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A10966	A treatise vpon sundry matters contained in the Thiry nine Articles of religion, which are professed in the Church of England long since written and published by Thomas Rogers.	Rogers, Thomas, d. 1616.; Rogers, Thomas, d. 1616. Faith, doctrine and religion professed in England.	1639 (1639)	STC 21233; ESTC S1674	207,708	274

Word either proved elected called ordained 1. Admon 10 ● c Par●iam Hence the Church of England wanteth say they her Pastors and Teachers n Fr ct scr on Rom. 12. p. 36. and hence they urge divers afore ordained to seeke at their Classis a new approbation which they tearme the Lords ordinance o Eng. Scotti 3. B. c. 14. p. 113. and to take new callings from classicall ministers renouncing their calling from Bishops p Ibid. 37. Article Of the Civill Magistrate 1 The Kings Majestie hath the chiefe power in this Realme of England other his dominions ● unto whom the chiefe government of all Estates of this Realme whether they be Ecclesiasticall or Civill in all causes doth appertaine and is not nor ought to be subject to any forraine jurisdiction where wee attribute to the Kings Majestie the chiefe government by which titles we understand the minds of some slanderous folkes to be offended 3 we give not to our Prince the ministring either of Gods Word or of the Sacraments the which thing the Injunctions also sometime set forth by Elizabeth our late Queene doe most plainely testifie but that onely prerogative which we see to have beene given alwayes to all godly Princes in holy Scriptures by God himselfe that is that they should rule all estates and degrees committed to their charge by God whether they be Ecclesiasticall or Temporall 4 and restraine with the civill sword the stubborne and evill doers 5 The Bishop of Rome hath no jurisdiction in this Realme of England 6 The Lawes of the Realme may punish Christian men with death for hainous and grievous offences 7 It is lawfull for Christian men at the commandement of the Magistrate to weare weapons and serve in the warres The Propositions 1. The Kings Majestie hath the chiefe power in this Realme of England and other his Dominions 2. The Kings Majestie hath the chiefe government of all estates Ecclesiasticall and Civill in all causes within his Dominions 3. His Highnesse may not execute the Ecclesiasticall duties of preaching and ministring the Sacraments and yet is to prescribe lawes and directions unto all estates both Ecclesiasticall and temporall 4. The King by his authority is to restraine with the materiall sword and to punish malefactors 5. The Bishop of Rome hath no jurisdiction in this Realme of England nor of the other of the Kings Dominions 6. By the lawes of this Realme Christian men for hainous and grievous offences may be put to death 7. It is lawfull for Christian men at the commandement of the Magistrate to weare weapons and serve in warres 1. Proposition The Kings Majestie hath the chiefe power in this Realme of England and other his Dominions The proofe from Gods Word DIvers and sundry be the formes of Common-weales and Magistracie For some where many and they of the inferiour people beare the sway as in a Democraty some where a few and that of choice and the best men doe governe as in an Aristocraty and some where one man or woman hath the preeminence as in a Monarchie such is the government of this Kingdome Notwithstanding whatsoever the government is either Democraticall Aristocraticall or Monarchciall Gods Word doth teach us that There is no power but of God the powers that be are ordained of God and that whosoever resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God a Rom. 13.1 ● We must be subject to the principalities and powers and obedient and ready to every good work b Tit. 3.1 Wee must submit our selves unto all manner of ordinance of man for the Lords sake c 1 Pet. 2.15 Wee mest pray for Kings and for all that be in authoritie d 1 Tim. 2.1 Finally wee must give to all men their duty tribute to whom tribute custome to whom custome feare to whom feare and honour to whom honour is due e Rom. 13.7 But of the Monarchciall government speciall mention is made in the writings of the Prophets and Apostles Kings shall be their nourcing fathers and Queenes shall be thy nources saith Esay f Esa 43.23 The Apostle Peter calleth the King the superiour or him that hath the chiefe power as our King Iames hath in his Dominions g 1 Pet. 2.13 All Churches Protestant and reformed subscribe unto this doctrine h Conf. Helv. 1. ar 26. 2. c. 30 Basi ar 7. Boh. c. 16. in the Concil Belg. ar 36. Aug ar 16. 