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A91309	Truth triumphing over falshood, antiquity over novelty. Or, The first part of a just and seasonable vindication of the undoubted ecclesiasticall iurisdiction, right, legislative, coercive power of Christian emperors, kings, magistrates, parliaments, in all matters of religion, church-government, discipline, ceremonies, manners: summoning of, presiding, moderating in councells, synods; and ratifying their canons, determinations, decrees: as likewise of lay-mens right both to sit and vote in councells; ... In refutation of Mr. Iohn Goodwins Innocencies Triumph: my deare brother Burtons Vindication of churches, commonly called Independent: and of all anti-monarchicall, anti-Parliamentall, anti-synodicall, and anarchicall paradoxes of papists, prelates, Anabaptists, Arminians, Socinians, Brownists, or Independents: whose old and new objections to the contrary, are here fully answered. / By William Prynne, of Lincolnes Inne, Esquire.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1645 (1645)	Wing P4115; Thomason E259_1; ESTC R212479	202,789	171

Edicts and to ratifie their Canons against them sending their Legates to the Emperor for that purpose The Bishops in the third generall Councell of Ephesus write to Gallimar King of Persia supplicating and beseeching his Majesty to ayd Religion which was impugned and speedily to correct their madnesse and tyranny that inclined to heresie Yea they beseeched Theodosius the Emperor that by his godly Letters hee would ratifie and confirme the Decree of the Councell and Theodosius of blessed memory CONFIRMED ALL THINGS BY A GENERALL LAW that were determined in that generall Councell saith the first Action of the Councell of Chalcedon Martianus the Emperor in the fourth generall Councell of Chalcedon speaks thus Wee after the example of Constantine have thought good to bee present in this Synod TO CONFIRME THE FAITH not to shew our power Yea this Emperor in the close of that Councell saith SACRO NOSTRAE SERENITATIS EDICTO VENERANDAM Synodum CONFIRMAMVS By the holy Edict of our Majesty Wee confirme that Reverend Synod Which hee ratified with this Edict Let no Clergy-man Souldier or any of any other condition endeavour to treat of the Christian faith henceforth publikely in assemblies met together and hearing them seeking from hence an occasion of tumult or perfidiousnesse For hee doth injury to the judgement of the most reverend Synod if any shall strive to debate againe things once judged and rightly ordered when as those things concerning the Christian faith which are now controverted are known to be defined by the Priests which met together at Chalcedon by Our Precepts and decreed according to the Apostolicall Expositions and Institutions of 318. holy Fathers and of 150. more in this Royall City For punishment shall not bee wanting to the contemners of this holy Law because they not onely goe against the Faith truly expounded but also prophane the holy mysteries to Jewes and Pagans by this contention Therefore if hee be a Clerke who shall publikely adventure to treat of Religion let him be removed from the fellowship of Clergy-men but if a Souldier let him be spoyled of his Girdle likewise others who are guilty of this crime if they be Free-men let them be banished out of this Royall City and also by the Judiciary Power subjugated to competent punishments but if they be Servants let them be corrected with most severe chastisements The Emperors Gratian Valentinian and Theodosius by this Imperiall Edict confirmed the Decrees of the first generall Councell of Nice long after they were made as Constantine the great had done at their enacting Vnius Summi Dei Nomen ubique celebretur Niceneae Fidei dudum à majoribus traditae divinae Religionis testimonio atque affertione firmatae OBSERVANTIA SEMPER MANSVRA TENEAT c. Yea Pope Leo himselfe in sundry Epistles exhorts Theodosius Leo Martianus the Emperors and Pulcheria the Emperesse to defend the Catholike Faith concluded and defined in the Councells of Nice Ephesus and Chalcedon against the Heretiques that opposed them to ratifie and maintaine the Decrees of these Councells by their Imperiall authority to represse the Heretiques and disanull the Constitutions of the 2. Councell of Ephesus contrary to them and not to suffer those things to be redebated which their Fathers according to the Apostles Doctrine had confirmed nor yet to suffer those Heresies to spring up again which they had condemned A cleare Evidence that the Canons and Determinations of generall Councells are no wayes obligatory and altogether invalid unlesse ratified by Imperiall Edicts In the Councell of Chalcedon Action 1. when some would have added an Explanation to the Canon of the Councell of Nice the Egyptians Orientalls and the Bishops that consented with them cryed out Nemo suscepit adjectionem nemo diminutionem Quae in Nicca constituta sunt teneant Catholicus IMPERATOR HOC JVSSIT After this upon another occasion the whole Synod saith Quod Impertalis praecepit autoritas omnibus modis observandum est Justum est quae à piissimo Principe praecepta sunt effectus mancipari Et necesse nobis erit in omnibus Imperatoris Christi amici cedere jussioni Omnia referantur ad cognitionem clementiae Imperialis Postulamus ejus referri clementiae Et si jusserit criminali causa alterum pro altero decertare hoc suscipimus praecipuè quia universalem praecepit fieri Synodum Et necesse est