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A03620	Certeine comfortable expositions of the constant martyr of Christ, M. Iohn Hooper, Bishop of Glocester and Worcester written in the time of his tribulation and imprisonment, vpon the XXIII. LXII. LXXIII. and LXXVII. Psalmes of the prophet Dauid.	Hooper, John, d. 1555.; Bull, Henry, d. 1575?; A. F., fl. 1580.; Hooper, John, d. 1555. Exposition upon the. 23. psalme of David.	1580 (1580)	STC 13743; ESTC S104196	167,330	255

he should be called The bishop of the chiefest seate And how much it is against S. Cyprian they may sée that wil read works and also against S. Hierome But what lawe can rule wickednesse This wicked sea contended stil after Phocas had giuen sentence with it for the supremacie yet were the bishops of Rome alwayes subiect to the Emperours as well of Constantinople as of Fraunce for the time of their reigne yea foure hundred yeares and odde after the iudgement of Phocas they were in this obedience and were made by the Emperors vntill the time of Gregorie the seuenth who in the time of great sedition translated the Empire into Germanie and neuer vsed iurisdiction in Emperours and kinges nor yet in the citizens of Rome but onely desired to haue all bishoppes causes to be discerned by the sea of Rome yet could not obteine so much at those dayes as appeareth by the Counsell of Africa whereas Boniface the first could not obteine with craft nor with his lyes that he made of the Cannons decreed in the Counsell of Nice to haue causes deferred to the sea of Rome And as for this name Pope was a generall name to all bishopps as it appeareth in the Epistles of Cyprian Hierome Augustine and of other old bishoppes and doctours which were more holy and better learned then these latter ambitious and glorious enimies of Christ Christes church Read the text Distinct. 50. C. De eo tamen c. Absit And there shall ye sée that the Cleargie of Rome in their letters called Cyprian Pope and Clodoueus the king of Fraunce named the bishop of Rome as he did other bishops A bishoppe This was the state of the primatiue Churche which was both néere vnto Christ in time and like vnto him in doctrine and kept S. Pauls equalitie where as he saith He was appointed amongest the Gentiles as Peter was amongest the Iewes And although the bishops in the time of Constantine the great obteined that amongest bishops there should be some that should be called Archbishops and Metropolitanes yet all they were not instituted to be heades generally of the Church but to the ende they should take more paines to sée the Church well ordered and instructed and yet this preeminence was at the libertie and discretion of princes and not always bound vnto one place and one sort of prelats as the wickednes of our time beléeueth as ye may sée in the Counsels of Calcedon and Africa So that it is manifest this superiour preeminence is not of Gods lawes but of mans instituted for a ciuil policie and so was the church of Constantinople equal with the Church of Rome And in our dayes Erasmus Roterodame writeth and saith this name To be high bishop of the world was not knowen to the old Church but this was vsed that bishops were all called Highe priestes and that name gaue Vrban the first vnto all bishops as it is written in Distinct. 59. cap. Si officia Anno Dom. 226. But as for one to be head of all it was not admitted And the Gréeke Church did neuer agrée to this wicked supremacie nor obeyed it vntill the yeare of our Lord one thousand two hundred and two compelled therevnto by one Baldwine that brought the Frenchmen by the helpe of the Venetians vnto Constantinople to restore one Alexius vnto the Empire vppon this condition that he should subdue the Gréeke Church to the Church of Rome But this came to passe that the Pope neuer after he had gotten by almes and helpe of princes to be ouer them passed one iote for the Emperour of Constantinople further then he serued his turne So that ye may sée both his beginning and procéedinges to be of the diuel which if ye kill not with the staffe of Gods woord and beate him from your conscience he will double kill your soules Nowe within one hundred and fiftie yeares after Phocas had made the bishop of Rome head of the Church the bishop of Rome contemned the Emperour of Constantinople and deuised to bring the empire into Fraunce and to giue the king of Fraunce the same authoritie ouer y e bishop of Rome that before the Emperour had as it appeareth in Charles the great and his successours a long time and yet was the bishop of Rome vnder the princes and not