Animadversions on the eight theses laid down, and the inferences deduced from them in a discourse entitl'd Church-Government part V, lately printed at Oxford
         Smalridge, George, 1663-1719.
      
       
         
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             Animadversions on the eight theses laid down, and the inferences deduced from them in a discourse entitl'd Church-Government part V, lately printed at Oxford
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           ANIMADVERSIONS
           ON
           THE
           
             EIGHT
             THESES
          
           Laid
           down
           ,
           and
           the
           INFERENCES
           ,
           Deduced
           from
           them
           ,
           in
           a
           DISCOURSE
           ENTITL'D
           Church-Government
           .
           PART
           .
           V.
           Lately
           Printed
           at
           OXFORD
           .
        
         
           They
           went
           out
           from
           Us
           ,
           because
           they
           were
           not
           of
           Us
           :
           for
           if
           they
           had
           been
           of
           Us
           ,
           they
           would
           〈◊〉
           no
           doubt
           have
           continu'd
           with
           Us
           ;
           but
           they
           went
           out
           that
           they
           may
           be
           made
           manifest
           ,
           that
           they
           were
           not
           all
           of
           Us.
           
             1
             Joh.
             2.
             19.
          
           
        
         
         
           OXFORD
           ,
           Printed
           at
           the
           THEATER
           .
           Anno
           1687.
           
        
      
       
         
         
           Imprimatur
           .
        
         
           
             IO.
             VENN
             Vice-Can
             .
             Oxon.
             
          
           
             
               Iun.
               2.
               1687.
               
            
          
        
      
       
         
         
           To
           the
           UNIVERSITY
           READER
           .
        
         
           THESE
           Papers
           neither
           have
           ,
           nor
           need
           any
           other
           recommendation
           ,
           then
           that
           of
           the
           Cause
           which
           they
           maintain
           .
           They
           are
           extorted
           by
           the
           importunity
           of
           those
           Adversaries
           ,
           who
           have
           endeavour'd
           to
           wound
           us
           in
           all
           our
           nearest
           concerns
           ,
           The
           Honour
           of
           our
           University
           ,
           the
           Autority
           of
           our
           Church
           ,
           and
           the
           Rights
           of
           our
           Sovereign
           .
           The
           
             Laborious
             Author
          
           of
           the
           Discourses
           spar'd
           no
           pains
           to
           shake
           the
           foundations
           of
           our
           Religion
           ;
           and
           the
           
             designing
             Publisher
          
           has
           with
           no
           inconsiderable
           expence
           ,
           endeavoured
           a
           farther
           advantage
           from
           them
           ,
           by
           casting
           a
           reproach
           npon
           these
           Seminaries
           of
           our
           Education
           .
           But
           it
           is
           justly
           hop'd
           ,
           that
           their
           designs
           against
           the
           University
           will
           prove
           as
           successless
           as
           their
           attempts
           on
           the
           Church
           ;
           Of
           which
           we
           know
           ,
           that
           
             tho'
             the
             Rains
             descend
             ,
             the
             Flouds
             come
             ,
             and
             the
             Winds
             blow
             ,
             yet
             it
             cannot
             fall
             ,
             for
             it
             is
             founded
             upon
             a
             Rock
             .
          
           The
           hopes
           of
           our
           Enemies
           abroad
           have
           been
           entertain'd
           ,
           and
           the
           solicitude
           of
           our
           Friends
           awaken'd
           by
           the
           news
           of
           our
           Oxford
           Converts
           daily
           flocking
           into
           the
           bosom
           of
           the
           Roman
           Church
           .
           But
           we
           hope
           All
           men
           are
           by
           this
           time
           convinc'd
           that
           they
           deserve
           as
           little
           consideration
           for
           their
           Number
           ,
           as
           they
           do
           regard
           for
           their
           accomplishments
           .
           No
           one
           need
           to
           be
           alarm'd
           at
           the
           Desertion
           of
           Six
           or
           Seven
           Members
           ,
           who
           shall
           consider
           their
           dependence
           on
           One
           who
           by
           the
           Magazines
           ,
           which
           He
           had
           stor'd
           up
           against
           Us
           ,
           shews
           that
           He
           has
           not
           now
           first
           chang'd
           his
           Complexion
           ,
           but
           only
           let
           fall
           the
           Vizour
           .
           Nor
           ought
           we
           more
           to
           regard
           the
           Insinuations
           of
           those
           ,
           who
           tell
           us
           of
           the
           secret
           Promises
           of
           such
           as
           have
           not
           openly
           Profest
           ,
           as
           having
           no
           other
           ground
           but
           the
           confidence
           of
           the
           Reporters
           .
           But
           be
           it
           as
           it
           will
           ,
           
             God
             covers
             us
             with
             his
             Feathers
             ,
             and
             under
             his
             Wings
             will
             We
             trust
             ;
             We
             
             will
             neither
             be
             afraid
             of
             the
             arrow
             that
             flieth
             by
             day
             ,
             nor
             for
             the
             Pestilence
             that
             walketh
             in
             darkness
             :
          
           But
           we
           least
           of
           all
           fear
           any
           danger
           from
           this
           praesent
           attempt
           of
           our
           Author
           ,
           since
           the
           Regal
           power
           seems
           engag'd
           with
           our
           Church
           in
           one
           common
           defence
           ;
           For
           she
           is
           no
           farther
           concern'd
           in
           this
           present
           Controversie
           ,
           then
           as
           she
           is
           accus'd
           to
           have
           been
           too
           great
           a
           friend
           to
           the
           Praerogative
           of
           the
           Crown
           .
           And
           certainly
           that
           Doctrine
           which
           invades
           the
           just
           Rights
           of
           the
           Prince
           ,
           can
           hope
           but
           for
           few
           Proselytes
           amongst
           those
           ,
           who
           have
           constantly
           defended
           them
           in
           their
           Writings
           ,
           asserted
           them
           in
           their
           Decrees
           ,
           and
           upon
           all
           occasions
           vindicated
           them
           with
           their
           Swords
           .
           For
           We
           do
           not
           lie
           open
           to
           the
           imputation
           of
           a
           condition'd
           and
           distinguishing
           Loyalty
           ,
           who
           have
           shew'd
           our
           readiness
           to
           imitate
           the
           glorious
           examples
           of
           our
           Fathers
           ,
           and
           were
           prepar'd
           (
           had
           not
           God's
           good
           Providence
           prevented
           our
           service
           )
           to
           have
           transcrib'd
           that
           Copy
           lately
           at
           Sedgmore
           ,
           which
           they
           set
           us
           formerly
           at
           Edge-hill
           .
           And
           in
           truth
           our
           steady
           fidelity
           to
           the
           Prince
           is
           so
           unquestionable
           ,
           that
           our
           Enemies
           have
           been
           pleas'd
           to
           ridicule
           what
           they
           could
           uot
           deny
           ,
           and
           have
           made
           Passive
           Obedience
           bear
           a
           part
           in
           our
           Character
           ,
           when
           the
           Muse
           has
           been
           inclin'd
           to
           Satyr
           .
        
         
           As
           for
           our
           Author
           and
           his
           Theses
           there
           is
           nothing
           here
           advanc'd
           which
           was
           not
           in
           King
           Edwards
           time
           fully
           answer'd
           by
           Protestant
           Writers
           ;
           and
           had
           he
           written
           in
           
             Henry
             the
             8th's
          
           Reign
           ,
           he
           might
           have
           receiv'd
           a
           Reply
           from
           a
           Roman
           Catholic
           Convocation
           ;
           So
           vain
           is
           it
           to
           urge
           Us
           now
           with
           the
           stale
           pretences
           of
           a
           Forreign
           Iurisdiction
           ,
           which
           our
           Ancestors
           of
           the
           Roman
           Communion
           ejected
           with
           so
           Universal
           a
           consent
           ,
           and
           which
           our
           Fathers
           of
           the
           Reformation
           resisted
           even
           unto
           death
           ;
           I
           mean
           those
           Glorious
           Prelates
           ,
           who
           here
           dying
           seal●d
           the
           truth
           of
           our
           Religion
           with
           their
           Blood
           ,
           and
           left
           it
           as
           a
           Legacy
           to
           us
           their
           Children
           ,
           by
           us
           to
           be
           convey'd
           to
           the
           Generations
           yet
           to
           come
           .
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
           Animadversions
           on
           the
           Eight
           Theses
           &c.
           
        
         
           AS
           that
           Person
           ,
           who
           would
           prove
           himself
           a
           genuine
           Son
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           had
           need
           of
           more
           Sincerity
           then
           this
           Editor
           shew'd
           ,
           whilst
           He
           profest
           to
           be
           of
           Her
           Communion
           ;
           so
           one
           ,
           who
           has
           the
           ambition
           of
           appearing
           a
           potent
           Enemy
           against
           her
           ,
           had
           need
           of
           greater
           Strength
           then
           he
           has
           either
           produc'd
           of
           his
           own
           ,
           or
           borrow'd
           from
           others
           ,
           since
           he
           has
           been
           her
           declar'd
           Adversary
           .
           Had
           he
           continued
           still
           to
           dissemble
           his
           Faith
           ,
           and
           affected
           an
           aequilibrium
           betwixt
           both
           Churches
           ,
           His
           writings
           would
           have
           been
           more
           suitable
           to
           such
           a
           Character
           ;
           where
           the
           attentive
           Reader
           will
           find
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           but
           weakly
           attacq'd
           ,
           and
           that
           of
           Rome
           as
           faintly
           vindicated
           .
           But
           since
           some
           Motives
           have
           prevail'd
           with
           him
           to
           assume
           the
           Name
           of
           another
           Church
           ,
           as
           that
           which
           he
           has
           left
           has
           no
           great
           cause
           to
           lament
           the
           loss
           of
           such
           a
           Member
           ,
           so
           that
           which
           He
           would
           seem
           to
           have
           fled
           to
           will
           have
           little
           reason
           to
           boast
           that
           She
           has
           gain'd
           a
           Proselyte
           .
           For
           how
           plausibly
           soever
           He
           may
           discourse
           of
           Church-Autority
           ,
           He
           abounds
           in
           too
           great
           a
           Plerophory
           of
           his
           own
           sense
           ,
           to
           submit
           himself
           either
           to
           a
           Convocation
           at
           home
           ,
           or
           Council
           abroad
           ;
           and
           altho'
           he
           would
           appear
           an
           Enemy
           to
           Luther
           ,
           he
           seems
           at
           this
           very
           time
           to
           be
           drawing
           up
           a
           novell
           Scheme
           of
           Doctrines
           ,
           and
           modelling
           to
           himself
           a
           new
           Church
           .
        
         
           Hence
           it
           is
           that
           in
           one
           of
           his
           Treatises
           he
           has
           deserted
           
           the
           antient
           Plea
           of
           Transubstantiation
           ,
           upon
           which
           the
           Tridentine
           Fathers
           founded
           their
           Adoration
           of
           the
           Host
           ;
           and
           from
           which
           all
           the
           great
           Champions
           of
           that
           Church
           have
           constantly
           deduc'd
           it
           .
           Hence
           his
           modifying
           the
           Council's
           Sacramentum
           into
           
             Res
             Sacramenti
          
           ,
           his
           prescinding
           from
           the
           Symbols
           ,
           his
           certain
           inferior
           cult
           only
           due
           to
           them
           ,
           his
           stripping
           them
           even
           of
           the
           Schoolmens
           
             latricall
             ,
             qualified
             ,
             secondary
             ,
             improper
             ,
             accidental
             co-adoration
          
           ;
           and
           such
           other
           his
           abstractive
           Notions
           of
           that
           Worship
           ,
           as
           do
           indeed
           befit
           a
           Nominal
           Philosopher
           ,
           but
           have
           no
           agreement
           with
           the
           avowed
           doctrines
           and
           practises
           of
           the
           Roman
           Communion
           .
           Hence
           it
           is
           that
           in
           the
           Discourse
           we
           are
           now
           upon
           ,
           We
           read
           nothing
           of
           the
           
             Dominus
             Deus
             Papa
          
           of
           the
           Canonists
           ;
           Nothing
           of
           the
           Vicar
           of
           Christ
           ;
           the
           Holy
           ,
           Apostolick
           ,
           and
           Infallible
           See
           which
           their
           former
           Writers
           have
           endeavour'd
           to
           establish
           
             Iure
             divino
          
           ;
           Nothing
           of
           the
           Supreme
           Pastour
           ,
           Governour
           and
           Head
           of
           Christ's
           Church
           ,
           the
           Successor
           of
           S.
           Peter
           ,
           and
           other
           Titles
           which
           even
           our
           Representers
           of
           late
           (
           whose
           business
           it
           hath
           been
           to
           mollifi●
           )
           have
           furnish'd
           us
           with
           ;
           No
           not
           so
           much
           as
           of
           the
           
             modest
             Bishop
             of
             Meaux's
          
           Primacy
           of
           S.
           Peter's
           chair
           and
           common
           Center
           of
           Catholic
           Unity
           ;
           but
           instead
           of
           these
           we
           are
           told
           of
           a
           
             Western
             Patriarch
          
           ,
           one
           who
           pleads
           the
           Prescription
           of
           some
           Years
           for
           his
           Autority
           ,
           and
           thinks
           himself
           hardly
           dealt
           with
           ,
           
           that
           because
           He
           claims
           more
           then
           his
           due
           ,
           that
           which
           is
           his
           due
           should
           be
           denyed
           him
           .
           Hence
           it
           seems
           to
           be
           that
           He
           is
           so
           wary
           in
           giving
           us
           his
           own
           Opinions
           ;
           that
           He
           disputes
           so
           much
           ,
           and
           affirms
           so
           little
           ;
           that
           he
           bounds
           all
           his
           Positions
           with
           so
           many
           limitations
           that
           they
           seem
           contriv'd
           on
           purpose
           for
           subterfuges
           ;
           and
           that
           He
           very
           cautiously
           ventures
           not
           any
           farther
           then
           He
           thinks
           ,
           tho'
           falsly
           ,
           the
           Autority
           of
           our
           Writers
           will
           bear
           him
           out
           .
           Hence
           those
           Concessions
           
           (
           which
           will
           perhaps
           by
           that
           Party
           be
           judg'd
           over-liberall
           )
           
             That
             Images
             ,
             
             and
             so
             the
             veneration
             or
             worship
             of
             them
             were
             very
             seldom
             ,
             if
             at
             all
             ,
             us'd
             in
             the
             Primitive
             Church
             .
             That
             the
             publick
             Communion
             was
             then
             most
             commonly
             ,
             if
             not
             allways
             ,
             administred
             in
             both
             kinds
             unto
             the
             People
             .
             That
             the
             Divine
             Service
             which
             then
             ,
             as
             now
             ,
             was
             celebrated
             usually
             in
             the
             Latin
             or
             Greek
             Tongue
             ,
             was
             much
             better
             in
             those
             days
             then
             now
             understood
             of
             the
             Common
             people
             .
             That
             the
             having
             the
             Liturgy
             ,
             or
             Divine
             Service
             ,
             or
             the
             Holy
             Scriptures
             in
             a
             known
             tongue
             is
             not
             prohibited
             ,
             nor
             the
             using
             of
             Images
             enjoyn'd
             ;
             nor
             the
             Priest's
             administring
             ,
             and
             the
             people's
             receiving
             the
             Communion
             in
             both
             kinds
             ,
             if
             the
             Supreme
             Church-Governours
             so
             think
             fit
          
           (
           and
           we
           say
           they
           ill
           discharge
           the
           Office
           of
           Church-Governours
           ,
           who
           do
           not
           
             think
             fit
          
           our
           Saviours
           Institution
           should
           be
           observ'd
           )
           
             declar'd
             unlawful
             by
             any
             Canon
             of
             any
             Council
             .
          
           Ancient
           Council
           he
           means
           ,
           for
           latter
           Councils
           have
           declar'd
           these
           unlawful
           .
           These
           are
           large
           grants
           from
           a
           Romanist
           ,
           and
           which
           give
           a
           great
           shock
           to
           their
           so
           much
           magnified
           pretence
           of
           Universal
           Tradition
           .
           Had
           this
           Author
           liv'd
           in
           those
           Ages
           when
           the
           Secular
           Prince
           countenanc'd
           the
           beginnings
           of
           Reformation
           ,
           He
           would
           have
           scarce
           lost
           any
           thing
           for
           his
           too
           rigorous
           adhaesion
           to
           the
           C.
           of
           Rome
           .
           For
           he
           thinks
           it
           probable
           
             that
             had
             the
             Reformation
             only
             translated
             the
             former
             Church
             Liturgies
             and
             Scriptures
             into
             a
             known
             tongue
             ;
             
             administred
             Communion
             in
             both
             kinds
             ,
             thought
             fit
             not
             to
             use
             Images
             ;
             changed
             something
             of
             practise
             only
             without
             any
             decession
             from
             the
             Churches
             Doctrines
             ,
             the
             Church-Governours
             would
             have
             been
             facile
             to
             license
             these
             .
          
           Where
           by
           the
           way
           it
           seems
           something
           unintelligible
           how
           they
           should
           
             change
             practice
          
           without
           decession
           from
           Doctrines
           ,
           if
           Doctrines
           enjoyn'd
           
           such
           Practices
           ,
           
           and
           if
           according
           to
           him
           ,
           
             Errours
             in
             practice
             allways
             presuppose
             some
             Errour
             in
             matter
             of
             Faith.
          
           But
           at
           least
           we
           may
           expect
           He
           would
           have
           outwardly
           complied
           ,
           since
           he
           notes
           ,
           
             That
             some
             outward
             compliance
             at
             the
             first
             ,
             
             of
             those
             Bishops
             ,
             who
             made
             an
             open
             Opposition
             afterward
             ,
             might
             be
             upon
             a
             fair
             Pretence
             ,
             because
             the
             first
             Acts
             of
             the
             Reformation
             might
             not
             be
             so
             insupportable
             as
             the
             latter
             .
          
           Where
           it
           is
           worth
           our
           Observing
           ,
           that
           the
           very
           first
           Act
           ,
           which
           gave
           life
           to
           the
           Reformation
           ,
           was
           shaking
           off
           all
           manner
           of
           Obedience
           to
           the
           See
           of
           Rome
           ,
           then
           which
           I
           believe
           his
           Holiness
           ,
           contrary
           to
           this
           Author's
           Sentiments
           ,
           thinks
           no
           Act
           more
           unsupportable
           .
        
         
           These
           things
           consider'd
           ,
           We
           could
           not
           have
           had
           a
           more
           easie
           Adversary
           then
           this
           Gentleman
           ,
           and
           the
           Church
           has
           less
           reason
           to
           fear
           his
           open
           Opposition
           ,
           then
           had
           he
           still
           continued
           in
           her
           bosom
           .
           For
           it
           seems
           not
           to
           be
           his
           Province
           to
           publish
           what
           is
           Material
           against
           us
           ,
           but
           to
           publish
           Much.
           But
           ,
           God
           be
           thanked
           ,
           our
           Religion
           is
           not
           establish'd
           upon
           so
           weak
           a
           basis
           ,
           as
           to
           be
           overthrown
           by
           a
           few
           Theses
           unprov'd
           ,
           and
           falsly
           applied
           .
           Nor
           is
           it
           any
           wonder
           if
           that
           arguer
           doth
           not
           convince
           ,
           who
           uses
           for
           Principles
           Conclusions
           drawn
           from
           Praemisses
           ,
           which
           the
           world
           never
           saw
           ,
           and
           then
           assumes
           such
           things
           as
           every
           one
           acquainted
           with
           History
           is
           able
           to
           contradict
           .
           Certainly
           his
           University-Readers
           will
           not
           be
           very
           fond
           of
           the
           Conclusion
           of
           that
           Syllogism
           ,
           whose
           Major
           is
           a
           
             petitio
             principii
          
           ,
           &
           Minor
           a
           down-right
           fals-hood
           in
           matter
           of
           fact
           .
           They
           no
           doubt
           are
           surpriz'd
           to
           find
           Consequents
           come
           before
           their
           Antecedents
           ,
           and
           Church-Government
           part
           the
           5th
           to
           have
           stept
           into
           the
           World
           (
           somewhat
           immaturely
           methinks
           )
           before
           the
           other
           four
           .
           But
           the
           Lawfulness
           of
           the
           English
           Reformation
           was
           to
           be
           examin'd
           ,
           and
           it
           would
           have
           
           took
           up
           too
           much
           time
           to
           shew
           why
           he
           impos'd
           upon
           us
           such
           a
           Test.
           
        
         
           It
           might
           therefore
           be
           thought
           seasonable
           enough
           to
           examin
           the
           Truth
           of
           his
           Theses
           ,
           when
           he
           shall
           be
           pleas'd
           to
           communicate
           to
           us
           whence
           they
           are
           inferr'd
           .
           In
           the
           meanwhile
           ,
           it
           may
           not
           be
           unuseful
           to
           consider
           what
           disservice
           he
           had
           done
           to
           our
           Cause
           ,
           had
           his
           success
           aequal'd
           the
           boldness
           of
           his
           attempt
           .
           After
           all
           his
           Theses
           and
           their
           Applications
           ,
           his
           Correspondent
           Alpha's
           and
           Beta's
           ,
           his
           perplex'd
           Paragraphs
           ,
           his
           intricate
           Paratheses
           ,
           and
           his
           taedious
           Citations
           ,
           what
           Doctrine
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           has
           he
           establish'd
           ,
           or
           what
           principle
           of
           Ours
           has
           he
           disprov'd
           ?
           Should
           we
           grant
           that
           the
           Clergy
           only
           have
           power
           in
           Controversies
           of
           Religion
           ,
           that
           the
           Secular
           Prince
           has
           no
           Autority
           to
           reform
           Errours
           in
           the
           Church
           ,
           that
           our
           Princes
           did
           wrongfully
           usurp
           such
           an
           Autority
           ,
           and
           that
           our
           Reformation
           was
           not
           the
           act
           of
           the
           Clergy
           ;
           will
           it
           hence
           follow
           (
           which
           yet
           is
           to
           be
           prov'd
           by
           this
           Author
           ,
           e're
           he
           can
           perswade
           us
           to
           entertain
           any
           favourable
           Opinion
           of
           Popery
           )
           That
           the
           second
           Commandment
           ought
           to
           be
           expung'd
           out
           of
           the
           Decalogue
           ?
           that
           Idolatry
           is
           no
           Sin
           ?
           or
           worshipping
           of
           Images
           no
           Idolatry
           ?
           that
           Transubstantiation
           is
           to
           be
           believ'd
           in
           despight
           of
           Sense
           ,
           Reason
           ,
           Scripture
           ,
           and
           Antiquity
           ?
           the
           Service
           of
           God
           to
           be
           administred
           in
           an
           unknown
           tongue
           ,
           as
           it
           were
           in
           mere
           contradiction
           to
           Saint
           Paul
           ?
           and
           the
           Communion
           to
           be
           celebrated
           in
           one
           kind
           notwithstanding
           our
           Saviours
           ,
           
             Drink
             ye
             all
             of
             this
          
           .
           It
           is
           indeed
           our
           happiness
           ,
           that
           the
           Reformation
           was
           carried
           on
           by
           the
           joynt
           concurrence
           of
           the
           Civil
           and
           Ecclesiastical
           power
           ;
           that
           We
           are
           united
           together
           by
           common
           Rules
           for
           Government
           and
           Worship
           agree'd
           on
           by
           the
           Bishops
           and
           Presbyters
           in
           Convocation
           ,
           and
           made
           Laws
           to
           us
           by
           the
           Autority
           of
           the
           Sovereign
           :
           
           We
           are
           allways
           ready
           to
           prove
           that
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           being
           a
           National
           Church
           ,
           and
           not
           Subject
           to
           any
           forreign
           Jurisdiction
           ,
           ow'd
           no
           Obedience
           to
           the
           Bishop
           or
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           &
           therefore
           might
           without
           their
           leave
           reform
           her self
           ,
           and
           that
           accordingly
           our
           Religion
           is
           establish'd
           by
           such
           Laws
           as
           want
           no
           autority
           either
           Civil
           or
           Ecclesiastical
           ,
           which
           they
           ought
           to
           have
           .
           This
           is
           a
           Plea
           which
           we
           shall
           be
           allways
           prepar'd
           to
           justifie
           ;
           and
           a
           Blessing
           for
           which
           we
           thank
           God
           ,
           and
           for
           the
           continuance
           of
           which
           we
           shall
           never
           cease
           to
           pray
           .
           But
           now
           had
           those
           which
           we
           esteem
           corruptions
           of
           the
           Roman
           Church
           never
           been
           cast
           out
           ,
           or
           were
           they
           reestablish'd
           (
           which
           God
           in
           his
           mercy
           forbid
           )
           by
           as
           good
           autority
           as
           that
           by
           which
           they
           are
           now
           abolish'd
           ;
           Yet
           even
           then
           we
           could
           not
           submit
           to
           such
           Determinations
           ,
           and
           being
           concluded
           by
           an
           antecedent
           Obligation
           to
           God
           durst
           not
           obey
           even
           lawful
           autority
           commanding
           unlawful
           things
           .
           He
           therefore
           that
           would
           gain
           a
           Proselyte
           ,
           who
           acts
           upon
           prudent
           and
           Conscientious
           principles
           ,
           in
           vain
           entertains
           him
           with
           Schemes
           of
           Church-Government
           ,
           since
           the
           things
           contested
           are
           such
           as
           no
           Government
           in
           the
           world
           can
           make
           lawful
           ;
           It
           would
           be
           more
           rational
           to
           shew
           (
           were
           not
           that
           an
           attempt
           long
           since
           despair'd
           of
           )
           that
           the
           particular
           doctrines
           and
           practises
           to
           which
           we
           are
           invited
           ,
           are
           agreeable
           to
           the
           word
           of
           God
           ;
           or
           that
           it
           doth
           not
           concern
           us
           ,
           whether
           they
           be
           ,
           or
           not
           .
           For
           if
           either
           it
           may
           be
           prov'd
           ,
           that
           the
           Errours
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           were
           so
           great
           ,
           that
           there
           was
           a
           necessity
           of
           reforming
           them
           ,
           that
           every
           National
           Church
           has
           a
           right
           to
           reform
           her self
           ,
           that
           this
           right
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           in
           particular
           was
           unquestionable
           ,
           that
           she
           us'd
           no
           other
           then
           this
           her
           lawful
           right
           ,
           and
           that
           accordingly
           the
           Reformation
           was
           effected
           by
           the
           Major
           part
           of
           the
           then
           legal
           Church-Governours
           :
           Or
           if
           in
           failure
           
           or
           this
           (
           which
           yet
           we
           say
           is
           far
           from
           being
           our
           case
           )
           it
           may
           be
           prov'd
           ,
           that
           where
           evident
           Necessity
           requires
           ,
           and
           the
           prevailing
           Errours
           are
           manifest
           ,
           there
           the
           Civil
           power
           may
           lawfully
           reform
           Religion
           without
           the
           concurrence
           of
           the
           major
           part
           of
           the
           Clergy
           ,
           for
           Secular
           Interests
           averse
           from
           Reformation
           ;
           Or
           if
           lastly
           ,
           supposing
           no
           such
           Reformation
           made
           by
           lawful
           authority
           ,
           but
           the
           Laws
           which
           enjoyn
           such
           erroneous
           Doctrines
           ,
           remaining
           in
           their
           full
           force
           and
           vigour
           ,
           every
           private
           Christian
           can
           plead
           an
           Exemption
           from
           his
           Obedience
           to
           them
           ,
           by
           proving
           them
           evidently
           contradictory
           to
           the
           known
           laws
           of
           God
           ;
           if
           any
           one
           of
           these
           Pleas
           are
           valid
           ,
           all
           which
           have
           by
           our
           Writers
           been
           prov'd
           to
           be
           so
           beyond
           the
           possibility
           of
           a
           fair
           Reply
           ,
           then
           Nothing
           which
           is
           aim'd
           at
           in
           these
           Papers
           can
           affect
           us
           ,
           and
           tho'
           the
           author
           would
           have
           shew'd
           more
           skill
           in
           proving
           his
           Question
           ,
           yet
           he
           had
           still
           betray'd
           his
           want
           of
           prudence
           in
           the
           choice
           of
           it
           .
        
         
           By
           what
           hath
           been
           sayd
           ,
           the
           Reader
           will
           be
           induc'd
           to
           think
           that
           these
           Papers
           do
           not
           so
           much
           concern
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           as
           the
           State
           ;
           and
           that
           a
           Reply
           to
           them
           is
           not
           so
           properly
           the
           task
           of
           a
           Divine
           ,
           as
           of
           a
           Lawyer
           .
           The
           Civil
           power
           is
           indeed
           manifestly
           struck
           at
           ,
           and
           an
           Answer
           might
           easily
           be
           fetcht
           from
           Keble
           and
           Coke
           .
           He
           may
           perswade
           himself
           that
           he
           acts
           craftily
           ,
           but
           certainly
           he
           acts
           very
           inconsistently
           ,
           who
           erects
           a
           Triumphal
           Statue
           to
           his
           Prince
           ,
           and
           at
           the
           same
           time
           undermines
           his
           Autority
           ;
           in
           monumental
           Inscriptions
           gives
           him
           the
           glorious
           and
           astonishing
           Title
           of
           
             Optimus
             Maximus
          
           ,
           and
           yet
           sets
           up
           a
           superiour
           Power
           to
           his
           .
           If
           neither
           Loyalty
           nor
           gratitude
           could
           perswade
           him
           to
           speak
           more
           rever●ntly
           ,
           yet
           out
           of
           wariness
           he
           ought
           to
           have
           been
           more
           cautious
           in
           laying
           down
           such
           things
           ,
           as
           seem
           to
           have
           an
           ill
           aspect
           on
           his
           Majesties
           proceedings
           .
           For
           
           it
           may
           seem
           very
           rash
           to
           deny
           ,
           
           that
           the
           Prince
           can
           remove
           from
           the
           Exercise
           of
           his
           Office
           any
           of
           his
           Clergy
           for
           not
           obeying
           his
           Decisions
           in
           matters
           of
           a
           Spiritual
           Nature
           ,
           when
           a
           Reverend
           Prelate
           suffers
           under
           such
           a
           Sentence
           ;
           
           to
           assert
           that
           the
           Prince
           ,
           ought
           not
           to
           collate
           to
           Benefices
           ,
           where
           the
           Clergy
           have
           Canonical
           exceptions
           against
           the
           Person
           nominated
           ,
           whilst
           a
           Friend
           of
           his
           thus
           qualified
           enjoys
           the
           benefit
           of
           such
           a
           Collation
           ;
           to
           find
           fault
           with
           the
           Reformers
           that
           they
           gave
           their
           Prince
           leave
           to
           dispense
           with
           Laws
           and
           Constitutions
           Ecclesiastical
           ,
           
           when
           he
           himself
           is
           in
           that
           case
           most
           graciously
           dispens'd
           with
           .
           How
           far
           the
           Regal
           power
           extends
           it self
           in
           these
           cases
           ,
           especially
           as
           it
           may
           be
           limited
           by
           the
           municipal
           laws
           of
           the
           Realm
           ,
           I
           am
           not
           so
           bold
           as
           to
           determine
           ;
           but
           where
           such
           Rights
           are
           claim'd
           by
           the
           Sovereign
           ,
           and
           actually
           exercis'd
           ,
           there
           it
           becomes
           not
           the
           modesty
           of
           a
           private
           Subject
           to
           be
           so
           open
           and
           liberal
           in
           condemning
           them
           .
           But
           then
           above
           all
           he
           renders
           his
           Loyalty
           justly
           questionable
           ,
           when
           he
           tells
           us
           it
           is
           disputed
           by
           the
           Roman
           Doctors
           ,
           and
           leaves
           it
           a
           Question
           ,
           
             Whether
             in
             case
             that
             a
             Prince
             use
             his
             coactive
             Jurisdiction
             in
             Spiritual
             matters
             against
             the
             Definitions
             of
             the
             Church
             ,
             
             then
             the
             Pope
             hath
             not
             also
             virtually
             some
             Temporal
             coactive
             power
             against
             the
             Prince
             ?
             namely
             to
             dissolve
             the
             Princes
             coactive
             Power
             ,
             or
             to
             authorise
             others
             to
             use
             a
             coactive
             power
             ,
             against
             such
             a
             Prince
             in
             order
             to
             the
             good
             of
             the
             Church
             ?
          
