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             Jus regum. Or, a vindication of the regall povver: against all spirituall authority exercised under any form of ecclesiasticall government. In a brief discourse occasioned by the observation of some passages in the Archbishop of Canterburies last speech. Published by authority.
             Parker, Henry, 1604-1652.
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           Jus
           Regum
           .
           
             OR
             ,
          
           A
           VINDICATION
           OF
           THE
           REGALL
           POVVER
           :
           AGAINST
           All
           Spirituall
           Authority
           exercised
           under
           any
           Form
           of
           
             Ecclesiasticall
             Government
             .
          
        
         
           In
           a
           brief
           Discourse
           occasioned
           by
           the
           Observation
           of
           some
           passages
           in
           the
           Archbishop
           of
           
             Canterburies
          
           last
           Speech
           .
        
         
           Published
           by
           Authority
           .
        
         
           Omnia
           subjicere
           si
           vis
           subjice
           te
           rationi
           .
        
         
           
             LONDON
             :
          
           Printed
           for
           
             Robert
             Bostock
             ,
          
           dwelling
           at
           the
           Signe
           of
           the
           Kings
           Head
           in
           Pauls
           Church-yard
           .
           1645.
           
        
      
    
     
       
       
       
         
           Jus
           Regum
           .
           OR
           ,
           A
           VINDICATION
           OF
           THE
           REGALL
           POWERS
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
           IT
           is
           not
           safe
           to
           judge
           another
           ,
           yet
           if
           the
           tree
           may
           be
           known
           by
           the
           fruit
           ,
           and
           the
           secret
           and
           hidden
           disposition
           of
           the
           heart
           ,
           by
           words
           which
           proceed
           out
           of
           a
           mans
           mouth
           ;
           then
           my
           Lord
           of
           Canterbury
           his
           actions
           being
           considered
           ,
           and
           his
           last
           Speech
           examined
           ,
           he
           may
           be
           judged
           otherwayes
           ,
           then
           according
           to
           that
           verdict
           which
           he
           hath
           pronounced
           of
           himself
           in
           that
           his
           last
           Speech
           :
           but
           to
           passe
           by
           his
           actions
           ,
           but
           as
           they
           shall
           onely
           occasionally
           interveen
           ,
           we
           will
           examine
           his
           Speech
           ,
           without
           wresting
           it
           to
           a
           worse
           sence
           then
           of
           necessity
           it
           must
           bear
           ;
           and
           as
           all
           is
           not
           gold
           that
           glisters
           ,
           so
           upon
           review
           and
           examination
           ,
           it
           will
           not
           be
           found
           to
           be
           so
           charitable
           ,
           as
           by
           some
           positive
           affirmations
           it
           pretends
           to
           be
           ,
           and
           all
           along
           the
           Reasons
           inforcing
           will
           be
           found
           contradicting
           those
           affirmative
           conclusions
           exprest
           therein
           ,
           whether
           they
           intend
           himself
           or
           others
           ;
           for
           of
           himself
           ,
           a
           great
           deal
           of
           humility
           and
           charity
           is
           affirmed
           ,
           when
           much
           presumption
           and
           want
           of
           charitie
           may
           be
           collected
           .
           For
           presumption
           ,
           his
           speech
           is
           full
           of
           it
           ,
           and
           chiefly
           in
           his
           comparisons
           and
           instances
           :
           for
           first
           he
           compares
           his
           Innocencie
           with
           reference
           to
           his
           sufferings
           ,
           to
           Christs
           ,
           in
           these
           
           words
           ,
           that
           
             Jesus
             despised
             the
             shame
             for
             him
             ,
             God
             forbid
             but
             he
             should
             despise
             the
             shame
             for
             Jesus
             .
          
           In
           which
           words
           ,
           is
           implyed
           ,
           that
           as
           Christs
           sufferings
           in
           regard
           of
           himself
           were
           undeserved
           ,
           so
           were
           his
           sufferings
           without
           any
           just
           cause
           on
           his
           part
           ,
           but
           that
           his
           ignominy
           and
           shame
           was
           no
           lesse
           for
           Christs
           sake
           ,
           and
           for
           his
           fidelity
           to
           Christ
           ,
           then
           Christs
           sufferings
           were
           for
           his
           love
           to
           mankind
           ;
           and
           from
           thence
           concludes
           ,
           that
           his
           hope
           was
           ,
           that
           God
           was
           bringing
           him
           to
           the
           land
           of
           Promise
           ,
           in
           regard
           he
           was
           to
           passe
           through
           the
           Red
           sea
           ,
           alluding
           to
           his
           suffering
           by
           the
           effusion
           of
           his
           blood
           :
           but
           he
           could
           not
           be
           ignorant
           that
           it
           was
           
             causa
             non
             paena
          
           that
           makes
           the
           Martyr
           ;
           and
           therefore
           his
           argument
           will
           onely
           hold
           if
           his
           cause
           were
           just
           ,
           and
           that
           he
           suffered
           undeservedly
           :
           but
           if
           otherwayes
           ,
           his
           passage
           through
           the
           Red
           sea
           ,
           or
           his
           forced
           passage
           out
           of
           this
           world
           by
           a
           violent
           death
           ,
           will
           prove
           but
           a
           weak
           argument
           ,
           that
           God
           was
           therefore
           bringing
           him
           to
           a
           land
           of
           Promise
           ,
           for
           then
           no
           death
           ,
           so
           desirable
           as
           a
           violent
           death
           ,
           if
           it
           were
           a
           concluding
           argument
           that
           therefore
           ,
           he
           who
           is
           forced
           to
           suffer
           ,
           is
           entring
           into
           a
           land
           of
           Promise
           .
           Neither
           doth
           his
           next
           instance
           conclude
           better
           ,
           that
           because
           the
           Passeover
           was
           to
           be
           eaten
           with
           sowre
           herbes
           ,
           that
           therefore
           his
           present
           sufferings
           (
           which
           he
           confesseth
           that
           in
           regard
           of
           his
           weaknesse
           and
           infirmity
           of
           flesh
           and
           blood
           ,
           were
           unpleasing
           and
           unwelcome
           unto
           him
           )
           should
           by
           their
           resemblance
           into
           sowre
           herbs
           ,
           prove
           ,
           his
           forced
           submission
           unto
           death
           to
           be
           either
           a
           Passeover
           or
           a
           willing
           submission
           to
           the
           will
           of
           God
           :
           for
           whosoever
           submits
           onely
           to
           the
           will
           of
           God
           when
           he
           cannot
           otherwayes
           choose
           ,
           submits
           not
           to
           the
           will
           of
           God
           ,
           but
           is
           compelled
           by
           necessitie
           .
           And
           by
           the
           words
           following
           ,
           it
           appears
           plainly
           ,
           that
           whatsoever
           he
           affirmed
           to
           the
           contrary
           ,
           yet
           was
           he
           angry
           with
           the
           hands
           that
           gathered
           those
           herbs
           ,
           or
           brought
           him
           to
           that
           place
           to
           suffer
           .
        
         
           And
           out
           of
           all
           question
           had
           it
           been
           as
           much
           in
           his
           power
           to
           have
           prevented
           their
           purposes
           ,
           by
           executing
           of
           vengeance
           ,
           as
           it
           had
           been
           formerly
           to
           inflict
           punishment
           on
           those
           who
           did
           professe
           any
           dislike
           against
           his
           and
           other
           the
           Prelates
           unwarrantable
           usurpations
           ,
           nothing
           on
           his
           part
           should
           have
           been
           referred
           to
           the
           justice
           of
           God
           ,
           but
           if
           he
           himself
           could
           not
           call
           down
           fire
           from
           heaven
           to
           consume
           them
           ,
           he
           would
           have
           raised
           a
           persecution
           upon
           earth
           to
           scourge
           them
           .
           But
           the
           date
           of
           his
           power
           was
           now
           expired
           ,
           yet
           did
           
           his
           indignation
           remain
           which
           he
           did
           not
           conceal
           ,
           but
           when
           he
           could
           do
           no
           more
           he
           did
           think
           it
           fit
           to
           put
           the
           good
           people
           in
           mind
           ,
           that
           
             when
             the
             servants
             of
             God
             ,
             old
             Israel
             ,
             were
             in
             this
             boysterous
             Sea
             and
             Aaron
             with
             them
             ,
             the
             Egyptians
             which
             persecuted
             them
             ,
             and
             did
             in
             a
             manner
             drive
             them
             into
             that
             Sea
             ,
             were
             drowned
             in
             the
             same
             waters
             ,
             while
             they
             were
             in
             pursuit
             of
             them
             ;
             and
             he
             knows
             ,
             his
             God
             whom
             be
             served
             ,
             is
             as
             able
             to
             deliver
             him
             from
             this
             sea
             of
             blood
             ,
             as
             he
             was
             to
             deliver
             the
             3
             Children
             from
             the
             furnace
             ,
          
           Dan.
           3.
           
           In
           which
           words
           are
           implyed
           two
           things
           ;
           the
           first
           is
           hope
           of
           vengeance
           from
           God
           on
           those
           that
           did
           prosecute
           him
           .
           The
           second
           is
           hope
           of
           a
           temporall
           deliverance
           to
           himself
           .
           The
           first
           argueth
           want
           of
           charitie
           ;
           the
           second
           implyeth
           want
           of
           true
           faith
           ,
           or
           which
           is
           equivalent
           an
           erroneous
           faith
           .
        
         
           And
           what
           is
           implyed
           here
           is
           evidenced
           in
           the
           words
           following
           ,
           by
           which
           
             he
             most
             humbly
             thanks
             his
             Saviour
             ,
             that
             his
             resolution
             was
             now
             as
             theirs
             was
             then
             ;
             their
             resolution
             was
             ,
             that
             they
             would
             not
             worship
             the
             Image
             which
             the
             King
             had
             set
             up
             ,
             nor
             shall
             be
             the
             imaginations
             which
             the
             people
             are
             setting
             up
             ,
             nor
             will
             forsake
             the
             Temple
             and
             truth
             of
             God
             ,
             to
             follow
             the
             bleating
             of
             Jeroboams
             Calves
             in
             Dan
             and
             in
             Bethel
             .
          
           Where
           nothing
           is
           or
           can
           be
           clearer
           ,
           then
           the
           manifest
           difference
           and
           dissimilitude
           between
           the
           different
           conditions
           of
           the
           severall
           parties
           proposed
           ,
           and
           from
           the
           result
           ,
           the
           grounds
           of
           his
           faith
           will
           appear
           .
           For
           the
           3.
           
           Children
           ,
           to
           whom
           he
           doth
           resemble
           himself
           ,
           were
           meerly
           passive
           ,
           preferring
           a
           passive
           sufferance
           before
           any
           actuall
           obedience
           ,
           to
           unlawfull
           and
           prohibited
           Idolatry
           :
           Whereas
           on
           the
           contrary
           ,
           he
           was
           brought
           to
           that
           place
           of
           execution
           ,
           for
           his
           active
           introducing
           of
           reall
           changes
           in
           the
           worship
           of
           God
           ,
           expresly
           against
           the
           Word
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           the
           Laws
           of
           the
           Land
           .
           For
           by
           the
           Word
           of
           God
           ,
           we
           are
           taught
           that
           we
           must
           not
           make
           to
           our selves
           any
           graven
           Image
           ,
           nor
           the
           likenesse
           of
           any
           thing
           that
           is
           in
           heaven
           above
           ,
           nor
           in
           the
           earth
           beneath
           ,
           nor
           in
           the
           waters
           under
           the
           earth
           ,
           to
           bow
           down
           to
           them
           ,
           and
           worship
           them
           :
           and
           we
           are
           moreover
           taught
           by
           the
           same
           Word
           ,
           that
           the
           Judiciall
           and
           Ceremoniall
           Law
           being
           fulfilled
           by
           the
           death
           of
           Christ
           ,
           all
           externall
           worshipping
           of
           God
           ,
           arising
           from
           any
           Commandment
           either
           of
           God
           or
           man
           ,
           is
           in
           it self
           inacceptable
           before
           God
           ,
           and
           therefore
           superfluous
           and
           needlesse
           :
           If
           not
           first
           springing
           from
           a
           true
           and
           lively
           faith
           ,
           begetting
           true
           holinesse
           and
           inward
           sanctification
           ,
           and
           by
           consequence
           onely
           ,
           externall
           
           reverence
           and
           worship
           ,
           and
           therefore
           the
           chief
           duty
           of
           the
           Ministers
           of
           the
           Gospel
           ,
           is
           by
           information
           and
           instruction
           to
           beget
           in
           the
           people
           true
           knowledge
           as
           a
           foundation
           of
           sound
           belief
           ,
           from
           whence
           onely
           springeth
           true
           faith
           ;
           and
           then
           to
           incite
           them
           to
           externall
           duties
           ,
           as
           evidences
           of
           their
           faith
           ,
           but
           have
           no
           commission
           from
           the
           Word
           of
           God
           to
           injoyn
           or
           command
           any
           externall
           duties
           ,
           but
           to
           exhort
           onely
           to
           the
           performance
           of
           those
           which
           were
           commanded
           and
           ordained
           by
           God
           himself
           :
           neither
           had
           they
           ever
           any
           spirituall
           authority
           committed
           unto
           them
           for
           the
           inforcing
           of
           obedience
           unto
           any
           thing
           that
           should
           be
           ordained
           by
           themselves
           :
           For
           the
           Apostles
           never
           had
           ,
           nor
           never
           exercised
           any
           such
           authority
           .
           In
           brief
           ,
           the
           summe
           of
           all
           is
           briefly
           thus
           ,
           that
           as
           under
           the
           Law
           ,
           all
           bowing
           down
           to
           any
           graven
           Image
           ,
           and
           the
           worshipping
           of
           God
           in
           the
           likenesse
           of
           any
           thing
           in
           heaven
           or
           in
           earth
           was
           Idolatry
           :
           So
           under
           the
           Gospel
           ,
           which
           was
           the
           end
           and
           consummation
           of
           the
           Law
           ,
           all
           externall
           worship
           of
           God
           that
           doth
           not
           spring
           from
           faith
           ,
           as
           from
           the
           root
           ,
           is
           to
           be
           accounted
           Idolatry
           ,
           as
           being
           a
           counterfeit
           worship
           set
           up
           by
           the
           imagination
           of
           men
           ,
           not
           according
           to
           the
           will
           of
           God
           .
           And
           my
           Lord
           of
           Cant.
           doth
           here
           in
           some
           sort
           acknowledge
           this
           for
           a
           truth
           ,
           but
           removes
           the
           guilt
           from
           himself
           to
           lay
           it
           upon
           the
           people
           ;
           for
           here
           he
           doth
           account
           the
           worshipping
           of
           God
           according
           to
           the
           imaginations
           of
           the
           people
           to
           be
           Idolatry
           ;
           but
           doth
           not
           consider
           that
           what
           he
           esteemed
           Idolatry
           in
           them
           ,
           might
           be
           in
           himself
           .
           If
           he
           could
           produce
           no
           better
           warrant
           then
           his
           own
           imaginations
           ,
           for
           with
           God
           there
           is
           no
           respect
           of
           persons
           ;
           but
           then
           the
           question
           will
           be
           ,
           whether
           he
           was
           brought
           to
           that
           place
           to
           suffer
           ,
           for
           refusing
           to
           submit
           to
           that
           idolatry
           ,
           which
           here
           he
           affirmeth
           was
           setting
           up
           by
           the
           people
           ,
           or
           for
           imposing
           upon
           them
           a
           will
           worship
           according
           to
           his
           own
           imaginations
           onely
           ?
           And
           if
           he
           himself
           had
           given
           the
           answer
           ,
           he
           could
           not
           say
           that
           the
           people
           did
           impose
           any
           thing
           upon
           him
           in
           the
           worship
           of
           God
           ,
           but
           it
           was
           apparent
           and
           undeniable
           that
           he
           did
           upon
           the
           people
           :
           for
           doing
           whereof
           he
           neglected
           his
           Ministeriall
           Office
           consisting
           chiefly
           in
           Information
           ,
           Instruction
           ,
           and
           Exhortation
           ;
           thereby
           to
           convince
           the
           conscience
           ,
           which
           is
           uncapable
           of
           constraint
           from
           the
           authority
           of
           man
           ,
           and
           usurped
           an
           authority
           which
           is
           onely
           peculiar
           to
           God
           ,
           and
           cannot
           be
           communicated
           
           to
           man
           :
           for
           which
           the
           people
           notwithstanding
           were
           not
           his
           Judges
           ,
           but
           the
           Law
           of
           the
           Land
           ,
           against
           which
           he
           did
           no
           lesse
           transgresse
           ,
           for
           imposing
           upon
           the
           people
           any
           thing
           by
           a
           lawlesse
           authority
           not
           warranted
           by
           the
           Laws
           ,
           then
           he
           did
           offend
           against
           the
           Word
           of
           God
           by
           usurping
           a
           spirituall
           authority
           not
           warranted
           in
           the
           Word
           .
           For
           the
           Law
           of
           the
           Land
           restraineth
           the
           making
           of
           all
           Laws
           and
           constitutions
           ,
           and
           the
           imposing
           of
           any
           new
           thing
           upon
           the
           Subjects
           of
           this
           Kingdome
           ,
           to
           the
           Authority
           of
           Parliaments
           ;
           And
           albeit
           the
           Clergy
           might
           assemble
           in
           Convocation
           ,
           yet
           were
           all
           their
           Acts
           and
           Constitutions
           of
           no
           force
           nor
           validity
           ,
           untill
           confirmed
           and
           ratified
           by
           Parliament
           :
           whereas
           my
           Lord
           of
           Canterbury
           did
           not
           onely
           innovate
           many
           things
           in
           the
           worship
           of
           God
           ,
           but
           did
           introduce
           and
           impose
           many
           new
           things
           in
           the
           Church
           by
           his
           own
           authority
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           State
           by
           his
           credit
           with
           the
           King
           by
           the
           Regall
           Power
           ,
           directly
           against
           the
           Laws
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           for
           which
           he
           was
           at
           that
           time
           brought
           upon
           the
           Scaffold
           to
           suffer
           ,
           not
           because
           he
           did
           preferre
           a
           passive
           sufferance
           before
           an
           actuall
           obedience
           to
           unlawfull
           and
           prohibited
           Idolatry
           as
           did
           the
           3.
           
           Children
           ;
           but
           because
           he
           did
           exact
           obedience
           from
           others
           to
           his
           lawlesse
           commands
           ,
           without
           any
           warrant
           from
           the
           Word
           of
           God
           ,
           nor
           from
           the
           Laws
           of
           the
           Land
           ,
           but
           by
           an
           usurped
           authority
           over
           both
           :
           wherefore
           his
           case
           can
           no
           wayes
           be
           compared
           to
           the
           3.
           
           Childrens
           ,
           but
           without
           any
           injury
           done
           to
           him
           ,
           he
           may
           justly
           be
           taxed
           with
           presumption
           for
           his
           paralels
           or
           comparisons
           .
        
