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A80756	The royal prerogative vindicated in the converted recusant convinced by Scripture, reasons, fathers, and councils, that the oath of abjuration (compared with those of allegiance, and supremacy) containeth nothing, but what may be lawfully taken by every pious Christian, and loyal subject; and that the known doctrine, and discipline of the Church of England, in opposition to Popery on the one hand, and all sects, and schisms on the other, is the safest way to peace and loyalty here, and salvation hereafter. To which is annexed The King's supremacy in all causes, ecclesiastical, and civil, asserted in a sermon preached at the assises at Monmouth before Sir Robert Hide, one of his Majestie's judges, March 30. 1661. / By John Cragge, M.A.	Cragge, John, M.A.	1661 (1661)	Wing C6790; Wing C6786; Thomason E2261_1; Thomason E2261_2; ESTC R210148	173,676	266

60. None of the Roman Bishops my Predecessours assumed to himself the name of Universal Bishop and if any man else assume the same I say it is a swelling of arrogancy a proud novel pompous perverse temerarious superstitious profane and impious Title a name of singularity a title of error a word of vanity and blasphemy and whosoever taketh upon him or desireth this arrogant title by this exalting himself he is a fore-runner of Antichrist and if he be permitted to usurp the same it will prove the bane of the faith of the universal Church Thus far Gregory Gent. This zealous acknowledgement of so learned so pious a Pope is very prejudicial to their cause but let me hear Scriptures Minist When the Kingdom and Priest-hood were divided in Moses and Aaron Moses the civil Magistrate exercised a supremacy over Aaren the High Priest not onely in causes Civil but Ecclesiastical whom he reproved Exod. xxxii 21. for making the golden Calf and in his time the breach of the Sabbath by gathering of sticks was punished by the civil Sword Numb xv 31. Joshua a Prince no Priest succeeded Moses in his charge and by this Commission Joshua v. 2. he circumcised the Sons of Israel erected an Altar of Stone Jos viii 30. Read the Law Jos viii 32 34. did execution on him that concealed things dedicated to Idols Jos vii 24 25. caused the people to put away strange Gods and renued the Covenant between God and the people Jos xxiv 23 25. David's whole study was well for causes Ecclesiastical as Civil after he had freed Israel from all enemies then did he compose (l) 1 Paral. xvi 7. Psalms to be sung by Asaph and his Brethren then did he set (m) 1 Paral. xxiii orders in the Temple appointed (n) 1 Paral. xxiv Priests Levites (o) 1 Paral. xxv Singers and other (p) 1 Paral. xxvi inferiour Servitours and assigned to them their (q) 1 Paral. xxvii dignities courses and offices Solomon by this commission built the (r) 1 Kings vi Temple and (s) 1 Kings viii dedicated it deposed (t) 1 Kings ii 35. Abiathar the High-Priest and placed Sadock in his room I hope this is matter and argument of express Supremacy Asa took away (u) 2 Paral. xiv 3 4 c. altars of strange Gods the High-places and groves He put down his (x) 2 Paral. xv 8 12 13 14 15. Mother because she had made an Idol He took an (y) 2 Paral. xv 13. Oath of Judah and Benjamin which may be paralleled with this Oath that whosoever would not serve the LORD and abjure Idolatry should be slain Jehoshaphat sent his (z) 2 Paral. xvii 6 7. Princes to reform Religion in the cities of Judah and with them Priests and Levites himself went from (a) 2 Paral. xix 4. Beer-sheba to Mount Ephraim and brought the people again to the God of their Fathers He (b) 2 Paral. xix 8. set of the Priests and Levites and chief of the families of Israel for the Judgment and causes of the LORD (c) 2 Paral. xxix 3. 4 5. Ezechias his execution of supremacy even over the High-Priest in this kinde is famous he opened the doors of the House of the LORD and brought the Priests and Levites in He (d) 2 Paral. xxix 30. commanded them to sanctify themselves and offer burnt-offerings which they did according to the (e) 2 Paral. xxx 1 6 12. King's commandment Here Priests are obedient to the King's Injunction even in their own Duties and Charge He commanded the Levites to praise God with the words of David There he enjoyned a Liturgy He commanded all Judah and Israel to keep the Pass-over Here is as Saint Augustine saith omnia cum imperio all for the civil power He (f) 2 Paral. xxxi 2. appointed the course of Priests and Levites by turns He (g) 2 Paral. xxxi 1. took away the high-places broke down the Images and brake the (h) 2 Kings xviii 4. Brasen-Serpent made by Moses because the people burned Incense unto it Manasses that had set up Altars Groves and Images before his captivity after his (i) 2 Paral. xxxiv 3 4 19 30 31 32 33. repentance he took away the strange Gods and the Image that he had put in the house of the Lord and restoring the worship of God commanded Judah to serve the Lord. The last instance I will produce is that of Josias who purged Judah and Jerusalem from (k) 2 Paral. xxxv 1 2 3 10 18. high-places Groves and Images he gathered all Israel read the Law renued the Covenant compelled them to serve the Lord kept the famous Pass-over and reduced the Priests and Levites to their