The sayd Poole dyd saye that Zuinglius opinion in the Sacrament was most probable which hée could bée content to followe if the Church of Rome had not decréeed the contrarie The 17. Obiection None hath power ageynst the Pope no more then the Axe ageynst the Hewer I aunswere that hée maye well bée compared to a Hewer which by his Axes and cruell tyrauntes hewe downe the good tymber and if hée could would cut off the Emperours and Princes neckes The 18. Obiection You heretiques obiect that the Canon Lawe sayeth that Balaam when hée was reproued of his Asse figureth the Pope and Prelates and the Asse their subiectes Ergo saye you heretiques the Pope may bée reproued of his subiectes but that is no example to bée followed For it pleaseth not our holy father to bée Balaam or his Asse I aunswere that if yée admitte other partes of the Canon Lawe why will yée not admitte this Dooth Balaam signifye Prelates Surely your own Lawe subuerteth it selfe For whether was Balaam or his Asse wyser If his Asse as shée was in déed then are the Popes subiectes wyser For the law sayeth that the Asse signifye them The 19. Obiection The Pope may not bée accused of any cryme niether of murther neither adultery neyther symonie or such lyke I aunswere Is not murther contrarie to the sixte commaundement Is not adulterie ageynst the seuenth And theft ageinst the eight And Symonie an offence ageynst the holy ghost And other vyces ageynst holesome doctrine Besydes this neyther murther nor adulterie shall enter into the kingdome of God. The 20. Obiection Hée that disobeyeth mée is as much to bée cursed as hée that denieth the Omnipotencie of God. I aunswere that this is the voyce of Antichrist and therfore not woorthie to bée aunswered The 21. Obiection It maye séeme well verifyed of mée that was spoken of Christ Psalm 8. Omnia subiecisti sub pedibus eius oues boues vniuersa pecora campi volucres coeli pisces maris Thou hast subdewed all things vnder his féete Shéepe Oxen and all cattell of the field the birdes of heauen and the fishes of the sea I aunswere Is not hée the child of perdition that chalengeth that which was proper to Christe and compareth him selfe wyth God 2. Thess. 2. ver 4. They saye hée is all in all and can doo all that God can doo Claue non errante Doo you not vnderstande by Oxen the Iewes and Heretiques by cattell Paganes by shéepe Emperours Princes and Prelates by birdes the Aungelles and Potentates of heauen ouer whom hée hath power and whom hée doth excell in foure pointes in Iurisdiction in administration of the Sacramentes in knowledge and in reward By the fishes of the sea are meaned the soules of purgatorie as Gregorie the Pope dyd deliuer the Emperour Traiane out of hell The 22. Obiection The Popes law sayeth that if any of his Clergie should bée found embracing a woman it must bée expounded and presupposed that hée doth it to blesse hir I aunswere that wée may not onely absteyne from dooing of euill but also from all suspicion of euill The 23. Obiection The Pope in his supremacie is Abell in gouernement the Arche of Noe in Patriarchdome Abraham in order Melchisedech in dignitie Aaron in authoritie Moses in seate Iudiciall Samuell in zeale Helias in méeknesse Dauid in power Peter in vnction Christ. I aunswere the Pope cannot bée Abel for the Pope persecuteth and Abell was persecuted The Arche figureth the Mystical body of Christ but the Pope presumeth to bée the head Ergo hée is not the Arche Abraham gaue Tithes the Pope receyueth ergo hée is not Abraham Melchisedech hée is not for none is after the order of Melchisedech but Christ onely As Paule proueth euidently But the Pope is not Christ Ergo not Melchisedech Moreouer Melchisedech is without father or mother beginninge or ending the Pope is not Aaron ruled not ouer Kings the Pope ruleth ouer the whole world Ergo hée is not Aaron Moses ruled ouer Iurie the Pope ouer Asia Africa Europe America heauen Angels hell damned soules and the poore wretches of purgatorie Ergo c. Samuell graunted his authoritie to a securall Prince euen to Saul the pope denieth it ergo he is not Samuell Helias killed the priests of Baall the Pope promoteth suche like ergo hée is not Helias Dauid forgaue his enemies the pope reuengeth ergo he c. The Emperour Nero persecuted Peter as they write but the Pope persecuteth Emperours ergo c. Christ was anoynted of the holy ghost the Pope of men ergo he is not Christ. The 24. Obiection We haue a place out of Dauid Psal. 19. ver 4. say the Papistes which no heretique can deny Their sound is gone thorowgh the whole world In omnem terram exiuit sonus eorum The sound of our holy father and of his successours is gone through the world his pardones his legates his belles his bulles his commissions his grace his power his prerogatiue his athoritie is in euery corner of the earth I answere that this place of Dauid proueth that the merueylous workes of God as the Starres the Moone the Sun and the descryption of the heauenly bodies declare that ther is a God and bycause that Dauid expresseth the matter more effectually in his naturall toung thus he sayeth Hashamaim mesapperim Cheuod el oumaguas hiadeue magid harachiang tom leiom iabbiang omer velaiel lelaiela iecaue daguath En omer veen debarim beli nishmaug colam Be cal haharets iatsa cauam ou bictse tebel nullehem lashemesh sham ohel bahem Ve hu Cerhathā iotse mecuppatho iashis che gibbor larats orac mictse hashamaim motsao ou to couphato gual chet sotham ve en iustar me canematho Hitherto I haue repeted confuted althogh they nede no confutation they were so falsely alleged some obiections although not al which they collect out of the Scriptures or out of other probable authors Now I will note certein such absurdities as they bring out of their lawes decrées decretals out of such as haue for lucre promotiō for flatterie bestowed their time in vttering absurdities and such absurdities as do more effectually ouerthrowe deface their dooings then any of our answers or confutations can These I thought good to signifie least that any man should thinke that the tyme is euyll bestowed in writing them worse in reading and worst of all in printing Ye shall therefore vnderstand that there is nothing so abhominable nothing so absurde so vnreasonable and contrarie to all sense whiche they dare not bothe speake write printe aduouche and also defend As for example What say they though Iulius the second Pope dyd throwe Peters keyes into Tyber and swore an horribe othe that séeing they would profite nothing hée would trye what Paules swoord could doo And what though Iulius the thirde blasphemed for his
Anacletus were chiefe citties Metropoles where were Archiflamines and Protoflamines and therfore Pontianus in Atheneus calleth vinum omnium malorum Metropolin and so say these forged Archiflamines were turned into Archibishoppes Because that the first Emperours were at Rome therefore it was called ta presbeia t is timis that is the chief honour was gyuen to Rome It was the first and Constantinople was the second Of this equalitie or Superioritie or inferioritie read the Councell holden at Chalcedon in the yeare of Christe .453 And Vielerius where it was concluded that Constantinople was of the same authoritie with Rome though it be the second after and Alexandria the third and Hierusalem the fourthe In the yeare of Christ 590. Ihon Bishope of Constantinople ambitiously desired to be Supreme head oikoumenikon pasis t is oikoumenis the Uniuersall Bishoppe of the whole world that was habitable And therefore Gregorie the firste Bishop at Rome of that name called the same Iohn the forerunner of Antichriste Epist. lib. 2. cap. 194. Halfe a score yeare after or little more Boniface the Thirde of that name was made Bishop at Rome and the firste that was ordeined or named Pope or Summus Pontifex the Highe Bishop and this dyd the Emperoure Phocas to haue ayde of the Pope which killed the Emperour Mauritius his wyfe his brother and his sonne with many other and made himselfe Emperour The Pope had this beginning After him euery Pope encreased his authoritie with priuiledges statutes decrées and preceptes tyll that they grewe to such dignitie that