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Title:  A retentiue, to stay good Christians, in true faith and religion, against the motiues of Richard Bristow Also a discouerie of the daungerous rocke of the popish Church, commended by Nicholas Sander D. of Diuinitie. Done by VVilliam Fulke Doctor of diuinitie, and Maister of Pembroke hall in Cambridge.
Author: Fulke, William, 1538-1589.
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for an heretike, not only in the generall councell of Constantinople the 6. but also in the Idolatrous coūcell of Nice the 2. and Iohn the 23. condemned for an A∣theist in the councell of Gonstance. If the gates of hell preuayled not manifestly against that seate, yea and so many other Bishoppes thereof, whom they them selues confesse to be damned in hell for their wicked life: we neede not greatly be affrayed of the gates of hell. Yea (sayth Bristow) It hath bene impugned ten thousand times more then any other, but all in vayne, frustra circumlatranti∣bus haereticis sayth S. Augustine. In vayne is the barking of heretikes all about it. De vtil cred. cap. 17. But the place of Augustine which he citeth, is of the Church of Christ and not of Peters seate, round about the which, the he∣retikes haue barked in vaine. For euen in that seate, but yet out of the Church, Liberius had barked Arrianisme, Marcellus gentilisme, and after his time Honorius bar∣ked with the Monothelits as his epistle which remay∣ned after his death declared. Vigilius also by his epistle was proued to barke Euty chianisme, Liberat. cap. 22. Iohn the 23. barked with the Sadduces against the resurrecti∣on of the dead, cont. Constanti. sect. 11. The see of Rome therefore is no more the rocke against which the gates of hell shall not preuaile, then the see of Canterbury or London. But sayth Bristowe who can saye that there shall be alwayes a Byshoppe of Canterburye or Lon∣don? Verely, no more can any man saye, that there shall alwayes bee a Byshop of Rome. And whosoeuer sayth, that there hath beene alwayes since Peter a By∣shop of Rome, shall lye moste impudently. For the See hath often lyn voyde, not onely for a short time, while a newe Byshop might be chosen: but many yeers togither. Againe the See hath beene translated from Rome to Auinion, and the Popes Court kepte there for threescore yeeres togither by which it is manifest both that the Citie of Rome hah not beene the perpetuall See of Peters successours, and that Peters successors haue erred in remouing their Courte from that Citie, 0