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A02797	An apologie or defence of the watch-vvord, against the virulent and seditious ward-vvord published by an English-Spaniard, lurking vnder the title of N.D. Devided into eight seuerall resistances according to his so many encounters, written by Sir Francis Hastings Knight	Hastings, Francis, Sir, d. 1610.	1600 (1600)	STC 12928; ESTC S119773	131,190	226

were more principall then others being sent with ioynt and equall commission ouer all the world and others by them ordained ouer particular congregations we gladlie yeeld but then were they all Archprelates in comparison of those whose calling was not Apostolik but Pastorlike and limited to a certaine congregation Peter onely was not as ye would haue him an Arch-prelate ouer the rest of the Apostles but they all were equall with him which thing Saint Ciprian plainely testifieth Hoc vtique erant coeteri Apostoli quod erat Petrus pari consortio praediti honoris potestatis the rest of the Apostles out of doubt were the same that Peter was endewed with the same fellowship both of honour and power But Sir why seeke you to shrowde your Popes Archprelacie vnder that of the Apostles for it is manifest that Christ gaue no such supremacie to anie one Apostle aboue the rest nay he forbad it saying That the Kings of the Gentiles raigne ouer them c. but ye shall not be so And whereas the promise of this Vniuersall iurisdiction seemeth to be made to Peter in these words To thee will I giue the Keyes of the kingdome of heauen c. it is plaine that where this promise is performed Iohn 20. Peter hath no more authoritie giuen him then the rest of the Apostles and the keyes to open and shut heauen to loose and bind sinnes is a like giuen to them all neither did that most humble seruant of Christ the blessed Apostle euer chalenge anie such preeminēt authority for as he entituleth himself an elder which is a title of dignitie so he calleth himselfe a fellow elder which importeth an equalitie with not a superioritie aboue the rest And when they of the circumcision contended with Peter about his preaching to the Gentiles vsing as it might seeme rough tearmes Thou wentest into men vncircumcised and hast eaten with them he answered not as his intruding successor that he is to iudge all men and to be iudged of no man but made a iust Apologie for himselfe and yeelded a sufficient reason for his fact As for that councell spoken of in the Actes the primacie of place to be as it were moderator seemeth to be giuen at that time not to Peter but to Iames as one of your owne side confesseth Postquam Pe●rus dixisse● c. After that Peter had spoken Iames by his Bishoplike authoritie gaue the definitiue sentence The rest of the Apostles did not acknowledge in him anie such preeminence of iurisdiction they shewed themselues to haue power to dispose of Peter as of anie other for the good of the Church and therefore when they heard that Samaria had receiued the word of God they sent vnto them Peter and Iohn Yea one Apostle Saint Paule publikelie reproued and withstood Peter to his face because he was to be blamed and to take away all occasion of stumbling from those that doe not wilfully blinde their eyes the same Apostle without tainte of pride saith of himselfe that he was nothing inferiour to the chiefest amongst the Apostles If then neither Christ granted nor Peter chalenged nor the rest of the Apostles acknowledged any singular Primacie of authoritie in Peter aboue them wee may safely subscribe to Cyprians conclusion before alleadged and the Popes vsurped Archprelacie shall remaine as it is indeede not a title of dignitie but a touch of intolerable insolencie The spirituall supremacie wherewith you infeofe your Archprelat as it is not grounded on Saint Peter who had no such if he had it yet the Pope shall neuer be able to proue himself Peters heire more then all other Bishoppes so began it long after Christ to be challenged and wanteth the testimonie of antiquitie The Councell of Nice which not the Bishop of Rome but the Emperour Constantine assembled in which himselfe was present and at his right hand sate the Bishop of Antioch which is called the chiefe or president of that Councell mentioneth foure Patriarches of Alexandria of Rome of Antioche of Ierusalem and appoynteth equall priuiledges to each of them Now where there is an equalitie of foure there is not an vniuersalitie of one aboue all The Councell of Chalcedon standeth for the dignitie of the Bishop of Constantinople and because that was now the Emperours seate and was called new Rome