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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[London :: T. Marshe,
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 May 12, 2024.

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The .vi. obiection.

Christe is the foundacion & heade of the church, how shuld then Peter be the foundacion or head therof?

Thanswere.

Christ is the chiefe founda∣cion whiche by his owne ver∣tue power and strength vphol¦deth all the building, he is also the chiefe heade from whence the spiritual and liuelye influ∣ence doth descende and flowe into al the members: but ther∣fore ye can not conclude that the church hath two foundaci∣ons or .ii. heades, and so to be as monstruous: seing ye Peter

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receyued but only of Christ to be the head & the foundacion after him. As christ the light: and the appostels the light. Christ the shepeherd, and thap¦postels the shepeherdes.

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