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A45589 A detection or discovery of a notable fraud committed by R.B., a seminary priest of Rome, upon two of the articles of the Church of England in a booke imprinted in anno 1632, intituled, The judgment of the apostles and of those of the first age in all points of doctrine, questioned betweene the Catholikes and Protestants of England as they are set downe in the nine and thirty articles of their religion : with an appendix concerning Episcopacy / by a lay gentleman. Harlowe, Pedaell. 1641 (1641) Wing H780; ESTC R21855 37,934 54

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established And therefore afterwards there was made The Statute of 5. and 6. of King Edward the fixt Cap. 1. The Kings most excellent Majestie hath caused the aforesaid Order of Common Service intituled The Booke of Common Prayer to be faithfully and godly perus●d explained and made fully perfect and hath Adjoyned it to this present Statute adding also a Forme and manner of making and Consecrating of Archbishops Bishops Priests and Deacons to be of like force authority and value as the same like aforesaid Booke intituled The Booke of Common Prayer was before and to be accepted received used esteemed in like sort and manner as by the said Act of the second yeare of the Kings Majesties raigne was ordained for uniformity of Service and administration of the Sacraments And the aforesaid Act to stand in full force to and for the establishing the Booke of Common Prayer now explained and hereunto annexed And also the said Forme of making Archbishops Bishops Priests and Deacons hereunto annexe is it was for the former Book And Bee it further enacted that if any person shall wittingly or wilfully heare or be present at any other form of Common Prayer Administration of Sacraments making of Ministers and other Rites then are mentioned in the said Booke shall suffer c. Hereby as is manifest the forme both of Common Prayer Celebration of the S●●am●n●s and also Ordination and Consecration of Bishops Priests and Deacons was made One intire Booke or volume And afterwards Queene Marie ha●ing attained the Crowne did as R. B. sayes make an Act of Repeale in Anno primo regni sui cap. 2. Thus It is enacted and established that one Act of Parliament in 2. Edward 6. intituled an Act for the uniformity of Service and Administration of the Sacraments throughout the Realme and also one other Act made 5. Edward 6. entituled An Act for the uniformity of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments shall be from henceforth utterly Repealed and of none effect This being that Act of Parliament which R. R. sayes killed King Edwards Booke of Consecration it is to be observed that this Act of Repeale doe's expressely neither mention any thing in particular nor in precise words repeale any Law made for preseribing the forme of Consecration c. But it doe's repeale and mention onely the foresaid Lawes intituled Acts for the uniformity of Common Prayer and Administration of Sacraments which particular is not here urged to gainesay it but that thereby The authority for that manner of Consecration and Ordination was repealed and annihilated but it is here offered for removall of a weake objection which peradventure may be made upon the Statute of Revier hereafter mentioned made in the very beginning of the raigne of Queene Elizabeth Num. 10 But such was the high wisedome of Royall Queene Elizabeth of ever most famous memory as that notwithstanding the confident affirmation of R. B. there was not in her raigne for preventing of all scruples doubts and quarels any Consecration till Queene Maries Law therein was repealed and made vtterly voyd by Stat. 1. Eliz. cap. 2. thus Wheras at the death of our late Soveraign Lord King Edward the sixt there remained one uniforme Order of Common Service and Prayer and administration of Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies in the Church of England authorized by Act of Parliament holden in the sift and sixt yeares of our said late Soveraigne King Edward the sixt intituled an Act for the uniformioy of Common Prayer and Administration of Sacraments the which was repealed and taken away by Act of Parliament in the first yeare of the raigne of our late Soveraigne Lady Queene Mary to the great decay of the honour of God and discomfort to the Professors of the Truth of Christs Religion Be it enacted by Authority of this present Parliament that the Estatute of Repeale and every thing therein conteined onely concerning the said Booke and the Service Administration of the Sacraments rites and Ceremonies cont eyned or appointed in or by the said Booke shall be void and of none effect from and after the Feast of the Nativity of Saint Iohn Baptist next comming And that the said Booke with the Order of