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Your grounde beinge false, what ye buylde thereon some faileth. The whole Power of the Keies pardy (howe often times muste we tell you one thinge?) standeth not in preachinge onely, but in sundry other excellent ministeries also, as wee haue proued. If the Bishop of Rome preache not, he doth neis the Open, nor shut by preachinge: wee graunte. Yet mens Consciences beinge made plaint and
subdued by the VVoorde of God by others,* 1.1 that preache at his appointement, he maie by vertue of the Keies either Open or Shut, Loose or Binde, as by discretion he seeth cause. And whereas Christe saide to Peter, and therefore to the Bishop of Rome Peters Successour, To thee wil I geue the Keies of the Kingdome of Heauen:* 1.2 wil ye call them flatteringe Parisites, that yelde to him that, whiche Christe gaue to him? Sutche vomite sheweth what humour your stomake is charged withal. Denyinge the B. of Rome, whom for al the spite ye beare towarde him, ye must acknowledge to be a Bishop, to haue the Keies at al, onlesse he preache in his own Personne, ye declare your greate ignorance, and fowle temeri∣tie. Know ye not, that a Power annexed to an Order, and Vocation is not taken away from one by not exercisinge the same in his owne Person?
Preache by a De∣putie.
Matthae. 16.