that Prophesie if at any time is truly accomplished in these our daies on whom the ends of the World are come For Blindnesse and Error is so vniuersally spread like palpable darkenesse ouer the hearts almost of all that vnlesse the Lord had reserued vnto vs euen a small Remnant wee should haue beene as Sodome and should haue beene like vnto Gomorrha The sinnes of the People and negligence with ignorance of Pastors are the cause hereof for the hand of the Lord is not shortened that it cannot saue but our Sinnes haue diuided betwixt him and vs and hath made him hide his face that he should not heare The iniquities of the People haue commonly their beginnings from their Teachers Therefore Christ when hee was to cure the disease of sinfull Ierusalem entreth first into the Church there to purge the impietie of the Priests which polluted with Couetousnesse c. the Sanctuarie of the Lord Like vnto a good Physitian who searcheth the Maladie from the roote For this cause are they styled Salt Watchmen Light Trumpetters Physitians Souldiers and that they in time and out of time bee able to Teach Exhort Rebuke Improue with all Patience and Doctrine for who conuerts a sinner from the error of his life saues him from Death and couers the multitude of Sinnes The Church is a Building and Preachers Builders as the Church of Ierusalem was reared by the People with the Sword in the one Hand and Trowell in the other so must they with wholesome and sound Doctrine teach and resist the Gainesayers and if euer there was need now it is when out of that bottomlesse Pit there are risen swarms of Locusts ouer-couering the face of the Earth making the People drunke with the Wine of their Fornication and Idolatrie who haue taught the world with the sonnes of Elie to take raw flesh and sow Tares among the Wheat Now I say it is time to be powerfull in deede and word before God and the whole People for he that will doe and say shall be called great in the Kingdome of Heauen Ecclesia est Ciuitas saith one propter Populi collectionem sponsa prepter dilectionem Ouis propter mansuetudinem Ciuitas est vigilate ad concordiam Ouis est intendite pastui sponsa studere ornatui Pastors are Woers in Christs place beseeching the World to be reconciled vnto God Wee haue therefore to pray to the Lord of the Haruest That he would thrust out faithfull Labourers into his Haruest in this great Desolation and time of Corruption when Antichrist hath setled his Throne in so manie hearts whome the Lord shall in the end confound with the breath of his Nosthrils Wee must not be partakers of others sinnes in betraying the Truth with silence but Foxes being driuen away let the Bed of the Church be watched by 70. of Salomons Worthies Of the which as I am not fit to be named one of the meanest so haue I put in my Mite for lacke of a Talent and snrowd me vnder your Lordships wings against all Rabzechez Rayling as Salomon with Nathans Conuoy and helpe the Shunamite by Elisha his offer were shadowed as with Ionas Gourd so doe I induced by your Lordships rare and singular vertues cast my selfe vnder the Mantle of Protection Kings haue waded in this Matter Of his Maiestie God willing there will be more apt occasion to speake hereafter But it is memorable in the most mightie Edward the sixt of good memorie to whome on the day of Coronation when three Swords were presented signes of the Kingdomes of England France and Ireland craued the fourth to be brought which was after enquirie the Booke of the holy Scripture the Sword of the Spirit Which did also notwithstanding his tender yeares for he died at sixteene yeares of age compile amongst other Treatises a Comedie of this Babylonicall Whore Accept Right Honorable this first of these Heads belonging to this matter and so I humbly and heartily commend your Lordship to the grace of God which is able to build your L. further and giue you an Inheritance among them which are sanctified by the Bloud of Iesus Christ in whose mercie I commit your Lordship Ianuar. 26. Anno 1615. Your Honors in all humble dutie BARTHOL ROBERTSON Minister of Gods Word Simonis Rosarij Antithesis 15. Christi Antichristi Anno 1558. ECce tibi Lector vani ludibria Papae a Pedibus Reges quem iuvat esse suis. Qui tribuendus erat Christe praesumit honorem iactitat sancti se caput esse gregis Dic mihi quaeso Biceps fietne Ecclesia monstrū impie qua quaeso talia fronte refers Vah nequit esse Biceps diuina Ecclesia Christus qui caput est vnum Papa quid ergo Lupus Huic caput est Christus sancti quoque Pastor ouilis atque suo teneras numine pascit oues Attamen ille suis immensum territat Orbem Legibus Populi subiicit Arte Duces THE FIRST ARTICLE That Peter was neuer Head of the Church THe vniuersall Church as it is the Citie and Spouse of the liuing God so one part there of Triumphant is the Companie of the Blessed ones in Heauen who had runne their Race here kept the Faith and got the end thereof euen the Saluation of their Soules The other part is the Societie of Mankind knowne to God renewed in the Spirit of their Mind purified by Faith waiting the comming of the Lord Iesus to their Immortalitie Of this secundarie part it is controuerted betwixt Vs and the Enemies of the Truth who should be the Head thereof Whether solely and onely Iesus Christ her Husband who neyther can admit nor will allow of Spirituall Fornication imparting Vitall and Heauenly Life Light Sence and Motion thereto Or whether there bee another Head besides Christ so that the Church Monster-like hath

