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A03691	An ansvveare made by Rob. Bishoppe of VVynchester, to a booke entituled, The declaration of suche scruples, and staies of conscience, touchinge the Othe of the Supremacy, as M. Iohn Fekenham, by vvrytinge did deliuer vnto the L. Bishop of VVinchester vvith his resolutions made thereunto.	Horne, Robert, 1519?-1580.; Feckenham, John de, 1518?-1585.	1566 (1566)	STC 13818; ESTC S104234	173,274	272

was Goddes Religion Seruice whiche had been decayed and neglected longe before in the tyme of king Saul For the better perfourmaunce whereof as the supreame gouernour ouer all the estates bothe of the Laytie and of the Clergie in all maner of causes after consultation had with his chief Counsailours he calleth the Priestes and Leuites and commaūdeth appointeth and directeth them in al maner of things causes apperteining to their ecclesiasticall functions offices He prepareth a seemely place for the Arke in his own Citie He goeth with great solēpnitie to fetche the Arke of the lord He commaundeth Sadoc Abiathar the priestes and the chief among the Leuites to sanctifie them selues with their brethren than to cary the Arke vpon their shoulders vnto the place appointed He comptrolleth them that the Arke was not caried before on their shoulders according to the Lawe and therfore layeth to their charge the breach that was made by the death of Vsa He commaundeth also the chief of the Leuites to appointe among their brethren Musicians to playe on dyuers kyndes of instrumentes and to make melodie with ioyfulnes He sacrificeth burnt and peace offringes He blessed the people in the name of the Lorde He appointeth certeine of the Leuites to minister cōtinually before the Arke of the Lord to reherse his great benefites to the honour prayse of the lord God of Israel And for that present tyme he made a Psalme of Gods prayse and appointed Asaph his brethren to prayse God therwith He ordeyned the Priestes Leuites singers and Porters and in som he appointed ordered all th officers offices required to be in the house of the Lord for the setting forth of his seruice Religion Salomon deposed Abiathar the highe Priest and placed Sadoc in his rowme And he builded the Temple placed the Arke in the place appointed for the same Hallowed or dedicated the Temple offred sacrifices blessed the people directed the Priestes Leuites and other churche officers in their functions according to the order before taken by his father Dauid And neither the Priestes nor Leuites ▪ swerued in any thing perteining to their office from that that the king commaunded them Iosephat hath no small commendation in the Scriptures for that he so studiously vsed his princely authoritie in the reformation of Religion and maters apperteining therunto He remoued at the first beginning of his reigne all maner of false Religion and what so euer might be cause of offence to the faithfull He sent forth through his kyngdome Visitours both of his Princes and also of the Priestes Leuites with the booke of the Lawe of the Lorde to the ende they should instruct teache the people refourme all maner abuses in ecclesiastical causes according to that booke After a whyle he made a progresse in his own persone throughout al his countrey and by his preachers reduced and brought againe his people from supersticion false Religion vnto the Lorde the God of their fathers He appointed in euery towne throughout his kingdome as it were Iustices of the peace suche as feared the Lord and abhorred false Religion to decide controuersies in ciuill causes and in like sort he appointed and ordeined the high Priestes with other Priestes Leuites and of the chief rulers among the Israelites to be at Hierusalem to decide and iudge cōtrouersies of great weight that shuld arise about matters of Religion and the Lawe He did commaunde and prescribe vnto the chief Priestes and Leuites what fo●●me and order they shoulde obserue in the ecclesiasticall causes and controuersies of Religion that were not so difficult and weightie And when any token of Goddes displeasure appeared either by warres orother calamitie he gaue order to his subiectes for cōmon praier and enioyned to them publiqu● faste with earnest preaching of repentaunce and sekinge after the wyll of the Lorde to obey and folowe the same Ezechias the kyng of Iuda hath this testimony of the holy Ghost that the like gouernour had not been neither should bee after hym amongest the kynges of Iuda For he cleaued vnto the Lorde and swerued not from the preceptes whiche the Lorde gaue by Moses And to expresse that the office rule and gouernement of a godly kyng consisteth and is occupied accordyng to Gods ordinaunce and precept first of all in matters of Religion and