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A17018	The iudgement of the Apostles and of those of the first age, in all points of doctrine questioned betweene the Catholikes and Protestants of England, as they are set downe in the 39. Articles of their religion. By an old student in Diuinitie.	Broughton, Richard.	1632 (1632)	STC 3898; ESTC S114820	265,017	428

them They write how Ridley made Preist by Catholike Order but Bishop by their new fashion when he was to be degraded by B. Brooke Bishop of Glocester delegate thereto in Q. Maryes time hee did onely then degrade him concerning preisthood being iudged to be no Bishop Foxe tom 2. pag. 1604. Mason l. 2. pag. 92 Record degrad Rid. as our Protestants and Records thereof testifie in thes his words to Ridley we must proceede according to our commission to degrading taking from you the dignitie of preisthood for we take you for no Bishop So it was also adiudged by the common lawes Brooke Abridg an 1576. ti●ul leases num 68. of the land in that time Bishops in the time of King Edward the sixt were not consecrated and therefore a lease for yeares made by such and confirmed by the deane and chapter shall not binde their Successours because such were neuer Bishops Of thes pretended Bishops which were thus by publike Iudgment in lawe disabled to do tēporall offices for want of true ordination and power how much more were they vnable to performe any spirituall function belonging to that highest holie Order yet this is published for law euen in Q. Elizabeth her time longe after thes new Protestant Bishops were so allowed and still remaineth among their receaued and adiudged lawes And so generall and vniuersall a consent was of all in authoritie Pope Prince Prelates and whosoeuer that this new Protestant forme gaue no consecration that their owne Protestant applauded writers thus confesse it Touching Articles of Q. Mary to Bish. Boner Consecrat l. 5. cap. 12. foxe Act. mon. vol. 2. p. 1295. such parsons as were here to fore promoted to any Orders after the new sorte and fashion of Orders they were not ordered in verie deed This was the common and publike sentence of Pope Prince and Prelates in Queene Mary her time of the pretēded Bishops of King Edward the 6. when there was more pretence for them thē these diuers Catholikely ordained Bishops then liuing and some helping in their new ordering now and from Q. Elizabeth her time not one at all And it is contained in our old lawes Iudex secularis non potest Bracton fol. 401. degradare clericum magis quàm ad ordines promouere A secular Iudge can no more degrade a Preist or Clearke then he can promote him to orders And it was publikly adiudge in lawe That the parlament Temp. Henrici 7. fol. 27. 28. could not make the Kinge being a lay parson to haue spirituall Iurisdiction Then much lesse could it giue to King Edward the sixt to speake Protestants Stow an 1. Edw. 6. Hist words proclaimed King of England and also of Ireland the supreame heade immediately in earth vnder God being of the age of nyne yeares and to Queene Elizabeth a woman by Sexe disabled in such things both to haue spirituall Iurisdiction and supreame spirituall Iurisdiction and spirituall power Episcopall or Pontificall to conferre and giue both spirituall highest order and Iurisdiction to whom and by what meanes it pleased them contrary to all Christians in the world Catholiks Protestants and whosoeue● none out of England so proceeding in such affaires A●d in the time of Queene Elizabeth both particular wr●●●rs records and her parlament publikely in the 8. year● of her Reigne assure vs that their new Bishops making was by diuers both doubted of and denied to be lawfull The Protestant cheife Iustice of the common plees Lord dyer setteth downe that Bishop ●onner publikely pleaded they were no Bishops and namely Doctour Horne so admitted and it w●s adiuged by all the Protestant Iudges that Bish●● Bonner might so pleade And the Protestants would neuer come to tryall with him therein And the next Parlament in her 8. yeare cleared him and all other Catholikes so in i●pugning those Bishops offering the oath of suprema●y vnto them in these words Be it exacted that no person or persons Statut. in parliament an 8. Elizab. cap. 1. be empeached or molested in body lands or good by occasion are meane of any certificate by any Archbishop or Bishop heretofore made in the first session of this parlament touching or concerning the refusall of the oathe set fourth by act of parlament in the first yeare of Queene Elizabeth And that all tenders of such oath made by any