The B. of Sarisburie.
Iustinian, yée saie, might wel make somme Moral Lawe, to keepe Priestes, and Bishoppes in
good order. Wherein neuerthelesse Pope Paule. 3. condemneth you vtterly: For
thus he writeth, and reasoneth substantially against the Emperoure Charles the
Fifthe: Ecce ego super Pastores meos: Beholde, saithe Almighty God, I mee selfe
wil ouersee my Sheepheardes: Ergo, saithe Pope Paulus, The Emperoure maie not deale
with the manners of Priestes, and Bishoppes.
How be it, the Emperours made Lavves, Touchinge the Holy Trinitie:
Touchinge the Faithe: Touchinge Baptisme: Touchinge the Holy Communion:
Touchinge the Publique Praiers: Touchinge the Scriptures: Touchinge the
keepinge of Holy daies: Touchinge Churches, & Chaples: Touchinge the Con∣secration
of Bishoppes: Touchinge Non Residences: Touchinge Periurie, &c.
It were mutche for you, M. Hardinge, to saie, as nowe yée woulde séeme to saie,
Al these were Moral Lawes, and perteined onely to good order. But the Pope, yee saie,
allowed the Emperours Ecclesiastical Lawes: Otherwise, of the Emperours owne Authoritie, they
had no force. The truthe hereof, by the Particulares, maie soone appeare.
By one of the Emperours Lavves it is prouided, That the Bishop of Con∣stantinople
shal haue Equal Povver, and Prerogatiue with the Bishop of Rome.
This Lavve the Pope coulde neuer brooke. And yet that notwithstandinge, Li∣beratus
saithe, It holdeth stil by the Emperours Authoritie, whether the Pope
wil, or no: Againe, it is prouided in the same Lavve, that the Churches of Il∣lyricum,
in their doubteful cases, shal appeale to Constantinople, & not to Rome:
The Emperoure Constantine saithe, If the Bishop moue trouble (by Doctrine,
or otherwise,) by my hande he shalbe pounished: For my hande is the hande of Goddes
Minister:
Iustinian the Emperoure in his Lavve commaundeth, That the Prieste, or Bi∣shop
in pronouncinge the Publique Praiers, and in the Ministration of the Sacramentes, lifte
vp his voice, and speake alowde, that the people maie saie, Amen, and be sturred to more
Deuotion: Againe, he saithe, as it is noted in the Glose vpon the Authentiques,
Papa Temporalibus immiscere se non debet: The Pope maie not intermeddle with Tem∣poral
Causes:
In the same Lawes, the same Emperoure Iustinian saithe, Wee Commounde
the moste Holy Archebishoppes, and Patriarkes, of Rome, of Constantinople, of Alexan∣dria,
of Antioche, and of Hierusalem: The same Emperoure Iustinian commaun∣deth,
That al Monkes, either be driuen to studie the Scriptures, or els be forced to Bodily
Laboure: Carolus Magnus made a Lavve, That nothinge shoulde be readde open∣ly
in the Churche, sauinge onely the Canonical Bookes of the Holy Scriptures: And that the
Faitheful People shoulde receiue the Holy Communion euery Sonnedaie. I leaue the re∣hearsal
of infinite other like Examples.
Nowe, M. Hardinge, wil you saie, or maie wee beleue, that al these, and other
like Lavves were allowed by the Pope?
In déede your Gloser saithe, Ad quid intromittit se Imperator de Spiritualibus, vel
Ecclesiasticis, cùm sciat ad se non pertinere? VVherefore doothe the Emperoure thus busie
him selfe with these Spiritual, or Ecclesiastical maters, seeinge he knoweth, they are no parte
of his Charge? To so profounde a question, after a longe solemne studie, he diuiseth
this answeare: Dic, quòd Authoritate Papae hoc facit: Scie thou, that he doothe it
by the Popes Authoritie: And then the whole mater is discharged, and al is wel.
Notwithstandinge, somme likelihoode hereof yee would seeme to geather, euen
out of Iustinians owne woordes. For thus he saithe vnto the Pope, although far
otherwise, then you haue forced him to saie: Omnia, quae ad Ecclesiarum statum per∣tinent,