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A08326	An antidote or treatise of thirty controuersies vvith a large discourse of the Church. In which the soueraigne truth of Catholike doctrine, is faythfully deliuered: against the pestiferous writinges of all English sectaryes. And in particuler, against D. Whitaker, D. Fulke, D. Reynolds, D. Bilson, D. Robert Abbot, D. Sparkes, and D. Field, the chiefe vpholders, some of Protestancy, some of puritanisme, some of both. Deuided into three partes. By S.N. Doctour of Diuinity. The first part.; Antidote or soveraigne remedie against the pestiferous writings of all English sectaries	S. N. (Sylvester Norris), 1572-1630.	1622 (1622)	STC 18658; ESTC S113275	554,179	704

of that house is a prophane person And a little after He that gathereth not with you scattereth that is he that is not Christs is Antichrists To S. Augustine Number the Priests euen from Peters seate see who succeeded one another in that row of Fathers that is the Rocke which the proud gates of Hell do not ouercome And in another place That is it which hath obtained the top of authority Then he sayth The principality of the Apostolicall Chaire alwayes florished in the Roman Church Lastly The Bishop of that Sea hath the preheminence of higher roome in the pastorall watch-tower which is common to all Bishops For this cause the Church of Rome is tearmed The head of the world the head of all Churches by Prosper by Victor by Vincentius by the Emperour Iustinian and others To which Church as Irenaeus testifyeth for her more powerfull principality euery Church ought to repayre For this the Pope of Rome is worthily intituled The a Hiero. epist. 123. chiefe and highest Priest The b Ambr. com in 1. Tim. 3. ruler of the house of God The c Concil Chal. in epist ad Leonem act 1. head of the Church The d Synod Later sub Mar●ino Papa secret 2. Prince Doctor of the orthodoxall and immaculate fayth The e Stephanus Archiepis Carthag ep ad Dam. Father of Fathers The f Bern. l. 2. de consid Vicar of Christ The g Bern. ibid. Pastour of all Pastours The h Concil Constant 5. act 1. pag. 74. giuer of Light and pillar of the Church The i Valent. epist. ad Theodosium quae habetur inter praeambula Conc. Chaleed Iustinian Nouell constit 123. in edit Haloand lib. 1. Cod. de summa Trinitate Liberatus in Breuiario cap. 12. Sozom. lib. 3. cap. 7. most Blessed Bishop of the Citty of Rome to whome amiquity hath giuen the principality of Priest-hood aboue all other These last be the wordes of Valentinian the Emperour whome Iustinian Chrys Ep. ad Innocent Theod. in Ep. ad Leonem Sulpitius Seuer l. 2. sacr hist Epiph haer 42. Cyp. l. 1. Ep. 4 Epiph. haeres 68. ●este Paulo Diaco Anact in Symmacho Sigeber in chronic Extainter Epi. Agapeti Tō 1. ep Rom. Pontif. habetur ep Euti tom 2. Conc. edit Colon. ann 1606. pag. 510. Apud Leonem epist 68. following maketh also a solemne decree That according to the Definition of the foure Holy Councells of Nice of Constantinople of Ephesus and of Chalcedon the Pope of Rome is the chiefe of all Priests And he addeth No man doubteth but that the top or principality of the highest Bishopricke resteth in Rome 11. Besides these authorityes which are all impregnable the continuall practise and consent of all Nations approue the supremacy of the Pope of Rome and therfore to him as to the supreme and highest Iudge vpon earth appeales haue beene made from all partes of the world To giue you a tast of some few examples To whose high tribunall did Flauianus the Partriarch of Constantinople appeale from the second Councell of Ephesus but to the tribunall of Leo Pope of Rome Whose ayd and succour did Athanasius the Bishop of Alexandria implore oppressed by the Arrians but the ayd of Iulius the Pope of Rome Vnder whose wings did S. Iohn Chrysostome flye deposed in a Councell of many Bishops of the East but vnder the wings of Innocentius the Pope of Rome To him Theodoret to him Saluianus and Priscillian rebells vnto God and enemyes of that Sea condemned in a Synod at Caesar-Augustum to him Marcion to him Basilides deposed from his Bishopricke was faine to appeale To him Valens and Vrsacius came to giue an account and craue pardon for their treachery against Athanasius To Symmachus Pope of Rome 220. or 225. Bishops as others report banished their seates by King Thrasimond fled for reliefe who honourably maintained them at his owne charges 82. To the Pope of Rome as to the anker of fayth oracle of truth the faythfull were wont to direct the Summe of their beliefe the greatest Clarkes their bookes and writings most famous Councells their Canons and decrees So Iustinian the Emperour sent the profession of his fayth to Agapetus the Pope Eutychius the Patriarch of Constantinople to Vigilius the Pope Proterius the Patriarch Aug. cōt 2. ep ●ela lib. 1. cap. 1. Inter Ep. Hormis Tom. 1. Ep. Rom. Pontif. Hiero. in exp li. Sym. ad Dama Concil Chal. in relat sanct Synod ad Leo. Con. Mileu 10. 2. p. ●01 inter ep Aug. 92. c. Cyp. teste Hier. dialo adu ●ucif Bils● pa. 1. p. 44. 45. 48. 