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B. S.
But good Sir John, before we further go.
Resolve me this, since you assail me so :
How, when, and where this Vicarage befell
Unto your Pope 1 I pray you briefly tell.
Priest.
Know you not ? Peter when he went to Rome,
He there was execute, which was his doom :
And in his latter will and Legacy,
At Rome he left his full Supremacy
Unto the 5lope ; which Legacy was given
By Christ to Peter, when he went to Heaven.
And so the Pope (though mediately, indeed
By Peter) Christs sole Vicar doth succeed ;
And every Pope sensyne from race to race,
Succeeds each other in the Papal place.
Pack-man.
By your assertion surely I perceive,
You press to prove that Peter then did leave
Such Legacy to those who did him murther :
Think ye such fond conceits your cause can further ?
That's but a very falsly forged fiction,
And proves most for your Romish whoors conviction.
From Rome did falsly fall from Peters faith.
And Burreo-like bereft him of his breath.
And so your Pope doth merit no preferment.
But, as an Hangman, Peters upper garment.
And still, Sir John, ye strive to play the knave.
Affirming falsly Peter did receive
His Primacy from Christ, when thus he spoke,
That he would build his Church upon that Rock :
As if on Peter Christ had only founded
His Holy Church for ever to be grounded :
To wrest the Scripture is your whole pretence.
Either into an ill or double sense.
Christ built his Church on Peters pure pirofession,