majores causas in eum reservare Concilium The first generall Councell of Constantinople with the Decrees and proceedings thereof were ratified by the Imperiall Edicts of Justinian the Emperor who summoned it yea swayed and directed it what to doe and how to proceed causing Pope Vigilius to give an account of his Faith therein and ratifying the Faith and Canons of the foure first generall Councells In the third Councell of Toledo King Reccaredus who summoned it sate President therein making two Orations to the Bishops assembled in it exhibiting to them a Confession of the Christian Faith subscribed by himselfe and his Queene Badda with their owne hands in these words Ego Reccaredus Rex fidem hanc sanctam veram Confessionem quam unà per totum orbem Catholica confitetur Ecclesia corde retinens ore affirmans mea dextra Deo protegente subscripsi Ego Badda gloriosa Regina hanc fidem quam credidi suscepi manu mea de toto corde subscripsi This Confession of the Faith to which was annexed the Creeds of the Councells of Nice Constantinople and Chalcedon the King commanded to be publikely read in the Councell to the end that it might be examined and confirmed therein which was done accordingly all the Bishops in that Councell subscribing it and not onely they but likewise the Presbyters and Deacons yea all the Nobles Senators and Elders of the whole Gothish Nation among whom were Gussinus Fonsa Afrila Achila Flavius with other Noble-men ET OMNES SENIORES GOTHORVM ET TOTIVS GENTIS GOTHICAE who were present and had voyces in that Councell subscripserunt After which Subscription of this Profession of the Faith the King made another Oration to the Councell commanding them to make certaine Canons for the Government of the Church and Reformation of Manners De caetero autem prohibendis insolentium moribus ME A VOBIS CONSENTIENTE CLEMENTIA sententiis terminate districtioribus firmiore disciplina quae facienda non sunt prohibete ea quae fieri debent immobili constitutione firmate Whereupon they compiled 23. Canons the second of them for the reciting of the Creed in all Churches every Lords day hath this clause in it CONSVLTV piissimi gloriosissimi Reccardi Regis constituit Synodus The eighth this Jubente autem consentiente Domino Reccaredo Rege id praecepit Sacerdotale Concilium The tenth this Annuente gloriosissimo Domino nostro Reccaredo hoc sanctum affirmat Concilium The fourteenth this Suggerente Concilio id gloriosissimus Dominus noster Canonibus

and of absolute authority within it self subject to no other Jurisdiction then that of Christ his Word and Spirit and not to any other particular Congregation Synod or Nationall Church or humane power whatsoever Therefore the Parliament and Assembly can make no Canons nor Rules to binde it nor presc●ibe any Church-government or Discipline to it Brother this is the summe of your whole Book and it grieves me to see so many strange Parodoxes piled up together to support an Independent Fabrick by one of your yeares and Iudgement Give me leave therefore to discover your manifold over-sights in this particular by such demonstrations as you shall not be able to gain say First then I say that the whole Church of Christ is but one intire Mysticall Body whereof Christ is the supreame Spirituall Head and Governour and all particular Churches only members of this intire Body as the head hand feet are members of the Naturall Body not absolute bodies of themselves as every house or Parish in a City is a member of the whol City Every Company or Regiment in an Army a member of that Realme not absolute bodies Cities Armies Kingdomes of themselves That this is truth we have sundry expresse Resolutions of Scripture in positive tearms as the 1 Cor. 12. 12 13 14. 26. 27. and in truth the whole Chapter Ephes ● 22 23. c. 2. 14. 15. to the end c. 4. 11. to 17. c. 5. 23. to 33. Col. 1. 18. 24. c. 2. 17. 19. which you may peruse at leisure Ephes 4. 3. to 7. Endeavouring to keepe the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace For there is ONE BODY one Spirit one Lord one Faith one Baptisme One God and Father of all who is above all and through all and in all And John 17. 20. 21. 23. Neither pray I for these alone but for them also which shall believe on me through their word THAT THEY ALL MAY BE ONE as thou father art one and I am in thee that they also MAY BE ONE IN US and may be made perfect IN ONE Hence the Scripture usually expresseth the whol Catholike Church of Christ which allages hitherto have believed to be but one so far as to make it an Article of their Creed under singular titles as the Church A WOMAN MY LOVE MY DOVE my Sister my Spouse a Garden a Vineyard a City a Congregation an Assembly Sion Jerusalem an House a Flocke a Body and the like to note it unity that it is but ONE intire spirituall Corporation though distributed into severall particular Congregations scattered ●ver the face of the whole World This being an indubitable verity strikes off the head of your Galiah and subverts the very foundation of Independent Congregations which would be absolute and compleat spirituall Bodies within themselves and no members of a Catholike or Nationall Church Secondly If all the particular Churches in the World bee in reality but one intire Body and Church of Christ then by the self-same reason likewise all the particular Congregations within one Nation Kingdome Republike united in one civill Corporation under one Head and temporall government are but one and the selfe-same Church and members one of another not absolute Independent Congregations of themselves subordinate to no other even as all the particular persons in a House make up but one Family all the particular Houses Parishes in a City but one City all the severall Cities Counties in a Kingdome one Realme and all the Nations on the earth but one world of men These cleare principles of Divinity Policy Nature experience none can or may deny unlesse he hath lost his sences or means to subvert all humane Relations and Societies And my Brother acknowledging the whole Nation of the Jewes to be but one intire Nationall Church though divided into sundry Synagogues and particular Congregations as is evident by Acts 15. 