49. Chrys Ep. 1. ad Inno. Tom. 5. Socrat. l. 2. cap. 15. Hier. in symb exp ad Damas Aug. con 2. Epis Pelag l. 1. c. 1. Theod Ep. ad Leonē Commen eius in Paul praefix of Alexandria to Leo the Pope So S. Augustine sent his workes to Pope Boniface to be examined and amended Possessor a Bishop of Africa his commentaries vpon S. Paul to Hormisda S. Hierome his explication vpon the Creed to Damasus So the Councell of Chalcedon sent their Canons to Leo the Pope The Mileuitan Councell held in Numidia the cause of Pelagius to Pope Innocentius And S. Cyprian the Primate of Africa sent the decrees of the Councell of Carthage to Stephen the Pope Neyther were these thinges done as M. Bilson to obscure the truth and beguile his Reader craftily suggesteth for the common consent mutuall agreement publike liking of the Bishops in euery Prouince because then the like resorts should haue been made to other Primates as well as to the Pope but they were made to him as to the Vicar Generall of Christ and ruler of his whole Church who had power and authority to examine the causes punnish the faultes reforme the abuses approue the fayth condemne the heresies establish the decrees reuerse the sentences of all other Bishops as the Letters the Complaints the Suites the Embassages the Petitions the whole History of the former Appellants and other resorters vnto Rome beare witnesse 13. S. Iohn Chrysostomes letters were to request Innocentius To pronounce the proceedings of the Bishops of the East voyd and of no force to punish with Ecclesiasticall Censures the Authours of that disorder S. Athanasius his complaint was of the wrong offered him by the Emperor a great assembly of Easterne Bishops who wrongfully thrust him from his Bishopricke And Iulius the Pope of Rome as Socrates relateth by the prerogatiue of the Roman Sea wrote threatning letters in his behalfe and restored him to his place rebuking them who rashely deposed him S. Hieromes suite to Damasus was If any thing be here vnaduisedly set forth we entreate it may be amended by thee who holdest the fayth seat of Peter The like suite S. Augustine made to Bonifacus Theodorets supplication to Leo was this I humbly request beseech your Holynesse in this case to ayde me appealing

as holy Iob complaineth iniquity like water and multiply their offences aboue the sands of the sea These I say be the yeares these be the Lents cut off by Indulgences wherby you may see how impertinent that obiection of our Aduersaryes is that Purgatory shall not continue so many yeares as our Pardons specify for they are not meant of the yeares or dayes of penall affliction which there are imposed but of such only as should by the Canonicall decrees be heer inflicted Now God may sometyme by the bitter sharpnes of Purgatory-paines in an houre or in a short momentary tyme expiate that which the slow and cold satisfaction of this life could scant redeeme in the mountenance of diuers yeares 14. Against other abuses which either by negligēce of Pastours or couetousnes of inferiour Officers haue beene practised in promulgating Pardons the generall Councell of Lateran the Councell of Vienna and of late Conc. Lat. in Decreto Inno. 3. Vienn●n in Decreto Clementis 5. Trident. s●ss ●5 ecreto de Indulgentijs the Councell of Trent hath made such seuere and holesome lawes as they cannot be free from egregious treachery who attach vs of allowing those crimes which we vtterly labour to suppresse 15. In which kind because our English Protestantes peruersly weene and obstinatly auow our supreme Pastours guilty of an abhominable sacriledge which neuer entred their Holynesse harts to wit of graunting Pardons to ratify murders or to perpetrate sinnes because I say they are so willfully setled in this vile conceit as nothing whatsoeuer we say or do no words no writinges no Breues of Popes no oathes no protestations no meanes at all that man can vse can euer extirpate that pe●uish deep rooted wicked damnable perswasion 16. It pleased God in the secret disposition of his hidden iudgment to reueale the contrary vnto them by this wonderfull and vnexpected manner About the yeare of our Lord 1608. in the 6. of his Maiestyes raigne ouer the kingdō of great Britaine as the Sexton or other officer appointed for that purpose was digging a graue in the Cathedral Church of S. Paul in London he chanced to light vpon the Coffin of one Syr Gerard Braybrook Knight who had been buryed there two hundred years before where finding the cordes whole the flowres fresh he espyed also a Charter of Pardon or Indulgence not consumed not eaten not defaced in so long a tyme which thus began BONIFACIVS Episcopus seruus seruorum Dei. Dilecto filio Nobili viro Gerardo Braybrooke Iuniori Militi dilectae in Christo filiae Nobili mulieri Elizabethae eius vxori Lincolniae Diocaesis salutem Apostolicam benedictionem Prouenit ex vestrae deuotionis affectu quo Nos Romanam Ecclesiam reueremini c. I omit the rest in Latin because the whole I set down verbatim in English as followeth BONIFACE Bishop seruant of the seruants of God To his beloued son the noble Gentleman The copy