17. Sax. ar 23. Suc. in petor as both Apostolicall and Orthodoxall The Errors and adversaries unto this truth These Churches with us and wee with them utterly condemne the opinions Of the dreamers whereof the Apostle speaketh which despise government and speake evill of them which are in authority a Epi. of Iu. 8. Of the Manichies b D. August contra Faust l. 22. c 74. Fratricellians c W. Tho. disc of Italy p. 59 Flagelliferies d Pratcol haeres de Flage● Anabaptists e Alth. Conc. Io. pag. Io. 191. and Family of Love f H. N calleth a King The scum of ignorance Spir. land c. 6. sect 5 all which raile upon and condemne Magistracie Of them who allow not of the government by women but utterly detest the same such were they in Italy which said Interitus mundi est à muliere regi g W. Th. descr of Italy pag. 129. ● Againe speaking unto women Abundè magna civitas vobis sit domus publicum neque noscatis neque vos noscat h Lud. Vives de insti f●m Chr. lib. such in France who thinke how the Law of God and nature is violated where a woman is suffered to raigne and governe i Nec solum n●turae jura convelluntur sed etiam omnium gentium quae nunquam faeminas regnare permise●unt c. Bodin meth hist c. 6. p. 257. such in Scotland or Scottish men rather from Geneva which wrote that A womans government is a monstriferous Empire most detestable and damnable k Against the regim of women Blast praef Againe I am assured that God hath revealed to some in this age that it is more then a monster in nature that a woman shall raigne and have Empire above man c l Ibid. And little differing from these men are they in England which tearmed The Harborough for faithfull subjects a carnall and unlearned booke smelling altogether of earth without time and without reason for defending the regiment of women over men when it falleth unto them by inheritance to governe to be lawfull and good m Martin Marprel epist of D. Bridges Hee which so censureth the said Harborough was the Mar-prelate and this his Censure declareth that he was the Mar-prince aswell as the Mar-prelate 2. Proposition The Kings Majestie hath the chiefe government of all estates Ecclesiasticall and Civill in all causes within his Dominions The proofe from Gods Word VVE ascribe that unto our King by this assertion which is

established which at the Kings first arriuall among vs was so much desired by the Brethren And finally being the same let vs not doubt but perswade our selues that we shal find the Antichristian Church of Rome too the same which for the same doctrine and for none other cause persecuteth al Christian Churches but ours of England especially with sword fire and power in most horrible yea and hellish manner the effect of whose hatred against vs as we have often seene so especially had we felt the same the next yeere after our Kings ratification of these Articles had not our euer mercifull God most miraculously detected both the Treason and Traitors Ann. 1605 For which his fauours his holy Name be glorified of vs and our posterity throughout all generations The Brethren no changelings 36. So our Church is the same But the Brethren the faithfull and godly Brethren too the same now which they haue also beene If they be then will they not deny which An. 72. they writ that we hold the substance of religion with them nor which An. 602. they published and is afore remembred that the true Faith by which we may be saued and the true doctrine of the Sacraments and pure worship of God be truely taught that by publike authority and retained in the booke of Articles And in this Confession I pray God they may constantly perseuere Howbeit euen these men which in a generality doe allow the doctrine of our Church being called by authority to acknowledge their assent vnto every Article thereof in particular they doe not a little debase the estimation of this doctrine of ours and shew themselues but too apparent and professed dissentors from the same And though all of them doe and will approoue some yet not one of them will subscribe vnto all and every of the Articles For vnto the articles of religion and the Kings supremacy they are willing to subscribe And they may subscribe as afore hath beene noted vnto such of them as containe the summe of Christian Faith the doctrine of the Sacraments But vnto the same Articles for number 36. agreed vpon in this Conuocation at London an 62. they neither wil nor dare nor may subscribe For neither the rest of the Articles in that booke nor the Booke of common prayer may be allowed no though a man should be depriued from his ministery for it say the said brethren in a certaine Classicall decree of theirs The late Polititian is not afraid to mooue the high and most honorable Court of Parliament that Impropriation may bee let to Ferme vnto incumbent ministers viz. which faithfully preach in the Churches the true doctrine of the Gospell according to the Articles of Religion concerning faith and Sacraments meaning that such Ministers as preach the same doctrine if they proceed to the rest of the Articles concerning either Conformitie in externall and ceremoniall matters or Vniformitie in other points of doctrine contained in that booke should not be partakers of that benefit or of Benefices Impropriate 31. If it be demanded what the causes may be Why the Br. will subscrib vnto some but not vnto all the Articles why they will vnto some but will not vnto all or why they will vnto those Articles which