24. FOR MOSES OF OLD TIME hath IN EVERY CITY them that Preach him being read in THE SYNAGOGVES EVERY SABBATH DAY compared with Psa 74. 8. Matth. 6. 2. 5. c. 7. 1. 8. c. 9. 35. c. 23. 34. Mark 1. 21. 23. 29. 39 c. 3. 1. n. 5. 22. Luke 4. 15. to 44. c. 13. 10. c. 21. 12. John 6. 59. c. 9. 22. c. 18. 20. c. 10. 2 Acts 9. 2. 20. c. 13. 5. 14. 42. c. 14. 1. c. 17. 1. 10. c. 18. 4. 7. 13. 26. c. 19. 8. c. 22. 12. must of necessity subscribe to this conclusion issuing naturally from it that all particular Congregations in any one Christian Realm Nation Republike are but one intire Church though divided into severall squadrons for necessity and conveniency as one house is into many Roomes one City into many Streets Parishes companies wards one Kingdome into divers Counties Provinces One Parliament into severall Houses Sub-Committees as there is occasion one Armie into severall Regiments Brigades Companies Troopes Thirdly It is at clear as Noonday That in all Civill or Ecclesiasticall Corporations Congregations or Societies of men united into one common Politique Body the whol body or greater part hath by the Law of God Nature Nations a lawful inherent jurisdiction over every particular member or lesser part to make Laws and common Rules to obliege them for the safety peace benefit of the whol Body In all Parliaments Councels of State or War Cities Corporations Societies Courts of Iustice Chapters Committees yea in all elections of Magistrates Ministers Knights or Burgesses of Parliament Majors of Cities Masters Wardens of Companies heads or fellows of Colledges Church-wardens and the like the whol Body or major voyce bindes the lesser number all the whol body ever over-rules the parts And it must needs be so els there could be no Rule Order Government in any of them if one member only or the lesser part should over-rule and prescribe Lawes unto the whole or greater part not they to them The like rule holds firme and hath ever taken place 〈…〉 ●●mall generall Nation Provinciall Parochiall or Congregation 〈…〉 Synods Convocations Assemblies or meetings in all matters of 〈…〉 Discipline Government Lawes Rules Edicts Censure Descition 〈…〉 Yea in Independent Churches themselves the Votes Orders 〈◊〉 determinations of the whole or major part of the Congregation binde all the other dissenting as well as consenting members neither will any Independent Congregation admit of any into their new society but such who shall first submit to the Covenant Orders Government Rules and Discipline that Congregation or the major part thereof hath elected established Fourthly It is a principle of the Law of Nature and common Reason which all Republikes Churches Societies of men in every age till this present have admitted that the Lawes Ordinances Decrees of the greatest Civill or Ecclesiasticall Assemblies where the whole Realme Republike Church or Nation are personally or representatively present by their deputies or Proxies obliege all inferiour Corporations Societies Churches Congregations Persons within their

severall Iurisdictions to submission and reall obedience especially when just and agreeable to Gods Word or at least to passive whiles in force where unjust or contrary to the Word Hence the publike Laws Ordinances Edicts of Parliaments and general Assemblies of the Estates have in all Kingdomes Ages without the least dispute oblieged regulated all Corporations Societies Persons within their severall jurisdictions because they are the Representative Body and supreame power of those Realms where all are virtually present and consenting when all or the major part at least assent Hence the whole World have ever held the determioations Creeds Canons Decrees of Oeumenicall Nationall or Provinciall Councels ratified by Emperors Kings and Parliaments obligatory in point of jurisdiction to all Churches persons within their jurisdictions And in truth the chiefe end use of Parliaments Councels Synods approved by God and the higher powers ordained by him is not to advise admonish perswade debate or deliver their opinions of doubts errors mischiefes for this every private man hath power to do and containes no stampe of jurisdistion Power or Authority in it But authoritatively to prescribe Lawes Canons Rules and determinations oblieging otherrs to obedience under paine of exemplary censures and penalties Sixthly It cannot be gainsayd but every man and woman in the world considered meerly as such or as single persons stript of all their naturall civill or Ecclesiasticall relations are of equall Authority and have no jurisdiction power or superiority at all one over another no more than fellow servants fellow Citizens or neighbors out of office have over one another yet look upon the selfe-same persons