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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

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 Who have for a long time usurped the power of Kings and authority of Magistrates contrary to the will of GOD and the Honour of KINGS The second Edition much enlarged By THEOPHILVS BRABOVRNE Give unto Caesar the things that are Caesars LONDON Printed for the Author and are to be sold by William Nowell Book-seller in Norwich 1660. A DEFENCE Of The KINGS SVPREMACIE In the Church and Church-discipline Against these Disciplinarians the Pope English Bishops Scottish and English Presbyterians and Independents who have for a long time usurped the authority of the King and his Magistrates MY ensuing Discourse shall be to maintain the Kings Supremacy in causes Ecclesiastical and the authority of all Magistrates under him and to confute the authority of Bishops and other Ministers in Church-matters Now because I will not dispute on Generals I will by and by come to a particular namely to the censure and punishment of Excommunication the which is all the authority that Bishops and Ministers do claim and I shall try whether it belongs to the office of our Christian Magistrates or to the Bishop and his Chancellour or to the Minister and his Lay-Elders Now if it can be made appear as I believe it will that the censure of Excommunication belongs to the Magistrate and not to the Bishop then Bishops have lost all their authority even the richest flower in their Garland By the way note that as the inferiour Ministers rule with their Lay-Elders so doth the Bishop with his Chancellour who is no Minister but a Lay man and thus you see that all Disciplinarians have their Lay-Elders Now my endeavour shall be to give unto Caesar our King the things that are Caesars and to his subordinate Magistrates the things that are theirs and to give unto Bishops and Ministers the things that belong to them as to be Preachers not Rulers like Magistrates I have 2 or 3 things more to premise before I come to my task 1. Near twenty years agone I took the Nationall Oath and Covenant to be true and faithfull to the King and his Posterity the which I have been ever since so far as in my power was sorrowing to see so many illegall and treacherous practises beyond my power to amend I then also did swear to do my endeavour for the extirpation of Prelacy that is of Archbishops Bishops and Chancellors c. In pursuance whereof I writ this little Treatise holding my self bound in conscience to keep my Oath But it will be said the Parliament when they required this Oath was then illegall the King being absent I answer Hence it follows that my Oath was illegall and binds not in the Common Law but yet it binds in point of Divinity For an Oath taken by force and feare binds as in the case of the Oath taken to the King of Babel Ezek. 17.12 c. And an Oath taken by fraud binds as in the case of the Gibeonites and no man on earth can absolve from such an Oath Josh 9.3 4.18 19. with 2 Sam. 21.1 2.6 wherefore I dare not be a perjured person Jeremiah said Because of Oaths the Land mourns Jer. 23.10 God plagued the Israelites in Davids time for the perjury of Saul before him 2 Sam. 21.1 c. We have sins enough in this Land to answer to God for and shall we add wilfull perjury to them to provoke the Lord to wrath God forbid Now I humbly beseech our honourable Parliament to order things so as those who have taken this Oath which cannot be recall'd may not be enforced by Law to be forsworn by any of their endeavours to establish or countenance our new Bishops 2. Many say as King James did no Bishop no King but King James was no Prophet he spake as he thought and desired But had he lived to our dayes and seen what we have seen he might have changed his proverb If I may be so bold to speak my sense it had been good for King Charles his Son if he had cast off Bishops twenty years before his death For as I suppose they were one great cause of his untimely end For he had armed his Bishops with too much of his Authority the which some of them abused to pride calling them Jack Gentlemen Most of them abusing his authority for the ushering in of Popish Ceremonies spending their zeale to maintain trifles not beseeming learned and grave Doctors as an ayeriall Cross and white Surplice an Hood and Tippet whereby they became ridiculous to the people And then they abused his authority to cruelty and persecution for those trifles How many hundreds of painfull and godly Ministers of a good life and conversation did they silence for non-observance of these and unmercifully deprived them of their livings and livelihood so as they were enforced to live upon Almes So great was their persecution in those dayes as they drove many hundreds of the Kings Subjects out of the Kingdome to plant themselves in a Wilderness And how great was their tyranny in the High Commission Court at London and their Chancellours Courts in the Country persons of years know too well and all this for trifles whereby they became odious to the people then and to those that sate at the beginning of this long Parliament after who rooted them quite up For these were eye-witnesses and sensible of the pride ambition and cruell persecutions of the Bishops whereof many in our dayes being but young men are totally ignorant and therefore think to gather grapes of these thorns and Figs of these thistles But a wolf will be a wolf still though you crop his eares and cut his tayle the same is true of a Fox Now in process of time when unhappily the King and Parliament fell at odds many thousands of the people took in with the Parliament some help them with money others with their persons and swords but would not take in with the King for feare of Popery and for feare they should be still under the tyranny of cruell Bishops the which to conscientious men was more intollerable than monethly Taxes or illegall Monopolies of old Thus the King lost the hearts of his Subjects because they saw themselves in a desperate case For it was grown into a proverb no Bishop no King 3. Many who have read my former book of this subject say that I am an Erastine but they are such as know not the opinion of Erastus I have seen his book which was anciently a dispute between reverend Beza and him about Excommunication Now Erastus held it to be no Ordinance of Christ but a figment of mans brain but I differ from him and hold it to be an Ordinance of Christ I