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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	king_n	power_n	supremacy_n	2,252	5	10.5244	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34331	The Connexion being choice collections of some principal matters in King James his reign, which may serve to supply the vacancy betwixt Mr. Townsend's and Mr. Rushworth's historical collections.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I)	1681 (1681)	Wing C5882; ESTC R2805	57,942	188

alienate the same from his own Crown and Dignity to any Spiritual Potentates or Rulers whatsoever within or without his Dominions 4. We hold that though the Kings of this Realm were no members of the Church but very Infidels yea and pers●cutors of the truth that yet those Churches that shall be gathered together within these Dominions ought to acknowledge and yield the said Supremacy unto them and that the same is not tyed to their Faith and Christianity but to their very Crown from which no subject or subjects have power to separate or dis-joyn it 5. We hold that neither King nor Civil State are bound in matter of Religion to be subject and obedient to any Ecclesiastical person or persons whatsoever no further then they shall be able to convince their Consciences of the truth thereof out of the word of God yea we think they should sin against God if they should ground their Religion or any part or parcel thereof upon the bare Testimony or Judgment of any man or of all the men in the world 6. We hold that no Churches or Church-officers have power for any crime whatsoever to deprive the King of the least of his Royal prerogatives whatsoever much less to deprive him of his Supremacy wherein the height of his Royal Dignity consists 7. We hold that in all things concerning this life whatsoever the Civil Jurisdiction of Kings and Civil States excelleth and ought to have the preheminence over the Ecclesiastical and that the Ecclesiastical neither hath nor ought to have any power in the least degree over the bodies lives goods or Liberty of any person whatsoever muchless of the Kings and Rulers of the earth 8. We hold that Kings by vertue of their supremacy have power yea also that they stand bound by the Law of God to make Laws Ecclesiastical such as shall tend to the good ordering of the Churches in their Dominions and that the Churches ought not to be disobedient to any of their Laws so far as in obedience unto them they do not that which is contrary to the word of God 9. We hold that though the King should command any thing contrary to the Word unto the Churches that yet they ought not to resist him therein but only peaceably to forbear obedience and sue unto him for grace and mercy and where that cannot be obtained meekly to submit themselves to the punishment 10. We hold that the King hath power by vertue of his Supremacie to remove out of the Churches what●oever he shall discerne to be practiced ●herein not agreeable to the word of God and if he shall see any defect either in the worship of God or Ecclesiastical discipline he ought by his Royal Authority and power to procure and force the redress thereof yea though it be without the consent and against the will of the Ecclesiastical Governours themselves 11. We hold that the King hath as much Authority over the body goods and affairs of Ecclesiastical persons as of any other of his Subjects whatsoever and that by his Authority he may force them not only to all Civil Duties belonging unto them but also unto all Ecclesiastical afflicting as great punishment upon them for the neglect thereof as upon any other of his subjects 12. We hold that he hath power to remove out of the Churches all scandalous Schismatical and Heretica● Teachers and by all due severity o● Laws to repress them 13. We hold that all Ecclesiastical Laws made by the King not repugnant to the word of God do in some sort bind the Consciences of his subjects and that no subject ought to refuse obedience to any such Law 14. We hold that the King onely hath power within his dominions to convene Synods and General Assemlies of Ministers and by his Authority Royal to ratifie and give life and strength to their Canons and Constitutions without whose Ratification no man can force any Subject to yield any obedience unto the same 15. We hold that though the King may force the Churches to be subject and obedient unto him and to be members of the common-wealth yet that the Churches severally or joyntly have no power to force him or any subject against their will to any service unto them or to any Religious duty whatsoever no nor so much as to ●e a member of any Church 16. We hold that the King ought ●ot to be subject to the Ecclesiasti●al censures of any Churches Church●fficers or Synods whatsoever but on●y to that Church and those officers of ●is own Court and household unto ●hom in reverence of their Religi●n and of the Spiritual graces of God ●e sees shining in them he shall of ●is own free will subject and commit ●he Regiment of his Soul in whom ●here can be no suspicion or fear of any ●artialitie or unjust or rigorous deal●●g against him 17. We hold that if any Ecclesi●stical Governours call them by what ●ame you will shall abuse their Ec●lesiastical authority in the execution ●f their censures upon any man what●●ever That the King and Civil States ●nder him have power to punish ●hem severely for it much more if ●hey shall abuse it upon the Supreme Majesty himself 18. If the King subjecting himself to 〈◊〉 Spiritual Guids and Governours shall afterwards refuse to be governed and guided by them according to the word of God and living in no torious sin without repentance shall willfully contemn and despise all their holy and Religious censures that the● these Governours are to refuse to administer the holy things of God unto him and to leave him to himself and to the secret Judgment of God and wholly to resigne and give over that Spiritual Charge and tuition over him which by calling from God and the King they did undertake and mor● then this they may not do And after all this we hold that he still retaineth and ought to retaine entirely and solidly all that aforesaid Supreme power and authority over the Churches o● his Dominion in as ample a manner as if he were the most Christian Prince in the world 19. We acknowledge King James to be our onely lawful Soveraign and unto him to be due all the aforesaid Supremacy and we renounce and abjure all Opinions Doctrines Practices whatsoever repugnant or Contrary to ●he same as Anabaptistical and Anti-●hristian And wish they may be se●erely punished 20. We hold that the King ought ●ot to give his Authority away or to ●ommit it to any Ecclesiastical person ●r persons whatsoever but ought him●●lf to be as it were Arch-bishop and General overseer of all the Churches ●ithin his Dominions and ought to ●●ploy under him his Honourable Councel his Judges Lievtenants Ju●ices Constables and such like to o●ersee the Churches in the several di●isions of their Civil Regiments visit●●g them and punishing by their Civil ●ower whatsoever they shall see a●iss in any of them especially in the ●ulers and Governours 21. We hold it utterly unlawful ●r any Christian Churches

