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A58472	The religion of the Church of England, the surest establishment of the royal throne with the unreasonable latitude which the Romanists allow in point of obedience to princes : in a letter occasioned by some late discourse with a person of quality.	Womock, Laurence, 1612-1685.	1673 (1673)	Wing R902; ESTC R14331	24,790	40

Offers of Peace were made and a Treaty managed where Another whom afterwards his Masters rewarded but unkindly uttered these bitter Expressions in his Sermon Whilst our Enemies go on in their wicked Practices and whilst we keep our Principles we may as soon make Fire and Water to agree and I had almost said reconcile Heaven and Earth as their spirits and ours Either they must grow better or we must grow worse before it is possible for us to agree Where I cannot omit the Observation of an 〈…〉 l. 3 c. 2. p●g 1●6 Ingenious Gentleman that our Dear Prince was beheaded just the day four years aften this Sermon was preached This and such like Stuff struck at length the Kings Head from his Shoulders and though some upon sight of their Errors repented yet when a disorderly Government had for several years appear'd among us in monstrous shapes still the doings of those Usurpers were commended by others and large Harangues made upon solemn occasions to express the Nations Happiness under them One more particularly I have taken notice of and not a little wondred at Worthy Patriots saith the Preacher Anno 1656. you that are Rulers in this Parliament 't is often said we live in times wherein we may be as good as we please wherein we enjoy in purity and plenty the Ordinances of Jesus Christ Praised be God for this even that God who hath delivered us from the Imposition of Prelatical Innovations Altar-Genuflexions and Cringings with Crossings and all that Popish Trash and Trumpery And truly I speak no more than what I have often thought and said the removal of these unsupportable Burdens countervails for the Bloud and Treasure shed and spent in these late Distractions Did the Gentleman think you remember that the King was murthered almost eight years before this Pulpit-Caress And did the Removal of those Burdens countervail for his Bloud too Nor did I as yet ever hear of any godly men that desired were it possible to purchase their Friends sure that blessed King had a great many good men that were his Friends or Money again at so Dear a Rate as with the Return of these to have those soul-burdening Antichristian Yokes imposed upon us So that though the King was barbarously taken from us yet better lose him than have a Resettlement of the antient Church-Service and Discipline for any other Thoughts would argue the wickedness of our Hearts If any such there be I am sure that Desire is no part of their Godliness and I profess my self in that to be none of the Number By these three Testimonies from the Pens of three great Persons you may judge how far that Party was concerned in the bloudy and dreadful Tragedy And now I suppose you will favourably allow the first of my Assertions proved The strict Obedience charged by the Church of England upon all her Children The second will as evidently appear That the Church Prop. II. of Rome allows those of her Communion an unreasonable Latitude in the same point of Obedience and Duty freeing them from the Obligations which God hath laid upon the Conscience for it is plain that she exempts her Ecclesiastics from the Jurisdiction of the Civil Magistrate referring them altogether to the Popes Censure upon the Commission of any fault She maintains those pernitious Doctrins of Excommunicating Deposing and murdering Kings for promoting the Cause of Religion She allows the Pope a Power of absolving all Subjects from their Allegiance and gives him a Right to dispose of the Kingdoms of Heretical Princes And if we look upon the Practices of the Romanists we shall find them exactly fitted to these Maxims that they have been are and in all probability will be a Turbulent sort of people despising Dominions and speaking evil of Dignities ●u●e 8. For the Exemption of Ecclesiastical Persons from the Proved ● By the Exe●ption of Eccl●●●astics from ●● civil ●ower Civil Magistrates Jurisdiction it is a received Doctrin among them In their so much famed Council of Trent when the Fathers there fell upon the Reformation of Princes several things were upon the Wheel Like careful men of themselves they propounded largely in favour of Ecclesiastical Immunities That such Persons might not be judged in a Secular Court though there should be some doubt of their