Archbishop or Bishop aforesaid and all refusals of the same oath so entered by any Archbishop or Bishop shall be voyde and of noe effect or validity in the lawe And to helpe afterward what they could thus they enact diuers questions haue lately growne vpon the Statut. in parliam an 8. Eliz supr c. 1. making and consecrating of Archbishops and Bishops within this realme whether the same were and be duely done according to the lawe or not Therefore it is thought conuenient hereby partly to touch such authorities as doth allowc and approue the making of the same Archbishops and Bishops to be duely and orderly d●●e according to the lawes of this Realme her h●●●nesse in her letters patents vnder the greate S●●●e of England directed to any Archbishop Bis●●p or others for the confirming inuesting and co●secrating of any parson elected to the office or dig●●●y of an Archbishop or Bishop hath not onely vs●● such words and sentences as King Henry and King Edward did in their letters patents diuers other general words and sentences whereby her highnesse by her su●r●ame power and authority hath dispenced with all ●auses or doubts of any imperfection or diasbility th●t can or may in any wise be obiected against the sa●e These be the on●ly authorities the statute doth or could bringe ●eing all carnall and humane not one diuine or ●cclesiasticall vtterly vnable to make a lawfull true Bishop or confirme any for such being b●t meere phantasies letters patents the greate Seale of England of a woman such words and sentences as King Henry the eight and King Eduard his child contrary to the vniuersall Church of Christ vsed A womans supreame power authority and dispensation in all causes doubts Imperfections or disabilities in any wise to be obiected and that not onely their pretended Archbishops and Bishops but others neither true nor pretended Archbishops or bishops did as their words be plaine by this most straunge and infirme feminine commission confirme inuest and consecrate Archbishops Bishops which as they haue confessed before with all authorities none but true lawfull Bishops in approued receaued forme and manner can doe And yet this parlament doth thus approue all such as were thus made whether by the Queenes letters patent and men no Bihops true or pretended and without King Edwards forme or any other remembred or by King Edwards forme and fashion to be lawfull Bishops in these words All Statut. an 8. Eliz. supr acts and things made or done by any person or persons in or about any elected to the office of any Archbishop or Bishop by vertue of

Epis●opo nemo quicquam faciat eorum quae ad Ecclesiam spectant Sainct Clement testifieth that Sainct Peter the Apostle Clem. Rom. epist 1. commaunded praecipiebat Petrus Apostolus that all Princes of the earth omnes Principes terrae and all men should obey Bishops And proued that all which did contradict them were in state of damnation and imfamy vntill they made satisfaction and commaunded them to be excommunicate except they were conuerted The Bishop Clem const Apost lib. 2. c. 11. 12. 3. 30. 31. ruleth all Lords Preists Kings Princes Regibus Principibus Fathers children Masters and all subiects He Iudgeth as God with power The Bishop is mediatour betweene God and men He is the next after God our Father Prince Ruler King Rex Gouernour A Bishop is adorned with the dignitie of God he ruleth the clergie and commaundeth all the people Omni populo imperat Dion Areop Hier. Eccl. c. 2. par 2. 3. c. 4. 5. Martial ep ad Burdegal cap. 3. The like haue other Apostolike men of this first age And they are so farre from giuing superiority and commaund to ciuill power ouer Bishops in things of Religion that in such affaires and causes they make inferiour all temporall people euen to Preists and Deacons Preisthood is the heade or cheife of all good things in this world saith S. Ignatius Ignat. epist ad Smyrnen Sacerdotium est omnium bonorum quae in hominibus sunt apex He that rageth against it doth not ignominy to man but to God Lay men must be subiect not onely to Preists but to Deacons Laici Diaconis subditi Polycarpus epist ad Philippen sint Subiecti estote Presbyteris Diaconis sicut Deo Christo And our Protestants themselues acknowledge Rob. Barnes l de vit Pont Roman in Anacleto Anaclet epist 1. that the holy Popes of this time iudged them no Christians that called holy Preists to ciuill consistorys Anacletus Christo alienos esse indicabat qui Sacerdotes inius vocarent They which tooke away the riches of the Church were to be adiudged homicidas because the Apostles by our Sauiour his