they created Emperoures who were wont to create them they deposed them they fought with them they trode on their neckes they rebelled ageynst thē they cursed them with booke bell and candell lighted they pardoned them all that would fight ageinst the Emperour The first Obiection They alledge Scripture for their purpose as the deuill dyd to christ They obiect this place of the Gospell written by Saint Matthew Thou art Peter and vpon this Peter I will buyld my Church Peter saye they is the foundacion of the Church of him it dependeth in him it resteth and hée is the head thereof Let vs aunswere this Obiection with the true Interpretation and Exposition of Chrystes mynde Thou art Peter c. Thy name sayeth Christ is Symon but hencefoorth it shal be Peter a Rocke or stone or rather one depending of the rocke as I promised in the first of Iohn ver 42. that thou shouldest bée called Cephas a stone but I alter it into Peter bycause thy name shal be deryued of mée For I am Petra and thou Peter I Chryst and thou a christian I a Rocke and thou rockye or buylded vpon the rocke The Allusion and affinetie of the Gréeke woord proueth this sense sy ei petros c. Thou arte Peter bicause thou beléeuest in Petra that is in mée the Rocke vpon the which I will buylde my congregation whom I will to bée called Peters as thou arte deriuing their name of mée the rocke bycause who soeuer shal beléeue in mée as thou doest I will gyue him the same name that thou hast Wherefore who so confesseth mée as thou doest shal be called Peter of mée Petra that is a christian of my name Christ. Hierom vpon the 8. of Mathew affirmeth that Peter had his name of Petra which is christ All are Peters which beléeue in this Rocke I will buylde my famelie and congregation vpon it wherfore al my famelie and people are Peters Peter in this place is put for all christians and is a generall woorde signifying all beléeuers and confessoures of Christe Therefore Hierome vppon the sixte of Amose termeth all christes Apostles Peters And the Christ founded not his church vpō Peter as our Romish catholiques cōtend but vpon this rocke which was Peters confession yée shal vnderstand by the text it self What was his cōfession that Iesus christ was the sonne of god Than this fayth of peters is the foundaciō of the church cleauing to Christ which foundacion Paul defineth to be Christ 1. Cor. 3. ver 11. This church congregation bycause it confessed the same Christ that Peter did is very well termed described by Paule to be the establishmēt and piller of truth and by good reason considering it is defined to bée Christes body out of whose head is deriued whatsoeuer nourisheth the body Who soeuer hath this fayth and is a member of Christes body is a Peter As Christ is called a stone so are his people and seruauntes named lyuely stones by participacion as they are the light of the world and salte of the earth bycause the light and salte that they haue is deriued and procéedeth from him as of Petra Peters of Chryst christians That this is the true meaning of this place it is euident hy the 18. chapter of Matthew ver 15. where the same doctrine is applied to all Christians whan hée sayeth If thy brother trespasse ageynst thée tell him his faulte betwéene thée and him If he heare thée thou hast wonne thy brother What is it too winne a mans brother but to loose him from his sinne wherwith hée was bound By the which if hée will not bée corrected lette him bée as an Heathen and a Publicane And thus hée is bound bycause hée wil not repent For sayeth Christ speaking to all christians what soeuer yée binde or loose vpon earth shalbée bound and loosed in heauen Adam and Eue in Paradise were the true church who when they heard the promise how that the séede of the wooman Iesus Christ should burst the Serpentes head beléeued it vpon y which beléefe Christ buylded his congregation and this is the Rocke They did binde themselues in eating of the frute in not obeinge the cōmaundement in offending the lawe They loused themselues in confessing their faulte obeying chrystes voyce lamentinge their facte and beléeuing in him who should bée borne of the séede of a wooman their faith confession of their offence with amendment of lyfe were the keyes of heauen By them they repossessed their felicitie which was lost and reentred into heauen Christ graunted to twoo or thrée gathered togyther in his name their requestes and hée to bée among them If this power and prerogatiue bée equall and particularly gyuen to euery christian and generally to all than is it not onely proper to the Pope If all the congregation may binde and loose then is the Popes authoritie nothing and hée himselfe to be excluded as a reprobate abhorred as a dissembler defaced as an hipocrite reiected as Psichicus in Tertullian was who bragged as the Pope dooth that he had authoritie to forgyue sinnes deposed as an vsurper and condemned as an Antichrist ▪ The congregation is buylded vpon the rock Who is the Rocke Christ not the Pope faith in Iesu Christe not execrable pardones hope in the Lorde not in man. If the Churche
witnesse that these are the Scriptures as the heauenly bodyes that there is a God are the scriptures any better although they bée as testimonialles The church may bée witnesse the faythefull people may testifie that these are the scriptures and yet the scriptures perfect constant and certayne of them selues Augustine lib. 2. cap. 14.32 willeth Cresconius to omitte the authoritie of Cyprian and alledge the scripture the which if hée could hée would gyue place Ageynst Maximinus hée willeth him to let the councelles alone and bring scripture that thereby th◠truth myght be tryed The third Obiection The Pope is called in the first chapter of the Gospell of Iohn ver 42. Cephas and Cepha in the Gréeke toung is Caput a head Ergo the Pope is head of the church Your ignorance is intollerable you despise the tunges yée will rather cleaue to your olde errours and gloses then to séeke for the truthe You forsake the fountaynes and digge and drinke of pudles and kennelles You wrest and turne the scriptures from the meaning of Christe too satisfie your own opinions Your reading in the Texte Cephas which is a Syrian woorde thought that it had ben Cephale a gréeke woorde For saye you Cephas is an head in gréeke and commeth of Cephale and therefore you saye that Peter who was called Cephas is the head of the church when as Cepha the Syrian word which signifyeth a stone being turned into Gréeke soundeth Cephas Thus yée turned whyte into blacke y ée choppe ye chaunge ye turne ye peruerte and depraue all for lacke of knowledge For Christ sayeth that wheras Peter was called before Symon his name should be chaunged and called Cephas which is a stone as Iohn himselfe interpreteth it Bycause that not onely Peter but also all they that beléeue in Christ are lyuely stones As out of a stone commeth fyre so dooth burning charitie out of godly men As a stone or Rocke is stronge stedfast and firme so is euery Peter I meane euery Christian ageynst whose fayth no Tyrannie no Hell gates no persecution no affliction can preuayle What doo I saye doo they not preueyle yea they preuayle ageynst the bodye the Soule they cannot kyll The fourth Obiection Is not hée the chief and head that is firste named Is not a King named afore his subiectes The husbande before the wyfe Peter was first named I aunswere Is Priscilla better then hir husbande bycause that shée is first named in the text and Aquila after her But that cannot bée for S. Paule sayth that the man is the woomans head This woord Protos as Theophilacte interpreteth hath hys respect onely to his brother Andrewe who was called before and Peter after for they twoo were protokleti And notwithstanding that Peter is named first in some places yit is Andrewe named before him as in the first of Iohn ver 44. Philip sayeth Iohn was of the same Citie that Andrewe Peter were of And in the 24. ver of the 20. chaptes of Mathew the other 10. were offended with Iames Iohn In the which text Peter was not named the first but only with the rest We are forbidden to giue Supremacie too any Bishop Esoitai oi eschatoi protoi Kai oi protoi