causes Ecclesiastical the holy ghost doth commende this kyng for his diligent care in refourming Religion He toke quite away saith the holy ghost al maner of Idolatry superstition and false Religion yea euen in the first yere of his reigne and the first moneth he opened the doores of Goddes house He calleth as it were to a Synode the Priestes and Leuites be maketh vnto them a long and pithy oration declaringe the horrible disorders and abuses that hath been in Religion the causes and what euils folowed to the whole Realme thervpon He declareth his full determination to restore and refourme Religion according to Gods will He commaundeth them therfore that they laiyng aside all errours ignoraunce and negligence do the partes of faithfull ministers The Priestes Leuites assembled togither did sanctifie them selues and did purge the house of the Lorde from al vncleanes of false Religion at the commaundement of the king concerning thinges of the Lorde That done they came vnto the kyng and made to hym an accompt and report what they had done The kyng assembleth the chiefe Rulers of the Citie goeth to the Temple he commaundeth the Priestes and Leuites to make oblation and sacrifice for whole Israel He appointeth the Leuites after their order in the house of the Lorde to their musicall instrumentes and of the Priestes to play on Shalmes according as Dauid had disposed the order by the counsell of the Prophetes He and the Princes commaundeth the Leuites to prayse the Lorde with that Psalme that Dauid made for the lyke purpose He appointed a very solempne keaping and ministring of the Passeouer whervnto he exhorteth all the Israelites and to tourne from their Idolatry and false Religion vnto the Lorde God of Israel He made solempne prayer for the people The kyng with comfortable wordes encouraged the Leuites that were zelous and had a ryght iudgement of the Lord to offre sacrifices of thankes geuing and to prayse the Lorde the God of their fathers and assigned the Priestes and Leuites to mynister and geue thankes accordyng to their offices in their courses and tournes And for the better continuance of Gods true Religion he caused a sufficient and liberall prouision to bee made from the people for the Priestes and Leuites that they myght wholly cheerfully and constantly serue the Lorde in their vocations These doynges of the kyng Ezechias touchynge matters of Religion and the reformation thereof sayth the holy ghost was his acceptable seruice of the Lorde dutifull both to God and his people Iosias had the like care for Religion

bishop of Antioche Flauianus against the bishop of Rome and other byshoppes of the Weste who did falsely accuse him of many crymes and at the lengthe by his carefull endeuour in Churche matters and his Supreme authoritie therein this moste faythfull Emperour sayeth Thedoretus sette peace and quietnes amongest the Bishoppes and in the Churches He called a conuocation of the Bishops to the ende that by common consent all should agree in vnytie of doctrine confessed by the Nicen councell to reconcile the Macedodians vnto the catholique Churche and to electe and order a Byshop in the sea of Constantinople whiche was than vacant When the twoo fyrste pointes coulde not be brought to passe as the Emperour wished they went in hande with the third to consult amongest them selues touching a fitte Bishop for Constantinople The Emperour to whose iudgement many of the Synode consented thought Gregory of Nazianzene moste fit to be Byshop but he did vtterly refuse that charge Than the Emperour commaundeth them to make diligent inquisition for some godly man that myght be appointed to that rowme But when the Byshoppes could not agree vpon any one the Emperour commaundeth them to bringe to him the names of all suche as euery one of them thought moste apt to be Bishop wryten in a paper together He referued to him selfe saith Zozomenus to choose whome he lyked best When he had redde ouer once or twyse the sedule of names whiche was brought vnto hym after good deliberation had with him selfe he chose Nectarius although as yet he was not christened the Bishops maruailing at his iudgemēt in y e choise could not remoue him And so was Nectarius baptized made bishop of Constantinople who proued so godly a bishop that al mē déemed this election to be made by Themperour not w tout some miraculous inspiratiō of y e holy ghost This emperour perceiuing y t the church had ben long time molested drawē into partes by the Arianisme like to be more greuously torne in sonder w t the heresy of M●cedonius a B. of Cōstantinople knowing y t his supreme gouernemēt empire was geuen him of God to mainteine the cōmon peace of the Church confirmacion of the true faith summoneth a Synode at Constantinople