as he is now an idol exempt from all order and obedience For princes made the bishops of Rome and all other bishops within their realmes and so continued the making of the Pope in the Emperors authoritie vntill it was about the yeare of our Lord one thousand one hundred tenne After that Henrie the fift being sore molested by sedition moued against him by the Pope Paschalis the second was constreined at length to surrender his authoritie vnto him who turned the face of his bishopricke into manifest warres What followed when y e Pope was thus frée and liued without obedience to the Christian Magistrates I will not in this treatise make mention but put you in remembraunce that for certeintie there followed such trouble amongest Christian princes as neuer was before as it is to be séene by the doing of the wicked man Gregorie the seuenth who toke then vpon him to haue authoritie to vse two swordes the spirituall and the temporall in so much that Henrie the fourth was compelled thréescore and two times to make warre in his life by the meanes of the bishop of Rome And as it is written this wicked bishop stirred vppe the Emperours owne brother in lawe Radulphus the Duke of Sueuia to warre against him and sent him a crowne of Golde with this verse grauen in it Petradedit Petro Petrus diadema Radulpho That is to say Christ gaue the Empire to Peter Peter giueth it to Radulphe Meaning that Christe had giuen the Empire worldly to the bishop of Rome and he gaue it to Radulphe Ye may sée what a rodde the Emperours made for their owne tayle For after they had made the bishop of Rome head of the Church the bishops made themselues shortly after the heades of Emperours and kings A iust plague of God for all them that will exalt such to rule as God said should be ruled These bishops be not onely proude but also vnthankefull For whereas all the worlde knoweth the bishops authoritie to come from the Emperour in worldly things and not from God but against God this monster Gregorie the seuenth saide that Christ gaue him the Empire of Rome and he giueth it to the Duke of Sueuia Radulphe to kill his good brother Henrie the fourth He that will know more of this wicked man and of his brethren bishops of Rome let him read Benno the Cardinal that writeth in his historie of the Popes that he saw of Iohn the twentieth Benedict the ninth Siluester the third Gregorie the sixte Leo the ninth Alexander the seconde But in his olde dayes he sawe and writeth horrible

of English men more then twentie yeares since we departed from the sea of Rome for the ambition of the Romish bishops that transgressed both this ordinance of S. Paul and also of Christ. Of the which deadly and pestilent ambition the prophet Ezechiel prophesied and so did also S. Paule if prophesies by God and commaundements by his holy Apostles had any thing preuailed in our dull and naughtie heartes Read the places sée your selues what is spoken of such a wicked shéepeheard I doe put you in minde of this wicked sea because I do sée that contrarie to the word of God contrarie to the lawes of the realme most godly against the Popes supremacie against all our othes that be Englishmen and against all the old godly writers this Antichrist member of the diuel is not vnlike to haue the regiment of your soules againe which God forbid I doe exhort all men therefore to beware of him as of one that came naughtily to such vsurped authoritie and whose authoritie is not onely the trouble of all Christian realmes and princes but also of all Christian soules And as he hath béene alwayes a trouble vnto the one so hath he béene a destruction to the other as I will a little declare vnto you that ye may know him the better and so by the rodde and staffe of Gods word defende your selues from him The Gréeke Church for this ambition of the Romishe bishop separated her selfe from the Church of Rome and would not haue to do with her For after that the Gréekes knewe that the bishops of Rome ment to take from them their liberties they would not indure it yet did the Romish bishops alwayes to come to the supremacie picke quarels and maters to fall out vpon first with the Clergie and then with the Laitie Platina writeth howe Pius bishop of Rome béeing deceiued by one Hermes a very euill man began a new order about the kéeping of Easter day and altered the time that the Apostles and their disciples vsed vntill Pius dayes which was to celebrate and kepe the day of the resurrection of our Sauiour Christ the fourtéenth moone of y e first moneth which is with the Iewes our March And although it be wel done