eschatoi oi eschatoi The fyfte Obiection The Popes may lawfully depose Emperoures For as the Moone taketh light of the Sunne so dooth the Emperour of the Pope And the Pope maye treade vppon the Emperoures necke as Pope Alexander dyd vppon the necke of Fredericke the seconde Emperour of that name And that was prophecied longe before by Dauid a friend of ours in these woordes Super Aspidem Basyliscum ambulabis conculcabis Draconem Leonem Thou shalt walke vppon the Adder and Basyliske and shalt tread vppon the Dragon and Lyon. O you Tyrauntes O you rebelles Where is your Truthe where is your Obedience Was it not spoken of Christe and so generally to all good men ageynst whome the force of the Deuill should not preuayle Doo you so intreat your Kinge and Prince Howe dare you bée so bolde as to call your Emperoure Aspis Basylick Lyon and Dragon much lesse ought you to tread vppon them too putte them too deathe and too depose them They haue authoritie by Gods woord too rule ouer you too haue you in subiection and not you them You alledge Scripture as though the Dyuell did too Christ and the next verse too that which the Dyuell alledged as though the Dyuell and the Pope were saying Matynes toogether The sixth Obiection Well say what ye will our holy Father may do what hée list What if hee should sell the whole world perhaps ye will say that it were Symonie but I will sweare vppon a booke that it were no Symonie though hée solde the whole world bycause that hée selleth but his owne for so our olde freind Dauid prophecied vppon him Omnia subiecisti sub pedibus eius oues boues pecora campi Thou hast put all thinges vnder his féete all shéepe and oxen yea all the beastes of the field O heauen O earth the Dyuell alledged Scripture more probably Surely Dauid speaketh of man too whom God hath giuen all thinges for his vse commoditie and Allegorically too Christ whom hée hath made Lorde and King ouer all The seuenth Obiection Did not Pope Agatho write in an Epistle to the Emperours in the fourth Action of the Synode at Constantinople that the church of Roome did neuer erre neyther was possible that it should erre Is not this ynough Is it not a goodly saying Is it not woorthy too bée embraced O what a goulden sentence is this Where can you read the lyke I assure you it is not possible too bée answered I answer that I am able too proue that euery Pope hath erred if synne bée errour Moreouer the most iust man sinneth seuen tymes and hée that sayeth that hée hath no sinne is a lyer there is no truth in him The eight Obiection Panormitane an Archebishoppe did affirme and reason in a Councell at Basile in the .xxxix. Session that the Pope ought too bée aboue all Bishoppes I answer that the sayd Panormitane made an Oration too that effect and made the Pope Lorde ouer the Church notwithstanding the Bishoppe of Argens Iohn Segouius and Fraunces de Funx Diuines confuted that errour in the said Councell proued Pope Eugenius the fourth of that name to bée a relapse and an heretique bycause that hée tooke vpon him too dissolue transporte prorogue that Councell Can hée bée Lorde ouer the Church that should bée a minister and as hée wryteth him self Seruus seruorum Peter willeth no man no Bishoppe too rule ouer the Chuch but too bée ruled by the Church The ninth Obiection Oraui pro te Petre ne deficiat fides tua I haue prayed for thée Peter that thy fayth should not fayl thée Hée can not erre whom Christ prayeth for
hoggos fleshe saying putano de Dio dispetto de Dio bring mée my hogges fleshe And likewyse for his Peacock when one asked why hys holynesse was so mooued hée aunswered If God caste Adam out of Paradise for eating of an Aple what would you haue mée too doo for my Peacock Is not my peacock better then an Aple And thus they aunswer such blasphemies that in that the Pope was a man hée offended but in that hée was Christes Uicegerent hée could not sinne For saye they though hee were a desperate man yet the seate and place maketh him holye Now I come to their Obiections which they alleage out of their Canons and Doctours The first Obiection HE is saye they the head of the Church that ruleth the whole world But the Pope ruleth the whole world â–ª Ergo hée is the head of the Church I denye the Minor. They proue it by Thomas the irrefragable Doctour in these woordes The Pope sayeth hée is chiefe Bishoppe For as a King ruleth his realme so doth hée the whole world and Bishoppes for his helpe and ease are ioyned in euery citie as Iudges Thom. secund secund 4.98 art 9. 4.20 art 4. What an argument is this of Thomas of Aquine Is it a good comparison to compare a subiect with a King or rather preferre him before the kinge of the Romanes 1 Where was his authoritie when Nero persecuted as they saye Peter 2 Was not Linus as they reporte the second Pope at Rome in the yeare of Christ 82 Where was his vniuersall power where was his might when hée was put to death of Saturninus the Consul of Rome who was inferiour to Vespasian being Emperour at that tyme 3 Did not Domitian kill Anacletus an 84. 4 Did not Trayane fasten an anker aboue Clementes necke and cause him to be cast into the sea anno 102. 5 Was not Euarestus murthered by the same Emperour 6 Did not Aurelianus the Liuetenant the like to Alexander an 121. 7 And was not Pius killed in the tyme of Antonius verus an 121 8 And likewise Anicete an 159. And Sother an 169. 9 And Eleutherius beheaded an 177.191 10 And Zepherinus in the tyme of the Empe. Aurelius an 220. 11 And Caâ—ixtus in the time of Seuerus apprehended beaten with clubbes cast in prison throwen out of a window headlonge and his body cast into a pitte an â—26 12 And Vrbanus at the same tyme banished and at length killed an 233. 13 And Pontianus at the same tyme was banished into Sardinia tormented afflicted and suffered death ano 239. 14 And Autherius in the tyme of the Emperour Maximinus an 243. 15 And Fabianus vnder Decius An. 250. 16 And Cornelius also anno 253. 17 and Lucius vnder Valerianus ann 255. 18 and Stephan vnder Galienus beheaded an 257. 19. Sixtus the second of that name was likewyse martyred An. 267. 20. So was Dionysius An. 277. 21. So Felix an 282. 22. So Eutichianus an 283. 23. So Caius anno 295. 24. So Marcellinus an 303. 25. So Marcellus anno 308. 26. So Eusebius an 309. 27. So Melchiades an 314. The Papistes say that all these were Popes I praye you how ruled they all the world as Thomas sayeth the Popes doo where was their auctoritie aboue all Kinges Princes Emperours and Monarches If of God or of Peter or of them selues why did they not resist why were they put too death If they had none as none they had in deede than of whom had the Popes following their power tyrannie to kill innocentes to depose Emperours to disgrade Bishoppes to rule in hell heauen earth and purgatorie to absolue à poena culpa to do what they lust to oppresse banish and murther The second Obiection Well say what you will the Pope is meruelous for hée hath his name of merueling And hée is to be wondered at bycause hée is Peters vycegerent in the earth for hee hath his name of Papae an Interiection of merueling And without doubt hée occupieth not the place of a pure man but of the true god Textus est in Codice in t corpor de transl Episcopi I answer You say that hée hath his name of Papae an Interiection of merueiling in deede the Reuelation and Paule sayeth that Antechrist when hée shall come which is the Pope shall woorke meruailes and do false myracles by Necromancie and iniquitie The third Obiection Hath he not a great preeminence when as no man neyther may nor dare aske him in any matter why he doth so De poen dist ex perso The fourth Obiection Neyther is the Pope Peters vicegerent but hee occupieth the roome that Peter occupied Gloss. in Clement vna de iure iur in verb. vicar The fifth Obiection Doo you not knowe that the Popes name is chaunged in hys Creation Consecration and enstalling that by the chaunging of the name the man may likewise bee chaunged For where hée was a pure man before now is hée become the Uicegerent of the true God as in example Who was a cruell tyraunt before is nowe chaunged and called Clemens Hée that was hurtfull is now