         
           And
           as
           his
           presumptions
           are
           notorious
           ,
           so
           is
           his
           want
           of
           charitie
           manifest
           ,
           notwithstanding
           his
           seeming
           professions
           to
           the
           contrary
           ,
           as
           appeareth
           in
           his
           next
           Section
           ,
           which
           he
           beginneth
           with
           a
           charitable
           prayer
           ,
           
             That
             God
             would
             blesse
             all
             this
             people
             ,
             and
             open
             their
             eyes
             ,
             that
             they
             may
             see
             the
             right
             way
             .
          
           The
           which
           his
           charity
           doth
           terminate
           and
           end
           in
           himself
           ,
           which
           is
           not
           charity
           ,
           for
           charity
           extendeth
           chiefly
           to
           others
           ;
           and
           the
           inference
           which
           he
           maketh
           ,
           doth
           discover
           the
           summe
           of
           his
           desires
           for
           a
           blessing
           upon
           this
           people
           ,
           for
           the
           opening
           of
           their
           eyes
           to
           be
           chiefly
           meant
           ,
           that
           they
           might
           see
           and
           acknowledge
           his
           Innocencie
           which
           he
           doth
           here
           present
           to
           their
           consideration
           ,
           not
           obscurely
           implyed
           ,
           but
           positively
           affirmed
           against
           all
           accusation
           whatsoever
           by
           the
           attestation
           of
           
           his
           own
           conscience
           :
           
             Having
             upon
             this
             occasion
             ransacked
             every
             corner
             of
             his
             heart
             ,
             where
             he
             hath
             not
             found
             any
             of
             his
             sins
             that
             are
             there
             ,
             deserving
             death
             by
             the
             known
             Laws
             of
             the
             Land
             .
          
           Certainly
           he
           was
           not
           ,
           nor
           could
           he
           be
           so
           ignorant
           ,
           as
           here
           he
           pretends
           to
           be
           innocent
           ;
           for
           he
           could
           not
           choose
           but
           know
           that
           it
           was
           death
           by
           the
           known
           Laws
           of
           this
           Kingdom
           ,
           for
           any
           Subject
           to
           innovate
           against
           the
           established
           Government
           .
           But
           supposing
           there
           had
           been
           no
           positive
           Law
           against
           it
           ,
           yet
           was
           it
           to
           have
           been
           esteemed
           an
           unpardonable
           crime
           deserving
           the
           most
           rigorous
           of
           deaths
           for
           any
           Subject
           to
           attempt
           it
           ;
           no
           lesse
           then
           it
           had
           been
           in
           an
           Athenian
           to
           murther
           his
           own
           father
           ,
           when
           the
           Laws
           were
           silent
           for
           the
           punishment
           ,
           as
           presupposing
           no
           such
           crime
           would
           be
           committed
           :
           nor
           could
           his
           conscience
           be
           so
           seared
           as
           not
           to
           dictate
           unto
           him
           ,
           that
           he
           was
           the
           adviser
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           needlesly
           to
           assume
           an
           arbitrary
           power
           ,
           for
           the
           introducing
           of
           many
           things
           ,
           whereof
           he
           himself
           was
           the
           chief
           Author
           ,
           against
           the
           known
           Laws
           of
           the
           Land
           .
           And
           if
           nothing
           else
           had
           been
           proved
           ,
           yet
           one
           thing
           was
           so
           manifest
           ,
           that
           it
           needed
           no
           proof
           at
           all
           ,
           the
           assuming
           of
           a
           Legislative
           power
           ,
           by
           making
           of
           Laws
           and
           Constitutions
           in
           a
           Provinciall
           Assembly
           ,
           binding
           to
           the
           whole
           Subjects
           ,
           and
           Clergy
           in
           generall
           ,
           to
           be
           inforced
           by
           Spirituall
           Authority
           or
           Ecclesiasticall
           censures
           ;
           and
           imposing
           a
           generall
           tax
           upon
           the
           Clergy
           without
           any
           confirmation
           but
           of
           the
           Kings
           Letters
           Patents
           ,
           which
           was
           a
           manifest
           usurpation
           over
           the
           consciences
           of
           men
           ,
           and
           a
           breach
           against
           the
           fundamentall
           Laws
           of
           the
           Kingdome
           ,
           the
           King
           himself
           having
           no
           such
           power
           nor
           prerogative
           ,
           and
           former
           Kings
           having
           never
           assumed
           it
           ;
           besides
           the
           cheat
           which
           he
           did
           put
           upon
           the
           King
           in
           perswading
           his
           Majestie
           to
           establish
           that
           by
           his
           Prerogative
           ,
           which
           was
           not
           onely
           derogatory
           ,
           but
           destructive
           to
           his
           Prerogative
           ,
           as
           shall
           be
           opened
           more
           pertinently
           hereafter
           ;
           and
           yet
           he
           would
           here
           perswade
           the
           people
           he
           dieth
           innocently
           ,
           not
           deserving
           death
           .
           For
           which
           his
           undeserved
           sentence
           ,
           notwithstanding
           he
           is
           so
           charitable
           ,
           as
           
             to
             charge
             nothing
             ,
             not
             in
             the
             least
             degree
             upon
             his
             Judges
             ,
             for
             they
             are
             to
             proceed
             by
             proof
             ,
             by
             valuable
             witnesses
             ,
             and
             in
             that
             way
             he
             or
             any
             Innocent
             in
             the
             world
             may
             justly
             be
             condemned
             .
          
        
         
           If
           he
           had
           ended
           here
           ,
           it
           had
           been
           against
           charity
           not
           to
           beleeve
           him
           ;
           but
           as
           fire
           cannot
           long
           be
           concealed
           ,
           after
           it
           hath
           taken
           hold
           
           any
           combustible
           matter
           ,
           but
           will
           break
           forth
           and
           appear
           :
           So
           the
           fire
           of
           his
           indignation
           against
           his
           Judges
           ,
           being
           kindled
           in
           his
           breast
           ,
           must
           needs
           break
           forth
           in
           despite
           of
           dissimulation
           ,
           and
           his
           next
           words
           demonstrate
           clearly
           what
           opinion
           he
           had
           of
           his
           Judges
           ,
           whom
           he
           compareth
           to
           the
           
             Danes
          
           when
           Heathens
           ,
           to
           the
           fury
           of
           
             Wat
             Tyler
             ,
          
           and
           his
           fellows
           ,
           to
           the
           malice
           of
           
             a
             lewd
             woman
             ,
          
           to
           a
           
             persecuting
             Sword
             ,
          
           and
           lastly
           to
           
             Herod
             ,
          
           and
           to
           the
           
             persecuting
             Jews
             ,
          
           and
           maketh
           
             the
             charge
             against
             himself
             to
             look
             like
             that
             against
             St.
             Paul
             ,
             in
             the
             25.
             of
             the
             Acts
             ,
             and
             against
             St.
             Stephen
             in
             the
             6.
             of
             the
             Acts
             .
          
           To
           whose
           cases
           his
           had
           no
           more
           resemblance
           then
           it
           had
           to
           the
           3.
           
           Childrens
           ;
           for
           St.
           
             Paul
          
           and
           St.
           
             Stephen
             ,
          
           were
           persecuted
           for
           opening
           the
           kingdome
           of
           heaven
           ,
           by
           shewing
           a
           clear
           way
           to
           enter
           therein
           ,
           by
           a
           true
           and
           lively
           faith
           ,
           grounded
           upon
           the
           death
           and
           mediation
           of
           Jesus
           Christ
           onely
           ,
           without
           any
           reference
           to
           our selves
           ,
           and
           our
           own
           merits
           .
           But
           he
           on
           the
           contrary
           did
           what
           in
           him
           lay
           to
           shut
           the
           kingdome
           of
           heaven
           to
           such
           as
           was
           desirous
           to
           enter
           ,
           directing
           them
           into
           false
           wayes
           ,
           such
           as
           could
           never
           bring
           a
           man
           thither
           .
           For
           if
           the
           old
           Israelites
           ,
           by
           following
           after
           the
           Lavv
           of
           righteousnesse
           attained
           not
           into
           the
           Law
           of
           righteousnesse
           ,
           because
           they
           sought
           it
           not
           by
           faith
           ,
           but
           as
           it
           were
           by
           the
           works
           of
           the
           Law
           ,
           
             Rom.
             9.
             31
             ,
             32.
          
           and
           therefore
           were
           excluded
           from
           the
           promises
           ;
           what
           must
           become
           of
           them
           ,
           who
           going
           about
           to
           establish
           not
           the
           righteousnesse
           of
           the
           Law
           ,
           which
           once
           was
           the
           ordinance
           of
           God
           ,
           but
           a
           righteousnesse
           of
           their
           own
           prescription
           ,
           consisting
           for
           the
           most
           part
           in
           externall
           rites
           and
           ceremonies
           ,
           commanding
           the
           observation
           of
           them
           as
           the
           principall
           part
           of
           Gods
           worship
           and
           of
           mans
           duty
           ;
           when
           in
           the
           mean
           time
           they
           neglect
           the
           ordinance
           of
           God
           which
           is
           their
           Ministeriall
           office
           ,
           consisting
           chiefly
           in
           reforming
           of
           the
           will
           ,
           and
           informing
           the
           understanding
           ,
           by
           the
           operation
           of
           the
           Word
           preached
           ,
           which
           may
           be
           performed
           by
           Information
           and
           Instruction
           ;
           but
           can
           never
           by
           any
           authority
           or
           command
           ,
           for
           there
           is
           a
           vast
           difference
           between
           him
           ,
           who
           endeavoureth
           the
           production
           of
           desired
           effects
           by
           the
           operation
           of
           necessarie
           and
           appointed
           means
           ,
           and
           him
           who
           commands
           onely
           the
           performance
           of
           the
           like
           effects
           ,
           without
           the
           application
           of
           such
           means
           as
           are
           necessary
           :
           for
           the
           one
           requireth
           an
           omnipotent
           power
           ;
           the
           other
           may
           be
           performed
           by
           a
           creature
           of
           a
           finite
           capacity
           .
           
           What
           affinity
           or
           resemblance
           then
           can
           my
           Lord
           of
           Canterburies
           case
           have
           with
           St.
           
             Pauls
          
           or
           St.
           
             Stephens
             ,
          
           who
           suffered
           under
           the
           rage
           of
           the
           people
           for
           offering
           their
           pains
           ,
           to
           shew
           them
           onely
           ,
           a
           clear
           and
           infallible
           way
           for
           purchasing
           the
           kingdom
           of
           heaven
           ,
           which
           was
           left
           to
           their
           own
           choice
           to
           beleeve
           or
           not
           beleeve
           ?
           But
           my
           Lord
           of
           Cant.
           neglecting
           the
           wayes
           of
           St.
           
             Paul
          
           and
           St.
           
             Stephen
             ,
          
           (
           consisting
           onely
           in
           demonstration
           and
           in
           the
           efficacy
           of
           perswasion
           for
           the
           obtaining
           of
           their
           purposes
           and
           ends
           )
           was
           legally
           processed
           and
           condemned
           ,
           for
           making
           use
           of
           externall
           force
           ,
           and
           compulsion
           for
           the
           obtaining
           of
           his
           ,
           which
           St.
           
             Paul
          
           nor
           St.
           
             Stephen
          
           never
           did
           :
           and
           moreover
           ,
           he
           having
           screwed
           himself
           into
           the
           favour
           of
           the
           King
           ,
           did
           make
           the
           Regall
           Power
           instrumentall
           to
           his
           ends
           ,
           and
           (
           which
           among
           other
           things
           is
           inexcusable
           )
           did
           endeavour
           to
           lay
           the
           odium
           and
           obloquy
           of
           all
           upon
           the
           King
           when
           it
           could
           not
           otherwayes
           be
           defended
           ;
           as
           if
           that
           had
           been
           sufficient
           ,
           that
           he
           was
           onely
           instrumentall
           to
           the
           Kings
           commands
           ,
           when
           it
           was
           too
           well
           known
           that
           he
           was
           the
           director
           of
           those
           commands
           .
           And
           as
           his
           case
           differed
           from
           theirs
           in
           the
           means
           ,
           so
           must
           it
           differ
           likewise
           in
           the
           ends
           ,
           for
           the
           end
           of
           all
           their
           labour
           and
           pains
           ,
           was
           to
           bring
           men
           in
           subjection
           to
           the
           will
           of
           God
           ,
           by
           declaring
           unto
           them
           the
           power
           of
           God
           and
           of
           the
           Deity
           ,
           and
           manifesting
           the
           inexpressible
           love
           of
           God
           to
           mankind
           ,
           in
           sending
           his
           onely
           begotten
           Son
           into
           the
           world
           to
           take
           upon
           him
           our
           humane
           nature
           ,
           and
           expounding
           unto
           them
           the
           vertue
           and
           efficacy
           of
           Christs
           death
           and
           resurrection
           ;
           but
           the
           end
           of
           his
           labour
           and
           pains
           ,
           was
           to
           bring
           men
           in
           subjection
           to
           his
           own
           will
           ,
           by
           making
           them
           sensible
           how
           dangerous
           it
           was
           to
           offend
           him
           .
           For
           he
           took
           more
           pains
           to
           inflict
           punishment
           on
           such
           as
           offended
           him
           ,
           then
           to
           instruct
           such
           as
           were
           ignorant
           .
        
         
           But
           odious
           is
           his
           next
           comparison
           ,
           comparing
           himself
           with
           Christ
           ,
           and
           his
           accusers
           to
           the
           Pharises
           ,
           who
           having
           accused
           Christ
           for
           fear
           ,
           that
           
             if
             they
             did
             let
             him
             alone
             ,
             all
             men
             would
             beleeve
             on
             him
             ,
             and
             the
             Romans
             would
             come
             and
             take
             away
             both
             their
             place
             and
             Nation
             .
          
           Concluding
           from
           thence
           ,
           with
           a
           prayer
           to
           God
           ,
           that
           God
           would
           not
           reward
           this
           people
           as
           then
           he
           did
           the
           Jews
           for
           their
           causlesse
           fears
           and
           unjust
           sentence
           ;
           but
           the
           cases
           being
           so
           different
           ,
           and
           the
           comparisons
           so
           odious
           ,
           it
           were
           a
           superfluous
           labour
           to
           go
           about
           to
           inform
           any
           mans
           understanding
           in
           the
           discovery
           .
           Nor
           needs
           any
           
           time
           be
           spent
           in
           detecting
           his
           vain
           presumption
           ,
           and
           arrogant
           boasting
           in
           applying
           that
           deserved
           triumph
           of
           Saint
           
             Paul
          
           to
           himselfe
           ,
           as
           if
           he
           could
           no
           lesse
           truely
           ,
           then
           Saint
           
             Paul
          
           did
           ,
           say
           ,
           
             by
             honour
             and
             dishonour
             ,
             by
             good
             report
             ,
             and
             evill
             report
             ,
             as
             a
             deceiver
             and
             yet
             true
             ,
             he
             was
             now
             passing
             out
             of
             this
             world
             ,
          
           for
           it
           is
           manifest
           that
           he
           coveted
           and
           courted
           that
           honour
           ,
           which
           Saint
           
             Paul
          
           accompted
           but
           losse
           and
           dung
           ,
           and
           did
           runne
           a
           cleer
           contrary
           course
           to
           Saint
           
             Paul
             ,
          
           for
           Saint
           
             Paul
          
           accompted
           it
           no
           shame
           ,
           
             To
             the
             weake
             to
             become
             as
             weak
             ,
          
           
           
             that
             he
             might
             gaine
             the
             weake
             ▪
             nor
             to
             be
             made
             all
             things
             to
             all
             men
             ,
             that
             he
             might
             by
             all
             meanes
             save
             some
             ,
          
           but
           hee
           accompted
           it
           not
           onely
           a
           shame
           but
           an
           indignity
           ,
           to
           condiscend
           one
           jot
           to
           the
           weaknesse
           of
           any
           man
           ,
           and
           rather
           then
           hee
           should
           bee
           crossed
           in
           his
           purpose
           and
           will
           ,
           those
           gifts
           and
           abilities
           ,
           which
           God
           had
           bestowed
           upon
           him
           ,
           for
           other
           purposes
           and
           ends
           ,
           and
           that
           credit
           and
           esteeme
           which
           he
           had
           purchased
           with
           his
           Majesty
           ,
           by
           those
           gifts
           and
           abilities
           ,
           and
           in
           reverence
           of
           the
           holinesse
           of
           his
           calling
           ,
           should
           bee
           all
           imployed
           to
           ingage
           King
           and
           Kingdome
           in
           a
           War
           ,
           as
           was
           evident
           by
           the
           Warre
           with
           Scotland
           ,
           especially
           after
           the
           first
           pacification
           at
           the
           camp
           neer
           Barwicke
           .
        