           Now
           I
           appeal
           to
           the
           judicious
           Reader
           ,
           whether
           the
           substance
           of
           that
           infamous
           Libel
           ,
           which
           was
           part
           of
           a
           late
           *
           Traytour's
           Indictment
           ,
           and
           which
           was
           written
           by
           way
           of
           Polemical
           Discourse
           ,
           as
           he
           pleaded
           ,
           might
           not
           if
           manag'd
           by
           this
           Author's
           pen
           have
           been
           thus
           warily
           exprest
           ;
           
             Whether
             in
             case
             that
             a
             Prince
             use
             his
             coactive
             Jurisdiction
             
             in
             Civil
             matters
             against
             Acts
             of
             Parliament
             ,
             then
             the
             Parliament
             hath
             not
             also
             virtually
             some
             temporal
             coactive
             power
             against
             the
             Prince
             ;
             namely
             ,
             to
             dissolve
             the
             Princes
             coactive
             power
             ,
             or
             to
             authorize
             others
             to
             use
             a
             coactive
             power
             against
             such
             a
             Prince
             in
             order
             to
             the
             good
             of
             the
             State
             ?
          
           Such
           bold
           Problems
           as
           these
           ought
           not
           to
           be
           left
           undecided
           ;
           and
           one
           who
           had
           any
           zeal
           for
           his
           Prince
           ,
           would
           scarce
           let
           the
           Affirmative
           side
           of
           the
           Quaestion
           pass
           without
           affixing
           a
           brand
           on
           it
           .
        
         
           These
           Expressions
           among
           others
           He
           might
           well
           be
           conscious
           would
           be
           offensive
           to
           any
           SIR
           
             of
             known
             Fidelity
             and
             Loyalty
             to
             his
             Prince
          
           ;
           and
           therefore
           such
           person
           's
           good
           Opinion
           was
           to
           be
           courted
           in
           an
           Epistle
           Apologetick●
           But
           certainly
           it
           was
           expected
           that
           the
           kind
           Sir
           should
           read
           no
           farther
           then
           the
           Epistle
           ;
           for
           if
           he
           did
           ,
           he
           would
           find
           himself
           miserably
           impos'd
           upon
           .
           The
           Author
           in
           this
           Epistle
           praeacquaints
           him
           with
           these
           things
           .
        
         
           
             1.
             
             That
             there
             is
             nothing
             touch'd
             in
             this
             Discourse
             concerning
             the
             Temporal
             Prince
             his
             Supreme
             power
             in
             such
             matters
             ,
             as
             it
             is
             dubious
             whether
             they
             be
             Spiritual
             or
             Temporal
             ,
             but
             only
             in
             things
             which
             are
             purely
             Spiritual
             and
             Ecclesiastical
             .
          
           
             2.
             
             That
             he
             knows
             not
             of
             any
             Ecclesiastical
             powers
             in
             this
             Discourse
             denied
             to
             the
             Prince
             ,
             but
             which
             ,
             or
             at
             least
             the
             chiefest
             of
             which
             ,
             all
             other
             Christian
             Princes
             except
             those
             of
             the
             Reformed
             states
             do
             forego
             to
             Exercise
             .
          
           
             3.
             
             Nor
             of
             any
             ,
             but
             which
             the
             Kings
             of
             England
             have
             also
             foregone
             before
             Henry
             the
             Eighth
             .
          
        
         
           Now
           I
           shall
           humbly
           beg
           leave
           to
           undeceive
           the
           unknown
           Sir
           ,
           and
           to
           represent
           to
           him
           that
           in
           all
           these
           he
           is
           misinform'd
           .
           As
           to
           the
           first
           ,
           1.
           
           That
           there
           is
           nothing
           touch'd
           in
           this
           Discourse
           concerning
           the
           Temporal
           Prince
           his
           Supreme
           power
           in
           such
           Matters
           as
           it
           is
           dubious
           
           whether
           they
           be
           Spiritual
           or
           Temporal
           but
           only
           such
           as
           are
           purely
           Spiritual
           and
           Ecclesiastical
           .
        
         
           Now
           if
           by
           dubious
           he
           means
           such
           things
           as
           He
           does
           not
           doubt
           ,
           but
           they
           are
           Spiritual
           ,
           then
           this
           doth
           not
           reach
           our
           case
           ;
           because
           We
           may
           doubt
           whether
           some
           things
           are
           not
           Temporal
           ,
           which
           He
           doubts
           not
           but
           they
           are
           Spiritual
           ;
           But
           if
           by
           dubious
           He
           means
           such
           things
           as
           are
           doubted
           by
           no
           body
           but
           that
           they
           are
           purely
           Spiritual
           ,
           then
           are
           we
           agreed
           ;
           since
           neither
           do
           We
           allow
           the
           Temporal
           Prince
           any
           power
           in
           things
           of
           which
           We
           our selves
           doubt
           not
           but
           they
           are
           purely
           Spiritual
           .
           That
           there
           are
           some
           Powers
           merely
           Spiritual
           ,
           appropriated
           to
           the
           Clergy
           and
           incommunicable
           to
           the
           Prince
           ,
           no
           true
           Son
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           will
           deny
           ;
           but
           now
           altho'
           the
           substance
           of
           those
           Powers
           be
           immediately
           from
           God
           ,
           and
           not
           from
           the
           King
           ,
           as
           those
           of
           Preaching
           ,
           Ordaining
           ,
           Absolving
           &c.
           
           Yet
           whether
           these
           are
           not
           subject
           to
           be
           limited
           ,
           inhibited
           ,
           or
           otherwise
           regulated
           in
           the
           outward
           Exercise
           of
           them
           by
           the
           Laws
           of
           the
           Land
           ,
           and
           the
           Autority
           Regal
           is
           the
           thing
           quaestion'd
           .
           This
           cannot
           perhaps
           be
           better
           exprest
           then
           in
           the
           words
           of
           the
           Reverend
           Bp.
           Sanderson
           ;
           
             The
             King
             doth
             not
             challenge
             to
             himself
             as
             belonging
             to
             him
             by
             Virtue
             of
             his
             Supremacy
             Ecclesiastical
             the
             power
             of
             Ordaining
             Ministers
             ,
             excommunicating
             scandalous
             Offenders
             ,
             or
             doing
             any
             other
             act
             of
             Episcopal
             Office
             in
             his
             own
             Person
             ;
             nor
             the
             power
             of
             Preaching
             ,
             Administring
             the
             Sacraments
             ,
             or
             doing
             any
             other
             act
             of
             Ministerial
             Office
             in
             his
             own
             person
             :
             but
             leaves
             the
             performance
             of
             all
             such
             acts
             of
             either
             sort
             unto
             such
             persons
             ,
             as
             the
             said
             several
             respective
             powers
             do
             of
             divine
             right
             belong
             to
             ,
             viz.
             of
             the
             one
             sort
             to
             the
             Bishops
             ,
             and
             of
             the
             other
             to
             the
             Priests
             .
             *
             Yet
             doth
             the
             King
             by
             Virtue
             of
             that
             Supremacy
             challenge
             a
             power
             as
             belonging
             to
             him
             in
             the
             right
             of
             his
             
             Crown
             ,
             to
             make
             Laws
             as
             well
             concerning
             Preaching
             ,
             Administring
             the
             Sacraments
             ,
             and
             other
             acts
             belonging
             to
             the
             Function
             of
             a
             Priest
             ,
             as
             concerning
             Ordination
             of
             Ministers
             ,
             proceeding
             in
             matters
             of
             Ecclesiastical
             Cognisance
             in
             the
             Spiritual
             Courts
             ,
             and
             other
             acts
             belonging
             to
             the
             Function
             of
             a
             Bishop
             :
             to
             which
             Laws
             as
             well
             the
             Priests
             ,
             as
             the
             Bishops
             are
             subject
             ,
             and
             ought
             to
             submit
             to
             be
             limited
             and
             regulated
             thereby
             in
             the
             Exercise
             of
             those
             their
             several
             respective
             Powers
             ;
             their
             claim
             to
             a
             
               Ius
               Divinum
            
             ,
             and
             that
             their
             said
             several
             powers
             are
             of
             God
             notwithstanding
             .
          
           Now
           to
           apply
           this
           ;
           That
           the
           deciding
           Controversies
           of
           Faith
           ,
           and
           Excommunicating
           Offenders
           ,
           &c.
           are
           the
           proper
           Province
           of
           the
           Clergy
           ,
           we
           deny
           not
           ;
           but
           that
           the
           indicting
           Synods
           in
           order
           to
           such
           Matters
           ,
           or
           making
           Laws
           to
           regulate
           the
           Exercise
           of
           them
           are
           purely
           Spiritual
           ,
           is
           not
           so
           undoubted
           as
           He
           would
           perswade
           us
           .
           Again
           ,
           that
           the
           Spiritual
           Autority
           which
           is
           to
           be
           exercised
           in
           the
           Episcopal
           or
           Sacerdotal
           Functions
           can
           be
           derived
           from
           none
           but
           those
           spiritual
           persons
           who
           were
           invested
           with
           that
           Autority
           ,
           and
           power
           of
           delegating
           it
           to
           others
           ,
           is
           willingly
           allow'd
           ;
           but
           that
           collation
           to
           Benefices
           can
           be
           the
           act
           of
           none
           but
           the
           Clergy
           will
           not
           be
           hence
           infer'd
           .
           For
           the
           Spiritual
           Autority
           it self
           ,
           and
           the
           application
           of
           it
           to
           such
           an
           Object
           are
           very
           different
           things
           .
           The
           power
           by
           which
           a
           Clergy
           man
           is
           capacitated
           for
           his
           Function
           is
           derived
           from
           the
           Bishop
           which
           ordains
           him
           ;
           but
           the
           applying
           this
           Power
           to
           such
           a
           Place
           ,
           the
           ordering
           that
           the
           Ecclesiastical
           Person
           shall
           execute
           that
           Autority
           which
           he
           deriv'd
           from
           the
           Church
           in
           such
           a
           peculiar
           part
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           is
           not
           without
           the
           reach
           of
           the
           Civil
           Jurisdiction
           ;
           and
           therefore
           Collation
           to
           Benefices
           (
           in
           the
           sence
           this
           Author
           understands
           it
           )
           should
           not
           have
           been
           reckon'd
           by
           him
           amongst
           those
           things
           of
           which
           it
           is
           not
           
           doubted
           but
           they
           are
           purely
           Spirituall
           .
           Another
           power
           of
           which
           he
           abridges
           the
           Prince
           ,
           and
           by
           consequence
           would
           have
           to
           be
           esteem'd
           purely
           Spiritual
           ,
           is
           the
           deposing
           from
           the
           Exercise
           of
           their
           Office
           in
           his
           Dominions
           any
           of
           the
           Clergy
           for
           transgressing
           of
           the
           Ecclesiastical
           Canons
           .
           Now
           that
           the
           Secular
           Prince
           should
           have
           an
           Obligation
           from
           God
           over
           all
           Persons
           in
           all
           Spiritual
           matters
           to
           bind
           them
           by
           Temporal
           Punishments
           to
           the
           Obedience
           of
           the
           Churches
           or
           Clergy's
           determinations
           ,
           and
           decrees
           (
           as
           he
           words
           it
           )
           and
           yet
           that
           the
           Exercising
           this
           power
           ,
           their
           performing
           what
           they
           are
           obliged
           to
           by
           God
           ,
           should
           be
           without
           the
           reach
           of
           their
           Autority
           ,
           seems
           to
           me
           a
           paradox
           .
           That
           the
           Christian
           Emperors
           in
           the
           Primitive
           times
           challeng'd
           such
           a
           power
           is
           plain
           from
           the
           undoubted
           testimony
           of
           the
           Learned
           
             Petrus
             de
             Marca
          
           .
           *
           Who
           tells
           us
           ,
           that
           by
           the
           care
           of
           Christian
           Princes
           ,
           Hereticks
           were
           represt
           ,
           the
           contumacy
           of
           Bishops
           and
           Clergy-men
           against
           the
           Decrees
           of
           Synods
           punish'd
           ,
           and
           Bishops
           restrain'd
           from
           oppressing
           their
           subjects
           by
           the
           violation
           of
           the
           Canons
           .
           If
           we
           inquire
           how
           the
           Princes
           secur'd
           the
           Keeping
           of
           the
           Canons
           ;
           *
           He
           tells
           us
           they
           did
           it
           by
           these
           2
           Methods
           .
           1st
           .
           By
           delegating
           Magistrates
           to
           see
           they
           were
           observ'd
           .
           2ly
           .
           By
           punishing
           those
           who
           were
           guilty
           of
           the
           breach
           of
           them
           .
           And
           he
           particularly
           mentions
           Deprivation
           inflicted
           by
           the
           Secular
           power
           for
           violation
           of
           the
           Canons
           .
           *
           For
           that
           ,
           they
           thought
           removal
           from
           the
           See
           
           within
           the
           reach
           of
           their
           Jurisdiction
           ,
           tho'
           not
           Degradation
           ,
           which
           is
           a
           punishment
           merely
           Ecclesiastical
           .
           (
           Which
           neither
           did
           the
           Reforming
           Princes
           ever
           think
           in
           their
           power
           to
           inflict
           .
           )
           And
           he
           *
           there
           gives
           instances
           of
           Bishops
           so
           depriv'd
           .
           And
           indeed
           this
           seems
           to
           be
           a
           Necessary
           branch
           of
           power
           ,
           which
           naturally
           flows
           from
           his
           being
           
             Custos
             Canonum
          
           ,
           which
           he
           is
           prov'd
           by
           this
           Author
           at
           large
           to
           be
           .
           How
           far
           the
           Prince
           may
           abridge
           himself
           of
           this
           power
           by
           the
           laws
           of
           the
           Land
           ,
           I
           meddle
           not
           ;
           it
           suffices
           to
           shew
           that
           it
           is
           not
           originally
           a
           power
           merely
           Spirituall
           .
           And
           from
           this
           and
           the
           former
           Instances
           the
           Reader
           will
           be
           able
           to
           judge
           the
           truth
           of
           that
           assertion
           ,
           That
           there
           is
           nothing
           touch'd
           in
           this
           Discourse
           concerning
           such
           Matters
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           dubious
           whether
           they
           be
           Spiritual
           ,
           or
           Temporal
           .
        
         
           Come
           we
           now
           to
           that
           other
           assertion
           of
           his
           ,
           
             That
             he
             knows
             not
             of
             any
             Ecclesiastical
             powers
             in
             this
             Discourse
             denied
             to
             the
             Prince
             but
             which
             (
             or
             at
             least
             the
             chiefest
             of
             which
             )
             all
             other
             Christian
             Princes
             except
             those
             of
             the
             Reformed
             States
             do
             forego
             to
             exercise
             .
          
        
         
           Now
           if
           by
           the
           chiefest
           ,
           which
           he
           excepts
           ,
           he
           means
           preaching
           the
           word
           ,
           and
           administring
           the
           Sacraments
           ,
           Excommunicating
           ,
           and
           absolving
           ;
           neither
           do
           the
           Reformed
           States
           challenge
           the
           Exercise
           of
           these
           ;
           and
           as
           for
           others
           it
           will
           appear
           that
           the
           Princes
           of
           the
           Roman-Catholick
           Communion
           extend
           their
           Supermacy
           as
           far
           as
           the
           Reformed
           .
        
         
           And
           here
           it
           may
           not
           be
           improper
           to
           instance
           in
           that
           right
           which
           the
           Kings
           of
           Spain
           enjoy
           in
           Sicily
           ,
           which
           seems
           to
           extend
           even
           to
           those
           Spiritual
           powers
           which
           our
           Author
           calls
           the
           chiefest
           .
           *
           And
           this
           I
           find
           usher'd
           in
           by
           a
           Roman-Catholick
           Writer
           with
           an
           assertion
           quite
           
           opposite
           to
           that
           which
           is
           laid
           down
           in
           this
           Epistle
           .
           
             It
             even
             surpasses
             (
             saith
             he
             )
             that
             which
             Henry
             the
             Eighth
             of
             England
             boldly
             took
             when
             he
             separated
             from
             the
             Church
             of
             Rome
             .
             The
             King
             of
             Spain
             as
             King
             of
             Sicily
             pretends
             to
             be
             Legate
             
               à
               latere
            
             ,
             and
             born
             Legate
             of
             the
             H.
             See
             ;
             so
             that
             he
             and
             his
             Viceroys
             in
             his
             absence
             have
             the
             same
             power
             over
             the
             Sicilians
             as
             to
             the
             Spiritual
             that
             a
             Legate
             
               à
               latere
            
             could
             have
             .
             And
             therefore
             they
             who
             execute
             that
             Jurisdiction
             of
             Sicily
             for
             the
             King
             of
             Spain
             have
             power
             to
             absolve
             ,
             punish
             ,
             and
             excommunicate
             all
             sorts
             of
             persons
             ,
             whether
             Laicks
             or
             Ecclesiasticks
             ,
             Monks
             ,
             Priests
             ,
             Abbots
             ,
             Bishops
             ,
             and
             even
             Cardinals
             themselves
             ,
             that
             reside
             in
             the
             Kingdom
             .
             They
             acknowledge
             not
             the
             Popes
             Autority
             ,
             being
             Sovereign
             Monarchs
             as
             to
             the
             Spiritual
             .
             They
             confess
             that
             the
             Pope
             hath
             heretofore
             given
             them
             that
             priviledge
             :
             (
             
               So
               that
               his
               Holiness
               it
               seemes
               thought
               even
               those
               chiefest
               Powers
               of
               the
               Church
               alienable
               )
            
             but
             at
             the
             same
             time
             they
             pretend
             that
             it
             is
             not
             in
             his
             power
             to
             recall
             it
             ;
             and
             so
             they
             acknowledge
             not
             the
             Pope
             for
             head
             ,
             to
             whose
             Tribunal
             no
             Appeal
             can
             be
             made
             because
             their
             King
             has
             no
             Superiour
             ,
             as
             to
             the
             Spiritual
             .
             Moreover
             this
             right
             of
             superiority
             is
             not
             consider'd
             as
             delegate
             ,
             but
             proper
             ;
             and
             the
             King
             of
             Sicily
             or
             they
             who
             hold
             Jurisdiction
             in
             his
             place
             ,
             and
             who
             are
             Lay-men
             take
             the
             title
             of
             
               Beatissimo
               &
               Santissimo
               Padre
            
             attributing
             to
             themselves
             in
             effect
             in
             respect
             of
             Sicily
             what
             the
             Pope
             takes
             to
             himself
             in
             regard
             of
             the
             whole
             Church
             ;
             and
             they
             preside
             in
             Provincial
             Councils
             .
          
           As
           for
           the
           title
           of
           Head
           of
           the
           Church
           which
           taken
           by
           the
           Reformers
           so
           much
           offends
           our
           Discourser
           ,
           this
           Critical
           Historian
           farther
           observes
           ;
           
             It
             was
             matter
             of
             great
             astonishment
             that
             in
             our
             age
             Queen
             Elizabeth
             took
             the
             title
             of
             Head
             of
             the
             Church
             
             of
             England
             .
             But
             seeing
             in
             the
             Kingdom
             of
             Sicily
             ,
             the
             Female
             succeeds
             as
             well
             as
             in
             England
             ,
             a
             Princess
             may
             take
             the
             title
             of
             Head
             of
             the
             Church
             of
             Sicily
             ,
             and
             of
             
               Beatissimo
               &
               Santissimo
               Padre
            
             .
             Nay
             it
             hath
             happen'd
             so
             already
             in
             the
             time
             of
             Iean
             of
             Arragon
             &
             Castile
             the
             mother
             of
             Charles
             the
             
               5th
               :
               So
               that
               this
               Critick
               concludes
               that
            
             it
             may
             be
             said
             there
             are
             two
             Popes
             ,
             and
             two
             sacred
             Colledges
             in
             the
             Church
             ,
             to
             wit
             ,
             the
             Pope
             of
             Rome
             ,
             and
             the
             Pope
             of
             Sicily
             ,
             to
             whom
             also
             may
             be
             added
             the
             Pope
             of
             England
             .
          
        
         
           What
           Jurisdiction
           Spiritual
           the
           King
           of
           France
           challenges
           will
           best
           be
           learnt
           from
           the
           Liberties
           of
           the
           Gallican
           Church
           ,
           publish'd
           by
           the
           learned
           Pitthaeus
           and
           to
           be
           found
           in
           his
           Works
           .
           Two
           of
           them
           which
           seem
           to
           come
           home
           to
           our
           purpose
           are
           these
           .
        
         
           
             *
             The
             most
             Christian
             King
             hath
             had
             power
             at
             all
             times
             according
             to
             the
             occurrences
             and
             necessity's
             of
             his
             own
             affairs
             ,
             to
             assemble
             or
             cause
             to
             be
             assembled
             Synods
             or
             Councils
             Provincial
             and
             National
             ;
             and
             therein
             to
             treat
             not
             only
             of
             such
             things
             as
             tend
             to
             the
             preservation
             of
             his
             State
             ,
             but
             also
             of
             affairs
             which
             concern
             the
             Order
             and
             Discipline
             of
             the
             Church
             in
             his
             own
             Dominions
             ;
             and
             therein
             to
             make
             Rules
             ,
             Chapters
             ,
             Laws
             ,
             Ordinances
             ,
             and
             Pragmatick
             sanctions
             in
             his
             own
             Name
             and
             by
             his
             own
             Autority
             .
             Many
             of
             which
             have
             been
             received
             among
             the
             Decrees
             of
             the
             Catholique
             Church
             ,
             and
             some
             of
             them
             approv'd
             by
             General
             Councils
             .
          
        
         
           
             *
             The
             Pope
             cannot
             send
             a
             Legat
             
               à
               latere
            
             into
             France
             ,
             
             with
             power
             to
             reform
             ,
             judge
             ,
             collate
             ,
             or
             dispence
             ,
             or
             do
             such
             other
             things
             which
             use
             to
             be
             specified
             in
             the
             Bull
             of
             his
             Legation
             ,
             except
             it
             be
             upon
             the
             defire
             or
             with
             the
             approbation
             of
             the
             most
             Christian
             King.
             Neither
             can
             the
             said
             Legate
             execute
             his
             Office
             untill
             he
             hath
             promised
             the
             King
             in
             writing
             under
             his
             seal
             ,
             and
             sworn
             by
             his
             holy
             Orders
             ,
             that
             he
             will
             not
             use
             the
             said
             Legantine
             power
             in
             his
             Kingdom
             ,
             Countreys
             ,
             Lands
             and
             Dominions
             any
             longer
             then
             it
             shall
             please
             the
             King
             ;
             and
             that
             so
             soon
             as
             he
             is
             admonish'd
             of
             the
             Kings
             pleasure
             to
             the
             contrary
             he
             will
             cease
             and
             forbear
             ;
             and
             that
             whilst
             he
             doth
             use
             it
             ,
             it
             shall
             be
             no
             otherwise
             exercis'd
             then
             according
             to
             the
             consent
             of
             and
             in
             conformity
             to
             the
             King
             ,
             without
             attemping
             any
             thing
             to
             the
             prejudice
             of
             the
             Decrees
             of
             General
             Councils
             ,
             the
             Franchises
             ,
             Liberties
             ,
             and
             Priviledges
             of
             the
             Gallican
             Church
             ,
             and
             the
             Universities
             ,
             and
             publique
             Estates
             of
             the
             Realm
             .
             And
             to
             this
             end
             they
             shall
             present
             the
             Letters
             of
             their
             Legation
             to
             the
             Court
             of
             Parliament
             ,
             where
             they
             shall
             be
             view'd
             ,
             verified
             ,
             publish'd
             and
             registred
             with
             such
             Modifications
             as
             that
             Court
             shall
             think
             fit
             for
             the
             good
             of
             the
             Realm
             ;
             and
             all
             processes
             shall
             proceed
             according
             to
             such
             restrictions
             ,
             and
             no
             otherwise
             .
          
        
         
         
           In
           these
           two
           Liberties
           ,
           we
           find
           the
           Autority
           of
           the
           French
           King
           farther
           extended
           ,
           and
           the
           Papal
           power
           more
           limited
           ,
           then
           our
           Author
           can
           be
           contented
           the
           Regal
           Jurisdiction
           should
           be
           enlarg'd
           ,
           and
           the
           Patriarchal
           confined
           by
           the
           Reformed
           .
           What
           power
           the
           most
           Christian
           King
           claims
           in
           confirming
           Canons
           we
           may
           learn
           from
           
             Petrus
             de
             Marca
          
           *
           who
           lays
           it
           down
           for
           
             a
             Rule
             which
             never
             fails
             ,
             That
             the
             deliberations
             of
             the
             Gallican
             Church
             can
             be
             look'd
             upon
             no
             otherwise
             then
             as
             Counsel
             given
             to
             the
             King
             ;
             and
             that
             they
             cannot
             be
             put
             in
             execution
             without
             his
             consent
             and
             confirmation
             .
             And
             he
             there
             saith
             ,
             that
             the
             King
             may
             praeside
             in
             Councils
             as
             *
             Head.
             *
             And
             in
             another
             place
             proposing
             to
             himself
             this
             Quaestion
             ,
             *
             Whether
             ,
             since
             the
             supreme
             protection
             of
             the
             Canons
             doth
             belong
             to
             the
             King
             ,
             it
             thence
             follows
             that
             He
             can
             command
             that
             they
             be
             observ'd
             without
             expecting
             the
             sentence
             of
             the
             Gallican
             Church
             ?
             He
             answers
             ,
             *
             that
             it
             is
             indeed
             certain
             that
             the
             Observation
             of
             them
             will
             be
             the
             more
             sacred
             ,
             if
             they
             be
             made
             with
             the
             Universal
             consent
             of
             the
             Clergy
             ,
             because
             every
             one
             desires
             that
             that
             should
             take
             place
             ,
             which
             he
             himself
             approves
             of
             :
             But
             then
             ,
             that
             it
             is
             aequally
             certain
             ,
             that
             the
             King
             with
             the
             advice
             of
             his
             Council
             ,
             may
             by
             his
             Edicts
             decree
             ,
             that
             the
             Canons
             be
             observ'd
             ,
             and
             may
             add
             such
             Modes
             and
             Circumstances
             as
             are
             necessary
             for
             
             the
             better
             Execution
             of
             them
             ,
             and
             accommodate
             them
             to
             the
             Interest
             of
             the
             State.
             
          
           This
           Autority
           he
           confirms
           from
           the
           Examples
           of
           the
           first
           Christian
           Emperors
           ,
           and
           the
           former
           French
           Kings
           ,
           and
           adds
           expresly
           *
           That
           the
           most
           Christian
           Kings
           still
           use
           that
           right
           .
           And
           now
           methinks
           the
           revising
           of
           the
           Canons
           by
           the
           Kings
           of
           England
           ,
           especially
           when
           humbly
           besought
           to
           do
           it
           by
           the
           Clergy
           ,
           should
           not
           be
           an
           Invasion
           of
           the
           Churches
           rights
           ,
           when
           the
           French
           Kings
           even
           without
           such
           Interposition
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           exercise
           the
           same
           Right
           ,
           and
           yet
           do
           ,
           according
           to
           
             our
             Auther
          
           ,
           leave
           to
           the
           management
           of
           the
           Clergy
           all
           power
           in
           Spirituals
           .
           I
           might
           here
           insist
           upon
           Collation
           of
           Benefices
           ,
           which
           the
           French
           Kings
           challenge
           by
           right
           of
           the
           Regale
           ;
           but
           I
           shall
           choose
           rather
           to
           mention
           the
           assembling
           of
           Councils
           ,
           because
           a
           French
           King
           in
           the
           last
           Century
           seems
           to
           have
           doubted
           whether
           his
           Clergy
           might
           convene
           without
           his
           consent
           ;
           as
           appears
           from
           that
           bold
           Speech
           of
           his
           Embassadour
           in
           the
           Council
           of
           Trent
           ,
           which
           because
           it
           gives
           us
           some
           insight
           into
           the
           freeness
           of
           that
           Synod
           ,
           I
           shall
           beg
           leave
           to
           transcribe
           the
           latter
           part
           of
           it
           from
           Goldastus
           *
           
             We
             refuse
             to
             be
             subject
             to
             the
             Command
             of
             Pius
             the
             4th
             ,
             All
             his
             judgments
             and
             decrees
             we
             refuse
             ,
             reject
             ,
             and
             contemn
             ;
             and
             although
             ,
             most
             Holy
             Fathers
             ,
             Your
             Religion
             ,
             Life
             ,
             and
             
             Learning
             was
             ever
             and
             ever
             shall
             be
             of
             great
             Autority
             with
             Us
             ,
             Yet
             seeing
             You
             do
             nothing
             ,
             but
             all
             things
             are
             manag'd
             rather
             at
             Rome
             ,
             then
             at
             Trent
             ;
             and
             the
             things
             that
             are
             here
             publish'd
             are
             rather
             the
             Placita
             of
             Pius
             the
             4th
             ,
             then
             the
             Decrees
             of
             the
             Council
             of
             Trent
             ,
             We
             denounce
             and
             protest
             here
             before
             You
             all
             ,
             that
             whatsoever
             things
             are
             decree'd
             in
             this
             Assembly
             by
             the
             will
             and
             pleasure
             of
             Pius
             ,
             neither
             the
             Most
             Christian
             King
             will
             ever
             approve
             ,
             nor
             the
             French
             Church
             ever
             acknowledge
             for
             the
             Decrees
             of
             an
             Oecumenical
             Council
             .
             In
             the
             mean
             time
             the
             Most
             Christian
             King
             commands
             all
             you
             his
             Arch-Bishops
             ,
             Bishops
             ,
             Abbots
             ,
             Doctors
             ,
             and
             Divines
             to
             depart
             hence
             ;
             then
             to
             return
             ,
             when
             it
             shall
             please
             God
             to
             restore
             to
             his
             Catholick
             Church
             the
             ancient
             methods
             and
             liberty
             of
             General
             Councils
             ,
             and
             to
             the
             Most
             Christian
             King
             his
             Honour
             and
             Dignity
             .
          