Innocent Hée that was a maleface Boniface and so foorth of the rest Hath not the Pope both the swoordes Is not hée an heretique that breaketh the constitution of the Pope or that holdeth that the Pope is not able to make a constitution hée is a paynim that wil not obey the Pope The Pope may depose the Emperoure without a Councell yea with a cause or without a cause Stat pro ratione voluntas These Obiections are thus to bée aunswered that as none of these are conteyned in the scriptures no more are they to bée credited than fables of Homer or Ouide In chaunging their names they detect their hypocrisie who will beléeue that the chaunginge of a mans name will make an euill man a good man of a dishonest an honest Besydes this is not the Pope a man still though hée bée anoynted consecrated enstalled and entromyzed Is not an Axe an Axe though hée haue a Childes coat vppon his backe ought hée to rule the Empernur Is not hée bounde too gyue too Caesar that which is Caesars Notwithstanding one cursed Iames de Terano Chamberlayne to Vrbane the sixt Pope of that name in the yeare of Christ 1385. interpreteth this place of Luke of the Emperours before Christes passion but after that Chryste was ascendeth into heauen as victor and conquerour hée writeth thus When I shalbée lifted vp from the ground I will drawe all too my selfe that is sayeth the sayd Iames I will take away all Empire Kingdomes Iurisdictions and Dominions of the worlde from the Emperours and Kinges and gyue them too the Pope who when hée hath subdued them and brought them in subiection hée may vse the Royaltie riches gorgeous apparell and all other thinges as subiect too him This cursed Iames as Molineus termeth him is too bée condemned of treason for forging a false coyn
For where it is in Iohn that Christ by his death should ouercom death hell and all the world hée applieth it to the Pope of whom Iohn did not once dreame onlesse hée prophecied of him amongs other Antechristes in his Epistles whom hée there describâ—th And as for the place of Luke it is to be vnderstanded of Ciuill and temporall Magistrates and not of Spirituall and Mysticall inuâ—ntoures of Iniquities and so vnderstandeth Chrysostom Origen and Theodoret vpoÌ„ the .xiij. chapter of S. Paule to the Romanes prouing that all Bishopes such as wée call Spirituall men must needes bée vnder the Iurisdiction of Ciuill Magistrates obey them and paye them Tribute Besides this this Iames proueth as Augustinus de Ancona did .lxxx. yeares before him that the Pope had not only authoritie ouer all Kinges and Emperours that were Christend but also ouer Turkes Paymins bycause that Christ gaue his full authoritie too the Pope when hée ascended that Iuditiary power for these are his termes ouer euery creature because that hée left the Pope both the keyes Temporall and Spirituall The sixth Obiection Hée is the head of the Church that hath twoo keyes the one too open Heauen gates to his friendes the other to shutte out his ennemies And hée hath thrée Crownes bycause that hée is a Kinge a Cesar and a Bishoppe or rather bycause bée hath authoritie in Heauen Hell and Purgatorie or els as Gregorius Doctor Hispanus did preache in Cambredge hée sayd that the Pope was counted in Spayne the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost that was signified by his thrée crownes Moreouer in euery yeare of Iubile hée hath a golden hamer wherwith hée knocketh at the gates of Paradise Is this no preeminence is not hée the head that hath this authoritie I graunte that the flattering Glosers of the Canon lawe wryte such thinges but they are too foolish too bée credited too false and absurd too bée approued too ridiculous too bée aduouched and to detestable to bée admitted The 7. Obiection Hée that hath both the temporall and spirituall swoorde must néedes bée the head of the church but the Pope hath bothe Ergo hée is the head of the church I denie the Minor wée proue it thus Doo you not reade that Boniface the eight Pope of that name came out in a solemne feast daye in the apparel of a Bishop as gloriously as euer was Aaron with the spirituall swoord to frame the Spiritualtie withall And on an other feast day hée came out in the apparel of the Emperour with great pompe and glorie with a naked swoord shaking it and saying This is my swoord to correct the Temporall withall yea euen Kinges Princes and the Emperour I aunswere that this hée dooth by this rule Sic volo sic iubio stat pro ratione voluntas For that hée dyd without reason or authoritie The 8. Obiection Is not hée the head of the church that is aboue Kings Cesars and Councelles and aboue the whole world Innocent 9. quest 3. gloss ibi vlt. ext de elect significasti The 9. Obiection And though all the worlde should gyue sentence ageynst the Pope notwithstanding his sentence must stand bycause that hée maye dispense with all thinges Iud. Glossat de Capell Papa si vult c. The 10. Obiection The Pope is aboue all Councelles and Statutes de elect cap. signif I aunswâ—re If his authorities bée aboue councels then councelles bée vayne and néede not when as wée may goe to the head and spring who is aboue eyther councelles or Lawes For you say that all the lawes are in the chest of the Popes brest But wée credit not these sayinges bycause they are made by Popes without authoritie eyther of Gods woorde or of olde Doctors Wherefore this is that Antichrist that is described in the Reuelation cap. 13. cap. 17. cap. 18. The 11. Obiection Hée that hath the same authoritie that Peter had is the heade of the church But the Pope hath the same authoritie that Peter had Ergo the Pope is the head of the church I denie the Maior for Peter was not the head of the church nor any better then the other of the Apostles Moreouer Peter was a meere man and a meere man was not the head of a spirituall church The 12. Obiection Is not hée aboue all that can dispence with the law of nature with Moses with the olde Testament with the new TestameÌ„t with Christ Peter Paule and the rest of the Apostles I aunswere that none doth so but â–ª Antichrist For of Antichrist Paule writeth so in the second epistle to the Thessalonians the second chapter ver 4. But you say the Pope doth so Ergo the Pope is Antichrist The 13 Obiection There may no man Iudge of the the Popes dooinges neyther the Clergie neyther Kinges neyther Emperours â–ª Shal the Iudge of all bée iudged of any Is it not knowen through all the world that the church of Rome doth iudge all the worlde and it may bée iudged of none who dare dispute of the Popes dooinges who doubteth of the Popes holynesse who is in such authoritie If hée lacke goods déedes or any other thing it is ynough for him to trust in the predecessours of that place These blasphemies answereth Paule in the second to the Thessalonians second chapter ver 4. where hée writeth that this Antichrist maketh hym selfe God. The xiiii Obiection Remundus rufus a noble defendor of the holy Sea of Rome reasoneth thus the Pope is the cheife because he is the first in tyme reuerence and power In time for Peter was at Rome the fyrste Pope in reuerence for who is too be reuerenced more then he in power what Bishop what Prelate what Monarche is to be compared to him I answere to the firste that Peter was neuer at Rome and therefore was neither firste Pope nor last at Rome moreouer Paule was at Rome before him by the testimoni of their owne wryters And Peter was no bishop ergo no bishop of Rome Peter was an Apostle and no bishop A bishop kept in a certain place an Apostle went aboue euery where As for his reuerence what reuerence should the Pope haue aboue others if he wil be first hée must be last as Christ writeth As concerning his power what is it Who gaue it to him He is or ought to be a seruaunt no lorde a minister no maister a member of the body and not the head What if Rome were vtterly destroyed by the Turke as it may be and the Popes name glory dignitie and memory cleane extinguished where should the Romish church be where should bée all hir decrées should not all bée vtterly abolished shall not Christ destroy him with the sprite of his mouth The .xv. Obiection Do you not remember what Nicolaus the first Pope of that name did wryte He sayed and also determined that no christian magistrats should haue any