Clerkship or though History of the Council of Trent l. 8 p. 769 770. themselves consent notwithstanding it were under pretence of Public Vtility or Service of the King That neither the Emperour Kings nor any Prince whatsoever should make Edicts or Constitutions in what manner soever concerning Ecclesiastical Causes or Persons nor meddle with their Persons Causes Jurisdictions or Tribunals no not in the Inquisition but shall be bound to afford the Secular Arm to Ecclesiastical Judges That the Temporal Jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastics though with mere and mixt power shall not be disturbed nor their Subjects drawn to the Secular Tribunal in Causes Temporal All that excellent Device concluding with a Command under the pain of Anathema That No Prince should either directly or indirectly under any Pretence whatsoever suffer any thing to be Enacted against the Persons or Goods of the Clergy or against their Liberty any Priviledges or Exemptions though Immemorial notwithstanding It is true this was opposed and so in some measure quashed by the briskness of the Emperours and French Kings Embassadors and thereby proceeded not to the height they designed however it argued the daring Confidence of the Attempters the assurance they had of favourable Reception at Rome and the Priviledges they either ought or would willingly have enjoyed And whatsoever passed they gained a great deal more than either they deserved or could challenge But to omit what can be gathered from this Flourish and not insist upon things dubious we refer the Cause to Bellarmin and o●fer to stand to his Arbitrement The No● possunt Cleric●● 〈◊〉 S●cul●ri judica●i e●iam si l●ges Civiles no● se●v●nt 〈◊〉 l. de Cle●icis l. ● c. 2● p. ●p 3. Clergy saith he cannot be judged before a Secular Magistrate though they observe not the Laws in Civil Affairs for that I suppose he means by Leges Civiles And when upon further discoursing the Point he mentions the Apostles indispensable Charge Let every soul be subject to the higher Powers Rom 13. 1. I must confess his Answer to it is as much below himself had not his Interest been concerned as can possibly be imagined He will have that way of arguing to conclude nothing because sometimes one Power Nihil e●ra●iocinatio●e o●●li d● is higher sometimes another But be it as it will the Pope never loseth his Power therefore he infers Because the Bishop of Rome hath exempted Quo●iam summus Pontifex Clericos o●n●s exemit à subjectione Principum Secularium sequitur ut respectu Cleric rum Principes non su●t potestat●s superiores ac ●roinde non teneantur Clerici Pri●cipi●us p●rere

Liturgy and Her Ecclesiastical Constitutions Her Avouched Doctrine is declared in the 39 Articles From the Doctrine of the Church in the Articles and Homilies and the Book of Homilies set forth by Authority exactly consonant to them These she acknowledgeth next to the Scriptures as the Measure of her Faith and the Rule for her Practice And because they are no Novel Inventions nor the Products of any particular brain but the first agreed upon by the whole Convocation the Clergies Representative and the Other compiled by able Persons appointed to that employment we see they are of age and shall speak A●t 37. for themselves The Queens Majesty so it was 1562. now the Kings hath the chief Power in this Realm of England and other Her His Majesties Dominions unto whom the Government of All Estates in 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 Thus much declared in general terms the Explanation follows presently after Where we attribute to the Queens Kings Majesty the Chief Government we understand that only Prerogative which we see to have been given alwayes to all godly Princes in Holy Scripture by God himself i. e. that they should rule all Estates and Degrees committed to their charge whether they be Ecclesiastical or Temporal and restrain with the Civil Sword the stubborn and evil doers Then is there particularly added The Bishop of Rome hath no Jurisdiction in this Realm of England Upon which passage a motion was made in the Hampton-Court Conference for inserting Nor ought to have but King James in his wisdom rejected it with this answer habemus jure quod habemus intimating that the Actual asserting that Priviledge argued a legal title to it And it may be worth your observation that the Title-page of the Articles tells you they were agreed upon for avoiding diversities of opinions and for the establishing of consent touching true Religion What these speak more concisely the Homilies teach more fully I refer you to the six Sermons