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A16618 A protestation of the Kings supremacie Made in the name of the afflicted ministers, and opposed to the shamefull calumniations of the prelates. Bradshaw, William, 1571-1618. 1605 (1605) STC 3525; ESTC S120445 7,812 26

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penitencie then are they to deny vnto him the pledges and seales of of the Church to wit the Sacraments If this cannot humble him but that he continue obstinate in that sinne then they are by the mouth of the Minister in Congregation the whole Church consentinge freely therto denounce him to be no Mēber of the Kingdom of Heauen and so forbeare to haue any further charge ouer him vntill God shall worke the grace of Repentannce in him in this manner they are to proceed against all apparent and Euident crimes only as Murder Adultery Theft Blasphemie Ribaldery Lying Slandering Profanation of the Sabothes contempt of Diuine Worship Disobedience to the Ciuil Magistrate c. Nether ought the Extreamest of the Ecclesiasticall Censures any whit hinder the course of iustice that the Ciuill Magistrate is to excercise against the same crimes for if a Traytor himselfe should bee penitent the churche ought to forgiue him and lovingly to imbrace him as a Sonne but the Magistrate ought to execute him If he should be obstinate in that crime As the Magistrate ought to cutt him off from the Ciuill communion of men so ought the Congregation of which he is a Member cutt him of from all spirituall Communiō with them If any one of the Ecclesiasticall Officers themselues shall sinne he is as subiect to the Censures of the rest as any other member of the congregation If they shall all sinne scandolously either in the execution of their Office or in any other ordinarie manner Then the Congregation that chose them freely hath as free power to depose them and to place others in their roome If the Congregation shall erre either in choosinge or deposinge of her spirituall Officers Then hath the ●uill Magistrate alone power and authoritie to punish them for their fault to compell them to make better choyse or to defend against them those Officers that without iust causes they shall depose or depriue 27 Wee hould that those Ecclesiasticall Persons that make claime to greater power and authoritie then this Especially they that make claime Iure Divino of power and Iurisdiction to medle with other Churches then that one Congregation of which they are or ought to be Members Doe vsurpe vpon the Supremacie of the Ciuill Magistrate Who alone hath and ought to haue as we hould and mainetaine a power over the seuerall Congregations in his Dominions And who alone ought by his authoritie not onely to prescribe common Lawes and Canons of Vniformitie and consent in Religion and worship of God vnto them all But also to punish the offences of the seuerall Congregations that they shall cōmitt against the lawes of God the policy of the Realme And the Ecclesiasticall Constitutions enacted by his authoritie 28 Wee hould that the Kinge ought not to giue this authoritie away or to committ it to any Ecclesiasticall Person or Persons whatsoeuer But ought himselfe to be as it were Archbishop and generall Overseer of all the Churches within his Dominions And ought to imploye vnder him his Honorable Counsell his Iudges Leiftenaunts Iustices Cunstables such like to oversee the Churches in the seuerall diuisions of their ciuill Regiments visiting them and punishing by their ciuill power whatsoeuer they shall see amisse in any of them Especially in the Rulers and Gouerners 29 For as much as no people are more hated persecuted and wronged of the wicked world then the true Churches of Christ Wee hould that no people in the Earth stand in more neede of the ciuill magistrate then they And that it is the greatest outward blessing they can inioye in this life to liue vnder the Protection of their Swords and Scepters and the greatest cause of mourning when the same shal be bent against them And we hould those churches to be no true churches of Iesus Christ That livinge in any cuntry shall refuse Subiection to the ciuill Regents and Gouerners of the same be they in respect of Religion never such Paganish Infidells 30 Wee hould it vtterly vnlawfull For any christian Churches whatsoeuer by any armed force or power against the will of the ciuill magistracie and State vnder which they liue To erect and sett vpp in publique the true worship and service of God Or to beate downe or Suppresse any superstition or Idolatrie that shal be countenaunced and maintained by the same Onely Every man is to looke to himselfe that he communicate not with the Euills of the times induringe what it shall please the State to inflict and seekinge by all honest and peaceable meanes all reformation of publicke abuses Onely at the hands of Ciuill publicke Persons And all practises contrarie to these we condemne as Seditious and sinfull 31 All that we craue of his Maiestie the State is that by his and their permission and vnder their protection and approbation It may be lawefull for vs To serue and worship God in all things according to his revealed will and the manner