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A29084	A defence of the Kings authority and supremacy in the church & church-discipline and that he is supream head and governour over all persons, in all causes ecclesiastical : against these disciplinarians, the Pope and his clergy, the bishops and episcoparians, the Scottish and English Presbyterians, with the independents ... / by Theophilus Brabourne.	Brabourne, Theophilus, b. 1590.	1660 (1660)	Wing B4091; ESTC R25285	18,498	27

A DEFENCE OF THE Kings Authority AND SUPREMACY In the Church Church-Discipline And that He is Supream Head and Governour over all persons in all Causes Ecclesiastical Against these Disciplinarians the Pope and his Clergy the Bishops and Episcoparians the Scottish and English PRESBYTERIANS with the INDEPENDENTS Who have for a long time usurped the power of Kings and authority of Magistrates contrary to the will of GOD and the Honour of KINGS The second Edition much enlarged By THEOPHILVS BRABOVRNE Give unto Caesar the things that are Caesars LONDON Printed for the Author and are to be sold by William Nowell Book-seller in Norwich 1660. A DEFENCE Of The KINGS SVPREMACIE In the Church and Church-discipline Against these Disciplinarians the Pope English Bishops Scottish and English Presbyterians and Independents who have for a long time usurped the authority of the King and his Magistrates MY ensuing Discourse shall be to maintain the Kings Supremacy in causes Ecclesiastical and the authority of all Magistrates under him and to confute the authority of Bishops and other Ministers in Church-matters Now because I will not dispute on Generals I will by and by come to a particular namely to the censure and punishment of Excommunication the which is all the authority that Bishops and Ministers do claim and I shall try whether it belongs to the office of our Christian Magistrates or to the Bishop and his Chancellour or to the Minister and his Lay-Elders Now if it can be made appear as I believe it will that the censure of Excommunication belongs to the Magistrate and not to the Bishop then Bishops have lost all their authority even the richest flower in their Garland By the way note that as the inferiour Ministers rule with their Lay-Elders so doth the Bishop with his Chancellour who is no Minister but a Lay man and thus you see that all Disciplinarians have their Lay-Elders Now my endeavour shall be to give unto Caesar our King the things that are Caesars and to his subordinate Magistrates the things that are theirs and to give unto Bishops and Ministers the things that belong to them as to be Preachers not Rulers like Magistrates I have 2 or 3 things more to premise before I come to my task 1. Near twenty years agone I took the Nationall Oath and Covenant to be true and faithfull to the King and his Posterity the which I have been ever since so far as in my power was sorrowing to see so many illegall and treacherous practises beyond my power to amend I then also did swear to do my endeavour for the extirpation of Prelacy that is of Archbishops Bishops and Chancellors c. In pursuance whereof I writ this little Treatise holding my self bound in conscience to keep my Oath But it will be said the Parliament when they required this Oath was then illegall the King being absent I answer Hence it follows that my Oath was illegall and binds not in the Common Law but yet it binds in point of Divinity For an Oath taken by force and feare binds as in the case of the Oath taken to the King of Babel Ezek. 17.12 c. And an Oath taken by fraud binds as in the case of the Gibeonites and no man on earth can absolve from such an Oath Josh 9.3 4.18 19. with 2 Sam. 21.1 2.6 wherefore I dare not be a perjured person Jeremiah said Because of Oaths the Land mourns Jer. 23.10 God plagued the Israelites in Davids time for the perjury of Saul before him 2 Sam. 21.1 c. We have sins enough in this Land to answer to God for and shall we add wilfull perjury to them to provoke the Lord to wrath God forbid Now I humbly beseech our honourable Parliament to order things so as those who have taken this Oath which cannot be recall'd may not be enforced by Law to be forsworn by any of their endeavours to establish or countenance our new Bishops 2. Many say as King James did no Bishop no King but King James was no Prophet he spake as he thought and desired But had he lived to our dayes and seen what we have seen he might have changed his proverb If I may be so bold to speak my sense it had been good for King Charles his Son if he had cast off Bishops twenty years before his death For as I suppose they were one great cause of his untimely end For he had armed his Bishops with too much of his Authority the which some of them abused to pride calling them Jack Gentlemen Most of them abusing his authority for the ushering in of Popish Ceremonies spending their zeale to maintain trifles not beseeming learned and grave Doctors as an ayeriall Cross and white Surplice an Hood and Tippet whereby they became ridiculous to the people And then they abused his authority to cruelty and persecution for those trifles How many hundreds of painfull and godly Ministers of a good life and conversation did they silence for non-observance of these and unmercifully deprived them of their livings and livelihood so as they were enforced to live upon Almes So great was their persecution in those dayes as they drove many hundreds of the Kings Subjects out of the Kingdome to plant themselves in a Wilderness And how great was their tyranny in the High Commission Court at London and their Chancellours Courts in the Country persons of years know too well and all this for trifles whereby they became odious to the people then and to those that sate at the beginning of this long Parliament after who rooted them quite up For these were eye-witnesses and sensible of the pride ambition and cruell persecutions of the Bishops whereof many in our dayes being but young men are totally ignorant and therefore think to gather grapes of these thorns and Figs of these thistles But a wolf will be a wolf still though you crop his eares and cut his tayle the same is true of a Fox Now in process of time when unhappily the King and Parliament fell at odds many thousands of the people took in with the Parliament some help them with money others with their persons and swords but would not take in with the King for feare of Popery and for feare they should be still under the tyranny of cruell Bishops the which to conscientious men was more intollerable than monethly Taxes or illegall Monopolies of old Thus the King lost the hearts of his Subjects because they saw themselves in a desperate case For it was grown into a proverb no Bishop no King 3. Many who have read my former book of this subject say that I am an Erastine but they are such as know not the opinion of Erastus I have seen his book which was anciently a dispute between reverend Beza and him about Excommunication Now Erastus held it to be no Ordinance of Christ but a figment of mans brain but I differ from him and hold it to be an Ordinance of Christ I