any of all the Epistle Paule sent to Rome neither yet any remembrance had of Peter in any of the Epistles he sent from Rome as that to the Galathians Ephesians Philippians Colossians the second to Timothy to Philemon vnlesse their subscriptions be faulty No remembrance I say neither any word of Salutation which Paul vseth not to omit and that very largelie yea and not to forget euen the most obscure men and women so they be faithfull of whatsoeuer degree Now I pray you whether Peter or Paul hath best right to claim the Superiority or which of these two shall wee adiudge to bee Head of our Church if either of them be And by the way Gentle Reader take a view whether or not Peter was euer at Rome at the least neuer in Pauls daies and if not then hee neuer saw Rome with his eyes as shall be proued God willing in our second Discourse For the which cause Anthonius Pyranensis Legatus did say it was not lawfull for men to reade Pauls Epistles for I know saith he by reading of them men may become Lutherans and therefore Ioh. Siluanus Atheseus Pastor Herbipolis confesseth that the Papists doctrine was false and Antichristian and that he had learned that out of Pauls Epistles which moueth Rhegius Gallicus Aristarchus when he had burnt 9. in Lyons for Lutheranisme publikely to proclaim That if the holy Church had not receiued Pauls Epistles accounted them Canonique he would not repute them better or of more credit then the Fables of Aesope And therfore are they named by them Armamentarium Lutheranorum Fincelius writeth that Anno 1557. a Priest in Forcham a Citie in the Bishoprick of Lamberg in his Sermon alledged Paul to haue erred and that the Sacrament of the Supper should be receiued vnder one kind only And if it be not so that Sathan should take him away aliue from out of his Pulpet and so it happened to the great feare of all the whole Diocesse as the History written by the said Fincelius at length reports And wee know the whole Scripture is giuen by inspiration of God and is profitable c. that the man of God may bee perfectly instructed vnto euery good worke And that Timothy from his childhood hath knowne the Holy Scripture which might make him wise to Saluation Now since they conteine all things necessarie to bee beleeued and that to beleeue the holy Church vniuersall is one point of our Faith and for that the militant Church here is one part thereof The head whereof is searched heere by vs and seeing the holy Scripture directeth vs to no other head then Iesus Christ wherefore is it that wee would bee wise aboue that which is reuealed yea rather foolishly enquire for that which the Word of God hath been silent in And pursue after that which cannot in any case become meet to supply and minister the vertues and duties requisite in him who should be Head of the Church and those neuer were nor can happen in the person of any mortall Yea Paul takes vpon him to institute Timothy and Titus to be Bishops and prescribes vnto them their particular and seuerall duties yet hee sends vs alwaies to another head namely Christ and that which hee doth it is not of any power he receiued of Peter for this he markes purposely as neither did Titus create Bishops in Creta by any ordinance deriued from Peter I ioine hereto that Paul accompanied with Barnabas passed through all the Churches of Asia in which they preached and there by the Suffrages of the same choosed Bishops and elected them and in a word Paul in that most solemne and most accurate Sermon rendred to the Bishops of Asia neuer enioined them to submit themselues neither to Peter nor any other whatsoeuer earthly wight head of the church And would hee obscure the same if it had been commaunded him or any waies profitable vnto Saluation or quitting the estate of the Church for hee declared vnto them all the counsels of God yea and foretels them that after his departure there would greeuous wolues rush in amongst them deuouring the flockes and that euen of themselues should men arise speaking peruerse things to draw Disciples after them as hereticks doe at all times but he neuer remembred Peter vnto them who should put order to this proud attempt and hainous tyrannie in the Church If hee had been made Superiour to asswage the Furie and rage of Tumults and Schismes Paul would not haue buried the same in the beds of Obliuion but he euer directs vs a farre other course which is to CHRIST onely Surely Christ is a Priest for euer after the order of Melchizedech leauing no Vicar nor Successor but his Holy Spirit which hee promised to send and lead his Disciples in all truth and to bee present with the Church for euer To the which Priesthood in the New Testament neither by Paul or whosoeuer hee was that was Author of the Epistle to the Hebrewes who speaketh of this matter at length is mention made any to succeed the same for hee had neither beginning nor ending of daies as it was constituted in that Aronicall Priest-hood to passe from man to man in Leui his posterity to the comming of the Messias who hath by his owne blood entered in once into the Holy place and obtained eternall redemption for his Church which is his bodie euen the fulnesse of him that filleth all in all things And to the end neither Peter nor any of the rest of the Apostles were otherwise sent but as God sent Christ But his Kingdome and Regiment is not of this world for Christ tooke not vpon him to iudge and distribute of earthly and transitorie affaires but hee by his word and Sacraments which are the ordinary meanes to breed Faith and by the operation of his Holy Spirit from aboue doth effect the whole purpose of mans Saluation instilling in mortall soules the immortall seed of the Gospell of the Lord by whose power wee are kept through Faith vnto Saluation which is prepared to bee shewed in the last time And this is that precious Balme farre aboue that of Gilead whereby Christ the Head of his Church doth annoint the hearts and cheere the mindes of his own Elect with vnspeakable peace descending from Christ as the Head like vnto Aarons Oyntment vnto his Church the members of his mysticall bodie sonnes of God by free adoption Coheires with their Head the Lord Iesus Christ. If flesh and blood can accomplish these offices let any reasonable man iudge It is now conuenient we heare what our Aduersaries obiect in the contrarie that by this meanes the truth may more brightly shine and doubting braines be resolued as also that those in whom the Veritie hath taken some hold may be cōfirmed and established and way bee stopt to the vndermining and subuerting of the simple and ignorant Scripture say they