under Gods favour we shall comfortably enjoy the same to us and our posterity for ever Next to Religion and peace with God we will Remember that Universal peace of State both at home and abroade which under your Christian and prudent Government we enjoy whereof we have the less reason to doubt any interruption when we behold the Greatness and reputation of your Majesties power and the goodness and Excellency of your Royal disposition whereof the latter is not like ●o give the cause or occasion and the ●ormer is likely to abate the Courage ●nd forces of any hostile attempts And ●astly we cannot but with unspeakable ●oy of heart consider of that blessing which having respect to later times in ●his state is rare and unwonted which ●s the blessed fruit and Royal Issue of ●ingular towardness and comfort which God hath given your Majesty with ●reat hope of many the like these being ●ndeed as arrows in the hand of the Mighty able to dant your Enemies ●nd to assure your loving subjects and ●o safe-guard your Royal person and to sheild and protect each other and to be a pledge to us and our posterity of future and perdurable felicity The benefits and blessings dread Soveraign amongst many others as we gladly acknowledge to your Majesties great honour and our great comfort So nevertheless having upon mature advice concluded to present to your Majesty a gift in proportion and speed of payment exceeding all former presidents of Parliament and the times of Peace considered we do further think fit to add and express those reasons special and extraordinary which have moved us hereunto lest the same our doing may be drawn into President to the prejudice of the State of our Countrey and our posterity A first and principal reason is tha● late and monstrous attempt of that cursed crew of desperate Papists to have destroyed your Excellent Majesty the Queen and your Royal Progeny together with the Reverend Prelates Nobility and Commons of this Land ●ssembled in Parliament to the great confusion if not subversion of this Kingdom the barbarous malice in ●ome unnatural subjects we have ●hought fit to check and encounter with the certain demonstration of the ●niversal and undoubted Love of your Loyal and Faithful Subjects not only for the present to breed in your Ma●esty a more confident assurance of our uttermost aides in proceeding with a princely resolution to repress them and to furnish your Majesty against hostile attempts both by Sea and Land out also for the future times to give ●heir Patrons and partakers to understand that your Majesty can never want in this Kingdom meanes of defence of your rights revenge of your wrongs and support of your estate A second reason is that memorable benefice wherewith it hath pleased the Divine providence in great grace and favour to bless this Nation in your Majesties person by addition of another Kingdom whereby both ancient hostilities are quite extinguished and all footing and approaches of any For rainer in this Island are excluded and your Majesties other Dominions the more secured which happy event was nevertheless attended with sundry rare and necessary circumstances of charge now at your Majesties first entrance and setling such as the like hath not been in former times nor is like to be in suceeding ages A third and most urgent reason is the great and excessive charge which the unnatural Wars of Ireland newly finished before our late Renowned Queens decease did necessarily impose upon your Majesty by drawing with it a long traine of after expences even in your Majesties time till the peace thereof were throughly setled and assured which Kingdom is now since your Majesties time become in the vastest Province thereof capable of the plantation of Religion Justice Civilty and Population and may in longer time arise to be a most profitable and opulent member of your Imperial Crown A fourth reason ariseth from the great contentment and joye which we have in the remembrance of your Majesti● most gracious disposition to the good of your people testified as well at your first entrance into this Kingdom by your Princely care you took out of your own Royal mind to free them by your Proclamation from any burdens of Monopolies and other unlawful things which then remained in use as also of late your comfortable messages sent unto us dureing this Session of Parliament purporting the continuance of like gracious intention towards them where just occasion of grief should appear which joye of ours hath bred a desire in us to express in more then ordinary manner our extraordinary and humble thankes unto your Majesty for the same and to make it appear on our parts that we will at no time omit any Testimonies of Love and Duty toward your Majesty that may procure or deserve the perfecting and accomplishing of so Princely a work so well begun of Grace and favor towards us it being far from our dispositions to entertain any such unthankfulness into our hearts as not chearfully to assist with our goods and substance and all other duties of Subjects such a Soveraign by whom we find our selves so tenderly regarded Thus Gracious Soveraign out of those extraordinary Reasons and considerations as also out of our great Love and affection towards your Majesties person vertues and felicities we do with all humble and chearful affections present to your Majesty three subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths and we do most humbly beseech your Majesty that it may be enacted by Authority of this present Parliament in manner and form following Anno. Dom. 1605. An. Reg. Jac. 3. The Declarations of the opinions of the Non-conformists as it was delivered to King James himself on their behalf in the third year of his Reign 1. WE hold and maintain the same Authority and Supremacy in all causes and over all persons Civil or Ecclesiastical granted by Statute to Queen Elizabeth and expressed and declared in the Book of Advertisements and Injunctions and in Mr. Bilson against the Jesuites to be due in full and ample manner without any Limitation or Qualification to the King and his Heirs and Successors for ever neither is there to our knowledge any one of us but is and ever hath been most willing to subcribe and Swear unto the same according to form of Statute And desire that those that shall refuse the same may bear their own iniquitie That 2. We are so far from Judging the said Supremacy to be unlawful that we are perswaded that the King should sin highly against God if he should not assume the same unto himself and that the Churches within his Dominions should sin damnably if they should deny to yield the same unto him yea though the Statutes of the Kingdom should deny it unto him 3. We hold it plain Anti-Christianism for any Church or Church-Officers whatsoever either to arrogate or assume unto themselves any part or parcel thereof and utterly unlawful for the King to give away or