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M. Hardinge mutche and often complaineth of the Confusion of the Keies: that wée appointe not distinctly eche Keie to his seueral office. Marke therefore, I be∣seche thée, Gentle Reader, hewe distinctly, and plainely M. Hardinge him selfe in∣treateth of the same.
Firste,* 1.1 of the twoo Keies, that Christe hath deliuered vs in the Gospel, he hathe made a greate many of Keies: The Keie of knowledge: The keie of Order: The Keie of Power: The Keie of Discretion: The Keie of Sacramentes: And for as mutche, as Sacramentes by his Doctrine be Seuen in number, there muste also be of this sorte Seuen other seueral Keies. And yet ouer and bisides al these Keies bée∣ing so many, the Pope hath also One Special Maister Keie. Afterward by a sleight. and by nimblenesse of his fingers, he conueigheth al this heape of Keies into twoo Onely Keies: whereof the One he calleth the Keie of knowledge, and the other the Keie of Power: Whiche twoo Keies notwithstandinge in the ende are suddainely consumed both into One onely Keie. For where as the Keie of knowledge is lost, there, by M. Hardinges Iudgement, Power onely remaineth without knowledge: And that Keie alone dischargeth al offices, and is vtterly al in al.
This Keie of Power without knowledge, muste néedes be y• Keie of Ignorance: Or, as they them selues haue vsed to cal it, Clauis Errans, The Keie of Errour. Or whiche Keie vndoubtedly Christe saide sommetime,* 1.2 Hoc est tempus vestrum, & Po∣testas Tenebrarum: This is your time, and the Power of Darkenesse. Peter Lombarde him selfe saithe, Many Priestes be Ignorante, and haue not the Keie of knowledge: Alexander of Hales saithe, Scientia non est Clauis: Knowledge is no Keie at al.
Yet M. Hardinge answeareth vs, that the simple ignorant Prieste, that kno∣weth nothinge, hath not onely One Keie, but both Keies (for so he calleth them in the Plural number) that is to saie, as wel the Keie of knowledge, as the Keie of Power. And thus haue they forged a Keie of knowledge without knowledge: and with the same keie they expounde, and open the Scriptures: they Minister the Sa∣cramentes: they Binde: they Loose: and breake vp a by way into the Kingedome of Heauen. Yet muste wée beleue, that they speake simply, and plainely of these Keies, and without confusion.
confusion of Keies.
Luk. 22. 4. Senten. Dist. 19. Postquam. Alexand. De Hales, Par. 4. Qu. 79.