of a Bull ●ound in the tombe of Syr Gerard Braybrooke Knight in S. Pauls Church in London Gerard Braybrooke the yonger Knight and to his beloued daughter in Christ the noble Lady his wife Elizabeth of the Diocesse of Lincolne salutation and Apostolicall benediction It proceedeth from your affectionate deuotion with which you reuerence Vs and the Church of Rome that We admit your petitions to a fauourable hearing especially those which concerne the saluation of your soules For this cause We being moued to yield to your supplications by the tenour of these Presents doe grant this Indulgence to your Deuotion that such a Ghostly Father as eyther of you shall choose shall haue power by Apostolicall authority to grant to you persisting in the sincerity of faith in the vnity of the holy Church of Rome and in obedience and deuotion toward Vs or Our Successours Popes of Rome Canonically entring into that Sea full remission only once at the point of death of all your sinnes wherof you shall be contrite and confessed in such manner neuerthelesse that in those cases where satisfaction is to be made to any other the same Confessour shall enioyne you to doe it by your selues if you suruiue or by your heyres if you shall then die which you or they ought to perform as aforesaid And least which God forbid you should by this fauour become more prone to commit vnlawfull thinges hereafter We declare that if vpon confidence of this Remission or Indulgence you shall commit any such sins that this present Pardō shall not be any help to you concerning them Furthermore let it be lawfull for no man to infringe this Writing or Grant of Ours or with whatsoeuer boldnesse to contradict it And if any shall presume to attempt any such thing let him know that he shall incurre the indignation of Almighty God and of his blessed Apostles S. Peter and S. Paul Giuen at Rome at S. Peters vnder the Fishers-Ring the fifth of Iune in the second yeare of our Papacy 17. Let our Sectaries peruse this Breue and tell me whether their consciences will euer serue them againe to vpbraid our Pastours with the former sacriledge so rise 4. Conditions necessary to gaine an Indulgence heretofore in all their mouthes Let them read the conditions here required to gaine an Indulgence and tell me whether they any way incourage or authorize vs to sinne For first it is necessary therunto to persist in the sincerity of faith Secondly to be sorrowfull contrite and confesse our sinnes Thirdly to make satisfaction or restitution if any be needfull Fourthly not to presume hereby to attempt vnlawfull things But who can be sorrowfull much lesse fruitfully confesse or duly satisfie for that which he purposeth to commit who can be embolned to fall into sinne in hope to obtaine a Plenary Indulgence when this very hope and presumption is a maine barre not to gaine the Indulgence And strange no doubt strange and admirable was the prouidence of God in manifesting these things in so fit a time 18. For as in the dayes of Theodosius the Emperour Gregor Turon de glo Mart. l. 1. c. 95. Baron in annal an Christ 357. This happened in the yeare of our Lord 1582. vnder Pope Gregory the 13. he awaked and reuealed the happy Martyrs S. Maximian Malchus Martinian and the rest after they had slept 372. yeares when the article of our resurrection was most eagerly impugned by the Sadducean heresy as he reuealed the body of S. Felix Pope and Martyr by meanes of some who to find a treasure digged at Rome in the Church of S. Cosmas and Damianus the very day before his feast is celebrated when so many doubts were made about his Martyrdome as his name might haue byn otherwise in danger to be blotted out of the Calendar So the Diuine wisedome who with admirable sweetnes disposeth all things euen then in the Royall Citty in the chiefest Temple in the greatest recourse of English Sectaries disclosed this pardon

In 6. Syn. gen act 4. 9. ●6 with Sergius with the Monothelites their wills and operations who for this cause are enrolled in the rancke of heretikes and aboue 1000. yeares ago condemned by Pope Agatho in the sixt generall Councell 23. Wherefore to draw to an end I intreate you all who peruse this Treatise if the filth sucked out these miry puddles haue not dammed vp the passage of truth if these dregges of heresyes haue not quenched in you all sparkes of grace renounce the Patrons of such iniquity beware the infection of their folly the fury of them who proclaime Christ a Priest Christ a Mediatour according to his Deity and acknowledge with vs how he dischargeth these dutyes only as man notwithstanding how his actions his Sacrifice his prayers and teares were all of infinite and incomparable merit through the excellency of his diuine person Which I would to God his Royall Maiesty would also vnderstand for whose worthy satisfaction I haue diligently laboured to decide this question THE TENTH CONTROVERSY DEMONSTRATETH The Primacy of S. Peter against D. Bilson and D. Reynoldes CHAP. I. ARISTOTLE the chiefe and Prince Arist ● 3. polit ● 5. 6. 