           Now
           I
           leave
           it
           to
           the
           Reader
           to
           judge
           whether
           any
           Reformed
           States
           ever
           assumed
           to
           themselves
           greater
           Autority
           over
           the
           Ecclesiasticks
           ,
           then
           this
           R.
           Catholick
           Prince
           ,
           or
           Whether
           ever
           any
           Protestant
           exprest
           himself
           with
           greater
           warmth
           concerning
           this
           Council
           ,
           then
           that
           Protesting
           Embassador
           .
           It
           might
           be
           easie
           to
           shew
           how
           much
           power
           the
           Venetian
           Republick
           exercises
           in
           Spirituals
           ,
           had
           not
           this
           been
           done
           so
           lately
           by
           another
           Pen.
           But
           what
           hath
           been
           said
           may
           suffice
           to
           evince
           ,
           that
           this
           Epistolographer
           impos'd
           upon
           the
           credulity
           of
           his
           Sir
           ,
           when
           he
           told
           him
           ,
           
             that
             he
             knew
             of
             no
             Ecclesiastical
             powers
             denied
             to
             the
             Prince
             but
             which
             (
             or
             at
             least
             the
             chiefest
             of
             which
             )
             all
             other
             Christian
             Princes
             ,
             except
             those
             of
             the
             Reformed
             State
             ,
             do
             forego
             to
             exercise
             .
          
        
         
           But
           our
           Discourser
           perhaps
           presum'd
           his
           Friend
           a
           Stranger
           to
           sorreign
           affairs
           ,
           and
           therefore
           thought
           he
           might
           the
           more
           securely
           use
           a
           Latitude
           in
           his
           treating
           of
           those
           ;
           it
           remains
           therefore
           to
           examine
           whether
           he
           
           has
           been
           a
           more
           faithful
           Relator
           of
           our
           own
           History
           ,
           and
           what
           truth
           there
           is
           in
           his
           last
           Epistolary
           assertion
           ,
           that
           
             he
             knows
             not
             of
             any
             Ecclesiastical
             powers
             in
             this
             Discourse
             denied
             to
             the
             Prince
             ,
             but
             what
             the
             Kings
             of
             England
             have
             foregone
             before
             
               Henry
               the
               8th
            
             .
          
           Now
           whatever
           in
           relation
           to
           a
           power
           in
           Spirituals
           is
           in
           this
           Discourse
           accus'd
           of
           Nov●lty
           seems
           easily
           reducible
           to
           these
           two
           Heads
           :
        
         
           1st
           .
           A
           Supremacy
           in
           Causes
           Ecclesiastical
           denied
           to
           the
           
             Western
             Patriarch
          
           :
           as
           appears
           by
           our
           Princes
           taking
           away
           all
           manner
           of
           Forreign
           Jurisdiction
           ,
           prohibiting
           all
           appeals
           to
           the
           See
           of
           Rome
           ,
           all
           Bulls
           from
           it
           ,
           and
           in
           generall
           all
           Intercourse
           with
           it
           .
        
         
           2ly
           .
           The
           same
           Supremacy
           invested
           in
           the
           Sovereign
           ;
           as
           appears
           by
           King
           Henry's
           assuming
           the
           title
           of
           Head
           of
           the
           Church
           ;
           by
           the
           Kings
           making
           Ecclesiastical
           Laws
           ;
           by
           that
           Synodical
           act
           of
           the
           Clergy
           not
           to
           assemble
           or
           promulgate
           any
           Canons
           without
           his
           leave
           ;
           by
           that
           power
           granted
           to
           the
           King
           to
           visit
           Ecclesiastical
           persons
           ,
           and
           to
           reform
           Errours
           and
           Heresies
           ;
           by
           his
           collating
           to
           Benefices
           without
           consent
           of
           the
           Clergy
           ;
           and
           by
           hindring
           Excommunications
           
             in
             foro
             externo
          
           .
        
         
           Now
           in
           Answer
           to
           this
           charge
           of
           Novelty
           ;
           It
           is
           confest
           that
           the
           Pope
           did
           for
           some
           Years
           usurp
           such
           a
           superiority
           ;
           but
           then
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           granted
           that
           he
           did
           
             de
             facto
          
           claim
           such
           a
           power
           ,
           so
           that
           it
           did
           
             de
             jure
          
           belong
           to
           him
           is
           denied
           ;
           and
           not
           only
           so
           ,
           but
           farther
           we
           affirm
           ,
           that
           he
           neither
           from
           the
           beginning
           challenged
           such
           a
           power
           ,
           nor
           was
           he
           afterwards
           in
           so
           full
           possession
           of
           it
           ,
           but
           that
           our
           Princes
           have
           upon
           Occasion
           vindicated
           their
           own
           right
           against
           all
           Papal
           ,
           or
           ,
           if
           he
           pleaseth
           ,
           Patriarchal
           Encroachments
           .
           And
           here
           waving
           the
           dispute
           of
           right
           I
           shall
           confine
           my self
           to
           matter
           of
           Fact
           ,
           that
           being
           the
           only
           case
           here
           controverted
           .
        
         
         
           Where
           1st
           of
           the
           Supremacy
           of
           the
           
             Western
             Patriarch
          
           .
           That
           when
           Austin
           came
           over
           to
           convert
           the
           Saxons
           ,
           no
           such
           Supremacy
           was
           acknowledg'd
           by
           the
           British
           Christians
           is
           evident
           from
           the
           celebrated
           Answer
           of
           Dinoth
           Abbot
           of
           Bangor
           to
           Austin
           requiring
           such
           subjection
           .
           
             Notum
             sit
             Vobis
             &c.
          
           
           *
           
             Be
             it
             known
             unto
             you
             that
             we
             are
             all
             subject
             and
             obedient
             to
             the
             Church
             of
             God
             ,
             and
             the
             Pope
             of
             Rome
             ;
             but
             so
             as
             we
             are
             also
             to
             every
             good
             &
             pious
             Christian
             ,
             viz.
             to
             love
             every
             one
             in
             his
             degree
             and
             place
             ,
             in
             perfect
             Charity
             ,
             and
             to
             help
             every
             one
             by
             word
             and
             deed
             ,
             to
             attain
             to
             be
             the
             Sons
             of
             God
             ;
             and
             for
             other
             Obedience
             I
             know
             none
             due
             to
             him
             whom
             you
             call
             the
             Pope
             ,
             and
             as
             little
             do
             I
             know
             by
             what
             right
             he
             can
             challenge
             to
             be
             Father
             of
             Fathers
             .
             As
             for
             us
             we
             are
             under
             the
             rule
             of
             the
             Bishop
             of
             Caerleon
             upon
             Uske
             ,
             who
             is
             to
             overlook
             and
             govern
             us
             under
             God.
             
          
           This
           is
           farther
           manifest
           from
           the
           *
           British
           Clergy
           twice
           refusing
           in
           full
           Synod
           after
           mature
           deliberation
           to
           own
           any
           such
           subjection
           .
           That
           appeals
           to
           Rome
           were
           a
           thing
           unheard
           of
           till
           Anselms
           time
           appears
           from
           the
           application
           of
           the
           Bishops
           and
           Barons
           to
           him
           to
           disswade
           him
           from
           such
           an
           attempt
           ;
           
             *
             telling
             him
             it
             was
             a
             thing
             unheard
             of
             in
             this
             Kingdom
             ,
             that
             any
             of
             the
             Peers
             ,
             and
             especially
             one
             in
             his
             station
             should
             praesume
             any
             such
             thing
             .
          
           That
           Legates
           from
           Rome
           were
           for
           1100
           Years
           unheard
           of
           in
           this
           Kingdom
           ,
           we
           may
           learn
           from
           a
           memorable
           passage
           in
           the
           same
           Historian
           concerning
           the
           Arch-Bishop
           of
           Vienna
           reported
           to
           have
           the
           Legantine
           power
           over
           England
           granted
           him
           A.
           C.
           1100
           *
           The
           News
           of
           which
           being
           
           come
           to
           England
           was
           very
           surprizing
           to
           all
           people
           ,
           every
           one
           knowing
           it
           was
           a
           thing
           unheard
           of
           ,
           that
           any
           one
           should
           have
           Apostolical
           Jurisdiction
           over
           them
           ,
           but
           the
           Arch-Bishop
           of
           Canterbury
           .
           And
           the
           event
           of
           that
           Legacy
           was
           suitable
           ,
           *
           for
           as
           he
           came
           ,
           so
           he
           return'd
           ,
           being
           taken
           by
           no
           one
           for
           a
           Legate
           ,
           nor
           in
           any
           thing
           discharging
           the
           office
           of
           a
           Legate
           .
           That
           the
           Church
           of
           Canterbury
           own'd
           no
           Superiour
           Bishop
           to
           her
           own
           but
           Christ
           ,
           appears
           from
           her
           being
           call'd
           ,
           *
           
             Omnium
             nostrum
             mater
             communis
             sub
             sponsi
             sui
             Iesu
             Christi
             dispositione
          
           ;
           and
           in
           another
           place
           ,
           
             Mater
             omnium
             Anglicanarum
             Ecclesiarum
             ,
             quae
             suo
             post
             Deum
             proprio
             laetatur
             Pastore
             .
          
           That
           appeals
           to
           Rome
           were
           prohibited
           in
           King
           Henry
           the
           2ds
           time
           is
           manifest
           from
           the
           famous
           Capitula
           of
           Clarendon
           ,
           amongst
           which
           this
           is
           one
           Article
           .
           
             If
             any
             appeals
             shall
             happen
             they
             ought
             to
             proceed
             from
             the
             Arch-deacon
             to
             the
             Bishop
             ,
             and
             from
             the
             Bishop
             to
             the
             Arch-Bishop
             ,
             and
             if
             the
             Arch
             Bishop
             shall
             fail
             in
             doing
             Justice
             ,
             the
             last
             Address
             is
             to
             be
             made
             to
             the
             King.
             
          
           That
           Doctrines
           prejudicial
           to
           the
           Popes
           power
           were
           then
           publickly
           maintain'd
           ,
           appears
           from
           these
           Propositions
           amongst
           others
           censur'd
           by
           Becket
           .
           1st
           .
           
             That
             none
             might
             appeal
             to
             the
             See
             Apostolick
             on
             any
             account
             without
             the
             Kings
             leave
             .
             2d
             .
             That
             it
             might
             not
             be
             lawful
             for
             an
             Arch-Bishop
             or
             Bishop
             to
             depart
             the
             Kingdom
             and
             come
             at
             the
             Popes
             Summons
             without
             the
             Kings
             leave
             .
             3d.
             That
             no
             Bishop
             might
             Excommunicate
             any
             who
             held
             of
             the
             King
             
               in
               capite
            
             ,
             nor
             Interdict
             his
             Officers
             without
             the
             Kings
             leave
             .
          
           Which
           propositions
           so
           censur'd
           are
           selected
           out
           of
           the
           Capitula
           of
           Clarendon
           ;
           to
           the
           Observation
           of
           which
           all
           the
           Arch-Bishops
           ,
           Bishops
           ,
           and
           other
           Ecclesiasticks
           (
           even
           Becket
           
           himself
           amongst
           the
           rest
           ,
           tho●
           afterwards
           falling
           of
           )
           had
           oblig'd
           themselves
           by
           a
           solemn
           Oath
           ,
           acknowledging
           them
           to
           be
           the
           customs
           of
           the
           King's
           Predecessours
           ;
           to
           wit
           ,
           Henry
           the
           1st
           his
           Grandfather
           ,
           and
           others
           ,
           and
           that
           they
           ought
           to
           be
           kept
           inviolable
           by
           all
           .
           To
           what
           party
           the
           Bishops
           were
           inclin'd
           in
           these
           differences
           betwixt
           the
           King
           and
           Becket
           we
           cannot
           better
           learn
           then
           from
           Baronius
           ,
           whose
           severe
           animadversion
           on
           these
           Praelates
           ,
           (
           wherein●
           he
           teaches
           us
           what
           Kings
           are
           to
           expect
           if
           they
           displease
           his
           Holiness
           ,
           and
           how
           dreadful
           his
           Fulminations
           be
           when
           they
           come
           out
           with
           full
           Apostolick
           vigour
           )
           the
           Reader
           may
           peruse
           in
           the
           *
           Margin
           .
           A
           like
           warm
           Expostulation
           upon
           these
           proceedings
           we
           meet
           with
           in
           Stapleton
           (
           
             de
             tribus
             Thomis
             ,
             in
             Thoma
             Cant.
          
           )
           
             *
             What
             did
             this
             Henry
             the
             2d
             tacitly
             demand
             ,
             but
             that
             which
             Henry
             the
             8th
             afterwards
             openly
             usurp'd
             ,
             viz.
             to
             be
             Supreme
             Head
             of
             the
             Church
             of
             England
             ?
             and
             again
             *
             what
             was
             this
             ,
             but
             that
             the
             King
             of
             England
             should
             be
             Pope
             over
             his
             own
             Subjects
             ?
          
           So
           that
           according
           to
           this
           Author
           ,
           Henry
           the
           8th
           was
           not
           the
           first
           of
           that
           name
           who
           pretended
           to
           be
           Supreme
           Head
           of
           the
           Church
           .
           It
           would
           be
           too
           tedious
           here
           to
           recite
           the
           several
           Statutes
           made
           in
           succeeding
           Reigns
           against
           the
           Popes
           Encroachments
           ,
           viz.
           the
           35
           of
           
             Edw.
             1
             
             25
             Edv.
             3.
             
             Stat.
             de
             provisoribus
             .
             27
             Ed.
             3.
             c.
             1.
             38
             
             Ed.
             3.
             c.
             1.
             2.
             4.
             stat
             .
             2.
             2
             
             Ric.
             2.
             c.
             3.
             12
             
             R.
             2.
             c.
             15.
             13
             
             R.
             2.
             stat
             .
             2.
             cap.
             2.
             16
             
             R.
             2.
             c.
             5.
             2
             
             Hen.
             4.
             cap.
             3.
             2
             
             Hen.
             4.
             cap.
             4.
             6
             
             Hen.
             4.
             cap.
          
           1.
           which
           speaks
           of
           horrible
           mischiefs
           and
           a
           damnable
           custom
           brought
           in
           of
           new
           in
           the
           Court
           of
           Rome
           .
           7
           
             Hen.
             4.
             cap.
             6.
             8.
             9
             
             Hen.
             4.
             cap.
             8.
             3
             
             H.
             5.
             c.
          
           4.
           
           Which
           see
           collected
           by
           Rastal
           under
           the
           title
           of
           Provision
           and
           Praemunire
           .
           fol.
           325.
           
           It
           may
           suffice
           to
           add
           the
           Opinion
           of
           our
           *
           Lawyers
           that
           the
           Article
           of
           the
           25
           of
           
             Hen.
             8.
             c.
          
           19.
           concerning
           the
           prohibition
           of
           appeals
           to
           Rome
           is
           declaratory
           of
           the
           ancient
           laws
           of
           the
           Realm
           ;
           *
           and
           accordingly
           the
           Laws
           made
           by
           King
           Henry
           the
           8th
           for
           extinguishing
           all
           forreign
           power
           are
           said
           to
           have
           been
           made
           
             for
             the
             Restoring
             to
             the
             Crown
             of
             this
             Realm
             the
             Ancient
             right
             and
             Iurisdictions
             of
             the
             same
             .
          
           Which
           rights
           are
           destructive
           of
           the
           Supremacy
           of
           the
           Pope
           ,
           as
           will
           farther
           appear
           by
           our
           2d
           Inquiry
           ,
           how
           far
           the
           Regal
           power
           extended
           in
           Causes
           Ecclesiasticall
           ?
           Where
        
         
           1st
           .
           As
           to
           the
           title
           of
           Head
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           we
           find
           that
           *
           King
           Edgar
           was
           reputed
           ,
           and
           wrote
           himself
           
             Pastor
             Pastorum
          
           ,
           the
           Vicar
           of
           Christ
           ,
           and
           by
           his
           Laws
           and
           Canons
           assur'd
           the
           world
           he
           did
           not
           in
           vain
           assume
           those
           titles
           ;
           *
           That
           our
           Forefathers
           stil'd
           their
           Kings
           
             Patrons
             Defenders
             ,
             Governours
             ,
             Tutors
             ,
          
           and
           Protectors
           of
           the
           Church
           .
           And
           the
           King's
           Regimen
           of
           the
           Church
           is
           thus
           exprest
           by
           King
           
             Edward
             the
             Confessor
          
           in
           his
           laws
           .
           
             Rex
             quia
             Vicarius
             summi
             Regis
             est
             ,
             ad
             hoc
             est
             constitutus
             ,
             ut
             re●num
             terrenum
             ,
             &
             populum
             Domini
             ,
             &
             super
             omnia
             Sanctam
             veneretur
             Ecclesiam
             ejus
             ,
             &
             regat
             ,
             &
             ab
             injuri●sis
             de●endat
             .
             Leg.
             Edv.
             Conf.
             apud
             Lamb.
          
           Where
           it
           is
           plain
           that
           he
           challenges
           the
           power
           of
           Governing
           the
           Church
           
           as
           being
           the
           Vicar
           of
           God
           ,
           so
           that
           it
           was
           but
           an
           Artifice
           in
           Pope
           Nicholas
           the
           Second
           to
           confer
           on
           the
           same
           King
           as
           a
           priviledge
           delegated
           by
           him
           ,
           what
           he
           claim'd
           as
           a
           right
           deriv'd
           immediately
           from
           God
           *
           .
           
             To
             you
             (
             saith
             that
             Pope
             to
             the
             Confessor
             )
             and
             your
             Successours
             ,
             the
             Kings
             of
             England
             we
             commit
             the
             Advowson
             of
             that
             place
             ,
             and
             power
             in
             our
             stead
             to
             order
             things
             with
             the
             advice
             of
             your
             Bishops
             .
          
           Where
           by
           the
           way
           if
           we
           may
           argue
           
             ad
             hominem
          
           this
           Concession
           gives
           the
           King
           of
           England
           as
           much
           right
           to
           the
           Supremacy
           over
           this
           Church
           ,
           as
           a
           like
           Grant
           from
           another
           Pope
           to
           the
           Earl
           of
           Sicily
           ,
           gives
           the
           King
           of
           Spain
           to
           his
           Spiritual
           Monarchy
           over
           that
           Province
           .
           But
           the
           Kings
           of
           England
           derive
           their
           Charter
           from
           a
           higher
           Power
           .
           They
           challenge
           from
           S
           
           t.
           Peter
           himself
           to
           be
           *
           Supreme
           ,
           and
           from
           S
           
           t.
           Paul
           that
           *
           
             every
             Soul
          
           should
           be
           subject
           to
           them
           .
           And
           the
           extent
           of
           their
           Regal
           power
           may
           be
           learn'd
           from
           S
           
           t.
           Austin
           who
           teaches
           us
           
             *
             that
             the
             Divine
             right
             of
             Kings
             ,
             as
             such
             ,
             authorizeth
             them
             to
             make
             Laws
             not
             only
             in
             relation
             to
             Civil
             Affairs
             ,
             but
             also
             in
             matters
             appertaining
             to
             divine
             Religion
             .
          
           In
           pursuance
           of
           which
           .
        
         
           2ly
           .
           As
           to
           the
           power
           of
           making
           Ecclesiastical
           Laws
           ;
           That
           the
           Kings
           of
           England
           have
           made
           Laws
           not
           only
           concerning
           the
           External
           Regimen
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           but
           also
           concerning
           the
           proper
           Functions
           of
           the
           Clergy
           ,
           namely
           the
           Keyes
           of
           Order
           and
           Jurisdiction
           ,
           so
           far
           as
           to
           regulate
           the
           Use
           of
           them
           and
           oblige
           the
           Persons
           entrusted
           with
           them
           to
           perform
           their
           respective
           Offices
           ,
           is
           evident
           
           to
           any
           one
           ,
           who
           shall
           think
           it
           worth
           his
           leisure
           to
           peruse
           such
           Laws
           yet
           extant
           .
           A
           Collection
           of
           the
           Laws
           made
           by
           
             Ina
             ,
             Alfred
             ,
             Edward
             ,
             Ethelstan
             ,
             Edmund
             ,
             Edgar
             ,
             Ethelred
             ;
             Canutus
             ,
          
           and
           others
           we
           have
           ,
           publish'd
           by
           Mr.
           Lambard
           ,
           in
           which
           we
           meet
           with
           Sanctions
           concerning
           Faith
           ,
           Baptism
           ,
           Sacrament
           of
           the
           Lord's
           Supper
           ,
           Bishops
           ,
           Priests
           ,
           Marriage
           ,
           Observance
           of
           Lent
           ,
           appointing
           of
           Festivals
           ,
           and
           the
           like
           .
           And
           here
           it
           may
           not
           be
           unseasonable
           to
           urge
           an
           Autority
           which
           our
           Editor
           cannot
           justly
           decline
           ;
           I
           mean
           Mr.
           
             Spelman
             jun.
          
           in
           his
           Book
           
             de
             Vita
             Alfredi
          
           written
           by
           him
           in
           English
           but
           Publish'd
           in
           Latin
           by
           the
           Master
           of
           University
           College
           in
           Oxford
           ,
           in
           the
           Name
           of
           the
           Alumni
           of
           that
           Society
           .
           This
           Author
           ,
           speaking
           of
           the
           Laws
           made
           by
           King
           Alfred
           in
           Causes
           Ecclesiastical
           ,
           makes
           this
           Inference
           from
           them
           .
           
             *
             These
             Laws
             do
             therefore
             deserve
             our
             particular
             Observation
             ,
             because
             from
             them
             it
             is
             evident
             that
             the
             Saxon
             Kings
             Alfred
             and
             Edward
             were
             of
             Opinion
             that
             they
             had
             a
             Supremacy
             as
             well
             over
             Ecclesiastical
             persons
             as
             Lay-men
             ;
             and
             that
             the
             Church
             which
             was
             within
             their
             Dominions
             was
             not
             out
             of
             their
             Jurisdiction
             ,
             or
             subject
             to
             a
             forreign
             Power
             and
             exempted
             from
             the
             Laws
             of
             the
             Countrey
             ,
             as
             
               Becket
               ,
               Anselm
            
             ,
             and
             others
             afterwards
             fiercely
             contended
             .
             
               And
               again
            
             ;
             *
             From
             his
             (
             King
             Alfred's
             )
             laws
             it
             is
             evident
             either
             that
             the
             Roman
             Supremacy
             was
             not
             yet
             risen
             to
             that
             heighth
             as
             in
             after
             Ages
             ,
             so
             as
             to
             lessen
             the
             Jurisdiction
             of
             Christian
             Princes
             ,
             or
             if
             it
             was
             ,
             yet
             that
             King
             Alfred
             did
             
             not
             so
             far
             subject
             himself
             to
             it
             .
          
           Nay
           so
           far
           was
           King
           Alfred
           from
           paying
           any
           such
           Subjection
           that
           we
           are
           told
           
             *
             He
             found
             out
             a
             way
             to
             ruine
             and
             destroy
             that
             Universal
             Empire
             which
             the
             Romanists
             in
             those
             dark
             Ages
             had
             newly
             founded
             and
             were
             hastning
             to
             finish
             .
          
           Which
           is
           spoken
           in
           reference
           to
           his
           restoring
           the
           second
           Commandment
           expung'd
           out
           of
           the
           Decalogue
           ,
           of
           which
           thus
           that
           Author
           ;
           
             *
             And
             here
             it
             may
             not
             be
             pass'd
             over
             ,
             that
             in
             reciting
             the
             Decalogue
             ,
             the
             second
             Commandment
             concerning
             the
             not
             making
             of
             graven
             Images
             was
             according
             to
             the
             use
             of
             the
             2d
             Nicene
             Council
             ,
             which
             was
             celebrated
             an
             100
             Years
             before
             ,
             in
             its
             place
             omitted
             .
             But
             that
             this
             defect
             might
             be
             supplied
             out
             of
             the
             context
             of
             the
             Holy
             Bible
             ,
             after
             that
             which
             we
             call
             the
             Tenth
             Commandment
             ,
             another
             was
             added
             to
             complete
             the
             just
             Number
             ,
             in
             these
             words
             ,
             Thou
             shalt
             not
             make
             to
             thy self
             any
             Gods
             of
             Gold
             ;
             Which
             being
             added
             by
             the
             King
             himself
             as
             it
             doth
             argue
             the
             Church
             to
             have
             been
             corrupt
             in
             her
             Doctrine
             ,
             so
             it
             is
             a
             testimony
             of
             the
             Kings
             Orthodoxy
             .
          
           From
           which
           one
           Instance
           it
           is
           plain
           that
           ,
           contrary
           to
           the
           pretensions
           of
           our
           Author
           ,
           King
           Edward
           the
           6th
           was
           not
           the
           1st
           that
           took
           upon
           him
           to
           Reform
           Liturgies
           ;
           for
           King
           Alfred
           here
           restores
           the
           Decalogue
           to
           its
           primitive
           Integrity
           :
           to
           judge
           what
           is
           agreeable
           to
           the
           word
           of
           God
           ;
           for
           He
           supply's
           the
           defect
           ,
           which
           he
           finds
           in
           the
           Missal
           ,
           from
           the
           Scriptures
           :
           to
           judge
           
           contrary
           to
           the
           Determinations
           of
           the
           Church
           ;
           for
           the
           Church
           is
           here
           said
           to
           have
           been
           corrupt
           in
           that
           Doctrine
           in
           which
           the
           King
           was
           Orthodox
           ;
           to
           alter
           the
           Constitutions
           of
           General
           Councils
           because
           repugnant
           to
           the
           law
           of
           God
           ;
           for
           this
           Omission
           of
           the
           Commandment
           was
           
             ex
             usu
             secundi
             Concilii
             Niceni
          
           ,
           and
           the
           Worshipping
           of
           Images
           here
           forbidden
           was
           introduc'd
           by
           that
           Council
           which
           the
           Romanists
           acknowledge
           General
           .
           These
           passages
           cited
           I
           take
           to
           be
           some
           of
           the
           
             perperam
             scripta
          
           which
           the
           Publisher
           of
           that
           life
           mentions
           in
           the
           *
           Praeface
           .
           And
           accordingly
           we
           find
           that
           whatsoever
           is
           advanc'd
           against
           the
           Papal
           Autority
           in
           the
           Text
           is
           qualified
           in
           the
           Comment
           ,
           and
           it
           is
           plain
           that
           King
           Alfred
           was
           a
           greater
           Adversary
           to
           the
           power
           of
           the
           Pope
           then
           his
           Alumnus
           the
           Annotator
           ;
           so
           that
           it
           is
           matter
           of
           surprize
           to
           find
           him
           appear
           in
           the
           Frontispiece
           of
           this
           Treatise
           of
           Church
           Government
           ,
           who
           was
           so
           great
           an
           Enemy
           to
           the
           Anti-regal
           designs
           of
           it
           .
        
         
           3ly
           .
           As
           to
           the
           power
           of
           calling
           Synods
           ,
           we
           need
           no
           more
           to
           clear
           this
           point
           then
           the
           very
           words
           of
           the
           Statute
           by
           him
           urg'd
           .
           25
           
             Hen.
             8.
             c.
          
           19.
           
           Where
           it
           is
           said
           ,
           
             that
             the
             Kings
             Humble
             and
             Obedient
             Subjects
             the
             Clergy
             of
             the
             Realm
             of
             England
             had
             acknowledg'd
             according
             to
             the
             truth
             that
             the
             Convocation
             of
             the
             same
             Clergy
             is
             ,
             always
             hath
             been
             ,
             and
             ought
             to
             be
             assembled
             only
             by
             the
             Kings
             Writ
             .
          
           Which
           is
           farther
           evident
           from
           the
           ancient
           from
           of
           calling
           and
           dissolving
           Synods
           by
           a
           Writ
           in
           each
           case
           directed
           to
           the
           Arch-Bishop
           of
           Canterbury
           ,
           as
           may
           be
           seen
           in
           D
           
           r.
           Heylin
           *
           The
           Clergy
           did
           indeed
           before
           this
           act
           of
           King
           
             Henry
             8th
          
           promulge
           and
           execute
           those
           Canons
           by
           their
           own
           autority
           ,
           which
           they
           here
           promise
           not
           to
           
           put
           in
           Execution
           without
           the
           King's
           consent
           .
           But
           since
           no
           such
           Canons
           could
           be
           put
           in
           ure
           till
           made
           ;
           nor
           be
           made
           but
           by
           the
           Clergy
           assembled
           ,
           nor
           the
           Clergy
           be
           assembled
           but
           only
           by
           the
           King
           's
           Writ
           ;
           this
           executing
           of
           Canons
           did
           in
           effect
           as
           much
           before
           this
           Statute
           as
           after
           depend
           upon
           the
           King's
           pleasure
           .
        
         
           4ly
           .
           As
           for
           visiting
           Ecclesiastical
           persons
           ,
           and
           reforming
           Errors
           and
           Haeresies
           by
           proper
           Delegates
           ,
           this
           is
           a
           necessary
           consequence
           from
           the
           Supremacy
           they
           challeng'd
           .
           Without
           such
           a
           Power
           how
           shall
           the
           Confessor
           
             regere
             Ecclesiam
             ,
             &
             ab
             injuriosis
             defendere
             ?
          
           If
           such
           a
           Power
           as
           this
           be
           inconsistent
           with
           the
           Principles
           even
           of
           Roman-Catholiques
           ,
           Whence
           is
           it
           that
           we
           find
           Articles
           sent
           from
           Queen
           Mary
           to
           Bp.
           Bonner
           to
           be
           put
           in
           Execution
           by
           him
           and
           his
           Officers
           within
           his
           Diocess
           ?
           Whence
           is
           it
           that
           we
           find
           a
           Commission
           directed
           to
           some
           Bishops
           to
           deprive
           the
           Reformed
           Bishops
           ?
           But
           to
           speak
           of
           former
           times
           ,
           if
           our
           Kings
           had
           not
           such
           a
           Power
           ,
           Whence
           is
           it
           that
           in
           King
           Henry
           the
           fourth's
           Reign
           upon
           the
           Increase
           of
           Lollardy
           We
           find
           the
           Clergy
           thus
           petitioning
           that
           Prince
           in
           the
           Names
           of
           the
           Clergy
           and
           Praelates
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           of
           England
           ,
           *
           
             That
             according
             to
             the
             Example
             of
             his
             Royal
             Praedecessors
             He
             would
             find
             out
             some
             remedy
             for
             the
             Haerefies
             and
             Innovations
             then
             praevailing
             ?
          
           Whence
           is
           it
           that
           we
           find
           a
           Commission
           from
           that
           King
           as
           Defender
           of
           the
           Catholick
           Faith
           to
           impower
           certain
           Persons
           to
           seize
           upon
           Haeretical
           Books
           ,
           and
           bring
           them
           before
           his
           Council
           ,
           and
           such
           as
           after
           Proclamation
           be
           found
           to
           hold
           such
           Opinions
           ,
           to
           be
           call'd
           and
           examined
           before
           two
           Commissioners
           ,
           who
           were
           of
           the
           Clergy
           .
           *
        
         
         
           5thly
           .
           As
           for
           Collation
           of
           Benefices
           .
           Our
           learned
           Lawyers
           assure
           us
           that
           all
           the
           Bishopricks
           are
           of
           the
           King's
           Foundation
           ,
           and
           that
           they
           were
           Originally
           Donative
           ,
           not
           Elective
           ;
           and
           that
           the
           full
           right
           of
           Investitures
           was
           in
           the
           Sovereign
           who
           signified
           his
           pleasure
           therein
           
             per
             traditionem
             baculi
             &
             annuli
          
           by
           the
           delivery
           of
           a
           Ring
           and
           Crosier
           Staff
           to
           the
           Person
           by
           him
           elected
           and
           Nominated
           for
           that
           Office.
           *
           Accordingly
           we
           find
           in
           the
           Statute
           of
           Provisors
           
             Ed.
             3.
             
