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A47083	Of the heart and its right soveraign, and Rome no mother-church to England, or, An historical account of the title of our British Church, and by what ministry the Gospel was first planted in every country with a remembrance of the rights of Jerusalem above, in the great question, where is the true mother-church of Christians? / by T.J.	Jones, Thomas, 1622?-1682.	1678 (1678)	Wing J996_VARIANT; ESTC R39317	390,112	653

And so much for the fift The 6th and last head and supposition propos'd is SECTION XIII That the Primay of the See of Canterbury as it is setled by our own Kings and Laws is Canonical and Regular THat the Primacy of the See of Canterbury is from the Grace and pleasure of our Kings and Laws who can translate it when they see fit for good and honourable ends and causes or unite it to London whence it was wrongfully torn away by Rome which requires the clearing of these three points 1. Touching the Old Metropolitan Sees of the Brittains where they were before Monk Augustine 's entry What makes a Metropolitan See and which had the chief Primacy whether London or York or Caerleon 2. How these or any of them ceas'd and discontinued and how Canterbury came to be erected continued and confirm'd 3. That the Protestant Confirmation of the See of Canterbury is according to the Canons of the Church as well as the Law of this Land Touching the first Some hardly will allow that the Brittains had any Archbishops at all as a Histor proaemio Newbrigensis or if they had that there is little or no certainty where they b G. Malmesbury prolog l. 1. de Gestis Anglorum Pontificum stood as Will. of Malmesbury yet this last amongst others that write of Glastonbury mentions that the great St. David c Usher p. 98. Archbishop of Menevia or St. David came with seven Bishops whereof he was Primate to the Dedication of that Church And Bede mentions d Bede lib. 2. c. 2. seven Bishops of the Brittains that gave Augustine a meeting about Worcester And the Brittish History and Hoveden e Hoveden pars poster p. 454. mentions the Archbishop they had over them and their continuance under the Archbishoprick of St. David without any subjection to Canterbury or Rome till the time of Henry the first Naming the Suffragan Sees Llandaff Llanbadern Bangor St. Asaph Hereford Worcester Chester But the Archbishops of London and York were forc'd from their Sees long before about the Arrival of Augustine which two great Cities that they were Archeipiscopal Sees is gatherable not only from the Brittish History and the passage therein received amongst their e Plat in Eleuth Historians as well as ours touching King Lucius erecting those three Archbishopricks here in the place of the Archflamins over the rest of the Bishops And also from Pope Gregory's sending his f Bede lib. 1. c. 29. Palls to these two and no other Cities that lay open to them for Usurpers follow the track of the right owners But also the appearance and subscriptions of the three Archbishops at the Council of g Concil Arelat apud Spelm. Arles from the Province of Brittain Anno 314. puts the matter past doubt Eborius Bishop of York Restitutus of London Adelphius of Caerleon for their Title of Bishops there hinders not but that they were Archbishops and Metropolitans for other known Archbishops and Pope Sylvester himself are therein mention'd with the Title of Bishops only or how else could Dole eclipse the Archbishoprick of Tours upon Sampsons score from hence If Sampson had been no Archbishop here And whereas Ecclesiastical Sees are observ'd to take their Division and Order from the Civil Dioceses and Provinces which is no just exception against that Government as if it were further from God or a jus Divinum because it follows Order therein which is from God saith St. Paul 1 Cor. 14.33 It may be a little doubted whether the Church was guided in the establishment of these Sees by the Roman or by the Brittish division of this Land For if by the Roman the Sees must be more or less according to the number of Provinces h Usher c. 5. p 95 96. Brittain at first and in the time of Lucius being but one Province made two in the time of Severus the upper and the lower Brittain four in the time of Constantine Britannia prima Britannia secunda Maxima and Flavia Caesariensis and Valentia the fifth added in the time of Valentian whereby it should follow to which opinion Cambrensis was once inclin'd that there were not under five Archbishopricks in this Isle And if by the Brittish division of Provinces