A defence of the Apologie of the Churche of Englande conteininge an answeare to a certaine booke lately set foorthe by M. Hardinge, and entituled, A confutation of &c. By Iohn Iewel Bishop of Sarisburie.

The B. of Sarisburie.

For that yee telle vs so many faire tales of Peters Succession, wee demaunde of you, wherein the Pope succedeth Peter? You answeare, He succedeth him in his Chaire: as if Peter had benne sommetime enstalled in Rome, and had sate solem∣nely al daie with his Triple Crovvne, in his Pontificalibus, and in a Chaire of goulde. And thus, hauing loste bothe Religion, and Doctrine, yee thinke it suffi∣cient,

at leaste to holde by the Chaire:* 1.1 as if a Souldier, that had lost his swerde, would plaie the man with ••he scaberde. But so Caiphàs succeded Aaron: So wic∣ked Manasses succeded Dauid: So maie Antichriste easily sitte in Peters Chaire.

Chrysostome saithe: Non Cathedra facit Sacerdotem: sed Sacerdos Cathe∣dram. Nec Locus Sanctificat Hominem:* 1.2 sed Homo Locum: It is not the Chaire, that maketh the Bishop: But it is the Bishop, that maketh the Chaire. Neither is it the Place, that halloweth the Man: But it is the Man, that halloweth the Place. Likewise S. Hierome saith:* 1.3 Non Sanctorum Filij sunt, qui tenet loca Sanctorum: Theiare not alwaies the Children of Holy menne, that sitte in the roum•••••••• Holy menne.

He doothe greate wronge vnto S. Peter, that placeth sutche a one in sutche a Chaire. For neither is the Pope in any thinge like S. Peter: nor was S. Peter in any thinge like the Pope. When Simeones sawe that Arsacius, an vnlearned, and an vnvvorthy Olde Doatinge man,* 1.4 was placed in Chrysostomes roume, he cried oute, prò pudor: Quis, cui? Out for shame: what a soary hinde is this? and in whose place haue wee sette him? Euen so maie wee iustely saie of the Popes sittinge in Peters Chaire, prò pudor, Quis, Cui?

Notes

• * 1.1

  Peters suc∣cessoure.
• * 1.2

  Dis. 40. Multi.
• * 1.3

  Dis. 40. Non est facile.
• * 1.4

  Nicepho. li. 13. cap. 28.