             A.
          
           28.
           
           
             the
             King
             call'd
             Advower
             Paramount
             of
             all
             Benefices
             which
             be
             of
             the
             Advowrie
             of
             people
             of
             Holy
             Church
             .
          
           
             And
             it
             is
             there
             said
             ,
             That
          
           Elections
           were
           first
           granted
           by
           the
           King's
           Progenitors
           upon
           a
           certain
           form
           and
           Eondition
           ,
           as
           to
           demand
           License
           of
           the
           King
           to
           choose
           ,
           and
           after
           Election
           to
           have
           his
           Royal
           Assent
           ,
           and
           not
           in
           other
           manner
           .
           That
           if
           such
           Conditions
           were
           not
           kept
           ,
           the
           thing
           ought
           in
           reason
           to
           resort
           to
           its
           first
           Nature
           .
        
         
           Lastly
           as
           for
           Hindring
           Excommunications
           
             in
             foro
             externo
          
           ,
           It
           is
           one
           of
           the
           Articles
           of
           Clarendon
           ;
           That
           None
           that
           hold
           of
           the
           King
           in
           capite
           nor
           any
           of
           his
           Houshold
           Servants
           may
           be
           Excommunicated
           ,
           nor
           their
           Land
           interdicted
           ,
           unless
           our
           Lord
           the
           King
           ,
           if
           he
           be
           in
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           be
           first
           treated
           with
           ,
           or
           his
           Iustice
           ,
           if
           he
           be
           abroad
           ;
           so
           that
           he
           may
           do
           what
           is
           Right
           concerning
           him
           .
           And
           amongst
           the
           
             Articuli
             Cleri
             .
             c.
          
           7.
           
           It
           is
           complain'd
           that
           the
           King's
           Letters
           us'd
           to
           be
           directed
           to
           Ordinaries
           that
           have
           wrapt
           their
           Subjects
           in
           Sentence
           of
           Excommunication
           that
           they
           should
           assoil
           them
           by
           a
           certain
           day
           ,
           or
           else
           that
           they
           do
           appear
           and
           answer
           ,
           wherefore
           they
           excommunicated
           them
           .
           This
           short
           account
           ,
           however
           imperfect
           ,
           may
           suffice
           to
           shew
           that
           the
           Regal
           power
           in
           Spirituals
           challeng'd
           by
           King
           Henry
           the
           8th
           was
           not
           quitted
           by
           his
           Predecessors
           .
           And
           if
           the
           Reader
           desires
           a
           more
           
           full
           account
           of
           these
           things
           I
           shall
           refer
           him
           to
           Dr.
           Hammond's
           Dispatcher
           Dispatch'd
           .
           c.
           2.
           
           Sect.
           5.
           
           Bishop
           Brambal's
           just
           Vindication
           c.
           4.
           
           Repl.
           to
           the
           Bishop
           of
           Chalcedon
           c.
           4.
           
           Sch.
           guarded
           c.
           12.
           
           Sect.
           3.
           as
           also
           to
           Sr.
           
             Roger
             Twisden
          
           in
           his
           Historical
           vindication
           of
           the
           C.
           of
           England
           in
           point
           of
           Schism
           ;
           which
           Learned
           Author
           has
           by
           a
           through
           insight
           into
           History
           ,
           Law-books
           ,
           Registers
           ,
           and
           other
           Monuments
           of
           Antiquity
           enabled
           himself
           to
           give
           full
           and
           ample
           satisfaction
           to
           every
           unpraejudic'd
           Reader
           concerning
           this
           Subject
           ;
           and
           to
           convince
           him
           that
           this
           Author
           knew
           very
           little
           either
           of
           the
           English
           History
           or
           of
           his
           own
           Book
           ,
           if
           He
           knew
           not
           of
           any
           Ecclesiastical
           powers
           in
           this
           Discourse
           denied
           to
           the
           Prince
           ,
           but
           which
           were
           foregone
           by
           the
           Kings
           of
           England
           before
           Henry
           the
           Eighth
           .
        
         
           As
           for
           what
           he
           adds
           ,
           
             that
             no
             more
             Supremacy
             in
             such
             Ecclesiastical
             matters
             ,
             
             as
             are
             delegated
             by
             Christ
             to
             the
             Clergy
             and
             are
             unalienable
             by
             them
             to
             any
             Secular
             power
             ,
             can
             belong
             to
             the
             Princes
             of
             one
             time
             or
             of
             one
             Nation
             ,
             then
             do
             to
             any
             other
             Prince
             of
             a
             former
             Time
             ,
             or
             a
             diverse
             Nation
             ,
          
           We
           willingly
           acknowledge
           it
           ,
           since
           no
           such
           powers
           belong
           to
           any
           Prince
           ,
           at
           any
           time
           ,
           or
           of
           any
           Nation
           .
           But
           then
           there
           is
           a
           Supremacy
           in
           Ecclesiastical
           matters
           delegated
           by
           God
           to
           the
           Prince
           ,
           which
           may
           be
           invaded
           by
           a
           Forreigner
           under
           a
           forg'd
           pretence
           of
           his
           being
           Head
           of
           the
           Church
           ;
           and
           here
           Secular
           Laws
           may
           be
           made
           for
           the
           protection
           of
           such
           Rights
           ,
           and
           for
           the
           punishment
           of
           those
           who
           shall
           either
           invade
           them
           ,
           or
           vindicate
           such
           Invasion
           .
           And
           that
           person
           who
           under
           praetext
           of
           
             maintaining
             the
             Churches
             rights
          
           shall
           impugn
           the
           just
           Autority
           of
           his
           Sovereign
           
             may
             be
             more
             a
             disloyal
             Subject
             in
             these
             days
             ,
          
           when
           this
           Authority
           is
           by
           the
           Laws
           vindicated
           from
           Forreign
           Usurpation
           ,
           
             then
             he
             would
             have
             been
             in
             those
             days
             ,
          
           when
           such
           Usurpation
           was
           tolerated
           ,
           and
           conniv'd
           at
           .
        
         
         
           Having
           dwelt
           hitherto
           on
           the
           Epistle
           ,
           and
           discover'd
           so
           much
           Insincerity
           in
           that
           ,
           which
           yet
           was
           to
           bespeak
           the
           Reader
           's
           good
           Opinion
           of
           the
           ensuing
           Discourse
           ,
           We
           have
           no
           great
           reason
           to
           expect
           any
           fairer
           dealing
           in
           the
           prosecution
           of
           his
           design
           .
           And
           here
           I
           shall
           be
           excus'd
           if
           I
           be
           the
           shorter
           in
           the
           Examination
           of
           his
           Theses
           ,
           both
           because
           they
           are
           such
           as
           being
           propos'd
           only
           and
           not
           prov'd
           ,
           it
           lies
           in
           our
           power
           to
           accept
           ,
           or
           reject
           them
           at
           pleasure
           ;
           as
           also
           because
           they
           have
           already
           undergone
           the
           Censure
           of
           a
           Noble
           Pen
           ,
           and
           have
           not
           been
           able
           to
           abide
           a
           fair
           Tryall
           .
           Some
           of
           them
           are
           so
           ambiguously
           exprest
           that
           they
           may
           be
           either
           true
           or
           false
           according
           to
           the
           different
           construction
           they
           are
           capable
           of
           .
           The
           fals-hood
           of
           others
           is
           self-evident
           ;
           But
           then
           for
           the
           better
           vending
           of
           these
           ,
           some
           truths
           are
           intermix'd
           according
           to
           the
           policy
           of
           Luther's
           Antagonist
           observ'd
           by
           his
           Biographer
           *
           ,
           
             Who
             ,
             to
             make
             his
             bad
             wares
             saleable
             ,
             diligently
             mixeth
             some
             small
             stock
             of
             good
             with
             evil
             ,
             so
             to
             make
             this
             more
             current
             ,
             and
             all
             easily
             swallow'd
             down
             together
             by
             the
             imprudent
             and
             credulous
             .
          
        
         
           Another
           Artifice
           much
           practis'd
           by
           our
           Author
           is
           that
           he
           lays
           down
           his
           Propositions
           in
           general
           terms
           ,
           but
           afterwards
           restrains
           them
           by
           such
           limitations
           ,
           which
           if
           adher'd
           to
           would
           make
           them
           utterly
           disserviceable
           to
           his
           Cause
           ;
           but
           then
           when
           they
           come
           to
           be
           applied
           ,
           the
           These
           are
           refer'd
           to
           at
           large
           without
           any
           regard
           to
           such
           limitations
           .
           Thus
           when
           in
           his
           first
           Thesis
           he
           has
           propos'd
           
             That
             it
             is
             not
             in
             the
             just
             power
             of
             the
             Prince
             to
             deny
             giving
             the
             Ministers
             of
             Christ
             license
             to
             exercise
             their
             Office
             ,
             
             and
             their
             Ecclesiastical
             Censures
             in
             his
             Dominions
             ,
          
           He
           means
           he
           saith
           in
           general
           ,
           for
           he
           meddles
           not
           with
           the
           Prince
           ,
           his
           denying
           some
           of
           them
           
           to
           do
           these
           things
           whilst
           he
           admits
           others
           .
           Now
           if
           this
           Restraint
           be
           observ'd
           ,
           then
           all
           which
           he
           would
           establish
           from
           this
           Thesis
           will
           come
           to
           Nothing
           .
           For
           he
           will
           not
           ,
           I
           believe
           ,
           presume
           to
           say
           that
           the
           Reforming
           Princes
           ever
           laid
           a
           general
           Interdict
           upon
           all
           the
           Clergy
           to
           prohibit
           them
           the
           exercise
           of
           their
           Ecclesiastical
           Functions
           .
           This
           is
           an
           Act
           which
           the
           Reformation
           detests
           ,
           and
           which
           we
           leave
           to
           the
           charitableness
           of
           the
           Universal
           Pastor
           ,
           who
           by
           Virtue
           of
           our
           Saviour's
           Command
           of
           
             Pasce
             oves
          
           ;
           challenges
           to
           himself
           a
           power
           of
           depriving
           the
           flock
           of
           all
           Spiritual
           food
           .
           Thus
           again
           ,
           
           When
           in
           his
           third
           Thesis
           he
           has
           asserted
           that
           the
           Secular
           Prince
           cannot
           eject
           from
           the
           exercise
           of
           their
           Office
           in
           his
           Dominions
           any
           of
           the
           Clergy
           ,
           nor
           consequently
           the
           Patriarch
           from
           any
           Autority
           which
           he
           stands
           possest
           of
           by
           Ecclesiastical
           Canons
           ,
           He
           restrains
           such
           Canons
           to
           those
           only
           
             that
             cannot
             justly
             be
             pretended
             to
             do
             any
             wrong
             to
             the
             Civil
             Government
             .
          
           Now
           he
           knows
           that
           all
           Canons
           which
           would
           obtrude
           upon
           us
           a
           forreign
           usurp'd
           Autority
           are
           by
           us
           pretended
           (
           whether
           justly
           or
           not
           ,
           they
           will
           best
           judge
           who
           impartially
           weigh
           our
           Reasons
           )
           
             injurious
             to
             the
             Civil
             Government
          
           .
           Another
           Limitation
           of
           this
           Thesis
           is
           
             that
             the
             Civil
             power
             may
             judge
             ,
             
             and
             eject
             ,
             and
             disauthorize
             Spiritual
             Persons
             for
             Moral
             and
             Civil
             Misdemeanors
             damageable
             to
             the
             Common-Wealth
             ;
          
           But
           this
           Limitation
           is
           forgot
           when
           from
           this
           Thesis
           He
           would
           prove
           the
           ejection
           of
           the
           Bishops
           ,
           in
           Queen
           Elizabeth's
           time
           unlawful
           ;
           For
           their
           Deprivation
           was
           for
           refusing
           the
           Oath
           of
           Supremacy
           made
           first
           by
           Roman-Catholicks
           in
           King
           Henry
           the
           8th's
           time
           ,
           and
           reviv'd
           by
           Queen
           Elizabeth
           ;
           so
           that
           the
           Justice
           of
           it
           depends
           merely
           on
           the
           Right
           of
           the
           Civil
           power
           to
           make
           Oaths
           for
           the
           better
           security
           of
           their
           Government
           ,
           and
           to
           impose
           such
           Penalties
           as
           are
           exprest
           
           in
           the
           Law
           on
           the
           Violators
           ;
           and
           if
           such
           Refusal
           be
           damageable
           to
           the
           Common-Wealth
           (
           as
           it
           was
           then
           judg'd
           )
           then
           the
           Deprivation
           of
           those
           Refusers
           will
           be
           justifiable
           according
           to
           his
           own
           Principles
           .
           Thus
           again
           in
           his
           
             8th
             Thesis
          
           When
           he
           has
           laid
           down
           ,
           
             That
             as
             for
             things
             of
             meer
             Ecclesiastical
             Constitution
             ,
             
             Neither
             National
             Synod
             ,
             nor
             Secular
             power
             may
             make
             any
             New
             Canons
             contrary
             to
             the
             Ecclesiastical
             Constitutions
             of
             former
             Superior
             Councils
             ,
             nor
             reverse
             those
             formerly
             made
             by
             them
             .
          
           He
           restrains
           it
           to
           those
           only
           
             as
             neither
             the
             Prince
             can
             shew
             some
             way
             prejudicial
             to
             his
             Civil
             Government
             ,
             nor
             the
             National
          
           Synod
           
             can
             shew
             more
             prejudicial
             to
             their
             particular
             Church
             ,
             then
             the
             same
             Constitutions
             are
             to
             the
             rest
             of
             Christian
             Churches
             .
          
           (
           Where
           by
           the
           way
           methinks
           it
           should
           suffice
           if
           they
           were
           aequally
           prejudicial
           ,
           for
           one
           Church
           is
           never
           the
           less
           wrong'd
           because
           another
           suffers
           .
           )
           Now
           we
           desire
           no
           more
           then
           the
           benefit
           of
           this
           limitation
           ;
           for
           if
           the
           Prince
           may
           reverse
           such
           Constitutions
           when
           
             prejudicial
             to
             Civil
             Government
          
           ,
           and
           the
           National
           Synod
           when
           
             praejudicial
             to
             their
             particular
             Church
          
           ,
           and
           each
           of
           these
           are
           Judges
           of
           such
           praejudice
           ,
           (
           for
           neither
           doth
           AEquity
           admit
           ,
           nor
           doth
           He
           appoint
           any
           other
           Arbiter
           )
           then
           each
           of
           these
           have
           as
           much
           power
           granted
           them
           as
           they
           challenge
           ,
           which
           is
           only
           to
           alter
           such
           Constitutions
           as
           are
           prejudicial
           to
           them
           .
           Having
           praemis'd
           thus
           much
           in
           general
           ,
           and
           caution'd
           the
           Reader
           against
           this
           piece
           of
           Sophistry
           ,
           which
           runs
           through
           the
           greatest
           part
           of
           this
           Discourse
           ,
           I
           shall
           now
           proceed
           to
           a
           particular
           survey
           of
           his
           Theses
           .
        
         
           As
           for
           the
           first
           and
           second
           ,
           I
           shall
           at
           present
           grant
           him
           that
           favour
           which
           he
           seems
           to
           request
           of
           all
           his
           Readers
           ,
           
             i.
             e.
          
           suppose
           them
           to
           be
           true
           ,
           and
           shall
           content
           my self
           only
           to
           examin
           what
           Inferences
           he
           deduces
           from
           them
           .
           And
           here
           I
           cannot
           but
           commend
           his
           Policy
           for
           setting
           
           his
           Conclusions
           at
           so
           great
           a
           distance
           from
           his
           Praemisses
           ,
           for
           they
           are
           commonly
           such
           as
           would
           have
           by
           no
           means
           agreed
           to
           stand
           too
           nigh
           together
           .
        
         
           From
           his
           first
           and
           second
           Thesis
           ,
           
             that
             the
             Clergy
             have
             power
             to
             determine
             Controversies
             in
             pure
             matters
             of
             Religion
             ,
             and
             to
             judge
             what
             is
             divine
             truth
             ,
             what
             are
             Errors
             ;
             &
             that
             they
             cannot
             alienate
             this
             Power
             to
             the
             Secular
             Prince
             ;
          
           
           he
           infers
           That
           that
           Synodical
           Act
           of
           the
           Clergy
           in
           K.
           Henry
           the
           Eighth's
           time
           ,
           whereby
           they
           promise
           not
           to
           Assemble
           without
           the
           King
           's
           Writ
           ,
           nor
           when
           Assembled
           to
           execute
           any
           Canons
           without
           the
           King's
           consent
           ,
           is
           unlawful
           .
           Now
           it
           is
           to
           be
           observed
           that
           the
           Clergy
           neither
           do
           deny
           that
           they
           have
           a
           Power
           to
           determine
           Controversies
           in
           pure
           matters
           of
           Religion
           ,
           which
           is
           what
           the
           first
           Thesis
           would
           prove
           ;
           nor
           do
           they
           transfer
           such
           a
           Power
           on
           the
           King
           ,
           which
           might
           be
           against
           the
           Tenor
           of
           the
           second
           .
           The
           utmost
           which
           can
           be
           deduc'd
           hence
           is
           ,
           That
           the
           Clergy
           did
           for
           prudential
           motives
           limit
           themselves
           in
           the
           Exercise
           of
           one
           branch
           of
           their
           Spiritual
           Power
           ;
           and
           it
           will
           be
           difficult
           for
           this
           Author
           to
           prove
           that
           He
           ,
           who
           has
           a
           power
           
             jure
             divino
          
           ,
           may
           not
           by
           
             humane
             Laws
          
           be
           limited
           in
           the
           Use
           of
           it
           .
           Husbands
           have
           a
           power
           over
           their
           Wives
           ,
           Fathers
           over
           their
           Children
           ,
           and
           Masters
           over
           their
           Servants
           by
           the
           
             Law
             of
             God
          
           ,
           and
           yet
           this
           power
           may
           be
           regulated
           by
           the
           
             Laws
             of
             the
             Land.
          
           
           Thus
           the
           Priest
           has
           a
           power
           to
           bind
           and
           loose
           from
           our
           Saviour's
           Commission
           ,
           and
           yet
           according
           to
           this
           Author
           ,
           before
           the
           Reformation
           the
           Inferior
           Clergy
           might
           not
           exercise
           any
           Church
           Censure
           contrary
           to
           the
           Commands
           of
           their
           lawful
           Spiritual
           Superior
           .
           Thus
           also
           if
           a
           General
           Council
           have
           power
           to
           determine
           matters
           of
           Faith
           ,
           then
           according
           to
           his
           Principles
           they
           have
           power
           to
           convene
           in
           order
           to
           such
           Determination
           ,
           and
           this
           power
           of
           theirs
           is
           unalienable
           ;
           and
           
           yet
           the
           Romanists
           will
           not
           allow
           that
           such
           Conventions
           may
           be
           made
           at
           pleasure
           ,
           but
           that
           the
           
             hic
             &
             nunc
          
           are
           determinable
           by
           the
           Pope
           ,
           who
           only
           has
           power
           to
           indict
           Councils
           ,
           and
           to
           give
           Autority
           to
           those
           decrees
           ,
           which
           yet
           derive
           their
           power
           from
           the
           Council's
           being
           infallible
           ,
           and
           from
           the
           Holy
           Ghost
           assisting
           them
           .
        
         
           Another
           Act
           ,
           which
           from
           the
           same
           Thesis
           he
           accuses
           of
           Injustice
           ,
           
           is
           
             the
             Clergy's
             beseeching
             the
             King's
             Highness
             that
             the
             Constitutions
             and
             Canons
             Provincial
             and
             Synodal
             ,
             which
             be
             thought
             prejudicial
             to
             the
             King's
             Prerogative
             Royal
             ,
             or
             repugnant
             to
             the
             Laws
             and
             Statutes
             of
             this
             Realm
             ,
             or
             to
             be
             otherwise
             overmuch
             onerous
             to
             his
             Highness
             and
             his
             Subjects
             may
             be
             committed
             to
             the
             judgment
             of
             his
             Highness
             ,
             and
             of
             32
             Persons
             ,
             16
             of
             the
             Temporalty
             ,
             and
             16
             of
             the
             Clergy
             of
             this
             Realm
             to
             be
             chosen
             and
             appointed
             by
             the
             King's
             Majesty
             ,
             and
             that
             such
             Canons
             ,
             as
             shall
             be
             thought
             by
             the
             more
             part
             of
             them
             worthy
             to
             be
             annull'd
             ,
             shall
             be
             made
             of
             no
             value
             ,
             and
             such
             other
             of
             the
             Canons
             as
             shall
             be
             approv'd
             to
             stand
             with
             the
             Law
             of
             God
             &c.
             shall
             stand
             in
             power
             .
          
           Now
           it
           is
           to
           be
           consider'd
           that
           the
           Laws
           ,
           which
           the
           Clergy
           here
           desire
           may
           be
           revis'd
           ,
           are
           of
           a
           far
           different
           Nature
           ,
           and
           therefore
           the
           Inspection
           of
           them
           may
           well
           be
           committed
           to
           different
           Judges
           .
           Some
           of
           them
           were
           suppos'd
           
             prejudicial
             to
             the
             King's
             Praerogative
             Royal
             ,
             or
             repugnant
             to
             the
             Laws
             of
             the
             Realm
             ,
          
           and
           here
           the
           Lay-Commissioners
           ,
           being
           persons
           of
           the
           upper
           and
           lower
           House
           of
           Parliament
           (
           see
           the
           Stat.
           )
           were
           the
           best
           Judges
           ;
           Of
           others
           it
           was
           to
           be
           enquir'd
           Whether
           they
           were
           
             agreeable
             to
             the
             word
             of
             God
             or
             not
             ,
          
           and
           here
           the
           Clergy
           were
           ready
           to
           give
           their
           Determination
           .
           And
           altho'
           they
           both
           acted
           in
           a
           joynt
           Commission
           yet
           no
           good
           reason
           seems
           
           assignable
           why
           both
           Lay
           and
           Ecclesiastical
           Judges
           should
           be
           appointed
           ,
           but
           that
           ,
           the
           matters
           to
           be
           examin'd
           being
           of
           different
           cognizance
           ,
           those
           which
           related
           to
           Civil
           Affairs
           should
           be
           determin'd
           by
           the
           Temporalty
           ,
           those
           which
           were
           of
           a
           Spiritual
           Nature
           by
           the
           Spiritualty
           .
           And
           if
           so
           ,
           then
           the
           deciding
           of
           these
           matters
           is
           not
           transfer'd
           from
           the
           Spiritualty
           to
           the
           Temporalty
           ,
           but
           from
           one
           part
           of
           the
           Clergy
           to
           another
           .
           And
           this
           He
           himself
           ,
           after
           all
           his
           descants
           upon
           this
           Act
           ,
           confesseth
           ,
           For
           ,
           
           
             whatever
             sense
             the
             words
             in
             the
             Praeface
             of
             this
             Act
             were
             or
             may
             be
             extended
             to
             ,
             I
             do
             not
             think
             the
             Clergy
             at
             first
             intended
             any
             such
             thing
             ,
             as
             to
             make
             the
             King
             or
             his
             Commissioners
             Judges
             of
             matters
             of
             Faith
             or
             Divine
             truth
             :
          
           and
           for
           this
           Opinion
           of
           his
           He
           gives
           us
           his
           Reasons
           in
           that
           ,
           and
           the
           subsequent
           pages
           .
        
         
           Another
           Act
           ,
           which
           is
           by
           this
           Author
           judg'd
           contrary
           to
           his
           first
           Thesis
           ,
           is
           that
           Statute
           of
           King
           Henry
           the
           eighth
           which
           orders
           
             that
             no
             speaking
             ,
             holding
             ,
             
             or
             doing
             against
             any
             Laws
             call'd
             Spiritual
             Laws
             made
             by
             Autority
             of
             the
             See
             of
             Rome
             ,
             which
             be
             repugnant
             to
             the
             Laws
             and
             Statutes
             of
             the
             Realm
             ,
             or
             the
             King's
             Praerogative
             shall
             be
             deem'd
             to
             be
             Haeresie
             ,
             from
             which
             he
             infers
             that
             the
             King
             and
             Parliament
             undertake
             to
             be
             Judges
             of
             Haeresie
             .
          
           Now
           the
           King
           and
           Parliament
           do
           not
           here
           in
           my
           Opinion
           take
           upon
           them
           to
           decide
           matters
           of
           Faith
           ,
           but
           only
           to
           Enact
           that
           in
           such
           a
           case
           the
           Subject
           shall
           not
           suffer
           the
           Punishment
           usually
           inflicted
           on
           Haereticks
           ;
           Whether
           such
           speaking
           or
           doing
           be
           Haeresie
           or
           not
           ,
           they
           have
           power
           to
           ordain
           that
           it
           shall
           not
           be
           deem'd
           so
           
             i.
             e.
          
           the
           Speaker
           shall
           not
           suffer
           as
           an
           Haeretick
           .
           Something
           parallel
           to
           this
           we
           have
           in
           that
           
             Statute
             of
             much
             concernment
          
           (
           to
           use
           our
           Author's
           expression
           of
           another
           Act
           )
           made
           23.
           
           Eliz.
           c.
           1.
           
           Wherein
           it
           is
           
           enacted
           that
           
             The
             Persons
             who
             shall
             withdraw
             any
             of
             the
             Queens
             Majesties
             Subjects
             from
             the
             Religion
             established
             by
             Law
             to
             the
             Romish
             Religion
             ,
             shall
             be
             to
             all
             intents
             adjudg'd
             as
             Traytors
             ,
             and
             shall
             suffer
             as
             in
             cases
             of
             High
             Treason
             ,
             and
             the
             like
             of
             Persons
             willingly
             reconcil'd
             .
          
           Where
           without
           disputing
           whether
           every
           such
           Reconciler
           ,
           or
           Reconciled
           ,
           is
           necessarily
           for
           that
           Act
           
             ipso
             facto
          
           a
           Traytor
           ,
           all
           that
           is
           here
           enacted
           is
           that
           he
           shall
           suffer
           as
           such
           ;
           For
           it
           is
           undoubtedly
           within
           the
           reach
           of
           the
           Civil
           Power
           to
           ordain
           where
           they
           will
           inflict
           or
           not
           inflict
           their
           Secular
           Punishments
           ,
           without
           being
           accountable
           for
           this
           to
           any
           Autority
           under
           God's
           .
           And
           it
           seems
           very
           hard
           that
           if
           a
           Subject
           expresses
           himself
           ,
           or
           acts
           against
           such
           Laws
           of
           a
           Forreigner
           as
           are
           repugnant
           to
           the
           Laws
           of
           his
           own
           Country
           ,
           there
           the
           Prince
           cannot
           exempt
           him
           from
           a
           Writ
           
             de
             Haeretico
             comburendo
          
           without
           invading
           the
           Churches
           right
           .
        
         
           Another
           Act
           condemn'd
           by
           Virtue
           of
           his
           1st
           and
           
             2d
             Theses
          
           is
           
             The
             Convocation's
             granting
             to
             certain
             persons
             to
             be
             appointed
             by
             the
             King's
             Autority
             to
             make
             Ecclesiastical
             laws
             ,
             
             and
             pursuant
             to
             this
             ,
             42
             Articles
             of
             Religion
             publish'd
             by
             the
             Autority
             of
             King
             Edward
             in
             the
             6th
             Year
             of
             his
             Reign
             .
          
           Now
           not
           to
           engage
           my self
           in
           a
           dispute
           Whether
           these
           Articles
           were
           not
           really
           what
           in
           the
           Title
           praefix'd
           they
           are
           said
           to
           be
           ?
           
             Articuli
             de
             quibus
             in
             Synodo
             London
             ,
             A.
             D.
             1552.
             ad
             tollendam
             opinionum
             dissentionem
             ,
             &
             consensum
             verae
             Religionis
             firmandum
             inter
             Episcopos
             &
             alios
             eruditos
             Viros
             convenerat
             ,
             Regia
             autoritate
             in
             lucem
             editi
             ,
          
           I
           shall
           only
           accept
           of
           what
           is
           by
           him
           granted
           that
           
             de
             illis
             convenerat
             inter
             Episcopos
             &
             alios
             eruditos
             Viros
             qui
             erant
             pars
             aliqua
             de
             Synodo
             London
             .
          
           
           So
           that
           here
           is
           only
           a
           part
           of
           the
           Synod
           employ'd
           in
           drawing
           up
           these
           Articles
           ,
           and
           not
           any
           Jurisdiction
           Spiritual
           transfer'd
           from
           Ecclesiastial
           persons
           
           to
           Secular
           ,
           which
           was
           by
           him
           to
           have
           been
           prov'd
           .
        
         
           Another
           Inference
           ,
           which
           he
           deduces
           from
           these
           Theses
           ,
           is
           the
           Unlawfulness
           of
           the
           Oath
           of
           Supremacy
           .
           
           Now
           how
           far
           the
           Regal
           Supremacy
           is
           by
           us
           extended
           ,
           will
           best
           be
           learnt
           from
           our
           Articles
           .
           *
           
             The
             King's
             Majesty
             has
             the
             chief
             power
             in
             this
             Realm
             of
             England
             ,
             and
             other
             his
             Dominions
             :
             Unto
             whom
             the
             chief
             Government
             of
             all
             Estates
             of
             this
             Realm
             ,
             whether
             they
             be
             Ecclesiastical
             or
             Civil
             ,
             in
             all
             causes
             doth
             appertain
             ,
             and
             is
             not
             or
             ought
             not
             to
             be
             subject
             to
             any
             forreign
             Jurisdiction
             .
          
           So
           far
           for
           the
           extent
           of
           this
           power
           ;
           but
           now
           for
           the
           restraint
           .
           
             Where
             we
             attribute
             to
             the
             King's
             Majesty
             the
             chief
             Government
             ,
             by
             which
             Titles
             we
             understand
             the
             minds
             of
             some
             
               slanderous
               folks
            
             to
             be
             offended
             ,
             We
             give
             not
             to
             our
             Prince
             the
             ministring
             either
             of
             God's
             word
             ,
             or
             of
             the
             Sacraments
             ,
             the
             which
             thing
             the
             Injunctions
             also
             ,
             lately
             set
             forth
             by
             Q.
             Elizabeth
             do
             most
             plainly
             testify
             ,
             but
             that
             only
             Prerogative
             which
             We
             see
             to
             have
             been
             given
             always
             to
             all
             Godly
             Princes
             in
             Holy
             Scriptures
             by
             God
             himself
             ,
             that
             is
             ,
             that
             they
             should
             rule
             all
             Estates
             and
             degrees
             committed
             to
             their
             charge
             by
             God
             ,
             whether
             they
             be
             Ecclesiastical
             or
             Temporal
             ,
             and
             restrain
             with
             the
             Civil
             Sword
             the
             Stubborn
             &
             evil
             doers
             .
          
