inseparable to the Church of Rome: so that it is to be presumed, that God alwayes prouidyng, and S. Peter helping the Byshopricke and Dioces of Rome, shall neuer fall from þ^e fayth. And likewise it is to be presumed and presupposed that the Byshop of that Church is alwayes good and holy. Yea & though he be not alwayes good, or be destitute of his own merites, yet the merites of S. Peter, predecessor of that place, be sufficient for him, who hath bequethed and left a perpetuall dowrie of merites, with inheritance of innocency to his posteritie. Marginalia187.
Hug. in Glosæ. Dist. 40. c. Non Nos.187. yea & though he fall into homicide or adultery, he may sinne, but yet he can not be accused, but rather excused by the murders of Sampson, the theftes of þ^e Hæbrues, the adultery of Iacob. Marginalia188.
Glos in Caus. 11. q. 3. cap. Absit.188. And likewise if any of his Clergy should be found embrasing a woman, it must be expounded and presupposed that he doth it to blesse her. Furthermore, the Pope (say they) hath al the dignities and all power of all Patriarches. In his primacie he is Abell: In gouernemēt, the Arcke of Noe: In Patriarchdome, Abraham: In order Melchisedech: In dignitie Aaron: In authoritie Moses: In seat iudicial Samuel: In zeale Helias: In mekenes Dauid: In power Peter: In vnction Christ. (Nay thou art Antichrist). My power (they say) is greater then all the Saintes. For whom I confirme, no mā may infirme. I may fauour and spare whom I please. Marginalia189.
Glosæ. in c. 11. q. 3. Si inimicus.189. to take from one, and to giue to an other. And if I be enemy to any man, all men ought to eschew that person forthwith, and not to tary and looke while I byd them so to do. All the earth is my Dioces, and I the Ordinarie of all men, hauyng the authoritie of the Kyng of all Kynges vppon subiectes. I am all in all, and aboue all. Marginalia190.
Hostiensis in cap. Quāto. De transl. præb.190. so that God him selfe and I the Vicar of God haue both one Consistorie. Marginalia191.
Ex summæma casuum fratris Baptistæ.191. and am able to do almost all that God can do, Claue non errante. Marginalia192.
Ex Citatione Henr. Bulling. De fine seculi. Orat. Prima.
Item ex citatione Hierom. Marij. in Actis. 2. Diei. De conceßione præb. cap. Proposuit.192. Item, it is sayd of me, that I haue an heauenly arbitriment, and therfore am able to chaūge þ^e nature of things, Substantialia vnius applicando alteri, & of nothyng to make thynges to be: and of a sentence that is nothyng, to make it stand in effect: In all thynges that I liste, my will to stand for reason. For I am able by the law to dispense aboue the law, and of wrong to make Iustice, in correctyng lawes, and chaungyng them. You haue heard hetherto sufficiently out of my Doctours: Now you shall heare greater thynges out of mine owne decrees. Marginalia193.
Pope Nicolaus.
Dist 96. c. Satis.193. Read there Dist. 96. c. Satis. Marginalia194.
11. q. 1. Sacerdotibus.194. Also, Gaus. 11. q. 1. cap. Sacerdotibus. Marginalia195.
12. q. 1. c. Futurā,195. Also, 12. q. 1. cap. Futuram. Do not you finde there expressed how Constantinus the Emperour sittyng in the generall Councell of Nice, called vs Prelates of the Church, all Gods? Marginalia196.
Decretal. De Transl. episc. cap. Quanto.196. Agayn, read my Canon Decretal. De transl. Episc. cap. Quanto. Do you not see there manifestly expressed, how not man, but God alone separateth that which the Byshop of Rome doth dissolue and separate? Wherefore if those thynges that I do be sayd to be done not of man, but of God, what can you make of me but God? MarginaliaThus ye may see it verified þ^t S. Paule prophesieth of the Aduersary sitting in the tēple as God, & boasting him self aboue all that is named God, &c.2. Thess. 2.Agayne if Prelates of the Church be called and counted of Constantinus for Gods, I then beyng aboue all Prelates, seme by this reason to be aboue all Gods. Wherefore no maruell, if it be in my power to chaunge tyme and times, to alter and abrogate lawes, to dispense with all thynges, yea with the preceptes of Christ. For where Christ biddeth Peter put vp his sword, monishyng his Disciples not to vse outward force in reuengyng them selues. Marginalia197.