to kéepe it vpon the Sunday yet was this an horrible presumption vpon so light a cause to excommunicate the Gréeke Church and to make diuision where before was vnion It came to passe in Victors time the first which was about the yeare of our Lord two hundred and in the time of Iraeneus the bishop of Lugdune the disciple of Iohn the Euangelist this Victor would haue cōdemned the Gréeke Church procéeded with excommunication against it had not Iraeneus letted it yet was it the elder Church and had continued in the doctrine of the Apostles from Christes time and had Iohn the Euangelist amongest them for the space of thréescore and eight yeares after Christes ascension And notwithstanding the Gréeke Church was the elder Church yet the Romane Church to be equall with them according to the doctrine of Christ and his Apostles also according to the decrée that was made in the generall Counsell at Nice And the Gréeke Church neuer contented with the Romish Church for the Supremacie vntill a proud and arrogant Moncke that feigned humilitie was preferred to be bishop of Cōstantinople which came to such arrogancie of spirit that he would haue béene taken for the vniuersall head of y e Church which was a very marke to know that he was of Antichrist and not of Christ as Gregorie the great writeth to Constantia the Empresse and at length this proud Monke at a Synod kept at Constantinople created himselfe the vniuersall head of the Church Although before his time one Menna and other archbishops of Constantinople for the dignitie of the imperial state being there were called vniuersal Patriarches yet that was by name alone and without execution of authoritie in any foreigne bishopricke or Church But such was the ambition of these bishops that walked as S. Paule saith inordinately that they would haue the head and principalitie of religion and of the Church at Constantinople because there was the head and principalitie of the worldly kingdome and so they began betime to confound the ciuil policie with the policie of the Churche vntill they brought themselues not onely to be heads of the Church but also Lords of all Emperours and kings and at the last of God and Gods word as ruthfully it appeareth in mens conscience at this present day Which abhomination and pride Pelagius the second bishop of Rome both spake and wrote against and would that he nor any man els should haue the name of a generall bishop And S. Gregorie doeth confirme the same godly sentence of his predecessour Pelagius and would not when he was commaunded by the Emperour whome Iohn the bishop had abused take the Archbishop of Constantinople for the vniuersall head nor condescend vnto the Emperours commaundement and wrote to the Empresse that it was contrarie to the ordinance of Christ and his Apostles and contrarie to the Counsell of Nice He said also that such new arrogancie was a very token that the time of Antichrist drew nigh And Gregorie did not onely write and speake against this arrogancie and pride but suffered also great danger as Platina writeth and so did al Rome by the Lombards that Mauricius the Emperour made to besiege Rome because Gregorie refused to obey the Archbishop of Constantinople as the head of the Church But although Pelagius Gregorie and other godly men detested and abhorred this wicked arrogancie to be the vniuersall head of the Churche yet the bishop of Rauenna began amongst the Latines to prepare the way to Antichrist as Paulus Diaconus saith and separated himselfe from the societie of other Churches to the intent he might come to bee a head himselfe But what at length came of it Platina writeth And within a short time after Boniface the third being the bishop of Rome about the yeare of our Lord sixe hundred and seuen Phocas the Emperour iudged him to be head of the Church against both the bishop of Constantinople also of Rauenna and such a sentence was méet for such an arbitrour Phocas was a wicked man a couetous man an adulterer and a traiterous murtherer of his Lord maister Mauricius and this man to make God and the Romans amends gaue sentence that the bishop of Rome should be the vniuersal head of the Church But here was contemned the sentence and doctrine of Christ and his Apostles and also the decrées of the holy Counsell of Nice And no meruell for they condemned both partes of arrogancie and vsurpation and not only these Counsels but all other for many yeares which decréed that although one seate was named before the other yet the bishop of the principall seate should not be the chiefest priest or head of the rest but onely