         
           But
           having
           taken
           all
           this
           paines
           in
           a
           generall
           justification
           of
           himself
           to
           the
           people
           ,
           who
           were
           his
           Auditors
           at
           length
           he
           thinkes
           of
           it
           not
           amisse
           to
           speak
           of
           some
           particulars
           ,
           and
           first
           
             is
             he
             bold
             to
             speake
             of
             the
             King
             ,
          
           who
           he
           saith
           
             hath
             bin
             much
             traduced
             by
             some
             for
             labouring
             to
             bring
             in
             Popery
             ,
          
           which
           he
           might
           truely
           affirme
           ,
           If
           any
           such
           affirmation
           had
           been
           made
           of
           His
           Majesty
           but
           the
           truth
           hereof
           is
           prevaricated
           as
           other
           truths
           are
           by
           him
           ,
           and
           made
           useof
           ,
           for
           his
           own
           justification
           rather
           then
           for
           the
           Kings
           ,
           the
           King
           being
           rather
           aspersed
           then
           justified
           by
           such
           manner
           of
           justification
           ,
           for
           no
           man
           did
           ever
           affirme
           that
           the
           King
           was
           a
           Papist
           as
           is
           here
           implyed
           ,
           nor
           that
           His
           Majestie
           did
           labour
           to
           bring
           in
           Popery
           as
           is
           here
           affirmed
           ,
           but
           that
           he
           was
           overreached
           by
           the
           subtilty
           and
           fraud
           of
           some
           ,
           and
           he
           himselfe
           esteemed
           the
           principall
           deceiver
           and
           undermyner
           of
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           it
           alwayes
           hath
           been
           one
           of
           his
           chiefest
           subtilties
           ,
           so
           to
           confound
           the
           Kings
           actions
           and
           his
           owne
           ,
           that
           they
           could
           not
           easily
           be
           distinguished
           ,
           that
           by
           so
           doing
           he
           might
           never
           be
           reached
           but
           by
           wounding
           the
           
           King
           first
           ,
           building
           thereby
           great
           hopes
           ,
           if
           not
           assured
           confidence
           to
           escape
           himselfe
           ,
           and
           here
           labouring
           to
           justifie
           himselfe
           to
           the
           People
           ,
           from
           having
           ever
           had
           any
           intention
           to
           introduce
           Popery
           ,
           he
           purposly
           makes
           mention
           of
           the
           King
           ,
           for
           whose
           purposes
           &
           intentions
           he
           might
           safely
           take
           any
           deep
           Protestation
           ,
           as
           if
           that
           conduced
           much
           to
           clear
           himself
           in
           the
           opinion
           of
           his
           Auditors
           (
           which
           was
           the
           chiefe
           thing
           he
           now
           aimed
           at
           )
           of
           all
           practices
           tending
           to
           that
           end
           ,
           as
           a
           thing
           impossible
           for
           him
           to
           bring
           about
           ,
           without
           the
           concurrent
           consent
           of
           the
           King
           ,
           which
           was
           but
           a
           fancy
           but
           no
           solid
           argument
           necessarily
           concluding
           what
           he
           would
           have
           beleeved
           ,
           for
           the
           worke
           might
           be
           advancing
           ,
           without
           any
           discovery
           in
           the
           King
           ,
           that
           it
           was
           necessarily
           tending
           to
           such
           an
           end
           ,
           untill
           such
           time
           that
           it
           should
           be
           too
           late
           ,
           if
           not
           impossible
           to
           retire
           ,
           as
           a
           Deere
           may
           be
           driving
           into
           a
           toyle
           ,
           not
           suspecting
           any
           danger
           ,
           but
           having
           leisure
           at
           some
           times
           to
           feed
           by
           the
           way
           ,
           untill
           such
           time
           as
           seeing
           and
           apprehending
           his
           owne
           danger
           ,
           by
           being
           unawares
           reduced
           to
           such
           a
           straight
           as
           doth
           leave
           him
           no
           variety
           of
           choice
           ,
           but
           to
           place
           his
           onely
           safety
           and
           meanes
           of
           escape
           in
           leapping
           into
           that
           snare
           which
           had
           been
           prepared
           for
           him
           ,
           and
           to
           which
           much
           paines
           had
           been
           taken
           to
           drive
           him
           ;
           for
           it
           is
           not
           to
           be
           imagined
           ,
           that
           either
           his
           Majestie
           or
           any
           other
           Christian
           King
           ,
           should
           submit
           themselves
           to
           the
           bondage
           of
           Popery
           if
           they
           rightly
           understood
           what
           they
           did
           ,
           for
           (
           to
           passe
           by
           the
           danger
           which
           it
           bringeth
           to
           their
           soules
           ,
           by
           leading
           them
           into
           by-pathes
           of
           errour
           which
           can
           never
           bring
           them
           to
           heaven
           ,
           )
           it
           subjects
           all
           temporall
           authority
           into
           a
           vassalage
           and
           subordination
           to
           its
           spirituall
           ,
           and
           that
           not
           so
           much
           by
           any
           accident
           or
           contingency
           arising
           from
           the
           different
           dispositions
           of
           the
           severall
           persons
           who
           sit
           upon
           the
           severall
           thrones
           spirituall
           and
           temporall
           (
           which
           may
           be
           turbulency
           and
           ambition
           in
           the
           one
           ,
           and
           infirmity
           and
           weaknes
           in
           the
           other
           )
           as
           by
           the
           very
           principles
           and
           Fundamentall
           constitution
           of
           Popery
           ,
           by
           reason
           of
           the
           acknowledgement
           of
           ,
           and
           submission
           into
           a
           spirituall
           authority
           ,
           being
           once
           rooted
           and
           firmely
           fixed
           in
           the
           beliefe
           or
           imagination
           by
           all
           who
           embrace
           it
           ,
           and
           the
           naturall
           effects
           which
           doe
           necessarily
           spring
           from
           thence
           ;
           For
           when
           the
           world
           was
           blinded
           by
           ignorance
           as
           by
           darknesse
           ,
           
           at
           what
           time
           the
           Popes
           did
           sit
           as
           God
           in
           the
           Temple
           of
           God
           and
           by
           their
           spirituall
           authority
           in
           excommunicating
           and
           absolving
           whom
           they
           pleased
           ,
           and
           for
           what
           they
           pleased
           ,
           did
           uncontrollably
           oppose
           and
           exalt
           themselves
           above
           all
           that
           is
           called
           God
           ,
           that
           is
           above
           all
           Magistracy
           and
           power
           in
           earth
           :
           What
           lamentable
           and
           sad
           effects
           ,
           did
           Christendome
           groane
           under
           and
           feel
           from
           such
           transcendent
           and
           omnipotent
           a
           Power
           ,
           so
           long
           as
           from
           a
           generall
           beliefe
           ,
           it
           was
           universally
           submitted
           unto
           ?
           But
           when
           mens
           eyes
           began
           once
           to
           be
           opened
           ,
           and
           by
           the
           cleer
           light
           of
           the
           truth
           revealed
           in
           Scripture
           ,
           some
           men
           did
           cleerly
           see
           and
           perceive
           that
           no
           such
           power
           was
           ever
           ,
           nor
           could
           be
           given
           into
           any
           one
           man
           upon
           earth
           ,
           yet
           the
           apprehension
           of
           such
           a
           power
           and
           authority
           ,
           that
           it
           was
           given
           unto
           some
           ,
           being
           sunke
           deeply
           into
           all
           mens
           understandings
           ,
           great
           difference
           did
           arise
           where
           the
           same
           should
           reside
           ,
           and
           all
           men
           acknowledging
           it
           to
           appertain
           to
           the
           Clergy
           onely
           ,
           did
           place
           it
           amongst
           them
           as
           it
           were
           by
           a
           generall
           consent
           ,
           in
           some
           one
           of
           those
           formes
           which
           are
           knowen
           to
           be
           best
           capable
           to
           preserve
           authority
           ,
           all
           or
           the
           most
           part
           of
           all
           concluding
           that
           it
           must
           be
           preserved
           in
           one
           of
           them
           ,
           each
           imbracing
           and
           submiting
           into
           that
           forme
           ,
           which
           was
           preferred
           and
           made
           choice
           of
           by
           those
           who
           bare
           the
           greatest
           sway
           ,
           or
           had
           the
           greatest
           esteem
           and
           reputation
           with
           them
           ,
           but
           none
           of
           them
           foreseeing
           into
           all
           effects
           and
           events
           which
           might
           follow
           ,
           hath
           bin
           the
           chief
           cause
           why
           so
           much
           discord
           &
           contention
           hath
           risen
           and
           continued
           ,
           which
           will
           never
           be
           wanting
           so
           long
           as
           the
           cause
           remains
           ,
           that
           is
           ,
           until
           it
           be
           clearly
           understood
           what
           the
           pow-of
           the
           Church
           ,
           and
           of
           Churchmen
           is
           ,
           whether
           any
           such
           thing
           as
           spirituall
           authority
           doth
           appertain
           to
           them
           ,
           &
           by
           what
           right
           ,
           and
           to
           what
           end
           ,
           whether
           or
           no
           ,
           it
           be
           conducing
           to
           Religion
           ,
           or
           be
           compatible
           with
           the
           end
           of
           government
           ,
           for
           albeit
           there
           be
           no
           such
           thing
           as
           spirituall
           authority
           acknowledged
           ,
           yet
           all
           power
           is
           not
           thereby
           taken
           away
           from
           the
           Church
           ,
           but
           the
           consequence
           will
           only
           be
           ,
           that
           the
           power
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           &
           of
           Church-men
           ,
           is
           no
           more
           then
           opperative
           ,
           and
           declarative
           ,
           not
           at
           all
           authoritative
           ,
           and
           having
           no
           authority
           ,
           they
           can
           have
           no
           legislative
           power
           of
           making
           Lawes
           and
           constitutions
           ,
           (
           call
           them
           by
           what
           name
           soever
           they
           will
           )
           binding
           to
           the
           conscience
           ,
           having
           no
           penalties
           
           to
           inforce
           obedience
           ;
           and
           why
           should
           any
           such
           thing
           as
           spirituall
           authority
           be
           admitted
           to
           be
           when
           it
           cannot
           be
           evidenced
           what
           execution
           doth
           follow
           ,
           for
           authority
           without
           execution
           ceaseth
           to
           be
           authority
           by
           losing
           its
           vertue
           ,
           for
           if
           authority
           say
           to
           one
           go
           ,
           he
           must
           go
           ,
           or
           to
           another
           come
           ,
           he
           must
           come
           ,
           and
           likewise
           to
           a
           third
           ,
           doe
           this
           ,
           he
           must
           do
           it
           ,
           but
           no
           Clergy
           man
           nor
           Minister
           of
           the
           Gospel
           can
           say
           ,
           enter
           thou
           into
           heaven
           ,
           and
           goe
           thou
           into
           hell
           ,
           all
           hee
           can
           say
           is
           ,
           thus
           beleeve
           and
           do
           ,
           and
           thou
           shall
           be
           saved
           ,
           but
           if
           otherwise
           you
           will
           be
           damned
           ,
           but
           both
           the
           doing
           and
           beleeving
           dependeth
           upon
           the
           hearers
           owne
           choice
           ,
           nothing
           is
           determined
           by
           the
           appointment
           of
           the
           Minister
           ,
           all
           that
           rests
           in
           the
           power
           of
           the
           Minister
           is
           to
           declare
           to
           others
           ,
           the
           effectuall
           meanes
           of
           their
           salvation
           ,
           from
           the
           revealed
           will
           of
           God
           ,
           to
           which
           whosoever
           submits
           by
           a
           voluntary
           profession
           testifying
           his
           beliefe
           ,
           and
           receiving
           of
           baptisme
           which
           is
           the
           seale
           of
           his
           beliefe
           ,
           but
           brings
           not
           forth
           fruit
           according
           to
           his
           Profession
           ,
           and
           walkes
           not
           according
           to
           the
           rules
           set
           down
           in
           Scripture
           ,
           and
           will
           not
           be
           convinced
           nor
           reclaimed
           by
           no
           admonition
           nor
           reproofe
           ,
           then
           may
           the
           Minister
           safely
           and
           boldly
           pronounce
           that
           he
           is
           still
           in
           the
           state
           and
           condition
           of
           an
           Infidell
           and
           unbeleever
           ,
           no
           more
           capable
           of
           any
           thing
           that
           may
           accrue
           unto
           him
           by
           the
           death
           and
           mediation
           of
           Christ
           then
           a
           heathen
           or
           pagane
           ,
           and
           therefore
           may
           debar
           him
           from
           admission
           into
           the
           holy
           Communion
           ,
           which
           is
           ,
           or
           ought
           to
           be
           ,
           the
           Communion
           of
           Saints
           or
           true
           beleevers
           ,
           and
           is
           Gods
           Sacrament
           to
           us
           ,
           that
           is
           to
           say
           his
           Covenant
           and
           seal
           unto
           us
           ,
           of
           the
           fruits
           and
           benefits
           ,
           that
           we
           hope
           for
           hereafter
           ,
           by
           vertue
           of
           Christs
           death
           and
           resurrection
           ,
           but
           the
           party
           offending
           is
           not
           presently
           cast
           into
           hell
           by
           that
           sentence
           ,
           and
           though
           hell
           fire
           may
           follow
           upon
           it
           hereafter
           ,
           yet
           is
           it
           not
           the
           Ministers
           sentence
           ,
           nor
           the
           debarring
           him
           from
           the
           Sacrament
           ,
           that
           doth
           send
           him
           thither
           ,
           but
           his
           want
           of
           faith
           ,
           which
           is
           made
           evident
           and
           nortorious
           ,
           by
           no
           single
           act
           of
           any
           declared
           sinne
           ,
           but
           by
           an
           obstinate
           perserverance
           in
           any
           one
           sin
           or
           more
           that
           hath
           been
           judged
           already
           by
           the
           unappealable
           judgement
           of
           God
           ,
           to
           be
           an
           evidence
           of
           want
           of
           faith
           in
           him
           who
           commits
           it
           ,
           and
           doth
           take
           pleasure
           and
           delight
           into
           it
           ,
           
           which
           is
           made
           manifest
           and
           apparent
           to
           men
           by
           a
           perseverance
           in
           it
           onely
           ;
           and
           therefore
           it
           is
           the
           sentence
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           not
           of
           the
           Minister
           ,
           the
           Minister
           being
           onely
           Gods
           Herauld
           or
           messenger
           to
           declare
           to
           others
           the
           revealed
           will
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           for
           doing
           thereof
           he
           hath
           an
           expresse
           warrant
           from
           God
           recorded
           in
           Scripture
           ;
           nor
           must
           it
           be
           any
           part
           of
           the
           Ministers
           purpose
           to
           send
           any
           man
           to
           hell
           (
           but
           purpose
           and
           intention
           of
           doing
           execution
           upon
           the
           offender
           is
           essentiall
           to
           authority
           and
           inseparable
           from
           it
           )
           but
           onely
           to
           prevent
           (
           what
           in
           him
           lieth
           )
           his
           going
           thither
           :
           for
           albeit
           that
           the
           Ministers
           sentence
           ,
           being
           rightly
           pronounced
           ,
           be
           ratified
           in
           heaven
           ,
           (
           which
           is
           undenyable
           )
           yet
           may
           it
           be
           recalled
           again
           ,
           but
           never
           at
           the
           Ministers
           will
           and
           pleasure
           (
           which
           at
           sometimes
           is
           incident
           to
           authority
           )
           but
           by
           the
           contrition
           and
           repentance
           of
           the
           obstinate
           party
           publikely
           promising
           ,
           and
           vowing
           his
           amendment
           ,
           upon
           which
           evidence
           the
           Minister
           may
           pronounce
           his
           absolution
           receiving
           him
           again
           into
           the
           bosome
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           and
           admitt
           him
           againe
           into
           the
           Communion
           of
           Saints
           ,
           and
           this
           sentance
           is
           likewise
           ratifyed
           in
           Heaven
           ,
           If
           the
           parties
           repentance
           be
           unfained
           and
           sincere
           ,
           which
           notwithstanding
           may
           be
           hypocriticall
           and
           dissembled
           in
           him
           ,
           albeit
           he
           doth
           refraine
           and
           forbeare
           from
           the
           performance
           of
           that
           wherein
           he
           gave
           the
           offence
           and
           scandall
           ,
           and
           doth
           moreover
           proceede
           to
           amendment
           of
           his
           life
           ,
           not
           onely
           in
           that
           particular
           ,
           but
           doth
           walke
           unblameably
           and
           without
           any
           deserved
           reproofe
           from
           the
           judgment
           of
           men
           in
           all
           other
           ,
           howsoever
           upon
           a
           visible
           purpose
           of
           amendment
           ,
           the
           Minister
           not
           onely
           may
           ,
           but
           must
           receive
           him
           againe
           into
           the
           bosome
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           and
           admit
           him
           againe
           into
           the
           holy
           Communion
           with
           others
           ,
           so
           that
           nothing
           is
           left
           to
           the
           will
           of
           the
           Minister
           ,
           nor
           to
           the
           finall
           judgement
           of
           the
           Minister
           ,
           but
           all
           is
           referred
           to
           the
           will
           and
           knowledge
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           where
           will
           and
           knowledge
           are
           excluded
           ,
           their
           Authority
           is
           wanting
           ,
           and
           though
           much
           may
           be
           effected
           and
           brought
           to
           passe
           by
           them
           ,
           yet
           whatsoever
           is
           effected
           deserves
           not
           the
           name
           as
           differing
           from
           the
           nature
           of
           Authority
           :
           and
           the
           Ministers
           of
           Christ
           having
           no
           Authority
           in
           those
           things
           wherein
           they
           cannot
           ere
           so
           long
           as
           they
           follow
           the
           cleare
           light
           revealed
           in
           Scripture
           ,
           they
           can
           much
           lesse
           have
           any
           Authority
           for
           such
           
           things
           which
           flow
           from
           their
           owne
           Invention
           ,
           nor
           can
           they
           inforce
           obedience
           by
           any
           spirituall
           meanes
           or
           censures
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           unto
           any
           thing
           whereof
           they
           themselves
           are
           Authors
           ,
           when
           no
           spirituall
           meanes
           are
           compulsive
           in
           regard
           of
           the
           Instrument
           that
           must
           apply
           them
           ,
           and
           whatsoever
           efficacy
           or
           vertue
           they
           have
           ,
           yet
           may
           they
           never
           be
           applyed
           for
           the
           inforcing
           of
           any
           thing
           whereof
           man
           is
           Author
           ,
           for
           then
           it
           would
           follow
           that
           the
           will
           of
           man
           or
           something
           proceeding
           from
           the
           will
           of
           man
           would
           be
           a
           rule
           to
           the
           Justice
           of
           God
           ,
           when
           one
           man
           must
           be
           as
           a
           Publican
           ,
           or
           Heathen
           and
           consequently
           uncapable
           of
           the
           fruits
           of
           Christs
           death
           ,
           for
           disobeying
           onely
           the
           will
           ,
           or
           something
           depending
           upon
           the
           will
           of
           another
           ,
           which
           no
           man
           dares
           to
           affirme
           ,
           and
           having
           no
           compulsive
           meanes
           to
           inforce
           obedience
           ,
           they
           can
           have
           no
           legislative
           power
           of
           making
           of
           cannons
           and
           constitutions
           binding
           to
           the
           conscience
           ,
           for
           a
           law
           without
           a
           penalty
           or
           power
           sufficient
           to
           inforce
           it
           ,
           is
           no
           law
           ,
           nor
           neede
           they
           have
           any
           such
           power
           ,
           for
           such
           a
           power
           is
           not
           conducible
           at
           all
           to
           that
           end
           of
           Religion
           which
           is
           committed
           to
           them
           ,
           &
           to
           their
           care
           and
           paines
           ,
           but
           is
           destructive
           to
           the
           end
           of
           government
           ;
           for
           Religion
           hath
           a
           two
           fold
           end
           ,
           the
           one
           respecteth
           God
           ,
           the
           other
           man
           ,
           the
           end
           of
           religion
           in
           respect
           of
           God
           is
           to
           glorify
           God
           ,
           that
           man
           who
           was
           therefore
           created
           to
           glorify
           his
           Maker
           should
           by
           a
           true
           knowledge
           of
           the
           true
           God
           glorify
           him
           aright
           ,
           and
           the
           end
           of
           religion
           in
           respect
           of
           man
           ,
           is
           to
           bring
           a
           man
           from
           all
           confidence
           in
           himselfe
           or
           the
           creature
           ,
           to
           rely
           upon
           the
           Providence
           and
           goodnesse
           of
           God
           who
           is
           the
           Creator
           ,
           to
           the
           end
           he
           may
           renounce
           his
           own
           righteousnesse
           to
           be
           made
           partaker
           of
           the
           merits
           and
           Righteousnesse
           of
           the
           Sonne
           of
           God
           ,
           the
           Redeemer
           of
           Mankinde
           ,
           that
           by
           faith
           in
           him
           he
           may
           obtaine
           grace
           and
           some
           measure
           of
           sanctification
           in
           this
           life
           ,
           for
           the
           remission
           of
           sinnes
           ,
           and
           fruition
           of
           Glory
           hereafter
           :
           and
           for
           this
           end
           of
           religion
           no
           humane
           lawes
           do
           contribute
           any
           thing
           at
           all
           ,
           for
           unto
           this
           the
           Scriptures
           are
           sufficient
           being
           compleate
           in
           themselves
           ,
           and
           the
           chiefe
           duty
           of
           the
           Ministers
           of
           the
           Gospell
           is
           to
           explaine
           and
           expound
           the
           true
           meaning
           of
           scripture
           to
           others
           ,
           for
           doing
           whereof
           they
           should
           be
           learned
           in
           all
           necessary
           learning
           and
           skilfull
           ,
           as
           also
           have
           a
           lawfull
           Calling
           by
           a
           lawfull
           Ordination
           ,
           and
           
