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cause_n	authority_n	bishop_n	king_n	1,957	5	4.1474	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88083	Erastus Junior. Or, A fatal blovv to the clergies pretensions to divine right. In a solid demonstration, by principles, forms of ordination, canon-laws, acts and ordinances of Parliament, and other publique acts, instruments, records, and proceedings, owned by themselves, that no bishop, nor minister, (prelatical, or Presbyterian) nor presbytery (classical, or national) hath any right or authority to preach, ... in this nation, from Christ, but onely from the Parliament. In two parts: the one demonstrating it to an episcopal, the other to a Presbyterian minister. By Josiah Web, Gent. a serious detester of the dregs of the Antichristian hierarchy yet remaining among us.	Lewgar, John, 1602-1665.	1660 (1660)	Wing L1831; Thomason E1010_11; ESTC R202720	19,588	24

the time of Edw. 2. had prohibited it to all Lay persons under excommunication both to them that did it and to the Bishops that accepted it Which their desisting to use it after that time and the Parliaments silence in it who were at that time very active and full of animosity in vindicating the rights of the Crown against the Popes usurpations and incroachments seems to acknowledge that those who had done it before had done it defacto onely and not of right But however it were for that of Investing it is certain all our Histories will not afford one Instance of any King of England who appointed or assigned that is in the sense of the Statute authorized Bishops to Consecrate a Bishop So without all peradventure this priviledge was plainly granted to the Crown by this Statute And it was granted him at first onely in case of the Popes refractoriness but soon after by the Statute aforenamed all recourse to Rome for Confirmation or Consecration of any Bishop was forbidden and the power of authorizing Bishops within the Realm to perform those acts was placed absolutely in the King Whereas in the said act meaning that afore spoken of it is not plainly expressed in what manner Archbishops and Bishops shall be Invested and Consecrated within the Realm be it now therefore enacted by the authority of this Parliament that no person shall be presented to the Bishop of Rome nor shall send nor procure there for any manner of Bulls Palls or other things requisite for an Archbishop Bishop c. And if the person be elected to the office of an Archbishop after such Election certified to the King he shall be reputed Lord Elect to the said Office And the King shall by his Letters Patents signifie the said Election to one Archbishop and two other Bishops or else to four Bishops within this Realm to be assigned by the King requiring or commanding him or them to Confirm the said Election and to Invest and Consecrate the said person so elected to the Office and Dignity that he is elected unto and to give and use to him such Pall Benedictions and other Ceremonies as formerly were used And every person being hereafter Invested and Consecrated to the Dignity or Office of any Archbishop according to the tenor of this Act shall and may be Inthronized and Installed c. and shall be obeyed c. and shall do and execute in every thing and things touching the same as any Archbishop of this Realm without offending the Prerogative Royal and the Laws and Customs of this Realm might at any time heretofore do Secondly from the Statute of 8. Eliz. 1. made purposely to set forth the Authority next under God by which Mathew Parker and the other first Protestant Bishops in the beginning of the Queens Reign were made and sets it forth by reciting how they were made by authority of the Queen and how she was authorized to that end by the aforesaid Statute of Hen. 8. and by the Statute of 1. Eliz. 1. These are the words of it for as much as concerns my purpose Forasmuch as divers questions hath lately grown upon the making and Consecrating of Archbishops and Bishops within this Realm whether the same were duly and orderly done according to the Law or not which is much tending to the slander of all the state of the Clergy being one of the greatest States of this Realm therefore for the avoiding of such slanderous speech and to the end that every man that is willing to know the truth may plainly understand that the same evil speech and talk is not grounded upon any iust matter or cause It is thought convenient hereby partly to touch such author●ties as do allow and approve the making and Consecrating of the same Archbishops and Bishops to be duly and orderly done according to the Laws of this Realm First it is very well known to all degrees of this Realm that the late King Hen. 8. was as well by all the Clergy then of this Realm in their severall Convocations as also by all the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in divers of his Parliaments justly and rightfully recognized and knowledged to have the Supream Power Jurisdiction and Authority over the Ecclesiastical State of the same And that the said King did by Authority of Parliament in the twenty fifth year of his Reign set forth a certain order of the manner and form how Archbishops and Bishops should be made c. And although in the time of the late Queen the said Act was repealed yet nevertheless at the Parliament 1. Eliz. 1. the said Act was revived and by one other Act there made all such Jurisdictions Priviledges c. Spiritual and Ecclesiastical as by any Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Power or Authority hath heretofore been or may lawfully be used over the Ecclesiasticall State of this Realm is fully and absolutely by the Authority of the same Parliament united and annexed to the Imperiall Crown of this Realm And by the same Statute there is also given to the Queen mark given also to the Queen by that Statute full Power and Authority by Letters Patents to assign and authorize such person or persons as she shall think meet whether Bishops Noblemen Lawyers Merchants or who ever else so they be NATVRAL BORN SVBJECTS for the words of that Statute requires no other Qualification to them but that to exercise under her all manner of Jurisdiction in any wise touching or concerning any Spiritual Jurisdiction within this Realm Whereupon that is upon the Authority given to her by this Act the Queen having in her order and disposition all the said Jurisdiction c. that is all that which formerly was in the Pope hath by her Supream Authority caused divers to be duly made and Consecrated Archbishops and Bishops according to such order and form and with such Ceremonies in and about their Consecration as were allowed and set forth by the said Acts c. And further for the avoiding of all ambiguities and questions might be objected against the lawfull Confirming Investing and Consecrating of the said Archbishops and Bishops her Highnesse hath in her Letters Patents used divers speciall words whereby by her Supream Authority she hath dispensed with all causes and doubts of any Imperfection or disability c. So that to all those that will well consider of the effect and true intent of the said Statutes and of the Supream and absolute Authority of the Queen granted to her by them and which she by her said Letters Patents hath used in and about the making and Consecrating of the said Archbishops and Bishops it is and may be very evident no cause of doubt can or may justly be objected against the said Confirmations and Consecrations c. Loe here declared by the Queen her self by Matthew Parker himself and all the other Bishops then in the Land and by all the Lords Temporall and the Commons in Parliament that Matthew Parker