Quality soever though King Duke c. they be Excommunicated and deprived of all their Secular Honour and Dignity And in the Bull of Pope Martin the 5th read and approved in that Council All Professors of the Christian and Catholick Faith the Emperor Kings Dukes c. are required to expel all Hereticks out of their Kingdoms and Provinces according to the Canon Sicut ait c. That is the abovesaid Canon of the 3d Lateran Council The Council of Trent The Emperors Kings Dukes c. and all Temporal Lords of what Title soever who shall grant a place for Duelling among Christians within their Lands should for that Cause be deprived of the Dominion of the City Castle or Place in which they permitted the Duel to be 4. The Church of Rome doth exempt the Clergy from Temporal Jurisdiction So The 3 d General Lateran Council Because some Laicks do compel Ecclesiastical Persons and also Bishops themselves to appear before their Judgment-seat We do therefore decree that such be separated from the Communion of the Faithful who shall presume from henceforward so to do The 4 th General Council of Lateran Some Laicks do too much usurp upon Divine Right when they do compel Ecclesiastical Persons holding nothing Temporal from them to take an Oath of Allegiance to them But because according to the Apostle the Servant doth stand or fall to his own Master We do forbid by the Authority of the Sacred Council That such Clerks be compelled to take this kind of Oath to Secular Persons See further the Bull of Pope Leo the 10 th read in the 5 th General Council of Lateran And the Council of Trent which doth ratify all Canons made in their favour The Opposition The Church of England The Church of Rome 1. The King hath chief power 1. The Pope hath Power over Kings to Excommunicate Depose c. 2. The King hath power over all persons 2. Ecclesiastical persons are exempted from Secular Jurisdiction 3. The Bishop of Rome hath no power in the Kings Dominions And the power he challengeth is usurpation 3. The Bishop of Rome is the Universal Pastor 4. The King is not to be resisted 4. The Pope can give power to resist Sovereign Princes and can absolve Subjects from their Allegiance As the Opposition in this matter is evident betwixt Church and Church so we look upon the one to be no less the Doctrine of the Church of Rome than the other is the Doctrine of the Church of England For 1. It 's notoriously manifest That the Church of Rome hath both owned such Principles and proceeded according to those Principles in Excommunicating and Deposing Kings in limiting their Jurisdiction and Absolving Subjects from their Allegiance 2. It is manifest That the several branches of Authority fore-recited and claimed by that Church are grounded upon the Canons of what they call General Councils And that all in the Communion of that Church are bound to own and receive these Principles is evident since they are decreed by the same Councils and after the same manner as the Doctrine of Transubstantiation it self and so are equally to be received with it by all the Members of that Church Thus far I have traced the Disagreement between the Church of England and Rome according to the order observed in the 39 Articles and I might proceed to shew the Opposition between them in many other points such as the sufficiency of Attrition with Absolution the necessity of Auricular Confession the Adoration of the Cross the Images made of God and the Trinity the Guardianship ascribed to Angels and Saints over Places Professions c. The Pilgrimages to Images and Relicks the Miracles pretended to be wrought by them The Religious states of Life and their Vows of Poverty and Obedience Their particular Ceremonies in the Mass and Baptism their Limbus's c. But this will be too tedious and indeed somewhat unnecessary considering how evident it has been already made not to say with some clearness demonstrated that there is an irreconcilable difference between the two Churches about those points to use our Authors words wherein the very life of Popery consists and the whole System of that Religion is founded And as now I may leave it to his skill to try whether he can with a Dictum factum patch up a Cassandrian Peace presently between them So I shall leave it to the Readers Judgment even those he calls the unwary Readers of Books whether we have left us nothing but the name and shadow of a Protestant Church of England as he affirms or whether the Doctrine of the Protestants be any where to be found if not in the Church of England And for this purpose I shall present the Reader with the sum of what has been said upon this Argument A brief Scheme of the Difference betwixt the Doctrine of the Church of England and the Church of Rome as set forth in the foregoing Treatise Sufficiency of Scripture The Church of England teacheth THe Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to Salvation so that whatsoever is not read therein nor may be proved thereby is not to be required of any man that it should be received as an Article