against Rebellion proving the greatness of that sin from Scripture and the remarkable Examples of Gods vengeance upon persons guilty of it and proceeding in a method of close and strong arguing so that the perusal of them will be a good improvement of your time and pains Onely towards the latter end of one there is this Exhortation which I could not well omit Let us as the Children of Obedience fear the dreadful 〈◊〉 3. Execution of God and live in quiet obedience to be the Children of Everlasting Salvation For as Heaven is the place of good obedient Subjects and Hell the Prison and Dungeon of Rebels against God and their Prince so is that Realm happy where most obedience of Subjects doth appear being the very figure of Heaven and contrariwise where most Rebellions and Rebels be there is the express similitude of Hell and the Rebels themselves are the very sigures of Fiends and Devils and their Captain the ungrateful Pattern of Lucifer and Satan the Prince of darkness With an exact agreement to this Doctrine is her From ●he Liturgy Liturgy composed And because according to the Apostles Exhortation first of all as a duty never to be neglected supplications and prayers and intercessions 1 Tim 2. 12. and giving of thanks are to be made for all men for Kings and for all that are in authority there are none of Her Services of daily or weekly use wherein her Prince is not particularly remembred and the Almighty Protection of Heaven earnestly desired to be his continual defence Nay all the blessings in the world but especially what concern his Place and Station are the matter of his Subjects prayers a a Second Prayer before the Communi●n and the Prayer for the Church M●litan● That He may be instructed for Government b b Versicle after the C●●ed Preserved in His Person c c D●i●y Prayer Replenished with Heavenly Graces d d Li●any Service Prove victorious over his Enemies And as Two of these fall within the compass of Her constant Morning and Evening Devotions so a Third is added three times in the week and all of them used every Sunday and Holiday A piece of duty which with some instead of a just applause hath met with severe censures and been cavelled at like Maries Box of oyntment by Judas To what purpose was this Matt. 26. 8. waste a thing whereof our blessed Martyr took especial notice as a reason why so many Zealots of the times were eagerly bent against the Publick Service One of the greatest faults some men found with the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Common Prayer Book I believe was This that it taught them to pray so oft for me to which Petitions they had not loyalty enough to say Amen Not doth the Church onely teach us to pray for the King but to do it with an acknowledgment of His Soveraign Authority and subjection to none but God himself whom therefore she stiles The only Ruler of Princes To all this may be added that in some of those Prayers made for Him we are also enjoyned to implore Gods mercy for the keeping his People in their Allegeance that they may obey him as the Almighties Vicegerent a a First Prayer before the Commu●ion That we and all his subjects duly considering whose authority he hath may faithfully serve honour and humbly obey him in Thee and for Thee In a word our Prayers for their fulness loyalty seem excellently framed after the Pattern of the Primitive Church as owned by Tertullian b b Precati sumus semper pro omnibus Imperatoribus vitam illis prolixam imperium securum domum tutam exercitus for●es senatum fidelem orbem quiecu● quaecunque hominis Caesaris vota sunt Tertul. Apolog. cap 30 We pray at all times for all Emperors that they may have Long Life a Secure Empire a Safe Palace Valiant Armies a Faithful Senate an Honest People a Quiet World and whatsoever each of them can desire either as a Man or a Prince Pass we now from her Liturgy to her Ecclesiastical From the Canons of the Church Constitutions agreed upon in a full Convocation 1603 and then ratified by Royal Authority where the first thing determined is this very Particular All Ecclesiastical Can. 1 persons having cure of Souls shall to the uttermost of their Wit Knowledge and Learning purely and sincerely Teach Manifest Open and Declare four times a year at the least in their Sermons That the Kings Power within his Realms is the highest Power under God to whom all men do by Gods Law owe most Loyalty and Obedience Afore and Above all other Power and Potentates in the Earth Now certainly if the Incumbents are obliged thus to Preach it is an argument this is the received Doctrine of the Church and the design of this Duty imposed