A detection of sundrie foule errours, lies, sclaunders, corruptions, and other false dealinges, touching doctrine, and other matters vttered and practized by M.Iewel, in a booke lately by him set foorth entituled, a defence of the apologie. &c. By Thomas Harding doctor of diuinitie.

Iewel.

By Succession the Turke this daye possesseth, and holdeth the foure Pa∣triarchal

Sees, of the Church of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioche, and Ierusalem.

Harding.

No M. Iewel, it is by violence, by force,* 1.1 by power of armes, by tyrannie, and not by Succession, as you hold the Churche of Sarisburie by force of the Princes sworde, and by none other right. Succession, is when a man com∣meth in the same place, whiche his predecessour had, by the same order, and lawe, by which his lawful prede∣cessour came to it. The sonne succedeth his Father in his landes, but the theefe, and robber, or he that by force in∣uadeth, and keepeth them, is no Successour. The olde Patriarkes of whom you speake, came to their place by Election, and Confirmation: the Turke by neither of both, but only by tyrannie and violence. Your Predeces∣sours, I meane the true Bishops, came to the Churche of Sarisburie orderly, by professing them selues to commu∣nicate, and by taking Confirmatiō of the Bishop of Rome. So came not you in: therefore you came in by the win∣dowe, and not by the doore.

But now how blinde are you,* 1.2 as not hable to consi∣der, why God permitteth the Turke to possesse Con∣stantinople, Antioche, Alexandria, and Ierusalem, whereas he keepeth him yet from possessing Rome? When the Turke had gotten Constantinople, and had so farre entred into Croatia, and Hungarie, as it is wel knowen: Rome was both nearer to him, then Alexan∣dria, and easier to come by, as it might wel haue ap∣peared. For the Soldan Lord of Aegypt, and Syria, and the Sophy ioyned with him, were thought farre stronger to resiste him, then the power of Italie. But the truth

is, it was the scourge of God, to reuenge al Rebelles that would not obey the Church of Rome, where the chiefe pastour was placed by Christe, whose voice al the shepe ought to heare.* 1.3 But when the Grecians of pride and dis∣daine beganne to make a schisme, and to diuide them selues from the See of Rome, and being ofte warned, and terribly threatned, yet would not reconcile them selues, but, though at certaine meetinges they were con∣founded, as at Lions, and Florence, yet would stil returne to their wilfulnesse, and disobey the chiefe Bishop: God at the length, who made them, that would not obey Sa∣muel his Prophete, to obey Saule, and to feele his heauy hande: suffered them vtterly to be ouerthrowen and vanquished, and to lye vnder the yoke of most miserable bondage and slauerie, which the cruel Turke laieth vpon them. The particular declaration of which storie would require a longe Treatie. But sure it is, that for the with∣drawing of their obedience from the Succession of Peter, the Grecians are compelled to obey the Succession of Mahomet.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The Turk commeth not as a Succes∣sour, but as an in∣uader.
• * 1.2

  The Turk by Gods special prouidē∣ce kepte frō Rome
• * 1.3

  In Epist. Nicolas. 1 ad Mi∣chaelem Imper. Bessarion in Epist. ad Graecos