The Apologie, Cap. 6. Diuision. 4.
Whiche of the Auncient Fathers, or Doctours euer saide, The vvhole vvorlde is but your Diocese?
M. Hardinge.
He that saide to Peter, fede my Lambes, and, fede my Shepe, whiche Lambes and shepe al Christen menne be through the worlde.
The B. of Sarisburie.
The Canonistes, that is to saie, the Popes Pages of Honoure, haue not doubted to infeaffe their Maister with the possession of al the worlde. One saithe thus, Dominus Papa est Ordinarius omnium hominum: Oure Lorde the Pope is the Ordinarie, or Bishop of al menne. An other saithe, Papa totius mundi obtinet Principatum, The Pope hath the Princehoode of al the worlde. An other saithe, Papa est Episcopus totius Orbis: The Pope is the Bishop of the whole worlde. An other saithe, Papa etiam cessante negligentia Praelatorum, potest conferre beneficia totius Oribis: Quia ipse est Ordinarius totius mundi. Though there be no defaulte, or negligence in any Bishop, yet maie the Pope bestowe the benefices of al the worlde: For that he is the Bishop of al the worlde. Therefore when the Chiefe Dea∣con inuesteth, or enrobethe the Pope at his Consecration, he saithe vnto him, Ego inuestio te de Papatu, vt praesis Vrbi, & Orbi: I do inueste thee with the Pope∣dome, that thou maiste rule bothe the Cittie, and the worlde.
Of this infinite Ambition, and inordinate tyrannie manie good menne haue often complained. Franciscus Zarabella, beinge him selfe a Cardinal of Rome, saithe thus: Ex hoc infiniti sequuti sunt errores: Quia Papa occupauit omnia iura inferiorum Ecclesiarum: Et nisi Deus succurrat statui Ecclesiarum, Vniuersa Ec∣clesia periclitatur: Hereof haue ensued infinite errours: for that the Pope hathe inua∣ded the right of al inferiour Churches. And onlesse God healpe the state of the Churches, the Vniuersal Churche is in ieoperdie.
The learned Lady Anna Daughter vnto the Emperoure Alexius, and Irene, in her Storie, that she wrote in Greeke, emonge many other thinges to like pour∣pose, writeth thus: Papa est Dominus totius Mundi, quemadmodum Latini qui∣dem putant, & praedicant: Est enim etiam haec pars quaedam illorum insolentiae. The Pope is the Lorde of al the worlde, as the Latines thinke, and speake of him. For this is a peece of theire Ambition.
This hath benne the late wanton Claime of the Popes Canonistes. Other∣wise the Ancient Learned Fathers haue euermore bounded, and limited the Pope within his owne particular Iurisdiction. Ruffinus saithe, the Fathers in the Councel of Nice, appointed the Pope to ouersee the Churches of his ovvne Sub∣urbes: Vt Romanus Episcopus Suburbicarum Ecclesiarum sollicitudinem gerat. Athanasius saith, Roma est Metropolis Romanae ditionis: Rome is the Mother Churche (not of al the vniuersal worlde, but) of the Romaine (particulare) Iurisdi∣ction. The Bishoppes in the Councel of Rome write thus to the Bishoppes of Illyricum, Par est, omnes qui sunt in Orbe Romano, Episcopos conuenire: It is conuemente, that al the Bishoppes, that be within the Iurisdiction of Rome, shoulde accorde togeather. S Hierome speakinge of the vsage, and order of the Churche of Rome,