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 June 19, 2024.

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The .l. obiection.

Achimelech the high prieste vsed all subiectiō whē he spake to kinge Saul,* 1.1 whiche caused him notwithstandinge he was the high prieste, to be kilde, by∣cause he had asked councell of god for Dauid.

¶The answere.

Achimelech (as authors do testifye) did signifie Christ,* 1.2 be∣ing betrayed and put to death by Doeth signifienge Iudas.* 1.3 His condemnation was most vniust, and Saul in that facte moste wicked and cruel. The people disobeyed the kinges cōmaundemēt therein (as it is

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in the text .i. reg. xxii. & woulde not kil the high prieste whē he bade them, knowynge it to be contrarye to gods wil, as Rab¦bye Salomon testifieth. But then wicked Doech a straun∣ger borne, dyd kyl him, & that contrarye to gods wyl. Nowe in that ye saye the high prieste vsed al subiection in speakinge to the wycked kinge: that sure∣lye was no meruel: he spake for his lyfe, which he perceued then to stand in great ieoperdi being in the tirantes handes.

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