probable but at the first there was no supremacie Ergo there should bée none The 24. Obiection Hée is the head of the church that giueth authoritie and licence to all the other Apostles to preache to bée priestes and to minister the seuen Sacramentes But Peter gyueth all these Ergo Peter is the head of the church Peter Palude is the authour of this argument a man of great woorship The 25. Obiection Hée is the head of the church whom the Chayre doothe blesse although hée were Iudas or a murtherer But the chayre blesseth the Pope ergo the Pope if hée were Iudas or a murtherer is the head of the church The 26. Obiection Hée that is God is the head of the church But the Pope is God ergo the pope is the head of the church The second proposition is proued by the authoritie in the margine The 27. Obiection Hée that is head of Angelles and Archaungelles is the head of the church But the Pope is the head of Aungelles and Archaungelles Ergo the Pope is the head of the church The Minor is proued in the margine The 28. Obiection Hée that is aboue the scripture is the head of the church But the Pope is aboue the scriptures ergo the Pope is the head of the church The assumption is proued by Siluester Prierias The 29. Obiection Hée is the head of the church that is the light of the world which illuminateth euery man that commeth into the world But the Pope is that light which illuminateth euery man that commeth into the world Ergo the Pope is the head of the Church The xxx Obiection He that hath aucthoritie to breake lawes is of more force then he that came not to breake lawes but the Pope came to breake the lawes and Christ came to fulfyll the lawes and not to breake them Ergo the Pope is the head of the Church The xxxi Obiection If there were nothing to proue the Pope to be head of the churche sauing his apparell and ornamentes yet surely they might perswade any man too beleue to maintaine and to glorifie our holie father the Pope dothe not Buechingerus and Inocentius Libro 3 de Altaris mysterio ca. 1. et 10. affirme that there are .9 special ornamentes his hose his shoes or sandalles his succynctory or girdell his Tunicle his Dalmatica or longe sleued Gowne his Metre his Gloues his Ring and Staffe In these consisteth the speciall power of the Pope euen to geue orders to blesse Maides to consecrate Bishopes to laye on handes to make grese or Chrisma to consecrate clothes and vessales to call Sinodes to dedicate Temples and to depose them that are disgraded and do many other merytorious workes What shall I speake of his two horned mitre of the hemmes of his garment of his crosse and staffe of his chimer and other vestements His shoes pardoned venyall sinnes his staffe hathe many vertues the crooked horne fetcheth in them that go astray the ende knocketh the obstinate refourmeth the disobedient What shall I speak of his breches and handkirchef Of his kniues and twoedged Swerds of his goulden hamer I haue spoken before I answer that theise more comend the Pope and set forth his prayse then his vertues do He glorieth in his apparell Paule in Christ his crosse he in outward things Paule in inward he in pompe Paule in pouertie he in vayne glory of the world Paule in the ioyes of Heauen Is not all this apparell corruptible will it not consume will not his crowne in tyme weare away and decay But the immortall crowne which Peter speaketh of will neuer You are not ashamed to put your trust in worldly things but in scriptures you put no trust them you cannot abyde Dooth not Iames Hocstrate in his booke intytuled Of praying to saints pronounce him to bée an heretique that flieth to the scriptures and that custome ought to bée followed before the scriptures bycause a common errour maketh a lawe We haue hitherto proued our holy father to be the head of the Militant Church here in earth though the Lutherians say that hée is head of the Malignant Church Now will wée proue that hée is the head of the Triumphant Church which is in Heauen The first Obiection HE is the head of the Triumphant Church that Canonizeth Sainctes and hath authoritie ouer Aungels that maketh of the triumphant church whom he listeth But the Pope dothe this Ergo he is the head I denie the Minor wée proue it Let vs sée if you find any day in the yeare dedicated to any Saincte which the Pope did not dedicate and consecrate Hée made the Apostles dayes the foure Ladye dayes made Corpus Christi a Sainct S. Peters cheynes S. Graue or S. Sepulchre S. seuen Sléepers s. Sonday s. Grimbold S. Chrisogon s. Gorgon s. Rooke s. Dunstone s. Thomas Becket whom King Henry dyd vnsainte and disgrade holy Iohn Shorne holy King Henry many a Prelate Bishop and Pope and in fine al his benefactours for whom he commaundeth euery Priest to pray for in his Canon of the blessed masse which we trust he will make a Sainct one day for surely she is our good Mistres she prospereth Prelats exalteth Hermits aydeth Hunters purgeth Pigs helpeth Hogs causeth raine and faire weather deliuereth out of Purgatorie and directeth generall councelles Finally she were as worthy to be a Sainct as any of them all I aunswere that the Pope taketh vpon him to doo and saye so But thinke you that hée can doo so Surely hée hath made some saincts that are deuilles and some that there were neuer none such What manner of Sainct is sainct Sondaye or Rymon or s. Gyners or s. Redygons or s. Apellinare for tootheache Ualentine for Louers Loe for Smithes Crispine Martine and Chrispinian for Shoemakers Nicolas and Cletus for Clarkes and yit many write ther was neuer none such as Cletus George for warriers Andrew for Scotlande Denis for Fraunce Iames or Iaques for Spayn about Louane Urbane whom they Crowne and cary about with great pompe to Tauernes if thei haue plentie of frutes if no they spitte vpon him they reuyle him throw him into the kennelles They painte with Iohn and Bernard the deuill with George like to the Egyptians a Crocodile with Rooke a dogge with Antony a sowe The Hollanders vse Paulyne as Louanians Urbane although that there bée no parte in mannes body so honest vnto the which the Pope hath not appointed a sainct and none so vncomely which hath not his saincte Neyther any absurditie that you can name but they haue a sainct for it yet say they the Pope cannot erre although it is euident that he Canonizeth as they saye these Sainctes booth contrarie to Scriptures Councelles and Doctoures It is in sainct Paule that if God onely iustifyeth who can condempne can the Pope Thus I reason Hée that cannot iustifye a man hée cannot Canonize But the Pope cannot iustifye Ergo hée
Althoughe Iohn the 3. After Christ .565 yeare and Gregorie the Pope after Christ .590 had apointed and decréed moste Prudently the Contrarie This saide Boniface apointed the Aultares to bée couered with white Linen clothes 28. Theodotus in the yeare of Christe .618 decréede that no man should mary his goddaughter 29. Boniface the 5. in the yeare of Christ 621. apointed Sanctuaries for Malefactoures that Coluthes shoulde not touche the Reliques of Martires Sacrilege to bée punished with the dart of excomunication and that Monkes being preistes might binde and louse 30. Honorius the firste in the yeare of Christe .626 made the Crosse of Christe a Saincte and tooke the Brasen Tiles of the Temple of Romulus and couered Saincte Peters Churche with them and builded many Temples 31. Theodocus in the yeare of Christ .640 the sonne of a Bishope was Pope at what tyme Carcombert King of England firste commaunded Lent to bée kept in Englande 32. Martine the firste in the yeare of Christe .650 compelled the Clergie to vowe chastitie 33 Eugenius the first in the yeare of Christe .660 apointed that Bishoppes should haue a prison to emprison the Clergie and that Bishoppes might not nor oughte not to conuert the goodes of the churche to their owne vses 34. Vitelianus in the yeare of Christ .661 brought firste into the Temples Musike and Orgaines 35. Donus in the yeare of Christe .681 deuided the Clergie into certein orders 36 Agatho the fyrste in the yeare of Christ .680 