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Hierusalem shoulde rather be thought to be the heade see then Rome (if any such should be) where Christe worked our saluacion, & where by Christ & by his apostles also, the ghos∣pell first was preached, as the prophet before had said, ye law shal come forth of Sion & the word of our lord forth of Hie∣rusalē. Agayn Antioche shuld
be preferred to Rome also, bi∣cause Peter was first there .vii yeres before he came to rome: yea & chiefelye for yt the name of christians there first began.
First note that the bishoppe taketh not his dignitye of the place, but the place of ye bishop: not peter of Rome, but Rome of Peter. Peter was prince of all before he was bishoppe in Rome. Now as for Hierusalē which was vtterli to be destroi¦ed▪ by gods reuēgemēt for chri¦stes deth & their impenitēt har¦tes & not one stone to be left vp on an other, god woulde not y• head apostle to be there setled: Where also fleshly ye iewes stil loke for a carnal kingdome (& that yet Messias is there to come) in whyche erroure the
sonnes of zebedy ones were, & also the disciples with whome christe talked goinge towarde Emaus. And for this it was ordeyned by the holy ghoste in the primatiue churche amon∣ges the apostles, that Hierusa¦lem was not onely none of the principall and metropolitane sees, but was subiect vnto the see of Caesaria, as appeareth in Nicen counsel. Nowe as for Antioche rather Hierusalem should haue bene head, bicause the worde was firste preached there, then Antioche, where through Paules diligence on∣lye the name of christians be∣gan. Howbeit the answer is yt Peter the head bishop made, ye head see: so yt if he had cōtinued there still and there died heade
bishop then had Antioche bene the head see for euer. But that was not gods will. Neuerthe∣lesse bicause Peter was ones there bishoppe, and preached longe amonges them, and con¦uerted them to the faythe, and after .vii. yeares ordeyned E∣uodium there (after whom fo∣lowed Ignatius) euen then in the primatiue church by the a∣postels it was ordeyned for ye third chiefe see: and Alexan∣dria for the second, bicause Pe¦ter appoynted his dearely be∣loued disciple Marke there to be Bishoppe: and yet bothe it and Alexandria subiectes to Rome, bicause both they there receyued theyr prerogatiues & dignities euen of Peter ye head bishop, which had his see by ye
holye ghoste there appointed (saieth Chrisost.) as was coū¦ted the chefe city of al y• world: And where as he wt his death cōfirmed the prerogatiue & dig¦nity thereof, appointinge also before his Martirdome yt S. Clement shuld succede him in that highe place to receyue the keyes (sayth S. Clement him selfe writinge to S. Iames,) which, Peter then, said he, had before receiued of christ. This vndoubtedlye is the catholike fayth. So that no scriptures wrasted ought to moue a chri∣sten mā frō this the faithe of ye church receyued before al scrip¦tures were writtē. This is yt Paule sayth if any mā preach any other ghospel to you thē yt which you haue receiued, cur∣sed
be he. Paule neyther sayde nor did meane, if any man pre¦che any thing but yt which Ma¦thue, Marke, Luke, or Iohn, haue writtē (as for some of thē then had not written) but he did meane if anye preache a∣gaynst thappostolicall tradici∣ons thoughe they were neuer writen, cursed be he. Al the con¦sente of the apostels scholers, disciples, & successours, to this day, th{is} haue taught: and shall we now bring al into questiō? Yea shal we condemne all, and inuent newe of oure owne, as men haue done in this realme of late yeares most wretched∣ly? Sayncte Austen sayth that the succcession of Bishoppes in Peters see is one of the .4. cau¦ses yt kept him in the catholike
fayth, & Ireneus agreeth with the same, S. Cipriā affirmeth that all heresies springe forth of the denial and refusinge the see of Rome to be head. Ana∣cletus a holye Martir disciple to S. Peter and successour to him in that see, sayth, that ye see of Rome had his preeminence and power aboue all, not geuē by the Appostels, but euen by Christe hym selfe. This doc∣trine euer hathe bene taught of all the writers from the be∣ginninge with one consente, bothe of the Latines and the Greciās. Sayncte Clemente, Anacletus, Ignati{us}, Policar∣pus, Dionisius, Papias, with many other, which all were in thapostels time: & after them, Ireneus, Tertulian, Origen,
Ciprian, Athanasius, Eusebi∣us, Ambr. Hierō, Aug. Chriso. with thousandes since them, whyche haue euer kept ye same line and succession, receiuinge thys doctrine, as it were, by hand, one of another. Whether shal we folowe al these holye & learned fathers being saintes in heauen, or els geue eare to a rablemēt of rascal herytikes verye limmes of the deuel?
Esai. 2.
Act. 11
mar. 20.
mar. 16.
Ille totius or bis magister (inquit chri∣sost.) In toti{us} orbis dn̄a se∣dem accepit.
Hinc diuus Amb. Romae aposto. sacer∣dotii residere principatum & per petrū factum longe ampliorem arce religio∣nis, quam vn quam fuerīt solio imperi alis ac terre∣nae potestatis
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