as they stand cloathed with their severall Relations as members of a family Corporation City Kingdome Church and their very relations make them subordinate and lyable to sundry superiour jurisdictions not only by way of counsell but command Thus children servants wives Pulpits are by a naturall relation established by a Morall Law and sundry divine Precepts subject to all the just Lawes Orders commands of their Parents Masters Husbands not onely by way of Counsell or advise which they may obey or reject at pleasure but of Iurisdiction and Authority so farre as to be enforced to obedience and justly punished for disobedience or neglect according to the quality of the offence and contempt Thus inferiours of all sorts in a politicke relation onely as subjects to their Princes to all subordinate Magistrates Officers in their respective places of power Kingdomes to their Parliaments Cities to their Majors Aldermen and Common-Councell Companies to their Masters Wardens and Assistants Souldiers to their Generals Commanders of all Rankes Schollars to their Tutors Colledges to their Rectors mariners to their Masters both by the Law of God Nature Nations Dictat of common reason are subject to all just orders Mandates of these their superiours to which they must yeeld obedience● under paine of such punishments as are answerable to their contempt and disobedience The same rule and reason holds as firmely in all Ecclesiasticall Relations Take severall private Christians as Christians or severall Parishes or Congregations as they are such and it is certain one of them hath no Iurisdiction nor power at all over another in any Ecclesiasticall matters either to prescribe Lawes to or inflict censures upon one another but only a power to exhort admonish reprove advise or assist one another in a brotherly way But yet looke upon the selfe-same particular persons Churches as Members of a Parochiall or Nationall Church and then in this Relation they are and ought to be subject to the just rules precepts Canons Orders of the Ministers and whole Congregation of which they are Actuall Members even in point of conscience and every particular Church must and ought readily to submit to the just Canons Constitutions Orders determinations Ecclesiasticall Censures of the whole Representative Nationall or Provinciall Church Councell ●ynod ratified by Authority of Parliament in a Regular way under paine of Ob●inacy Contempt Disobedience and exemplary punishment there being the selfe-same reason and equity for severall combined Churches in a Councel Synod Presbytery to have a coe●cive power over every particular Church within their limits as for any particular Congregation to claim or exerise a jurisdiction in point of direction or correction over any or every particular member of it Our Independents no doubt will grant that if two or three severall Congregations unite themselves into one Church they do by vertue of this union become all lyable to the Iurisdiction Canons Orders Determinations Censures of that one Church and those who whiles divided had no authority nor power but onely of their owne members have by this union a Iurisdiction over the Members of all these Churches thus eonjoyned into one As it is with several persons united into one Corporation Society Church or when severall powers Or jurisdictions meet and joyne together in one as the Parliaments Commissioners Armies of two Provinces Kingdome in one Parliament Councel Army the Lords Commons Knights and Burgesses of every County Citty Town and Burrough in both Realmes in one Parliament they have by this their union the whole power and authority of both united Kingdomes Armies Parliaments and a joynt Iurisdiction over both which they had not before whiles seperated even as a Major or King hath when as severall Cities Townes Villages Kingdoms as our ancient Saxon Heptarchy are all conjoyned into one City Realm and therby subordinated to one new Iurisdiction If this then must be yeelded to me it will inevitably follow by the selfe-same reason that severall particular Churches being united together in one Synod Councell Assembly Parliament or Presbytery even for this very end and purpose to prescribe such generall Canons erect such a uniforme Church-government and Discipline for the publicke peace and benefit of the Church as shall equally binde all Churches victually present and combined in it must have a lawfull Iuridicall Legislative power in them to make such Laws Canons as shall binde all particular Congregations not onely as advises or brotherly counsels but as vigorous Lawes which subject the particular persons or Churches who transgresse or contemne them to condigne punishment as the reasons Scriptures formerly alleaged to prove that humane Lawes obliege the conscience in point of obedience abundantly demonstrate These uncontrolable verities never yet so much as doubted in any Age till this clearely discover the falsity and vanity of my Brothers objection to which I will give this further direct answer 1. I deny that every particular Church or Congregation in a Christian State where there are many adjacent Churches under the selfe same Civill Government is an absolute compleat independent Body City or Republike of it selfe as is objected to all intents and purposes without dependency on or relation or subordination to any other True it is that in some respects so far as concerns its own private interest it is a compleate body having a Minister