The triall of the supremacy wherein is set fourth ye unitie of christes church milita[n]t geue[n] to S. Peter and his successoures by Christe and that there ought to be one head bishop in earth Christes vicar generall ouer all hys churche militant: wyth answeres to the blasphemous obiections made agaynste the same in the late miserable yeres now paste.
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- The triall of the supremacy wherein is set fourth ye unitie of christes church milita[n]t geue[n] to S. Peter and his successoures by Christe and that there ought to be one head bishop in earth Christes vicar generall ouer all hys churche militant: wyth answeres to the blasphemous obiections made agaynste the same in the late miserable yeres now paste.
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- Standish, John, 1507?-1570.
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- 1556]
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- Great Britain -- Church history -- Early works to 1800.
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"The triall of the supremacy wherein is set fourth ye unitie of christes church milita[n]t geue[n] to S. Peter and his successoures by Christe and that there ought to be one head bishop in earth Christes vicar generall ouer all hys churche militant: wyth answeres to the blasphemous obiections made agaynste the same in the late miserable yeres now paste." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A12923.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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In the sinagoge,* 1.1 there was one head bishop and diuerse de¦grees vnder him: in the church triumphant Christe the heade with diuers degrees and or∣dres of aungels: shall then the churche militaunt be without a head? In al natural thinges there is euer one head. In eue¦ry politike and comen wealth one heade: one kynge in a re∣alme (as is in the faurthe pro∣bation) one maior in a citye one shiriffe in a shire, one head in euery house, and shall there not be one head in the churche (vpon whom and vpon whose aucthoritie all other must de∣pende) to desise all contrauer∣ses? shal Christes church be a monster either without a head or els hauinge many heades?
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and euery one to do as he wil? shal we graunt this confusiō? Shal not thē euery one wrast scripture after his owne braīe? but what shall we say further? hath not the successiō in the sea of Rome continued frō the be∣ginninge?* 1.2 doeth not Ireneus declare this? doth not S. Aug. say y• the successiō of Bishopes in the see of Rome til this daye kepeth me (saith he) in the bo∣some and vnytie of Christes churche?* 1.3
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* 1.1
Deut. 17.
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* 1.2
li. 3. ca. 3. &. 4
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* 1.3
In epi. fund.