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A66713 Observations upon the oath enacted I. Eliz. commonly called the oath of supremacy for the better satisfaction of those that may finde themselves concerned therein. Winter, John, Sir, 1600?-1673? 1662 (1662) Wing W3081; ESTC R11523 11,628 20

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OBSERVATIONS UPON THE OATH Enacted 1. Eliz. Commonly called The OATH of SVPREMACY For the better satisfaction of those that may finde themselves concerned therein Observations upon the Oath Enacted 1. Eliz. commonly called The Oath of SVPREMACY BY the Oath of Supremacy Enacted by Henry the Eighth the said King was sworn to be Supreme Head of the Church of England Which title was of so great offence and scandal even to some of those that then professed the Reformed Religion that they writ Invectives against the same as Romane Catholicks also did and sundry persons lost their lives in those daies for denial thereof as is written of Sir Thomas More and others But that Oath was afterwards abolisht by Parliament with some other statutes relating thereunto and in the fifth year of Queen Elizabeth the ensuing Oath was enjoyned by an Act then entitled All ancient Jurisdiction restored to the Crown and all forreign power abolished the words of which Oath are as followeth I A B. do utterly testifie and declare in my conscience that the Queens Highnesse is the only Supreme Governour of this Realm of all other her Highnesses Dominions and Countreys as well in all Spirituall or Ecclesiastical things or Causes as temporal c. That no forreign Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Jurisdiction Power Superiority Preheminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realm and therefore I do utterly renounce and forsake all forreign Jurisdictions Powers Superiorities and Authorities and do promise that from henceforth I shall bear faith and true Allegiance to the Queens Highness her Heirs and lawful Successors and to my power shall assist and defend all Jurisdictions Priviledges Preheminencies and Authorities granted or belonging to the Queens Highnesse her Heirs and Successors or united and annexed to the Imperial Crown of this Realm So help me God and by the Contents of this Book Although the words of this Oath are not the same as in the former and Supreme Head of the Church of England not particularly mentioned therein yet according to the common acceptation of the words in the said Oath it seemed to attribute to her said Majesty in effect and substance no less spiritual Jurisdiction and power nay more then what the said former Oath did or might import Wherefore this Oath was also excepted at by divers In which consideration and for the clearing of doubts that might be conceived thereupon her Majesty by an Admonition in her Injunctions published afterwards in the said first year of her Reign did explain and interpret the sence and meaning of the words of the said Oath in which the same should from thenceforth be accepted and taken The Admonition and Title is as followeth An Admonition to Simple men deceived by malicious The Queens Majesty being informed that in certain places of the Realm sundry of her native Subjects being called to Ecclesiastical Ministry in the Church be by sinister perswasion and perverse construction induced to finde some scruple in the form of an Oath which by an Act of the last Parliament is prescribed to be required of divers persons for the Recognition of their Allegiance to her Majesty which certainly never was ne ever meant nor by any equity of words or good sence can be thereof gathered would that all her loving Subjects should understand that nothing was is or shall be meant or intended by the same Oath to have any other duty allegiance or bond required by the same Oath then was acknowledged to be due to the most noble Kings of famous memory K. Henry the 8. her Majesties Father or K. Edward the 6. her Majesties Brother And further her Majesty forbiddeth all manner her Subjects to give ear or credit to such perverse and malicious persons which most sinisterly and maliciously labour to notifie to her loving Subjects how by words of the said Oath it may be collected that the Kings or Queeus of this Realm possssors of the Crown may challenge authority and power of Ministry of Divine Service in the Church wherein her said Subjects be much abused by such evil disposed persons for certainly her Majesty neither doth nor ever will challenge any other authority then that was challenged and lately used by the said noble Kings of famous memory K. Henry the Eighth and K. Edward the sixth which is and was of ancient time due to the Imperiall Crown of this Realm THAT IS under God to have the Soveraignty and Rule over all manner persons born within these Realms Dominions and Countreys of what estate either Ecclesiastical or temporal soever they be SO AS no other forreign power shall or ought to have any superiority over them And if any person that hath conceived any other sence of the form of the said Oath shall accept the same Oath with this Interpretation sence or meaning her Majesty is well pleased to accept every such in that behalf as her good and obedient Subjects and shall acquit them of all manner penalties contained in the said Act against such as shall peremptorily or obstinately refuse to take the same Oath It is observable that the Queen did thus explain and interpret the words of this Oath by her own authority But whereas some might then object as others have done since upon the same occasion that the words of an Oath could not be warrantably interpreted from their ordinary sence and usual acceptation by any authority less then that of the Law-maker Therefore the said Admonition was confirmed by her said Majesty in Parliament by the Satute 5 Eliz. cap. 1. wherein is this Proviso as followeth Provided also that the Oath expressed in the said Act made in the said first Year shall be taken and expounded in such form as is set forth in an Admonition annexed to the Queens Majesties Injunctions published in the first Year of her Majesties Reign That is to say to confesse and acknowledge in her Majesty her Heirs and Successors none other authority then that was challenged and lately used by the Noble K. Henry the 8. and K. Edward the 6. as in the said admonition more plainly may appear It is observable that in vertue of this Provisoe in the said Statute the aforesaid admonition acquired the force of a Law as much as the Provisoe it self had which referres to the said admonition and consequently makes void in law whatsoever was formerly Enacted contrary to the same So that from and after the said Act 5. Eliz. the said Oath though pronounced in the form of words verbatim as is expressed in the Act 1. Eliz. yet the effect and tenour of the said words must be construed and understood in the form and according to the Interpretation sence and meaning as appeareth in the aforesaid admonition And whosoever upon tender of the said Oath unto him if when he shall have read or pronounced the words thereof he do professe that he intends in swearing the same to mean those said words in no other