of Faith or be thought requisite or necessary to Salvation p. 15. The Church of Rome holdeth THe Holy Scripture doth not contain all saving Truth but there are certain Traditions not written which the Church is to have recourse to for it as well as the written Books And such Traditions are to be received and regarded with the like Piety and Reverence as the Books of the Old and New Testament Canonical Books The Church of England teacheth No Books are to be received as Canonical but Genesis c. that is the 39 Books of the Old Testament and the New. And as for the 13 Books commonly called Apocrypha tho the Church doth read them for Example of Life and Instruction of Manners yet She doth not apply them to establish any Doctrine The Church of Rome holdeth The Books commonly called Apocrypha viz. Tobias c. are as Canonical and as truly the Word of God as the five Books of Moses c. And whosoever doth not so receive them is accursed Scripture in a known Tongue The Church of England teacheth There is in Scripture whatsoever is meet for all ages and sorts of Men and so the Books of it ought to be much in their Hands Eyes and Hearts And none are Enemies to the reading of it but such as are ignorant or ungodly that would wish the People still to continue in blindness and ignorance of God p. 15. The Church of Rome holdeth If the Scripture be permitted to be read every where in the Vulgar Tongue more prejudice than benefit doth redound from it And therefore it 's fit that the People be deprived altogether of it nor so much as suffered to have Summaries or Historical Abridgments of it Church Authority
Church of Rome are not Sacraments being such as have grown partly of the corrupt following of the Apostles as Extreme Unction c. partly are states of life allowed of in Scripture as Matrimony but have not the like nature of Sacraments with the other p. 50. The Church of Rome holdeth The Sacraments instituted by Christ are no fewer than seven viz. Baptism Confirmation the Eucharist Penance Extreme Unction Orders and Matrimony And whosoever shall say that they are more or fewer than seven or that any of these seven is not truly and properly a Sacrament is accursed Opus Operatum The Church of England teacheth The Sacraments have a wholesome effect or Operation in such only as worthily receive them p. 50. The Church of Rome holdeth The Sacraments do confer Grace ex opere operato by the Work done and if any say otherwise they are accursed Solitary Masses The Church of England teacheth There is to be no Celebration of the Lord's Supper except there be a convenient number to communicate with the Priest ibid. The Church of Rome holdeth Those Masses are to be approved and commended where the Priest communicates alone And if any one shall say such are unlawful and to be abrogated he is accursed Transubstantiation The Church of England teacheth Transubstantiation or the change of the substance of the Bread and Wine into the very substance of the Body and Blood of Christ is repugnant to the Scripture and overthroweth the nature of a Sacrament p. 52. The Sacramental Bread and Wine remain in their very natural substances And the natural Body and Blood of Christ are in Heaven and not here The Church of Rome holdeth There is a Transubstantiation or a Conversion of the whole Substance of the Bread into the Body and of the whole Substance of the Wine into the Blood of Christ and whoso denies it is accursed The Species only of Bread and Wine remain in the Eucharist and the Body and Blood of Christ together with his Soul and Divinity and so whole Christ are contained therein And whoso denieth it is accursed The Body of Christ. The Church of England teacheth The wicked and such as be void of a lively Faith in no wise partake of Christ p. 55. And the Body of Christ is taken and eaten only after an Heavenly and Spiritual manner And the mean whereby the Body of Christ is received and eaten is Faith pag. 52. The Church of Rome holdeth Ill men receive the Body and Blood of Christ be they Infidels or Ill-livers Christ is not only eaten Spiritually and whosoever shall so affirm is Accursed Sacrament in both kinds The Church of England teacheth The Cup is not to be denied to the Lay-people For both the parts of the Sacrament ought by Christ's Ordinance to be ministred to all p. 55 56. The Church of Rome holdeth Though Christ instituted the Sacrament in both kinds yet it is to be administred in one And whosoever shall say That it ought by God's command to be received in both or that the Church hath not for just Reasons required it to be in one kind c. he is Accursed Adoration of the Host. The Church of England teacheth The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper was not by Christ's Ordinance reserved carried about lifted up and worshipped And no Adoration ought to be done thereunto p. 52. The Church of Rome holdeth Christ is to be worshipped in the Eucharist with Divine worship and to be solemnly carried about and to be shewed to the People that he may be worshipped