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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	church_n	king_n	supremacy_n	1,454	5	10.5536	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67140	A speech delivered in Parliament, Novemb. 13, 1641 by Sir John Wray, a worthy member of that honorable assemblie, concerning the unlawfulnesse of bishops and episcopall authorities.	Wray, John, Sir, 1586-1655.	1641 (1641)	Wing W3669; ESTC R31847	1,541	8

A SPEECH DELIVERED IN PARLIAMENT Novemb. 13. 1641. By Sr JOHN WRAY a worthy Member of that Honorable ASSEMBLIE Concerning the unlawfulnesse of Bishops and Episcopall Authoritie LONDON Printed for Tho. Banks 1641. SIR JOHN WRAYES Speech the 13th of November Concerning Episcopall Authoritie 1641. THE first Challenge for Lordly Primacie hath of old been grounded out of the great Charter by which they hold an Episcopal Primacie or Iurisdiction to belong to their states of Prelacie this is their Temporall foundation and main objection Here I demand of them unto what Church this great Charter was granted and whether it were not granted to the Church of GOD in England let the word of Magna Charta deside this which are their Concessimus pro nobis in perpetuum quod Ecclesia Anglicana libera sit habeat omnia sua Jura Integra libertates suasillaesus Now by this Charter if it be rightly interpreted there is first provision made the honour and worship should be yeelded unto God as truly and indeed belongs to him 2. Secondly That not onely such Rights and Liberties as the King and his Progenitors but also such as God had ordained the Church of England which should be inviolably preserved And indeed such onely are to be preserved indeed such onely are to be called the rights and Liberties of the Church of England which God himself hath given by his Law unto the universall Church And not that which the King of England by their Charter have bequeathed to the particular Church of England And this no doubt was the cause that moved Hen. the eighth so effectually and powerfully to bend himself against the Popes Supremacie usurped at that time over the Church of England for saith the King we will with hazard of our life and losse of our Crown uphold and defend in our Realms whatsoever we shall know to be the will of God The Church of God in England not being free according to the great Charter but in bondage and servitude to the See of Rome contrary to the Law of God the King iudged it to stand highly with his Honor and with his Oath to reform redresse and amend the abuses of the same See If therefore it might please our gracious Soveraign Lord King CHARLES in imitation of those his Noble Progenitors to vouchsafe an abolishment of all Lordly Supremacie executed by Archiepiscopall and Episcopall Authority over the Ministers of Christ his Highnesse in so doing could no more rightly be charged with the violation of the great Charter then might King Hen. the eighth with the banishment of Popes Supremacie or then our late Soveraign Queen Eliz could be iustly burthened with the breach of her Oath by the establishment of the Gospel Now if the Kings of England by reason of their Oath were so straitly tyed to the words of the great Charter that they might not in any sort have disanulled any supposed Rights or Liberties of the Church then used and confirmed by the said Charter unto the Church that then was supposed to be the Church of God in England Then belike King Hen. the eight might be attainted to have gone against the great Charter and against his Oath when by the overthrow of Abbies and Monasteries he took away the Rights and Liberties of Abbots and Priors for the expresse word of the great Charter Abbots and Priors had as large and ample a Pattent for their Rights and Liberties as our Archbishops and Bishops can at this day challenge for their Primacie If then the Rights and Liberties of the one as being against the Law of God be duely and lawfully taken away notwithstanding any matter clause or sentence contained in the great Charter the other have but little reason under the colour of the great Charter to stand upon their pantables and contend for their painted sheathes for this is a Rule and Maxime in Gods Laws Quod in omni Iuramento semper excipitur authoritas Maioris Vnlesse then they be able to justifie by the holy Scriptures to such Rights and Liberties as they pretend for their spirituall Supremacie over the Ministers of Christ be in deed and truth conferred unto them by the holy Law of God I suppose the Kings Highnesse as Successor to Hen. 8. and as more just Inheritor to the Crown of England by the words of the great Charter and by his Oath are bound utterly to abolish all Lordly Primacy as hitherto upheld and defended partly by Ignorance and partly by unreasonable and evill Custome FINIS