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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	jurisdiction_n	power_n	superiority_n	3,229	5	12.0168	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08890	Eclogarius, or briefe summe of the truth of that title of Supreame Governour given to his Maiestie in causes spirituall, and ecclesiasticall, from the Kings of Israel, in the old Testament; the Christian emperours in the Primitive Church; confirmed by 40. epistles of Leo the Bishop of Rome, vnto the Emperours, Theodosius, Martianus, and Leo. Not published before. By Iohn Panke.	Panke, John.	1612 (1612)	STC 19170; ESTC S106400	39,387	80

as we striue for or his Maiestie taketh to himselfe in this businesse whereof we entreat If he doe I craue but their assent to that oath if he do not their iust exceptions against the evidence which is drawne from him A shew of an answere to the most pressing arguments brought by vs I knowe hath beene ever ready from them but such that comming from none of them Read D. Mort. 1. 2. part of his Apologie his Catholik appeal for the Protestants and M. White of the way of the true Church an other hath evermore bin readie to oppugne it a manifest evidence of a false ground Those evasions and trickes on their parts I wish in this excellent temper of the world light of knowledge in the guids of this Church whose eies they cannot blinde with any craft were wholy laid aside and that the direct voice of Scripture first ancient Ecclesiasticall histories for the practise of the christian Emperors and testimonies of fathers confirming their practise might bee called in For in these cases to answere of our selues is to answer nothing not to answer to the allegation is silently to graunt our adversarie what he would To bee so conceited to our cause that whatsoever is tendered not to see it is willingly to cast our selues headlong into the gulfe of endlesse woe and miserie To come therefore to the first thing required which is the oath it selfe that al men may see what they sweare vnto that sweare vnto it The tenor where of is this I.A.B. doe vtterly testifie and declare in my conscience The oath of Supremacie in his Maiesties Apol. pag 48. that the kings highnesse is the only supreame governour of this Realme all other his Highnes dominions and countries aswell in spirituall or Ecclesiasticall things or causes as temporall And that no forraine Prince person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to haue any iurisdiction power superioritie preheminence or authoritie Ecclesiasticall or spirituall within this Realme And therefore I doe vtterly renounce forsake all forrain iurisdictions powers superiorities and authorities and doe promise that from henceforth I will beare faith and true allegiance to the Kings highnes his heires and lawful successors and to my power shall defend all iurisdictions priviledges preheminences and authorities granted or belonging to the Kings highnesse his heires and successors or vnited or annexed to the imperiall crowne of this Realme So God me helpe and by the contents of this booke Besides the setting downe of this oath thus in these tearmes of which the Papists are afraid as of some monster I must expresse the meaning and intendment thereof what is challenged thereby and what is vnsought for by his Maiestie and from whom more sooner and trulier may wee learne the scope and drift thereof thē from him to whom we owe it and to whome of right it belongeth to be sworne His Maiestie therefore having proved from many and sundry sentences titles and prerogatiues both in the old Testament and in the new that Christian Princes within their dominions haue warrant to governe the Church as well as the rest of their people in being Custodes vtriusque tabulae persons to whom God hath commended and commaunded the keeping of both tables doth there disclaime and denie that hee hath any power to make new articles of faith What the king doth either take or refuse by the oath of supremacy His Maiesties Apol pag. 108. that office he leaveth to the Pope or to set vp anie points of religion not warranted by the word of God but by commanding obedience to bee given to the word of God by reforming the religion according to his prescribed will by assisting the spirituall power with the temporall sword by reforming of corruptions by procuring due obedience to the Church by iudging and cutting of all frivolous questions and schismes as Constantine did And finally by making decorum to bee observed in every thing and establishing orders to bee observed in all indifferent things for that purpose And this is the only intent of this oath of Supremacy This is inlarged with more words Rain conf with Hart. c. 10. div 1. but to the same effect by D. Rainolds in his cōference with M. Hart. For the king saith he to be supreame governour of all his dominions in things spirituall and temporall is to haue the preheminence over all rulers in government of matters touching God and man within his dominions and this by the Scripture is Cesars right 1. Pet. 2.13 The high Priest is ordained for mē in those things that appertaine to God to do them The Priest duty Heb. 5.1 that is to offer gifts and sacrifices for sin this is the peculiar duty of the priest which if the Prince meddle with as Ozias did 2. Chro. 26. v. 16 18.19 who would haue burnt incense vpon the Altar of incense a thing inioined to Priests only then hee transgresseth the bounds of his office and provoketh vengeance of the Lord vpon him The Princes du tie But to provide by Civill punishments and orders that Priestes doe their dutie in things concerning God not only Priests but people too it is the Princes charge and so hee is ordained to deale in things of God Iudges 27 5 6 For when Michah had an Idols chappell in his house with a vestment and Images in those daies saith the text there was no king in Israell but every man did that which was good in his own eies Iudges 18.1.2 And againe there was no king in Israell when the men of Dan got that Idolatrous stuffe with an Idololatrous Priest 17. went a whoring after it which being said in like sort when adultery was committed 19. and with adultery murther doth shew that as the subiect should haue beene restrained from murther and adulterie Iudg. 19.1.2 25.26 so from Idolatry too by the Princes sword sith all these sinnes raigned Iud. 20.28 Deut. 17.19 not for want of a Priest but of a king in Israell And where the king is willed by Moses to keepe all the words of the law to doe them the Lord meant therby that he ought to keepe them not only as a private man but as a king by seeking and providing that all his subiects did their duties both to God and man Wherefore since the supremacie we giue to our Prince in things Ecclesiasticall 2. Chr. 29. v. 5. 21 27.30 2. Chr. 30.1.6.12 to deale therein as Ezechias did first to command that the Priests and Levites doe doe their duties afterward the people to come and serue the Lord and finally both Priest and people to reforme themselues for maintenance of religion not as Ozias who as is said before would burne incense nor ours to preach the word minister the sacraments celebrate the prayers or practise discipline of the Church but to provide that those things bee done as they ought by them whom God hath called