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A08890	Eclogarius, or briefe summe of the truth of that title of Supreame Governour given to his Maiestie in causes spirituall, and ecclesiasticall, from the Kings of Israel, in the old Testament; the Christian emperours in the Primitive Church; confirmed by 40. epistles of Leo the Bishop of Rome, vnto the Emperours, Theodosius, Martianus, and Leo. Not published before. By Iohn Panke.	Panke, John.	1612 (1612)	STC 19170; ESTC S106400	39,387	80

of the law for himselfe Deut. 17.19 that hee might continually haue it with him read it diligently and meditate therein daie and night Iosua 1.8 and from it to learne the worship of God even to the ceremonies themselues neither that it was said so to him in respect that he should rest altogether vpon another mans report iudging nothing of himselfe yet in these things he shall stand before Eleazar the Priest and willingly aske counsell of him and shall require the law of them whose lipps preserue knowledge He shall call those to the making of lawes for the Church whom it is meet should bee called and those whome reason doth perswade are the most skilfull and that can in those things giue counsell best And then in those things which appertaine to God command Amarias the Priest 2. Chr. 19.11 and not Zabadias the Captaine to be chiefe Touching the person Touching the persons Tortura Torti pag. 381.338 376. 1. Sam. 15.17 it is likewise as cleere that the king hath supremacy over them A power of administring lawes to all men of all degrees and to speak in the language of the holy scripture head of the tribe of Levi no lesse then of the rest of the tribes nor no lesse head of the clergie then of the laitie So the Prophet speaketh to the king When thou wast little in thine own sight Saul the king head of the tribes wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israell Now amongst the tribes of Israell was the tribe of Levi therefore the king is head of the Leviticall tribe in which Tribe was Ahimelech the Priest vnder the king his head This is farther expressed by the name of Father and mother and who head but they Iudg. 5.7 over whom they are set Debora a woman is called a mother in Israell Ezechias father and heare you papist of the Priests so he speaketh vnto them 2. Chron. 29.11 Now my sonnes be not negligent A father then was Ezechias and a father over the Priests Looke then what honour and supremacy Princes haue they haue it by no other commandement then the Fift of honouring our father them for their fatherly care of the Church as of the coūtrey And if any shall deale presumptuously against Abiathar Deut. 17.12 the king hath power by his lawes to punish him even to the putting out of Abiathar himselfe from his Priesthood 1. Kings 2 27. Touching the things if he deserue it Touching the things erected or vsed to false worship power hee hath of pulling downe the high places that is to abolish strange worship not only over the Golden Calfe which Aaron made as Moses had in breaking it to peeces Exod. 32.20 but over the brasen serpent erected by Moses 〈◊〉 King 18 v 4 as had Ezechias when the Golden Calfe is abused to Idololatry or the brasen serpent to superstition of destroying them both In things indifferent And for the things which belong to the Beauty of Gods Church which bee called indifferent he hath power also to order thē as Ioas did 2. Ch. 24. v. 12 And when occasion of schismes and divisions by trifling and foolish questions is ministred by his authoritie to restraine them as Constantine did And this I hope no man will deny to be his right Socrat. Eccles hisi l. 1. c. 7. Lastly if the Romish Catholike had rather haue examples from Christians then from the common wealth of the Iewes let him knowe that Chrysostome Hom. 2. ad popul Antioch Theodosius called head of all men by Chrysost a famous prelate in his time called Theodosius the Emperour by this name head and not only the head but that which in the head is most high the top of the head and that of all men in the earth And I make no question but that there was a man thē on the earth who was the Bishop of Rome If we craue more examples I dare truely say the Catholike Church was so far from distasting this Supremacy in Princes that it called and intituled the Emperours Charles the great Lodowike Rectores religionis Tortura 7 pag. 379. Guiders of religion in the publike acts of their Councell And yet againe if nothing will serue the turne but the very word Governour lette them that doubt of it read it in the eight generall Coūcell so called by them where the Emperour Basilius is stiled Govern our of the vniversall Church Gubernator universalis navis ecclesiasticae And Constantine himselfe doubted not to say of himselfe that he was a Bishop without as others were within the Church These duties touching the Church and titles to Princes belonging are those very things which we say appertaine vnto the kings Supremacie by the law of God The Kings and princes of the world now are in no worse case then were the kinges in the old Testament They are vnder the same condition and therefore the same primacy is due vnto them and the same ought to be yeelded vnto them And therefore I may iustly conclude here with that saying of Scaliger to Lypsius Scaliger tu Lypsius Nos non sumus novatores sed vos veteratores estis Wee are no innovators but they that deny this truth are false deceivers What other exceptiōs they take of his Maiesties vsurping part of the Priests office in the worship of God is a monster of their owne begetting against which they may fight as with their shaddowes but shall never strike vs. The reader that is not wilfully blind will herein submit his iudgement vnto the truth Thus I haue shewed by the old Testament That the christian Emperours practised this supremacy in matters of religion by the practise of the kings there my intended purpose It shall not bee amisse now to see how the godly Emperours in the primitiue Church of Christ dealt in the busines of religion according to that Supremacy we speake of a great part of which was their calling of generall Concells Calling of councels and confirming their decrees 1. Councell of Nice Socrat. l. 1. c 9. thereby as by a speedy way to ridde the Church from the infection of pestilent heresies The Bishops of the first councell of Nice confesse in their Synodicall Epistle that they were called by the authoritie of the Emperour The Synod met together say they when Constantine the most beloved of God gathered vs out of diverse cities and countries By the authority of Constantine Tortura Torti pag 165. Et synodi decreta confirmans consignavit 2 Of Constantinople They submitted themselues vnto him so the words goe And confirming the decrees of the Synod he signed them The secōd generall councell held at Constantinople was called by the authoritie of Theodosius the elder wee met together according to the letters of your Maiestie And againe your Maiestie hath honoured the Church by your letters of calling vs hither In their Epistle