and whosoever doth deny this or saith That the worshippers are Idolaters is Accursed The Sacrifice of the Mass. The Church of England teacheth The Sacrifice of the Mass in which its commonly said the Priest offers for the Quick and Dead to have remission of Pain and Guilt are blasphemous Fables and dangerous Deceits p. 57. The Church of Rome holdeth In the Sacrifice performed in the Mass the self-same Christ is contained and unbloodily offered that offered himself on the Cross and this Sacrifice is truly Propitiatory and is rightly offered for the sins punishments and satisfactions of the Living and Dead And if any one shall deny this or say it's Blasphemy he is Accursed Traditions and Ceremonies The Church of England teacheth The burden of Ceremonies in the Romish Church is intolerable for their excess and multitude and by reason of their obscurity they more confound than set forth Christs benefit to us and deface the plain simple and sincere Religion of Christ and as they are vain in themselves so are abused to gross superstition p. 33 61. The Church of Rome holdeth The Ceremonies used in the Mass c. are of Apostolical Tradition and Institution and which serve for the Majesty of so great a Sacrifice and are for the exciting of the Faithful And tho they are many yet none of them is to be esteemed needless and vain and if any one shall say that they are rather inticements to impiety than helps to Piety he is accursed Of the Consecration of Bishops c. The Church of England teacheth There are no other Orders in the Church than Bishops Priests and Deacons And these are rightly consecrated and ordered in the Church of England p. 63. The Church of Rome holdeth There are Seven Orders in the Church Bishops Priests Deacons Acolythi Exorcists Readers the Door-keepers Sub-deacon Deacon and Priest. Those consecrated and ordained out of the Church of Rome are no Bishops or Pastors but thieves and murderers p. 64. Priests Marriage The Church of England teacheth Bishops Priests and Deacons may lawfully marry and are not commanded by Gods Law either to vow the estate of single life or to abstain from marriage and therefore the Monastical Vow of single life accounted the highest state of perfection is the leven of mans feigned Religion and abominable to God p. 59. The Church of Rome holdeth It is not lawful for Bishops Priests and Deacons to Marry and if married they are to be separated and to be brought to Penance and if any one shall say that such as have profest Chastity may contract Matrimony or that such Matrimony is valid because they have not the gift of Chastity he is Accursed The Supremacy The Church of England teacheth The King in all his Realms hath Supreme power in all Causes whether Ecclesiastical or Civil And the Bishop of Rome hath therein no Jurisdiction and can release none from subjection to their Prince For God alloweth neither the dignity of any person nor the multitude of any people nor the weight of any cause as sufficient for the which Subjects may Rebel p. 65. The Power the Bishop of Rome challengeth or Successor of St. Peter is false and feigned The Church of Rome holdeth The Pope is the Vicar of Christ Successor of St. Peter and the supreme Pastor over all the World. He may command Sovereign Princes over-rule what they command Excommunicate and Depose them if they contradict his Commands
Bishops c. are none In the Church of England there are no Bishops no Pastors and so their's is no true Church The Ministers of the Church of England are no Priests because they want an essential part which is to offer Sacrifice c. Of this Mind were Harding Stapleton Sanders Bristow Champney c. formerly See Mason's Vindiciae Eccles. Angl. The Opposition The Church of England The Church of Rome 1. Besides Bishops there are but two Orders viz. Priests and Deacons 1. Besides Bishops and the four lesser Orders there were always three viz. Priests Deacons and Subdeacons 2. Arch-Bishops Bishops Priests and Deacons are rightly orderly and lawfully consecrated and ordered in the Church of England 2. Such Bishops and Priests as are consecrated and ordered in the Church of England are no Bishops nor Priests The 37. Article of the Church of England Of the Civil Magistrates The Queen's Majesty hath the chief power in this Realm of England and other her Dominions unto whom the chief Government of all Estates of this Realm whether they be Ecclesiastical or Civil in all Causes doth appertain and is not nor ought to be subject to any forreign Jurisdiction The Bishop of Rome hath no Jurisdiction in this Realm of England The 3d part Of the Sermon of Obedience The usurped Power of the Bishop of Rome which he most wrongfully challengeth as the Successor of St. Peter is false feigned and forged The Bishop of Rome teacheth That they that are under him are free from all Burdens and Charges of the Common-wealth and Obedience toward their Prince most clearly against Christ's Doctrine and St. Peter's He ought therefore rather to be called Antichrist and the