           It
           is
           therefore
           by
           our
           Author
           to
           be
           prov'd
           that
           they
           who
           give
           no
           more
           to
           their
           Prince
           ,
           then
           
             hath
             been
             given
             always
             to
             all
             Godly
             Princes
             in
             Holy
             Scripture
             by
             God
             himself
             ,
          
           do
           alienate
           to
           the
           Secular
           Governour
           any
           Autority
           or
           Office
           which
           they
           (
           the
           Clergy
           )
           have
           receiv'd
           and
           been
           charg'd
           with
           by
           Christ
           ,
           with
           a
           command
           to
           execute
           the
           same
           to
           the
           end
           of
           the
           World
           ;
           which
           being
           a
           Contradiction
           I
           leave
           it
           to
           him
           to
           reconcile
           .
        
         
           That
           by
           this
           Oath
           ,
           or
           any
           other
           Act
           of
           Queen
           Elizabeth
           a
           greater
           Power
           was
           either
           assum'd
           by
           herself
           ,
           or
           given
           to
           her
           by
           Others
           ,
           then
           is
           consistent
           with
           that
           
           Autority
           that
           is
           given
           by
           our
           Saviour
           to
           the
           Church
           will
           be
           very
           difficult
           for
           any
           Reasonable
           man
           to
           conceive
           who
           shall
           have
           recourse
           to
           the
           Injunction
           of
           this
           Queen
           to
           which
           this
           very
           Article
           refers
           us
           ;
           
             *
             Where
             she
             declares
             that
             she
             neither
             doth
             nor
             ever
             will
             challenge
             any
             Autority
             ,
             but
             what
             was
             challeng'd
             and
             lately
             us'd
             by
             the
             Noble
             Kings
             of
             famous
             memory
             King
             Henry
             the
             8th
             ,
             and
             King
             Edward
             the
             6th
             ,
             which
             is
             and
             
               was
               of
               Ancient
               time
            
             due
             to
             the
             Imperial
             Crown
             of
             this
             Realm
             ;
             that
             is
             ,
             under
             God
             to
             have
             Sovereignty
             and
             Rule
             over
             all
             manner
             of
             Persons
             born
             within
             these
             her
             Realms
             ,
             Dominions
             ,
             and
             Countreys
             ,
             of
             what
             Estate
             either
             Ecclesiastical
             or
             Temporal
             soever
             they
             be
             ;
             so
             as
             no
             other
             forreign
             Power
             shall
             or
             ought
             to
             have
             any
             Superiority
             over
             them
             .
             And
             if
             any
             Person
             that
             hath
             conceited
             any
             other
             sense
             of
             the
             form
             of
             the
             said
             Oath
             ,
             shall
             accept
             the
             same
             Oath
             with
             this
             Interpretation
             ,
             sense
             ,
             or
             meaning
             ;
             Her
             Majesty
             is
             well
             pleas'd
             to
             accept
             every
             such
             in
             that
             behalf
             as
             her
             good
             and
             Obedient
             Subjects
             ;
             and
             shall
             acquit
             them
             of
             all
             manner
             of
             penalties
             contain'd
             in
             the
             act
             therein
             mention'd
             ,
             against
             such
             as
             shall
             peremptorily
             and
             obstinately
             refuse
             to
             take
             the
             same
             Oath
             .
          
           So
           that
           it
           's
           evident
           from
           this
           Injunction
           that
           it
           's
           no
           way
           here
           stated
           what
           Autority
           belongs
           to
           the
           Church
           ,
           and
           what
           to
           the
           Civil
           Magistrate
           ,
           farther
           then
           that
           the
           Queen
           (
           as
           justly
           she
           might
           )
           challenged
           what
           was
           due
           of
           Ancient
           time
           to
           the
           Imperial
           Crown
           of
           this
           Realm
           ,
           and
           neither
           did
           nor
           would
           challenge
           more
           ;
           but
           what
           that
           was
           ,
           is
           not
           here
           determin'd
           ;
           and
           she
           is
           content
           without
           such
           Determination
           ,
           if
           any
           Person
           would
           take
           this
           Oath
           in
           such
           a
           sense
           as
           only
           to
           exclude
           all
           forreign
           Jurisdiction
           whether
           Ecclesiastical
           or
           Civil
           .
        
         
         
           Another
           Act
           which
           He
           finds
           repugnant
           to
           his
           1st
           .
           
           Thesis
           is
           King
           
             Henry
             the
             8th's
          
           claiming
           a
           right
           that
           no
           Clergy-man
           ,
           being
           a
           Member
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           should
           exercise
           the
           power
           of
           the
           Keys
           in
           his
           Dominions
           in
           any
           Cause
           or
           on
           any
           Person
           without
           his
           leave
           and
           appointment
           .
           But
           it
           is
           to
           be
           remembred
           that
           the
           Ecclesiastical
           .
           Censures
           asserted
           to
           belong
           to
           the
           Clergie
           in
           the
           first
           Thesis
           have
           reference
           to
           the
           things
           only
           of
           the
           next
           world
           ;
           but
           the
           censures
           here
           spoken
           of
           ,
           are
           such
           as
           have
           reference
           to
           the
           things
           of
           this
           world
           .
           The
           Habitual
           Jurisdiction
           of
           Bishops
           flows
           ,
           we
           confess
           ,
           from
           their
           Ordination
           ;
           but
           the
           Actual
           exercise
           thereof
           in
           publick
           Courts
           after
           a
           coercive
           manner
           is
           from
           the
           gracious
           Concessions
           of
           Sovereign
           Princes
           .
        
         
           From
           the
           1st
           and
           
             2d
             Thesis
          
           
             he
             farther
             condemns
             the
             taking
             away
             the
             Patriarch's
             Autority
             for
             receiving
             of
             Appeals
             ,
             
             and
             exercising
             final
             Judicature
             in
             Spiritual
             Controversies
             ,
             as
             also
             the
             taking
             away
             the
             final
             judging
             and
             decision
             of
             such
             Controversies
             not
             only
             from
             the
             Patriarch
             in
             particular
             ,
             but
             also
             from
             all
             the
             Clergy
             in
             general
             ,
             not
             making
             the
             Arch-Bishop
             of
             Canterbury
             or
             Convocation
             ,
             but
             himself
             or
             his
             Substitutes
             the
             Judges
             thereof
             .
          
           For
           which
           he
           refers
           us
           to
           
             Stat.
             25.
             
             H.
             8.
             19.
             c.
          
           But
           in
           that
           Statute
           I
           find
           no
           mention
           of
           a
           Patriarch
           ,
           or
           
             Spiritual
             Controversies
          
           ,
           but
           only
           that
           in
           causes
           of
           Contention
           having
           their
           commencement
           within
           the
           Courts
           of
           this
           Realm
           no
           Appeal
           shall
           be
           made
           out
           of
           it
           to
           the
           Bishop
           of
           Rome
           ,
           but
           to
           the
           Arch-Bishop
           of
           Canterbury
           ,
           and
           for
           want
           of
           Justice
           in
           his
           Courts
           to
           the
           King
           in
           Chancery
           ;
           Upon
           which
           a
           Commission
           shall
           be
           directed
           to
           such
           Persons
           as
           shall
           be
           appointed
           by
           the
           King
           definitively
           to
           determine
           such
           Appeals
           .
           Here
           is
           nothing
           of
           
             determining
             Controversies
             in
             pure
             matters
             of
             Religion
             ,
             of
             deciding
             what
             is
             
             Gods
             word
             ,
             and
             divine
             Truth
             ,
             what
             are
             Errors
             in
             the
             faith
             or
             in
             the
             practise
             of
             Gods
             Worship
             ,
             and
             Service
             ,
          
           nor
           any
           of
           the
           other
           Spiritual
           powers
           by
           him
           enumerated
           in
           the
           
             1st
             Thesis
          
           ;
           Or
           if
           any
           such
           Quaestions
           should
           be
           involv'd
           in
           the
           Causes
           to
           be
           tried
           ,
           Why
           may
           not
           the
           Commissioners
           ,
           if
           Secular
           ,
           judge
           according
           to
           what
           has
           been
           praedetermin'd
           ,
           by
           the
           Clergy
           ?
           or
           let
           us
           suppose
           a
           case
           never
           yet
           determin'd
           ,
           How
           doth
           he
           prove
           a
           power
           of
           judging
           in
           such
           causes
           transfer'd
           on
           secular
           Persons
           ,
           since
           if
           Occasion
           requir'd
           ,
           the
           Delegates
           might
           be
           Persons
           Ecclesiastical
           ?
        
         
           But
           not
           only
           the
           Acts
           of
           State
           and
           Church
           ,
           but
           the
           Opinions
           of
           our
           Doctors
           are
           to
           be
           examin'd
           by
           his
           Test
           ,
           
           and
           therefore
           from
           the
           same
           Theses
           he
           censures
           that
           Assertion
           of
           Dr.
           Heylin
           *
           that
           it
           is
           neither
           fit
           nor
           reasonable
           that
           the
           Clergy
           should
           be
           able
           by
           their
           Synodical
           Acts
           to
           conclude
           both
           Prince
           and
           People
           in
           Spiritual
           matters
           ,
           until
           the
           stamp
           of
           Royal
           Autority
           be
           imprinted
           on
           them
           .
           Now
           it
           is
           plain
           to
           any
           one
           that
           views
           the
           Context
           ,
           that
           the
           Dr.
           speaks
           of
           such
           a
           concluding
           the
           Prince
           and
           people
           in
           matters
           Spiritual
           ,
           as
           hath
           influence
           on
           their
           Civil
           rights
           .
           For
           he
           there
           discourses
           of
           the
           Clergy
           under
           King
           Henry
           obliging
           themselves
           not
           to
           execute
           those
           Ecclesiastical
           Canons
           without
           the
           Kings
           consent
           which
           formerly
           they
           had
           put
           in
           Execution
           by
           their
           own
           Autority
           .
           But
           the
           Canons
           so
           executed
           had
           the
           force
           of
           Civil
           Laws
           ,
           and
           the
           Violators
           of
           them
           were
           obnoxious
           to
           Secular
           punishments
           .
           The
           Dr.
           therefore
           very
           justly
           thought
           it
           unreasonable
           any
           should
           be
           liable
           to
           such
           Punishments
           without
           His
           consent
           ,
           who
           only
           has
           the
           power
           of
           inflicting
           them
           ;
           Nor
           is
           this
           inconsistent
           with
           our
           Authors
           first
           Thesis
           (
           had
           he
           at
           so
           great
           a
           distance
           remembred
           it
           )
           which
           extends
           Church-Autority
           only
           to
           Ecclesiastical
           Censures
           ,
           
           which
           have
           reference
           to
           things
           not
           of
           this
           ,
           but
           the
           next
           World.
           
        
         
           These
           are
           the
           Inferences
           which
           I
           find
           deduc'd
           ,
           from
           his
           first
           and
           second
           Theses
           in
           the
           several
           parts
           of
           this
           Discourse
           ,
           which
           had
           they
           been
           as
           conclusive
           ,
           as
           they
           are
           false
           ,
           yet
           I
           do
           not
           find
           but
           that
           his
           own
           party
           (
           if
           that
           be
           the
           
             Roman
             Catholick
          
           )
           had
           suffer'd
           most
           by
           them
           .
           For
           if
           the
           Supremacy
           given
           to
           King
           Henry
           was
           so
           great
           an
           Invasion
           of
           the
           Churches
           right
           ,
           what
           shall
           we
           think
           of
           that
           Roman
           Catholick
           Clergy
           ,
           who
           so
           Sacrilegiously
           invested
           him
           with
           this
           Spiritual
           power
           ?
           If
           that
           Synodical
           Act
           was
           betraying
           the
           trust
           which
           the
           Clergy
           had
           receiv'd
           from
           Christ
           ,
           what
           shall
           we
           think
           of
           those
           Pastours
           ,
           who
           so
           unfaithfully
           manag'd
           the
           Depositum
           of
           their
           Saviour
           ?
           If
           denying
           the
           Popes
           Authority
           was
           so
           piacular
           a
           Crime
           ,
           what
           Opinion
           shall
           we
           entertain
           of
           those
           Religious
           Persons
           in
           Monasteries
           ,
           who
           professing
           a
           more
           then
           ordinary
           Sanctity
           ,
           and
           being
           obliged
           by
           the
           strictest
           Vows
           of
           Obedience
           so
           *
           resolutely
           abjur'd
           it
           ?
           What
           of
           those
           Learned
           in
           the
           *
           University
           ,
           who
           after
           a
           solemn
           debate
           ,
           and
           serious
           disquisition
           of
           the
           cause
           ,
           so
           peremptorily
           defin'd
           against
           it
           ?
           What
           of
           the
           *
           Whole
           Body
           of
           the
           Clergy
           ,
           whose
           proper
           Office
           it
           is
           
             to
             determine
             such
             Controversies
             ,
             and
             to
             judge
             what
             is
             Gods
             Word
             ,
             and
             divine
             Truth
             ,
             what
             are
             Errors
             ,
          
           who
           in
           full
           Synod
           so
           Unanimously
           rejected
           it
           ?
           
           What
           of
           the
           leading
           part
           of
           those
           Prelates
           ,
           *
           
             Gardiner
             ,
             Bonner
          
           ,
           
           and
           Tonstal
           ,
           who
           Wrote
           ,
           Preach'd
           ,
           and
           Fram'd
           Oaths
           against
           it
           ?
           What
           of
           the
           *
           Nobles
           and
           Commons
           ,
           Persons
           of
           presum'd
           Integrity
           ,
           and
           Honour
           ,
           who
           prepared
           the
           Bill
           against
           it
           ?
           What
           lastly
           of
           the
           Sovereign
           a
           declar'd
           Enemy
           of
           the
           Lutheran
           Doctrine
           ,
           and
           Defender
           of
           the
           Roman
           Catholick
           Faith
           ,
           who
           past
           that
           Bill
           into
           a
           Law
           ,
           and
           guarded
           the
           Sanction
           of
           it
           with
           Capital
           punishments
           ?
           If
           all
           these
           acted
           sincerely
           ,
           then
           it
           is
           not
           the
           Doctrine
           of
           the
           Reformed
           ,
           but
           of
           the
           Romanists
           which
           is
           written
           against
           :
           If
           not
           ,
           we
           seem
           to
           have
           just
           praejudices
           against
           a
           Religion
           which
           had
           no
           greater
           influence
           over
           its
           Profesors
           ,
           then
           to
           suffer
           a
           whole
           Nation
           of
           them
           perfidiously
           to
           deny
           that
           ,
           which
           if
           it
           be
           any
           part
           ,
           is
           a
           main
           Article
           of
           their
           Faith
           ?
           But
           to
           return
           to
           our
           Author
           ,
           what
           shall
           we
           judge
           of
           his
           skill
           in
           Controversie
           who
           from
           Principles
           assum'd
           gratis
           ,
           draws
           Deductions
           which
           by
           no
           means
           follow
           ,
           and
           which
           if
           they
           did
           follow
           ,
           would
           be
           the
           greatest
           Wound
           to
           that
           cause
           which
           he
           pretends
           to
           Patronize
           ?
           But
           because
           he
           has
           offer'd
           something
           under
           this
           first
           Thesis
           ,
           why
           the
           Prince
           should
           pay
           an
           implicit
           Obedience
           to
           his
           Clergy
           ,
           I
           come
           now
           to
           consider
           it
           .
           
             He
             tells
             us
             therefore
             that
             the
             Prince
             professeth
             Himself
             with
             the
             rest
             of
             the
             Christians
             as
             to
             the
             knowing
             of
             Spiritual
             Truths
             a
             Subject
             and
             Scholar
             of
             the
             Church
             ;
             and
             he
             earnestly
             claims
             a
             Supreme
             power
             and
             confesseth
             an
             Obligation
             from
             God
             over
             all
             Persons
             in
             all
             Spiritual
             Matters
             to
             bind
             them
             upon
             Temporal
             Punishments
             to
             Obedience
             of
             the
             Churches
             (
             or
             Clergy's
             )
             Determinations
             and
             Decrees
             .
          
           But
           here
           he
           either
           willingly
           misrepresents
           ,
           or
           ignorantly
           mistakes
           our
           Principles
           ;
           For
           the
           Prince
           claims
           a
           supreme
           power
           over
           all
           persons
           ,
           to
           bind
           them
           by
           temporal
           Punishments
           to
           the
           Obedience
           not
           of
           the
           Churches
           ,
           but
           of
           Christs
           Laws
           ;
           or
           of
           the
           former
           ,
           no
           farther
           then
           they
           are
           agreeable
           with
           the
           latter
           .
           But
           ,
           saith
           He
           ,
           
             
             if
             the
             Prince
             meaneth
             here
             only
             where
             himself
             first
             judgeth
             such
             their
             Decrees
             Orthodox
             and
             right
             ,
             this
             power
             is
             in
             effect
             claim'd
             to
             bind
             all
             persons
             in
             all
             Spiritual
             matters
             only
             to
             his
             own
             Decrees
             ;
             whilst
             he
             praetends
             an
             Obligation
             both
             of
             himself
             and
             His
             Subjects
             to
             the
             Churches
             .
          
           But
           ,
           what
           if
           the
           Prince
           judge
           such
           Decrees
           neither
           Orthodox
           nor
           right
           ?
           Must
           he
           here
           give
           them
           the
           Autority
           of
           Civil
           Sanctions
           ?
           This
           is
           to
           establish
           Iniquity
           by
           a
           Law
           ;
           and
           a
           power
           is
           claim'd
           in
           effect
           to
           bind
           all
           persons
           to
           the
           Decrees
           of
           the
           Clergy
           ,
           whilst
           ,
           as
           has
           been
           said
           ,
           He
           praetends
           an
           Obligation
           of
           Himself
           &
           Subjects
           to
           the
           Laws
           of
           Christ.
           But
           he
           goes
           on
           and
           tells
           us
           ,
           
             That
             all
             Texts
             of
             the
             New-Testament
             do
             ordain
             Obedience
             of
             Church-men
             to
             the
             Pagan
             Princes
             ,
             that
             then
             Reigned
             ,
             no
             less
             then
             to
             others
             .
          
           From
           which
           I
           suppose
           he
           would
           infer
           an
           exemption
           from
           Obeying
           the
           Prince
           in
           Spiritualibus
           .
           But
           supposing
           that
           all
           Texts
           do
           aequally
           ordain
           Obedience
           to
           Princes
           Pagan
           ,
           and
           Christain
           ,
           yet
           the
           Obedience
           to
           a
           Christian
           Prince
           will
           be
           of
           greater
           latitude
           ,
           since
           because
           he
           professes
           the
           true
           Religion
           ,
           his
           Commands
           in
           Spirituals
           not
           contradicting
           our
           Saviours
           will
           exact
           our
           Compliance
           .
           Obedience
           in
           licitis
           is
           all
           the
           Subject
           ow's
           to
           a
           Prince
           either
           Christian
           or
           Infidel
           ;
           but
           the
           Christian
           Prince
           will
           oftner
           challenge
           my
           Obedience
           ,
           because
           he
           more
           rarely
           transgresseth
           the
           bounds
           of
           licita
           .
           If
           as
           he
           adds
           ,
           
             all
             Princes
             are
             oblig'd
             with
             the
             Sword
             which
             God
             hath
             given
             them
             to
             protect
             and
             defend
             his
             true
             Religion
             ,
             and
             Service
             in
             their
             Dominions
             ,
             whensoever
             it
             offers
             it self
             to
             them
             ;
          
           Since
           many
           Religions
           offer
           themselves
           ,
           it
           becomes
           the
           Prince
           to
           take
           Care
           which
           is
           the
           true
           ;
           and
           not
           to
           take
           ,
           whatever
           is
           offer'd
           ;
           which
           would
           be
           utterly
           destructive
           of
           our
           Authors
           Principles
           .
           As
           for
           the
           
             Acts
             of
             Ancient
             Councils
             obliging
             even
             without
             the
             Emperours
             consent
             ,
          
           We
           own
           their
           Obligation
           
           over
           their
           proper
           Subjects
           ,
           so
           far
           as
           they
           were
           agreeable
           with
           the
           Laws
           of
           Christ
           ,
           and
           his
           Apostles
           ;
           and
           urge
           the
           Autority
           of
           Emperours
           no
           farther
           then
           as
           adding
           their
           Civil
           power
           to
           the
           Spiritual
           Power
           of
           the
           Church
           .
           And
           here
           we
           challenge
           no
           other
           Power
           to
           our
           Princes
           ,
           then
           was
           exercis'd
           by
           Christian
           Emperours
           ,
           that
           is
           ,
           to
           call
           Synods
           ,
           and
           to
           have
           a
           liberty
           of
           confirming
           ,
           or
           not
           confirming
           their
           Decrees
           by
           Civil
           Sanctions
           .
           As
           for
           what
           he
           cites
           out
           of
           our
           Writers
           ,
           all
           amounts
           to
           no
           more
           then
           this
           ,
           that
           there
           are
           some
           Offices
           peculiar
           to
           the
           Church
           ;
           Which
           neither
           do
           we
           deny
           ,
           nor
           did
           our
           Princes
           ever
           invade
           these
           Functions
           .
           But
           because
           from
           hence
           He
           would
           insinuate
           that
           the
           Prince
           has
           no
           power
           at
           all
           in
           Causes
           Ecclesiastical
           ,
           &
           in
           his
           Citations
           from
           these
           Writers
           comes
           up
           to
           that
           Character
           which
           the
           *
           
             Book
             of
             Education
          
           gives
           us
           of
           
             the
             SLY
             ,
             the
             CLOSE
             ,
             and
             the
             RESERV'D
             ,
             who
             take
             notice
             of
             so
             much
             as
             serves
             to
             their
             own
             designs
             ,
             and
             misinterpret
             and
             detort
             what
             You
             say
             even
             contrary
             to
             Your
             intention
          
           ;
           I
           shall
           as
           briefly
           as
           may
           be
           shew
           that
           their
           Concessions
           are
           far
           from
           giving
           any
           Countenance
           to
           his
           Cause
           .
           Bishop
           Andrews
           doth
           indeed
           say
           (
           as
           all
           other
           of
           our
           Church
           )
           
             Potestatis
             mere
             Sacerdotalis
             sunt
             Liturgi●e
             ,
             Conciones
             .
          
           i.
           e.
           
             dubia
             legis
             explicandi
             munus
             ;
             claves
             ,
             Sacramenta
             ,
             &
             omnia
             quae
             potestatem
             ordinis
             consequuntur
          
           ;
           But
           then
           there
           are
           other
           Ecclesiastical
           powers
           which
           he
           challenges
           to
           the
           Prince
           ;
           viz.
           a
           To
           have
           Supreme
           Command
           in
           the
           exteriour
           Polity
           of
           the
           Church
           ;
           b
           To
           be
           keeper
           of
           both
           Tables
           ;
           c
           To
           exercise
           all
           that
           Power
           which
           the
           good
           Kings
           of
           Israel
           did
           ;
           d
           To
           make
           Ecclesiastical
           Laws
           ;
           To
           e
           delegate
           Persons
           to
           judge
           in
           
           causes
           Ecclesiastical
           ;
           To
           f
           punish
           the
           breach
           of
           those
           Spiritual
           Laws
           ;
           To
           g
           learn
           the
           will
           of
           God
           not
           only
           from
           the
           Mouth
           of
           the
           Clergy
           ,
           but
           also
           from
           the
           Scripture
           ;
           To
           h
           have
           autority
           over
           all
           Persons
           ;
           To
           i
           eject
           even
           the
           High
           Priest
           if
           he
           deserve
           it
           ;
           To
           k
           pull
           down
           High-places
           l
           ;
           and
           to
           Reform
           the
           Church
           from
           Idolatry
           and
           Superstition
           .
           These
           He
           claims
           to
           appertain
           to
           the
           Prince
           m
           
             Iure
             Divino
          
           .
        
         
           The
           next
           Author
           is
           Dr.
           Carlton
           .
           He
           amongst
           other
           rights
           of
           the
           Church
           reckons
           Institution
           and
           Collation
           of
           Benefices
           ,
           which
           this
           Writer
           marks
           with
           
             Italian
             Characters
          
           ,
           and
           makes
           much
           Use
           of
           .
           But
           this
           Apostolical
           Institution
           and
           Collation
           by
           the
           Bishop
           alluded
           to
           ,
           doth
           also
           involve
           in
           it
           Ordination
           ,
           even
           as
           the
           Ordination
           (
           which
           is
           observ'd
           by
           himself
           n
           from
           the
           Bishop
           )
           signified
           also
           Institution
           in
           the
           charge
           and
           cure
           .
           But
           the
           Collation
           challeng'd
           by
           our
           Princes
           is
           of
           another
           Nature
           ,
           and
           signifies
           no
           more
           then
           the
           Nominating
           a
           Person
           to
           be
           Ordain'd
           to
           such
           an
           Office
           ,
           or
           presenting
           a
           Person
           already
           Ordained
           to
           such
           a
           Benefice
           ;
           And
           the
           right
           of
           Investitures
           (
           which
           is
           the
           same
           with
           such
           a
           Collation
           )
           is
           by
           this
           Bishop
           o
           asserted
           to
           Emperours
           .
           This
           being
           clear'd
           which
           was
           by
           him
           on
           purpose
           perplex'd
           ,
           If
           we
           take
           the
           extent
           of
           the
           Regal
           power
           from
           this
           Bishop
           ,
           He
           tells
           p
           us
           ,
           That
           Sovereign's
           as
           Nursing
           Fathers
           of
           the
           Chu●●●
           are
           to
           see
           that
           Bishops
           and
           all
           Inferiour
           Ministers
           perform
           their
           faithfull
           duties
           in
           
           their
           several
           places
           ,
           and
           if
           they
           be
           found
           faulty
           to
           punish
           them
           .
        
         
           His
           next
           Author
           is
           Mr.
           Thorndike
           ,
           Who
           is
           as
           large
           as
           any
           one
           in
           the
           Vindication
           of
           the
           Churches
           rights
           ;
           and
           Yet
           He
           tells
           us
           q
           ,
           that
           No
           man
           will
           refuse
           Christian
           Princes
           the
           Interest
           of
           protecting
           the
           Church
           against
           all
           such
           Acts
           as
           may
           prove
           praejudicial
           to
           the
           common
           Faith.
           He
           holds
           (
           as
           this
           Writer
           with
           great
           concern
           r
           observes
           )
           that
           the
           Secular
           power
           may
           restore
           any
           law
           ,
           which
           Christ
           or
           his
           Apostles
           have
           ordained
           ,
           not
           only
           against
           a
           Major
           part
           ,
           but
           all
           the
           Clergy
           and
           Governours
           of
           the
           Church
           ;
           and
           may
           ,
           for
           a
           Paenalty
           of
           their
           opposing
           it
           ,
           suppress
           their
           power
           and
           commit
           it
           to
           others
           ,
           tho'
           they
           also
           be
           establish'd
           by
           another
           Law
           Apostolical
           .
           Thus
           
             that
             considerative
             man
             ,
             who
             held
             not
             the
             Pope
             to
             be
             Antichrist
             ,
             or
             the
             Hierarchy
             of
             the
             Church
             to
             be
             followers
             of
             Antichrist
          
           s
           .
        
         
           Bishop
           Taylour
           (
           his
           next
           Author
           )
           doth
           with
           the
           rest
           assert
           ,
           that
           the
           Episcopal
           Office
           has
           some
           powers
           annex'd
           to
           it
           ,
           independent
           on
           the
           Regal
           ;
           But
           then
           he
           farther
           lays
           down
           these
           Rules
           ,
           t
           That
           the
           Supreme
           Civil-power
           is
           also
           Supreme
           Governour
           over
           all
           Persons
           ,
           and
           in
           all
           Causes
           ;
           u
           Hath
           a
           Legislative
           power
           in
           Affairs
           of
           Religion
           and
           the
           Church
           ;
           x
           Hath
           Jurisdiction
           in
           causes
           not
           only
           Ecclesiastical
           ,
           but
           also
           Internal
           and
           Spiritual
           ;
           y
           Hath
           autority
           to
           convene
           and
           dissolve
           all
           Synods
           Ecclesiastical
           ;
           z
           Is
           (
           indeed
           )
           to
           govern
           in
           Causes
           Ecclesiastical
           by
           the
           means
           and
           measure
           of
           Christ's
           Institutions
           ,
           
             i.
             e.
          
           by
           the
           Assistance
           and
           Ministry
           of
           Ecclesiastical
           Persons
           ;
           a
           but
           that
           there
           may
           happen
           a
           case
           in
           which
           Princes
           
           may
           and
           must
           refuse
           to
           confirm
           the
           Synodical
           decrees
           ,
           Sentences
           ,
           and
           Judgments
           of
           Ecclesiastics
           ;
           b
           That
           Censures
           Ecclesiastical
           are
           to
           be
           inflicted
           by
           the
           consent
           and
           concurrence
           of
           the
           Supreme
           Civil
           power
           .
        
         
           The
           next
           Author
           cited
           is
           the
           Learned
           Primate
           Bramhal
           ;
           and
           We
           have
           here
           reason
           to
           wonder
           that
           one
           Who
           praetends
           to
           have
           been
           conversant
           in
           his
           Writings
           ,
           dares
           appear
           in
           the
           Vindication
           of
           a
           Cause
           ,
           which
           the
           Learned
           Author
           has
           so
           longe
           since
           so
           shamefully
           defeated
           .
           As
           for
           the
           right
           of
           Sovereign
           Princes
           ,
           This
           Arch-Bishop
           will
           tell
           c
           him
           ,
           
             That
             to
             affirm
             that
             Sovereign
             Princes
             cannot
             make
             Ecclesiastical
             Constitutions
             under
             a
             Civil
             pain
             ,
             or
             that
             they
             cannot
             (
             especially
             with
             the
             advice
             and
             concurrence
             of
             their
             Clergy
             assembled
             in
             a
             National
             Synod
             )
             reform
             errors
             and
             abuses
             ,
             and
             remedy
             Incroachments
             ,
             and
             Usurpations
             in
             Faith
             or
             Discipline
             ,
             is
             contrary
             to
             the
             sense
             and
             practise
             of
             all
             Antiquity
             ,
             and
             as
             for
             matter
             of
             Fact
             He
             will
             instruct
             him
             ,
             d
             that
             our
             kings
             from
             time
             to
             time
             call'd
             Councils
             ,
             made
             Ecclesiastical
             Laws
             ,
             punish'd
             Ecclesiastical
             Persons
             ,
             saw
             that
             they
             did
             their
             duties
             in
             their
             calling
             &c.
             
          
           From
           this
           Bishop's
           acknowledgment
           ,
           that
           the
           Bishops
           are
           the
           proper
           Judges
           of
           the
           Canon
           ,
           this
           Author
           that
           He
           may
           according
           to
           the
           Language
           of
           a
           *
           modern
           Pen
           ,
           as
           well
           
             waken
             the
             Taciturn
             with
             Quaestions
             ,
             as
             silence
             the
             Loquacious
             with
             baffling
             fallacies
             ,
          
           takes
           Occasion
           briskly
           to
           ask
           whether
           
             this
             Bishop
             doth
             not
             mean
             here
             that
             the
             Bishops
             may
             both
             compose
             and
             execute
             Canons
             in
             the
             King's
             Dominions
             ,
             and
             use
             Ecclesiastical
             Censures
             by
             their
             own
             Autority
             ?
             But
             see
             ,
             saith
             He
             ,
             the
             Bishops
             depriv'd
             of
             the
             former
             power
             in
             the
             Reformation
             .
          
