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EXtraua. Vnam sanctam.k 1.1 Admit that the Grecians, and others say, that the Primacy of the Church was not giuen to S. Peter and his Successors, then doubtlesse they must confesse, that they are not of the flocke of Christ, who said, that there is one fould, and one shepheard. We are taught by the wordes of the Gospell, that there is therein two swords, that is to say, the one a spirituall,
the other temporall. For when the Apostles said, Loe, here are two swords, the Lord answered not that there were too many, but said it is enough. Truely he that denieth, that the temporall sword is not in the power of S. Peter, taketh very little regard to the wordes of the Lord, who said: Put vp thy sword into the sheath: the one and the other is therefore in the power of the Church, to wit, the spirituall and the materiall: and both swords ought to be gouerned by the Church, the one by the Priests, the other by the hands of kings and men of war, but according to the will and permission of the Priests, for the one sword must be vnder the other sword.
De Maior. & obed.