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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29084	A defence of the Kings authority and supremacy in the church & church-discipline and that he is supream head and governour over all persons, in all causes ecclesiastical : against these disciplinarians, the Pope and his clergy, the bishops and episcoparians, the Scottish and English Presbyterians, with the independents ... / by Theophilus Brabourne.	Brabourne, Theophilus, b. 1590.	1660 (1660)	Wing B4091; ESTC R25285	18,498	27

the patron gives the Benefice or Living to the Incumbent but the Bishop gives him his orders so the King gives the Bishoprick to the Bishop that is his large maintenance of 2 or 3000. a yeare but God gives him his Office and makes him a Bishop so then a Bishop doth derive his Office of jurisdiction from the King 5. Bishops in disputation say their Office is Ius Divinum so then they own not the Kings Authority in Ecclesiasticals for this is Ius Humanum From the premises it is cleare 1. That Bishops have and exercise as high Authority in the Church os the King hath in the Common Wealth how then can the King be solely next under Christ yea the Bishops have the sole authority in the Church but the King hath none at all where is then the Kings authority superiority and supremacy in Ecclesiasticals the Bishops have all authority from God in themselves they derive none from the King wherefore they own not the Kings authority soveraignty superiority nor supremacy no more then Papists do True it is that Bishops pray for the King as supreme and use their authority in his name but for all this as you have seen they do not own his authority but deny it they do but dissemble for when they speak really and cordially they reject his authority but when they intend to flatter then in words they pray for the King as supreme Those Exorcists Act 19.13 did name over those that had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus but had no authority so to do and their end was evil so Bishops use the name of the King and his authority but have no authority from the King so to do as you have seen proved wherefore they usurp his authority and their end therefore cannot be good Two or three things added to my postscript further proving that Bishops were Popish SInce my former writings a booke came to my hands intituled Reasons for the necessity of a reformation in Discipline c. Wherein I note besides others 2 things and I shall add a third 1. That Bishops have foisted into the Book of Common Prayer many Apochriphal Scriptures which by the Law ought to be read in Churches and which worse is they have rejected 100 Chapters of the sacred Canonical Scriptures and placed 100. Chapters instead of them of Apochryphal Scriptures Oh abhominable fact do they deserve the name of protestant Bishops who Pope-like make Apochrypha Scriptures of equal authority with the Holy word of God was it not high time for the long Parliament to root them out 2. In the Letany of old there was this Protestant prayer from the Bishop of Rome and all his detestable enormities Good Lord deliver us but in our books of Service afterwards printed this prayer was rejected by Bishops and not one word of it were not those Bishops think you greater friends to Papists than to Protestants for they would not suffer us to pray against Popery 3. About 50 years agone Bishops persecuted many godly and painfull Ministers for the Cross and Surplisse but within about 20. year after what a troop of popish ceremonies more did they pester our Church withall then they brought in 1. High Altars 2. The second service at the high Altar 3. Bowings and cringing towards the East and the high Altar 4 Waxe Candles on the high Altar in Bishops Chappels 5. Railes before the high Altar 6. the Sacrament was denyed to those that refused to come up to the high Altar for it I cannot remember all their trinkets 100. Apochriphal Chapters instead of 100 Canonical Chapters 8. No prayers to be made for the King in pulpit 9. That the prayer in the Letany against popery must no more be used All these have sprung up long since my time and had not the long Parliament prevented it by rooting out Bishops we may feare that by this time or not long hence England would have been another Rome Judge I pray by these particulars whether that was true or not which I wrote at the beginning of this Book saying not only Bishops tyranny but also the feare of popery caused thousands of the people to desert the King at the beginning of the unhappy warr Those that had eyes in their heads might easily see what a crew of Popish Bishops we had for my part I never look to see them better unless for a moneth or two or so long as our Gracitious King live who I beleeve will awe them for his time but what shall become of us afterward FINIS