Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	law_n	power_n	word_n	4,342	5	4.2796	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00670	A treatise against the necessary dependance vpon that one head, and the present reconciliation to the Church of Rome Together with certaine sermons preached in publike assemblies, videlicet 1. The want of discipline. 2. The possession of a king. 3. The tumults of the people. 4. The mocke of reputation. 5. The necessitie of the Passion. 6. The wisdome of the rich. By Roger Fenton Doctor of Diuinitie, late preacher of Graies Inne.	Fenton, Roger, 1565-1616.; Utie, Emmanuel, d. 1661.	1617 (1617)	STC 10805; ESTC S102068	104,035	162

may be Mat. 13.45 they acquire all their knowledge by sitting no paines they take to purchase that pearle in the Gospell no wee presuppose they found it before they sought it Is it come to this Then to that Religion and vnto that Church which findes vs and we not them must we bee reconciled vnder paine of damnation Euseb 5. Let vs deale with them à posteriore Then was Irenaeus in the state of damnation which tooke vp Victor for censuring the Easterne Church Then those were blessed which Cyprian calles Desperate Ep 55. and hee in a woe case for condemning those that made appeale to Rome from Africke Then presently after Cyprian the Church of Carthage must bee damned for want of Reconciliation that excepted against the vniuersality in particular Ne quidem Romanus And St. Augustine as deepe in hell that was an assistant to that Councell Search the Councells Mileuitan and Nice nothing can be found in the Originals except as the Athenians made an Altar where the Beasts staid to the vnknowen God so where the Pope sits they will make relation to some vnknowen Originall in the time of Numa but Plus oculo quam oraculo Chrysost Hom 43. in Matth. we will see it before we receiue it vpon their bare report for we are sure the Greeke Church would not yeeld in Chrysostomes time hee writes against it and the other did excommunicate those that made an appeale to Rome because no good did issue from appeales but long iourneyes expence of money many miseries but no redresse no pitty no indignation at the wrongs and to those that did practise them it was not Refugium but Suffugium a refuge but a shift to slip off the punishment of some notorious crimes that they had committed in their own Church not for any care to religion but to be of that religion which did eyther permit vnlawfull things or dispense with great persons like the Magi that said vnto the Kings of Persia Wee haue a Law that it is not lawfull for a man to marry his sister we haue another Law Virgils Fglog that Kings may doe what they list Et quae tanta fuit Romam tibi causa videndi Libertas saith the Poet liberty and impunity was the cause of these appeales and though there were a necessity yet no fruite did grow from it The comparison which S. Ierome a Priest in Rome doth make betwixt Orbem and vrbem is well knowne and the place in which he paralels the merit Priesthood of Constantinople with Rome Ier. ep ad Euagr. Einsdem meriti et Sacerdotij I omitte the titles of Gregory the Pope himselfe enough to discouer his successors to be Antichristian not spoken onely for meere opposition to the pride of Iohn of Constantinople but for his owne part absit haec leuitas ab aurihus meis Iob. 7. he would not heare of it but because hee was but a sparke of mortality as others were he would not striue to flie the highest but shine the brightest and so we are come past the 600. yeares Then euery man knowes how Phocas killed Mauritius and vsurpt the Empire and to curry fauour with the Romanes made that dogge of the flocke Boniface the third vniuersall Bishop so they continued in hight of pride and cruelty as the ould Rome was built in bloud so was the supremacy gotten by parricide Psa 67.20 Non Jesuitarum suasu sed militum terrcre Eliens epis ad Bell. Apol. Resp cap. 1. we wish it did not so continue It was a saying Thou leadest thy people like sheepe by the hands of Moses and Aaron but now alas it is not Ducit but Trahit we must not be led but drawne by the necks not so much by the perswasion of Iesuites as the violence of Souldiers Ignatius turned from a Souldier to a Iesuite now turned from a Iesuite to a Souldier by bloudy inquisitions and by force of armes must wee be forced to reconciliation not violence vsed onely vpon Subiects but vpon Kings There haue beene some that haue giuen an vncertaine sound to the battell against