courses set by David and Solomon I suprasede the allegation of any further evidence of this kinde seeing the Jesuite Salmeron confesses that (l) In Veteri Testamento sub lege naturae vel Mosis summi Sacerdotes Regibus subdebantur Salemron in Tractatu 63. De potestate Ecclesiastica Saeculari In the Old Testament under the Law of Nature or Moses the High-Priests were subject to Kings Gent. But I have known others of our (m) Allen. Defens Angl Cathol cap. 8. Catholick Doctours preferring the High-Priest's Crosiar before the King's Scepter and for their warrant alledged these examples out of Scripture (n) 2 Paral. xxvi first of Azarias the High-Priest who accompanied with fourscore other Priests magnanimously assaulted King Vzziah smit with leprosy because he had burned Incense to the Lord drave him out of the Temple according to the (o) Levit. xiii Levitical Law sent him out of the City and deposed him from his Kingly authority (p) Bellarm. lib. 5. De Roman Pontif. cap. 8. The other example is of Jehoiada who whilest he was executing the Priest's office commanded Queen Athaliah to be slain because she countenanced the worship of Baal and substituted Joash King in her place These are Presidents of High-Priests or Papal authority over Princes Minist These two Histories being truly understood make nothing for advancement of Papal above Civil power but rather give it a deadly blow for first the Scripture saith not that Azariah assaulted Vzziah the King or that he violently forced him out of the Temple for he was forced by the hand of God when the leprosy arose in his forehead And whereas Azariah the High-Priest ' with the rest of the Priests is said 2 Paral xxvi 20. festinato illum templo expulisse to have thrust and also hastened him to go out Josephus (q) Joseph Antiq. Judaic lib. 9. cap. 11. quem sequitur Cajetanus in 2. Paral. xxvi Visa lepra Sacerdotes Regem leprosū ad festinè egrediendum monent interprets it a perswasion onely by words not any compulsion by deeds whereof Chrysostome gives the reason saying (r) Sacerdotis est tantum arguere liberámque praestare admonitionem non movere arma non

THE Royal Prerogative Vindicated in the Converted RECUSANT CONVINCED By Scripture Reasons Fathers and Councils that the Oath of Abjuration compared with those of Allegiance and Supremacy containeth nothing but what may be lawfully taken by every pious Christian and Loyal Subject And that the known Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England in opposition to Popery on the one hand and all Sects and Schisms on the other is the safest way to Peace and Loyalty here and Salvation hereafter TO WHICH IS ANNEXED The KING'S SUPREMACY in all Causes Ecclesiastical and Civil asserted in a Sermon preached at the Assises at Monmouth before Sir Robert Hide one of His Majestie 's Judges March 30. 1661. By JOHN CRAGGE M. A. Matth. xxii 21. Render unto Cesar the things that are Cesar's and unto God the things that are God's LONDON Printed by T. R. for H. Twyford N. Brooke Tho. Dring and John Place 1661. TO THE HONOURABLE And truly-worthy Heroick Sir TREVIR WILLIAMS Baronet SIR I Present with all Humility to Your pious consideration a Defence of that cause which is and ought to be infinitely dearer to You then the riches of China or the wealth of the West-India Company as being that which Divine Providence hath so signally carried on with a Palm of Victory and promiseth if we be not deficient to our selves to crown with the Olive-branch of peace I mean Religion and the Royal Prerogative in opposition to Romish Superstition and Fanatick disorder and sedition which is compendiously set forth in that form of Abjuration and unparallel'd Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy intended to conjure all Romanized and other Recusant Dissenters within the circle of verity and obedience In vindication whereof I have taken up the Gantlet against all Antichristian and Antimonarchical challengers not doubting but that upon this entring the Lists I shall be censured for undertaking so great a work so far beyond my weak abilities But it is satisfaction enough to my self and may be to others that I was not induced to it out of any unballanced conceipt of my self whose personal defects according to that of the Oracle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are the onely thing I presume to know But undertook it in obedience to him who exhorted all his Brethren earnestly to contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the Saints now torn in pieces like Hippolytus his body by Babylonish Wolves Jesuits Quakers and Fifth-Monarchists swarming like Locusts out of the Infernal pit which daily invade our Folds worrie our Flocks and seduce them both from Piety Loyalty whom to countermine while the Sword of Justice sleepeth not a necessity lyeth upon every faithful Pastour not onely by the power of the Keys as Preaching Praying and Discoursing when opportunity shall fairly tender it self but even by Penning though we must expect our writings will be dealt withall by them as the tongue of Cicero was after his death by Cleopatra Wife to Mark Anthony who thrust it through and through with needles and stabbed it again and again with poysoned pens For my inscribing to it Your