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.

Stapleton.

I See you not M. Horne come as yet nere the matter. I see not yet, that Constantin changed Religion, plucked down aultars, deposed bis∣shops, &c. But that he was diligent in defen∣ding the old and former faith of the Christiās. If S. Paul cal the ciuil magistrat a minister, because through feare he cōstraineth the wicked to embrace the godly do∣ctrin, as by your saying S. Chrysostom cōstrueth it, we are wel cōtent therewith. And withal, that the best ministery and seruice of the great Constantin rested in the settinge forth of Christes true religion: and that he preached the same with his Imperiall decrees and proclamations, as ye oute of Eusebius recyte. Neither this that ye here al∣leage out of place, nor al the residewe which ye reherse of this Constantin (with whose doings ye furnishe hereafter six ful leaues) can importe this superiority, as we shal there more at large specifie. In the meane season, I say it is a stark and most impudēt lye, that ye say without any prouf, Cōstantin was taught of the bisshops, that Princes haue the gouernment in al maner causes, either tēporal or spirituall. You conclude after your maner, facingly and desperatlye without any proufe or halfe proufe in the worlde.