Pope Nicolaus. Causa. 15. q. 6. c. Autoritatem.197. do not I Pope Nicolaus writyng to the Byshops of Fraunce, exhort them to draw out their materiall swordes in pursuyng their enemyes, and recoueryng their possessions, settyng agaynst the precept of Christ, the Prophet saying: Dissolue colligationes impietatis, &c? Item, where Christ was present hymselfe at the mariage in Cana Galileæ. Marginalia198.
Pope Martin. Dist. 14. cap. Lector.198. do not I Pope Martinus in my distinctiōs inhibite the spirituall Clergy to be present at mariage feastes, & also to mary them selues? Item where matrimony by Christ can not be losed but onely for whoredome. Marginalia199.
Pope Gregorius Iunior. 32. q. 7. cap. Quod proposuisti.199. do not I Pope Gregorius Iunior, writyng ad. Bonifacium, permitte the same to be broken for impotencie or infirmitie of body? Marginalia200.
Pope Innocentius. 4. Sext. Decretal. De sententia excom. cap Dilecto.200. Item, agaynst the expresse cautiō of the Gospell, doth not Innncentius 4. permitte vim vi repellere? Marginalia201.
Pope Alexander. 3. De Decimis. cap. Ex parte.201. Likewise, agaynst the old Testament I do dispense in not giuyng tithes. Marginalia202.
Pope Nicolaus 15. q. 6. Autoritatem.202. Item, agaynst the new Testamēt in swearyng, & that in these sixe causes: Marginalia203.
De elect. & elect. Potestate. Significasti in Glosa.203. Pax, & fama, fides, reuerentia cautio damni. Defectus veri, poscunt sibi magna caueri.

Wherein two kindes of othes are to be noted. Wherof some be promissoria, some be assertoria. &c. Marginalia204.
Baptista de Salis. in Sūasuum ex Pauermitano.204. Item, in vowes, and that ex toto voto, where as other Prelates cā not dispense ex toto a voto. I can deliuer ex toto a voto, lyke God him selfe. Marginalia205.
Pope Innocē. 4. De elect. Venerabilem.205. Item, in periury if I absolue, my absolution stādeth. Marginalia206.
Ext. De Iuriurando. cap. Venientes.
Itē. De Elect. Significafti in Glosa.206. Where also note, that in all swearyng, alwayes the authoritie of the superiour is excepted. Marginalia207.
Pope Martinus. 5. Extra. cap. Regimini Vniuersalis ecclesia.207. Moreouer, where Christ biddeth to lend without hope of gayne, do not I Pope Martinus giue dispensatiō for the same? and notwithstādyng the Coūcell of Thuron enacted the contrary, yet with two Bulles I disanulled that decrement. Marginalia208.
Pope Vrbanus 2. Caus. 23. q. 5. c. Excommunicaterum.208. What should I speake of murder, makyng it no murder nor homicide to slay them that be excommunicate. Marginalia209.
Pope Nicolaus Caus. 13. q. 6. Autoritatem.209. Likewise against the law of nature. Marginalia210.
Ibidem.210. Item, agaynst the Apostle. Marginalia211.
Distinct. 821. Præsbyter.211. Also agaynst the Canons of the Apostles I can and do dispense. For where they in their Canon commaunde a Priest for fornication to be deposed, I thorow þ^e authoritie of Siluester do alter the rigour of that cōstitution. Marginalia212.
Pope Pelagius. Dist. 34. cap. Fraternitatis.212. cōsideryng the mindes and bodyes also of men now to be weaker thē they were then. Marginalia213.
Baptista de Salis. fol. 184.
Ibidem.213. Briefly, agaynst the vniuersal state of þ^e Church I haue dispensation, scilicet quando status ecclesiæ non decoloratur: And for mariage in the second degree of consanguinitie and affinitie, In collateralibus æquali linea, that is, betwixt brethrens childrē: although not in æquali linea, so that the vncle may not mary hys nice, vnles for an vrgent and weightie cause. As for all such contractes betwixt party and party, where that matrimonie is not yet consummate by carnall copulation, it is but a small matter for me to dispense withall. In summa, if ye list briefly to here the whole number of all such cases as properly apperteine to my Papall dispensation, which come to the number of one and fifty pointes, that no man may medle with all but onely I my selfe alone, I will recite them first in Latin, then in Englishe, as they be set forth in my Canonicall Doctours.