7 of Philosophers assigneth three seuerall manners of gouerning a Common-Wealth For eyther many of the meaner sort beare sway or some few of the Nobility or only one as absolute Soueraigne If many it is called Democracy if few Aristocracy if one a Monarchy The first is often ruined with the tumults and garboyles of the vnconstant and diuersly-headed multitude The second commonly deuided with the strifes and factions of the ambitious Peeres The third as it is lesse subiect S. Thom. de regim principum l. 1. cap. 1. 23. ● to diuision so most conuenient as S. Thomas learnedly noteth to order guide and keepe many in peace and vnity the finall scope to which all gouernments should be directed and all rulers ayme 2. Whereupon Plato Aristotle Isocrates and diuers other affirme in peace in warre in managing al affaires Plato in polit Arist l. 3. polit c. 11. 12. l. 4. cap. 2. Isocrates oratione 3. this to be the most diuine forme of a Common-Wealth where one most singular man hath the supreme power and administration of things which both God and Nature confirmeth For in the mystery of the most holy Trinity there is the Father from whom the Sonne and the Holy Ghost who from the Father and the Sonne as from one only origen or beginning proceedeth They euery way equall in properties distinct in Persons three are only one in ouer-ruling and disposing all things Amongst the immortall spirits and quires of Angels there is one illuminated by God who giueth light to the rest In the Heauens there is one first moueable by which the inferiour orbes and planets are moued One Sunne from whence the light of the Stars is borrowed and influence of the signes in the Zodiacke determined In earthly thinges in this little world of man there is one hart from which the arteryes and vitall spirits one braine from whence the sinewes one lyuer from which the veines channels of bloud haue their head or of-spring in euery element there is one predominate quality Amongst the birdes the Eagle among the beasts the Lyon among the fishes the Whale doth also dominier In Trees Cyprian tract do Idolorum ●anitate Hearbes and Plants in Townes Villages Families priuate Houses the like head-ship or Monarchy might be shewed if it were not too long for my professed breuity in so much as S. Cyprian writeth The very Bees haue their guide and captaine whome they follow Apo. 2● 2. Cant. 6. 3. Mat. 13. v. 38. 41. Ioan. 10. 16. Luc. 10. 34. 1. Tim. 3. ●● 3. Now sith the Church of Christ militant vpon earth is a perfect yet spirituall Common-wealth sith it is An holy Citty A campe well ordered and established by the wisest Captaine Gouernour and Law-maker that euer was Who doubteth but that he placed in it the most worthy Regiment of all others that Monarchicall preheminence which in all his other creatures so perfectly raigneth especially for that he resembleth it to A kingdome to A sheepefold to An Inne to An House in which one King one Pastour one Host one Maister beareth sway For that it ought to be correspondent to the ancient Mat. 16. 18. 19. Synagogue in which one High-priest answerable to the celestiall hierarchies and orders of Angels among whom one Seraphim is chief And who was this visible Monarch this Ministeriall head of the Church vnder Christ but S. Peter To whom our Sauiour said Thou art Peter and vpon this Rocke will I build my Church and the gates of Hell shall not preuaile against it And I will giue to thee the Keyes of the Kingdome of Heauen and whatsoeuer thou shalt binde vpon earth it shall be bound also in the Heauens and whatsoeuer thou shall loose in Earth it shall be loosed also in the Heauens In which sētence foure rare prerogatiues are promised vnto Peter and by euery one of them his supereminent dignity aboue the rest of the Apostles manifestly declared 4. For first he calleth him Rocke by which Metaphore he doth insinuate that he as a Rocke or Stone vnmoueable Amb. ser 47. Orig. hom 5. in Exod. saith S. Ambrose vpholdeth the whole weight and fabrike of Christian worke That he saith Origen is the great foundation or most solide stone vpon which Christ builded his Church Secondly he addeth To thee I will giue the Keyes of the Kingdome of Heauen by which words is signified all power to enact or repeale Lawes sommon or confirme Councels appoint or displace offices consecrate or degrade Bishops all power and authority which is requisite for the rule gouernment or instruction of the Church For euen as when the keyes of a Citty are giuen vp to the Magistrate the administration and rule of the State is surrendred into Greg. l. 4. epi. 32. Luc. 11. 52. Apoc. 1. v. 18. his hands so now when the Keyes of the kingdome of Heauen are imparted to Peter The whole charge and principality of the Church as S. Gregory writeth is committed vnto him And whereas there be two sorts of Keyes the Key of knowledge to teach and instruct of which S. Luke You haue taken away the Key of knowledge and the Key of authority and iurisdiction to guide and gouerne whereof S. Iohn speaketh I haue the Keyes of death and of Hell and Esay I will giue the Key of the house of Dauid vpon his shoulder Both these Keyes were here delegated vnto Peter by Isa 21. v. 22. It was vsuall amongst the Hebrewes to giue power and authority by the Keyes vid. Azor. Insti mor. p. 2. c. 9. the one he had the Chaire of infallible doctrine to decide all controuersies and define all matters of faith by the other the scepter of Ecclesiasticall gouernment to rule order correct and