concerne Faith and the Sacraments but will not vnto the rest subscribe The reasons thereof be two whereof The one is for that in their opinion there is no Law to compell them to subscribe vnto all For say the Brethren resiant I know not where Wee have alwayes beene ready to subscribe to the Articles of Religion concerning the doctrine of Faith and of the Sacraments which is all that is required by Law Also the Brethren in Deuonshire and Cornewall We are ready say they to subscribe to the third which concerneth the Booke of Articles of Religion so farre as wee are bound by Statute concerning the same viz. as they concerne the doctrin of the Sacraments and the confession of the true faith And the 22. London Brethren tell King Iames to his head how the Subscription which he calleth for is more then the Law requireth Their other reason is because as the Lincolnshire doe say sundry as the London Brethren affirme many things in that booke be not agreeable but contrary to Gods Word 32. If these things be true which they doe alleadge surely then are those men to be chronicled for the Faithfull the godly and innocent Brethren indeed whom neither present Benefices can allure nor the angry countenance and displeasure of a King even of the puissant powerful King of great Brittaine can force to doe anything at his becke and pleasure either against Law or for which there is no law and who had rather to forgoe all their earthly commodities liuings yea and to goe from their charges and ministery and to expose themselues their wiues and children to the miseries of this world grieuous for our flesh and blood to endure then to approue any thing fob true sound by their hands which is opposite or not agreeable to the reuealed will and Scriptures of God But if these allegations of theirs be but weake and sinfull surmises or rather apparantly most false scandalous and slanderous imputations to their Prince their mother Church and this State then doubtlesse as they euen Christians now liuing cannot but take them so ages to come will euerlastingly note and censure them both for disloyall Subiects that so traduce a truly and most Christianly religious King ill deseruing children that so abuse their honorable and reuerand Fathers and superiours of State and authority turbulent spirits not peaceable men which raise such broiles troubles and diuisions in the Church and Kingdome the issues whereof no tongue can foretell and are fearefull being thought of without cause and finally neither faithfull nor godly Preachers but vngodly broachers of vntruthes and slanders and the very authors and fautors of horrible confusion and faction in Gods Church whose peace they should seeke and promote euen with their dearest blood 33. Since the Statute for Vniformity in rites and doctrine was first enacted moe then 35. yeeres haue passed in all which space neither the Brethren now being nor the Brethren afore them liuing haue hitherto shewne of the 39. Articles for names and titles Which for number How many the Articles be which Ecclesiasticall Ministers necessarily must how many which they may not or need not vnlesse they list subscribe vnto which I am sure they or some of them at one time or other would have expressed had the Law fauoured there recusancy and they bin able to have justified their Maxime which is That they are not compellable by subscription to approoue them all Againe since the first establishment of that Statute Law the most reuerend Fathers and truly reformed Ministers of this Church sound for iudgement profound for learning zealous for affection sincere for religion faithfull in their Churches painefull in their charges more

Church that enquiry be made of evill ministers and that they hee accused by those that have knowledge of their offences and finally being found guilty by just judgement be deposed The Propositions 1. The effect of the Word and Sacraments is not hindred by the badnesse of ministers 2. Evill ministers are to be searched out convicted and deposed but orderly and by the discipline of the Church 1. Proposition The effect of the Word and the Sacraments is not hindred by the badnesse of ministers The proofe from Gods Word OF the ministers ecclesiasticall the Church is to conceive neither too sinisterly as though their unworthinesse could make the Word and Sacraments the lesse effectuall to such as worthily do heare and receive them nor on the other side too highly as if the dignity of their calling were cause good enough that what they doe or say ex opere operato take happy effects These things from the Scriptures are manifest which teach us that wicked ministers even the Scribes and Pharises fitting in Moses chaire a Matth. 23.1 and preaching Christ though through envie strife and contention b Phil. 1.15 are to be heard and many administer the Sacraments as did the ordinary Priests among the Iewes whereof very many both afore and after that our Saviour came into the world were most wicked men and the best are but the Ministers of God c 1 Cor. 4.1 and Gods labourers d 1 Cor. 3.9 Also the purer Churches beare witnesse hereunto e Confes Helv. 1. ar 15. 