of all other reformed Protestant Churches that haue made seperation from Rome That we may not be forced against our consciences to staine and pollute the simple and synere worship of God prescribed in his word with any humaine Traditions and Rites whatsoeuer but that in Divine worship we may be actors onely of those things that may for matter or manner either ingenerall or speciall be concluded out of the word of God Also to this end that it may be lawefall for vs to exhibite vnto them and vnto their Censure a true and Syncere Confession of our faith containyng the maine Grounds of our Religion vnto which all other doctrines are to be consonant as also a Forme of Divīe worship and Ecclesiasticall Gouerment in like manner warranted by the word and to be obserued of vs all vnder any Ciuill punishment that it shall please the saide Maiestie State to inflict vnder whose authoritie alone we desire to exercise the same and vnto whose punishment alone we desire to be subiect if we shall offend against any of those Lawes and Canons that themselues shall approue in manner aforesaide And our desire is Not to worship God in darke corners but in such publicke places and at such convenient times as it shall please them to assigne to the intent that they their officers may the better take notice of Our offences if any such shal be committed in our Congregations and assemblies that they may punish the same accordingly And we desire wee may be subiect to no other Spirituall Lords but vnto Christ nor vnto any other Temporall Lords but vnto themselues whom alone in this Earth we desier to makeour Iudges Supreame Gouerners Overseers in all causes Ecclesiastical whatsoeuer renoūcyng as Antichristian all such Ecclesiasticall powers as arrogate and assume vnto themselues vnder any pretence of the Law of God or man the saide power which we acknowledge to be due onely to the Ciuill Magistrate 32 So long as it shall please the King and Ciuill State though to the great derogation of their owne authoritie as wee may haue occasion hereafter to proue to maintaine in this Kingdome the State of the Hierachie or Prelacie We can in Honour to his Maiestie and the State and in desire of peace be content without envie to suffer them to inioye their State dignitie to liue as brethren amongst thos ministers that shall acknowledg spiritual homage vnto their spirituall Lordships paying vnto them all temporall dueties of Tenthes such like yea and ioyning with them in the service and worship of God so far as we may doe it without our owne perticular cōmunicating with them in those humaine Traditions and Rites that in our consciences we iudge to be vnlawfull Onely we craue in all duetifull manner that which the very Law of Nature yeldeth vnto vs that for as much as they are most malicious Enimies vnto vs and doe apparantly thirst either after our blood or the Shipwracke of our faith and consciences that they may not henceforth be our iudges in these causes but that wee may both of vs stand as parties at the barre of the ciuill Magistrate to bee tried in those differences that are betweene vs and that when they shall publickly maligne or flander vs or our cause it may be lauful for vs in a dutiful sober peaceable modest manner without personall reproche or disgrace in as publicke manner iustifie our selus then insteed of that sillie mockseruice to the King of wearing a linnen rag vpon our backs or making a Christes Cross vpon a babies face wee shal be readie to performe and yeald triple homage service tribute vnto him shall think our liues all that we haue to vile to spend in the service of him and the Ciuill state vnder him FINIS
A PROTESTATION OF THE KINGS SVpremacie MADE IN THE NAME OF the afflicted Ministers and opposed to the shamefull Calumniations of the Prelates Psa 7.3.5 O Lord my God if I haue done this thing if there be any wickednes in my hands Then let the Enimie persecute my Soule and take it let him tread my life downe vpon the earth and lay mine honour in the Dust Selah Ioh. 18.23 If I haue spoken Evill beare witnes of the Evill But if I haue spoken well why smitest thou mee Printed 1605 TO THE CIVILL STATES of this Kingdome WE beseech your H. and W. that you would by this true light that wee shall giue vnto you looke into our innocencie His Excelent Maiestie your selues and your Sacreed Thrones are exceedingly abused with Foggs and Mists which breathed out of the mouthes of the Prelates are cast between your eyes and the Integritie of our cause through the darknes whereof you are led to giue many heavie Sentaunces against the most harmles Subiectes in the Kingdome as Enimies to the Supremacie and State Whereas it shall appeare that no Christians in the world giue more vnto the same then wee and that in very truth the cause that we maintaine is for the King and Ciuill State against an Ecclesiasticall State that secretly and in a Mystery as we may hereafter haue occasion to proue opposeth it selfe against the same If this protestation shall in any measure satisfie you Then we desire your Honorable Mediations for vs to the Highest If not That then we may know wherein it is defectiue and we shal be found ready to giue all