& in terra. MarginaliaMath. 28.All power is giuen vnto me, in heauen and in earth. Potens saluare a morte. He can saue the body, and saue the soule. He can deliuer the one, and deliuer the other from euerlastyng death. Who can forgiue sinne but he? Quis potest dimittere peccatū nisi solus deus? Est potens. MarginaliaMarc. 2.He is a mighty Byshop. Of him & by him, Emperours, Kinges, Magistrates & Potestates, Byshops, Priestes, with all other that haue power, haue theyr power and authoritie. Who is able to turne the wynde? to make the wynde blow or ceasse, but he? Who is able to say and proue, I will now haue it rayne, now cleare: the sonne to shyne, the water to flow, to ebbe, with such other, but onely he? This is our mighty Byshop. Pontifex potens, mighty, MarginaliaOmnipotents.yea Omnipotens, almighty. He can do all. Nothing is to him impossible. Ipse dixit & facta sunt omnia. Mandauit, & creata sunt vniuersa. Potens ergo est.MarginaliaPsal. 32. He is a mighty Byshop. We are not so.

MarginaliaFidelis.Fidelis Pontifex. He is a faythfull Bishop: faithfull. He is a faythfull Bishop to God, referryng all laudes, all honour and glorye to hys father. In all thinges that he dyd, miracles or other, he toke neuer the more vpon hym selfe. He was also a faythfull Byshop to the world: For he dyd all that belongede to the Offyce of a good Byshop. MarginaliaThree offices of a Byshop.The very office of a Byshop is, predicare, orare, & sacrificare, MarginaliaIf he had placed here administrare sacramenta, for sacrificare, hys partition so might haue stand.siue offerre. To preache, to praye, to doo sacrifice or to offer. He preachede to hys people: He taught the worlde most wholsome doctryne, wherby he called the people to God: he conuerted synners, he called them to penaunce. He made them weepe and lamēt their sinnes. They followed hys person, they followed hys worlde, they folowed his ensample. MarginaliaMath. 14.They came out of all coastes to see him, to heare him, to learne of him. They forsooke meate and drynke, house and home, and folowed hym wheresoeuer he wente, aswell in wildernes, as els where. In so muche that after they had folowed him three dayes, he being moued with pitye leste they should peryshe for lacke of foode beyng in wildernes farre from succour, he fedde thē twyse miraculously. Once, in the desert with fyue loues & two fyshes, he fedde fyue thousand men, besides women & children, & there were left twelue great baskettes, twelue maundes full of the brokelettes, and offals at that meale. MarginaliaMath. 15.At an other time, he fedde in wildernes to the nombre of foure thousande men, besydes women and children, with seuen loaues and a fewe smal fyshes, & there was left of fragments, vij. maundes full.

MarginaliaThe second office of a bishop is to pray.The second office of a Bishop he fulfylled also: For he prayed. Hee was most deuout in prayer, so to teache all Bishops and Preachers not to presume in their witte or learnyng, neyther in theyr capacitye, memorye, fayre tōgue or vtteraunce: but that the preacher doo studiouslye applye his booke, with all diligence, to studye howe to speake, whatte to speake, afore whome he shall speake: & to shape his Sermon after the audience. The preacher oughth also besides his studye and preaching, to praye. For by deuout prayer, he shall attayne percase, asmuch or more, as by study or learninge. For without prayer, the wordes will litle preuayle. Looke in Christ his life, and thou shalt finde, that in euerye thing he went about, he prayed, to shewe the valiancye, the vertue and strength of prayer: to shewe our necessities, our weakenes and feblenes of nature. MarginaliaLuce. 6.He prayed for hys people (as Luke wytnesseth) þ^e space of one whole nyght. And what a meruelous deuout prayer made he for his people in þ^e Mount the nyght afore his passion, when the Chalice of death was represented vnto hym? when he swette water and bloude? when he cryed thryse, Transeat à me Calix iste: MarginaliaMath. 26.let this Chalice, let this passion and bloode, let the vertue therof passe from me vnto all mankynde. Let euery man haue the vertue & merite therof: let it worke in al folkes: let euery faythfull man & woman be perteiner therof: let it not be loste, but worke to the worldes ende. This was a merueylous deuout mercifull prayer. And agayne, hee sufferyng and hanging on the crosse, offered vp for hys people, Preces & supplicationes cum clamore valido & lachrimis. MarginaliaHebre. 5.
The cry of Christ on the crosse.
The heauens trembled.
The Aungells mourned.
The Sunne lost hys light.
The veile riued.
The earth quaued.
The stones rent.
The graues opened.
The dead rose.
The Centurion confessed.He offered vp his prayers and supplicatiōs with a huge crye, with a pitious voyce, with a lamētable and a deathly shrych, and with wepyng teares, to God hys father, he hangyng on the crosse, euen when the spirite should departe the body, not then forgettyng his people at that houre when al the people forgetteth both þ^e world and them selues. Whiche crye was so huge and great, so meruelous and of that effecte, that the heauens trembled thereat, the Aungels mourned for pitye, the Sunne loste his light, the veyle in the temple ryued in two, the earth quaued, the stones rente a sondre and braste in gobettes, the graues opened, the deade bodyes rose to lyfe, and appeared in the Citye. Centurio and those that keept Christto see the execution done, cryed: Verè, filius DEI erat iste: MarginaliaHebre. 5.This was the vndoubted sonne of God. His prayer and wepyng teares were so pleasaunt vnto the father, that it was heard: Exauditus est pro reuerētia sua: MarginaliaMarce. 15.He was heard, and why? For it was so entyre, so deuout, so reuerentlye done, in suche a maner and fashion, with suche a zeale, grounded vppon such a charitie, sufferinge for our gylte, and not for his owne. And for that he dyd the very offyce of a Bishop, so enterely to pray, and so reuerently to offer vp him selfe in sacrifice for his people, he was heard, he was heard: his prayer was heard of God. And that is the thirde property of a good Biship, to offer sacrifice for his people: MarginaliaThe third office of a Bishop is to minister and not to sacrifice, or offer.Euery Bishop, euery Bishop for his diocesans and for the whole vniuersall Church. In these three we would asmuch as we may, to folowe Christ.

