¶The answere.
Thappostel here as wel com∣maundeth to obey spirituall rulers (geuing them their du∣tyes) as seculer. He doeth not hereby bynde ye shepherd to be
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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"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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••nder the shepe, nor binde the shepeherde to pay any tribute to any membre of the misticall body he being the head therof. I mighte here nowe declare how not onely among the chri¦sten flocke the priestes euer were and ought to be fre from al exactions tooles, and tribu∣tes, but also amonge the Hea∣thē people they were euer free, as ye rede in the genesis in the time of famine in Egipt: And likewise in the oration of Sun machus cōsul of Rome, to Va¦lentinian, Theodosius, & Ar∣thadius, emperours, which he made agaynst the Christians. So that Paule did binde no priestes by yt text being amōge christē men to pay any tribute or toole. Howbeit if priestes or
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bishops of christēdome, yea or the heade bishop the pope him¦selfe were in a Heathē realme he or thei ought to be subiectes to the lawes there, and pay tri¦bute or toole: For christes law taketh no right or duety frō a∣ny party. And that is it which Paule in the former text to the Romaynes dothe declare: and Peter also, bidding al to be sub¦iecte to kinges and other &c. euerye one to his superiour? or to whom he is subiect by lawe or ordre. And this both Peter and Paule commaunde: for y• ther were some which thought (but falsely) that christes law was so free, that if seruauntes came ones there vnto, they shoulde be no more bounde to their maysters: & yt al christiās
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were clerely deliuered from al Heathē authoritie and duties doinge. But agaynste these, Paule biddeth all be subiect & obediēt to authoritie & power and obserue and kepe all ciuil ordres there where thei as sub¦iectes do inhabite. And this to be referred as well to the cler∣gye as to the laytye.