           for
           which
           it
           is
           very
           fit
           that
           they
           be
           set
           apart
           from
           all
           other
           imployment
           ,
           and
           have
           a
           sufficient
           maintenance
           that
           they
           may
           the
           better
           attend
           that
           to
           which
           they
           are
           called
           ;
           but
           for
           the
           other
           end
           to
           glorify
           God
           ,
           humane
           lawes
           doe
           contribute
           much
           ,
           but
           they
           are
           required
           of
           Christian
           Kings
           and
           Magistrates
           ,
           and
           not
           of
           Christian
           Ministers
           ,
           for
           God
           did
           from
           the
           begining
           put
           Authority
           into
           the
           hands
           of
           the
           Magistrate
           ,
           and
           endowed
           them
           with
           effectuall
           meanes
           for
           inforcing
           of
           obedience
           to
           what
           should
           be
           commanded
           by
           them
           ,
           so
           did
           he
           never
           in
           the
           hands
           of
           the
           Priests
           and
           Levites
           under
           the
           Law
           ,
           nor
           of
           the
           Apostles
           under
           the
           Gospell
           ,
           and
           by
           consequence
           into
           the
           hands
           of
           no
           Ministers
           whatsoever
           succeeding
           them
           ,
           and
           God
           doth
           require
           of
           the
           Magistrate
           to
           improve
           his
           Authority
           (
           which
           is
           the
           talent
           that
           God
           hath
           given
           him
           )
           for
           the
           gaining
           of
           others
           by
           force
           and
           compulsion
           ,
           (
           when
           no
           other
           meanes
           will
           prevaile
           )
           to
           the
           performance
           of
           those
           dutyes
           that
           are
           required
           of
           them
           ,
           as
           he
           requires
           of
           all
           who
           are
           called
           to
           labour
           in
           the
           Ministeriall
           function
           and
           office
           ,
           to
           imploy
           their
           gifts
           and
           graces
           (
           which
           are
           the
           talents
           bestowed
           upon
           them
           )
           painfully
           and
           dilligently
           for
           the
           enlightning
           of
           the
           understanding
           of
           others
           ,
           whereby
           every
           exalted
           thought
           and
           imagination
           may
           be
           brought
           downe
           ,
           which
           the
           Magistrates
           Power
           and
           Authority
           can
           never
           reach
           ,
           for
           the
           Power
           of
           the
           Magistrate
           reacheth
           no
           further
           then
           to
           the
           outward
           life
           &
           conversation
           ,
           when
           the
           operation
           of
           the
           Ministry
           subdueth
           the
           will
           ,
           and
           therefore
           the
           principall
           care
           of
           the
           Magistrate
           is
           and
           ought
           to
           be
           to
           enforce
           men
           to
           live
           uprightly
           and
           justly
           as
           they
           ought
           to
           doe
           ,
           for
           by
           so
           doing
           men
           glorify
           God
           ,
           but
           this
           is
           not
           all
           ,
           the
           glory
           that
           is
           to
           be
           performed
           by
           man
           to
           God
           ,
           for
           besides
           there
           must
           be
           a
           ready
           submission
           to
           the
           Will
           of
           God
           ,
           springing
           from
           a
           perfect
           love
           to
           God
           ,
           and
           grounded
           upon
           an
           assured
           confidence
           of
           Gods
           love
           to
           us
           ,
           which
           may
           be
           begotten
           and
           kindled
           in
           a
           man
           ,
           but
           can
           never
           be
           inforced
           ,
           and
           to
           this
           duty
           tendeth
           the
           Ministers
           paines
           and
           labour
           ,
           but
           it
           is
           and
           ought
           to
           be
           the
           Christian
           Magistrates
           care
           to
           provide
           for
           all
           that
           can
           onely
           be
           introduced
           by
           force
           and
           compulsion
           in
           the
           Service
           of
           God
           ,
           wherefore
           the
           severall
           ends
           of
           Magistracy
           and
           of
           the
           Ministry
           are
           different
           but
           not
           contrary
           ,
           but
           the
           severall
           meanes
           by
           which
           they
           attaine
           their
           ends
           are
           not
           onely
           
           different
           but
           contrary
           ,
           and
           those
           meanes
           which
           are
           effectuall
           to
           the
           one
           ,
           are
           not
           only
           ineffectuall
           but
           uselesse
           to
           the
           other
           ,
           for
           the
           Magistrate
           can
           never
           attaine
           that
           end
           to
           which
           his
           Authority
           conduceth
           by
           no
           perswation
           nor
           information
           onely
           ,
           nor
           can
           the
           Minister
           subdue
           the
           will
           nor
           informe
           the
           understanding
           by
           any
           Authority
           from
           or
           in
           himselfe
           ,
           and
           both
           of
           them
           have
           their
           Commission
           immediately
           from
           God
           ,
           and
           each
           of
           them
           are
           subject
           to
           the
           other
           without
           any
           subordination
           of
           offices
           from
           the
           one
           to
           the
           other
           ,
           for
           the
           Magistrate
           is
           no
           lesse
           subject
           to
           the
           operation
           of
           the
           word
           from
           the
           mouth
           of
           the
           Minister
           then
           any
           other
           man
           whatsoever
           ,
           and
           the
           Minister
           againe
           is
           as
           much
           subject
           to
           the
           Authority
           of
           the
           Magistrate
           as
           any
           other
           Subject
           whatsoever
           ,
           and
           therefore
           though
           there
           be
           no
           subordination
           of
           offices
           ,
           yet
           is
           there
           of
           Persons
           ,
           the
           Person
           of
           the
           Minister
           remaining
           a
           Subject
           ,
           but
           not
           the
           function
           of
           the
           Ministry
           ,
           but
           there
           needes
           not
           two
           Tribunalls
           nor
           Independent
           Courts
           be
           erected
           to
           provide
           for
           their
           severall
           ends
           and
           dutyes
           required
           of
           them
           ,
           for
           the
           Minister
           can
           never
           attaine
           the
           end
           of
           his
           labours
           ,
           by
           no
           Judiciall
           processe
           nor
           legall
           proceedings
           whatsoever
           ,
           and
           therefore
           all
           Judiciall
           courts
           are
           needelesse
           and
           uselesse
           to
           his
           ends
           ,
           yet
           are
           they
           not
           so
           to
           himselfe
           having
           other
           ends
           then
           what
           are
           required
           of
           him
           for
           the
           discharge
           of
           his
           duty
           and
           function
           ,
           but
           it
           is
           essentiall
           to
           the
           Magistrate
           to
           have
           a
           tribunall
           and
           judiciall
           Courts
           ,
           for
           the
           attaining
           of
           his
           ends
           and
           duties
           required
           of
           him
           ,
           without
           which
           he
           can
           never
           discharge
           his
           dutie
           as
           he
           ought
           ,
           but
           whensoever
           the
           like
           Tribunall
           is
           erected
           in
           the
           Church
           as
           is
           necessary
           in
           the
           State
           ,
           they
           must
           be
           Independent
           one
           of
           another
           in
           regard
           the
           severall
           offices
           governing
           Church
           and
           State
           are
           so
           ,
           but
           all
           that
           is
           to
           be
           got
           by
           Independant
           Tribunalls
           ,
           is
           either
           dissention
           and
           discord
           ,
           which
           is
           the
           usuall
           fruite
           that
           devision
           of
           Authority
           beareth
           ,
           or
           by
           compliance
           to
           provide
           for
           one
           anothers
           Interests
           ,
           or
           particular
           ends
           differing
           from
           their
           publick
           dutyes
           ,
           with
           the
           manifest
           losse
           of
           true
           religion
           on
           both
           sides
           ,
           which
           many
           times
           drawes
           downe
           the
           Judgment
           of
           God
           upon
           one
           or
           both
           ,
           as
           being
           a
           third
           person
           no
           lesse
           interressed
           in
           Justice
           and
           Honour
           then
           either
           ,
           and
           many
           times
           the
           Justice
           of
           God
           is
           most
           greeveous
           when
           least
           apprehended
           ,
           as
           suffering
           men
           to
           wallow
           in
           their
           sins
           
           to
           dye
           in
           security
           ,
           nor
           is
           it
           a
           small
           Judgment
           to
           leave
           men
           to
           the
           necessary
           effects
           ,
           which
           division
           of
           Authority
           produceth
           :
           for
           the
           end
           of
           all
           government
           is
           the
           preservation
           of
           humane
           society
           ,
           the
           meanes
           of
           doing
           whereof
           is
           by
           union
           and
           unity
           ,
           and
           Authority
           is
           the
           effectuall
           meanes
           of
           producing
           and
           propagating
           unity
           ?
           and
           therefore
           whensoever
           Authority
           is
           divided
           ,
           Vnitie
           may
           alwaies
           ,
           and
           sometimes
           must
           admit
           of
           division
           which
           destroyes
           it
           ,
           for
           unity
           and
           division
           are
           destructive
           one
           of
           another
           ,
           and
           when
           two
           Tribunalls
           are
           erected
           for
           the
           determining
           of
           severall
           and
           different
           causes
           and
           crimes
           ,
           both
           armed
           with
           a
           forcible
           Authority
           ,
           weilding
           swords
           of
           a
           different
           nature
           ,
           agreable
           to
           their
           different
           constitutions
           ,
           and
           without
           any
           dependency
           and
           subordination
           the
           one
           to
           the
           other
           ,
           what
           lasting
           concord
           and
           agreement
           can
           there
           be
           beweene
           these
           two
           ,
           they
           that
           mannage
           them
           must
           be
           juster
           then
           men
           are
           knowne
           to
           be
           ,
           or
           advantages
           will
           be
           taken
           when
           given
           by
           the
           one
           ,
           (
           as
           no
           sublunary
           substances
           which
           are
           subject
           to
           change
           can
           remaine
           long
           in
           an
           equall
           ballance
           )
           for
           subjecting
           the
           other
           ;
           and
           therefore
           it
           was
           ,
           when
           the
           Christian
           world
           did
           by
           a
           generall
           consent
           beleeve
           that
           the
           Church
           having
           a
           sword
           though
           invisible
           ,
           for
           the
           cutting
           off
           of
           all
           schismaticall
           and
           refractory
           Members
           ,
           no
           lesse
           really
           and
           truly
           then
           the
           State
           hath
           a
           visible
           materiall
           sword
           ,
           which
           for
           the
           preservation
           of
           union
           and
           unity
           ,
           was
           esteemed
           necessary
           to
           be
           put
           into
           the
           hands
           of
           one
           ,
           and
           therefore
           willingly
           submitted
           their
           necks
           ,
           under
           the
           Imaginary
           stroake
           thereof
           ,
           from
           the
           sentence
           of
           Popes
           ,
           or
           Bishops
           of
           Rome
           ;
           How
           easie
           was
           it
           for
           them
           by
           reason
           therof
           to
           subject
           all
           Christian
           Princes
           and
           Magistrates
           unto
           a
           dependency
           and
           subordination
           unto
           them
           and
           their
           Authority
           ,
           and
           how
           did
           they
           trouble
           the
           Christian
           world
           ,
           by
           transferring
           of
           rights
           and
           stirring
           up
           of
           rebellion
           whensoever
           any
           of
           those
           Princes
           did
           oppose
           them
           ,
           or
           contradict
           their
           wills
           by
           a
           supposed
           Intrenching
           upon
           their
           pretended
           Prerogatives
           though
           usurped
           ▪
           but
           when
           the
           Popes
           right
           began
           to
           be
           questioned
           by
           some
           ,
           whereby
           his
           reputation
           did
           decline
           ,
           even
           amongst
           those
           who
           adhearing
           still
           to
           the
           doctrine
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           as
           to
           that
           in
           which
           they
           had
           beene
           educated
           and
           bred
           ,
           yet
           did
           not
           beleeve
           his
           censures
           to
           be
           so
           dreadfull
           as
           before
           they
           apprehended
           them
           to
           
           be
           ;
           but
           the
           edge
           of
           his
           sword
           being
           thereby
           blunted
           ,
           and
           the
           edge
           of
           the
           temporall
           sword
           being
           not
           onely
           visible
           but
           sharpe
           ,
           the
           advantage
           returned
           to
           Princes
           ,
           whereby
           those
           Princes
           who
           continued
           in
           union
           with
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           professing
           subjection
           and
           obedience
           to
           the
           spirituall
           Authority
           thereof
           ,
           doe
           notwithstanding
           now
           reduce
           that
           power
           and
           Authority
           to
           which
           they
           professe
           subjection
           ,
           unto
           a
           subordination
           of
           them
           and
           their
           Authority
           to
           be
           directed
           by
           them
           ,
           which
           will
           be
           of
           no
           longer
           permanency
           ,
           then
           that
           Church
           can
           insnare
           the
           world
           againe
           to
           an
           apprehension
           and
           beleife
           of
           the
           reality
           of
           their
           power
           ,
           to
           beget
           which
           they
           continually
           indeavour
           and
           aspire
           ,
           and
           have
           no
           small
           hopes
           from
           the
           differences
           and
           divisions
           amongst
           Protestants
           ,
           for
           the
           increasing
           and
           fomenting
           whereof
           it
           is
           not
           to
           be
           imagined
           that
           they
           are
           idle
           ;
           but
           whatsoever
           their
           hopes
           and
           practises
           are
           ,
           their
           greatest
           strength
           remaineth
           in
           this
           ,
           that
           it
           is
           generally
           beleeved
           that
           the
           Church
           hath
           a
           spirituall
           Authority
           for
           the
           cutting
           off
           of
           all
           schismaticall
           Members
           ,
           and
           that
           this
           Authority
           is
           to
           be
           preserved
           in
           some
           one
           forme
           or
           other
           without
           any
           derivation
           thereof
           from
           any
           humane
           power
           ,
           for
           then
           it
           cleerely
           and
           undoubtedly
           followeth
           ,
           that
           whosoever
           by
           such
           principles
           of
           reason
           taken
           from
           the
           end
           of
           government
           doth
           incline
           to
           Monarchy
           ,
           and
           that
           this
           spirituall
           Authority
           can
           best
           be
           preserved
           by
           the
           Supremacy
           of
           one
           man
           ,
           then
           the
           Bishops
           of
           Rome
           ,
           having
           had
           for
           a
           long
           time
           ,
           and
           for
           a
           long
           succession
           ,
           and
           still
           having
           the
           possession
           ,
           besides
           other
           advantages
           of
           greatnesse
           and
           power
           which
           begetteth
           strength
           and
           reputation
           ,
           must
           and
           will
           be
           acknowledged
           by
           all
           those
           to
           be
           the
           onely
           spirituall
           Monarch
           in
           the
           Church
           armed
           with
           spirituall
           Authority
           ;
           and
           whosoever
           out
           of
           prejudice
           against
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           taken
           against
           her
           by
           reason
           of
           either
           her
           errours
           or
           abuses
           ,
           or
           both
           ,
           doth
           seperate
           themselves
           from
           the
           Communion
           of
           that
           Church
           ,
           and
           by
           consequence
           onely
           free
           themselves
           from
           her
           subjection
           ,
           but
           doe
           notwithstand
           adheare
           to
           and
           retaine
           the
           grounds
           of
           those
           errours
           and
           abuses
           ,
           by
           acknowledging
           and
           beleeving
           that
           the
           same
           spirituall
           Authority
           (
           which
           was
           presupposed
           to
           have
           beene
           abused
           by
           the
           Popes
           and
           Bishops
           of
           Rome
           as
           Vsurpers
           onely
           over
           the
           rest
           of
           the
           Clergy
           ,
           or
           too
           great
           a
           power
           and
           consequently
           dangerous
           
           in
           the
           hands
           of
           any
           one
           man
           )
           is
           not
           onely
           lawfull
           but
           necessary
           as
           being
           Inherent
           in
           the
           function
           ,
           and
           essentiall
           for
           the
           preservation
           of
           union
           and
           unity
           ,
           to
           be
           preserved
           in
           some
           other
           forme
           which
           they
           agree
           upon
           and
           like
           better
           then
           the
           incontrollable
           Supremacie
           of
           one
           man
           ,
           then
           this
           doth
           necessarily
           follow
           ,
           that
           albeit
           they
           free
           themselves
           from
           all
           the
           errours
           and
           abuses
           which
           were
           introduced
           by
           the
           Supreamicie
           of
           one
           man
           ,
           yet
           so
           long
           as
           they
           acknowledge
           that
           the
           same
           power
           and
           Authority
           is
           resident
           in
           others
           ,
           they
           can
           never
           free
           themselves
           of
           all
           errours
           and
           abuses
           which
           are
           introducible
           by
           Authority
           ,
           but
           that
           the
           property
           and
           condition
           of
           things
           in
           themselves
           indifferent
           will
           be
           changed
           from
           being
           indifferent
           and
           converted
           into
           the
           nature
           and
           necessity
           of
           absolute
           duties
           ,
           which
           ever
           begets
           bondage
           and
           subjection
           ,
           and
           sense
           of
           bondage
           doth
           ever
           beget
           desire
           of
           liberty
           ,
           which
           can
           never
           be
           obtained
           so
           long
           as
           the
           opinion
           of
           a
           necessity
           of
           Authority
           in
           some
           forme
           or
           other
           is
           retained
           ;
           and
           experience
           hath
           now
           taught
           us
           ,
           what
           could
           not
           be
           foreseene
           by
           reason
           alone
           ,
           without
           some
           additionall
           helpe
           from
           divine
           illumination
           ,
           that
           in
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           which
           did
           not
           onely
           shake
           off
           the
           Supreamicie
           of
           the
           Pope
           ,
           but
           had
           purged
           her selfe
           of
           all
           those
           errours
           which
           had
           either
           crept
           in
           ,
           or
           were
           introduced
           by
           the
           power
           of
           that
           Supreamicie
           ,
           by
           retaining
           of
           Bishops
           ,
           and
           giving
           them
           a
           part
           onely
           of
           that
           spirituall
           Authority
           ,
           which
           formerly
           was
           acknowledged
           to
           Popes
           ,
           and
           though
           quallifying
           that
           part
           by
           restraining
           it
           from
           all
           legislative
           power
           ,
           or
           a
           power
           to
           inact
           any
           thing
           ,
           but
           allowing
           it
           a
           Power
           of
           Iudicature
           ,
           the
           effectuall
           operation
           and
           proper
           working
           of
           that
           part
           of
           spirituall
           Authority
           ,
           hath
           now
           fully
           manifested
           it selfe
           to
           tend
           to
           propogate
           superstition
           and
           errour
           ▪
           rather
           then
           the
           sincerity
           and
           truth
           of
           Religion
           ;
           and
           as
           the
           naturall
           motions
           of
           different
           bodies
           ,
           differing
           in
           quality
           and
           substance
           tend
           to
           different
           centers
           ,
           the
           naturall
           motion
           of
           Episcopacy
           ,
           hath
           now
           discovered
           it selfe
           to
           indeavour
           continually
           to
           unite
           it selfe
           to
           such
           a
           head
           to
           which
           it
           is
           capable
           to
           aspire
           ,
           rather
           then
           to
           be
           in
           subjection
           under
           such
           a
           head
           to
           which
           it
           hath
           no
           capacity
           to
           aspyre
           ,
           and
           that
           received
           principle
           of
           State
           ,
           that
           Episcopacy
           ,
           is
           a
           support
           to
           Monarchy
           ,
           is
           now
           likewise
           discovered
           to
           be
           fraudulent
           and
           deceitefull
           ,
           for
           