this plea As that the Bishop of Rome is not aboue a Councell in Paris not aboue the Lawes and all Ecclesiasticall Persons by supreame power in Venice not aboue all by a direct temporall dominion in the consistory of Cardinals There haue beene in England fiue Kings that haue resisted the Pope in such vsurpations and now thanke God IAMES is the sixt but amongest them and vs the first which not long agoe in that famous disputation at Cambridge where the King Anne Dom 1614. Marke 8. Luke 2 6. Reu. 1 13. sitting like Christ among the Doctors keeping an Act not of approbation but of admiration or rather like the Sonne of God in the similitude of the Sonne of Man amongst the golden Candlestickes a King like a Doctor opposing answering determining not in the Maiestie of his person of which hee did but shew the lineaments but in the beauty of his administration in which he did communicate light to euery disputer and glory to himselfe When that profound Schooleman his professour vpon the Question Whether the Pope had any power in temporall things as they tended to a spirituall good Obiected that the Pope had power in disposing and transferring dominions in prescribing the ciuill Lawes of Nations to Kings as S. Ambrose might to Theodosius vnder paine of Excommunication The summe of the answer being that it was not by ciuill authority Non politica authoritate sed medicina spirituali c. but as by a spirituall medicine not by the power of constraint but prescription not by authority but by Councell The King added Concionando non cogendo It pleased him further to vse these words Quaestio est vtrum Ambrosius iure fecit Vtrum exemplum cius sit lex Nego planè Ambrosij factum fuisse licitum nimis arroganter se gessit Ambrosius plusquam decuit in ea re Spoken like a King Leuit. 10. for Moses must speake when Aaron must hold his peace S Ambrose might perswade him to defer the punishment 30. daies after the or of the Grecians he could not constrain him nay a little further since man is onely aboue beasts but Kings are aboue men because they are Gods there is no way but by turning to a greater God Psal 82 6. whose childrē they are though they bee wicked yet they are children of the most highest strange children Psa 18 76. c strange because they let go Iustice but children because they keep the image of God therefore when S. Gregory gaue aduice to that murtherer Phocas which had slaughtered Mauritius with his Sonnes and his Brother euen then when he might read the impiety of the fact in the very nature of the plague that followed which killed them before they had any time to bee sicke Ex Iudel 6 lib 1 c 1 2. as hee

via sacra Abraham came out of Chaldea so must they out of their Sects before they come to these two things set downe in the Text. The Foundation The Rocke The Building The Church Verse 17. The Rocke imports first a foundation and the surest vpon which the rest of the grunsels are layd what this Rocke is poynts to the premises to that Rocke which Peter discouered before and layd hold on that rocke which flesh blood had not reuealed vnto him but the father in the 17. verse As thou art Peter which signfies a Rocke so vpon this Rocke which thou hast discouered Lib. 6. de Trinit Lib. 61 9. in Luc. Hom. 55. in Matth. Vlt. Tract in Ioh. Serm. 3. de verb. Retra 1.21 will I build my Church So saith Hillary Super hanc confessionis petram Ecclesiae aedificatio est So Ambrose Fundamentum Ecclesiae sides est So Chrysostome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vpon faith and confession So Augustine Super hanc petram quam confessus es edificabo Ecclesiam meam And in another place De verb. Dom. And in his Retractations he confesseth that he hath expounded it of Peter in some places recals it Christ the son of the liuing God is the ground besides which none other can bee layd Or that Christ is the sonne of the liuing God is the first ground of truth whereupon the Church is built vp in faith and knowledge of that rocke which is permanent wee say the first ground and principle of Christianity whereupon the rest of the gruncels and articles of Christian faith are layd and out of which the other are deriued The Logicians make a question which is the first principle in reason whether one or many but this is the first in faith and the very rocke of all Lue 17.6 In the 17. of Luke ver 6. The kingdome of God is compared to a seede The least of all seedes and to one graine of that seede for as our articles are not many so are they contained in one which