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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14015	A sermon preached on Palme-Sunday, before King Henry the VIII by Cuthbert Tonstall ...	Tunstall, Cuthbert, 1474-1559.	1633 (1633)	STC 24323; ESTC S1387	33,985	52

heavenly kingdome to his Apostles giving to them like commission and equall authority to preach and teach the same through all the world saying in the last chapter of Matthew after the words before declared that all power was given to him in heaven and in earth Goe ye forth and teach all nations baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the holy Ghost teaching them to keepe all those things which I have commanded you Christ also in the 30. chapter of Iohn said the evening after his resurrection when he appeared to his Disciples the dores being shut As my Father hath sent me I doe send you and after he had so said he breathed upon them saying Whose sinnes soever ye shall forgive be forgiven and whose sinnes ye shall retaine be retained And likewise had said to them all before his death in the 18. chapter of Matthew what things soever ye shall binde upon earth I shall be bound in heaven and what things soever ye shall lose upon earth shall be loosed in heaven which power hee gave to the● all equally alike as w● to all the residue as to Peter Which authority Christ declareth in the 20. chapter of Iuke to be high and to be regarded of all men and not to be contemned in any wife saying He that heareth you heareth me and he that heareth me heareth my Father of heaven that hath sent me and he that despiseth you despiseth me and he that despiseth me despiseth my Father of heaven that hath sent mee At the day of iudgement Sodome and Gomorrah which heard not of Christ shall be in better case then such despisers shall be But here the Bishop of Rome steppeth in and saith Peter had authority given to him above all the residue of the Apostles for Christ said to him in the 10. chapter of Matthew Thou art Peter and upon this make I shall build my Church and I shall give thee the keyes of the kingdome of heaven and whatsoever thou shall binde upon earth shall be bound in the heavens this said Christ and Saint Peter is buried at Rome whose successor I ●…and ought to rule the Church as Peter did and to be Porter at heaven gates as Peter was And Christ said also to Peter after his resurrection Feede my sleepe which words he spake to him onely so that thereby he had authority over all that be of Christs flocke and I as ●is successour have the same and therefore who so will not obey me King or Prince I will curse him and deprive him his kingdome or seignorie for all power is given to me that Christ had and I am his Vicar generall as Peter was here in earth over all and none but I as Christ is in heaven This ambitious and pompous objection is made by him and his adherents and hath of late yeeres much troubled the world and made dissention debate and open warre in all parts of Christendome and nourished the same But if the Bishop of Rome would take those places after the right sense of them as both the Apostles themselves taught us and all the antient best learned and most holy interpreters doe expound them the world should be more at quietnesse then it is where now by wrong interpretation the Scripture is perverted and another Gospell in that poynt preached unto us than ever the Apostles preached so that though an Angell came from heaven and would tell us such new expositions of those places as is now made to turne the words which were spoken for spirituall authority of preaching the word of God and ministring of the Sacraments to a worldly authority wee ought to reject him as Saint Paul saith in the first chapter to the Galathians But to open the true sense of the Scripture in the places aforesaid it is to be observed that Christ in the said 16. chapter of Matthew asked his Disciples whom men did say that he was whereunto after answer given by them diversly some saying that he was Iohn Baptist some saying that he was Elias some saying that he was Ieremie or one of the Prophets Christ asked them whom doe yee say that I am whereunto Peter answered for them all for of all of them the question was asked as he was alwaies ready to make answer Thou art Christ the Sonne of God that liveth Iesus answered Blessed be thou Simon the sonne of Iona for flesh and bloud hath not revealed this unto thee but my Father which is in heaven And I say to thee Thou art Peter and upon this rocke I shall build my Church and the gates of hell shall not prevaile against it that is to say upon this rocke of thy confession of mee to be the Sonne of God I shall build my Church for this confession containeth the whole summary of our faith and salvation Which confession first was spoken by the mouth of Peter Who of all the twelve Apostles that Christ chose to send into the world to preach his word was the first that with his mouth uttered that confession and knowledging by which all christian men must be saved and without which no man can be saved as it is written in the 10. chapter to the Romans by Paul The word of saith that we doe preach is at hand in thy mouth and in thine heart for if thou confesse with thy mouth our Lord Iesus and with thy heart doe beleeve that God raised him from death to life thou shalt be saved Vpon this first confession of Peter and not upon the person of Peter the Church is builded As Chrysostome expoundeth that place in the 26. Sermon of the feast of Pentecost saying Not upon the person of Peter but upon the faith Christ hath builded his Church And what is the faith This thou art Christ the Sonne of God that liveth What is to say upon this rocke that is upon this confession of Peter And with this saying of Chrysostome all antient expositors treating that place doe agree For it we should expound that place that the Church is builded upon the person of Peter we should put another foundation of the Church than Christ which is directly against Saint Paul saying in the 3. chapter of the first Epistle to the Corinthians no man may put any other foundation but that which is put already which is Christ Iesu and therefore that exposition that the person of Peter should be the foundation of the Church should make of the Trinitie a quaternitie and put a fourth person besides the Trinitie to be the foundation of the Church And this first confession of Peter by faith that Christ is the Sonne of God is the preheminence and primacy that Peter had before the other spoken of in the tenth of Matthew wherein reciting the names of the twelve Apostles chosen by Christ it is written The first is Simon Peter For he first confessed that faith that all men must be saved by For who so doth agree with Peter in