20 22. Hel. 2. 1. 18 21 Bohe. c. 11. 12. Gal. ar 3. 35. Aug ar 8. Sax ar 1● 13. Wit ar 31. Suc. ar 13 Neither is he whosoever that planteth any thing neither he that watereth but God that giveth the encrease saith Saint Paul f 1 Cor. 3.7 And a signe of a good spirit is it to regard not so much who speaketh a ministreth or what is uttered and offered from God Errors and adversaries unto this truth The due consideration of the premises will both settle us the more firmely in the truth and make us the more carefully to abhorre all adversaries thereof as in old time were the Donatists and the Petilians who taught that the Sacraments are holy when they be administred by holy men but not else a D August in Psa 100. 32. Idem contra P●til l. 1. c 4. also the Apostolikes or Henricians who had a fancie that he was no Bishop which was a wicked man b Magdeburg eccles hist C●nt ●2 cap. 5. fol ●44 Among the Fathers also Cyprian and Origen were not found in this point For Cyprian published that no minister could rightly baptize who was not himselfe endued with the holy Ghost c D. Cyprian epist lib. 1. lib. ad Mag. ep 6. he further delivered that whosoever doe communicate with a wicked minister doe sinne d Ibid. ep 4. Origen held that in vaine did any minister either bind or lose who was himselfe bound with the chaines of sinne and wickednesse e D Orig in Math. ●1 act 1. Such adversaries in our time be the Anabaptists the Family of Love the disciplinarians usually termed Puritans the Sabbatarians the Brownists and Papists For f Wilk against the l a ar 14. p. 66. The Anabaptists will not have the people to use the ministery of evill ministers and thinke the service of wicked Ministers unprofitable and not effectuall affirming that no man who is himselfe faulty can preach the truth to others The Family of Love doe say that no man can minister the upright service or ceremonies of Christ but the regenerate g H. N. evang c. 23. 6. 2. also that wicked men cannot teach the truth h Fam 1. epist to M. Rogers The disciplinarian Puritanes do bring all ministers which cannot preach and their services into detestation For their doctrine is that Where there is no Preacher there ought to be no minister of the Sacraments i Lear. disc p. 62. None must minister the Sacraments which doe not preach k T. C. 1. c. p. 104. The Sacrament is not a Sacrament if it be not joyned to the Word of God preached l Ber. de Loquercas of the Church c. 10. It is a sacriledge to separate the ministration of the word preached from the Sacraments m Lear. disc p. 60. Of these mens opinions be the Sabbatarians among us For their doctrine is to the common people that unlesse they leave their unpreaching ministers every Sabbath day and goe to some place where the Word is preached they do prophane the Sabbath and subject themselves unto the curse of God n D. B. doc of the Sab. 2. booke p. 173. So the Brownists No man is to communicate say they where there is a blind or dumbe ministery o R. H. on Psal 122. The Papists doe crosse this truth but after another sort For Pope Hildebrand decreed and commanded that no man should heare Masse from the mouth of a Priest which hath a wife p B. Iewel on Ag. 1. ser The Rhemists doe publish how The Sermons of heretikes and so tearme they all Protestant ministers must not be heard q Test Rhem. annot tit 3. 10. r Ibid. an Mar. 3.13 though they preach the truth Their prayers and sacraments are not acceptable to God but are the howling of wolves 2. Proposition Evill ministers are to be searched out convicted and deposed but orderly and by the discipline of the Church The wicked and evill ministers must not alwaies be endured in the Church of God For they are the evill and unprofitable servants a Math. 25.26 the eyes which doe offend b Math. 18.9 the unsavoury salt c Math. 5.13 which are carefully to be seene unto and if admonitions will not serve deposed yet orderly and by the discipline of the Church For that God which appointed a government for the civill state hath also given authority unto his Church to punish offenders according to the quality of their transgressions And so may we reade in the Word of God Let the Church say our Saviour d Math. 18.17 Let such a one by the power of our Lord Iesus Christ be delivered unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh that the spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Iesus saith Saint Paul e So the neighbour Churches f Helv. 2. c. 18. Bohe. 2. c. 18. ar 11. Suev ar 35. Adversaries unto this truth Then deceived and out of the way are the Brownists and Barrowists which are of minde that Private persons in themselves have authority to depose unmeet ministers and to punish malefactors a R.H. in Psal 121. p. 117. Every particular member of a Church in himselfe hath power to examine the manner of administring the Sacraments c. to call men unto repentance c b Bar. disco p. 56. to reproove the faults of the Church and