is the first and that this is mole minimum but virtute maximum it is cleere for in it as a seede the rest are contained If then we be settled in our hearts There is a possibility of rest and a facility of beleeuing the rest that followes If that man Christ was the image of his father by whom all things were made he might easily preserue his mothers virginity and so be borne of a virgin If we beleeue that this man was true God then we may as easily beleeue that he was able to suffer the Iewes to crucifie kill bury his body and raise it vp againe by the power of his diuinity if Christ by whom all things were made of nothing bee able to gouerne then is he able to rectifie and restore all by the resurrection of the body to eternall life This was first reuealed by the Angell at his conception He shall be called the sonne of the most high Luc. 1.32 2. Installed the Head of the Church at his Baptisme This ground was first reuealed Mat. 3.17 not by an Angell but by his owne father Matth. 3.17 and when Iohn Baptist was to beare witnesse Ioh. 1.34 Ioh. 1.34 I saw and beare record that this is the sonne of God 3. When hee was about to goe out of the world at his transfiguration Mat. 17.5 This is my beloued sonne heare him This is the ground of all that the beloued Disciple makes so much of in his Epistle 1 Ioh. 4.15 1. Ioh. 4.15 Whosoeuer confesses that Iesus is the sonne of God in him dwelleth God and 1. Ioh. 5.5 Who is hee that ouercomes the world 1 Ioh. 5.5 but he that beleeueth that Iesus is the sonne of God he hath gotten heere this very seed and ground of all 4. Heere the rocke is reuealed to Peter from heauen expressed by Peters confession Therefore they that beleeued Christ did first lay holde on this Nathanael in the first of Iohn Ioh. 1.49 Rabbi thou art the sonne of God The Centurion at his death in the 27. of Matthew Mat. 27.54 Doubtlesse this is the sonne of God Therefore this is the first sparke of Christian faith that fals into the heart 5. Did Christ tell Peter this Rocke Let vs then see vpon what rocke Peter built for hee was a master-builder Looke the last Catholique Epistle the first Chapter 2 Pet. 1.14 and the foureteenth verse Seeing I know the time of my departure is at hand I must lay downe this my Tabernacle euen as our Lord Iesus Christ hath shewed me Verse 15. Verse 15. I will endeauour therefore alwaeyes that I may bee able to haue remembrance of these things after my departing How endeauour Verse 16. Verse 16 For wee follow not deceiueable fables with our eyes wee saw his Maiesty For verse 17. Verse 17. hee receiued honour and glory of his father when a voice came from him Verse 18. This is my beloued sonne in whom I am well pleased This voice we heard in the eighteenth when it came from heauen being with him in the holy Mount This hee confirmed by the Prophets Verse 19. The sure word of the Prophets Though as a light in a darke place not so manifestly shining as afterwards And that he may confirme this confirming authority of the Prophets verse 20.21 hee sayes Verse 20.21 It was an inspiration from the holy Ghost and therefore Peter had beene ouerseene that if Christ had poynted to Peter in these words Super hanc petram if Peter poynted not the Church to the successors of Rome super hanc petram especially knowing of his departure taking his fare-well making his last Catholique Epistle he poynts onely to this rocke that Christ is the Sonne of God 6. That other master-builder so soone as euer the scales fell from his eyes Act. 9.20 straight-way hee preached Christ in the Synagogue That he was the sonne of God 7. The Eunuch receiued Baptisme and all exacted at his hands was the confession of this poynt Act. 8.37 I beleeue that Iesus Christ is the Sonne of God Did Philip teach him that he and his Queene of Aethiopia must goe after to Rome as before to Ierusalem I thinke hee troubled his head with no such points so still this is the first ground whereupon the rest are built and therefore no maruell though Sathan hath so malitiously from this day opposed this poynt From the beginning did the gates of hell oppose it Mat. 4.3 Mat 4 3. So soone as euer Sathan enters hee begins If thou be the Sonne of God At his death The houre and power of darknesse Math. 27. Mat 27 40. Sathan did then set his instruments against that Rocke If thou be the Sonne of God come downe from the Crosse and we will beleeue thee After the Ascension the most generall and pestilent heresie that euer was of Arrianisme opposed this ground Sathan well