commaunded that all the Lawes of the Pope should bée taken as confirmed by the mouth of God. 37. Constantine the first in the yere of Christ .708 went towards Constantinople and in the iourney Iustinian the Emperour met him and kissed his féete He commaunded Images to be had in Temples and to be painted 38. Gregory the second in the yeare of Christ .715 forbad a man to mary Presbyteram Dyaconam Monacham and a spiritual godmother and made Leo the Emperour his subiects too rebell bycause the Emperour had pulled downe Images of Saincts out of Temples 39 Gregory the third in the yeare of Chryst .731 brought in Images againe cursed Leo the Emperour who resisted him and despising the Emperour caused Martellus King of Fraunce too make warre against the Lumbards 40 Stephanus the second in the yeare of Christ .751 caused Pipinus to inuade Lumberdie hée pardoned Pipinus againste his othe made vnto his king Childerique and this was the first Pope that was borne vppon mens shoulders and caused Images to be worshipped and much Idolatrie to be committed 41. Paule the first in the yeare of Christ .760 excomunicated the Emperour in hys tyme Starres did fall from heauen into the earth 42. Leo the thyrd in the yeare of Christ .800 after his banishment béeing restored too his Popeshippe by Carolus Magnus the Emperour made the Gange daies and Frankencense and preferred the degrées of the Popes before all the wrytings of the holy Doctours and affirmed that a crosse of wood made for Christes â—rosse did bléede the very true blood of Christ. 43. Gregory the fourth made all sowle daye 44. Sergius the seconde in the yeare of Christe .841 was the first that chaunged his name and cauled himselfe Sergius whose Christian name was Hogges mouth He crowned the Emperour Lodouike and caused the Sacrament too bée deuided intoo thrée partes 45. Leo the fourth in the yeare of Christ .846 made men kisse his féete no lay man to bée in the quieâ— at the masse tyme but the clarks And made Ethenwolfus of a monke king of England and therfore he rendred to the Pope of euery house in England a pennye 46. Iohan a woman Pope in the yeare of Christ .853 borne at Moguntia in Germany and called an English woman through the familiarite that she had with an English monke with whom she went to Athenes being appareled like a young man proceded and excelled in learning in so much that she was coÌ„secrated Pope gaue orders made Bishoppes Priests Deacons and Abbottes songe masse halowed Alters Fonts and Temples ministred the Sacrament crowned Lodouike the seconde Emperour of that name with hir hand and with sainct Peters blessing Ethelwolfus King of England reuerencing this holy mother I should say holy father the Pope euen the harlot of Babylon gaue the tenth part of his Realme to clarkes and monks to praye for his sowle This Pope was gotten with childe of one of hir Cardinalles delyuered a child as she went on procession and so died after she had bin Pope two yeare and a halfe Then â—he holy fathers made prouision leste they should be deceaued any more and did set him whome they would make Pope vppon a stoole that had a hole in it and caused a Deacon to put his hand vnder and to know whither he were a man or a woman Behold the Romish Church euen after mistres I. Pope had sayd a masse of the holy ghost did offend if it bée an offence too bée an harlot Funcius sayeth that it was done by the singuler prouidence of God to â—eclare the abhomination of the whoore of Babilon and the Sea of Rome 47. Nicolas the first decréed in the yeare of our Lord .861 that no Prynce not the Emperour should be present at any councel of the Clargie onlesse it be some chéefe pointe of the fayth He decréed that no lay man should iudge of the Clergies lyues nor dispute of the Popes power neither any Christian magistrate too haue power ouer any Bishoppe bicause the Bishppe was called God and compelled priests too lyue chaste and that none shall heare the masse of him that hath a concubine 48 Martine the second in the yere of Christ 882. was made Pope by Nigromancy 49 Stephanus the 6. in the yere of Christ 890. abrogated al y Actes of Formosus the Pope for on olde grudge he tooke his body out of his graue cut of two fingers of his right hand and threwe them into Tyber and buryed him emong the Laytie 50 Romanus in the yeare of Christ 896. disanulled the Actes of his Predecessour Stephanus and approued the Actes of Formossus 51 Christophorus â–ª in the yeare of Christe 903. did cast Leo intoo prison and handled him miserably 52 Sergius in the yeare of Christ 907. deposed the sayd Christopher and made himselfe Pope and for hatred tooke vp Formosus once again and set him in the Seate of the Pope as though hée had bin alyue and cut of his head eight yeares after hée was dead hée cut of thrée of his fingers and threwe his body into Tyber and commaunded all the Romanes to confirme this acte and too subscribe Hée first ordeyned candelles to bée borne vppon Candelmasse daye Hée begotte Iohn the 12. Pope of that name of an harlot called Marozia and did many such miracles 53 Laudo in
of Prage againste their pronisse and the Emperoures saufconductes in the yeare of Christe 141â— Christ openeth the way to the kingdome of Heauen The Pope stoppeth it and neither wil entre himself neither will suffer other to entre VVicleffe in the yeare of Christ 13â—4 Bernerd Lutzeberge 2. Tom. council in Sessi 8. Constancienti Polydor. Aug. lib. 19. Christ and his woorde excommunicateth none without a great cause The Pope and his for euery trifle for the priests Tithes for a Pigge for a Goose for Aples and Peares And therefore sayeth Scotus in the yeare of Chryst 1300. desti 18. stut 4. men care not for his curse it is despysed and counted for vyle Christ left behinde him when he departed no money The Pope 25. thousand million of Ducates Matthaeus Palmerius Christ is the true Image of his Father The Pope is an Idoll which hath eyes and sée not eares and heare not as Robertus Gallus writeth in the yeare of Christ 1290. Christ had no earthly possession The Pope possesseth all which possession to bée gyuen by Constantine Marsilius Patauinus denieth Valla confuteth it and Cusanus and Cattalanus reproue it in the yeare of chryst 1496. Christ will haue no superioritie in Bishoppes The Pope calleth himselfe the chiefe of all Here I subscribe the woordes of Marsilius Patauinus who was in the yeare of Christ 1324. All Bishoppes should bée of equall authoritie neyther should the Pope haue any superioritie aboue other Bishoppes and much lesse aboue the Emperour or other ciuile Magistrates and Gouernours Summum iudicium debere penes esse verbum Dei not onely the Spiritualtie to bée called to the councelles but also the Layetie which are learned and godly The clergie and the Pope to bée subiectes to the Emperoure The church to bée the congregation of the faythfull Chryst to bée the head of the church Neyther dyd appointe any other Uicare or pope Bishoppes too bée elect of the church or clergie priestes to haue wyues that Peter was neuer at Rome The popes Synagoge to bée a Denne of Robbers the popes doctrine to carry men to eternal damnation Thus much Patauinus Christ sayeth that the Kinges rule the Gentyles But it shall not bée so emong you The pope sayeth that neyther Kinge nor Emperour hath any power authoritie or iurisdiction but of the pope neyther can bée of any force tyll they be annoynted consecrated and crowned by the Pope who hath full power aswell in thinges temporall as spirituall Thus writeth Ludouicus the 4. Emperoure of that name confuting the sayd presumptuous arrogancy of the Pope Iohn the 22. of that name Christ sayeth that the sentence and iudgement of Chaiphas and Pilate was vniust The Pope sayth that his sentence whither it be iust or vniust must be obserued reuerenced accepted defenced and feared This errour the sayd Emperour refelleth with many reasons and authorities Christ sayeth that his father hath gyuen vnto him all power The Pope sayeth that there is none Superiour to him Non habet superiorem The same Ludouicus proueth that the Pope may haue a superiour in earth if he offend by a councell hée may be deposed and corrected Christ deposed no Emperour The Popes did many as Iohn the 23. of that name deposed Ludouiâ—e in the yeare of Christ 1314. he was excoÌ„municated for an heretique and Scismatike he warred with 3. Popes the space of 33 yeares all the learned men in Europe were with the Emperour against the Pope Notwithstanding he cursed him and commaunded al Priestes Byshoppes Kinges and Princes to rebell against him in the yeare of Christ 1323. Christe commaundeth to bewarâ— of suche as come in longe gownes and Lambes apparell The Pope admitteth none els to his orders Helias Rubeus in the yeare of Christ 300. lib. 3. Christ sayth that his church is euery where wheresoeuer two or thrée be gathered in his name The Pope sayth that his is at Rome and of such as béeléeue in the Romish church all suche as wrote against VValdensis are of this opinion Iacob Riberia Christe his spirit in the Apostle willeth all men euen euerye Prelate Pope to obey the Emperours and other Magistrates The Pope aunswereth that that Text counselleth men too doo so but commaundeth not C. Soli. te titu de obedientia et Maioritate Thus aunswered the Pope Innocentius â–ª the 3. Emperour Baldione Paldiomus in the yeare of Christ 1205. Christ sought his owne The Pope other mens Christ homely apparel and diett The Pope gorgeous and sumtuous Christ peace The Pope debate Christ equetie The Pope iniquetie Petrus Blesensis wryteth thus and more in the yeare of Christ .1153 Christ shedeth no mans bloode The Pope rather followeth Romulus in murthering his brothers then Peter in feding his shéepe Adrianus the Pope of that name and Iohn Saresburiensis in the yeare of Christ .1150 Ant. tit 17. cap. 1.9 Molinaeus 11. There resorteth to Christe the poore in sprite the simple of harte the méek e and all the faithfull There resorte to the Pope in the yeare of Iubile proude prelates auaritious Archedeacons couetous Curates dotish Doctors dronken Dunsies monstrous Monks flattering Friers nyce Nunnes curious Curtesans theues bawdes brothels adulterers Idolaters with all the rest of the wicked rable I do not bring these Arguments collected out of the popish lawes and wryters for that they néede any confutacion but that men may learne with what stuffe and Trumperie they confirme their errours The Pope cannot Erre Obiection No man sinneth that is borne of God The Pope is borne of God Ergo the Pope sinneth not The fiist proposition is proued out of the firste of Iohn verse .9 The second I will proue by a Sillogisme in Barbara Euery one that is holy is borne of God Phe Pope is not only holy but also most holy Ergo euery Pope is borne of God. The first proposition is euident The second is proued by the Popes bulles which are more to bée credited then the Gospell for the Pope may interpret the Gospell how he will but no man may Interprete the Popes Bulles I aunswer Euery man sinneth The Pope is a man. Ergo the Pope sinneth The first proposition is proued by the .14 Psalme of Dauid ver 3. There is none that doth good no not one I wyll proue by a Sillogisme in Barbara the second proposition Euery creature reasonable and mortall is a man Euery Pope is a reasonable and mortall creature Ergo euery Pope is a man. The first proposition is proued by the deffinition of a man. The second proposition is proued by Athanasius Creede where he sayeth that Christ consisteth of a reasonable soule and a humane flesh And by the first to the Cor. 15. chap. ver 22.54 Rom. 6. ver the last And Hebrues the .9 ver 27. whereby euery man is proued too be mortall Obiection He that can make God is better then God The Pope can make God Ergo the Pope is
He doth graunt miracles hée maketh fire too discend from Heauen By fyer is vnderstanded the holy Ghost and the Pope promiseth to giue the holy ghost in giuing of orders saying Receiue ye the holy ghost Moreouer there is no sinne so horrible no offence so greuous which he will not forgiue for money By Fyer may be vnderstand his thundering boult of Cursing and Excommunication whereby he did strike the Monarches Princes and Kings of the earth He that will not worshippe the Image of the beast which is the dominion prerogatiue and authoritie of the Pope shalbée murthered by him and his proctors The Image of the beast is his aucthoritie ceremonies candells Sacramentes Hosts Wafecakes Housling Priests Friers Nonnes Monkes Hermetes Religious men Purgatorie Pardones Penitentiaries Curtesanes Masses Dirges Abbotts Beades Beaderos Crosses Coniurings holy Bread holy Water holy Salte Palmes holy Blood of Hayles prayers for the dead Limbus patrum Limbus puerorum praying to Saincts Superstition Idolatrie Images Idolles Pilgremages Rosaries Ladies Psalters and Regine coelorum Aue Maria stella Bulles Extreame vnction I will so plainly declare the nature of Antichrist and in such sorte that you shall vnderstande that the Pope muste néedes bée Antichrist There were onely six Monarchies from the deluge to the ende of the Worlde The first the Assirians the second the Babylonians or the Chaldes the thyrd the Medes or Persians the fourth the Grecians or Macedonians the fift the Romains and Germans the sixt is the Pope and the Emperour which were diuided out of the whole Romayne Empyre before it was diminished Daniel doth not touch the Empire of the Assirians for it was past before his tyme and this Image was séene at Babilone What néeded any Prophecie of a thinge that is past Neither is there any Prophesie of a thing that is past but of a thinge too come And therefore sayeth Daniel God shall shevv to the King things to come The head of this Image signifyeth the Monarchy of the Chaldes and Babylonians The siluer breast and armes the Medes or Persians The Belly and Thighes of brasse the Gresians or Macedonians The Legges of Yron were the Romans who subdued al the world The foote of Yron signifieth the Pope who breketh the power of the Emperour as yron doth the clay for the Pope had all Europe at his commaundement hée crouned Emperoures and hee deposed them he warred against them and subdued them hée possessed Italy and thrust the Emperour into Germany Let vs declare how the Pope who is signified by the féete of yron did subdue the Emperour who was named by the foote of claye Gegory the fyrst Pope of that name in the yeare of Christ .600 wryteth that it had bin offered diuers tymes that the Pope of Rome myght haue called the vniuersall Byshop but none of them would take it vpon them or vse that word and title Notwithstanding the same Gregory inuehing against Iohn the Patriarcht of Constantinople who would haue bene called the vniuersall Bishopp signifieth to the Emperour Mauritius and to his wife Augusta that Rome should chalenge that honor and Superioritie and that it was iniquitie to depriue the successour of Peter of that honor considering that it was sayd to Peter thou art Peter Et super hanc petram aedificabo Ecclesiam meam Wherin Gregorie offended duble first in misunderstanding or rather peruerting the place and wordes of Christ meaning by the rocke Peter when as Christ is the rocke and Peter but a member deriued from the rocke as of Christ Christians secondly that hée gaue occasion to his successoures to chalenge and aspire to that superioritie and dignitie Cursed Phocas in the yere of Christ .605 killed the good Emperour Mauritius with his wife and children and at the request of Boniface made the seate of Rome the cheife seate of all churches and that the Pope of Rome should bée preferred before all others And although that Phocas a most damnable Emperour who killed his Master and Emperoure Mauritius gaue this preminence to the pope of Rome notwithstāding he could not be elected without the assent of the Emperour of Constantinople the Exarch of Italy of the people of Rome Constantinus the 4. Emperor of that name graunted to Benedictus the second Pope of that name in the yeare of Christ .685 that the Pope might be elected without the assent of the Emperour of Constantinople or the Exarch of Itly only by the Clergie and people And in the yeare of Christ .1063 in a counsell at Mantua where Berengarius was compelled to recant his opinion of the Sacrament it was decréed that the Pope should bée only elected