Patronage as gratefulness may plead my duty and obligation on the one hand so your signal sufferings and activity for His Sacred Majesty may sway acceptance on the other if the handling of it were answerable to the subject I confess my person and parts are over-mean to engage in such an excelse and sublime Province For if Alexander would commit the proportion of his Body to be effigiated by none but Lysippus Apelles himself could never set out the outward beauty of his Face but slubbered and far short of the native vivacity How then shall I poor Zanie emblazon the Seraphick sublimity of the Royal Prerogative the livelyest Representative upon earth of that great Tetragrammaton in Heaven But as he that dwells on high despiseth not things below so I hope my Mite and Goats-hair may be accepted seeing it was intended in all sincerity for the honour of God and of our dread Sovereign 's Royal Majesty and to confirm his liege people in the right faith and true love and obedience of his most just and gracious Government As an Angel of God so is my Lord the King to discern good and bad therefore the Lord will be with him 2 Sam. xiv 7. I have no more to apologize but pray that he which ruleth in the Armies of Heavens would crown with the blessings of his right and of his left hand Your Self Your truly virtuous Lady Your hopeful Issue to the glory of God and comfort of all Your Relations which is the daily petition of him whom you have obliged for ever Your Honour 's most humble and devoted Servant in the Lord JOHN CRAGGE To the READER Courteous Reader PErhaps thou wilt admire why I vindicate the Doctrine of our Church and the Royal Prerogative under the Notion of that illegal Oath of Abjuration It is well known I never acknowledged that Power whence it issued but made use of it onely thereby to assert the lawfulness of this present Power As Saint Paul at Athens did of the Inscription of an Altar 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 TO THE UNKNOVVN GOD to introduce the worship of the true God Or as Arnobius and Lactantius searched the Sibyls and other Heathenish Writers that by the Concessions of their own Oracles they might convince them of their Heathenish Idolatry For having been questioned for a Sermon preached before our then Sovereign Lord King CHARLES the First of ever-blessed Memory for stiling him a Martyr in a printed Book committed for not taking and opposing the Negative Oath and involved in further danger for replying to Mr. Milton's Answer to Salmasius which took Air though by reason of the times no Stationer durst print it I still projected how I might continue in discharging my Conscience to His Sacred Majesty and the Royal Family where lighting upon that Oath of Abjuration which the then-pretended Power had mounted as a Cannon for their own Defence I found that the force and fury thereof might easily be turned against themselves as if the Contrivers thereof had acted Caiphas who being High-Priest that year prophesyed what should be For the matter thereof is in every Syllable concentrick and symbolical with the Articles and Apologie of the Church of England the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy which are the Cynosura or Pole-star by which we ought to direct our Sails to the Haven of Piety and Loyalty This I endeavoured to improve to the best advantage but when the Children were brought to the Birth there was none to deliver them for it hath lay dormant in the Hands of the Printers almost three years but now creeps out in these Halcyon days to give the world a visit where I hope it will finde some Entertainment seeing it it comes not out of a Cage where as is Storied of Macrobius Birds there was one for Pompey as well as for Cesar as perhaps some who formerly were the greatest Sticklers

Intercession of Friends Sighs and Tears of Priests be the Authority of the Pope let him in God's name use it still And as in the Calling so in the Subscription of the Council you may further see his Authority Because saith Leo (g) Leo Epist. 56. to the Emperour I must by all means obey your Sacred and Religious Will I have set down my Consent in writing to those Constitutions Here you see it is plain Councils were called by Princes at the Pope's Petition and subscribed at their Command Therefore when Ruffinus (h) Doce quis eum jusserit Imperator convocari●è Hieron in Apologia contra Ruffinum alledged the Canon of a Council against Saint Hierom his Answer was Shew what Emperour commanded this Council to be called I will shut up this Point with Socrates his words who giving a reason why in his Church-Story he made so often mention of Emperours saith (i) Propterea quòd ex illo tempore quo Constantini esse ceperunt negotia Ecclesiae ex eorum nutu pondere visa sunt atque adeò maxima Concilia de eorum sententia convocata faerunt adhuc convocantu● Socrat. lib. 5. in Prooemio Since Emperours became like Constantine Fathers of the Church the Causes of the Church have depended upon their ill and therefore the greatest Councils have been and yet are called by their Authority The third work of Supremacy is Promulgatio Legum Promulgation of Church-Laws and Edicts expedient for Ecclesiastical Government And this was performed by Kings and Emperours not Pope's as