to your iust and vpright iudgement command me to come before you And in his Epistle to Renatius the Priest Idem in Epist ad Renatū praesbit In rela S. Synod Chal●ed ad B. Papam Leonem I beseech thee sayth he to perswade the most holy Archbishop Leo that he vse his Apostolicall authority and command our appearance before his Councell For that holy Seat holdeth the sterne of gouernement ouer all Churches of the world 14. The Embassage of the Fathers of the Chalcedon Councell was To haue their decrees confirmed by Leo Saying we are suppliants vnto you and doe you honour our iudgement with your decrees as we haue ioyned to our head conformity in things that be good so let your Highnesse performe that which beseemeth to your children To the same purpose Marcianus the Emperour Osiand in Epist Cēt. ● p. 182. prayed him to confirme the fayth which there was defined The petition of the first Councell held at Arles to Pope Siluester in the tyme of Constantine the Great was this That for the Rog●●nus igitur tuis decretis nostrū bonora iudicium sicut nos capiti in bonis adiccimus consonantiā sic summitas tua filiis quod decet adimpleat ex Epist 59. Leo. 60. eiusdē Habetur inter Ep. Hormisdae Tom. 1. Epist Rom. Pont. Extat in decret Agapeti to 2. Concil 553. or 45● according to the later Edition Sozon l. 8. c. 3. Socrates lib. 5. c. 15. Theod. Eccl. Hist lib. 5. cap. 23. Theod. ibid. vniforme obseruation of Easter day throughout the world he according to the custome should direct his letters to all Iustinus the Emperour referred the questions of fayth presented him by the Bishop to Hormisda the Pope requesting his resolution And the Emperour Iustinian after he had humbled himselfe to Pope Agapetus adored his Holynesse he beseeched him to adnance Me●●as a Catholike to the Catholike to the Patriarchall seat of Cōstantinople insteed of Anthimus the Heretike S. Iohn Chrysostome the Patriarch of Constantinople and Theophilus the Bishop of Alexandria intreated Damasus the Pope of Rome that Flauianus long vsurping the seat of Antioch might at length after the death of Paulinus be installed in his Bishoprike and pardoned his former fault And although he were much fauoured by all the East who cleaued vnto him and by Theodosius the Emperour who allowed him as farre as he could yet he twise commaūded him to repayre to Rome and neuer could he be canonically or peaceably enthroned vntill he sent Acatius the famous Bishop of Beroea with other illustrious Prelates to the sea Apostolike by whom he obteined the consent and approbation of the Pope 15. Not the suites of Emperous only not the supplication or intreaty of forren Bishops but the iurisdiction also and authority which the Pope hath alwayes practised witnesse his soueraignty ouer the whole flocke of Christ. For he made lawes which did bind the whole Church he called Councells censured Princes excommunicated Bishops deposed Patriarches restored them to their seats who were vniustly depriued of their dignityes For example a Leo. Epist 1. ad Episcop Camp c. Leo writeth to the Bishops of Campania of Picenum and of Tuscia how he and his Predecessours constitutions obliged them all The same b Leo ep 87. Ep. 93. ad Turb Leo summoned to a generall Councell the Bishops of Tarracone Lusitania France and Carthage c Nicep l. 13. c. 34. Innocentius the first thundred the sentence of Excommunication against Arcadius the Emperour and Eudoxia the Empresse Agaynst d The Centurist● Cent. 5. Col. ●●● Theophilus also Bishop of Alexandria e Liberatus c. 18. Felix excommunicated Acatius the Patriarch of Constantinople f Euseb l. 5. ca. 24. Victor the 15. Pope after S. Peter not somewhat Popelike as g Sparks in his answere to M. Iohn Albins preface M. Sparkes scoffeth at him exceeding his bounds but by the priuiledge of his supreme transcendent authority censured in like manner all the Bishops of Asiae for dissenting from the Roman Church in celebrating the feast of Easter h Zona in vita Iustin. Agapetus the Pope deposed Anthimus i Galas Ep. ad epis Darda Leo Dioscorus k Theod. l. 5 histo c. 23. Damasus Flauianus three Patriarches one of Constantinople another of Alexandria the third of Antioch And on the other side l Conc. Chal. act 1. Leo restored Theodoret the famous Bishop of Cyrus to his sea deposed by the 2. Councell of Ephesus m Cyp. l. 3. ep 13. S. Cyprian wrote to Pope Stephen to depose Marcian the Bishop of Orleance and install another in his roome n ●elas ep ad Epis Dardaniae Socrat. l. 2. c. 15. Cent. 4. col 550. Iulius the first of that name restored to their Bishoprikes Athanasius of Alexandria Paulus of Constantinople and other Catholike Bishops of the East expelled by the Arians And this he did as the Centurists cōfesse out of Socrates fraetus Romanae Ecclesiae prerogatiua By the prerogatiue of the Roman Church And Sozomenus sayth of the same Iulius When for the dignity of his Sea the care of all appertayned vnto him he restored euery one to his Church Zozom l. 3. c. 7. Euag. l. 1. c. 4. Phot. l. de 7. Syn. Leo ep 47. Leo ep 84. idem ep 87. Gela. ep ad Epi. Dard. Galf. l. 9. cap. 11. Leo ep 84. Greg. l. 4 ep 52. Innocent 1. ep 26. ad Con. Mile extat inter epi. Aug. Conc. Cbal act 1. Patet ex Leo. ep 55. ad Pulch. Basil epist 52. ad Athanasiū Conc. Nicenum 1. c. 6. ex Nicolao 1. ep ad Mich. Imp. vide S. Greg in Regist epi passim Idem S. Greg. in Regis l. 12. c. 15. vsum tibi pallij ad sola missarum solemnia agenda concedimus Bedel ● hist c. 19. 