Service Administration of the Sacraments Rites and Ceremonies with the Alterations and Additions therein added and appointed by this Statute shall stand and be from and after the said Feast of the Nativity of Saint Iohn Baptist in full force and effect according to the tenor and effect of this Statute any thing in the foresaid Estature of Repeale to the contrary not withstanding Now by this Acte of Parliament the aforesaid Acte of Queene Mary being repealed as concerning this very Booke which comprised in it as well the Consecration of Bishorps and Ordination of Priests and Deacons as the Celebration of Divine Servic and administration of the Sacraments And from and after Mid-Summer then following in Anno 1559. The same Booke being in all things become againe in full vigour and force then afterwards was Doctor Parker our first Protestant Bishop which was made in Queene Elizabeths Raigne elected and consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury for ought by R.B. urged to the contrary rightly orderly lawfully according to publike knowne and allowed Square rule forme order fashion which Booke and all Consecrations ab initio regni Elizabethae Reginae were againe Confirmed by Acte of Parliament 8. Elizab. cap. 1. not for any need of it but to satisfie some causelesse scrupulofities If it be objected That in this last Act there is no expresse mention of Consecration then it is answered as before touched That Queene Maries Lawe made no expresse mention of Consecration neither But to make it Sans doubt by this Law is Queene Maries Law made utterly voyd Whereby King Edwards Lawes therein became in force And more-over by this Law of Queene Elizabeth that Booke which is but one Totum is recontinued and set in it 's full strength and vertue Hereby it appeares what little regard R. B. had either to the force of truth or to his owne Reputation and credit by affirming with bold considence that this Booke was first called from Death to life by the nine and thirty Articles only and that the Church of England had not for the space of foure yeares any publicke allowed forme of consecration of Bishops or Ordination of Priests and Deacons SECT. II. R.B. OBIECTION II. Num. 11 AGaine the first Protestant Censecration or admittance of any to be a Bishop by that Booke or Order in Queene Elizabeths Raigne was on the 17 day of December in her second yeare as they pretend from the Register of Marthew Parker But their owne both private and publike Authorities prove that both Matthew Parker their first pretended Archbishop and others were received and allowed for Arch-Bishops and Bishops about 6 moneths before their first pretended Consecration on the 17 of December For Parker Barlow Scory and Grindall were
allowed and received for Bishops in the moneth of August before in publike S●emniti●s None can say these were onely Bishops Elect and not perfectly allowed or admitted for the true Bishops For by the Statute of Hen. 8. Anno 25. revived by Queene Elizabeth in her first Parliament Anno 1. cap. 1. it is ordained that Consecration must be within twenty dayes of Election P. H. ANSWER Numb. 12 It is readily yeelded unto that Doctor Parker not our first Protestant Arch-bishop seeing Arch-bishop Cranmer was his Predecessor but our first in Queene Elizabeths time was allowed Arch-bishop of Canterbury five or sixe moneths before the 17 of December 1559 which is the time ascribed for his Consecration And also Barlow Scory and Grindall were allowed and acknowledged Bishops before But what use you would make of it I know not unlesse it be to the end that the Reg●ster which Records the Consecration of Archbishop Parker on the 17 of December 1559. should be thereby conceived to be fictitious and untrue such I thinke is your meaning because you elsewhere call that Register a new-borne Register which is contraryed by the outhenticke Register of Canterbury whereby it so appeares to be a true and faithfull Register as nothing needs to be said for it But be your meaning there in what it will I had upon the first reading of the former part of this Objection this ready Answer That Doctor Parker might be Bishop elect all that time But R. B. well foreseeing the readines of that kind of Answer did immediatly take that help from me as he thought by trumping in my way his Statute of Consecration within twenty dayes after election so as it cannot as he sayes be alleadged that He stood Bishop onely elect for the space of five or six moneths together But shall R. B. be so gently used As to say He in mistaken If I should so deale with him I shall in good sooth be mistaken then too For I cannot conceive that an old Student can be so mistaken in such a matter as ordinary Schoole-boyes may easily know by meere reading without helpe of Tutor or Expositor I pray God it was not wilfully done contra