Church-Stories are pregnant Proofs Constantine made many Laws concerning Confessours and Martyrs Christians and Heathens Eusebius (k) Euseb De vita Constantini lib. 2. cap. 20 21 24 44. mentioneth two Laws one that abolished Idolatry Images Sacrifices and Divinations another concerning building and enlarging of Churches at the Emperour's Charge Theodosius made a Law against the Arrians occasioned thus Amphilochius Bishop of Iconium having been a long Suitour in vain used this Stratagem saluting the Emperour slighted his Son Arcadius newly Created Caesar which the Father interpreting as a Contempt of his Son grew angry till Amphilochius discovering himself said (l) Theodoret. lib. 5. cap. 5. Art thou offended Emperour that I reverence not thy Son And thinkest thou that God is not offended with the Arrians that blaspheme his Son The Emperour overcome with these words Legem scribit made a Law against the Assemblies of the Arrians I will not enter particulars but refer you to the Titles (m) De summa Trinitate side Catholica De sacro sanctis Ecclesiis De Episcopis Clericis De Haereticis c. of the Civil Law which were promulgated by Justinian Theodosius Valentinian Honorius Arcadius and other Godly and Religious Emperours There is a Collection of Ecclesiastical Laws made by Charls the Emperour Lodovick and Lotharius gathered by (n) Ansegmus Anno 827. Ansegmus Of Charls his Laws there be an hundred sixtie eight of the Laws of Lewis and Lotharius an hundred fiftie seven In the Preface the Emperour Charls professeth (o) Quapropter nostros missos ad vos direximus qui ex nostri nominis authoritate una vobiscum corrigerent quae corrigenda essent that he hath directed his Commissioners here you see Princes Commissioners and Visitours are antient that shall joyn with others to redress those things which need Reformation according to his Canonical Constitutions in his name and by virtue of hi● authoritie Gregory the First (o) Gregor Epist Bishop of Rome wrote a submissive Letter to Mauritius the Emperour and another to Theodorus his Physician to intreat the revocation of a Law invented by Julian and that in a very humble Stile (p) Vtrolique ergo quod debui exolvi qui Imperatori obedientiā praebui● pro Deo quod sensi non tacui Gregor Epist 61. lib. 2. Ego quidem jussioni vestrae subjectus I your Servant and subject to your command have sent this Law to many parts of the World and now I write my opinion to your Majestie in both I have done my duty I have performed mine obedience to the Emperour and I have not concealed what I thought fit for God's cause And Saint Augustine saith (q) Hoc jubent Imperatores quod Christus jubet quia cùm bonum jubent nemo jubet nisi per eos Christus August Epist 166. of this power of Laws When Emperours command that which is good it is Christ and no man else that commandeth by them The fourth work of Supremacie is receiving of Appeals giving Decisions Restitutions and Deprivations and other punishments of Bishops for Causes Ecclesiastical which in Primitive Times fell to the judicature of Princes not Popes for when Donatus (r) Vide Optatum libr. 1. August Epist 162 166. had procured Cecilianus to be condemned by seventy African Bishops and had set up another Bishop in his See of Carthage he appealed to Constantine the Emperour and desired him to assigne him Judges Constantine by Commission extant in Eusebius (s) Eusebius lib. 1. cap. 5. delegated and authorised Meltiades Bishop of Rome to hear the cause who gave Sentence for Cecilianus upon a second Appeal (t) Euseb lib. 10. cap. 5. Constantine made a second Delegacy to Chrestus Bishop of Syracuse who likewise gave Sentence with Cecilianus upon the third Appeal Constantine appointed Elianus a Civil Magistrate to examine Felix who acquitted Felix also Then the Emperour called both Parties before him and gave final Sentence for Cecilianus and made a severe Law against the Donatists In which Passage I pray you observe First that Meltiades not as supreme Judg of all Controversies but as delegated by Constantine did judg of Cecilianus his Cause and Saint Augustine (u) August Epist. 162. defended him from usurpation upon the seventie African Bishops because the Emperour not Saint Peter appointed it Next the Bishop of Syracuse did judg the same Cause after Meltiades without any wrong to the See of Rome no man in that Age found fault with it And Thirdly It is apparent that Constantine was superiour to Meltiades and both made him his Delegate and Judge of his Sentence and Judgement which Saint Augustine (x) Vltimum Judicium ultra quod Causa pertransire non potest Augustin contra Parmenian lib. 1. cap. 6. calleth the last Judgement beyond which the Cause could not pass (y) Socrates lib. 5. cap. 10. Theodosius calling a Council of all Opinions where Nactarius and Agilius made the Confession 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Consubstantiality Demophilus delivered up the Arrian Faith Eunomius the Eunomian Faith Eleusius the Macedonian Faith Then the Emperour alone separated from all Company saith (z) Tum solus separatus precatur Deum Socrates suprá Socrates made his Prayers to God to direct him in the Truth and then he read the several Faiths and condemned and rent all the rest that rent and divided