           it
           is
           true
           that
           it
           is
           a
           support
           to
           a
           spirituall
           Monarchy
           or
           Monarchy
           in
           the
           Church
           ,
           as
           being
           the
           basis
           and
           foundation
           thereof
           ,
           but
           doth
           undermine
           and
           destroy
           Monarchy
           in
           the
           State
           ,
           especially
           in
           that
           State
           which
           doth
           trust
           unto
           it
           as
           to
           a
           supporter
           ,
           and
           the
           reason
           is
           cleere
           ,
           for
           all
           supporters
           which
           have
           no
           solid
           foundation
           ,
           doe
           ruinate
           those
           buildings
           ,
           which
           are
           erected
           upon
           them
           being
           of
           greater
           weight
           and
           substance
           then
           the
           foundation
           can
           beare
           ,
           and
           the
           foundation
           of
           Episcopacy
           being
           layed
           in
           the
           engrossing
           of
           spirituall
           Authority
           or
           Ecclesiasticall
           censures
           ;
           Spirituall
           Authority
           it selfe
           hath
           no
           other
           existence
           nor
           being
           ,
           but
           what
           it
           hath
           in
           the
           Imagination
           and
           beleefe
           ,
           which
           is
           too
           slippery
           a
           ground
           to
           support
           a
           solid
           substance
           ,
           such
           as
           temporall
           Monarchy
           is
           ,
           but
           may
           be
           sufficient
           to
           support
           an
           aery
           and
           imaginary
           bulk
           ,
           such
           as
           spirituall
           Monarchy
           is
           ,
           which
           Episcopacy
           not
           only
           supports
           ,
           but
           continually
           tends
           towards
           as
           to
           its
           proper
           center
           ,
           and
           my
           Lord
           of
           Cant.
           when
           he
           obtained
           the
           Kings
           good
           will
           to
           confirme
           by
           his
           Letters
           Patents
           ,
           the
           late
           Canons
           ,
           did
           put
           a
           direct
           cheate
           upon
           his
           Majesty
           ,
           for
           thereby
           the
           Kings
           Supreamicy
           in
           causes
           Ecclesiasticall
           was
           cut
           off
           ,
           and
           from
           thence
           forth
           his
           Supreamicy
           over
           Ecclesiasticall
           persons
           should
           have
           been
           rather
           titular
           then
           reall
           ,
           If
           the
           consent
           of
           Parliament
           could
           as
           easily
           have
           been
           obtained
           as
           his
           Majesties
           own
           :
           But
           to
           conclud
           this
           part
           of
           my
           Lord
           of
           Cant.
           
           Speech
           he
           might
           safely
           protest
           upon
           his
           conscience
           ,
           that
           his
           Majesty
           was
           a
           sound
           Protestant
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           Religion
           by
           law
           established
           ,
           yet
           did
           it
           not
           thereupon
           follow
           ,
           that
           he
           himself
           was
           guiltles
           from
           the
           sentence
           of
           the
           law
           ,
           because
           his
           actions
           being
           all
           warranted
           by
           his
           Majesties
           consent
           ,
           they
           could
           not
           be
           divided
           from
           the
           Kings
           ;
           which
           is
           the
           cheife
           thing
           implied
           by
           this
           particular
           .
           His
           second
           
             particular
          
           is
           concerning
           th●…
           great
           and
           populous
           City
           ,
           to
           which
           he
           is
           very
           kind
           and
           prayeth
           
             God
             to
             blesse
             it
             ,
          
           but
           all
           his
           prayers
           for
           those
           who
           he
           conceiveth
           had
           done
           him
           injury
           have
           a
           sting
           in
           them
           ,
           and
           this
           prayer
           ends
           reproaching
           those
           he
           prayes
           for
           ,
           as
           if
           some
           had
           subordned
           
             witnesses
             against
             his
             life
             by
             gathering
             of
             hands
             ,
          
           which
           he
           affirmeth
           
             to
             be
             a
             way
             that
             might
             endanger
             many
             an
             innocent
             man
             ,
             and
             may
             plucks
             innocent
             blood
             upon
             their
             own
             heads
             ,
             and
             perhaps
             upon
             this
             City
             also
             ,
          
           which
           before
           he
           prayed
           God
           to
           blesse
           ,
           and
           now
           again
           to
           
             forbid
             this
             Judgement
             ,
          
           but
           his
           prayers
           are
           mixed
           with
           threates
           and
           all
           tending
           to
           
           justify
           himself
           to
           his
           Auditours
           ,
           whereof
           he
           is
           never
           unmindefull
           upon
           all
           occasions
           ,
           and
           having
           here
           occasion
           to
           mention
           the
           Parliament
           ,
           he
           bestowes
           glorious
           and
           honourable
           Titles
           and
           epithrates
           upon
           it
           ,
           as
           if
           that
           were
           sufficient
           to
           testify
           his
           respects
           thereof
           ,
           but
           he
           doth
           contradict
           his
           owne
           testimony
           by
           his
           Inferences
           and
           Applications
           ,
           for
           by
           Inference
           he
           applyeth
           the
           gathering
           of
           hands
           ,
           (
           which
           he
           affirmeth
           to
           have
           been
           practised
           against
           himself
           ,
           )
           to
           the
           stirring
           up
           of
           
             the
             people
             against
             Saint
             Stephen
             ,
          
           and
           
             to
             Herods
             lying
             in
             waite
             for
             Saint
             Peters
             death
             ,
             by
             observing
             how
             the
             people
             tooke
             the
             death
             of
             Saint
             James
             .
          
           By
           which
           Instance
           he
           must
           meane
           that
           
             great
             ,
             honourable
             ,
             and
             wise
             Court
             of
             the
             Kingdome
             ,
             the
             Parliament
             ,
          
           (
           those
           be
           the
           titles
           he
           bestowes
           upon
           them
           )
           for
           it
           was
           they
           that
           gave
           sentence
           against
           him
           ,
           as
           Herod
           did
           against
           Saint
           James
           ,
           and
           would
           have
           done
           agaynst
           Saint
           Peter
           ,
           which
           no
           Christian
           thinkes
           was
           either
           honourably
           or
           wisely
           done
           of
           him
           ,
           and
           therefore
           what
           opininion
           he
           had
           of
           that
           great
           ,
           honourable
           ,
           and
           wise
           Court
           for
           sentencing
           of
           him
           may
           be
           collected
           ,
           and
           that
           his
           esteeme
           of
           them
           was
           not
           so
           honourable
           as
           his
           expressions
           ;
           but
           whatsoever
           his
           esteeme
           of
           them
           was
           ,
           they
           were
           his
           Judges
           so
           will
           he
           never
           be
           theirs
           which
           he
           here
           apprehended
           ,
           when
           he
           did
           put
           the
           City
           in
           mind
           of
           the
           Justice
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           
             how
             fearfull
             a
             thing
             it
             was
             ,
             to
             fall
             into
             the
             Hands
             of
             the
             living
             God
             ,
             because
             God
             remembers
             and
             forgets
             not
             the
             complaynts
             of
             the
             poore
             ,
          
           a
           lesson
           which
           he
           never
           remembred
           when
           he
           himselfe
           did
           sit
           upon
           the
           Tribunall
           ,
           but
           is
           of
           speciall
           comfort
           unto
           him
           upon
           the
           Scaffold
           ,
           for
           his
           blood
           was
           innocent
           blood
           ,
           and
           not
           onely
           innocent
           blood
           in
           his
           owne
           esteeme
           but
           he
           had
           a
           speciall
           Commission
           from
           God
           to
           tell
           them
           so
           ,
           as
           Jeremiah
           had
           ,
           in
           the
           
             26.
             Chap.
             of
             Jeremiah
             ,
             ver.
             15.
          
           the
           words
           were
           not
           expressed
           by
           him
           but
           directions
           given
           to
           the
           place
           ,
           the
           words
           be
           these
           ,
           
             But
             know
             ye
             for
             certaine
             ,
             that
             if
             ye
             put
             me
             to
             death
             ,
             you
             shall
             surely
             bring
             innocent
             blood
             upon
             your selves
             ,
             and
             upon
             this
             City
             ,
             and
             upon
             the
             Inhabitants
             thereof
             :
             for
             of
             a
             truth
             the
             Lord
             hath
             sent
             me
             to
             you
             to
             speake
             all
             these
             words
             in
             your
             eares
             .
          
           The
           words
           are
           so
           plaine
           they
           need
           no
           comment
           .
        
         
           His
           third
           particular
           is
           ,
           
             this
             poore
             Church
             of
             England
             ,
          
           as
           he
           calls
           it
           ,
           but
           from
           thence
           no
           observation
           is
           to
           be
           drawne
           ,
           for
           it
           is
           
           an
           undeniable
           truth
           what
           is
           there
           affirmed
           ,
           onely
           it
           would
           be
           inquired
           after
           ,
           who
           hath
           beene
           the
           principall
           and
           Instrumentall
           cause
           of
           this
           great
           change
           ,
           but
           he
           hath
           made
           no
           application
           and
           so
           will
           I.
           
        
         
           His
           last
           particular
           is
           himselfe
           ,
           and
           that
           about
           his
           religion
           ,
           in
           which
           he
           is
           very
           breefe
           ,
           choosing
           to
           expresse
           himselfe
           by
           circumstances
           which
           admit
           of
           a
           latitude
           that
           may
           deceive
           the
           hearer
           or
           reader
           ,
           rather
           then
           positively
           and
           cleerly
           whereby
           he
           leaves
           the
           hearer
           or
           reader
           as
           little
           satisfied
           as
           if
           he
           had
           said
           nothing
           at
           all
           ,
           yet
           doth
           he
           confesse
           his
           labouring
           to
           
             keep
             up
             an
             Vniformity
             in
             the
             externall
             worship
             of
             God
             ,
          
           but
           makes
           no
           mention
           at
           all
           of
           what
           meanes
           he
           used
           to
           doe
           so
           ,
           for
           in
           the
           wayes
           which
           he
           tooke
           and
           in
           the
           meanes
           which
           he
           used
           consisted
           his
           cheefest
           guilt
           ,
           but
           that
           he
           passeth
           over
           ,
           and
           so
           comes
           at
           last
           to
           speake
           of
           his
           accusation
           ,
           which
           was
           no
           lesse
           then
           an
           accusation
           of
           High
           treason
           ,
           and
           by
           no
           meaner
           persons
           then
           by
           the
           whole
           Commons
           of
           England
           assembled
           in
           their
           representative
           body
           in
           Parliament
           ,
           and
           there
           and
           by
           them
           proved
           agaynst
           him
           ,
           yet
           hath
           he
           the
           confidence
           to
           say
           it
           was
           a
           crime
           his
           soule
           ever
           abhorred
           ,
           howsoever
           he
           proceeds
           to
           the
           parts
           of
           his
           charge
           being
           two
           ,
           
             an
             Indeavour
             in
             him
             to
             subvert
             the
             Law
             of
             the
             Realm
             ,
             and
             a
             like
             Indeavour
             to
             subvert
             the
             true
             Protestant
             Religion
             established
             by
             those
             Laws
             ,
          
           both
           which
           he
           seemeth
           to
           deny
           ,
           but
           so
           mistically
           as
           that
           his
           meaning
           is
           rather
           to
           be
           collected
           ,
           then
           that
           it
           can
           be
           cleerely
           discerned
           .
           For
           he
           expresseth
           himselfe
           variously
           ,
           and
           answereth
           in
           another
           forme
           of
           words
           then
           which
           were
           proposed
           by
           him
           ;
           for
           having
           propounded
           them
           ,
           that
           the
           charge
           against
           him
           was
           an
           Indeavour
           to
           subvert
           the
           Law
           of
           the
           Realme
           ,
           and
           a
           like
           Indeavour
           to
           overthrow
           the
           true
           Protestant
           Religion
           established
           by
           those
           lawes
           ,
           he
           answereth
           having
           first
           protested
           ,
           
             In
             the
             presence
             of
             Almighty
             God
             ,
             and
             all
             his
             holy
             and
             blessed
             angels
             ,
             that
             hee
             did
             take
             it
             now
             upon
             his
             death
             ,
             that
             he
             never
             endeavoured
             the
             subversion
             of
             the
             Lawes
             of
             the
             Realme
             ,
             nor
             never
             any
             change
             of
             the
             Protestant
             Religion
             ,
             into
             Popish
             superstition
             ;
          
           the
           sense
           of
           which
           words
           doth
           imply
           a
           great
           change
           from
           what
           they
           were
           ,
           when
           first
           propounded
           ,
           for
           by
           his
           first
           proposition
           of
           them
           he
           expresseth
           himselfe
           ,
           to
           have
           been
           accused
           of
           an
           endeavour
           to
           subvert
           the
           Law
           of
           the
           Realm
           ;
           by
           which
           word
           Law
           in
           the
           singular
           number
           as
           in
           the
           abstract
           may
           bee
           understood
           the
           
           legislative
           power
           ,
           or
           power
           of
           law-making
           ,
           comprehending
           the
           frame
           of
           this
           government
           ,
           and
           including
           King
           and
           Parliament
           ,
           which
           he
           was
           charged
           to
           overthrow
           ,
           by
           an
           Indeavour
           to
           introduce
           an
           Arbitrary
           government
           ,
           depending
           upon
           the
           will
           of
           the
           King
           alone
           ,
           and
           excluding
           the
           Parliament
           ;
           and
           in
           his
           answer
           he
           makes
           mention
           of
           the
           subversion
           of
           the
           lawes
           in
           the
           plurall
           number
           ,
           where
           they
           are
           confined
           to
           different
           subjects
           ,
           as
           to
           so
           many
           individuall
           substances
           ,
           by
           which
           may
           be
           meant
           the
           particular
           acts
           and
           laws
           issued
           forth
           and
           derived
           from
           that
           power
           ,
           and
           may
           comprehend
           them
           all
           ,
           which
           no
           man
           did
           ever
           thinke
           or
           lay
           to
           his
           charge
           that
           he
           indeavoured
           the
           subversion
           of
           all
           the
           whole
           lawes
           ,
           and
           of
           every
           particular
           ,
           and
           therefore
           here
           doth
           appeare
           a
           fallacy
           and
           deceite
           ,
           which
           is
           agreable
           to
           his
           former
           practises
           ,
           so
           likewise
           in
           the
           other
           branch
           about
           Religion
           he
           first
           propounds
           it
           ,
           of
           an
           Indeavour
           to
           overthrow
           the
           true
           Protestant
           Religion
           established
           by
           those
           lawes
           ,
           and
           answereth
           ,
           of
           any
           change
           of
           the
           Prottestant
           Religion
           into
           Popish
           superstition
           which
           is
           a
           manifest
           difference
           ,
           whereof
           hereafter
           :
           having
           occasion
           to
           speake
           first
           of
           his
           esteeme
           of
           Parliaments
           ,
           which
           he
           takes
           occasion
           to
           mention
           here
           as
           having
           bin
           accused
           as
           an
           enemie
           to
           them
           ,
           the
           which
           he
           denies
           expressing
           a
           Reverend
           esteeme
           of
           them
           in
           the
           generall
           ,
           as
           of
           the
           
             greatest
             Court
             over
             which
             no
             other
             Court
             can
             have
             any
             Jurisdiction
             in
             the
             Kingdome
             ;
          
           but
           professeth
           his
           dislike
           against
           some
           few
           one
           or
           two
           Parliaments
           in
           particular
           ,
           
             for
             some
             misgovernments
             in
             them
             as
             he
             did
             conceive
             ,
          
           but
           what
           those
           misgovernments
           were
           hee
           doth
           not
           expresse
           ,
           onely
           in
           stead
           thereof
           a
           generall
           reason
           is
           given
           ,
           