Thus this Christ was and is Pontifex fidelis, a faythfull Byshop. Faithfull, faithfull in his worde, true in his promise, deceiuyng no man, but profityng all. In all that he dyd or spake, he sought nothyng his owne glory, but the glory of God: teachyng thereby all Byshops of the worlde, in all that they go about, to do it to the laude, prayse, and glory of God. And herein we ought also to folow hym.

MarginaliaMagnus.Magnus Pontifex. He is the great Byshop, the high Byshop, the supreme Byshop, the vniuersall Byshop ouer all the world. MarginaliaNo great Bishop but only Christ.No great Byshop but he. None hygh, none supreme nor vniuersall Byshop, but he.

And herein þ^e Bishop of Rome outragiouslye vsurpeth vpō God, as he doth vpon the world, to take the honour & names (onely to God appropriate) to hym self, & doth greuously blaspheme & offend God therin. MarginaliaThe Pope blasphemeth God.Greater blasphemy can not bee, then to ascribe to God, that that no wayes belongeth vnto hym, or to take from God, that that vnto hym is appropriate. It is meete therfore hee doe betymes and in season, leaue hys vniuste encrochementes both agaynst his Lord God, and also agaynst the world, lest he do prouoke God to poure out all hys vialles of wrath vppon him: MarginaliaWhat is blasphemy.
Apocal. 9.the Væes I meane, the maledictions and vengeaunce that Iohn speaketh of in the Apocalyps. I would aduise him to cease the minries whiche he hath and dayly doth agaynst thee Christ our great hygh vniuersall Byshop, lest thou excommunicate & strike him, lest thou shew thy wrath and iudgement agaynst hym and vtterly extincte his pride and ambitious pretensed authoritie. For thou wilt be knowen, thou wilt be knowē to be God. And thou arte & wilt be our great vniuersall and supreme Byshop, what soeuer the Byshop of Rome shall attempt to the contrary: MarginaliaThe stroke of God is slow, but sore.and thou wilt punish his worldly arrogancy, and strike whē thou seest thy time. And though it be lōge ere thou strike, yet let hym beware, for strike thou wilt if thou be vtterly prouoked. And when thou doest strike, thy stroke is great, thy stroke is dreadfull and soore. It vanquisheth the body, it slayeth the soule, it dampneth both. Beware therfore thou Byshop of Rome, and bee content with thyne owne dioces, with thyne owne charge, as other Byshops are with theirs: MarginaliaThe popes power stretcheth no farther thē his owne dioces.For further then thyne owne dioces, thy iurisdiction do not stretch.

A meruelous blyndnes in thee therfore, to take vpon thee to aūswere for all the world, & arte not able to aunswere our great Bishop Christ, for thy selfe at that dreadfull daye of Iugement, when he shall aske but these fewe questions of the, MarginaliaQuestions to be asked of the pope in the last iudgement.Quomodo intrasti? Quomodo rexisti? Quomodo vixisti? Quomodo pauisti? Quæ & qualia exempla dedisti? Quid ad meam gloriam fecisti? & huiusmodi. How dyddest thou enter into thy Bishoprike? by me or by the world? vnlawfully, or laufully? by Simonie, or freely? by labour, by paction, or called of God? How diddest thou rule thy cure? thy dioces? Diddest thou pray for thy people? diddest thou preache me to thy diocesans? diddest thou giue them ghostly and bodily foode?MarginaliaNay rather ghostly doctrine, you should say. diddest thou minister spirituall and ghostly salues (the Sacramentes I meane) to heale the sores of theyr soules? How diddest thou lyue? Diddest thou cast away the care, the glory and pompe of þ^e world? Diddest thou folow me in humilitie, in charitie, in compassion, in pouertie, in cleanes, and in chaste liuyng?

How didest thou gouerne thy diocesans? MarginaliaThe Pope maketh all things a mony mater.Diddest not thou make of all thinges that thou diddest medle with, a money matter, in sellyng that whiche was not in thee to sell nor giue, which thou calleddest thy pardons, thy cōmissions, thy breeues, thy delegacies, reseruations, exemptions, appellations, bulles, & dispensations? Diddest not thou vnder these pretenses & like other doyngs, deceiue the world? What aunswere shalt thou make to this at that day, to our & thy great Byshop Christ, when