           To
           which
           I
           answer
           that
           the
           power
           of
           which
           they
           were
           depriv'd
           
           in
           the
           Reformation
           was
           only
           of
           such
           an
           executing
           the
           Canons
           as
           carried
           with
           it
           pecuniary
           and
           corporal
           Punishments
           ,
           and
           this
           power
           the
           Bishop
           has
           told
           him
           they
           could
           not
           Exercise
           by
           their
           own
           Autority
           .
           And
           here
           it
           were
           to
           be
           wish'd
           that
           our
           Author
           in
           reading
           this
           Bishop's
           Works
           had
           made
           use
           of
           his
           advice
           ,
           e
           
             To
             cite
             Authors
             fully
             and
             faithfully
             ,
             not
             by
             halves
             ,
             without
             adding
             to
             ,
             or
             new
             moulding
             their
             Autorities
             according
             to
             Fancy
             or
             Interest
             .
          
        
         
           The
           next
           Advocate
           against
           Regal
           Supremacy
           is
           King
           Charles
           the
           First
           ;
           But
           if
           we
           may
           take
           a
           draught
           of
           that
           Blessed
           Martyr's
           Sentiments
           from
           his
           own
           Portraiture
           ,
           
             f
             He
             did
             not
             think
             his
             Autority
             confin'd
             to
             Civil
             Affairs
             ,
             but
             that
             the
             true
             glory
             of
             Princes
             consists
             as
             well
             in
             advancing
             Gods
             Glory
             in
             the
             maintenance
             of
             true
             Religion
             ,
             and
             the
             Churches
             good
             ;
             as
             in
             the
             Dispensation
             of
             Civil
             power
             with
             Justice
             ,
             and
             Honour
             ,
             to
             the
             publick
             Peace
             .
             g
             He
             thought
             himself
             (
             as
             King
             )
             intrusted
             by
             God
             and
             the
             Laws
             ,
             with
             the
             good
             both
             of
             Church
             and
             State
             ,
             and
             saw
             no
             reason
             why
             he
             should
             give
             up
             ,
             or
             weaken
             by
             any
             change
             ,
             that
             power
             and
             Influence
             which
             in
             right
             and
             reason
             He
             ought
             to
             have
             over
             both
             .
             He
             thought
             himself
             oblig'd
             to
             preserve
             the
             Episcopal
             Government
             in
             its
             right
             Constitution
             ,
             (
             
               not
               because
               his
               Bishops
               told
               him
               so
               ,
               but
            
             )
             because
             his
             Iudgment
             was
             fully
             satisfied
             that
             it
             had
             of
             all
             other
             the
             best
             Scripture
             grounds
             ,
             and
             also
             the
             constant
             practice
             of
             Christian
             Churches
             .
          
           He
           was
           no
           Friend
           of
           implicit
           Obedience
           ,
           but
           after
           he
           has
           told
           the
           Prince
           ,
           h
           that
           the
           best
           Profession
           of
           Religion
           is
           that
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           adds
           
             I
             would
             have
             your
             own
             Iudgment
             and
             reason
             now
             seal
             to
             that
             Sacred
             Bond
             which
             Education
             hath
             written
             ,
             that
             it
             may
             be
             judiciously
             your
             own
             Religion
             ,
             and
             not
             other
             Mens
             Custom
             ,
             
             or
             Tradition
             ,
             which
             you
             profess
             .
          
           He
           did
           not
           give
           that
           glorious
           Testimony
           to
           the
           Religion
           established
           in
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           
             that
             it
             was
             the
             best
             in
             the
             World
             ,
             not
             only
             in
             the
             community
             as
             Christian
             ,
             but
             also
             in
             the
             special
             Notion
             as
             Reformed
             ;
             and
             for
             this
             reason
             required
             and
             intreated
             the
             Prince
             as
             his
             Father
             ,
             and
             his
             King
             ,
             that
             he
             would
             never
             suffer
             his
             Heart
             to
             receive
             the
             least
             check
             against
             ,
             or
             disaffection
             from
             it
             ;
             till
             he
             had
             first
             tried
             it
             ,
             and
             after
             
               much
               search
               ,
               and
               many
               disputes
            
             thus
             concluded
             .
          
        
         
           These
           are
           the
           Sentiments
           of
           our
           Authors
           ,
           in
           which
           if
           I
           have
           been
           over-long
           ,
           the
           Reader
           will
           excuse
           me
           ,
           that
           I
           choose
           rather
           to
           intermix
           something
           useful
           from
           these
           great
           Pens
           ,
           then
           to
           entertain
           him
           altogether
           with
           the
           Paralogisms
           and
           prevarications
           of
           this
           Writer
           .
           There
           is
           nothing
           that
           remains
           considerable
           under
           this
           first
           Thesis
           ,
           but
           his
           Sub-sumption
           ,
           
             that
             whatever
             powers
             belong'd
             to
             the
             Church
             in
             times
             of
             persecution
             ,
             and
             before
             Emperours
             had
             embrac'd
             Christianity
             ,
             are
             ,
             and
             must
             still
             be
             allowed
             to
             belong
             to
             her
             in
             Christian
             States
             .
          
           Which
           I
           conceive
           not
           altogether
           so
           Necessary
           that
           it
           must
           be
           allowed
           ,
           and
           I
           am
           sure
           by
           our
           Authors
           it
           is
           not
           .
           As
           for
           Convening
           of
           Councils
           (
           the
           power
           of
           greatest
           concern
           )
           Bishop
           i
           Andrews
           to
           this
           Quaestion
           (
           
             What
             say
             you
             to
             the
             300
             Years
             before
             Constantine
             ?
             How
             went
             Assemblies
             then
             ?
             Who
             call'd
             them
             all
             that
             while
             ?
             )
             returns
             this
             Answer
             .
             Truly
             as
             the
             people
             of
             the
             Jews
             did
             before
             in
             AEgypt
             under
             the
             tyranny
             of
             Pharaoh
             :
             They
             were
             then
             a
             Church
             under
             persecution
             ,
             until
             Moses
             was
             rais'd
             up
             by
             God
             a
             Lawful
             Magistrate
             over
             them
             .
             The
             cases
             are
             alike
             for
             all
             the
             world
             .
             No
             Magistrate
             did
             assemble
             them
             in
             AEgypt
             ,
             and
             good
             reason
             why
             ;
             they
             had
             none
             to
             do
             it
             .
             But
             this
             was
             no
             barr
             ,
             but
             when
             
             Moses
             arose
             ,
             authoriz'd
             by
             God
             ,
             &
             had
             the
             Trumpets
             by
             God
             deliver'd
             to
             him
             ,
             He
             might
             take
             them
             ,
             keep
             them
             ,
             use
             them
             ,
             for
             that
             end
             ,
             for
             w
             ch
             God
             gave
             them
             ,
             
               to
               assemble
               the
               Congregation
            
             —
             Shall
             Moses
             have
             no
             more
             to
             do
             then
             Pharaoh
             ?
             or
             Constantine
             then
             Nero
             ?
          
           See
           also
           a
           Dr
           Field
           .
        
         
           His
           Third
           Thesis
           is
           ,
           
             That
             the
             Secular
             Prince
             cannot
          
           b
           
             depose
             or
             eject
             from
             the
             exercise
             of
             their
             office
             in
             his
             Dominions
             any
             of
             the
             Clergy
             ,
             nor
             introduce
             others
             into
             the
             place
             of
             the
             ejected
             .
          
           But
           the
           Quaestion
           here
           is
           not
           ,
           Whether
           the
           Prince
           can
           eject
           any
           of
           the
           Clergy
           from
           the
           
             Exercise
             of
             their
             Office
          
           ,
           but
           ,
           Whether
           he
           can
           depose
           any
           for
           
             not
             Exercising
          
           it
           ?
           While
           the
           Clergy
           faithfully
           discharge
           their
           Office
           ,
           the
           Prince
           ought
           to
           protect
           them
           ;
           and
           if
           for
           this
           they
           suffer
           ,
           no
           doubt
           but
           they
           are
           Martyrs
           .
           But
           it
           is
           possible
           they
           may
           abuse
           their
           power
           ,
           and
           then
           it
           is
           to
           be
           enquir'd
           ,
           Whether
           Civil
           Laws
           may
           not
           inhibit
           them
           the
           Use
           of
           it
           ?
           This
           Author
           holds
           the
           Negative
           ,
           and
           tell
           us
           1st
           .
           They
           cannot
           eject
           them
           at
           pleasure
           ,
           without
           giving
           any
           cause
           thereof
           .
           But
           he
           doth
           not
           pretend
           that
           the
           Reforming
           Princes
           ever
           ejected
           any
           without
           a
           Cause
           given
           .
           And
           therefore
           he
           adds
           2ly
           ,
           Neither
           may
           Princes
           depose
           them
           for
           any
           Cause
           which
           concerns
           things
           Spiritual
           ;
           but
           with
           this
           Limitation
           ,
           without
           the
           consent
           of
           the
           Clergy
           .
           I
           could
           wish
           he
           had
           here
           told
           us
           what
           he
           ment
           by
           things
           Spiritual
           .
           For
           things
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           Persons
           Spiritual
           are
           of
           great
           Extent
           .
           (
           d
           Pope
           Paul
           the
           3d
           told
           the
           Duke
           of
           Mantua
           ,
           that
           it
           is
           the
           Opinion
           of
           the
           Doctors
           ,
           that
           Priest's
           Concubines
           are
           of
           Ecclsiastical
           Jurisdiction
           .
           )
           But
           he
           gives
           us
           his
           reason
           for
           his
           assertion
           
             Because
             it
             is
             necessary
             that
             a
             Judge
             to
             be
             a
             competent
             one
             have
             as
             well
             potestatem
             in
             causam
             ,
             as
             in
             Personam
             ,
             and
             the
             Prince
             as
             has
             been
             mention'd
             in
             the
             
               1st
               Thesis
            
             has
             no
             Autority
             to
             judge
             such
             Causes
             purely
             
             Spiritual
             .
          
           Now
           the
           power
           denied
           to
           the
           Prince
           in
           the
           
             Ist
             Thesis
          
           is
           to
           determine
           matters
           of
           Faith.
           But
           may
           not
           the
           Prince
           judge
           whether
           an
           Ecclesiastick
           deserves
           Deprivation
           without
           determining
           a
           Matter
           of
           Faith
           ?
           May
           not
           he
           judge
           according
           to
           what
           has
           been
           already
           determin'd
           by
           the
           Church
           ?
           Or
           may
           not
           he
           appoint
           such
           Delegates
           as
           can
           determine
           matters
           of
           Faith
           ?
           Or
           are
           all
           the
           Causes
           ,
           for
           which
           a
           Clergy-man
           may
           be
           depriv'd
           ,
           merely
           Spiritual
           ?
           By
           Virtue
           of
           this
           Thesis
           he
           proves
           the
           Ejection
           of
           the
           
             Western
             Patriarch
          
           unlawful
           .
           
           Now
           was
           not
           this
           Matter
           of
           Faith
           already
           determin'd
           by
           the
           Clergy
           ?
           Had
           they
           not
           unanimously
           decreed
           ,
           That
           he
           had
           no
           more
           Autority
           here
           ,
           then
           any
           other
           forreign
           Bishop
           ?
           And
           can
           the
           King
           be
           said
           here
           to
           have
           acted
           
             without
             the
             consent
             of
             the
             Clergy
             ?
          
           And
           yet
           that
           matter
           of
           fact
           is
           applied
           to
           this
           Thesis
           .
           As
           for
           the
           Ejection
           of
           the
           Bishops
           in
           King
           Edward's
           time
           ;
           is
           not
           that
           confest
           to
           have
           been
           
             for
             not
             acknowledging
             the
             Regal
             Supremacy
             ?
          
           
           But
           this
           was
           a
           matter
           which
           wanted
           no
           new
           Determination
           ,
           for
           the
           Church-Autority
           had
           decided
           it
           in
           their
           Synod
           in
           King
           Henry's
           Reign
           .
           But
           it
           is
           said
           ,
           
             the
             Judges
             were
             not
             Canonical
             ,
             as
             being
             the
             King's
             Commissioners
             ,
             part
             Clergy
             ,
             part
             Laity
             .
          
           But
           neither
           was
           the
           cause
           purely
           Canonical
           ;
           for
           denying
           the
           Supremacy
           was
           not
           only
           an
           infringment
           of
           the
           Canon
           ,
           but
           also
           a
           Violation
           of
           an
           Act
           of
           Parliament
           .
           As
           for
           the
           Bishops
           ,
           Bonner
           and
           Gardiner
           ,
           they
           were
           accus'd
           for
           not
           asserting
           the
           Civil
           power
           of
           the
           King
           in
           his
           Nonage
           .
           Nor
           do
           they
           plead
           Conscience
           for
           not
           doing
           it
           ,
           but
           deny
           the
           Matter
           of
           Fact
           *
           The
           same
           Objections
           were
           then
           made
           against
           their
           Deprivation
           ,
           as
           are
           reassum'd
           by
           this
           Author
           now
           ;
           and
           therefore
           it
           may
           suffice
           to
           return
           the
           same
           answers
           .
           
             That
             the
             Sentence
             being
             only
             of
             Deprivation
             
             privation
             from
             their
             Sees
             ,
             it
             was
             not
             so
             entirely
             of
             Ecclesiastical
             Censure
             ,
             but
             was
             of
             a
             mix'd
             nature
             ,
             so
             that
             Lay-men
             might
             joyn
             in
             it
             ;
             &
             since
             they
             had
             taken
             Commissions
             from
             the
             King
             for
             their
             Bishopricks
             ,
             by
             which
             they
             held
             them
             only
             during
             the
             Kings
             pleasure
             ,
             they
             could
             not
             complain
             of
             their
             Deprivation
             ,
             which
             was
             done
             by
             the
             King's
             Autority
             .
             Others
             who
             look'd
             farther
             back
             ,
             remembred
             that
             Constantine
             the
             Emp.
             had
             appointed
             Secular
             Men
             to
             enquire
             into
             some
             things
             objected
             to
             Bishops
             ,
             who
             were
             call'd
             Cognitores
             ,
             or
             Triers
             ;
             and
             such
             had
             examin'd
             the
             business
             of
             Coecilian
             Bishop
             of
             Carthage
             ,
             even
             upon
             an
             Appeal
             ,
             after
             it
             had
             been
             tried
             by
             several
             Synods
             ;
             and
             given
             Judgment
             against
             Donatus
             ,
             and
             his
             party
             .
             The
             same
             Constantine
             had
             also
             by
             his
             Autority
             put
             Eustathius
             out
             of
             
               Antioch
               ,
               Athanasius
            
             out
             of
             Alexandria
             ,
             and
             Paul
             out
             of
             Constantinople
             ;
             and
             though
             the
             Orthodox
             Bishops
             complain'd
             of
             their
             particulars
             ,
             as
             done
             unjustly
             at
             the
             false
             suggestion
             of
             the
             Arrians
             ,
             yet
             they
             did
             not
             deny
             the
             Autority
             of
             the
             Emperors
             in
             such
             cases
             .
          
           
           But
           neither
           is
           the
           Arch-Bishop
           of
           Canterbury
           by
           this
           Author
           allow'd
           to
           be
           a
           proper
           Judge
           ;
           &
           that
           ,
           
             because
             He
             did
             not
             Act
             by
             his
             Canonical
             Superiority
             in
             the
             Church
             ,
             but
             by
             the
             Autority
             he
             joyntly
             with
             the
             rest
             receiv'd
             from
             the
             King
          
           ;
           As
           if
           he
           had
           ever
           the
           less
           the
           power
           of
           a
           Metropolitan
           ,
           because
           He
           was
           also
           the
           King's
           Commissioner
           .
           By
           this
           way
           of
           arguing
           the
           Decrees
           of
           Oecumenical
           Councils
           will
           be
           invalid
           ,
           because
           they
           were
           call'd
           to
           determine
           Controversies
           by
           the
           command
           of
           Emperors
           .
           But
           how
           Uncanonical
           soever
           King
           Edward's
           Bishops
           are
           said
           to
           have
           been
           ,
           He
           does
           not
           except
           against
           Queen
           Mary's
           Bishops
           ,
           tho'
           they
           in
           depriving
           the
           Reformed
           ,
           acted
           by
           Commission
           from
           the
           Queen
           .
           As
           for
           the
           Bishops
           ejected
           in
           Q.
           Elizabeth's
           time
           ,
           it
           has
           been
           already
           said
           it
           was
           for
           a
           Civil
           cause
           ,
           
             i.
             e.
          
           refusing
           the
           
           Oath
           of
           Supremacy
           ;
           which
           why
           it
           should
           be
           lawful
           in
           her
           Father's
           time
           ,
           and
           unlawful
           in
           her's
           ;
           why
           it
           should
           be
           contriv'd
           by
           Roman
           Catholics
           in
           that
           Reign
           ,
           and
           scrupled
           by
           the
           same
           Roman
           Catholics
           in
           this
           ;
           Why
           it
           should
           be
           inoffensive
           ,
           when
           exprest
           in
           larger
           terms
           ,
           and
           scandalous
           ,
           when
           mitigated
           ;
           whence
           on
           a
           sudden
           the
           Refusers
           espied
           so
           much
           Obliquity
           in
           that
           Oath
           ,
           which
           they
           had
           all
           took
           before
           probably
           either
           as
           Bishops
           or
           Priests
           in
           the
           reigns
           of
           King
           Henry
           the
           8th
           ,
           and
           Edward
           the
           6th
           ;
           whence
           this
           change
           of
           things
           proceeded
           ,
           unless
           from
           secret
           intimations
           from
           Rome
           ,
           or
           their
           own
           Obstinacy
           ,
           will
           not
           easily
           be
           conjectur'd
           .
           As
           for
           his
           
             Note
             ,
             that
             what
             is
             sayd
             of
             the
             other
             Clergy
             ,
             may
             be
             said
             likewise
             of
             the
             Patriarch
             ,
             for
             any
             Autority
             which
             he
             stands
             posses'd
             of
             by
             such
             Ecclesiastical
             Canons
             ,
             as
             cannot
             justly
             be
             pretended
             to
             do
             any
             wrong
             to
             the
             Civil
             Government
             .
          
           He
           has
           been
           often
           told
           by
           our
           Authors
           ,
           that
           Patriarchs
           are
           an
           Humane
           Institution
           ;
           That
           as
           they
           were
           erected
           ,
           so
           they
           may
           be
           dissolv'd
           by
           the
           Prudence
           of
           Men
           ;
           that
           as
           they
           were
           erected
           by
           leave
           and
           confirmation
           of
           Princes
           ,
           so
           they
           may
           be
           dissolv'd
           by
           the
           same
           ;
           that
           the
           Bishop
           of
           Romes
           Patriarchate
           doth
           not
           extend
           beyond
           the
           sub-urbicary
           Churches
           ;
           that
           we
           are
           without
           the
           reach
           of
           his
           Jurisdiction
           ,
           and
           therefore
           that
           the
           power
           claim'd
           over
           us
           is
           an
           Invasion
           ;
           that
           did
           not
           Popes
           think
           fit
           to
           dispence
           with
           themselves
           for
           Perjury
           ,
           having
           sworn
           to
           keep
           inviolably
           the
           Decrees
           of
           the
           Eight
           first
           General
           Councils
           ,
           they
           would
           not
           in
           plain
           opposition
           to
           the
           a
           Nicene
           and
           b
           Ephesine
           
           Canons
           pretend
           to
           any
           Jurisdiction
           over
           us
           ;
           That
           they
           so
           invading
           ought
           to
           be
           judg'd
           by
           a
           free
           Oecumenical
           Synod
           if
           such
           an
           one
           could
           be
           had
           ;
           but
           that
           this
           Remedy
           being
           praecluded
           us
           ,
           Each
           National
           Church
           has
           liberty
           to
           free
           her self
           from
           such
           Usurpation
           ;
           that
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           pleads
           the
           benefit
           of
           this
           Right
           ;
           and
           her
           Sovereigns
           having
           power
           to
           transfer
           Bishopricks
           ,
           might
           remove
           the
           Patriarchate
           from
           Rome
           to
           Canterbury
           ,
           and
           justly
           exclude
           any
           forreign
           Praelate
           from
           Jurisdiction
           within
           their
           Territories
           ;
           But
           that
           the
           power
           claim'd
           by
           the
           Pope
           (
           however
           mollified
           by
           the
           Novices
           of
           that
           Church
           )
           is
           more
           then
           Patriarchal
           ,
           and
           that
           it
           is
           not
           our
           Rule
           (
           which
           this
           Author
           so
           much
           dislikes
           )
           but
           Pope
           Leo's
           the
           c
           1st
           ,
           that
           
             propria
             perdit
             ,
             qui
             indebita
             concupiscit
             .
          
           This
           plea
           of
           a
           Western
           Patriarchate
           is
           fatally
           confounded
           by
           that
           one
           plain
           Period
           of
           Bishop
           d
           Bilson
           .
           
             As
             for
             his
             Patriarchate
             ,
             by
             God's
             law
             he
             hath
             none
             ;
             in
             this
             Realm
             for
             Six
             Hundred
             years
             after
             Christ
             he
             had
             none
             ;
             for
             the
             last
             6
             Hundred
             years
             looking
             after
             greater
             matters
             he
             
               would
               have
            
             none
             ;
             Above
             or
             against
             the
             Princes
             Sword
             he
             can
             have
             none
             ;
             to
             the
             subversion
             of
             the
             Faith
             ,
             and
             Oppression
             of
             his
             Brethren
             he
             
               ought
               to
               have
            
             none
             ;
             He
             must
             seek
             farther
             for
             Subjection
             to
             his
             Tribunal
             ;
             this
             land
             oweth
             him
             none
             .
          
        
         
           So
           much
           for
           the
           first
           branch
           of
           this
           Thesis
           ;
           the
           2d
           is
           ,
           
           that
           
             as
             the
             Prince
             cannot
             eject
             ,
             or
             depose
             the
             Clergy
             ,
             so
             neither
             can
             be
             introduce
             any
             into
             the
             place
             of
             those
             ,
             who
             are
             ejected
             ,
             or
             deceas'd
             without
             the
             concurrence
             of
             the
             Clergy
             .
          
           If
           by
           the
           concurrence
           of
           the
           Clergy
           ,
           he
           means
           that
           the
           Person
           assign'd
           by
           the
           Prince
           to
           any
           sacred
           office
           cannot
           execute
           it
           till
           he
           be
           ordain'd
           by
           the
           Clergy
           ,
           No
           one
           will
           deny
           it
           ;
           Or
           if
           he
           think
           that
           the
           Ordainer
           ought
           to
           lay
           hands
           on
           none
           but
           whom
           he
           esteems
           fit
           for
           the
           discharge
           of
           so
           sacred
           an
           Office
           ;
           here
           also
           we
           agree
           with
           him
           ;
           But
           how
           doth
           it
           follow
           that
           because
           Ordination
           ,
           which
           is
           consecrating
           Men
           to
           the
           work
           of
           the
           Holy
           Ministry
           ,
           is
           the
           proper
           Office
           of
           the
           Clergy
           ,
           the
           Prince
           may
           not
           recommend
           to
           the
           Church
           a
           fit
           Person
           so
           to
           be
           consecrated
           ,
           or
           assign
           to
           the
           Person
           already
           consecrated
           ,
           the
           place
           where
           he
           shall
           perform
           that
           Holy
           Work
           ?
           As
           for
           the
           Canons
           by
           him
           alledg'd
           ,
           they
           being
           Humane
           Institutions
           are
           not
           of
           AEternal
           Obligation
           ,
           but
           changeable
           according
           to
           the
           different
           State
           of
           the
           Church
           .
           If
           the
           31st
           Apostolick
           Canon
           ,
           which
           excommunicates
           all
           who
           gain
           Benefices
           by
           the
           Interest
           of
           Secular
           Princes
           ,
           and
           forbids
           the
           People
           to
           communicate
           with
           them
           ,
           still
           oblige
           ;
           then
           we
           are
           exempted
           from
           Communion
           with
           the
           Bishop
           of
           Rome
           .
           How
           comes
           the
           latter
           part
           of
           the
           6th
           Canon
           of
           the
           Nicene
           Council
           which
           concerns
           the
           Election
           of
           Bishops
           still
           to
           be
           valid
           ,
           and
           the
           former
           part
           ,
           which
           limits
           the
           Jurisdiction
           of
           Patriarchs
           ,
           so
           long
           since
           to
           be
           null
           ?
           Why
           must
           the
           C.
           of
           England
           accept
           the
           2d
           .
           Nicene
           Council
           in
           matters
           of
           Discipline
           ,
           which
           the
           *
           Gallican
           Church
           rejected
           in
           matters
           of
           Faith
           ?
           Were
           the
           Canon
           of
           the
           Laodicean
           Council
           ,
           here
           cited
           ,
           pertinent
           to
           the
           purpose
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           not
           ,
           (
           it
           being
           directed
           only
           against
           popular
           Elections
           )
           yet
           why
           must
           that
           be
           indispensable
           ,
           when
           another
           Canon
           ,
           which
           enumerates
           the
           Canonical
           books
           of
           Scripture
           ,
           
           has
           so
           little
           Autority
           ?
           It
           is
           plain
           the
           manners
           of
           Elections
           have
           varied
           much
           in
           the
           divers
           States
           of
           the
           Church
           .
           The
           Apostles
           and
           Apostolical
           Persons
           nominated
           their
           Successors
           ;
           afterwards
           Bishops
           were
           chose
           by
           the
           Clergy
           ,
           and
           the
           people
           ;
           after
           ,
           by
           the
           Bishops
           of
           the
           Province
           ,
           the
           Metropolitan
           ratifying
           the
           choice
           ;
           In
           process
           of
           time
           Emperors
           ,
           when
           become
           Christian
           ,
           interpos'd
           and
           constituted
           and
           confirm'd
           even
           Popes
           themselves
           *
           .
           Nor
           is
           this
           Power
           of
           Princes
           repugnant
           to
           Holy
           Scripture
           ,
           in
           which
           we
           find
           that
           *
           King
           Solomon
           put
           
             Zadok
             the
             Priest
             in
             the
             Room
             of
             Abiathar
          
           ;
           That
           *
           Jehosaphat
           set
           
             Amariah
             the
             Chief-Priest
             over
             the
             People
             in
             all
             matters
             of
             the
             Lord
             :
          
           That
           He
           *
           
             set
             of
             the
             Levites
             ,
             and
             of
             the
             Priests
             ,
             and
             of
             the
             Chief
             Fathers
             of
             Israel
             ,
             for
             the
             Iudgment
             of
             the
             Lord
             ,
             and
             for
             Controversies
             .
          
           As
           for
           his
           alledg'd
           Inconvenience
           ,
           that
           ,
           
             if
             temporal
             Governors
             can
             place
             ,
             and
             displace
             the
             Clergy
             ,
             they
             will
             make
             the
             Churches
             Synods
             to
             state
             divine
             matters
             according
             to
             their
             own
             minds
             ,
             and
             so
             the
             Church
             will
             not
             be
             praeserv'd
             incorrupt
             in
             her
             Doctrine
             and
             Discipline
             ,
          
           They
           who
           maintain
           the
           just
           rights
           of
           the
           Prince
           are
           not
           obliged
           to
           defend
           the
           abuse
           of
           them
           ;
           there
           is
           perhaps
           no
           power
           ordain'd
           for
           our
           good
           ,
           which
           may
           not
           be
           perverted
           to
           mischief
           ;
           were
           this
           right
           of
           placing
           and
           displacing
           left
           to
           a
           Patriarch
           or
           a
           Synod
           ,
           yet
           either
           of
           these
           might
           so
           manage
           their
           trust
           that
           a
           corrupted
           majority
           of
           Clergy
           might
           state
           divine
           matters
           according
           to
           their
           own
           minds
           ,
           and
           so
           the
           Doctrines
           of
           Christ
           be
           chang'd
           for
           the
           Traditions
           of
           men
           .
           But
           to
           these
           objected
           Injuries
           which
           the
           Church
           may
           suffer
           from
           a
           bad
           Prince
           ,
           we
           ought
           to
           oppose
           the
           benefit
           she
           receives
           from
           the
           Protection
           of
           a
           good
           one
           ;
           Nor
           is
           it
           more
           true
           that
           
             Constantius
             an
             Arrian
             ,
             by
             his
             unjustly
             displacing
             the
             Orthodox
             Bishops
             ,
             procur'd
             Arrianism
             to
             be
             voted
             in
             several
             Eastern
             Synods
             ,
          
           then
           that
           the
           succeeding
           Emperors
           by
           
           justly
           displacing
           the
           Arrian
           Bishops
           procur'd
           the
           Nicene
           Faith
           to
           be
           receiv'd
           in
           succeeding
           Synods
           .
           But
           for
           these
           mischiefs
           ,
           which
           a
           National
           Synod
           is
           liable
           to
           ,
           our
           Author
           has
           found
           out
           ,
           as
           he
           thinks
           ,
           a
           Remedy
           in
           his
        
         
           Fourth
           Thesis
           ,
           
             That
             a
             Provincial
             ,
             or
             National
             Synod
             may
             not
             lawfully
             make
             any
             difinitions
             in
             matters
             of
             Faith
             ,
             or
             in
             reforming
             some
             Error
             ,
             or
             Heresy
             ,
             or
             other
             abuse
             in
             God's
             Service
             contrary
             to
             the
             Decrees
             of
             former
             Superior
             Synods
             ,
             or
             contrary
             to
             the
             judgment
             of
             the
             Church
             Vniversal
             of
             the
             present
             Age
             Shew'd
             in
             her
             publick
             Liturgies
             .
          
           But
           there
           is
           a
           Thesis
           in
           our
           Bibles
           ,
           which
           seems
           to
           me
           the
           very
           contradictory
           of
           this
           .
           For
           saith
           the
           Prophet
           expresly
           ,
           *
           
             Though
             Israel
             transgress
             ,
             yet
             let
             not
             Iudah
             Sin.
          
           Tho'
           ten
           tribes
           continue
           corrupted
           in
           their
           Faith
           ,
           yet
           let
           the
           remaining
           Tribe
           take
           care
           to
           reform
           her self
           .
           For
           that
           Iudah
           had
           sinned
           ,
           and
           consequently
           was
           here
           commanded
           to
           reform
           is
           plain
           from
           the
           words
           of
           Scripture
           ,
           where
           it
           is
           said
           ,
           that
           *
           
             Iudah
             kept
             not
             the
             Commandments
             of
             the
             Lord
             her
             God
             ,
             but
             walk'd
             in
             the
             Statutes
             of
             Israel
             which
             they
             made
             .
          