             Coruptio
             optimi
             est
             pessima
             ,
          
           but
           from
           thence
           he
           might
           condemne
           and
           destroy
           all
           Parliaments
           and
           the
           best
           of
           governments
           ,
           and
           of
           every
           thing
           as
           often
           as
           he
           pleaseth
           ,
           if
           nothing
           more
           be
           required
           but
           that
           his
           affirmations
           must
           be
           admitted
           for
           proofes
           ,
           for
           there
           is
           nothing
           wherein
           the
           frailty
           of
           man
           must
           bee
           imployed
           but
           may
           admit
           of
           errour
           ,
           and
           corruption
           ,
           but
           it
           doth
           not
           follow
           ,
           that
           whatsoever
           may
           ,
           doth
           ;
           nor
           doth
           it
           anywhere
           appeare
           that
           any
           of
           those
           Parliaments
           ,
           which
           hee
           here
           condemneth
           ,
           were
           guilty
           at
           all
           of
           any
           such
           corruption
           as
           he
           layeth
           to
           their
           charge
           ,
           but
           the
           contrary
           is
           manifest
           ,
           and
           if
           for
           no
           other
           thing
           yet
           for
           this
           his
           esteem
           of
           them
           ,
           for
           undoubtedly
           by
           him
           they
           should
           have
           been
           better
           esteemed
           ,
           If
           really
           and
           truely
           
           they
           had
           been
           more
           corrupted
           ;
           for
           Parliaments
           may
           be
           then
           said
           to
           be
           corrupted
           ,
           when
           all
           or
           most
           part
           of
           the
           members
           do
           subject
           their
           Votes
           to
           the
           determination
           and
           judgement
           of
           others
           ,
           preferring
           the
           particuler
           pleasure
           ,
           interrest
           or
           ends
           ,
           of
           some
           whom
           they
           respect
           ,
           before
           the
           generall
           good
           of
           all
           whom
           they
           represent
           ;
           neither
           is
           it
           any
           impossible
           thing
           so
           to
           pack
           a
           Parliament
           as
           not
           onely
           the
           things
           to
           be
           proposed
           and
           debated
           ,
           but
           the
           greater
           number
           of
           the
           Members
           Votes
           shall
           depend
           upon
           the
           pleasure
           of
           others
           ,
           being
           agreed
           and
           united
           amongst
           themselves
           for
           a
           particular
           and
           sinister
           end
           ;
           for
           it
           is
           no
           false
           report
           but
           a
           well
           known
           and
           undenyable
           truth
           ,
           that
           in
           the
           choice
           of
           the
           Members
           of
           the
           lower
           House
           of
           Parliament
           which
           doth
           depend
           upon
           a
           free
           Election
           by
           the
           Gentry
           ,
           Communalty
           ,
           and
           freeholders
           in
           England
           ,
           the
           major
           number
           within
           their
           severall
           limits
           and
           jurisdictions
           giving
           it
           to
           whom
           they
           please
           ,
           yet
           the
           reputation
           of
           some
           in
           some
           places
           especially
           ,
           hath
           been
           such
           as
           to
           prescribe
           to
           those
           who
           were
           to
           choose
           ,
           who
           should
           be
           chosen
           by
           them
           ,
           whereby
           many
           have
           been
           returned
           by
           the
           favour
           and
           recommendation
           of
           others
           rather
           then
           by
           any
           merit
           of
           their
           own
           ,
           and
           it
           is
           probable
           that
           a
           designe
           of
           changing
           Religion
           and
           altering
           the
           government
           having
           been
           for
           a
           long
           time
           pursued
           by
           a
           faction
           of
           men
           who
           had
           obtained
           power
           and
           favour
           about
           the
           King
           that
           they
           were
           not
           negligent
           ,
           in
           making
           use
           of
           this
           advantage
           for
           their
           own
           ends
           ,
           &
           it
           plainly
           appears
           that
           they
           were
           not
           ,
           because
           at
           divers
           times
           they
           had
           recourse
           to
           Parliaments
           in
           time
           of
           prosecution
           of
           the
           designe
           ,
           before
           it
           was
           finished
           ,
           which
           to
           some
           might
           seeme
           a
           likely
           meanes
           in
           all
           apperance
           to
           have
           overthrowne
           all
           such
           designe
           for
           ever
           ,
           but
           the
           successe
           of
           those
           Parliaments
           and
           the
           conclusion
           which
           they
           made
           ,
           doth
           cleerely
           demonstrate
           what
           the
           designers
           purpose
           and
           intention
           was
           in
           calling
           them
           :
           for
           the
           end
           of
           calling
           of
           all
           Parliaments
           ,
           is
           either
           a
           purpose
           and
           desire
           of
           releiving
           the
           Kings
           wants
           ,
           and
           to
           supply
           his
           necessities
           or
           to
           redresse
           the
           grievances
           of
           the
           subjects
           ,
           or
           both
           :
           for
           such
           hath
           been
           the
           prudence
           of
           our
           ancestors
           ,
           in
           setling
           the
           frame
           of
           this
           government
           ,
           not
           only
           to
           deny
           to
           their
           Kings
           all
           power
           of
           imposing
           any
           taxes
           upon
           the
           Subjects
           with
           out
           their
           own
           free
           consents
           ,
           by
           their
           representative
           body
           assembled
           in
           Parliament
           ,
           but
           did
           as
           it
           were
           binde
           the
           hands
           of
           
           their
           Kings
           ,
           by
           their
           own
           consents
           signified
           by
           divers
           Acts
           of
           Parliament
           ,
           from
           so
           doing
           for
           ever
           .
           For
           which
           their
           Kings
           were
           recompensed
           ,
           with
           a
           speciall
           and
           absolute
           Prerogative
           of
           calling
           and
           dissolving
           of
           Parliaments
           ,
           at
           their
           will
           and
           pleasure
           onely
           .
           The
           people
           being
           thereby
           assured
           ,
           that
           if
           a
           desire
           to
           right
           the
           peoples
           grievances
           ,
           and
           for
           providing
           of
           beneficiall
           Laws
           were
           not
           sufficient
           motives
           and
           inducements
           to
           the
           King
           for
           calling
           of
           Parliaments
           ;
           yet
           the
           confideration
           of
           ,
           and
           respect
           to
           his
           own
           necessities
           and
           wants
           would
           move
           him
           :
           and
           divers
           Parliaments
           having
           been
           called
           ,
           during
           the
           prosecution
           of
           this
           designe
           ,
           which
           have
           been
           dissolved
           again
           ,
           by
           the
           same
           Prerogative
           that
           called
           them
           ,
           without
           any
           application
           of
           redresse
           either
           to
           the
           grievances
           of
           the
           Subjects
           ,
           or
           to
           the
           Kings
           wan●s
           ,
           doth
           manifest
           that
           (
           whatsoever
           the
           pretence
           was
           )
           the
           chief
           end
           and
           purpose
           of
           calling
           those
           Parliaments
           ,
           was
           never
           neither
           for
           redresse
           of
           the
           Subjects
           grievauces
           ,
           nor
           for
           relief
           of
           the
           Kings
           wants
           ;
           but
           chiefly
           to
           make
           triall
           what
           strength
           they
           could
           make
           in
           the
           Parliament
           to
           finish
           their
           designe
           by
           Authority
           of
           Parliament
           .
           For
           having
           advanced
           their
           designe
           so
           farre
           at
           Court
           by
           their
           prevalencie
           with
           His
           Majestie
           ,
           that
           they
           had
           obtained
           the
           possession
           of
           the
           greatest
           places
           ,
           and
           places
           of
           greatest
           trust
           ,
           both
           about
           His
           Majestie
           and
           in
           the
           Kingdom
           :
           they
           were
           thereby
           of
           that
           credit
           and
           reputation
           ,
           that
           none
           were
           preferred
           to
           places
           of
           trust
           ,
           nor
           to
           dignities
           ,
           nor
           honors
           ,
           without
           their
           approbation
           ,
           if
           not
           recommendation
           .
           Which
           did
           so
           secure
           them
           ,
           that
           they
           needed
           not
           fear
           the
           disappointment
           of
           their
           designe
           by
           any
           opposition
           at
           Court
           ,
           and
           so
           farre
           as
           the
           Kings
           power
           and
           Prerogative
           could
           further
           it
           .
           But
           the
           Kings
           Prerogative
           being
           not
           absolute
           ,
           the
           Laws
           of
           this
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           the
           Constitution
           of
           this
           Government
           ,
           having
           neither
           conferred
           an
           absolute
           power
           nor
           Prerogative
           upon
           the
           Kings
           thereof
           ,
           they
           could
           never
           finish
           their
           designe
           (
           whatsoever
           it
           was
           )
           by
           the
           Kings
           Prerogative
           alone
           ,
           without
           an
           additionall
           confirmation
           by
           the
           Subjects
           consents
           assembled
           in
           Parliament
           whereof
           they
           were
           likewise
           assured
           ;
           if
           by
           the
           reputation
           and
           strength
           of
           their
           Faction
           they
           could
           procure
           such
           a
           certain
           number
           to
           be
           returned
           Members
           of
           the
           lower
           House
           ,
           as
           they
           might
           be
           confident
           of
           ,
           would
           suffer
           their
           Votes
           to
           be
           directed
           by
           them
           ,
           by
           which
           means
           they
           might
           hope
           to
           carry
           any
           
           thing
           in
           that
           House
           which
           should
           be
           proposed
           by
           His
           Majestie
           ,
           or
           in
           His
           Majesties
           name
           ,
           of
           whose
           deliberations
           and
           determinations
           they
           were
           the
           chief
           disposers
           .
        
         
           As
           for
           the
           House
           of
           Peers
           ,
           there
           was
           no
           doubt
           at
           that
           time
           of
           a
           prevalent
           party
           to
           concurre
           with
           them
           ,
           by
           reason
           of
           the
           Bishops
           Votes
           ,
           and
           Court
           Lords
           ,
           and
           others
           who
           were
           obliged
           to
           them
           by
           many
           favours
           ;
           they
           being
           the
           chief
           disposers
           of
           all
           favours
           ,
           which
           did
           either
           depend
           upon
           or
           proceed
           from
           His
           Majesties
           gift
           .
           For
           all
           which
           causes
           and
           considerations
           there
           was
           no
           danger
           to
           call
           a
           Parliament
           ,
           whensoever
           they
           pleased
           :
           For
           if
           the
           Parliament
           did
           not
           answer
           their
           expectation
           ,
           it
           was
           in
           the
           same
           mens
           power
           to
           perswade
           the
           King
           to
           dissolve
           it
           ,
           who
           had
           the
           credit
           to
           perswade
           His
           Ma.
           to
           call
           it
           .
           His
           Majesty
           suspecting
           no
           ends
           in
           them
           but
           what
           was
           pretended
           for
           His
           Majesties
           service
           .
           But
           the
           succes
           of
           those
           Parliaments
           declared
           ,
           that
           the
           credit
           of
           the
           Faction
           was
           not
           so
           great
           in
           the
           countrey
           as
           at
           Court
           ;
           for
           which
           my
           L.
           of
           Cant.
           doth
           here
           tax
           them
           with
           misgovernment
           ,
           professing
           his
           dislike
           ,
           against
           them
           onely
           ,
           which
           must
           be
           conceived
           was
           ,
           because
           they
           were
           not
           yet
           moulded
           nor
           brought
           to
           that
           frame
           to
           condescend
           to
           every
           thing
           that
           he
           and
           others
           should
           project
           ,
           as
           was
           the
           late
           Synod
           .
           And
           the
           great
           number
           of
           Patentees
           ,
           and
           Monopolists
           chosen
           this
           Parliament
           ,
           and
           others
           who
           have
           deserted
           the
           Parliament
           ,
           and
           have
           sitten
           since
           in
           an
           Anti-parliament
           at
           Oxford
           ,
           doth
           sufficiently
           demonstrate
           upon
           whom
           they
           depended
           ,
           and
           for
           whose
           Interests
           their
           Votes
           have
           been
           devoted
           from
           the
           beginning
           ,
           whether
           for
           the
           generall
           benefit
           of
           King
           and
           Kingdom
           ,
           or
           onely
           to
           serve
           the
           particular
           ends
           of
           such
           who
           either
           in
           all
           probability
           did
           recommend
           them
           ,
           or
           otherwayes
           from
           whom
           they
           did
           expect
           preferment
           or
           some
           other
           reward
           .
        
         
           But
           from
           hence
           may
           be
           collected
           ,
           that
           the
           designe
           for
           altering
           Religion
           ,
           and
           the
           frame
           of
           the
           Government
           being
           two
           different
           things
           ,
           that
           they
           were
           not
           alike
           intended
           by
           the
           Designers
           ,
           but
           that
           the
           designe
           for
           altering
           of
           Religion
           was
           principally
           intended
           by
           them
           ;
           and
           that
           the
           other
           designe
           of
           introducing
           an
           Arbitrary
           government
           to
           the
           King
           was
           but
           the
           bait
           to
           deceive
           the
           King
           ,
           thereby
           to
           insinuate
           the
           better
           with
           him
           ,
           and
           to
           ingage
           His
           Majestie
           to
           them
           ,
           and
           was
           chiefly
           made
           use
           of
           ,
           as
           subservient
           
           and
           conducing
           to
           the
           other
           designe
           of
           Religion
           that
           was
           the
           onely
           designe
           with
           them
           :
           which
           is
           made
           manifest
           by
           the
           progresse
           of
           both
           designes
           .
           For
           as
           all
           motions
           which
           by
           their
           slownesse
           or
           distance
           seem
           insensible
           to
           the
           beholder
           ,
           so
           as
           at
           first
           view
           it
           cannot
           be
           discerned
           whither
           they
           tend
           ,
           yet
           are
           easily
           perceived
           by
           their
           progresse
           :
           so
           the
           dark
           and
           disguised
           ends
           of
           this
           designe
           ,
           which
           could
           not
           endure
           the
           light
           of
           open
           profession
           ,
           is
           clearly
           discernable
           by
           the
           progresse
           which
           it
           hath
           made
           .
           For
           albeit
           that
           an
           Arbitrary
           power
           in
           the
           King
           hath
           been
           made
           use
           of
           in
           many
           things
           ,
           to
           the
           great
           prejudice
           of
           the
           Subject
           ,
           tending
           to
           the
           manifest
           destruction
           of
           the
           Subjects
           Liberties
           ,
           and
           Priviledges
           of
           Parliament
           ;
           yet
           when
           a
           true
           account
           shall
           be
           taken
           ,
           what
           great
           benefit
           hath
           returned
           to
           the
           Regall
           Authority
           by
           all
           that
           hath
           been
           done
           ,
           the
           totall
           sum
           will
           be
           found
           at
           the
           end
           of
           the
           Church-mens
           bill
           ,
           but
           none
           at
           all
           at
           the
           Kings
           ;
           where
           on
           the
           contrary
           ,
           manifest
           detriment
           and
           losse
           will
           appear
           ,
           and
           that
           the
           Kings
           Prerogative
           hath
           been
           stretched
           upon
           the
           tenters
           beyond
           its
           true
           by
           as
           ,
           to
           set
           up
           and
           settle
           an
           absolute
           or
           Independent
           Prerogative
           in
           the
           Church
           to
           Church-men
           ,
           which
           is
           inconsistent
           with
           the
           Prerogative
           of
           the
           Crown
           :
           for
           whensoever
           the
           Prerogative
           of
           Church-men
           is
           advanced
           to
           such
           a
           height
           ,
           as
           that
           it
           groweth
           either
           absolute
           or
           Independent
           ,
           the
           Prerogative
           of
           the
           Crown
           is
           either
           subjected
           or
           undermined
           ,
           and
           the
           King
           parts
           with
           a
           reall
           Authority
           ,
           depending
           upon
           his
           own
           reason
           and
           judgement
           chiefly
           ,
           to
           be
           directed
           by
           the
           will
           and
           judgement
           of
           another
           ,
           unlesse
           the
           smart
           of
           his
           Sword
           doth
           terrifie
           more
           nor
           the
           apprehension
           of
           theirs
           ,
           which
           is
           all
           the
           remedie
           that
           will
           be
           left
           him
           whensoever
           the
           chief
           Governor
           or
           Governors
           of
           the
           Church
           and
           he
           do
           differ
           .
           And
           the
           remedy
           which
           the
           late
           Cannons
           applyed
           for
           the
           securing
           of
           all
           men
           ,
           against
           any
           suspicion
           of
           revolt
           to
           Popery
           ,
           hath
           manifested
           to
           all
           men
           how
           far
           the
           progresse
           to
           Popery
           was
           advanced
           ,
           when
           it
           durst
           appear
           nothing
           at
           all
           disguised
           ,
           but
           under
           a
           thin
           vail
           of
           some
           few
           deceitfull
           words
           ,
           in
           a
           Pontificall
           robe
           of
           absolute
           Authority
           constituting
           and
           ordaining
           ;
           and
           to
           shew
           how
           absolute
           and
           Independent
           the
           Protestant
           Church
           of
           England
           was
           grown
           ,
           the
           words
           ;
           
             We
             straitly
             command
             all
             Parsons
             ,
             Vicars
             ,
             and
             Curates
             ,
          
           and
           
             we
             injoyn
             all
             Archbishops
             and
             Bishops
             ,
          
           and
           
             We
             decree
             and
             ordain
             ;
          
           are
           used
           all
           along
           in
           the
           severall
           
           Articles
           published
           ,
           which
           are
           all
           words
           of
           absolute
           Authority
           and
           command
           ,
           and
           the
           penalties
           inforcing
           obedience
           to
           all
           those
           absolute
           commands
           ,
           are
           either
           
             suspension
             and
             deprivation
          
           to
           the
           Clergy
           ,
           or
           the
           dreadfull
           censures
           of
           
             Excommunication
             ,
          
           and
           casting
           into
           hell
           to
           all
           others
           .
           For
           no
           lesse
           punishment
           doth
           the
           sentence
           of
           Excommunication
           imply
           ,
           because
           the
           party
           excommunicate
           being
           cast
           out
           of
           all
           communion
           with
           the
           Church
           ,
           is
           thereby
           presupposed
           to
           be
           deprived
           of
           all
           the
           benefits
           that
           he
           may
           hope
           for
           by
           vertue
           of
           Christs
           death
           and
           mediation
           ,
           so
           long
           as
           he
           remains
           in
           the
           state
           of
           excommunication
           ,
           which
           is
           a
           great
           terror
           to
           all
           them
           that
           do
           not
           rightly
           understand
           the
           nature
           of
           Excommunication
           ,
           and
           what
           the
           authority
           of
           Church-men
           is
           ,
           which
           is
           ever
           the
           much
           greater
           part
           of
           those
           who
           are
           members
           of
           any
           Church
           ,
           besides
           the
           great
           number
           of
           others
           which
           be
           in
           all
           Churches
           that
           sleight
           the
           censure
           of
           Excommunication
           ,
           as
           being
           a
           censure
           from
           which
           they
           feel
           no
           present
           smart
           ,
           without
           which
           it
           hath
           no
           operation
           with
           them
           ,
           for
           the
           inforcing
           of
           whom
           especially
           ,
           it
           was
           by
           these
           Cannons
           injoyned
           ,
           that
           
             every
             Bishop
             shall
             once
             every
             yeer
             send
             into
             His
             Majesties
             high
             Court
             of
             Chancery
             a
             Significavit
             of
             all
             such
             who
             have
             stood
             excommunicated
             beyond
             the
             time
             limited
             by
             the
             Law
             ,
             and
             shall
             desire
             that
             the
             Writ
          
           De
           Excommunicato
           capiendo
           
             might
             be
             at
             once
             sent
             out
             against
             them
             all
             ,
          
           Ex
           Officio
           .
           And
           for
           the
           better
           execution
           of
           their
           Decrees
           ,
           
             They
             did
             most
             humbly
             beseech
             his
             most
             sacred
             Majestie
             ,
             that
             the
             Officers
             of
             the
             high
             Court
             of
             Chancery
             ,
             whom
             it
             shall
             concern
             ,
             may
             be
             commanded
             to
             send
             out
             the
             aforesaid
             Writ
             from
             time
             to
             time
             ,
             as
             is
             desired
             ,
             and
             that
             the
             like
             command
             also
             may
             be
             laid
             upon
             the
             Sheriffes
             and
             their
             Deputies
             ,
             for
             the
             due
             and
             faithfull
             execution
             of
             the
             said
             Writs
             ,
             as
             often
             as
             they
             shall
             be
             brought
             unto
             them
             .
          
           Which
           whensoever
           they
           should
           obtain
           ,
           would
           put
           the
           Supremacy
           of
           all
           Authority
           into
           the
           hands
           of
           some
           of
           the
           Clergy
           ,
           by
           necessitating
           the
           smarting
           stroke
           of
           the
           Magistrates
           Sword
           to
           follow
           of
           course
           upon
           notification
           of
           theirs
           ,
           whereby
           all
           Magistracie
           and
           Law
           should
           be
           but
           executioners
           of
           their
           sentence
           ,
           from
           which
           there
           was
           no
           appeal
           ,
           but
           by
           submission
           deserving
           absolution
           ,
           which
           was
           ordained
           by
           the
           authority
           of
           the
           foresaid
           Synod
           ,
           not
           to
           be
           given
           ,
           untill
           the
           party
           to
           be
           absolved
           should
           come
           as
           a
           penitent
           ,
           humbling
           himself
           upon
           his
           knees
           ,
           and
           first
           take
           an
           Oath
           ,
           
             De
             parendo
             Juri
             ,
             &
             stando
             mandatis
             Ecclesiae
             .
          