defined that it should haue equall priuiledges with olde Rome and in Ecclesiasticall matters bee of equall power with it By which it is apparant that to Rome and afterwardes to Constantinople some respect of honor was giuen in regarde of the Emperours seate but neither had primacie of power ouer all Iohn Bishop of Constantinople first challenged this vniuersall spirituall Supremacie about 600. yeares after Christ against whome Gregorie of Rome did mightilie oppose himselfe expostulating with him in an epistle Quid tu Christo c. What answere wilt thou make to Christ the head of the vniuersall Church in the account of the last iudgement that thus goest about by the name of vniuersall Bishop to make all his members subiect to thee But that which Constantinople sought Rome shortly after obtained and whereas Constantinople in seeking it did shew himselfe to be the forerunner of Antichrist as Gregorie of Rome then professed Rome in getting and maintaining it sheweth that Antichrist hath there setled his seate But this is not the highest Arch to which this your Archprelate of Rome mounteth he claimeth a ciuill Monarchie and authoritie ouer all Kings and Kingdomes vnder this title of Supremacie saying that Princes hold not their Crownes immediately of God but of him and that he hath power to set vp and pull downe Princes and to giue away their Kingdomes at his pleasure So one of his Chaplaines saith that the authoritie of Christ is principallie in the Pope and that the Pope doth call the Emperour to be coadiutor to him in temporall things By which we may see that vnlesse it had pleased the Pope there should haue been no King nor Emperour yea of that counterfeit Donation of Constantine they saie imagining it to be true that he gaue therein nothing to the Pope but restored his owne sith the Pope is Christes Vicar whose is the earth and the fulnes therof And Boniface the viij in the yeere 1300. one day came forth arraied in his pontificalibus like a Pope the next daie in Imperiall Robes with a naked sword carried before him causing it to be proclaimed that he was both Pope and Emperour and had the Empyre both of heauen and earth Wee haue onely taken a short scantling of the Popes Archprelacie which is so farre from being grounded vpon Peter that his spirituall Supremacie was not knowne till aboue 600. yeeres after Christ and his temporall ouer Kings and Kingdomes to depose and alter them hath not been acknowledged of anie Christian Prince to this daie Philip King of France writeth to the same Boniface the viij claiming both

Heauen and not in the Pix was counted heresie and for that cause men were called before your Clergie and branded to the slaughter Our stories are full of examples out of your owne Registers that reading of Scriptures was accounted heresie not to stand vpon many vnder Longland Bishop of Lincolne Agnes Welles was conuented and amongst other things examined whether Thurstan did euer teach her the Epistle of S. Iames or the Epistles of S. Peter and S. Paul in English Thomas Earle was likewise chaeged for hearing the Epistle of S. Same 's read in English Agnes Ashford of Chesham for teaching Iames Norden certaine sentences of Scripture as Teend ye not a candle and put it vnder a bushell but set it on a candlesticke that it may giue light to all in the house such like To Robert Pope Iohn Morden and his wife was obiected that they recited the tenne commandements in English To Iohn Phips was obiected that he was very ripe in the Scriptures Ienkin Butler appeached Iohn Butler his owne brother for reading to him in a certaine booke of the Scripture and perswading him to hearken to the same what should I stand to number vp any more which vnder this one Bishop● for reading them selues or hearing read some part of the Gospels Acts or any the Epistles or Reuelation were called into question of life The like proceeding was vsed by other Bishops and namely by Tunstall then Bishop of London before whom many were conuented for that holy heresy of reading the Scriptures In number of whom one going to be burned for an heretike and seeing the booke of the Reuelation bound to the stake to be burnt with him which happely he had diligently read being thereto moued with that sentence Blessed is he that readeth and they that heare the words of this prophecie spake with a lowde voice these words O blessed Reuelation how well is it with mee that I shall be burnt with thee Infinite such examples might be shewed not onely in our owne countrie but in forraine kingdomes I will alleadge onely one example of a godly Bookeseller of Auignion