           But
           this
           argument
           of
           National
           Councils
           reforming
           without
           the
           leave
           of
           General
           has
           been
           manag'd
           with
           so
           great
           Learning
           and
           Demonstration
           by
           Arch-Bishop
           Laud
           in
           his
           Discourse
           with
           Fisher
           ,
           and
           his
           Lordship's
           Arguments
           so
           clearly
           vindicated
           by
           the
           Reverend
           D.
           Stillingfleet
           ,
           that
           as
           it
           is
           great
           Praesumption
           in
           this
           Author
           to
           offer
           any
           thing
           in
           a
           cause
           which
           has
           had
           the
           Honour
           to
           have
           suffer'd
           under
           those
           Pens
           ,
           so
           neither
           would
           it
           be
           modest
           in
           me
           to
           meddle
           any
           farther
           in
           a
           Controversie
           by
           them
           exhausted
           .
           I
           shall
           therefore
           proceed
           to
           his
        
         
           Fifth
           Thesis
           ,
           
             That
             could
             a
             National
             Synod
             make
             such
             Definitions
             ,
             yet
             that
             a
             Synod
             wanting
             part
             of
             the
             National
             Clergy
             unjustly
             depos'd
             ,
             or
             restrained
             ;
             and
             consisting
             partly
             of
             persons
             unjustly
             introduc'd
             ,
             partly
             of
             those
             who
             have
             been
             first
             threatned
             with
             Fines
             ,
             Imprisonment
             ,
             and
             deprivation
             ,
             in
             case
             of
             their
             Non-conformity
             to
             the
             Princes
             Injunctions
             in
             matters
             purely
             
             Spiritual
             ,
             is
             not
             to
             be
             accounted
             a
             lawful
             National
             Synod
             ,
             nor
             the
             Acts
             thereof
             free
             and
             valid
             ;
             especially
             as
             to
             their
             establishing
             such
             Regal
             Injunctions
             .
          
           Now
           how
           this
           is
           pertinent
           to
           our
           case
           I
           can
           by
           no
           means
           conjecture
           .
           For
           it
           has
           been
           shew'd
           that
           neither
           were
           the
           Anti-reforming
           Bps.
           unjustly
           depos'd
           ,
           nor
           the
           Reformers
           unjustly
           introduc'd
           .
           But
           what
           he
           means
           by
           the
           Clergy's
           being
           threatned
           with
           
             fines
             ,
             imprisonment
          
           ,
           and
           Deprivation
           in
           case
           of
           their
           Non-conformity
           to
           the
           Prince's
           Injunctions
           may
           be
           learnt
           from
           another
           passage
           in
           his
           Discourse
           ,
           where
           he
           tells
           us
           that
           the
           Clergy
           being
           condemn'd
           in
           the
           Kings
           Bench
           in
           a
           Praemunire
           for
           acknowledging
           the
           Cardinal's
           power
           Legantine
           ,
           and
           so
           become
           liable
           at
           the
           King's
           pleasure
           to
           the
           Imprisonment
           of
           their
           Persons
           ,
           and
           Confiscation
           of
           their
           Estates
           ,
           
           did
           to
           release
           themselves
           of
           this
           Praemunire
           ,
           give
           the
           King
           the
           title
           of
           
             Ecclesiae
             &
             Cleri
             Anglicani
             Protector
             ,
             &
             Supremum
             caput
             .
          
           Which
           Act
           ,
           saith
           he
           ,
           so
           passed
           by
           them
           ,
           that
           ,
           as
           Dr.
           Hammond
           acknowledges
           ,
           It
           is
           easie
           to
           believe
           that
           Nothing
           but
           the
           apprehensions
           of
           dangers
           ,
           which
           hung
           over
           them
           by
           a
           Praemunire
           incurred
           by
           them
           could
           probably
           have
           inclined
           them
           to
           it
           .
           But
           here
           we
           have
           great
           reason
           to
           complain
           of
           the
           unpardonable
           praevarication
           of
           this
           Author
           in
           so
           foully
           misrepraesenting
           Dr.
           Hammond
           .
           Which
           that
           it
           may
           be
           the
           more
           perspicuous
           ,
           and
           that
           the
           Reader
           may
           make
           from
           this
           Instance
           a
           true
           judgment
           of
           this
           Writer's
           sincerity
           ,
           it
           will
           be
           necessary
           to
           transcribe
           the
           whole
           passage
           as
           it
           lies
           in
           the
           Doctor
           .
           *
           
             Though
             the
             first
             act
             of
             the
             Clergy
             in
             this
             was
             so
             introduc'd
             ,
             that
             it
             is
             easie
             to
             believe
             that
             nothing
             but
             the
             apprehension
             of
             dangers
             which
             hung
             over
             them
             (
             by
             a
             Praemunire
             incurr'd
             by
             them
             )
             could
             probably
             have
             inclin'd
             them
             to
             it
             ,
             and
             therefore
             I
             shall
             not
             pretend
             that
             it
             was
             perfectly
             an
             Act
             of
             their
             first
             will
             and
             choice
             ,
             but
             that
             which
             the
             Necessity
             of
             affairs
             recommended
             
             to
             them
             ,
             Yet
             the
             matter
             of
             right
             being
             upon
             that
             occasion
             taken
             into
             their
             most
             serious
             debate
             in
             a
             Synodical
             way
             ,
             and
             at
             last
             a
             fit
             and
             commodious
             expression
             uniformly
             pitch'd
             upon
             by
             joynt
             consent
             of
             both
             Houses
             of
             Convocation
             ,
             there
             is
             no
             reason
             to
             doubt
             ,
             but
             that
             they
             did
             believe
             what
             they
             did
             profess
             ,
             their
             fear
             being
             the
             Occasion
             of
             their
             Debates
             ,
             but
             the
             Reasons
             and
             Arguments
             observ'd
             in
             debate
             ,
             the
             causes
             ,
             as
             in
             all
             Charity
             we
             are
             to
             judge
             ,
             of
             their
             Decision
             .
          
           Thus
           the
           Doctor
           .
           Now
           this
           Prevarication
           is
           the
           more
           culpable
           ,
           because
           it
           is
           not
           an
           Original
           ,
           but
           copied
           from
           Mr.
           Sergeant
           ,
           whom
           this
           Writer
           cannot
           but
           be
           praesumed
           to
           have
           known
           to
           have
           falsified
           it
           .
           For
           Bishop
           Bramhal
           (
           in
           whose
           writings
           we
           find
           him
           very
           conversant
           )
           had
           detected
           this
           mis-quotation
           in
           Mr.
           Sergeant
           ,
           and
           severely
           Reprimands
           him
           for
           it
           .
           His
           words
           are
           so
           applicable
           to
           our
           Author
           ,
           that
           I
           cannot
           excuse
           my self
           the
           Omission
           of
           them
           .
           *
           
             He
             citeth
             half
             a
             passage
             out
             of
             Dr.
             Hammond
             ,
             but
             he
             doth
             Dr.
             Hammond
             notorious
             wrong
             .
             Dr.
             Hammond
             speaketh
             only
             of
             the
             first
             Preparatory
             Act
             which
             occasion'd
             them
             to
             take
             the
             matter
             of
             right
             into
             a
             serious
             debate
             in
             a
             Synodical
             way
             ;
             he
             applieth
             it
             to
             the
             subsequent
             Act
             of
             renunciation
             after
             debate
             .
             Dr.
             Hammond
             speaketh
             of
             no
             fear
             but
             the
             fear
             of
             the
             Law
             ,
             the
             Law
             of
             Praemunire
             ,
             an
             Ancient
             Law
             made
             many
             ages
             before
             Henry
             the
             8th
             was
             born
             ,
             the
             Palladium
             of
             England
             to
             preserve
             it
             from
             the
             Usurpations
             of
             the
             Court
             of
             Rome
             ;
             but
             Mr.
             Sergeant
             mis-applieth
             it
             wholly
             to
             the
             fear
             of
             the
             King
             's
             violent
             cruelty
             .
             Lastly
             ,
             he
             smothers
             Dr.
             Hammond's
             sense
             express'd
             clearly
             by
             himself
             ,
             that
             
               there
               is
               no
               reason
               to
               doubt
               ,
               but
               that
               they
               did
               believe
               what
               they
               did
               profess
               ,
               the
               fear
               being
               the
               Occasion
               of
               their
               debates
               ,
               but
               the
               reasons
               or
               Arguments
               offer'd
               in
               debate
               ,
               the
               causes
               (
               as
               in
               all
               charity
               we
               are
               to
               judge
               )
               of
               their
               Decision
               .
            
          
           He
           useth
           not
           to
           cite
           any
           thing
           ingenuously
           .
           
           This
           Author
           must
           be
           thought
           to
           have
           read
           these
           passages
           ,
           and
           yet
           ventured
           the
           scandal
           of
           promoting
           this
           Forgery
           ,
           tho'
           without
           the
           Honor
           of
           being
           the
           first
           Inventor
           of
           it
           .
           Such
           practises
           ,
           as
           these
           ,
           require
           little
           
             Controversiall
             skill
          
           ,
           but
           much
           fore-head
           ;
           and
           we
           have
           seen
           a
           Machine
           lately
           publickly
           expos'd
           for
           this
           laudable
           Quality
           of
           imbibing
           whatever
           is
           blown
           into
           it's
           Mouth
           ,
           and
           then
           ecchoing
           it
           forth
           again
           without
           blushing
           .
           Whether
           this
           be
           not
           our
           Author's
           Talent
           ,
           let
           the
           Reader
           judg
           ;
           as
           also
           what
           Opinion
           we
           ought
           to
           have
           of
           his
           Modesty
           ,
           who
           after
           all
           this
           has
           the
           confidence
           to
           desire
           us
           
             to
             read
             ,
             together
             with
             these
             his
             Observations
             on
             the
             Reformation
             ,
          
           Dr.
           
             Hammond
             of
             Sch.
             c.
             7.
          
           (
           the
           very
           Chapter
           whence
           this
           is
           cited
           )
           least
           ,
           saith
           he
           ,
           
             I
             may
             have
             related
             some
             things
             partially
             ,
             or
             omitted
             some
             things
             considerable
             in
             this
             Matter
             .
          
           As
           for
           this
           Objection
           of
           the
           Clergy's
           being
           aw'd
           by
           fear
           in
           this
           Act
           ,
           he
           himself
           has
           unluckily
           cited
           a
           passage
           from
           the
           (
           then
           )
           Lady
           Mary
           ,
           which
           shews
           the
           vanity
           of
           it
           .
           
           
             I
             am
             well
             assur'd
             (
             saith
             She
             speaking
             of
             
               Edward
               VI.
            
             in
             her
             Letter
             to
             the
             Council
             )
             that
             the
             King
             his
             Father's
             Laws
             were
             consented
             to
             
               without
               compulsion
            
             by
             the
             whole
             Realm
             both
             Spiritual
             and
             Temporal
             .
          
           I
           shall
           say
           nothing
           more
           to
           this
           Thesis
           but
           oppose
           another
           to
           it
           ,
           
             That
             could
             an
             Oecumenical
             Synod
             make
             definitions
             contrary
             to
             the
             word
             of
             God
             ,
             yet
             that
             a
             Synod
             wanting
             the
             greatest
             part
             of
             Christian
             Bishops
             ,
             unjustly
             excluded
             ,
             and
             consisting
             partly
             of
             Persons
             unjustly
             introduc'd
             ,
             partly
             of
             those
             who
             have
             been
             first
             bribed
             with
             Mony
             ,
             and
             promises
             of
             Church
             praeferment
             ,
             or
             praeengag'd
             by
             Oaths
             to
             comply
             with
             the
             Vsurpations
             of
             a
             praetended
             Spiritual
             Monarch
             ,
             is
             not
             to
             be
             accounted
             a
             lawful
             Oecumenical
             Synod
             ,
             nor
             the
             Acts
             thereof
             free
             and
             valid
             ,
             especially
             as
             to
             their
             establishing
             such
             usurpations
             .
          
           This
           is
           a
           Thesis
           ,
           which
           needs
           no
           Application
           .
           I
           proceed
           to
           his
        
         
           Sixth
           
             Thesis
             .
             That
             the
             Iudgment
             and
             consent
             of
             some
             Clergy-men
             of
             a
             Province
             ,
             when
             they
             are
             the
             lesser
             part
             ,
             cannot
             be
             call'd
             
             the
             judgment
             and
             consent
             of
             the
             Whole
             Clergy
             of
             the
             Province
             .
          
           This
           Assertion
           ,
           that
           a
           lesser
           part
           is
           not
           aequall
           to
           the
           Whole
           ,
           is
           the
           only
           thing
           which
           looks
           like
           Mathematics
           in
           the
           whole
           Discourse
           ;
           and
           the
           Reader
           may
           hence
           be
           convinc'd
           that
           our
           Author
           doth
           sometimes
           travel
           in
           the
           *
           
             High
             road
             of
             Demonstration
          
           .
           But
           here
           we
           desire
           it
           may
           be
           prov'd
           ,
           either
           that
           the
           Reformation
           was
           not
           effected
           by
           the
           major
           part
           of
           the
           Clergy
           ,
           or
           that
           a
           minor
           part
           judging
           according
           to
           truth
           are
           not
           to
           be
           obey'd
           rather
           then
           the
           Major
           part
           judging
           contrary
           to
           it
           .
           In
           the
           mean
           time
           it
           is
           easily
           reply'd
           ,
           that
           the
           judgment
           and
           consent
           of
           some
           few
           Bishops
           (
           *
           suppose
           48.
           
           Bishops
           ,
           and
           5.
           
           Cardinals
           giving
           Canonical
           Autority
           to
           books
           Apocryphal
           ,
           and
           making
           Authentical
           a
           translation
           differing
           from
           the
           Original
           )
           cannot
           be
           esteem'd
           the
           judgment
           and
           consent
           of
           the
           Catholic
           Church
           .
        
         
           7th
           .
           Thesis
           .
           
             That
             since
             a
             National
             Synod
             may
             not
             define
             matters
             of
             Faith
             contrary
             to
             former
             Superior
             Councils
             ,
             much
             less
             may
             any
             Secular
             Person
             define
             contrary
             to
             those
             Councils
             ,
             or
             also
             to
             a
             National
             Synod
             .
          
           The
           defining
           matters
           of
           Faith
           we
           allow
           to
           be
           the
           proper
           office
           of
           the
           Clergy
           ;
           but
           because
           every
           one
           must
           give
           an
           account
           of
           his
           own
           Faith
           ,
           every
           one
           is
           oblig'd
           to
           take
           care
           that
           what
           he
           submits
           to
           the
           belief
           of
           ,
           be
           consistent
           with
           his
           Christianity
           :
           I
           am
           oblig'd
           to
           pay
           all
           submission
           to
           the
           Church-Autority
           ,
           but
           the
           Church
           having
           bounds
           ,
           within
           which
           she
           ought
           to
           be
           restrain'd
           in
           her
           Determinations
           ,
           if
           she
           transgresses
           these
           Limits
           ,
           and
           acts
           against
           that
           Christianity
           ,
           which
           she
           professes
           to
           maintain
           ,
           I
           may
           rather
           refuse
           obedience
           ,
           then
           forseit
           my
           Christianity
           .
           If
           in
           a
           cause
           of
           this
           moment
           I
           make
           a
           wrong
           Judgment
           ,
           I
           am
           answerable
           for
           it
           at
           Gods
           Tribunal
           ,
           not
           because
           I
           usurped
           a
           right
           ,
           which
           was
           never
           granted
           me
           ,
           but
           because
           I
           misus'd
           a
           Liberty
           which
           was
           indulg'd
           
           me
           .
           This
           we
           take
           to
           be
           the
           case
           of
           each
           private
           Christian
           ;
           and
           farther
           ,
           that
           the
           Prince
           having
           an
           Obligation
           not
           only
           to
           believe
           a-right
           ,
           and
           Worship
           God
           (
           as
           is
           praescrib'd
           )
           himself
           ,
           but
           also
           to
           protect
           the
           true
           Faith
           and
           Worship
           in
           his
           Dominions
           ,
           ought
           to
           use
           all
           those
           means
           of
           discovering
           the
           Truth
           ,
           which
           God
           has
           afforded
           ,
           viz.
           consulting
           the
           Pastours
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           reading
           the
           word
           of
           God
           &c.
           
           And
           that
           ,
           having
           discover'd
           it
           ,
           He
           may
           promulgate
           it
           to
           His
           Subjects
           by
           them
           also
           to
           be
           embrac'd
           ,
           but
           not
           without
           the
           use
           of
           that
           Judgment
           and
           Discretion
           which
           to
           them
           also
           is
           allowed
           .
           If
           here
           it
           happens
           that
           the
           Civil
           and
           Ecclesiastical
           power
           command
           things
           contrary
           ,
           there
           is
           nothing
           to
           be
           done
           by
           the
           Subject
           but
           to
           enquire
           on
           which
           side
           God
           is
           ;
           and
           if
           God
           be
           on
           the
           King's
           side
           by
           a
           direct
           Law
           in
           the
           matter
           ,
           He
           is
           not
           on
           the
           Churches
           side
           for
           her
           Spiritual
           Autority
           .
           Thus
           a
           good
           King
           of
           Israel
           might
           *
           
             take
             away
             the
             High
             places
             and
             Altars
             ,
             and
             say
             unto
             Iudah
             and
             Ierusalem
             ,
             Ye
             shall
             Worship
             before
             the
             Altar
             at
             Ierusalem
             ,
          
           because
           such
           a
           Command
           was
           justifiable
           by
           the
           Law
           of
           Moses
           ;
           Nor
           is
           it
           any
           Praejudice
           against
           it
           ,
           *
           
             That
             the
             Priests
             of
             the
             High
             places
             refus'd
             to
             come
             up
             to
             the
             Altar
             at
             Ierusalem
             .
          
           Thus
           might
           King
           Alfred
           restore
           to
           the
           Decalogue
           ,
           and
           to
           its
           Obligation
           the
           
             Non
             tibi
             facies
             Deos
             aureos
          
           ,
           tho'
           Veneration
           of
           Images
           was
           commanded
           by
           the
           second
           Nicene
           Synod
           .
           And
           tho'
           the
           Councils
           of
           Constance
           and
           Trent
           had
           thought
           fit
           to
           repeal
           Our
           Saviour's
           Institution
           ,
           yet
           King
           Edward
           might
           revive
           the
           Ancient
           Statute
           ,
           *
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           .
        
         
           As
           for
           his
           Eighth
           Thesis
           it
           has
           already
           been
           prov'd
           to
           be
           
             Felo
             de
             ●e
          
           ,
           and
           that
           the
           limitation
           destroys
           whatever
           the
           Proposition
           would
           have
           establish●d
           .
           When
           the
           Gallican
           Church
           shall
           have
           receiv'd
           all
           the
           Decrees
           of
           the
           Council
           of
           Trent
           ,
           and
           the
           Roman
           Church
           observed
           the
           Canons
           of
           the
           first
           General
           Councils
           ,
           When
           the
           
             Western
             Patriarch
          
           
           shall
           have
           rechang'd
           his
           
             Regalia
             Petri
          
           into
           the
           old
           
             regulas
             Patrum
          
           ;
           it
           may
           then
           be
           seasonable
           to
           examine
           ,
           How
           far
           National
           Churches
           are
           oblig'd
           by
           things
           of
           meer
           Ecclesiastical
           Constitution
           .
        
         
           I
           should
           now
           proceed
           to
           examine
           the
           Historical
           part
           of
           his
           Discourse
           ;
           but
           that
           I
           understand
           is
           already
           under
           the
           Consideration
           of
           another
           Hand
           ,
           from
           which
           the
           Reader
           may
           shortly
           expect
           a
           satisfactory
           account
           .
           But
           I
           may
           not
           omit
           for
           the
           Reader
           's
           diversion
           a
           Grammatical
           Criticism
           which
           our
           Author
           hath
           made
           upon
           the
           little
           particle
           as
           .
           It
           is
           enacted
           the
           
             32d
             .
             Hen.
             8.
             26.
             c.
             
          
           
           
             That
             all
             such
             Determinations
             ,
             Decrees
             ,
             Definitions
             and
             Ordinances
             ,
             as
             according
             to
             God's
             word
             ,
             and
             Christ's
             Gospel
             shall
             at
             any
             time
             be
             set
             forth
             by
             the
             Arch-Bishops
             ,
             Bishops
             ,
             and
             Doctors
             in
             Divinity
             appointed
             by
             his
             Majesty
             ,
             or
             else
             by
             the
             whole
             Clergy
             of
             England
             ,
             in
             and
             upon
             the
             matters
             of
             Christ's
             Religion
             &c.
             shall
             be
             by
             all
             his
             Grace's
             Subjects
             fully
             Believ'd
             ,
             Obey'd
             ,
             &c.
             
             
               Vpon
               which
               he
               makes
               this
               learned
               Note
               .
            
             Whereas
             under
             the
             Reformation
             private
             Men
             are
             tied
             only
             to
             obey
             and
             believe
             the
             Definitions
             of
             Councils
             when
             they
             are
             set
             forth
             according
             to
             God's
             word
             .
             
               i.
               e.
            
             when
             private
             Men
             think
             them
             to
             be
             so
             ,
             yet
             here
             this
             Liberty
             was
             thought
             fit
             to
             be
             restrain'd
             ,
             and
             private
             men
             tyed
             to
             believe
             these
             Definitions
             when
             set
             forth
             as
             according
             to
             God's
             word
             .
             
               i.
               e.
            
             when
             the
             setters
             forth
             believe
             them
             to
             be
             so
             .
             To
             obey
             a
             thing
             defin'd
             according
             to
             God's
             word
             ;
             and
             to
             obey
             a
             thing
             defin'd
             ,
             as
             being
             according
             to
             God's
             word
             ,
             are
             Injunctions
             very
             different
             .
          
           Now
           a
           little
           skill
           in
           
             Honest
             Walker's
          
           particles
           would
           have
           clear'd
           this
           point
           ,
           and
           a
           School-boy
           that
           was
           to
           turn
           this
           passage
           into
           Latin
           ,
           would
           have
           known
           that
           as
           is
           put
           for
           which
           ;
           Accordingly
           Keble
           abridging
           this
           Statute
           makes
           it
           run
           thus
           ,
           All
           Decrees
           and
           Ordinances
           which
           according
           to
           Gods
           word
           ,
           &c.
           
           But
           this
           it
           is
           for
           people
           to
           meddle
           in
           Controversie
           at
           an
           Age
           when
           they
           have
           forgot
           their
           
           Grammar
           .
           Notwithstanding
           therefore
           this
           Aristarchus
           ,
           We
           still
           retain
           the
           Liberty
           of
           believing
           and
           obeying
           only
           such
           things
           ,
           which
           be
           defined
           according
           to
           God's
           Word
           .
           For
           which
           we
           are
           much
           blamed
           in
           the
           Conclusion
           of
           this
           Discourse
           .
        
         
           *
           
             In
             rejection
             of
             the
             Churche's
             Iudgment
          
           (
           saith
           he
           )
           
             let
             none
             think
             himself
             secure
             in
             relying
             on
             the
             Testimony
             of
             his
             Conscience
             or
             judgment
             .
          
           But
           what
           reason
           soever
           he
           may
           have
           to
           undervalue
           the
           Testimony
           of
           a
           good
           Conscience
           ,
           we
           think
           it
           advisable
           from
           St.
           Paul
           ,
           *
           
             to
             hold
             faith
             ,
             and
             a
             good
             conscience
             which
             some
             having
             put
             away
             ,
             concerning
             faith
             have
             made
             Ship-wrack
             ;
             Of
             whom
             are
          
           —
           But
           saith
           he
           ,
           
             let
             none
             think
             himself
             secure
             in
             any
             of
             these
             things
             ,
             so
             long
             as
             his
             Conscience
             witnesseth
             still
             to
             him
             this
             one
             thing
             ,
             namely
             his
             Disobedience
             and
             Inconformity
             to
             the
             Church-Catholic
             .
          
           But
           our
           Consciences
           do
           not
           witness
           to
           us
           any
           disobedience
           to
           the
           Church-Catholic
           ,
           but
           only
           to
           that
           Church
           which
           falsly
           praetends
           to
           be
           Catholic
           .
           He
           means
           
             to
             the
             Major
             part
             of
             the
             Guides
             thereof
             .
          
           But
           the
           cause
           has
           not
           yet
           been
           decided
           by
           Poll
           ,
           that
           we
           should
           know
           which
           side
           has
           the
           Majority
           .
           
             Let
             him
             know
             that
             his
             Condition
             is
             very
             dangerous
             ,
             when
             he
             maketh
             the
             Church-Guides
             of
             his
             own
             time
             ,
             or
             the
             major
             part
             thereof
             ,
             incommunicable-with
             in
             their
             external
             profession
             of
             Religion
          
           ;
           There
           was
           a
           time
           then
           ,
           when
           to
           believe
           the
           Consubstantiality
           of
           the
           Son
           was
           a
           dangerous
           Condition
           ;
           and
           this
           perhaps
           made
           Pope
           
             Liberius
             externally
          
           to
           profess
           Arrianism
           .
           
             When
             for
             the
             maintaining
             of
             his
             Opinions
             he
             begins
             to
             distinguish
             and
             divide
             between
             the
             doctrine
             of
             the
             Scripture
             ,
             and
             the
             Doctrine
             of
             the
             Church
             .
          
           But
           why
           not
           distinguish
           ,
           where
           the
           Church
           her self
           distinguishes
           ,
           and
           saith
           ,
           
             Christ
             indeed
             in
             the
             Scriptures
             instituted
             so
             ,
             but
             I
             institute
             otherwise
          
           ;
           as
           in
           the
           case
           of
           denying
           the
           Cup.
           
             Between
             the
             Doctrines
             of
             the
             Catholic
             Church
             of
             the
             former
             ages
             ,
             and
             of
             the
             Catholic
             Church
             of
             the
             present
             .
          
           But
           here
           again
           the
           Church
           
           her self
           distinguishes
           ,
           when
           She
           tells
           us
           that
           *
           
             licet
             in
             primitiva
             Ecclesia
             sub
             utraque
             specie
             Sacramentum
             reciperetur
             ,
          
           Yet
           now
           the
           contrary
           Custom
           
             habenda
             est
             pro
             lege
             quam
             non
             licet
             reprobare
             .
             Between
             the
             Church's
             orthodoxness
             in
             Necessaries
             ,
             and
             non-necessaries
             to
             Salvation
             .
          
           If
           there
           be
           no
           difference
           betwixt
           these
           ,
           why
           doth
           a
           *
           Friend
           of
           the
           Author
           tell
           us
           of
           an
           Obedience
           of
           Assent
           in
           the
           one
           ,
           but
           of
           Non-contradiction
           only
           in
           the
           other
           ?
           
             When
             he
             begins
             to
             maintain
             the
             Autority
             of
             an
             Inferior
             Ecclesiastical
             Iudge
             against
             a
             Superior
             .
          
           But
           what
           if
           this
           be
           only
           where
           the
           Inferior
           Judge
           agrees
           tho'
           not
           with
           his
           immediate
           Superior
           ,
           yet
           with
           the
           Supreme
           ?
           
             Or
             of
             a
             minor
             part
             of
             the
             Church-Guides
             against
             a
             Major
             .
          
           But
           that
           is
           not
           a
           case
           yet
           fairly
           decided
           .
           
             When
             they
             grant
             that
             God
             hath
             given
             them
             ,
             beside
             the
             Scriptures
             ,
             guides
             of
             their
             Faith.
          
           But
           those
           Guides
           themselves
           to
           be
           guided
           by
           the
           Scripture
           .
           
             And
             that
             they
             have
             in
             their
             judgment
             departed
             from
             those
             Guides
             .
          
           i.
           e.
           
             the
             major
             part
             of
             them
          
           .
           But
           this
           we
           would
           have
           prov'd
           .
           
             Which
             in
             a
             Court
             consisting
             of
             many
             is
             the
             legall
             Iudge
             .
          
           Guides
           and
           Judges
           are
           different
           things
           ;
           but
           we
           hope
           when
           this
           Court
           sits
           ,
           the
           Judges
           will
           consult
           the
           Scripture
           ,
           the
           Statute
           they
           are
           to
           go
           by
           ,
           and
           if
           they
           judge
           according
           to
           that
           ,
           they
           will
           judge
           well
           .
        
         
           These
           are
           the
           Doctrines
           of
           blind-Obedience
           which
           this
           Author
           so
           studiously
           inculcates
           .
           For
           since
           Doctrines
           are
           taught
           us
           different
           from
           Scripture
           ,
           we
           are
           advis'd
           to
           use
           another
           way
           of
           discerning
           Doctrines
           ,
           then
           what
           the
           Gospel
           prescribes
           .
           Our
           Saviour
           bids
           us
           ,
           *
           
             Beware
             of
             the
             leaven
          
           .
           i.
           e.
           
             the
             doctrine
             of
             Pharisee's
             ,
             tho'
             sitting
             in
             Moses
             his
             Chair
             .
          
           We
           are
           now
           advis'd
           to
           embrace
           all
           the
           doctrines
           of
           those
           that
           sit
           in
           the
           Chair
           of
           S.
           Peter
           .
           Christ
           bids
           us
           ,
           *
           
             Take
             heed
             that
             no
             man
             deceive
             us
             tho'
             coming
             in
             his
             Name
             .
          
           We
           are
           now
           told
           that
           they
           who
           come
           to
           us
           in
           the
           Name
           of
           Christ
           
           cannot
           deceive
           us
           .
           St.
           
             Paul
             saith
          
           ,
           *
           that
           
             If
             an
             Angel
             from
             Heaven
             preach
             to
             us
             any
             other
             Doctrine
             then
             that
             which
             he
             preach'd
             ,
             Let
             him
             be
             accurs'd
             .
          
           Now
           ,
           if
           we
           do
           not
           embrace
           whatever
           a
           Patriarch
           from
           the
           West
           preaches
           ,
           tho'
           never
           so
           contrary
           to
           the
           Gospel
           ,
           we
           are
           concluded
           under
           an
           Anathema
           .
           The
           Apostles
           tell
           us
           ,
           that
           they
           *
           
             have
             no
             Dominion
             over
             our
             Faith
          
           ;
           but
           their
           Successors
           exercise
           a
           Despotic
           power
           in
           requiring
           a
           servile
           Obedience
           to
           all
           their
           Dictates
           .
           S.
           Paul's
           practise
           was
           to
           *
           
             withstand
             Peter
             to
             the
             face
             ,
             When
             he
             saw
             that
             he
             walk'd
             not
             uprightly
             according
             to
             the
             truth
             of
             the
             Gospel
          
           ;
           but
           St.
           Peter's
           Successor
           pleads
           that
           in
           no
           case
           he
           may
           be
           withstood
           ,
           because
           it
           is
           impossible
           ,
           but
           that
           he
           should
           walk
           uprightly
           in
           the
           truth
           of
           the
           Gospel
           .
           The
           inspir'd
           Divine
           bids
           us
           *
           
             Come
             out
             of
             Babylon
             ,
             that
             we
             may
             not
             partake
             of
             her
             Sins
          
           ;
           Our
           modern
           Theologists
           advise
           us
           to
           come
           back
           into
           *
           Babylon
           ,
           for
           that
           She
           only
           is
           impeccable
           .
           
        
         
           FINIS
        
         
      
    
     
       
         Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
         
           Notes for div A60381-e360
           
             pag.
             21●
             
          
           
             §.
             117.
             
          
           
             §.
             118.
             