2. hist c. 8. God win in the Catal of Bishops Beda l. 2. c. 17. Fox act p. 185. 16. In fine the Pope of Rome hath alwayes had his legates presidents and chiefe in all Oecumenicall Councells as Hosius Vitus and Vincentius in the first Councell of Nice S. Cyril in the Councell of Ephesus Paschasius and Lucentius in the Councell of Chalcedon He hath had his Vicars generall in all forrayne and remote Countreyes Anastasius Bishop of Thessalonica in Grece Potentius in Afrike Acatius Patriarch of Constantinople in Egypt Dubritius Arch-bishop of Wales primate of Britany in England To him as to the highest Iudge the weightyest causes from all partes of the world haue been still directed Without him no generall Councell can be kept or assembled By him tumultuous Synods haue been euer disanulled From him most ample priuiledges dignityes and prerogatiues haue byn granted to Bishops Pathiarches Kings and Princes To mention some particulars From him the Patriarch of Constantinople had the preeminence of the highest Sea after Rome iurisdiction ouer Egypt

these hauty speaches in Leo and I thinke that the Mistery of iniquity so wrought through his ambitious adaduancing Peter that of the Egges which he cherished two of the most venemous Cockatrices were bred that euer poysoned the Church of Christ The one the Popes Supremacy c. The other the worshiping of Saints 31. What sayth he of Saint Hierome Hierome to Reyn. c. 4. diuis 3. fol. 134. Hieron ad Aug. ep 11. inter ep Aug. Reyn. c. 4. diuis 1. fol. 133. Rein. c. 4. diuis 1. fol. 116. 117. mayntaine his quarrell agaynst Augustine wrote of affection more what he fancied then of discretion what be thought And when we Catholikes alleadge that sentence of his Paul not had security of preaching the Ghospell vnlesse it had beene approued by the sentence of Peter c. Mayster Reynolds answereth That we discouer the nakednesse of the Fathers c. And prayse the beauty of their blemishes and thinke them best clad when they are naked most Thus of Saint Hierome What of Saint Chrysostome That which Peter might haue done as Chrysostome supposeth would infer a greater Primacy then Peter had if it were true but the Scripture sayth it not The Fathers write some thinges 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by way of prayse and commendation c. Wherein if their words should be rigorously sifted Reyn. c. 4. diuis 3. fol. 132. cap. 4. diuis 2. fol. 123. Ibid. c. 7. diuis 9. fo 285. Bern. l. 2. de Conside the truth is somtymes ouerlashed Of Maximus of Isidore of Theodoret what Father Maximus did dote Isidore ouershot himselfe by slip of memory Theodoret serued his owne cause 32. Is Saint Gregory then Is Saint Bernard of more credit with him Gregory quoth he was somewhat troubled Gregory had a louing affection to Rome Will you giue me leaue to thinke of him as Christ of Peter That he knew not what he sayd That worthy passage is cited out of Saint Bernard vvriting of Eugenius Thou art the Prince of Bishops thou the Heyre of the Apostles Thou art for Primacy Reyn. c. 6. Diuis 4. fol. 226. Abel for gouernement Noe for Patriarch-ship Abraham for order Melchisedech for dignity Aaron for authority Moyses for Iudgement Samuel for power Peter for vnction Christ. Mayster Reynoldes answereth Your men esteeme this place of Bernard very highly and make a feast of it I maruell they are not ashamed to alleadge it For to call the Pope heyre of Saint Peter it were a great excesse of speach much greater to call him heyre of the Apostles But to call him Christ that is so great that any modest man who were Bernardes friend would rather lay his cloake vpon it then discouer it much lesse make boast of it Was euer heard a more audacious fellow who durst open his mouth agaynst heauen it it selfe and disgrace the vvritinges of so many Saints 33. And who art thou O Reynoldes that I should belieue thee before those Cyprians those Chrysostomes those Gregoryes those Bernardes whome thou reprouest Who art thou that I shold rather iudge the greatest faults in them then the least spot or blemish in thee Shall I deeme Leo ambitious Hierome naked Gregory troubled Cyprian to haue varyed from the word of God and only Reynoldes to haue vnderstood it aright Can any man be perswaded that Chrysostome ouerlashed Maximus doted Isidore ouershot himselfe Theodoret serued his