in France The Bishop of Aix with other Prelates passing through the streets euerie one leading his Minion vpon his arme and buying vp such filthie pictures and rimes as were then to be sold they came where there was a Bookeseller setting out French and Latine Bibles to saile at which sight they being much moued said to the Booke-seller darest thou be so hardie to set out such marchandise to sell here in this Towne Dost thou not know that such bookes are forbidden To whom the Booke-seller answered is not the holy Bible as good as these goodly pictures that ye haue bought for these Gentlewomen Which speech so offended the Bishop of Aix that he brast forth into these words I renounce my part of Paradice if this be not a Lutheran So commaunding him to be apprehended he was by the Prelates attendants most despitefully handled some crying out a Lutheran a Lutheran to the fire with him to the fire with him some beating him with their fistes some pulling him by the beard others by the haire that the poore man was all embrued in blood before he came to the prison The next morning being brought before the Iudges in the presence of the Prelats the selling of bibles in French was laide to his charge he was asked whether he knew not the Bible to be forbidden in all christendome saue onely in Latine To which he answered that he knew the contrarie and that he had sold many Bibles in the French tongue with the Emperors Priuiledge with other words reprouing their forbidding of Gods most holy bookes which he ordained for the instructing of the ignorant and for the reducing againe into the way such as haue gone astray the charitable Prelates cried out haue him to the fire without any more words the Iudge yet paused willing him to acknowledge those Prelates to be true Pastors of the Church which he denying that he could doe with a good conscience sith they reiected the holy bookes of God he was immediatly condemned to be burned and the selfe same day executed and for a signe and token of the cause of his condemnation he carried to the place of his execution two Bibles hanged about his necke and so exhorting the people to read the Scriptures he was for this cause onely cruelly put to death Who then can doubt but that the Romish Clergie are the true heires and successors of those cruell Tyrants Antiochus Dioclesian Maximinus c. Who like them haue burned in the fire not only the Scriptures of God but also the bodies of them that read therein and that to them it may be applied that which is written in the Machabees The bookes of the law which they found they burnt in the fire and cut in peeces Whosoeuer had a booke of the Testament found by him or who soeuer consented vnto the law the kings commandement the Bishops may we say was they should put him to death by their authoritie I had thought this gentleman had runne himselfe out of breath in charging me with lies and fictions but now follow foure more saith he but I say his loude quadruple lye shall cleare and discharge me of all The first is that I say Ignorance was held by them to be the Mother of Deuotion a strange accusation and grieuous slaunder no doubt to charge those men with nourishing the people in ignorance whom all the world knoweth to haue vsed strange meanes to bring them to knowledge For what meant they by the costly setting vp of many faire and well guilded Images in Churches Was it not that they might be laye mens bookes and by reading on them they might attaine knowledge What Pius the fift goodman was he not most carefull the people might be edified when as it is written in his high commendation in a procession he was not carried on mens shoulders as Popes vsed to be but he went on foote to the great edifying of the people Now if the Pope will vouchsafe to goe on foote to the end to edifie the people thereby how can it be thought he would haue them bread in ignorance But Sir if you will not forceablie writhe and wrest my proposition to extend it to ignorance absolutely but vnderstand it as it is euident to be meant of the ignorance of the Scriptures yourselfe I hope will free me from any fiction herein and will acknowledge that Doctor Fulke doth iustly charge your Rhemists who setting forth the new Testament in English if that which is pestered with so many obscure words may be called an English translation and yet excusing themselues for being of that erronious opinion that the Scriptures should be alwaies in our mother tongue or that they ought or were ordeyned by God to be read indifferently of all That Doctor Fulke I say doth iustly charge them that they are afraide