Successor of the Scribes and Pharisees than Christ's Vicar or St. Peter's Successor St. Peter doth not say Submit your selves unto me as the Supream Head of the Church neither saith he submit your selves from time to time to my Successors in Rome but saith he submit your selves to the King the Supreme Head. The 2d part of the Sermon of Obedience Wicked Rulers have their Power and Authority from God and therefore it s not lawful for their Subjects to withstand them although they abuse their Power The necessary Doctrine and Erudition for any Christen Man set forth by Hen. 8. and compiled by Cranmer c. Subjects be bound not to withdrawn their Fealty Truth Love and Obedience towards their Prince for any cause whatsoever it be ne for any cause they may conspire against his Person ne do any thing towards the hinderance or hurt thereof nor of his Estate 3d Part of the Sermon against wilful Rebellion The speedy overthrow of all Rebels of what Number State or Condition soever they were or what Colour or Cause soever they pretended is and ever hath been such that God thereby doth shew that he alloweth neither the Dignity of any Person nor the Multitude of any People nor the Weight of any Cause as sufficient for the which the Subjects may move Rebellion against their Princes See the Oaths of Allegeance and Supremacy The Church of Rome §. 1. Of the Authority claim'd by the Church of Rome 1. The Roman Church is the Mother and Mistress of all Churches So the 4th General Council of Lateran Can. 2. The Council of Trent Sess. 7. Can. 3. c. This is made an Article of Faith in the Creed of Pope Pius the 4th 2. The Roman Bishop is the Vicar of God and Christ the Successor of St. Peter and hath the Supreme Pastorship over the Vniversal Church So the Council of Trent Sess. 6. de reform cap. 1. Sess. 14. cap. 7. c. This is also an Article of Faith in the aforesaid Creed §. 2. Of the Exercise of this Authority 1. The Church of Rome doth take upon her to command Sovereign Princes So it 's the Phrase of their Councils We do enjoyn Princes we do peremptorily require Kings c. So the 4th General Council of Later cap. 67 68. The 5th General Council of Later de pragmat Sanct. The Council of Trent 2. She doth overrule what Sovereign Princes have commanded So the Council of Constance Notwithstanding the safe Conducts granted by Emperors and Kings c. Yet Heretical Wickedness may be enquired after by a competent Judg and the Persons guilty be punished altho they should come to the place of Judgment considing in the safe Conduct and otherwise would not have come 3. The Church of Rome hath excommunicated such Sovereign Princes as have not submitted to what she hath commanded and hath deposed such as have been thus excommunicated and continued refractory and absolved their Subjects from Allegiance to them when deposed So The 3 d. General Council of Lateran We do forbid under an Anathema That any one presume to keep or maintain Hereticks in their Houses or Land or to exercise commerce with them And if they shall dye in this Sin there shall no Oblation be made for them And let Subjects know that they are released from all Debt of Fealty and Homage and all Obedience The 4 th General Council of Lateran Let secular Powers whatsoever Offices they execute be admonished perswaded and if it be necessary compelled by Ecclesiastical Censure That as they desire to be reputed and accounted Faithful so they would publickly take an Oath for the defence of the Faith that they would endeavour in good Faith according to their power to destroy exterminate all Hereticks marked by the Church out of the Lands of their Jurisdiction But if the Temporal Lord being required and admonished shall neglect to purge his Land from this Heretical Filthiness he shall be Excommunicated by his Metropolitan and the other Bishops of the Province And if he shall refuse to give satisfaction within a Year let it be signified to the Pope that he may forthwith denounce his Vassals absolved from their Allegiance and expose his Land to be possessed by Catholicks who having destroyed the Hereticks may possess it without contradiction and preserve it in the purity of the Faith saving the Right of the Principal Lord whilst that he doth make no hindrance to it Nevertheless the same Law is to be observed towards them who have No principal Lords The General Council of Lyons Ann. 1245. In this Pope Innocent the 4th deprived the Emperor Frederick the 2d after this manner We after diligent deliberation had with the Sacred Council do declare and denounce That he is deprived of all Honour and Dignity and by our Sentence do deprive him and do for ever absolve them from their Oath who have sworn Allegiance to him firmly forbidding by our Apostolical Authority that any one from henceforward obey him as Emperor or King c. And let those to whom the Election belongs freely choose a Successor in that Empire The Council of Constance It is decreed That all that should hinder the Emperor Sigismund from meeting the King of Arragon of what