           And
           for
           a
           perpetuall
           
           subjecting
           of
           all
           men
           into
           a
           vassalage
           and
           subjection
           to
           the
           Authority
           of
           Bishops
           and
           others
           of
           the
           Clergy
           ,
           it
           was
           there
           decreed
           ,
           
             That
             all
             Clergy
             men
             ,
             and
             all
             others
             who
             should
             take
             any
             degree
             of
             learning
             in
             any
             of
             the
             Vniversities
             ,
             and
             all
             that
             should
             be
             licensed
             to
             practise
             Physick
             ,
             all
             Registers
             ,
             Actuaryes
             and
             Proctors
             ,
             all
             Schoolmasters
             ,
             and
             all
             others
             that
             should
             come
             to
             be
             incorporated
             in
             any
             of
             the
             Vniversities
             here
             ,
             having
             taken
             a
             degree
             in
             any
             forraigne
             Vniversitie
             ,
          
           should
           take
           an
           Oath
           in
           a
           prescribed
           and
           set
           form
           of
           words
           ,
           before
           they
           should
           be
           admitted
           to
           take
           their
           degrees
           ,
           
             Never
             to
             give
             their
             consent
             to
             alter
             the
             government
             of
             this
             Church
             by
             Archbishops
             ,
             Bishops
             ,
             Deans
             ,
             and
             Archdeacons
             ,
          
           By
           which
           means
           ,
           an
           equall
           allegiance
           should
           have
           been
           payed
           to
           them
           as
           to
           the
           King
           and
           his
           Successors
           for
           ever
           :
           And
           all
           this
           was
           presented
           to
           the
           blinded
           world
           ,
           and
           abused
           King
           ,
           as
           a
           remedy
           to
           secure
           men
           against
           any
           suspicion
           of
           revolt
           to
           Popery
           ,
           which
           was
           nothing
           else
           but
           a
           publick
           setting
           up
           of
           Popery
           ,
           though
           not
           yet
           of
           the
           Popes
           supremacy
           ,
           which
           was
           to
           follow
           ;
           and
           imploying
           the
           help
           and
           assistance
           of
           the
           Magistrates
           Sword
           ,
           and
           the
           force
           and
           power
           of
           the
           Laws
           of
           the
           Land
           to
           that
           very
           use
           and
           end
           ;
           For
           Popery
           consisteth
           neither
           in
           this
           or
           that
           superstition
           nor
           Idolatry
           ,
           nor
           in
           this
           or
           that
           erroneous
           Doctrine
           ,
           nor
           in
           all-together
           ,
           principally
           and
           chiefly
           ;
           but
           in
           the
           absolutenesse
           of
           spirituall
           authority
           commanding
           Implicite
           obedience
           ,
           to
           whatsoever
           Doctrine
           or
           Superstition
           shall
           be
           invented
           by
           man
           ,
           as
           necessary
           and
           essentiall
           to
           the
           true
           worship
           of
           God
           ,
           under
           the
           threatned
           pain
           and
           penalty
           of
           Excommunication
           and
           Interdiction
           ,
           and
           promising
           the
           kingdome
           of
           heaven
           to
           whomsoever
           it
           pleaseth
           ,
           as
           a
           gift
           or
           reward
           within
           the
           power
           of
           man
           :
           and
           the
           assumption
           of
           which
           so
           divine
           and
           incompetent
           a
           power
           to
           any
           man
           or
           mankind
           united
           together
           ,
           and
           the
           deriving
           thereof
           from
           one
           solely
           to
           others
           ,
           as
           inherent
           in
           the
           person
           or
           function
           of
           one
           onely
           ,
           doth
           necessarily
           inferre
           and
           presuppose
           the
           gift
           of
           Infallibility
           in
           him
           who
           doth
           so
           assume
           it
           ,
           that
           he
           may
           become
           an
           unappealable
           Judge
           ,
           which
           doth
           exalt
           him
           ,
           in
           the
           sight
           and
           esteeme
           of
           those
           men
           who
           do
           beleeve
           in
           him
           ,
           and
           willingly
           submit
           unto
           him
           ,
           to
           the
           nature
           and
           dignity
           of
           the
           incommunicable
           prerogative
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           makes
           him
           undeniably
           the
           revealed
           Antichrist
           to
           others
           ,
           by
           usurping
           and
           possessing
           the
           throne
           of
           Christ
           upon
           earth
           ,
           for
           whom
           onely
           ,
           such
           dominion
           and
           authority
           is
           reserved
           in
           heaven
           .
        
         
         
           And
           the
           root
           of
           Popery
           or
           Antichristianity
           (
           for
           so
           it
           may
           be
           termed
           ,
           as
           tending
           continually
           thither
           by
           the
           Doctrine
           which
           it
           teacheth
           ,
           and
           the
           Authority
           which
           it
           usurpeth
           )
           lieth
           in
           this
           very
           principle
           ,
           that
           a
           power
           of
           excommunicating
           and
           absolving
           ,
           or
           sending
           into
           heaven
           or
           hell
           ,
           is
           assumed
           by
           some
           as
           depending
           upon
           the
           purpose
           and
           will
           of
           man
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           nature
           of
           Authority
           ,
           and
           consented
           to
           and
           beleeved
           by
           others
           ;
           and
           the
           danger
           to
           temporall
           Authority
           lieth
           in
           the
           universality
           and
           generality
           of
           the
           beleef
           and
           assent
           ,
           and
           the
           difference
           between
           the
           incontrolable
           supremacy
           of
           the
           Pope
           ,
           and
           the
           exalted
           Prelacy
           of
           Bishops
           pretending
           to
           the
           same
           Authority
           is
           but
           a
           difference
           of
           degrees
           ,
           but
           not
           of
           kinds
           .
           For
           ,
           for
           the
           setling
           of
           this
           Authority
           into
           the
           supremacy
           of
           any
           one
           ,
           there
           is
           a
           necessity
           of
           ingrossing
           it
           into
           the
           hands
           of
           some
           few
           first
           ;
           and
           Popes
           had
           never
           mounted
           to
           their
           omnipotent
           throne
           of
           Supremacy
           ,
           if
           a
           superiority
           of
           some
           of
           the
           Clergy
           invested
           with
           spirituall
           authority
           over
           others
           had
           not
           been
           first
           assented
           unto
           .
           For
           the
           same
           rule
           ,
           necessity
           ,
           and
           end
           requireth
           the
           supremacy
           of
           one
           Bishop
           over
           all
           other
           Bishops
           ,
           that
           requireth
           the
           superiority
           of
           any
           Clergy
           man
           into
           the
           dignity
           of
           a
           Bishop
           over
           many
           others
           of
           the
           Clergy
           :
           and
           the
           same
           danger
           of
           spirituall
           error
           indangering
           the
           soul
           lyeth
           upon
           all
           that
           are
           subject
           to
           this
           spirituall
           authority
           ,
           whether
           it
           be
           derived
           from
           the
           supremacy
           of
           one
           ,
           or
           a
           superiority
           onely
           of
           others
           ,
           or
           from
           the
           Democracy
           of
           all
           the
           Clergy
           assembled
           together
           ,
           or
           from
           the
           Independencie
           of
           everyone
           within
           their
           severall
           Congregations
           ,
           so
           long
           as
           it
           is
           entertained
           and
           received
           in
           the
           beleef
           as
           a
           sufficient
           ground
           or
           warrant
           for
           obedience
           to
           what
           shall
           be
           ordained
           by
           it
           :
           and
           the
           exercising
           of
           spirituall
           authority
           under
           a
           different
           form
           of
           externall
           government
           onely
           ,
           being
           a
           difference
           rather
           in
           form
           then
           substance
           ,
           all
           of
           them
           may
           divide
           unity
           in
           the
           ends
           and
           consequences
           of
           government
           ,
           by
           dividing
           of
           Authority
           which
           is
           the
           preserver
           of
           unity
           ;
           but
           each
           of
           them
           doth
           admit
           of
           degrees
           of
           more
           and
           lesse
           ,
           according
           as
           the
           form
           imbraced
           is
           more
           or
           lesse
           absolute
           .
           The
           superiority
           therefore
           of
           Bishops
           over
           the
           rest
           of
           the
           Clergie
           ,
           which
           may
           be
           as
           Independent
           as
           any
           other
           form
           ,
           but
           can
           never
           be
           so
           absolute
           as
           the
           supremacy
           of
           the
           Pope
           ,
           in
           regard
           it
           can
           never
           beget
           nor
           inforce
           so
           generall
           a
           dependencie
           and
           subjection
           
           of
           all
           men
           unto
           it
           ,
           wherin
           union
           and
           strength
           consisteth
           ,
           is
           never
           so
           dangerous
           to
           that
           State
           which
           entertains
           it
           ,
           as
           when
           it
           declares
           its
           Independencie
           ,
           and
           aspires
           to
           be
           absolute
           .
           And
           albeit
           that
           Episcopacy
           doth
           continually
           endeavour
           and
           aspire
           to
           be
           united
           by
           the
           Supremacy
           of
           one
           of
           their
           own
           order
           ,
           because
           thereby
           they
           arise
           to
           a
           further
           degree
           of
           strength
           and
           perfection
           ,
           to
           which
           all
           sublunary
           creatures
           have
           a
           naturall
           propension
           ,
           inclination
           ,
           and
           desire
           ;
           yet
           can
           they
           not
           at
           all
           times
           ,
           nor
           whensoever
           they
           please
           ,
           attaine
           to
           their
           desires
           .
           And
           the
           Archbishop
           of
           Canterbury
           having
           discovered
           and
           manifested
           unto
           the
           world
           how
           independent
           the
           authority
           of
           Church-men
           here
           in
           England
           was
           grown
           ,
           and
           how
           absolute
           they
           coveted
           to
           be
           ,
           did
           give
           a
           clear
           evidence
           at
           the
           same
           time
           how
           farre
           the
           progresse
           to
           the
           Popes
           Supremacy
           was
           advanced
           ;
           which
           is
           made
           more
           manifest
           by
           the
           concurrence
           and
           joynt
           endeavours
           of
           Papists
           of
           all
           sorts
           ,
           not
           onely
           agreeing
           with
           ,
           but
           labouring
           in
           the
           same
           designe
           with
           some
           of
           our
           Clergy-men
           and
           others
           .
           For
           their
           indefatigable
           labours
           and
           renewed
           pains
           ,
           with
           so
           much
           blood
           and
           danger
           to
           the
           undertakers
           ever
           since
           the
           Reformation
           ,
           have
           all
           tended
           to
           that
           end
           chiefly
           ,
           as
           to
           the
           onely
           mark
           at
           which
           they
           have
           ever
           aymed
           .
           The
           threatning
           Bals
           ,
           and
           many
           dangerous
           conspiracies
           and
           invasions
           in
           Queen
           
             Elizabeths
          
           time
           ,
           and
           the
           most
           damnable
           Gunpowder
           Treason
           in
           King
           
             James
          
           his
           time
           ,
           are
           clear
           proofs
           how
           implacable
           their
           malice
           hath
           been
           against
           all
           Reformation
           ,
           that
           did
           depose
           the
           Pope
           from
           his
           pretended
           right
           of
           Supremacy
           ,
           and
           how
           violently
           they
           have
           been
           transported
           to
           reinthrone
           him
           again
           ,
           which
           is
           but
           the
           ultimate
           end
           of
           all
           such
           dangerous
           and
           desperate
           undertakings
           ,
           but
           the
           immediate
           is
           alwayes
           and
           ever
           hath
           been
           for
           some
           particular
           ends
           to
           the
           undertakers
           ,
           springing
           from
           their
           own
           ambition
           ,
           and
           covetous
           desire
           of
           dominion
           and
           rule
           ,
           from
           which
           Papists
           are
           excluded
           by
           the
           Laws
           of
           this
           Land
           establishing
           the
           Reformation
           :
           for
           the
           desire
           of
           authority
           ,
           and
           to
           have
           a
           command
           over
           others
           is
           a
           naturall
           desire
           to
           all
           ambitious
           men
           ;
           and
           ambition
           is
           an
           inherent
           quality
           in
           all
           men
           ,
           flowing
           from
           the
           operation
           and
           effectuall
           working
           of
           the
           spirituall
           substance
           of
           the
           soul
           ,
           which
           coveteth
           to
           mount
           and
           aspire
           continually
           ,
           but
           is
           predominant
           onely
           in
           some
           .
           And
           no
           man
           (
           that
           may
           choose
           )
           doth
           hazard
           his
           own
           life
           ,
           for
           restitution
           
           of
           another
           to
           his
           right
           being
           lost
           ,
           but
           he
           that
           hopes
           to
           participate
           and
           share
           with
           him
           or
           under
           him
           after
           the
           recovery
           ,
           in
           some
           proportion
           and
           measure
           ,
           though
           not
           in
           an
           equal
           degree
           .
           And
           since
           the
           Gunpowder
           Treason
           ,
           they
           having
           not
           onely
           forborn
           all
           forcible
           attempts
           ,
           against
           either
           the
           life
           and
           safety
           of
           the
           King
           ,
           or
           the
           publick
           peace
           and
           tranquillity
           of
           the
           Kingdome
           ,
           untill
           the
           present
           Rebellion
           in
           Ireland
           did
           break
           out
           ,
           upon
           which
           the
           warre
           against
           the
           Parliament
           ensued
           ;
           but
           seeming
           extraordinarily
           and
           strangely
           converted
           in
           their
           dispositions
           and
           desires
           ,
           and
           of
           deadly
           and
           implacable
           enemies
           ,
           appearing
           the
           most
           dutifull
           Subjects
           of
           all
           others
           ,
           pretending
           to
           be
           the
           most
           zealous
           instruments
           for
           the
           inlargement
           and
           promotion
           of
           that
           power
           and
           authority
           which
           was
           bound
           by
           speciall
           interest
           to
           suppresse
           them
           ,
           is
           an
           argument
           of
           some
           well
           studied
           and
           close
           followed
           designe
           ,
           rather
           then
           any
           symptome
           of
           change
           of
           disposition
           ;
           for
           they
           can
           never
           change
           their
           dispositions
           ,
           so
           long
           as
           they
           retain
           their
           wicked
           principles
           and
           false
           doctrines
           ,
           which
           principally
           gives
           life
           and
           motion
           to
           the
           wickednesse
           of
           their
           dispositions
           ,
           and
           the
           desire
           of
           dominion
           and
           rule
           is
           impetuous
           and
           incessant
           ,
           to
           which
           they
           can
           never
           have
           a
           legall
           right
           in
           this
           Kingdom
           untill
           all
           those
           Laws
           be
           repealed
           which
           disable
           them
           ;
           the
           doing
           whereof
           and
           not
           the
           Kings
           Prerogative
           is
           a
           principall
           motive
           with
           them
           in
           all
           their
           undertakings
           and
           designes
           ,
           and
           the
           great
           potencie
           and
           prevalencie
           of
           Papists
           about
           His
           Majestie
           in
           all
           his
           consultations
           and
           actions
           ,
           do
           manifest
           and
           declare
           what
           their
           purposes
           and
           intentions
           are
           ;
           that
           this
           Independent
           authority
           of
           Bishops
           coveting
           to
           be
           so
           absolute
           (
           which
           hath
           been
           set
           up
           of
           late
           in
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           and
           confirmed
           by
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           by
           his
           Prerogative
           Royall
           )
           shall
           acknowledge
           the
           Pope
           for
           their
           Head
           and
           not
           the
           King
           :
           for
           Popes
           were
           never
           so
           munificent
           rewarders
           of
           any
           mans
           deserts
           or
           duties
           ,
           as
           to
           part
           with
           that
           which
           they
           accounted
           their
           right
           ,
           to
           give
           it
           away
           to
           another
           ;
           and
           Papists
           were
           never
           so
           undutifull
           sons
           as
           to
           labour
           for
           the
           setting
           up
           of
           an
           Arbitrary
           power
           and
           unlimited
           Prerogative
           to
           an
           hereticall
           King
           :
           when
           his
           Holinesse
           hath
           given
           sentence
           that
           no
           Heretick
           is
           capable
           of
           any
           Authority
           at
           all
           ,
           and
           that
           all
           men
           are
           to
           be
           accounted
           for
           Hereticks
           who
           deny
           the
           Popes
           Supremacy
           ;
           wherfore
           in
           the
           conclusion
           ,
           His
           Majestie
           must
           either
           part
           with
           that
           