in the thirde yéere of his reigne whiche is the seconde greate and generall councell of the fower notable and famous oecumenicall councelles and when all the Bishoppes whome he had cited were assembled he cometh into the councell house amongest them he made vnto them a graue exhortation to consulte diligently like graue Fathers of the matters propounded vnto them The Macedonians departe out of the Citie the Catholique Fathers agrée conclude a trueth sende the canons of their conclusion to the Emperour to be confirmed writinge vnto him in these woordes The holy counsaile of Bishops assembled at Constātinople to Theodosius Emperour the most reuerent obseruer of godlines Religion and loue towardes God VVee geue God thankes who hath appointed your Emperiall gouernment for the common tranquillitie of his Churches and to establishe the sounde faithe Sithe the time of our assembly at Constantinople by your godly commaundement wee haue renewed concorde amongest our selues and haue prescribed certaine Canons or rules whiche wee haue annexed vnto this our writinge wee beseche therefore your clemency to commaunde the Decree of the Counsaile to be stablished by the letters of your holines and that yee will confirme it and as you haue honoured the Churche by the letters where with you called vs together euen so that you will strengthen also the finall conclusion of the Decrees with your owne sentence and seale After this he calleth an other Councell of Bishoppes to Constantinople of what Religion so euer thinkinge that if they might assemble together in his presence and before him conferre touchinge the matters of Religion wherein they disagreed that thei might be reconciled and brought to vnitie of Faith He consulteth with Nectarius and sitteth downe in the councell house amongest them al and examineth those that were in Heresie in such sort that the Heretiques were not onely astonied at his questions but also beganne to fall out amongst them selues some likinge some mislikinge the Emperours purpose This done he cōmaundeth eche sect to declare their faithe in writinge and to bringe it vnto him he appointeth to them a day whereat thei came as the Emperour cōmaunded and deliuered vnto him the fourmes of their faithe in writinge when the Emperour had the sedules in his handes he maketh an ernest praier vnto God for the assistaunce of his holy spirite y t he may discerne the trueth iudge rightly And after he had redde them all he condemneth the Heresies of the Arians Eunomians rentinge their sedules in sundre alloweth onely and confirmeth the faithe of the Homousians and so the Heretiques departed ashamed and dasht out of countenaunce Theodosius left his twoo sonnes Emperours of the which I will say but litle yet wherein it may moste manifestly appeare that the supreme gouernment in causes Ecclesiasticall belonged to the Emperours Archadius the Emperour when Nectarius the Bishop of Constantinople was dead and so the sea vacant was certified thereof he causeth Iohn Chrysostome to be called from Antioche he commaundeth the other Bishoppes collected into a Synode y t they admonishe Chrysostome of Goddes graces and what belongeth to suche a chardge and that they choose and order him to be the Bishop of Constantinople In whiche dooinge saith Theodoretus the Emperour declared what carefull endeuour he had about the holy Churche matters But this supreme authoritie to care appoint and procure woorthy and good Pastours or Bishoppes when the seas were vacant appeareth more plainly in Honorius the Emperour brother to Archadius whome the Bishop of Rome him selfe in his decrées and his Glosars on the same confesse and acknowledge to haue the ouersight rule and gouernment in the elections orderinge of Bishops yea ouer the Bishoppe of Rome him selfe After the death of Pope Sozimus were twoo Popes choosen at ones in a great Schisme the one Bonifacius primus the other Eulalius whereof when the Emperour Honorius had notice beinge at Millayne he caused them bothe to be banished Rome But after seuen monethes Bonifacius was by the Emperours commaundement called againe and confirmed by his authoritie in the Apostolicall sea This Bonifacius beinge nowe settled in the Papacy by humble suite to y e Emperour prouideth a remedie against suche mischiefes in time to come The case was this saith the Glosator Boniface the firste did beseeche Honorius the Emperour to make a Lawe whereby it might appeare what were to be done when twoo Popes were chosen at ones by the vndiscreetnes of the Electours contendinge amongest them selues Honorius did than constitute that neither of those twaine shoulde be Pope but that in a newe Election a thirde shoulde be chosen by common consente If twoo saithe the Emperour in his Lawe made