commaunde gaue chardge that the priuiledges of the Church and Preists should be kept inuolate Christ vel Ecclesiae pecunias auferentes homicidas iudicari debere censuit quia inquit priuilegia Ecclesiae Sacerdotum Apostoli Saluatoris iussu inuiolata esse debere iusserunt In Ecclesiasticall busines the the greater causes were to be referred to the primates the lesser to the Metropolitane Bishop and secular causes to secular Iudges In Ecclesiasticis negotijs grauiores causas ad primatem leuiores ad metropolitanum Episcopum referendas secularia negotia ad prophanos iudices agenda esse iussit All that were oppressed might appeale to the Ecclesiasticall Court And that such causes as could not be composed by the cheifest of the cleargie should be ended in their councells Et causas quae apud primarios Ecclesiastici ordinis componi non possent in Concilio finiendas esse To that which followeth in this Article The Bishop of Rome hath no iurisdictiō in this Realme of England I haue aboundantly answeared and so proued the weakenesse of such assertion in my Examine of their 19. Article and that which is here said most manifestly conuinceth the same For if as is proued here the Bishops in euery Prouince haue the highest and cheifest spirituall power ouer all others therein whether spirituall or temporall he which hath the supreame power and Iurisdiction ouer all and euery such Bishops or Bishop cannot be depriued of that Title and right though a farre greater consistory then these Articlers or their Approuers and applauders should deny it vnto him He that hath iurisdiction and power ouer the greater must needs haue it ouer the lesser and Inferiour in that Kind S. Ignatius calleth the Church of Rome the sanctified and Ruling Church being himselfe Patriarke of Antioch Ignatius Ecclesiae sanctificatae Ignat. epist ad Rom. in inscriptione quae praefidet in loco Regionis Romanorum S. Polycarp lyuing in the same age went from Smyrna in the East to Rome for decision of Questions about the day of Easter Propter quasdam super die paschae Hier l. de vir illustrib in Polycarpo Dion Aerop c 3. de diuin no minib Clem. Rom. epist 1. Rufino Interpret quaestiones Romam venit S. Dionisius saith S. Peter liuing and dying Bishop of Rome was the supreame glory and head of diuines Petrus supremum decus antiquissimum Theologorum columen S. Clement saith S. Peter was by Christ defined the foundation of the Church Simon Petrus fundamentum esse Ecclesiae definitus est And as the most worthy commaunded by Christ to conuert the westerne parts and performed that precept Qui obscuriorem mundi plagam occidentis velut omnium potentior illuminare praeceptus est quique integrè potuit implere praeceptum He liued much and dyed at Rome by martyrdome and committed his supreame Pastorall charge and office to S. Clement which Christ had committed to him full power to binde and loose whatsoeuer he should decree on earth should be decreed in heauen Clementem Episcopum vobis ordino cui soli me ae praedicationis doctrinae cathedram trado Ipsi trado à Domino mihi traditam potestatem ligandi soluendi vt de omnibus quibuscumque decreuerit in terris hoc decretum sit in caelis Among other Pastorall and highest Pontificall duties he gaue him power and chardge to send Bishops into all cyties whether or where S. Peter had not sent or ordained before Episcopos per singulas ciuitates quibus ille non miserat nobis mittere praecepit And S. Clement performed it Quod facere inchoauimus Domino opemferente facturi sumus Aliquos ad Gallias Hispaniasque mittimus quosdam ad Germaniam Italiam atque ad reliquas gentes dirigere cupimus Among these Bishops some were primates or Patriarks and Archbishops and the causes of Bishops and greatest Ecclesiasticall Questions and busines of the Churches were to be tried and decided by the primates and Patriarks and the Apostles so decreed Petrus Episcoporum primates vel Patriarchas ordinauit qui reliquorum Episcoporum iudicia maiora quoties necesse foret negotia in fide agitarent secundum Dei voluntatem sicut constituerunt sancti Apostoli ita vt ne quis iniustè periclitaretur definirent Archiepiscopos institui praecepit qui non tamen primatum sed Archiepiscoporum fruerentur nomine Episcoporum quoque iudicia vt superius memoratum est maiora Ecclesiarum negotia si ipsi reclamauerint aut aliquem timorem aut istos vel alios suspectos habucrint ad iam dictos primates vel Patriarchas transferri perdocuit And this was among the Apostles themselues one S. Peter aboue the rest Quoniam nec inter Apostolos par institutio fuit Sed vnus omnibus praefuit This is