this be according to the 55 Canon then all the Bishops were of this mind Also papists do sing their Mass so in our Cathedral Churches Bishops do sing cant and chant their Service 9. The Pope was horribly superstitious so were these Bishops for both of them had their Cross in baptism the Surplice hood and tippet Copes high Altars Waxe Candles Rails before the high Altar bowings towards the high Altar Saints dayes standing up at the Creed with others like Bishops said these Ceremonies were innocent and decent things but they have been defiled with superstition as I read in their Canons and are things defiled now innocent and are popish ceremonies decent things in a Protestant Church Thus it appears that the Pope and those Bishops were much alike and neerly allyed and that I have done them no wrong by saying they were popish For I read not in Scripture of Arch-Bishops Lord-Bishops Deans Chancellours c. nor of a Crosse in the ayre on an Infants fore head nor of Surplices Hood and Tippet nor Copes Wax-candles Rails c. These never were plants of Gods setting but of the Popes I cannot therefore bow to this golden Image which the Pope hath set up The Popish Mass doth crawl full of these Ceremonies and so doth our Bishops Divine Service in Cathedrall Churches the which is one cause why many people do so loath the Service-book for where the Service-book comes in there comes in these Romish ceremonies and we have a superstitious Clergy as ready and nimble to bid them welcome as may be These Bishops therefore being so like the Pope in cruel persecution of godly Ministers in superstitious ceremonies and in superstitious Orders of Archbishops Deans and Chancellours c. and being such loyterers in Gods Vineyard and hiding their talent of light in a close Lanthorn those at the beginning of the long Parl. did us a good office to remove them quite and I wish the King had been in presence to have confirmed it and annexed their Lands to the Crown Lands where they would have done good but now they do none but to maintain a Colledg of lazy persons but that which hindred our happiness was an over high carriage then with the King for which we have ever since smarted full sore Quest 13. Is there no meanes to pacifie and allay the animosity between Bishops and Episcoparians Independents and the Scottish Disciplinarians that so we may have peace in the Church I answ Yes there is one means and but one that I know of which is that the King would take his own sword into his own hands and manage in by his Magistrates who are capable of it as I have abundantly proved and discharge Bishops Presbyterians Independents and Scottish Disciplinarians of their Lordly power This Kingly sword is the bone of contention among them all untill it be removed I never look to see peace in the church but if once removed I hope to see these persons for highly contesting feed and play together like Lambs and love like Christians A word or two of false Translations I Do find by reading of learned Expositors on the Bible that many words and Texts concerning the blessed Trinity are falsely translated I hold it my duty no longer to conceal it but to make it known that it may come to the knowledge of the King and Parl. who I hope will take it into consideration and in due time see that it be amended And for a taste I will give you some of the Texts and shall be ready to shew many more 1. See Eccl. 12.1 Remember thy Creators so it is plurally in the Hebr. Text as if there were more then one Creator of the World And St. Paul said God created all things by Jesus Christ Ephes 3.9 But it is falsely translated Creator singularly as if there were but one 2. See Psal 149.2 Let Israel rejoyce in his makers so it is plurally in the Hebr. Text as if there were two or three makers of the world And St. Paul said God made the world by his sonne Heb. 1.1 2. But it is falsly translated Maker or Him that made as if there were but one 3. See Gen 1.2 The spirit of the Gods moved on the waters so it is plurally in the Hebrew as if there were two or 3 Gods But it is falsly translated God singularly as if there were but one God 4. See Ephes 2.12 And ye were without Gods in the world so it is in the Greek Text plurally as if there were more then one God in the Trinity But it is falsly translated God singularly as if there were but one God in the Trinity 5. See Gen. 20.13 When the Gods they caused me to wander so it is in the Heb. Text plurally both noun and verb are plural as if there were two or three Gods in the Trinity Genes 3.22 The man is become like one of us but it is falsly translated singularly both in the noun and verb as God caused me as if there were but one God in the Trinity 6. See Gen. 35.7 The Gods they appeared unto him So it is plurally in the Hebr. Text both the noun and verb are plurall as if there were two or three Gods as God the Father God the Son and God the holy Ghost But it is falsly translated both in in the noun and verb singularly as God appeared as if there were but one God in the Trinity The Church saith there is but one God Now Translators unfaithfully to maintain the Doctrine of the Church translate falsly to draw Scripture to the Church but like honest men they should translate word for word number for number to draw the Church to the Scriptures FINIS A Postscript further proving that Bishops usurp the Kings Authority and devest him of his Supremacy THe King is the Fountain of all Authority and Jurisdiction and whosoever exercises Jurisdiction in this Kingdome wtthout authority from the King they usurp the Kings authority and make voyd his supremacy and this Bishops do For 1. There are two essentiall parts of a Bishops office as they hold Ordination and Jurisdiction Now they lay as much claim to the power of Jurisdiction as to Ordination and receive them both from the same hand and Donor As the one therefore is from God not from the King so is the other even both from one and the same Donor but neither of them from the King 2. a Bishop is created by his Metropolitan and other Bishops who by Imposition of their hands do confer upon him as from God the office of jurisdiction as they say now this Office is not derived from the King nor can be for the King doth not lay hands on the Bishop created 3. Bishops claim their authority and jurisdiction in the Church from Peters Keys Mat. 16.19 but not from the King for Peters Keys were not delivered to Kings or lay persons but to the Clergy 4. All this Bishops confest in their writings concerning this similitude