of the Cardinalles without assent of any others now began the Popes to do all to rule all compell all Emperoures Kinges and Princes to their orders and to bée subiect to them Gregory the 3. Pope of that name about the yeare of Christ .695 resisted the Emperour of the east Leo the .3 who had caused al maner of Images to be pulled downe and burned and them that would not do it to suffer death This Gregory resisted this excommunicated Leo this caused the Images to be more worshipped then euer they were Pope Zacharias in the yeare of Christe .743 caused the King of Fraunce called Chilpericus to be made a Monke and placed one Pipin by the meanes of the nobles of Fraunce and made him king who enriched the Pope Thus Zacherias the Pope with his successor Stephen the second Pope of that name dyd pardon and absolue Pipinus with the rest of the nobilitie of Fraunce of their othe obediēce which they ought to the king Chilpericus lately deposed This Stephen did first ordain that he his successors shold be born of mens shoulders Carolus magnus succeded his sonne Pipinus in the yeare of Christ .800 was created crouned Emperour by Leo the third Pope of that name Ludouicus succeded his Father Carolus in the empire of the west enriched the pope Paschalis his successors exceadingly For he with his grandfather Pipinus his father Carolus gaue to the Popes aboue .60 Ylands Countries Cities shires Towns dominions prouinces which are repeted in Campanus others Otho magnus the Emperour of the Germains in the yere of Christ 938. gaue all these that his predecessors had giuen to the pope for his soules health for his sonnes soule for his forefathers souls After this time the pope toke vpon him al worldly dominion power also of heauē hell purgatory No man may iudge the Pope nor his doings Causa 9. quest 3. C. patet The pope may iudge all none the Pope Neither may any man dispute of his doings .17 quest 4. c. si quis suade Dist. 79. c. extremo What if the Pope shold corrupt many by his example Pope Boniface answereth this dist 40.4 si Papa If the Pope shall cary innumerable people by
in the yeare of Christ 1255. that Christes Gospell should then haue an end and the Popes should take place called sempiternum Euangelium and Christes they compared to the shell theirs to the kernel theirs to the sun Christs to the moone theirs to light Christs to darknes 24 With the Donatistes and circumcellions they burn bookes yea they burne sacred Bibles and persecute the readers thereof with fier and sweard 25 The Pope like Gensericus Honorius and Transmundus being Arians and Kings of the Vandales persecuted the Christians The Church of Christe neuer persecuteth but is persecuted the Popes church persecuteth and was neuer persecuted Ergo it is not the church of christ Hillary 26 With Seuerus bishop of Antioch he curseth al his aduersares 27 With Anastasius the Emperour hée worshippeth a Quaternitie the father the sonne and the holy ghost and Christes bodie in the Sacrament 28 Iohn of Constantinople desiring to bée called the vniuersall Bishop is condemned for an heretique what then shall we cal the Pope who will not only to be called the vniuersall Bishop but also will be the head of the milittant and triumphant church to haue rule in heauen ouer the Aungels and archaungels in hel ouer the damned soules and ouer the sely soules in purgatory 29 The Pope Marcellinus was an Idolater 30 Pope Anastatius was a Nestorian 31 Pope Liberius an Arian 32 Many of of the Popes were murtherers ruffians desperates coniurers necromancers warriers perricides blasphemers Atheistes Antichristes c. Fredericus Imperator Innocentio Papae FAta monent stellaeque docent auiumque volatus totius subito malleus orbis ero Roma diu titubans longis erroribus acta corruet et mundi desinet esse caput ¶ Innocentius Frederico Fata silent stellaeque tacent nil praedicat ales solius proprium nosce futura Dei. Niteris in cassum nauem submergere Petri fluctuat at nunquam mergitur illa Ratis Fama refert scriptura docet peccata loquuntur quod tibi vita breuis paena perennis erit Quod diuina manus potuit sensit Iulianus tu succedis ei te te net ira dei Fre fremit in mundo de deprimit alta profundo ri mala rimatur cus cuspide cuncta minatur Fredericus Innocentio Fata monent stellaeque docent auiumque volatus lapsurum te mox ad stygis antra nigrae Non ratis est Petri sed Christi quae natat vndis fluctuat at nusque mergitur illa ratis Fama refert tua scripta docent peccata nefanda interitum ostendunt exitiumque tuum trangulat Adrian um muscâ— annon ira tonantis cogitat et de te sumere supplicium Carcere suspendit sese Benedictus et alter in stupro captus saucius ense perit Siluestrum extinguit sathan sceleratior ipse ergo tuis factis praemia digna feras Innocuum te voce notas cùm sis nociturus orbi terrarum christianoque gregi ¶ Fredericus de integro Esses si membrum non te caput orbis et vrbis iactares cum sis orbis et vrbis onâ—is Nune membruÌ„ non es sed putre cadauer et vlcus ense recidendum ridiculumque caput A Deniele bdelygma nefaâ—que caputque malorum diceris a Paulo filius exitij Nos solum Christum nostruÌ„ caput esse fatemur totius mundi te caput esse facis Si caput est vnum quod Paulus dicit vbique tu veors balatro dic mihi quale caput Corporis vnius caput vnum si duo monstrum monstra paris monachos scorta nefanda foues Est tua religio stuprum ira superbia caedes error deliciae fulmina turpe lucrum Ex his ergo liquet ChristuÌ„ te spernere Christo hostem esse inuisum dedecorique deo Rex tandem veniet coelo delapsus ab alto tum non defendent te sacra missa cruces Non in sublimi surgentes vertice criâ—tae Non diploma ponens non tua sacra cohors Nec diadema triplex nec sedes sanguine parta nullus honos solii purpura nulla tui Triginta nummis Christum vendebat Iudas tu Christi vendis corpora plura tui Corpora tu vendis Christi paruo aere polumque caelestis genios sydera iura deos ¶ Innocentius Frederico Semper honos nomenque meum laudesque manebuÌ„t quae Christus condit condere iura queo Illi succedo sed plus me posse fatebor pellere te possum sede quod ille nequit Ille nequit quoniam Pilatum sede nequiuit pellere solus ego solus in orbe deus Est nostrum genus eximijs spectabile factis Gregorius magnus carmina mira canit Christo pulsanti patuit vix ianua ditis sed mihi pulsanti mox patuere fores Namque ego Traianum tetri de faucibus orci extraxi et matrem dite fremente meam ¶ Fredericus Innocentio Papa quid insanis toties quid sanguine gaudes quid geris imbelli spicula tanta manu Quo vesane ruis non te decet ira nec arma sed pietatis opus relligionis amor Tu similis colubro quoties grauis ira venenum suscitat et mota lumina bile rubent Sic furis vt spumis ex ore cadentibus atrox fulmineo quoties dente minatur aper Sic fremis vt frendens cum ferrea vincula mandit Cerberus et stygias murmure turbat aquas Tu fratres in bella vocas in pignora patres arma mihi extorques oppida tecta domos Fas et iura negas homines et numina fallis nec Iouis imperium nec phlegetonta times ¶ Innocentius Frederico Quid metuaÌ„ phlegitonta deuÌ„uè aut numina coeli nec ditis noceat nec Iouis ira mihi Est mihi tum barathri tum coeli facta potestas caelestes genios tartareosque voco Christus non potuit mentes deducere caelo nec excire animas ex acheronte nigro Orci equidem possum cunctas lustrare cauernas Eruere ex herebi monstra nefanda specu Quod Deus est ego sum nec non mihi vendico plura nam hinil ex nihilofas fabricare mihi Iusticia ex iniusticia faceoqueâ—â—eoque te possum solio pellere caesareo Omnia transformo muto quadrata rotundis reges pello creo transfero regna duces Nunc quis sum ô medius fidius te sede mouebo ad barathrum trudam praecipitemque dabo Absit si ratio stat pro ratione â—â—â—ido quale meum numen lingua docere nequit Sum dominus caeli terrae rex rectorauerni prodidit et Paulus me â—uperare â—eum Nec diuus nec homo sum neuter at inter vtrumque Ens sum consistens ex homine atque 〈◊〉 At quid plura meum numen formidaâ— olympus me saenus Pluto tartarieque canes Quos placet efficio diuos quos displicet odi atque ad tartareos precipitabo lacus Nemo mihi in terris agnatus nemo propinquus prae me omnes sperno ducoque pro