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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77236	Several treatises of vvorship & ceremonies, by the Reverend Mr. William Bradshaw, one of the first Fellows of Sydney Colledge in Cambridge; afterward minister of Chattam in Kent, 1601. Known by his learned treatise De justificatione. 1. A consideration of certain positions archiepiscopal. 2. A treatise of divine worship, tending to prove the ceremonies, imposed on the ministers of the Gospel in England, in present controversie, are in their use unlawful. Printed 1604. 3. A treatise of the nature and use of things indifferent. 1605. 4. English Puritanism, containing the main opinions of the ridgedest sort of those called Puritans in the realm of England. 1604. 5. Twelve general arguments, proving the ceremonies unlawful. 1605. 6. A proposition concerning kneeling in the very act of receiving, 1605. 7. A protestation of the Kings supremacy, made in the name of the afflicted ministers, and oposed to the shameful calumniations of the prelates. 1605. 8. A short treatise of the cross in baptism.	Bradshaw, William, 1571-1618.	1660 (1660)	Wing B4161; Thomason E1044_5; ESTC R20875	92,680	129

forbear or to do according to the Civil Laws of Magistrates do is a depriving of men of that liberty that God hath granted unto them and therefore such a Law is neither good nor indifferent but evil to the soul of him that enacteth it though not of him that obeyeth it For it is no indifferency in any man to take that away from a man that God hath freely given unto him 21. All moral actions of men that are good or evill are either private or common and publike The common and publike are either Domestical Political or Ecclesiastical Actions also in their Indifferency may vary according to their divers references to these 22. A private good or evil action is that which affecteth with good or evill only a mans own person that doth it and which spreadeth not to the good or hurt of any other except secondarily and by accident as he that eateth and drinketh doth himself only good properly Though secondarily and by accident he may in that strength he receiveth thereby do his Family or the Common-wealth good 23. That action is indifferent in respect of a mans private self that doth his own private Person any good or hurt 24. Those Domestical Political Ecclesiastical actions are good or evil that tend to the good or hurt of a Family Commonwealth or Church and those are indifferent that being done do bring neither good nor hurt or as much good as hurt unto any of the said Societies 25. That may be good evil or indifferent to a private person as he is a private person that is not so unto a Family Common-wealth or Church or unto him as he is a member of all or any of them 26. That may be Indifferent to be done by a Family or the Commonwealth as it is such That is evil and not indifferent to be done by a Church That may be indifferent to one member of a House Church or Commonwealth that is not indifferent to another that may be lawful or indifferent for the Church to do in one place and at some one time that is unlawful in another place and at another time 27. All which premises or the most of them being granted it will easily appear to any that can rightly apply these principles and general assertions that the Ceremonies in present controversie in our Church are not as is pretended by the forcers of them meerly indifferent but either excellent parts of our Religion or notorious parts of Superstition FINIS Summa Summae The Prelates to the afflicted Ministers in this Realm Let them prove this assumption but by one Argument and we will yield But it is to be noted That the Prelates still take all things contained therein as granted and without question whereas we have proved and offer to prove the contrary ALL those that wilfully refuse to obey the King in things indifferent and to conform themselves to the Orders of the Church authorized by him not contrary to the Word of God are Schismaticks enemies to the Kings Supremacy and State and not to be tolerated in Church or Commonwealth But you do wilfully refuse to obey the King in things indifferent and to conform your selves to the Orders of the Church authorized by him not contrary to the Word of God Ergo You are Schismaticks Enemies to the Kings Supremacy and the State and not to be tolerated in Church or Commonwealth The afflicted Ministers to the Prelates ALL those that freely and willingly perform unto the King and State all Obedience not only in things necessary but Indifferent commanded by Law And that have been alwaies ready to conform themselves to every Order of the Church authorized by him not contrary to the Word of God are free from all Schism Friends to the Kings Supremacy and to the State and unworthy in this manner to be molested in Church or Commonwealth But e This Treatise and other books lately written and exhibited to authority do prove the Assumption there is none of us that is deprived or suspended from our Ministry but hath ever been ready freely and willingly to perform unto the King and State all obedience not only in things necessary but Indifferent required by Law and to conform our selves to every Order of the Church authorized by him not contrary to the Word of God Ergo We are all free from Schism Friends to the Kings Supremacy and the State and most unworthy of such molestation in Church and Commonwealth as now we sustain English Puritanism CONTAINING THE MAIN OPINIONS of the rigidest sort of those that are called PURITANS in the Realm of ENGLAND Acts 24.14 But this I confesse unto thee that after the way which they call heresie so worship I the God of my Fathers believing all things which are written in the Law and the Prophets Acts 28.22 But we will hear of thee what thou thinkest for as concerning this sect we know that every where it is spoken against Printed in the Year 1660. To the Indifferent Reader IT cannot be unknown to them that know any thing that those Christians in this Realm which are called by the odious and vile name of Puritans are accused by the Prelates to the Kings Majesty and the State to maintain many absurd erroneous Schismatical and Heretical Opinious concerning Religion Church-Government and the Civil Magistracy Which hath moved me to collect as near as I could the chiefest of them and to send them naked to the view of all men that they may see what is the worst that the worst of them hold It is not my part to prove and justifie them Those that accuse and condemn them must in all reason and equity prove their accusation or else bear the name of unchristian Slanderers I am not ignorant that they lay other Opinions yea some clean contradictory to these to the charge of these men the falshood whereof we shall it is to be doubted have more and more occasion to detect In the mean time all Enemies of Divine Truth shall find that to obscure the same with Calumniations and untruths is but to hid● a fire with laying dry straw or tow upon it But thou mayst herein observe what a terrible Popedome and Primacy these rigid Presbyterians desire and with what painted bug-bears and Scare-Crows the Prelates go about to fright the States of this Kingdome withall who will no doubt one day see how their wisdoms are abused Farewell English Puritanism CHAP. I. Concerning Religion or the worship of God in general IMprimis They hold and maintain That the Word of God contained in the writings of the Prophets and Apostles is of absolute perfection given by Christ the head of the Church to be unto the same th● sole Canon and rule of all matters of Religion and the worship and service of God whatsoever And that whatsoever done in the same service and worship cannot be justified by the said word is unlawfull And therefore that it is a sin to force any Christian to

Whereas it shall appear that no Christians in the world give more unto the same then we and that in very truth the cause that we maintain is for the King and Civil State against an Ecclesiasticall State that secretly and in a Mystery as we may hereafter have occasion to prove opposeth it selfe against the same If this protestation shall in any measure satisfie you Then we desire your Honourable Mediations for us to the highest If not That then we may know wherein it is defective and we shall be found ready to give all satisfaction CHAP. I. A PROTESTATION of the Kings Supremacy WE hold and maintain the same Authority and Supremacy in all causes and over all persons Civil and Ecclesiasticall 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 mannner without any limitation or qualification to the King and his Heirs and Successours for ever Neither is their to our knowledge any one of us but is and ever hath been most willing to subscribe and swear unto the same according to form of Statute And we desire that those that shall refuse the same may bear their own iniquity 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 Antichristianism for any Church or Church Officers whatsoever either to arrogate or assume unto themselves any part or parcel thereof utterly unlawful for the King to give away or alienate the same from his own Crown and dignity to any spiritual potentates or rulers whatsoever within or without his dominions 3. We hold that though the Kings of this Realm were no Members of the Church but very Infidels yea persecutors of the truth that yet those Churches that shall be gathered together within these Dominions ought to acknowledge and yeild 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 disjoyne it 5. We hold that neither King nor civil estate 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 whatsoeer 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 Civill States excelleth and ought to have preheminence over the Ecclesiasticall and that the Ecclesiasticall neither hath nor ought to have any power in the least degree over the bodies lives goods or liberty of any person whatsoever much lesse of the Kings and Rulers of the Earth 8. We hold that Kings by virtue 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 Lawes 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 shall command any thing contrary to the Word unto the Churches that yet they ought not to resist him therein but onely peaceably to forbear Obedience and sue unto him for grace and mercy and where that cannot be obtained meekely to submit themselves to the punishment 10. We hold that the King hath power by virtue of his supremacy to remove out of the Churches whatsoever he shall discern to be practised therein not agreeable to the Word of God And if he shall see any defect either in the Worship of God or in the 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 Governers themselves 11. We hold that the King hath as much Authority over the Body Goods and Affaires of Ecclesiastical Persons as of any other of his Subjects whatsoever And that by his Authority he may force them not onely to all civil duties belonging unto them but also unto 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 Heretical Teachers and by all due severity of Lawes to repress them 13. We hold that all Ecclesiastical Lawes 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 or general Assemblies 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 yeild 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 religions duty whatsoever No nor to be so much as a Member of any Church 16. We hold that the King ought not to be subject to the Ecclesiastical Censures of any Churches Church Officers or Synods whatsoever but onely to that Church and those Officers of his own Court and Houshold unto whom in reverence of their Religion and of the spiritual Graces of God he sees shining in them he shall of his own free will subject and commit the Regiment of his Soul in whom there can be no suspition nor fear of any partiality or unjust or rigorous dealing against him 17. We hold that if any Ecclesiastical Governours call them by what name you will shall abuse their Ecclesiastical Authority in the execution of their censures upon any man whosoever That the King and Civil States under him have power to punish them severely for it much more if they