Satisfaction A PROTESTATION OF the Kings Supremacie VVE hould and maintaine the same Authoritie Supremacie in all causes and over all persons Ciuill and Ecclesiasticall graunted by Statute to Queene Elizabeth and expressed and declared in the book of Aduertisements Iniunctions and in M. Bilson against the Iesuits to bee due in full and ample manner without any limitation or qualification to the King and his Heires and Successors for euer Neither is their to our knowledge any one of vs but is and euer hath been most willinge to subscrib and sweare vnto the same accordinge to form of statute And we desire that those that shall refuse the same may beare their owne iniqutie 2 We are so far from Iudgeing the saide Supremacie to be vnlawfull that we are perswaded that the Kinge should sinne highly against God ●s hee should not assume the same vnto himself that the Churches within his Dominiōs shold sine dānablie yf they should deny to yeald the same vnto him yea though the statuts of the kingdome should deny it vnto him 3 wee hould it plaine Antichristianisme for any Churche or Church officers whatsoeuer either to arrogate or assume vnto themselues any part or parcel therof and vtterly vnlawful for the king to giue away or alienate the same from his owne Crowne and dignitie to any spirituall potentates or rulers whatsoeuer within or without his dominions 4 Wee hould that though the Kings of this Realme weare noe members of the Church but very Infidels ye and persecutors of the truth that yet those Churches that shal be gathered together within thes dominions ought to acknowledge yeald the said supremacie vnto them And that the same is not tied to their faith and Christianitie but to their very Crowne from which noe subiect or subiects haue power to seperate or disioyne it 5 We hould that nether King nor Ciuill state are bound in matter of Religion to bee subiect and obedient to any Ecclesiasticall Person or Persons whatsoeuer no further then they shal be able to Conuince their consciences of the truth thereof out of the word of God Yea wee thinke they should sinne against God yf they should ground their Religion or any part or parcell therof vpon the bare Testimonie or Iudgement of any man or of all the men in the world 6 Wee hould that noe Churches or Church officers haue power for any crime whatsoeuer to depriue the king of the least of his Royall prerogatius whatsoeuer muche lesse to depriue him of his supremacie wherin the height of his Royall dignitie Consists 7 Wee hould that in all things Concerning this life whatsoeuer the Ciuill Iurisdiction of Kings and Ciuill States excelleth ought to haue preheminence ouer the Ecclesiasticall and that the Ecclesiasticall nether hath nor ought to haue any power in the least degree ouer the bodies liues goods or libertie of any person whatsoeuer much lesse of the Kings and Rulers of the Earth 8 Wee hould that Kings by virtue of their Supremacie haue power yea also that they stand boūd by the lawe of God to make Lawes Ecclesiasticall such as shall tend to the good ordering of the Churches in their Dominions And that the Churches ought not to bee dissobedient to any of their Lawes so far as in obedience vnto them they doe not that which is contrary to the word of God 9 Wee hould that though the King shal Command any thing contrarie to the Word vnto the Churches that yet they ought not to resist him therein but onely peaceablie to forbeare obedience and sue vnto him for grace and mercie and wher that cannot be obtained meekely to submit themselues to the punishment 10 Wee hould that the King hath power by virtue of his Supremacie to remoue out of the Churches whatsoeuer he shall discerne to be practised therin not a greable to the word of God And if he shal see any defect either in the worship of God or in the Ecclesiasticall Discipline he ought by his royall authoritie power to procure and force the redresse therof yea though it be without the consent and a gainst the will of the Ecclesiasticall Gouerners themselues 11 Wee hould that the King hath as much author itie over the bodie goods affaires of Ecclesiastical persons as of any other of his Subiects whosoeuer And that by his authoritie he may force them not onely to all ciuyll dueties belonging vnto them but also vnto all Ecclesiasticall afflictyng as great punishment vpon them for the neglect thereof as vpon any other of his Subiects 12 Wee hould that he hath power to remoue out of the Churches all Scandolous Scismaticall Hereticall Teachers and by all due seueritie of Lawes to represse them 13 Wee hould that all Ecclesiasticall Lawes made by the King not repugnant to the word of God doe in some sorte bind the consciences of his subiects and that no subiect ought to refuse obedience to any such law 14 We hould that the King onely hath power within his Dominions to Couvene Synods or generall Assemblies of Ministers And by his authoritie Royall to ratisie and giue life and strength to their Canons and Conslitutions without whose ratification no man can force any subiect to yeald any obedience vnto the same 15 Wee hould that though the King may force the Churches to be subiect and obedient vnto him and to