But the second held in the same citty cannot be held a coūcell The 2 of Ephesus which it is certaine was carried to the subversion of the faith which your clemencie in loue of the truth as being good for the catholikes Aliud statuēdo cassabit We aske no other supremacy but this wil make voide by appointing an other most renowned Emperour Therefore I heartilie beseech pray your Maiestie through our Lorde Iesus Christ who is the author and governour of your Empire that you woulde not suffer the faith which our blessed fathers preached as received from the Apostles to be handled againe as doubtfull in this present synode or those things which were of old condemned by the authority of our auncesters you suffer not to be stirred afresh by new indeavors But that you rather command this The prince must strengthen the Councell by law that the constitutions of the auncient councell of Nice the interpretations of heretickes being remoued may stand firme In the 44. Epistle to the Emperour again wherein amongst other things hee giveth him thankes for his defence of the Catholike faith he writeth thus Epist 44 Leo Episcopus Martiano Augusto you haue shewd your protection of the Catholike faith The divine aid doth grow in you Pure and vnstained religion ought to bee the highest of all cares appertaining to publike regiment These bee points of that supremacywe seek for whereby verily not only the state of the Church but the strength of your Empire is fenced that so o glorious Emperour you may worthily looke for his protection whose truth you worship For that the soundnesse of my Brother Anatolius was the sooner manifested That hee that revived againe the errour long since condemned could haue no place in the Church of Christ That the Catholike Bishops whom the late persecution of the heretikes could not depraue are called backe from their vniust exile And that the reliques of Flavianus of blessed memory were preserved with due honour his condemner acknowledging his owne impiety is a title of your vertue a fruit of your Godlinesse vpon whom I trust the ensignes of other glories will bee heaped that as the Church of Constantinople having received the liberty of the Apostolike faith doth reioice so all men are glad that all the Churches of your kingdome are cleansed from the contagion of divelish opinions A little after thus it followeth Quae industria in omnibus quae nequitur gesta sunt c. Which labour of ours in amending those things which are wickedly carried will by Gods helpe take effect speedily if your Maiestie vouchsafe to adioine your helpe to the repairing of the Ecclesiasticall peace We also do desire that a Synod may be held as your clemency mentioneth But that the Bishops of al the provinces should be gathered together at this present The Emperour had power to call a Councell sooner or later as it pleased him the necessity of the time doth with no reason permit Therefore your clemency may reserue it to some fitter opportunity Of which businesse those that I haue sent can more fully relate vnto your highnesse Epistle 45. Leo Episcopus Pulcheriae Augustae Not one remedy to all sorts In the 45. Epistle to the Empresse Pulcheria After relation of Eutiches blasphemy he saith But that towardes the persons of such men an vpright course be observed and one manner yeelded to those that are amended and another to those that are obstinate wee pray your highnesse to defend them that we haue sent frō the Apostolike sea and that you would further that businesse which wee haue commanded them that so more sooner and easier the Lord aiding vs those things may bee done which will further your glory and the peace of the Church Touching Eutiches the author of all this wickednesse and scandall I pray your clemency Leos power was not able to remoue Eutiches that hee may bee removed further of from that place which is two neere the cittie of Constantinople least he haue more often consolations from those whom he hath drawne to his impietie Leo desireth the Empresse that a Catholike might be placed in Eutiches ●oomes which is a part of that supremacy we dispate for Cōmand also that some Catholike Abbot bee placed in that Monastery where hee very dangerously and vnworthily sate whoe may deliver that company of the servants of God both from his false opinion can instruct them with lessons of truth Epist 47. Stapl. abuseth these words the honour and right of Peter or Peters sea reserved referring them as though Leo had the right to call a generall councell where as Leo speaketh of their decrees that nothing be enacted against the priviledges of that sea Return of vntruths against B. Iuell art 4. fol. 143. b. 147. a. Epist 49. The Pope desired that the coūcell might haue bin deferred but could not The Pope would not withstand the Emperour although the Emperor would not al his request defer the Councell Epistle 50. In the 47. Epistle written vnto the coūcell of Chalcedon wherein hee exhorteth thē that they would determine of al things according to the scriptures hee faith thus We must imbrace the councell of the most clement Prince which is full of holinesse willing your holy brotherhood to meet to gither to overthrowe the crafty devises of the divel setling the peace of the church the honour and right of the sea of S. Peter preserved insomuch that he also invited vs by his letters to be present at the reverend synod which yet neither the necessitie of this time nor any custome could permit In the 49. Epistle to the Emperour Mar tianus he beginneth thus Wee did thinke that your clemencie could haue performed our request that the present necessity respected you would haue commaunded the councell of Bishops to haue bin deferred vntill fitter oportunity that so Priests being called out of all provinces it might bee indeed an vniversall councell But because in loue to the catholike faith you wil haue meeting to be at this presēt Least I should seeme to withstād your holy pleasure I haue sent my legates thither In the 50. to the same Emperour thus he writeth The holy desire of your clemencie touching the having of a synod Leo Episcopꝰ Mart. August for the repairing of the churches peace I tooke the more willingly and although I did desire it might haue bin kept within Italie The Pope desired that the Councell might be deferred or kept within Italy but could obtaine neither and wished that a fitter time had bin sought out that so many mo bishops might haue bin gathered togither from further regions yet asso one as your letters came I addressed some thither in my roome And concludeth thus In respect that formerly I haue desired your Maiestie to be gracious vnto those that brought my letters so now also I intreate with like assurance that you would be favourable