dictamen conscientia suae against his owne particular knowledge per bypocrism Here are the words of the Statute Num. 13 Be it enacted that if any Archbishop or Bishop within the Kings Dominions after Election shall be signified unto them by the Kings Letters Patents shall refuse and doe not confirme invest and consecrate with all due circumstance such person as shall be elected-and to them signified within twentie dayes next after the Kings Letters of such signification shall come to their hands That then every Archbishop Bishop and other persons so offending shall runne into the dangers paines and penalties of the Estatute of provision Praemunire It it not most evidently obvious to every Reader that This Act doth not ordaine that Consecration shall be within Twentie dayes next after Election but within twentie dayes next after the Kings Letters signifying such Election shall come to those who are by his Majestie appointed to be Consecrators of the New-Bishop And the very troth is That Matthew Parker was elected to be Archbishop of Canterbury on the first day of August 1559. But the Queenes Letters Patents signifying his Election were dated not before the sixt of December following and bee was confirmed the ninth and Consecrated the seventeenth of December aforesaid So as his consecration was celebrated within the time limited by the Law And on the 21 of the same December was Edmond Grindall consecrated Bishop of London and from the time of their Elections they stood all the while Lord Bishop elect And Barlow and Scory were Bishops consecrated long before Q Elizabeth came to the Crowne as in Answer to the subsequent objection shall evidently appeare But in the meane time let it be observed that where he sayes in this place that Barlow and Scory were allowed Bishops in August 1559 Hee elsewhere sayes the said Barlow and Scory were not allowed for Bishops till the 20 of December following And is not that a direct contradiction But what cares bee or the Iesuited partie for contradictions or false-hoods so as beliefe be gained from the simply credulous SECT. III. R. B. OBJECTION III. Numb. 14 NEither was there any One of the pretended Consecratours of Matthew Parker from whom all the rest doe claime Ordination a true and lawfull Bishop by Protestant proceedings These they name unto us William Barlow Iohn Scory Mikes Coverdale Iohn Hodikins By these was Matthew Parker consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury the seventeenth of December in the yeare 1559. Two of these fower namely Coverdale and Hodskins were never allowed for Bishops inall Queene Elizabeths time as the pretended Register the printed Antiquitates Britamicae Godwyn Mason and others of them confesse confessing also That the other Two were but Bishops elect Barlow elect Bishop of Chichester Scory elect of Heresord But all men grant both Catholikes and Protestants that Men onely elect Bishops not consecratedor admitted cannot consecrate Bishops much lesse an Archbishop Metropolitan And William Barlow and Iohn Scory were not allowed by these Protestants for Bishops or such men untill Matthew Parker was as they pretend by their Register consecrated by them William Barlow stiled before Doctor of Divinity or a Priest Regular And Iohn Scory then stiled onely Bachelour of Divinity and Priest Regular were first allowed for Bishops or such men the 20 of December 1559 even three dayes after Matthew Parker's pretended * Ordination by them P. H. ANSWER Num. 15 The two former objections were purposely framed for the undermining of the Consecration of Archbishop Parker and all his Successors as done without any Protestant Order rule forme or fashion which is as you see vindicated to be regular and formall according to Protestant-publike right square forme and Order notwithstanding any thing urged by R. B. to the contrary Now the last Objection tends to the destraction of all Episcopall abilities in the Consecration of Archbishop Parker First R.B. sayes That two of them were never allowed for Bishops in Queene Elizabeths Raigne And secondly the other two were but Bishops elect and consequently uncapable to Consecrate any other unto both which I returne this Answer Num. 16 First as the two supposed not to be allowed by Queene Elizabeth to wit Coverdale and Hodskins Hee sayes not that they were not Bishops de facto but not allowed to be Bishops what strength is there in that Proposition Examine it thus and you shall find nothing in it Whosoever though once Consecrated for Bishops were not by Protestants in Queene Elizabeths raigne allowed for Bishops did become in such sort no Bishops as that their Episcopall Acts were ipso facto meere Nullities and of no validity But Coverdale and Hodgkins though both once consecrated Bishops were not allowed for Bishops by Protestants in Queene Elizaboths