           Supremacy
           which
           the
           Law
           hath
           given
           him
           ,
           and
           submit
           to
           the
           Popes
           ,
           or
           be
           deprived
           of
           all
           Authority
           whatsoever
           ,
           which
           is
           all
           he
           must
           expect
           from
           them
           ,
           or
           by
           their
           aid
           and
           assistance
           .
           And
           the
           great
           favours
           which
           hath
           been
           alwayes
           shewed
           to
           Papists
           since
           the
           beginning
           of
           His
           Majesties
           Reigne
           ,
           but
           more
           especially
           now
           ,
           the
           partiall
           indulgence
           towards
           the
           bloodiest
           and
           cruellest
           of
           all
           Rebellions
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           most
           perfideous
           of
           all
           Nations
           ,
           the
           Irish
           ,
           accounting
           them
           for
           good
           Subjects
           after
           so
           many
           barbarous
           massacres
           and
           horrid
           executions
           of
           an
           infinite
           number
           of
           English
           &
           Scottish
           Protestants
           ,
           rather
           then
           the
           King
           shall
           agree
           with
           his
           Parliament
           in
           England
           ,
           for
           the
           saving
           of
           the
           lives
           of
           his
           Protestant
           Subjects
           here
           ,
           and
           choosing
           to
           continue
           the
           warre
           in
           England
           at
           the
           expence
           of
           his
           English
           Subjects
           lives
           ;
           by
           whom
           his
           Majestie
           hath
           ever
           ,
           and
           must
           still
           ,
           if
           ever
           ,
           subsist
           in
           power
           ,
           dignity
           ,
           and
           honour
           ;
           and
           to
           the
           great
           perill
           and
           manifest
           hazard
           of
           His
           Majesties
           own
           life
           ,
           rather
           then
           break
           off
           that
           Cessation
           ,
           which
           His
           Majestie
           had
           not
           power
           to
           make
           with
           the
           Irish
           ,
           from
           whom
           His
           Majestie
           never
           received
           better
           fruits
           then
           at
           a
           great
           expence
           of
           treasure
           ,
           and
           of
           his
           other
           Subjects
           lives
           ,
           to
           reduce
           and
           keep
           them
           to
           a
           forced
           duty
           and
           allegiance
           ;
           and
           the
           over-ruling
           of
           His
           Majesties
           reason
           and
           judgement
           to
           approve
           and
           consent
           to
           the
           Popes
           Supremacy
           in
           Ireland
           ,
           which
           is
           known
           and
           acknowledged
           to
           be
           destructive
           to
           His
           Majesties
           Supremacy
           and
           just
           Prerogative
           ,
           rather
           then
           an
           extirpation
           of
           Episcopacy
           which
           is
           the
           foundation
           and
           assent
           to
           the
           Popes
           Supremacy
           shall
           be
           consented
           to
           in
           England
           ,
           upon
           a
           bare
           presupposall
           that
           it
           is
           a
           necessarie
           support
           to
           Monarchy
           ;
           when
           it
           hath
           never
           been
           yet
           examined
           what
           Monarchy
           it
           supports
           ,
           whether
           spirituall
           or
           temporall
           :
           and
           whether
           that
           which
           is
           a
           necessary
           supporter
           to
           the
           one
           ,
           is
           compatible
           with
           the
           other
           ,
           having
           shaken
           off
           the
           yoke
           of
           spirituall
           Monarchy
           ,
           and
           renounced
           not
           onely
           all
           subjection
           to
           it
           ,
           but
           all
           communion
           with
           it
           ;
           and
           trusting
           of
           Papists
           upon
           their
           bare
           words
           and
           deceitfull
           professions
           ,
           against
           their
           known
           unsound
           tenets
           and
           doctrines
           ,
           rather
           then
           the
           Parliament
           and
           Protestant
           Subjects
           shall
           be
           beleeved
           upon
           their
           solemne
           Vow
           and
           Covenant
           for
           the
           preservation
           and
           defence
           of
           His
           Majesties
           person
           and
           Authority
           .
           And
           lastly
           ,
           imploying
           of
           known
           and
           profest
           Reeusants
           ,
           trusting
           them
           with
           Arms
           and
           Authority
           ,
           without
           any
           
           caution
           or
           consideration
           how
           they
           may
           be
           disarmed
           again
           ,
           rather
           then
           that
           the
           Parliament
           shall
           be
           suffered
           to
           dispose
           of
           the
           Militia
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           for
           the
           safety
           and
           security
           thereof
           for
           some
           limited
           time
           ,
           are
           all
           clear
           and
           manifest
           proofs
           what
           their
           power
           and
           prevalence
           with
           the
           King
           is
           ;
           And
           do
           all
           conclude
           ,
           that
           an
           Arbitrary
           power
           and
           unlimited
           Prerogative
           pretending
           for
           the
           King
           ,
           having
           been
           made
           use
           of
           and
           exercised
           by
           them
           ,
           yet
           was
           never
           intended
           for
           the
           King
           ,
           nor
           for
           the
           improving
           nor
           advancing
           of
           the
           Kings
           Prerogative
           ;
           but
           onely
           to
           make
           use
           of
           it
           for
           erecting
           and
           setting
           up
           of
           an
           Independent
           Authority
           in
           the
           Church
           to
           Ecclesiasticall
           persons
           :
           and
           by
           means
           thereof
           to
           introduce
           the
           Popes
           Supremacy
           as
           the
           chief
           and
           ultimate
           end
           of
           their
           designe
           .
           And
           that
           His
           Majestie
           hath
           been
           grosly
           abused
           ,
           and
           craftily
           over-reached
           by
           disguised
           Impostors
           ,
           and
           deceitfull
           parasites
           ,
           pretending
           one
           thing
           when
           intending
           the
           contrary
           .
           Whereof
           amongst
           other
           things
           my
           Lord
           of
           Canterbury
           his
           equivocall
           expressions
           at
           the
           houre
           of
           his
           death
           giveth
           some
           light
           ;
           at
           what
           time
           being
           desirous
           to
           justifie
           himself
           publickly
           to
           the
           world
           ,
           of
           his
           endeavours
           for
           changing
           the
           Religion
           ,
           he
           expresseth
           himself
           of
           endeavouring
           onely
           to
           change
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           to
           Popish
           superstition
           ,
           as
           if
           there
           had
           been
           no
           other
           danger
           from
           Popery
           but
           of
           introducing
           of
           grosse
           and
           absurd
           Superstition
           ,
           to
           many
           of
           which
           imbraced
           by
           them
           ,
           and
           set
           up
           by
           Papall
           Authority
           ,
           it
           may
           be
           granted
           him
           and
           beleeved
           that
           he
           was
           no
           reall
           friend
           ,
           but
           might
           condemne
           them
           in
           his
           own
           opinion
           and
           judgement
           ;
           when
           notwithstanding
           it
           was
           certain
           and
           clear
           ,
           that
           he
           not
           onely
           befriended
           ,
           but
           courted
           and
           ambitiously
           coveted
           that
           honour
           and
           authority
           which
           did
           establish
           that
           superstition
           ;
           and
           which
           must
           of
           necessitie
           still
           produce
           some
           superstition
           or
           other
           in
           the
           worship
           of
           God
           :
           and
           hath
           now
           sufficiently
           discovered
           it self
           to
           endeavour
           continually
           to
           introduce
           Superstition
           and
           Ignorance
           as
           the
           principall
           means
           to
           induce
           men
           ,
           by
           a
           blind
           devotion
           to
           submit
           to
           an
           implicit
           obedience
           of
           what
           shall
           be
           required
           of
           them
           ,
           and
           imposed
           upon
           them
           .
           But
           that
           was
           passed
           over
           by
           him
           as
           a
           thing
           wherein
           he
           was
           not
           concerned
           ;
           yet
           his
           practises
           tending
           thither
           was
           the
           chief
           thing
           concerning
           Religion
           whereof
           he
           was
           accused
           ,
           and
           for
           which
           he
           was
           condemned
           :
           and
           possibly
           he
           might
           be
           deceived
           himself
           by
           the
           
           fallacy
           of
           deceitfull
           grounds
           and
           false
           principles
           ,
           the
           consequences
           whereof
           might
           not
           appear
           so
           clearly
           to
           himself
           as
           to
           others
           ,
           which
           might
           be
           the
           cause
           ,
           why
           he
           did
           endeavour
           to
           justifie
           himself
           of
           his
           intentions
           onely
           ;
           when
           the
           charge
           against
           him
           ,
           was
           for
           his
           practises
           and
           actions
           chiefly
           which
           he
           acknowledged
           to
           have
           been
           proved
           against
           him
           ,
           by
           acquitting
           his
           Judges
           as
           having
           proceeded
           
             secundum
             allegata
             &
             probata
             .
          
           For
           he
           might
           flatter
           himself
           with
           an
           opinion
           of
           good
           intentions
           ,
           thinking
           all
           was
           necessarie
           and
           good
           which
           he
           went
           about
           :
           but
           thinking
           so
           ,
           he
           did
           but
           deceive
           himself
           as
           well
           as
           others
           ,
           which
           is
           the
           best
           charity
           that
           can
           be
           allowed
           him
           by
           the
           most
           
             charitable
             Christians
          
           that
           are
           not
           misled
           by
           the
           same
           principles
           and
           grounds
           that
           did
           deceive
           him
           ;
           and
           the
           most
           favourable
           construction
           that
           can
           be
           made
           of
           him
           is
           ,
           that
           albeit
           he
           was
           a
           great
           Doctor
           and
           Statesman
           also
           ,
           yet
           was
           he
           to
           learn
           the
           true
           principles
           of
           the
           Christian
           Religion
           ,
           when
           he
           went
           out
           of
           the
           world
           ,
           and
           that
           his
           principles
           of
           government
           were
           no
           better
           ,
           then
           his
           principles
           of
           Religion
           .
        
         
           By
           the
           result
           of
           all
           which
           two
           things
           are
           demonstrated
           and
           declared
           .
           The
           first
           is
           ,
           that
           they
           who
           do
           beleeve
           and
           are
           of
           opinion
           ,
           that
           they
           are
           the
           onely
           assertors
           and
           defenders
           of
           the
           Kings
           Prerogative
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           Regall
           power
           ,
           by
           fighting
           against
           the
           Parliament
           ,
           for
           the
           maintaining
           and
           defending
           of
           all
           that
           is
           established
           and
           approved
           by
           the
           King
           in
           this
           difference
           between
           King
           and
           Parliament
           ,
           do
           but
           contribute
           their
           help
           and
           assistance
           for
           the
           undermining
           and
           destroying
           of
           the
           Regall
           power
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           Kings
           just
           Prerogative
           The
           second
           is
           ,
           that
           the
           King
           is
           not
           resisted
           because
           his
           will
           is
           opposed
           by
           his
           Parliament
           ,
           which
           is
           the
           Kings
           great
           Councell
           ,
           and
           the
           representative
           body
           of
           his
           Kingdom
           ;
           and
           the
           reason
           of
           both
           is
           ,
           because
           by
           the
           constitution
           and
           frame
           of
           this
           Government
           Kings
           of
           this
           Kingdom
           may
           never
           give
           away
           their
           rights
           ,
           and
           that
           power
           and
           authority
           which
           they
           themselves
           have
           over
           the
           Subjects
           ,
           nor
           transferre
           the
           same
           upon
           any
           other
           ,
           without
           the
           generall
           consent
           of
           the
           Subjects
           ;
           which
           can
           never
           be
           obtained
           but
           by
           their
           representative
           Body
           assembled
           in
           Parliament
           .
           And
           the
           obtaining
           of
           His
           Majesties
           will
           in
           this
           ,
           would
           be
           of
           more
           dangerous
           consequence
           to
           himself
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           Regall
           Authority
           ,
           then
           ever
           yet
           appeared
           to
           himself
           ,
           or
           can
           ever
           appear
           ,
           so
           long
           as
           he
           is
           
           separated
           and
           divided
           from
           his
           great
           Councell
           ,
           where
           ,
           by
           a
           free
           debate
           of
           all
           consequences
           ,
           and
           by
           a
           clear
           discovery
           of
           all
           sinister
           ends
           and
           fraudulent
           practises
           ,
           the
           truth
           of
           all
           can
           onely
           appear
           ;
           and
           without
           whom
           His
           Majestie
           can
           determine
           nothing
           by
           himself
           ,
           nor
           by
           his
           own
           judgement
           therein
           .
           The
           question
           being
           of
           exposing
           himself
           ,
           his
           Successors
           ,
           all
           his
           Subjects
           ,
           and
           their
           posterity
           to
           a
           bondage
           ,
           and
           subjection
           under
           a
           heavie
           yoke
           and
           forraigne
           Head
           ;
           usurping
           a
           spirituall
           Authority
           ,
           and
           claiming
           homage
           and
           universall
           obedience
           thereunto
           by
           Divine
           right
           ,
           as
           being
           ,
           Christs
           Vicar
           generall
           ,
           and
           the
           supreme
           Head
           of
           the
           Church
           upon
           earth
           :
           And
           the
           consequences
           of
           which
           being
           ,
           that
           the
           acknowledgement
           of
           this
           claime
           ,
           and
           a
           generall
           beleef
           thereof
           onely
           ,
           doth
           necessarily
           subject
           all
           other
           power
           and
           Authority
           unto
           it
           ;
           by
           reason
           that
           the
           faculties
           of
           the
           soul
           upon
           which
           this
           spirituall
           authority
           hath
           the
           chiefest
           influence
           and
           operation
           ,
           do
           easily
           subject
           and
           subdue
           all
           the
           powers
           of
           the
           body
           .
           And
           it
           is
           now
           experimentally
           known
           ,
           that
           men
           being
           once
           subdued
           to
           the
           apprehension
           and
           beleef
           of
           this
           spirituall
           Authority
           ,
           by
           their
           intellectuals
           and
           rationall
           parts
           chiefly
           ,
           they
           are
           kept
           in
           obedience
           as
           to
           their
           duty
           by
           their
           sensitive
           parts
           ,
           and
           by
           all
           manner
           of
           forcible
           means
           ,
           which
           makes
           it
           a
           reall
           power
           and
           authority
           that
           before
           was
           onely
           imaginary
           ;
           and
           by
           means
           thereof
           becomes
           a
           power
           superior
           ,
           to
           all
           humane
           power
           ,
           and
           cannot
           be
           contradicted
           nor
           controlled
           by
           no
           power
           nor
           authority
           ,
           that
           is
           in
           man
           ,
           and
           can
           neither
           be
           limited
           nor
           confined
           within
           any
           certain
           bounds
           ,
           nor
           be
           directed
           by
           no
           rule
           nor
           Law
           whatsoever
           .
        
         
           But
           notwithstanding
           would
           suddenly
           vanish
           ,
           if
           the
           grounds
           and
           ends
           of
           all
           spirituall
           authority
           ,
           to
           be
           exercised
           under
           any
           form
           of
           Ecclesiasticall
           government
           ,
           were
           fully
           examined
           ,
           and
           discovered
           to
           be
           nothing
           but
           the
           imagination
           of
           man
           ,
           which
           would
           infallibly
           follow
           if
           nothing
           were
           taken
           for
           granted
           without
           evidence
           and
           proof
           ,
           which
           is
           the
           end
           of
           all
           Councels
           and
           Consultations
           ,
           and
           the
           principall
           duty
           of
           every
           rationall
           man
           :
           and
           reason
           is
           in
           nature
           before
           all
           the
           other
           faculties
           of
           the
           soul
           ,
           and
           is
           the
           foundation
           of
           all
           other
           gifts
           and
           graces
           whatsoever
           ,
           but
           not
           the
           perfection
           ,
           and
           therefore
           is
           it
           given
           to
           all
           men
           as
           a
           difference
           and
           distinction
           between
           man
           and
           beast
           :
           when
           other
           gifts
           and
           abilities
           are
           
           given
           onely
           to
           some
           ;
           And
           the
           end
           of
           Government
           is
           discovered
           to
           man
           by
           the
           light
           of
           reason
           ,
           and
           conduceth
           to
           the
           very
           being
           of
           man
           ,
           which
           must
           be
           provided
           for
           ,
           before
           any
           thought
           or
           consideration
           can
           be
           had
           of
           well
           being
           ,
           or
           of
           any
           other
           perfection
           .
           And
           therefore
           unity
           ,
           which
           is
           the
           preserver
           of
           humane
           society
           ,
           must
           be
           provided
           for
           before
           any
           other
           duty
           that
           is
           required
           of
           man
           .
           For
           the
           preservation
           of
           humane
           society
           tendeth
           to
           the
           propagation
           of
           mankind
           ,
           in
           which
           the
           being
           of
           man
           consisteth
           ,
           as
           from
           which
           it
           is
           derived
           ,
           without
           recourse
           to
           a
           new
           creation
           ;
           and
           all
           Authority
           ,
           which
           is
           the
           preserver
           of
           Unity
           ,
           must
           be
           derived
           from
           one
           head
           or
           fountain
           which
           in
           this
           Kingdom
           is
           from
           the
           Regall
           Power
           .
           For
           no
           man
           denieth
           that
           the
           King
           is
           the
           Head
           of
           his
           people
           ;
           and
           all
           men
           know
           and
           acknowledge
           that
           He
           is
           never
           in
           his
           Supremacy
           nor
           absolute
           but
           by
           his
           Parliament
           .
           Which
           as
           it
           is
           the
           representative
           Body
           of
           the
           people
           ;
           so
           is
           it
           the
           Supreme
           Councell
           of
           the
           King
           .
           And
           therefore
           without
           it
           He
           is
           neither
           the
           head
           of
           a
           compleat
           body
           (
           but
           of
           a
           Faction
           )
           nor
           a
           compleat
           head
           ;
           For
           the
           Parliament
           being
           the
           representative
           of
           the
           people
           becomes
           thereby
           their
           living
           soul
           ,
           including
           the
           will
           and
           desires
           of
           all
           the
           people
           ,
           as
           comprehending
           them
           all
           :
           But
           being
           the
           Kings
           great
           Councell
           ,
           who
           is
           the
           head
           of
           the
           people
           ,
           it
           doth
           supply
           the
           office
           and
           nature
           of
           all
           the
           externall
           senses
           which
           are
           placed
           in
           the
           head
           for
           the
           use
           of
           the
           body
           ,
           and
           especially
           to
           inform
           and
           assist
           the
           intellectuall
           faculties
           inhabiting
           the
           head
           ,
           for
           the
           giving
           of
           due
           influence
           upon
           the
           body
           ,
           without
           which
           a
           body
           politick
           doth
           languish
           and
           consume
           ;
           being
           fed
           and
           nourished
           by
           the
           vigorous
           operation
           of
           the
           intellectuals
           descending
           from
           the
           head
           ,
           as
           a
           body
           natural
           doth
           by
           sustenance
           and
           meat
           .
           Wherefore
           
             what
             God
             hath
             conjoyned
             ,
             let
             no
             man
             separate
             :
          
           and
           whosoever
           wisheth
           well
           to
           the
           prosperity
           of
           this
           Kingdom
           ,
           let
           him
           endeavour
           the
           conjunction
           of
           King
           and
           Parliament
           :
           And
           whosoever
           nourisheth
           division
           between
           them
           ,
           let
           them
           be
           esteemed
           as
           the
           betrayers
           of
           their
           Countrey
           ,
           and
           enemies
           to
           mankind
           ;
           and
           
             let
             God
             arise
             and
             his
             enemies
             will
             be
             scattered
             .
          
           But
           as
           my
           Lord
           of
           Canterbury
           had
           a
           legall
           triall
           ,
           and
           just
           sentence
           ,
           so
           may
           all
           such
           disguised
           Traitors
           to
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           fraudulent
           deceivers
           of
           the
           King
           ,
           in
           going
           about
           to
           steal
           from
           him
           his
           reall
           right
           and
           Authority
           ,
           by
           a
           counterfeit
           shew
           of
           making
           it
           better
           ,
           
           perish
           and
           be
           confounded
           in
           their
           own
           craft
           as
           publick
           Enemies
           to
           King
           and
           Parliament
           ,
           where
           onely
           the
           Supremacy
           of
           all
           Authority
           in
           England
           doth
           rest
           ,
           with
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           King
           ;
           but
           not
           in
           the
           Kings
           will
           ,
           but
           in
           his
           reason
           :
           which
           as
           it
           rendreth
           him
           most
           absolute
           ,
           so
           doth
           it
           appear
           most
           eminent
           ,
           by
           concurring
           with
           the
           desires
           of
           all
           his
           people
           ,
           when
           exhibited
           to
           him
           by
           them
           who
           represents
           them
           all
           ;
           and
           are
           likewise
           his
           supreme
           Councel
           ,
           to
           which
           all
           other
           Councels
           and
           Courts
           whatsoever
           are
           subordinate
           and
           accountable
           :
           by
           doing
           whereof
           onely
           he
           is
           united
           with
           his
           people
           ,
           and
           his
           people
           with
           him
           ,
           wherein
           the
           strength
           of
           both
           consisteth
           ,
           and
           then
           may
           he
           confidently
           say
           ,
           
             If
             God
             be
             with
             us
             ,
             who
             can
             be
             against
             us
             .
          
        
         
           FINIS
           .
        
      
    
     
       
         Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
         
           Notes for div A91248e-150
           
             1
             Cor.
             9.
             28.