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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01507	A newyeares gifte dedicated to the Popes Holinesse, and all Catholikes addicted to the Sea of Rome: preferred the first day of Ianuarie, in the yeare of our Lorde God, after the course and computation of the Romanistes, one thousand, fiue hundreth, seauentie and nine, by B.G. citizen of London: in recompence of diuers singular and inestimable reliques, of late sent by the said Popes Holinesse into England, the true figures and representations whereof, are heereafter in their places dilated.	B. G. (Bernard Garter); Tunstall, Cuthbert, 1474-1559. Letter written by Cutbert Tunstall late Byshop of Duresme, and Iohn Stokesley somtime Byshop of London.; Stokesley, John, 1475?-1539.; Googe, Barnabe, 1540-1594.	1579 (1579)	STC 11629; ESTC S102867	65,066	113

Hoc erant vtique caeteri Apostoli quod fuit Petrus pari consortio praediti honoris potestatis Undoubtedly all the rest of the Apostles were the same that Peter was endewed with like equalitie of honour and power And Saint Hierome thus Cuncti Apostoli claues regni coelorum accipiunt ex aequo super eos Ecclesiae fortitudo fundatur All the Apostles receiued the keyes of the kingdome of heauen and vppon them as indifferently and equally is the strength of the Church grounded and established Which Saint Hierome also aswell in his commentaries vpon the Epistle to Titus as in his Epistle to Euagrius sheweth that the Premacies long after Christs ascention were made by the deuise of men where before Communi clericorum consilio singulae Ecclesiae regebantur etiam Patriarchales By the common agréement of the Clergy euery of the Churches were gouerned yea the Patriarchal Churhes The wordes of S. Hierome be these Sciant ergò episcopi se magis ex consuetudine quàm dispensationis Dominicae veritate presbyteris esse maiores Let the Bishops vnderstande that they be greater than other priests rather of custome than by the vertue and veritie of the Lords ordinaunce And in his Epistle to Euagrius he hath the lyke sentence addeth therevnto Vbieumque fuerit Episcopus siue Romae siue Eugubij siue Constantinopli c. Wheresoeuer a Bishop be eyther at Rome or at Eugubin or at Constantinople c. he is of all one worthinesse of all one priesthood And that one was elected which should be preferred before other it was deuised to the redresse of schismes least any one challenging too much to themselfe should rent the Church of Christ. These words onely of Saint Hierome be sufficient to proue that Christ by none of these thrée texts which be all that you and others doe alleage for your opinion gaue to Peter any such superioritie as the Bishop of Rome by them vsurpeth And that Peter nor no other of the chiefe Apostles did vendicate such Primacie or superioritie but vtterly refused it and therefore gaue preheminence aboue themselues to one that though he be sometimes called an Apostle yet he was none of the xij as Eusebius in the beginning of his seconde booke called Historia ecclesiastica doth testifie alledging for him the great and auncient Clearke Clementem Alexandrinum saying thus Petrus Iacobus ac Iohannes post assumptionem saluatoris quamuis ab ipso fuerant omnibus penè prelati tamen non sibi vendicarunt gloriam sed Iacobum qui dicebatur Iustus Apostolorum Episcopum statuunt Peter Iames and Iohn after Christs ascention into heauen although they were by him preferred wel ny before al other yet they challēged not that glory to themselues but decree● that Iames who was called Iustus should be chiefe Bishop of the Apostles By these wordes it is cleare that Iames was the Bishop of the Apostles not bicause as some men do glose he was elected by the Apostles but bicause he had thereby Primacy and honour of a Bishop in Ierusalem aboue the rest of the Apostles And one thing is especially to be noted and also meruayled at that the Bishops of Rome doe challenge this Primacie alonely by Peter and yet Saint Paul which was his equall or rather superiour by Scripture in his Apostolate among the Gentiles ▪ wherof Rome was the principall suffered at Rome wher Peter did and is commonly in all the Church Romaine ioyned with Peter in all appellations and titles of preheminence and both be called Principes Apostolorum the chiefe of the Apostles Uppon both is equally founded the Church of Rome the accounting of Bishops of Rome many yeares agréeth thervnto For Eusebius sayth that Clemens tertius post Paulum Petrum pontificatum tenebat That Clement was the third Bishop after S. Paul Peter reconing both them as Bishops of Rome yet therin preferring S. Paul. With lyke words saying of Alexander Bishop of Rome the Quinta successione post Petrum atque Paulū plebis gubernacula sortitus est Alexāder obteined the gouernāce of the people by successiō the first Bishop after Peter Paul. Irenaeus also as Eusebius recyteth saith Fundata aedificata Ecclesia beati Apostoli Lino officium episcopatus iniungunt After the Church was once founded buylded they charged Linus with the office of the Bishopricke of the holy Apostle Wherby appeareth that they both ioyntly constituted him Bishop of Rome receiued only their Apostleship enioyned vnto thē by christ And therfore if the Bishops of Rome challēge any preheminence of authority by Peter they shold aswell or rather by Paul bicause thei both soūded it both ther preached both ther suffred resigning that Bishopricke to Linus and all at once And if yée will peraduenture leaue to the former preaching there by Peter which by Scripture cannot be proued yet then at the least Saint Paul and his successours in Epheso should haue like Primacie ther bicause he founded first that church though Saint Iohn after that did buyld it as witnesseth Eusebius saying Ecclesia quae est apud Ephesum à Paulo quidem fundata est à Iohanne verò aedificata The Church which is at Ephesus in déede was founded of Paul but it was buylded of Saint Iohn And so Peter should haue no other Primacie in Rome but as Paul had in Epheso that is to say to be counted as the first preachers and conuerters of the people there to the faith of christ And as well might all the Bishops of Ephesus challenge the Primacie of all Nations both Gentiles and Iewes by Saint Paul Apostolum Gentium their founder as the Bishop of Rome by Saint Peter Apostolum tantum Circumcisionis in case hée were the first founder challenging Primacie ouer all But vndoubtedly this Primacie ouer all that the Bishops of Rome of late doe challenge was not allowed nor yet knowen nor hearde off amongst the auncient Fathers though they had the church of Rome in high estimacion as well for the notable vertuous déedes that the Clergie ther did shew and exercise abundantly to their neyghbours as witnesseth the sayde Eusebius alleaging the Epistle that Dionisius Alexandrinus wrote to Sother Bishop of Rome testifiyng the same As for the Citie of Rome was the most ample and chiefe Citie of all the world witnessing Saint Cyprian saying Planè quoniam pro magnitudine sua debeat Carthaginem Roma praecedere illic maiora grauiora commisit Certeinly bicause that Rome ought for hir greatnesse excell Carthage therefore there he committed the greater and more grieuous offences Which Saint Cyprian also when he had done certeine actes yea made certeyne determinations and statutes vnto the Bishop of Rome he did not submit them to his reformation or iudgement but onely signified his owne sentences to like him also And yet adding therevnto that if any Bishops meaning as well of Rome as of others which