own cause and Iohn Reynoldes spake sincerly that Bernards shame deserued a cloake and Reynoldes beauty was worthy to be displayed Can a man thinke so many godly Popes miscaryed with affection all Ecclesiasticall Hystories wide and only Reynoldes to hit the marke Truly he were eyther sottishly peruerse or frowardly blind whosoeuer would seeme so partiall on his side whosoeuer I say vpon the slanderous deposition of such a faythlesse witnesse should depriue the Pope of his soueraygne dignity ouer the whole Church which God and his Saintes haue imparted vnto him The end of the second Booke THE THIRD BOOKE THE TWELVTH CONTROVERSY FREETH The true worshippe of Saints of their Shrines and Reliques from Idolatry Agaynst D. Bilson D. Reynoldes and D. Fulke CHAP. 1. THE Prince of darknesse our professed enemy as he alwayes enuyed the glory of God and repined at the felicity and happynesse of man so he euer sought to impayre the honour of the one deface the dignity preheminence of the other To this end he leuied See Irae l. 1. c. 22. ler. in Catal Epip baer 68. his infernall forces first agaynst the Diuine Maiesty it selfe agaynst the first person in Trinity stying vp Simon Magus Basilides and others to deny the first article of our Creed That God the Father created beauen and earth Then agaynst the second person he banded Ebion Chrinthus Arius who robbed our Sauiour Christ of his Diuinity and Equality with his Father Agaynst the third he armed Concil 2. Constant cont Mac. Ambr. l. 1. de fide c. 1. 2. c. Macedonius who impiously impugned the Diuinity of the holy Ghost Agaynst them all iointly Sebellius who wickedly gainsayed the distinction of the Persons But when this diabolicall battery could no way preuayle he mounted his Ordinance agaynst the blessed Angels and Saintes of God He suggested Eustachius in the yeare of Basil in orat con Sabellium our Lord 300. Eunomius and Vigilantius about the same tyme to fight agaynst the honour the vniuersall Church exibited vnto the happy soules which raygne in heauen whose poyson Wicklisse after swallowed vp and is now disgorged by M. Caluin M. Bilson M. Reynoldes M. Fulke Calu. l. 1. Inst c. 11. §. 11. Bils 4. p. pag. 157. 561. 571. Rey. de ldol Rom. Eccl. 1. l. c. 8. Fulke in c. 14. Act. sect 2. in c. 19. Apoc. sect 4. Rey. ibid. c. 6. 8. and all moderne Protestants chiefly vpon this fond perswasion That there be only two sorts of honours Ciuill and Dixine the one proper to God the other peculiar to mortall men And seeing the seruants of God already departed cannot be reuerenced with Ciuill honour because they are absent nor with Diuine for feare of Idolatry no true worship but only as M. Reynoldes yieldeth an honest commemoration or decem burialt can belong vnto them This is the maine ground of M. Caluin of M. Fulke of whosoeuer which being once razed the Rampier of their defence and Fortresse of their folly is wholy ouerthrowne 2. First then I will deduce out of the cause it selfe and off-spring from whence honour ariseth out of Scriptures reasons vndeniable another kind of worship besides Ciuill and Godly which without danger of Idolatry may be allotted to Saintes Albeit Aristotle sayth Adoration and honour is in him that honoureth yet it hath for Etb 9. c. 2. his marke and obiect the excellency of the person worshipped in testimony whereof this signe of reuerence is submissiuely exhibited And therefore as there be three sortes of

Councell expoundeth it should not be ●roden on and defiled by mens feet With the like cosenage they quote a Canon of the Elibertine Councell as though it discharged all Churches of the vse of Images whereas the Councell allowing all Tables and portable Pictures commanded only by reason of the incursions of the Gothes which often happened at that tyme no Image should be painted and engrauen on the wals and windowes of the Church least that which is adored by Christians should be dishonoured and abused by sauage enemyes in their common ransackes and rifling of the Temples 31. Then they produce certaine wordes out of a Conc. Nic. 2 act 6. Bils 4. par pag. 601. proscript of S. Epiphanius Epistle Disswading images to be brought into Churches or erected in Church-yardes or tolerated in priuate houses conuinced in the 7. Synod to be inserted by heretikes where the fable of the painted veile is proued also to be fabulous which the fornamed Epiphanius Baron an Christ 392. caused as they pretend to be cast out of the Church Or he commanded that veile to be remoued and torne in peeces because it was the Picture of a prophane man seeming to be the Image of Christ or some Saint as the wordes themselues import and Baronius in his Ecclesiasticall History diligently vnfoldeth 32. Notorious is the Centurists and Caluins fraud in alleadging to this purpose two vnlawfull Councells tumultuously assembled at Constantinople the one vnder Leo Isaurus the other vnder Constantine Copronimus two pernicious Cent. 8. c. 9 Calu. l. 1. Inst c. 11. Abbas Vrs p●●g in Chron. Bils 4. par pag. 547. Heretikes and as a graue Historiographer chronicleth them Fore-runners of Antichrist Lesse notable yet no lesse dangerous is M. Bilsons legier-de-main in crazing the 2. Nicen and extolling the credit of the Councell of Franckeford where the Churches sayth he of England France Italy Germany c. condemned the former Nicen in behalfe of Images A mighty condemnation if iuridically pronounced as crafty a Collusion if wickedly procured if guilfully extorted The guile lurked in the Authour of the bastardly bookes ascribed to Charles who perswaded the Councell of Franckeford first that the Bishops assembled in the 7. Synod at Nice decreed Images to be worshiped Epist Adri. act 2. subscrip in omnibus actionib Confes act 7. Recant act 1. 