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heaven_n	church_n	earth_n	power_n	8,852	5	5.0914	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00498	The Exposition of certain partes of Scripture, according to the mindes of the chieffe doctors ...		1567 (1567)	STC 10634.5; ESTC S2119	36,965	68

the other side there ar other not euell men but also well learned and workers in the word of God that stand vp against these Some men mark and some trie the Lorship what it is beinge afraid least through the studie and zeale of these men not beinge sufficientlie circumspect and ware the dooreshold be opened by litle and litle to brynge into the Chirch againe the olde Lordshippe that is least they by their aucthoritie which they haue of the Ministerie of the word might open the way to false vanfaithfull Ministers to abuse the power that is defended and brought in againe by them to the contrarie And they suppose that this feare is not in vaync whilse they consideringe the beginninge of the popish Lordshippe call to remebrance vnder how bewteous a pretence and by the zeale of great and holy men by and by after the time of the Apostelles it was brought into the Chirches And a litle after be saith It is plainly to be granted at the beginning that some power was giuen vnto the ministery of the word and to the dispēfation of the mysteris of God which is profitable and mightie to edisication yea and necessarie for our saluation which is through Christe and that is ment by the way of a smilitude of Christ him selfe when as in the xxiiij of Mathew he saithe who thinkest thow is a faithfull seruant and a wise Whom the Lorde hathe made Ruler ouer his housholde to giue them meate in time he meaneth that he wolde giue vnto his Disciples such power ouer his Chirch as they haue to whome the whole housho de is committed of the good man of the howse that they shold giue thē sufficient meat Marke 13. Euen as a man that goeth into a far countrey leaueth his howse and hath giuen power vnto his seruantes and hath apoincted euery man his office and hath giuen chardge vnto the Porter that he shold watche Watch ye therefore c. Doubtles he spake these thinges vnto his Disciples to shew what sholde be their condition VVheather was this cō mission cōmitted vnto Princes only or only to the Disciples of Christ and their shccessort 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Howse of God after that he had departed from them to Heauen And a litle after amongest 3. powers there is one that is called potestas iuris that is the power of ryght whereby a man hath lordshippe ouer his owne substance whych is not subiect vnto an other mans ryght This power of ryght is ginen of God the Father vnto his sonne Christ for he sayth all power is giuen vnto me in Heauen and in Earth Peter taketh away this povver from the Ministers of Christ vvhen he saythe S. Peter taketh away all dominiō and lordshippe from the elders of the Church therfore he grāteth none neither to the P. neyther to any B of his making VVhoare ininrious to the maiestie of Christ and to the libertie of the Chircy who perteyne vnto the kingdome of Antechrist exercisingle single lordshipe 1. Pet. 5. and the Apostell Paule refuseth it saing we ar no Lordes of yowre faith and he exhorteth faithful men that they submit not them-selue vnto them which wyll exercise lordshippe ouer them when he sayth be ye not made the seruantes or bondmen of men wherfore they that chalenge vnto them selues this power in the howse of God for that end that they shall not be seruantes of Christ but Lordes of the Church ar eniuryous and do vvrong to the maiestie of Christe and also to the libertie of the Church As many as do this vtterly perteyne vnto the Kingdome of Antechriste which occupienge the place of Christ in the Church and chalenging all his aucthorytie not onely for this cause that he is contrarie to Christe but also for that he thrust him selfe into the Church in st●de of Christe is iustly called Antechrist thatis the aduersarie and also the vycar of Christ for euen as he is called Antistrategos not only that is against the chefe Capitaine but he also that thrust him selfe by vsurpation vnto the souldiers to be theyr chefe Capitayne and braggeth of his office Rodolphus vpon the 22. Chapiter of Marke THere is no strōger or greater hynderaunce vnto saluatiō No greater hinderaunc to saluacion to faith thē the counterfit aucthori tic of false Prelates and to fayth then is the counterfait aucthoritie of false Prelates confirmed by the prescriptiō of long time for by the reuerence that men haue vnto them hit is brought to passe that men dare not depart from them Loug tunc is the maintainer of errors the word is the ●●wraer of them euen for the errors that all men spie in them because that the commune people dothe knowe that so manye hundred Years emongest all men of euery order and place haue had them in such honor and so greatlie regarded A litle after in the same Chapter THe Papistes do saye that they are not rashlie to be prouoked to angre whych are defended by the publique aucthoritie of Kynges Such as are made defendors of the publicke health of the Chirch must not fcare kinges whose angre to styrre vp against any man is very ieopardous but I answere that such men ought not to be afrayde of any perels whom God hath appoincted for to be Kepers and Defenders of the publique health or saluation And we do knowe that the false Prophetes haue euer had thys good Lucke that they haue had Kynges and Princes to be theyr Defedors and protectors And yet for all that neyther the Prophetes nor the Apostles gaue any place vnto them False Prophetes are euer defended trevv Prophetes but syldom because the commandement of God droue them vnto this that they shold with ieopardye of their lyues stoughtly both wythstand them and theyr Patrones or Defendors And these wordes of God which he spake vnto Ieremie are well knowne Be not thow afrayd when thou seest them least I destroy the whylest they loke vpon thee for behold I make this day a well defended cytie a Pyller of yron and a brasen wall againste the Kynges of Iuda against the Princes and the Priestes of the same Therefore there is no cause whye they that are gods officers shold feare the tyrnnnie of the world The same Rodolphus a little a feer in the same chapter CAuete a Scribis inquit Beware saith he of the Scribis in dede it is but A short sentence but such a one as many men doubtles thought vntollerable For he speaketh of them which for the space of many hundred yeres occupied the chiefe place in the Church To whom God had committed his lawe and the key of knowledge as it is sayde in another place which also sitting in the preachinge Stoole of Moyses gloried much that they did succede the old Priestes and Prophetes The people must depart and not acknowledge the Phareses for Pastors and occupied their places yet for all that Christ moueth his