          
           
             pag
             2.
             
             §.
             2.
             
          
           
             pag.
             140.
             
             §.
             123.
             
          
           
             §.
             5.
             p.
             12.
             
          
           
             §.
             7.
             p.
             14.
             
          
           
             §.
             28.
             p.
             36.
             
          
           
             §.
             16.
             p.
             20.
             
          
           
             *
             See
             Sidney's
             Trial.
             
          
           
             *
             Episcopacy
             not
             prejud
             .
             to
             Reg
             power
             .
             p
             22
             
          
           
             *
             Cura
             principum
             Christianorum
             olim
             non
             solum
             Haereticorum
             ●uroros
             compressi
             ,
             contumacia
             Episcoporum
             aut
             Clericorum
             adversus
             Synodorum
             sententias
             rebellium
             ab
             externa
             potentia
             repressa
             ;
             sed
             etiam
             Principum
             studio
             prohibiti
             Episcopi
             ne
             legibus
             secularibus
             vel
             Canonibus
             violatis
             injuriam
             subditis
             inferrent
             De
             concord
             .
             l.
             4.
             cap.
             1.
             par
             .
             2.
             
          
           
             *
             Canonum
             custodiae
             duobu●
             modis
             prospiciebant
             Principes
             ,
             tum
             delegatione
             Magistratuum
             ,
             qui
             ve●arent
             ne
             quid
             contra
             Canones
             tentareture
             ,
             tum
             exactis
             poenis
             à
             contumacibus
             si
             quid
             perperam
             gestum
             effect
             .
             ●b
             par
             4.
             
          
           
             *
             In
             manifestissima
             violatione
             ,
             canonibus
             factam
             injuriam
             iis
             poenis
             Principes
             ulsciscebantur
             ,
             quae
             legibus
             irrogatae
             erant
             ,
             nempe
             expulsione
             à
             sede
             .
             Deturbationem
             enim
             illam
             quae
             vacantem
             Ecclesiam
             redderet
             sui
             arbitrii
             esse
             putabant
             ;
             non
             autem
             regradationem
             vel
             dejectionem
             ab
             Episcopali
             dignitate
             ,
             quae
             erat
             poena
             mere
             Ecclesiastica
             .
             Ib.
             par
             .
             6.
             
          
           
             *
             Ibid.
             
          
           
             *
             Hist.
             of
             Eccl
             ,
             Rev
             by
             a
             Learned
             Priest
             in
             France
             .
             p.
             116.
             
          
           
             *
             
               Le
               Rois
               tres-Chrestiens
               ont
               de
               tout
               temps
               selon
               les
               occurrences
               &
               necessitez
               de
               leur
               pays
               ,
               assemblè
               o●
               fait
               assembler
               Synodes
               o●
               Conciles
               Provinciaux
               &
               Nationaux
               ,
               esquels
               entre
               autres
               choses
               importantes
               à
               conservation
               de
               leur
               estat
               ,
               se
               sont
               aussi
               traitezles
               a●faires
               concernans
               l'ordre
               &
               discipline
               Ecclesiastique
               de
               leurs
               pays
               ,
               dont
               ils
               ont
               saict
               faire
               Reigles
               ,
               Chapitres
               ,
               Loix
               ,
               Ordonnances
               ,
               &
               Pragmatiques
               Sanctions
               sou●
               leur
               Nom
               &
               autoritè
               :
               &
               s●en
               lisent
               encor
               aujourd
               huy
               plusieurs
               ès
               recueils
               des
               ecrets
               receus
               par●
               Eglise
               Universelle
               ,
               &
               aucunes
               approuvees
               par
               Conciciles
               generaux
               .
            
          
           
             *
             
               Le
               Papen
               envoy
               point
               en
               France
               Legates
               à
               latere
               avec
               faculte
               de
               re●ormer
               ,
               juger
               ,
               conferer
               ,
               dispenser
               ,
               &
               telles
               autres
               qui
               ont
               accoustumè
               d'estre
               specifiees
               par
               les
               Bulles
               de
               leur
               pouvoir
               ,
               si
               non
               a
               lá
               postulation
               du
               Roy
               tres-Christien
               ou
               de
               son
               consentement
               :
               &
               le
               Legat
               n'
               use
               de
               ses
               facultez
               qu'
               apres
               avoir
               baillè
               promesse
               au
               Roy
               par
               escrit
               sous
               son
               sein
               ,
               &
               jurè
               par
               ses
               Sainctes
               Ordres
               de
               n'user
               desdites
               facultez
               e's
               Royaume
               ,
               pays
               ,
               tertes
               &
               Seigneuries
               de
               sa
               suje●tion
               si
               non
               tant
               &
               si
               longuement
               qu'il
               plaira
               au
               Roy
               ;
               &
               que
               si
               cost
               que
               le
               dir
               Legat
               sera
               adverty
               de
               sa
               volonte
               '
               au
               contraire
               ,
               ils'en
               desistera
               &
               cessera
               Aussi
               qu'il
               n'usera
               des
               dites
               facultez
               si
               non
               pour
               le
               regard
               de
               celles
               dont
               il
               aura
               le
               consentement
               du
               Roy
               &
               conformement
               à
               iceluy
               sans
               entreprendre
               ny
               faire
               chose
               au
               saincts
               decrets
               Conciles
               generaux
               ,
               Franchi●es
               ,
               Libertez
               ,
               &
               Privileges
               de
               L'Eglise
               Gallicane
               &
               des
               Universitez
               ,
               &
               estatez
               publiques
               de
               ce
               Royaume
               .
               Et
               à
               cette
               fin
               se
               presentent
               les
               facultez
               de
               tels
               Legats
               a
               la
               Cour
               de
               Parlement
               ,
               ou
               elles
               sont
               veus
               ,
               examinees
               ,
               verifiees
               ,
               publiees
               &
               registrees
               sous
               telles
               modifications
               que
               la
               Cour
               voit
               estre
               à
               fair
               pour
               le
               bien
               du
               Royaume
               :
               suivant
               lesqnelles
               modifications
               se
               jugent
               tous
               les
               process
               &
               differents
               qui
               surviennent
               pour
               rai●on
               de
               ce
               ,
               &
               non
               autrement
               .
            
          
           
             *
             De
             Conc
             ,
             l
             6.
             c●
             34.
             par
             .
             2.
             
             Nunquam
             discedere
             oportet
             ab
             hac
             certis●ima
             Regula
             ,
             deliberationes
             Ec●lesiae
             Gallica●ae
             considerari
             non
             posse
             a●●ter
             quam
             vel●t
             conssilium
             Regi
             datum
             ,
             ●asque
             execu●ioni
             non
             posse
             ma●dari
             absque
             consensu
             &
             confirmatione
             ej●s
             
          
           
             *
             Tanquam
             caput
             ,
             
               comme
               Chef
            
             Ibid.
             
          
           
             *
             An
             ex
             ●o
             quod
             ●uprema
             Canonum
             pro●ectio
             ad
             Regem
             pertiner
             ,
             sequatur
             cum
             jubere
             posse
             ut
             observenture
             ,
             non
             expectata
             etiam
             senten●ia
             Ecclesiae
             Gallica●ae
             .
          
           
             *
             Certum
             quidem
             est
             carum
             constitutionum
             obseruationum
             sore
             sanctiorem
             ,
             si
             conderentur
             cum
             generali
             Cleri
             consensu
             ;
             quoniam
             unusquisque
             ●am
             rem
             obtinere
             modis
             omnibus
             cupit
             quam
             ipso
             suo
             judicio
             comprobaverit
             .
             N●hilominus
             aeque
             certum
             est
             Regem
             ex
             sententia
             Concili●
             sui
             ,
             quod
             auget
             aut
             minuit
             prout
             ei
             luber
             ,
             posse
             latis
             edictis
             decernere
             ut
             ●ano●es
             observenture
             ,
             ac
             circumstantias
             &
             modos
             necessarios
             addere
             ad
             saciliorem
             eorum
             executionem
             ,
             sive
             etiam
             ad
             veram
             eorum
             mentem
             explicandam
             ,
             eolque
             accommodare
             ad
             utilitatem
             Regni
             lib.
             6.
             c.
             36.
             par
             .
             1.
             
          
           
             *
             Utuntur
             adhuc
             eo
             jure
             Reges
             Christianissimi
             .
             ●b
             par
             .
             3.
             
          
           
             *
             Collect.
             Const●tut
             .
             Imperial
             .
             T.
             3.
             p.
             373
             
               Pi●
               quarti
               imperium
               de●ractamus
               ,
               quaecunque
               sint
               ejus
               judicia
               &
               sentenciae
               rejicin●us
               ,
               respui●●us
               ,
               &
               contemnimus
               .
               Et
               quanquam
               ,
               Pures
               Sanctissimi
               ,
               vestra
               omnium
               Religio
               ,
               Vita
               ,
               &
               eruditio
               magnae
               apud
               Nos
               semper
               suerit
               &
               erit
               Autoritatis
               ,
               cum
               tamen
               nihil
               ●
               vobis●
               sed
               omnia
               magis
               Romae
               ,
               quam
               Tridenti
               agantur
               ,
               &
               quae
               hic
               publicantur
               magis
               P●●
               Quarti
               placita
               ,
               quam
               Conci●ii
               Tridentini
               decreta
               jure
               aestimentur
               ,
               denunciamus
               &
               
                 protest
                 amur
              
               quaecunque
               in
               hoc
               conventu
               ,
               hoc
               est
               ,
               solo
               Pii
               nutu
               &
               voluntate
               ●ecernuntur
               &
               publicantur
               ea
               neque
               Regem
               Christianishmum
               probat●rum●
               nequ●
               Ecclesiam
               Gadicanam
               pro
               de●reto
               O●cumenici
               Concilii
               habituram
               .
               Interea
               quo●quot
               estis
               Galliae
               Archiepiscopi
               ,
               Episcopi
               ,
               Abbates
               ,
               Doctores
               ,
               Theologi
               ,
               Vos
               omnes
               hinc
               abire
               Rex
               Christianissimus
               jubet
               ,
               redituros
               ut
               primum
               l●eus
               Optimus
               Maximus
               Ecclesi●e
               Catholic
               in
               General
               〈◊〉
               Counciliis
               antiquam
               sormam
               &
               libert●tem
               restituerit
               ,
               Regiautem
               Christianissimo
               suam
               digni
               atom
               &
               Majestatem
               .
            
          
           
             *
             Spelm.
             Conc.
             p.
             1●8
             .
          
           
             *
             Spelm.
             A.
             C.
             601.
             
          
           
             *
             Inauditum
             in
             regno
             suo
             esse
             &
             usibus
             ejus
             omnino
             contrarium
             ,
             quemlibet
             de
             Principibus
             &
             praecipue
             Te
             tale
             quid
             praesumere
             ,
             Eadm
             .
             p.
             39.
             30.
             
          
           
             *
             Quod
             per
             Angllam
             auditum
             in
             admirationem
             omnibus
             veni●
             ,
             Inaudi●um
             scilicet
             in
             Britannia
             cuncti
             scientes
             quemlibet
             hominum
             super
             se
             vices
             .
             postolicas
             gerere
             nisi
             solum
             Archiepiscop●m
             Cantuariae
             .
             Ead.
             p.
             58.
             41.
             
          
           
             *
             Quapropter
             sicut
             venit
             ,
             ita
             reversus
             est
             à
             Nemine
             pro
             Legaro
             susceptus
             ,
             nec
             in
             aliquo
             Legati
             officio
             sunctus
             .
             Ibid.
             
          
           
             *
             Ger
             Dorob
             .
             Coll.
             Hist.
             Angl.
             1663.
             24.
             
             Col.
             1615.
             60.
             
          
           
             *
             
               Episcopi
               Angliae
               suffraganei
               Sancti
               Thomae
               literis
               ejusdem
               sui
               rchiepiscopi
               Apostolica
               legatione
               fungentis
               exagitati
               ,
               resilientes
               ,
               haud
               (
               ut
               par
               erat
               )
               parere
               mandatis
               .
               salubres
               admon●tiones
               ●uscipere
               ,
               Catholicae
               Ecclesiae
               u●i●●tati
               consulere
               ,
               vendicantes
               ea●●
               à
               ●●iserrima
               servitute
               studuerunt
               ,
               sed
               ex
               adverso
               oppositi
               pro
               Rege
               contra
               ipsum
               ser●ptis
               ,
               verbis
               ,
               sactisque
               repugnant
               ,
               ac
               tantum
               abest
               ut
               (
               quod
               eorum
               muae●i
               erat
               ,
               ad
               quod
               &
               suis
               cos
               literis
               exci●averat
               ipse
               Sanctus
               )
               adversus
               Regein
               pro
               Ecclesia
               starent
               ,
               redarguerent
               ,
               &
               comminarentur
               ;
               ostentantes
               qu●e
               in
               arcu
               sagittae
               paratae
               era●t
               ad
               ferie●dum
               .
               censuras
               nimirum
               Ecclesiasticas
               ab
               Ecclesia
               ●omana
               Apostolico
               vigore
               prodeuntes
               ,
               ut
               potius
               adversus
               ●undem
               pro
               Ecclesiae
               libertate
               pugnantem
               Sanctissimum
               Virum
               bella
               cierent
               ,
               telis
               oppe●erent
               jurgiorum
               ,
               in
               scandalum
               omnium
               ista
               audientium
               Episcoporum
               Orthodoxorum
               .
               B.
               r.
               An.
               A.
               C.
               1167.
               
            
          
           
             *
             Quid
             aliud
             hic
             Henricus
             secundus
             t●cte
             postulavit
             ,
             quam
             quod
             Henricus
             Octavus
             completa
             jam
             malitia
             apert●u
             surpavit
             ,
             nempe
             ut
             supremum
             Ecclesiae
             caput
             in
             Anglia
             esset
             ?
          
           
             *
             Quid
             hoc
             est
             aliud
             ,
             nisi
             ut
             Rex
             Angliae
             sit
             apud
             ●uos
             Pap
             ?
          
           
             *
             Cokes
             Inst.
             l.
             4.
             c.
             ●4
             .
          
           
             *
             1.
             
             Eliz.
             c.
             1.
             
          
           
             *
             Tw●sd
             c.
             5.
             par
             .
             2.
             
          
           
             *
             Chap.
             5
             par
             .
             ●4
             .
             c.
             6.
             par
             .
             8.
             
          
           
             *
             Vobis
             &
             posteris
             vestris
             Regibus
             Angliae
             committimus
             advocationem
             ejusdem
             loci
             ,
             &
             omnium
             totius
             Angliae
             Ecclesiarum
             ,
             &
             ut
             vice
             nostra
             cum
             Concilio
             Episcoporum
             statuatis
             ubique
             quae
             j'usta
             sunt
             .
          
           
             *
             1
             Pet.
             II.
             13.
             
          
           
             *
             Rom.
             XIII
             .
             1.
             
          
           
             *
             In
             hoc
             Reges
             ,
             sicut
             eis
             divinitus
             praecipitur
             ,
             Deo
             serviunt
             in
             quantum
             Reges
             sunt
             ,
             si
             in
             Regno
             suo
             bona
             jubeant
             ,
             mala
             prohibeant
             ,
             non
             solum
             quae
             pertinent
             ad
             humanam
             societatem
             ,
             verum
             etiamu
             quae
             pertinent
             ad
             divinam
             Religionem
             .
             Aug.
             contra
             Crescon
             .
             1.
             3.
             c.
             51.
             
          
           
             *
             Hae
             leges
             hactenus
             observationem
             merentur
             ,
             quod
             ex
             iis
             .
             constat
             ,
             etiam
             illis
             temporibus
             ,
             Reges
             Saxonicos
             Alfredum
             &
             Edvardum
             sensisse
             se
             Suprematum
             habere
             tam
             in
             Ecclesiasticos
             ,
             quam
             in
             Laicos
             ,
             neque
             Ecclesiam
             ,
             quae
             in
             ipsorum
             ditione
             esset
             ,
             esse
             quid
             peregrinum
             ,
             vel
             Principi
             alicui
             extraneo
             subditam
             ,
             domi
             autem
             Civitatis
             legibus
             solutam
             ,
             quod
             Anselmus
             ,
             Beckettus
             ,
             aliique
             deinceps
             insecuti
             acriter
             contenderunt
             .
             Vita
             Alfr.
             lib.
             2.
             par
             .
             12.
             
          
           
             *
             Exipsius
             (
             Alfredi
             :
             legibus
             constat
             vel
             Suprematum
             illum
             Romanum
             ist
             is
             quidem
             temporibus
             nondum
             eo
             modo
             ;
             quo
             posterioribus
             saeculis
             ,
             sase
             extulisse
             ,
             scilicet
             ut
             Christiani
             Principes
             angustius
             reg●arent
             ;
             vel
             si
             eatenus
             pertigerit
             ,
             non
             tamen
             eo
             usque
             se
             ei
             adjeci
             sse
             Alfred
             .
             lb.
             
          
           
             *
             
               Rex
               viam
               ingressus
               est
               ,
               qua
               universali
               isti
               Imperio
               ,
               quod
               crassis
               temporibus
               recens
               extruxerant
               (
               Pontificii
               )
               &
               absolvere
               deproperarant
               ,
               ruinam
               &
               excrdium
               minaretur
               .
            
             l.
             3.
             par
             .
             98.
             
          
           
             *
             
               Neque
               hoc
               sane
               penitus
               omittendum
               ,
               videtur
               ,
               quod
               inter
               Decalogum
               recitandum
               secundum
               quidem
               Praeceptum
               de
               sculptilibus
               non
               faciendis
               ex
               usu
               secundi
               Concilii
               Niceni
               ante
               centum
               annos
               celobrati
               suo
               loco
               plane
               praetermissum
               est
               .
               Veruntamen
               ut
               ex
               ipso
               Sanctorum
               Bibliorum
               contextu
               quod
               deest
               suppleretur
               ,
               post
               decimum
               quod
               dicimus
               mandatum
               aliud
               insuper
               ad
               justum
               Numerum
               absolvendum
               ,
               adjicitur
               .
               Non
               tibi
               facies
               Deos
               aureos
               .
               Quod
               ,
               cum
               ab
               ipso
               Rege
               subjungitur
               ,
               Ecclesiam
               jam
               tum
               corrupti
               dogmatis
               arguit
               ,
               rectae
               autem
               confessionis
               Regi
               testimonium
               perhibet
               .
            
             l.
             2.
             par
             .
             5.
             
          
           
             *
             Errores
             (
             Authoris
             )
             retinuimus
             ,
             &
             perperam
             scripta
             medicari
             potius
             ,
             quam
             tollere
             maluimus
             .
          
           
             *
             Ref
             ,
             Justif.
             p.
             J.
             C.
             2.
             
          
           
             *
             Quatenus
             inclytissimorum
             progenitorum
             &
             antecessorum
             vestrorum
             laudabilia
             vestigia
             gratiose
             considerantes
             dignetur
             vestra
             ●egia
             celsitudo
             pro
             conservatione
             dictae
             Ecclesiae
             Anglicanae
             ad
             Deilaudem
             &c
             :
             super
             novitatibus
             &
             excessibus
             praedictis
             in
             praesenti
             Parliamento
             providere
             de
             remedio
             opportuno
             Tw
             .
             c.
             5.
             par
             .
             19.
             
          
           
             *
             lbid
             .
          
           
             *
             Cokes
             Instit.
             l.
             3.
             
             S.
             648.
             
          
           
             Ep.
             
          
           
             *
             Consid.
             concerning
             Luther
             §.
             48.
             p.
             90.
             
          
           
             §.
             3.
             p
             4.
             
          
           
             §.
             5.
             p.
             12.
             
          
           
             §.
             8.
             p.
             16.
             
          
           
             §.
             14.
             p.
             18.
             
          
           
             §.
             22.
             p.
             29.
             
          
           
             §.
             27.
             p.
             36.
             
          
           
             §.
             25.
             p.
             31.
             
          
           
             §.
             26.
             lb.
             
          
           
             §
             34.
             p.
             39.
             
          
           
             §.
             43.
             p.
             56.
             
          
           
             §.
             166.
             p.
             187.
             
          
           
             §.
             185.
             p.
             214.
             
          
           
             *
             Art.
             37.
             
          
           
             *
             Sparrow's
             Collection
             pag.
             83.
             
             Lond.
             1684.
             
          
           
             pag.
             36
             
          
           
             pag.
             99.
             
          
           
             p
             240.
             
          
           
             *
             Heylins
             Ref.
             Justified
             ,
             part
             .
             1.
             
             §.
             6.
             
          
           
             *
             Burn
             Ref.
             ●
             .
             3.
             p.
             182.
             
          
           
             *
             Convocatis
             undique
             dictae
             Academiae
             Theologis
             ,
             habitoque
             complurium
             biorum
             spatio
             ac
             deliberandi
             tempore
             sasatis
             ampl●
             ,
             quo
             interim
             cum
             omni
             qua
             potuimus
             diligentia
             ,
             Justitiae
             ●elo
             ,
             religione
             &
             conscientia
             incorrupta
             perscruta
             remur
             tam
             Sacrae
             Scripturae
             libros
             quam
             super
             iisdem
             approbatissimo's
             Interpretes
             ,
             &
             eos
             quidem
             saepe
             &
             saepius
             a
             ●obis
             evolutos
             ,
             &
             exactissime
             collatos
             ,
             repetitos
             ,
             &
             examinatos
             ,
             deinde
             &
             disputationibus
             solennibus
             palam
             ac
             publice
             habitis
             &
             celebratis
             tandem
             in
             hanc
             Sententiam
             unanimiter
             omnes
             convenimus
             ac
             concordes
             fuimus
             viz.
             Romanum
             Episcopum
             majorem
             aliquam
             Jurisdictionem
             non
             habere
             sibi
             a
             Deo
             collatam
             in
             sacra
             Scriptura
             in
             hoc
             Regno
             Angliae
             quam
             alium
             quemvis
             Episcopum
             .
             Antiq.
             Oxon
             lib.
             1.
             pag.
             259.
             
          
           
             *
             Ref.
             1.
             2.
             p.
             142.
             
          
           
             Pag.
             2.
             
             §.
             2.
             
          
           
             *
             Ibid.
             p.
             137.
             
          
           
             *
             Ibid.
             p.
             144.
             
          
           
             *
             Book
             of
             Educ●
             Ox.
             1677
             p.
             86.
             
          
           
             a
             In
             ●●s
             ,
             quae
             Exterioris
             politiae
             sunt
             ,
             ut
             praecipiat
             ,
             suo
             sibi
             jure
             vindicat
             ,
             Tort
             ,
             p.
             ●80
             .
          
           
             b
             Custos
             est
             non
             modo
             secundae
             Tabulae
             ,
             sed
             &
             primae
             .
             p.
             381.
             
          
           
             c
             Quodcunque
             in
             rebus
             Religionis
             Reges
             Israel
             fecetunt
             ,
             id
             ut
             Ei
             faciendi
             jus
             sit
             ac
             potestas
             .
             Ib.
             
          
           
             d
             Leges
             Autoritate
             Regia
             ferendi
             ,
             ne
             blasphemetur
             Deus
             ,
             ut
             jejunio
             placetur
             Deus
             ;
             ut
             festo
             honoretur
             .
             Ib.
             
          
           
             e
             Delegandi
             qui
             de
             lege
             sic
             lata
             judicent
             Ib.
             
          
           
             f
             Siqui
             in
             Leges
             ita
             latas
             committant
             ,
             ●tsi
             ,
             Religionis
             causa
             sit
             ,
             in
             eos
             Autoritate
             Regia
             an●madvertendi
             Ib.
             
          
           
             g
             Non
             ut
             totus
             ab
             alieno
             ore
             pendeat
             ,
             ipse
             à
             se
             nihil
             dijudicet
             .
             Ib.
             
          
           
             h
             Omnibus
             omnium
             ordinum
             jus
             dicendi
             .
             Ib.
             
          
           
             i
             Abiathar
             ipsum
             ,
             si
             ita
             meruit
             ,
             Pontificatu
             abdicandi
             .
             382.
             
          
           
             k
             Excelsa
             diruendi
             .
             i.
             e.
             peregrinum
             cultum
             abolendi
             .
             Ib.
             
          
           
             l
             Sive
             in
             Idololatriam
             abeat
             Vitulus
             aureus
             ;
             sive
             in
             Superstitionem
             Serpens
             aeneus
             ,
             utrumque
             comminuendi
             .
             Ib.
             
          
           
             m
             Haec
             Primatus
             apud
             nos
             jura
             sunt
             ,
             ex
             jure
             divino
             .
             Ib.
             
          
           
             n
             Pag.
             13.
             
          
           
             o
             Jurisd
             ,
             Reg.
             Ep.
             p.
             137.
             
          
           
             p
             Id.
             p.
             10.
             
          
           
             q
             Epilog
             .
             pag.
             391.
             
          
           
             r
             Church
             Government
             ,
             pag.
             390.
             
          
           
             s
             Church
             Government
             ,
             pag.
             391.
             
          
           
             t
             Ductor
             Dub.
             1.
             3.
             c.
             3.
             r.
             4.
             
          
           
             u
             Ibid.
             r.
             5.
             
          
           
             x
             Ibid.
             r.
             7.
             
          
           
             y
             Ibid.
             r.
             7.
             n.
             9.
             
          
           
             z
             Ibid.
             r.
             8.
             
          
           
             a
             Ibid.
             r.
             8.
             n.
             6.
             
          
           
             b
             Ibid.
             1.
             3.
             c.
             4.
             r.
             8.
             
          
           
             c
             Bp.
             Br.
             Works
             Tom.
             1.
             p.
             88.
             
          
           
             d
             Ibid.
             p.
             76.
             
          
           
             *
             Educ
             .
             p.
             98.
             
          
           
             e
             Ibid.
             p.
             156.
             
          
           
             f
             F.
             I.
             K.
             B
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Adv.
             to
             the
             Pr.
             of
             Wales
             .
          
           
             g
             Ibid.
             cap.
             17.
             
          
           
             h
             Adv.
             to
             the
             Pr.
             of
             Wales
             .
          
           
             i
             Serm.
             of
             the
             right
             of
             Assemblies
             .
          
           
             a
             Field
             of
             the
             Church
             .
             1.
             5
             
             C.
             52.
             
          
           
             b
             Soave
             Hist.
             of
             Conc.
             Tr.
             pag.
             77.
             
          
           
             pag.
             37.
             
          
           
             pag.
             70.
             
          
           
             *
             Burn.
             His.
             Ref.
             part
             .
             2.
             
             I.
             1.
             p.
             127.
             165.
             
          
           
             Ibid.
             p.
             127.
             
          
           
             a
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             Can.
             6.
             
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             Can.
             7.
             
             Here
             the
             Council
             decrees
             that
             Ancient
             Customs
             should
             prevail
             ;
             that
             the
             Priviledges
             of
             all
             Churches
             in
             their
             distinct
             Provinces
             should
             be
             kept
             inviolable
             .
             We
             desire
             the
             Bishop
             of
             Rome's
             Patriarchate
             over
             the
             Britannic
             Churches
             should
             be
             prov'd
             to
             be
             an
             Antient
             Custom
             ;
             and
             if
             not
             that
             the
             Priviledges
             of
             these
             Churches
             may
             be
             preserv'd
             .
          
           
             b
             The
             Fathers
             of
             the
             Ephesine
             Council
             having
             decreed
             that
             the
             Cyprian
             Prelates
             should
             hold
             their
             rights
             untouch●d
             and
             unviolated
             ,
             according
             to
             the
             Canons
             of
             the
             Holy
             Fathers
             ,
             and
             the
             Ancient
             Customs
             ,
             Ordaining
             their
             own
             Bishops
             ,
             and
             that
             the
             Bishop
             of
             Antioch
             who
             then
             pretended
             Jurisdiction
             over
             them
             ,
             (
             as
             the
             Bishop
             of
             Rome
             now
             doth
             over
             us
             )
             should
             be
             excluded
             ,
             add
             farther
             .
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             &c.
             Cone
             .
             Eph.
             Can.
             8.
             
             Let
             the
             same
             be
             observ'd
             in
             other
             Diocesses
             ,
             and
             all
             Provinces
             every
             where
             ,
             That
             no
             Bishop
             occupy
             any
             other
             Province
             ,
             which
             formerly
             and
             from
             the
             beginning
             was
             not
             under
             the
             power
             of
             him
             or
             his
             Predecessors
             .
             If
             any
             do
             occupy
             any
             Province
             ,
             or
             subject
             it
             by
             force
             ,
             let
             him
             restore
             it
             .
             Now
             we
             plead
             the
             Cyprian
             Priviledges
             ,
             and
             desire
             we
             may
             be
             exempted
             from
             the
             Jurisdiction
             of
             the
             Bishop
             of
             Rome
             till
             it
             is
             prov'd
             that
             He
             or
             His
             Predecessors
             did
             from
             the
             Beginning
             exercise
             any
             power
             in
             these
             Churches
             .
          
           
             c
             Ep.
             54.
             
          
           
             d
             True
             Dif
             .
             part
             .
             2.
             
          
           
             *
             Petr.
             de
             Marc.
             l.
             6.
             c.
             25.
             
             §.
             8.
             
          
           
             *
             Marca
             de
             Conc.
             Imp.
             &
             Sac.
             cap.
             8.
             
          
           
             *
             1
             King.
             c.
             2.
             v.
             35.
             
          
           
             *
             2
             Chr.
             19.
             
             11●
             .
          
           
             *
             v.
             8.
             
          
           
             *
             Hos.
             4.
             15.
             
          
           
             *
             2
             King.
             c.
             17.
             v.
             9.
             
          
           
             pag
             26.
             
          
           
             *
             Sch
             c
             7.
             
             §.
             5.
             
          
           
             *
             Bp.
             Br.
             Wor.
             Tom.
             1.
             p.
             360.
             
          
           
             ●p
             .
             142.
             
          
           
             *
             Educ
             .
             p.
             119.
             
          
           
             *
             Soave
             Hist●
             Conc.
             Tr.
             p.
             153.
             
          
           
             *
             2
             King.
             38.
             22.
             
          
           
             *
             2
             King.
             23.
             9.
             
          
           
             *
             Mat.
             26.
             27.
             
          
           
             pag.
             38.
             
          
           
             *
             p.
             260.
             
          
           
             *
             1
             Tim.
             c.
             1.
             v.
             19.
             
          
           
             *
             Conc.
             Const.
             Sess.
             13.
             
          
           
             *
             Guide
             in
             Controv.
             Disc.
             1.
             c.
             6.
             par
             .
             56.
             
          
           
             *
             Mat.
             16.
             6.
             12.
             
          
           
             *
             Mat.
             24.
             4.
             
          
           
             *
             Gal.
             1.
             8.
             
          
           
             *
             2
             Cor.
             1.
             24.
             
          
           
             *
             Gal.
             2.
             11.
             14.
             
          
           
             *
             Rev.
             18.
             4.
             
          
           
             *
             Babylonia
             apud
             Joannem
             Romanae
             ●rbis
             figura
             est
             .
             Tertuladv
             .
             Marc.
             I.
             3.
             c.
             13.
             
          
           
             Roma
             quasi
             secunda
             Babylon●a
             est
             .
             Aug.
             de
             Civit●
             De●
             .
             I.
             18.
             c.
             2.