3. Centu. 8. cap. 9. Paul Dia. l. 23. Rerū Rom. Cedr in comp hist Iuo 4. p. c. 147. Bils 4. p. pag. 551. 565. Rein. de dol Rom. Ec. l. 1. c. 2. with the Diuine honour of Latria secondly that this Councell was celebrated without the authority of the Pope of Rome Both false depositions as the Epistle of Adrian the Pope the subscription of his Legates the confession of the Councell it selfe the recantation of Basil the Bishop of Ancyra of Constantine the Bishop of Cyprus can testify who abiuring their Heresyes allowed the Religious yet not the godly worship of Images The Deuines notwithstanding of Franckeford mistaken in this matter of fact by that faythlesse deponent disanulled the second Councel of Nice accursed them who assigned to Pictures the worship of Latria and those withall who should seeke to abolish them Which point M. Bilson concealed as little fauouring his cause Or if this Coūcell had fauoured it could not haue steeded him against the former A priuate Councell cannot impeach a publike a latter a more ancient a Councell from which if the Centurists deceiue vs not the Pope and his Legats dissented a Councell approued by the supreme authority of Pope and Prelate as the 2. Nicen was first by Adriā then by Leo the third of that name as Paulus Diaconus Cedrenus and Iuo accord 33. Lastly for the vpshoot and conclusion of their perfidious dealing M. Bilson and M. Reynoldes oppose certaine passages of the Fathers The fact of Ezechias the Idolatry Epiph. haeres 27. Aug. haer 7. Greg. l. 7. ep 109. l. 9. ep 9. Ambr. de Obitu Theodo Aug. de moribu● Eccl. Cath. l. 1. c. 34. Caiet in 3● part q. 25. art 3 of Marcellina Carpocrates the Gnostikes detested by S. Augustine Irenaeus c. detested also by vs. For they as S. Epiphanius and S. Augustine teach had the Pictures of Heathens Homer Plato Pythagoras in equall esteeme and reuerence with the pictures of Christ of Paul c. They burned incense and offered Sacrifices to their Images worshiping them as Gods which we renounce King Ezechias abhorred when he brake the Brasen Serpent in peeces for the like crime committed by the Iewes S. Gregory S. Ambrose S. Augustine with the rest condemne in such places as they speake against the worshiping of Images For as Caietan very learnedly obserueth The Fathers sometime say Picturs ought not to be adored Sometyme they write that they ought They ought not to be worshiped absolutly for themselues not with Sacrifices or Godly homage but they ought to be honoured respectiuely with reference to the Originalls with a deuout and Religious kind of worship as by Scriptures Fathers Councels and vnanswerable proofes I haue manifestly declared to such as will not shut their eyes against the light of truth THE FIFTEENTH CONTROVERSY MAINTAINETH Purgatory and Prayer for the Dead agaynst D. Field and D. Fulke CHAP. I. HAVING mantained the honour of Aug. l. de baer c. 35. Epiph. haer 75. Guido in summa de haeres Field l. 3. c. 17. in append 1. part p. 42. 43. c. Fulke in c. 12. Matth. sect 6. in 1. 10. 1. sect 5. our noble Patrons the glorious and triumphant Saintes in Heauen the worship of their Images the veneration of their Reliques now I come to defend the cause of our humble suppliantes the poore afflicted soules in Purgatory the place of their punishment the reliefe they receaue by our prayers suffrages The later whereof was first gainesayd by Aerius as S. Augustine and Epiphanius the former by the Waldenses as Guido reporteth and both are now denyed by D. Field D. Fulke and all Protestants vpon these three groundes First for that they suppose after the guilt of sinne remitted no punishment remaineth to be expiated either heer by our satisfactory workes or heerafter by the paines of Purgatory Secondly for that they allow no distinction betwixt mortall and veniall sinnes Thirdly because no mention is made in Scripture or in the Primitiue Church either of Purgatory or Praier for the Dead Their former groūd I haue ouerthrowen in the treatise of Satisfaction now to refute the second Some Protestams imitating the old Heretikes Iran l. 1. adu haeres of whom Iraeneus writeth who spake like Catholikes and meant farre otherwise admit with vs the names of Veniall and Mortall sinnes but in a farre different sense Calu. lib. 2. Inst c. 8. in Antido 2 to Concil Trident. sect 6. c. 12. Eulke in c. 1. 1. ep 10. sect 5. Caluin will haue all sinnes Veniall to the Elect because they