Bishop of Rome called Vitalianus did the same as it is written in the decrees in the 63. distinction in the chapter beginning Agatho and as Saint Gregory and Saint Ambrose had done before them as it is written in the chapter cum longe in the same distinction the Bishops of Rome at that time followed the doctrine of Saint Peter and Saint Paul left unto them to be subjects and to obey their Princes The Gospell also teacheth us in the 22 Chapter of Luke how the Apostles fell at contention among themselves the night before the passion who among them should bee superiour and above the other Which their contention Christ discussed saying on this wise The Kings of people and nations have dominion over them and those that have power over them bee called benefactors of them But so it shall not be amogst you but whosoever amongst you is the greater shall bee as the younger and whosoever amongst you shall be chiefe shall be as a servant and a minister For who is superiour hee that sitteth at the table or he that serveth at the table is not he superiour that sitteth But I am amongst you as he that ministreth and serveth And yee bee those that have bidden with mee in my temptation and I ordaine for you as my father hath ordained for me a kingdome that ye shall eat and drinke at my board in my kingdome and shall sit upon seats judging the twelue tribes of Israel Here wee doe see that Christ would have the meekest and most humble to be chiefe in his flocke by humility and by service done to other As Christ by example had washed the feet of his Apostles the same night a little before And it appeareth also that he would not leave amongst his Apostles a worldly kingdome wherby they should worldly reign over other but that he ordained for them a heavenly Kingdome to reigne with him in heaven and to sit with him in judgement to judge the 12 tribes of Israel that is to say by the example of their faith who beleeved in Christ to condemne the infidelity of the Iewes that would not beleeve in him but shamefully put him to death So that hereby it is proved plainely that Christ left to his Disciples no worldly kingdome here in earth to have Princes under them A like discussing of this contention of superiority which another time rose also among the Apostles is conteined in the tenth Chapter of Marke and the twentieth Chapter of Mathew and by like words absolved that meeknesse and not superiority should be regarded among them for the Apostles before the comming of the holy Ghost after the time of the resurrection even at the time of Christs ascention asked him whether hee would restore againe the worldly kingdome of Israel for which kingdome at that time they did looke as Cleophas said in the last chapter of Luke unto Christ appearing to him and his fellow going in to Emaus we trusted that he was the man that should have redeemed Israel And yet unto this day the Iewes doe looke for their Messias to come and to raigne among them by a worldly kingdome in Ierusalem as David did but Christ left to his Disciples no such worldly kingdome but said it should not be so among them as it was amongst the Princes of the world And where Christ in the last chapter of Matthew said after his resurrection All power is given to me in heaven and in earth so that both in his godhead and in his manhood also inseparably unite in one person that is to say in one Christ and two natures God and man he had all power given to him as man which from the beginning he ever had as the Sonne of God with God his Father Yet neverthelesse he never changed the authority of worldly Kings and Princes but by his owne word commanded them still to be obeyed by their subjects as they had been before his incarnation saying in the 22. chapter of Matthew when the Iewes asked him whether they should pay tribute to Caesar or no he bade them give to Caesar those things that be his and to God those things that bee his signifying unto them that tribute was due to Caesar snd their soules were due to God And in the 17. chapter of Matthew it appeareth that Christ bade Peter pay tribute for him and his Disciples when it was demanded of him And Christ as man would not change the order of obeysance to worldly Princes by their subjects which he as God with his father had ordained before his incarnation as Saint Paul testifieth saying Worldly powers be ordained of God and therefore whosoever resisteth them doth resist God And that Christ himselfe would not raigne here in earth by a worldly and temporall kingdome it appeareth in the 6. chapter of Iohn where after he had fed five thousand Iewes besides women and children with five barley loaves and two fishes and the Iewes would have taken him and made him their King he fled from them and would not consent unto them for the kingdome that he came to search here in earth was not a worldly and temporall kingdome but a heavenly and spirituall kingdome that is to say to raigne spiritually by grace and faith in the hearts of all christian and faithfull people of what degree or of what nation soever they be and to turn all people and nations which at his comming were carnall and lived after the lusts of the flesh to be spirituall and to live after the lusts of the spirit that Christ might spiritually with his father of heaven reigne in the hearts of all men which heavenly Kingdome Saint Iohn Baptist in the desert preached oft to the Iewes saying Repent you and amend your lives for the kingdome of heaven is at hand After whose death Christ intending to manifest himselfe to the world began his preaching likewise saying Doe penance for the kingdome of heaven is at hand And it is plainely expressed in the 13. chapter of Matthew in the parable likening the kingdome of heaven to a man which did sow good seed in his field and after whiles he sleeped his enemy did sow evill seed in the same for Christ expounding that parable saith The good seed bee the children and inheritours of the kingdome so the kingdome that Christ seeketh here in earth is a spirituall and heavenly kingdome And Christ said to Pilate in the 18. chapter of Iohn My kingdome is not of this world And therefore those that goe about to make of Christs spirituall kingdome a worldly kingdome doe fall into errour of some heretikes that looke that Christ after the day of iudgement shall raigne with all his Saints here in earth carnally in Ierusalem as the Iewes doe believe that Messias is yet to come and when he shall come he shall raign worldly in Ierusalem So we doe see that Christ left the worldly kingdomes to princes of the world as is before expressed But hee committed the preaching of this