A counterblast to M. Hornes vayne blaste against M. Fekenham Wherein is set forthe: a ful reply to M. Hornes Answer, and to euery part therof made, against the declaration of my L. Abbat of Westminster, M. Fekenham, touching, the Othe of the Supremacy. By perusing vvhereof shall appeare, besides the holy Scriptures, as it vvere a chronicle of the continual practise of Christes Churche in al ages and countries, fro[m] the time of Constantin the Great, vntil our daies: prouing the popes and bishops supremacy in ecclesiastical causes: and disprouing the princes supremacy in the same causes. By Thomas Stapleton student in diuinitie.

M. Horne. The .142. Diuision. pag. 85. a.

Pius the seconde, sent his Legate the Cardinal of Cusa, into the coun∣treis of Sigismond Duke of Austria, vvhich Legate, when he woulde haue ordeined certain (.465.) Ecclesiasticall constitutions ac∣cording to the Popes Lawe: Sigismonde the Duke, would not suffer that such a custome should come into Germany.

Aeneas Syluius, vvho after he vvas made Pope, vvas called Pius the seconde, vvas of this minde before he vvas Pope, that secular Princes might cal councels, yea, (.466.) maugre the Popes head, and therefore commen∣deth that deuise of Charles the Frenche king which (saith he) is both a

saulf and a short way to stil this mischiefe. He meaneth to take a∣vvay the Schisme and to restore vnity to the Churche. Of the same (.467.) minde also vvas ••is Cardinal de Cusa, as appeareth in his booke, De Cō∣cordia Catholica, saying. By that which is a foresaide, it is gathe∣red, that the holy Emperours alwaies, made the Synodical cō∣gregations of vniuersal councels of the whole Chu••che: and euen so I my selfe, hauing sought throughly the Actes of al the vniuersal councels, euen til the eight councel inclusiue, cele∣brated in the time of Basil, I haue found it to be true: and so al∣so in the same eight Synod in the fift Act therof, we reade, that the most reuerende priest Elias and Syncellus, of the trone of Hierusalem in the hearinge of al, spake thus: Knowe you that in the tymes past, they were the Emperours, which gathered together Synods frō out of the whole vvorld, ād they collected their deputies, to the disposing of such maner causes: VVhose steps therfore our Emperor folovving, being also a worshipper of God, hath made this vniuersal Synod. Thus said he there, ād I haue also redde in the litle glosse of Anastasius (the library-keper of the Apostolical sea, who translated the same Synode out of Greke) vpon the same, saying: that the Emperours were vvont to gather vniuersal Synodes from al the vvorld, &c.

Notes

• The .465. vntruthe. His Au∣thor mē∣cioneth no Eccle∣siasticall Constitu∣tions
• The 466. vntruthe. Aeneas Syl. neuer said so.
• The .467. vntruthe. Cusanus vvas of a far other minde as shal ap∣peare. Li. 3. ca. 13
• Epist. 54. ad Cācel. Imperat.
• Par. Vrsp. Cū venisset ad ecclesiā suā Brixi∣ensem in alpib{us} de{que} illa dispo∣nere volu∣isset pro veteri pon∣tificū iure, non passus est Sigis∣mundus dux Au∣striae, vt ea in Germa∣niā tende∣retur con∣suetudo, quòd Ro∣mani Car∣dinales ecclesias Germania haberent in commendis.