in use before the Arrival of the Romans whereof mention is left in the remainders of our Moelmutian Laws or Dunwallo Moel-mûd who flourished Anno Mundi 3529. York had been to stand out and to give place to Edenburgh The words of that Law being these i Fragm legum Moelmut apud G. Moris de Llansilin Vn goron Arbennig a gynhel-hir yn ynis Brydain ac yn Lhundain Cadw'r goron a thair talaith a gynhel-hir dani un ynghymrhu ben Baladr arall yn nhîn Eidhin yn y gogloed ar drydedh yngherniw That is there is one Imperial Crown maintain'd in the Isle of Brittain and that Crown to be kept at London And three Princely Coronets are contain'd under it One in Wales of the chief Line the other in Edenburgh in the North and the third in Cornwall whereby a fourth Metropolitical See at Cornwall or Caer-eske or Excester should have place whereof in Story there is no mention but only the three Archbishopricks of York and London and Caerleon ar-wysc which division and number Archbishop Vsher proves by a cloud of 20 or 30 Authors Brittish English and Forreign It being probable that York in those first times supplied the place of Edenburgh because that it was Constantine's place of birth and because Edenburgh was out of the Roman World and Severus his wall in the beginnings of Christianity here That which constituted Metropolitan Sees Originally and before the Magistrate became Christian was the Necessity of Order which cannot be where there is a multitude without some Union by a kind of predicamental subordination among the parts under one chief which the light of nature suggests in Families and Armies and Nations and Notions that particulars should be rank'd under Generals as are the Creatures under God And Magistracy was constituted to follow and improve this order of Gods Original founding as Artificial Logick to improve natural being both in effect the same And therefore mention is made in the Council of Nice about 300 years after Christ of Patriarchal Sees in use and Ancient Custom long before Constantine or any other Magistrate became Christian the Church supplying that defect by the instinct of order as nature supplyes the want or breaches in our bones by a callus or hardness of the like kind and St. Paul was of opinion that the law and instinct of nature was jure Divino and from God Rom. 2.14 But when Magistrates became Christian to them it ever afterwards belong'd as the Lords and moderators of order by Divine constitution Rom. 13. to found and constitute and translate Metropolitical or Patriarchall Sees as they saw good and convenient for their Territories Upon this score it might justly seem hard and strange

make no other account of the King of kings and of every thing that is called God who by their Principles and Practices shall be reduc'd to serve their private ends which are with them Superiour to them all The fate of the Church may be observ'd to follow that of the Crown and Empire it rose and fell of late years with the fall and Restoration of our last Kings we observed the like Sympathy in it towards the Brittish Crown heretofore Therefore all good Christians ought by their lives and Prayers to support our Brittish Monarchy that the Church and Religion may ever prosper in its safety 2 Tim. 2.12 The Civil Regality of our Kings cannot be destroyed but by a stronger Forreign Power or Domesticks broyls which God prevent And nothing ever hath and doth promote our divisions and rents and broyls more than the cherishing of Popery within our state which engenders Jealousies foments our Sects and sets on dissenters to affront and trouble our Church and Government and fits us for Invasion by division neither can their Ecclesiastical Regality be any way more Eclips'd or extinguished than by vitious scandalous living or Antichristian errours for how can he be a Head or Primate in Christ's Church who stands condemn'd and Excommunicate by its Laws from being a Member Truth and Holiness being as essentially requisite to the Church which is the ground and Pillar of truth 1 Tim. 3. and to every Member thereof as his being a Christian The neglect whereof destroyed our Brittish Church in Vortigern and its corrupt Princes heretofore as Subjection to the Pope depraved and enslaved the Conquering English and their Church all along Invasion and Captivity are best kept off by bolting out Popery and Debauchery A Prince that is Orthodox and Vertuous and Vigilant and Valiant a Quod pulchrius manus Deorun quam castus Sanctus diis similimus Princeps Plin. Paneg. is the greatest pledge and sign from Heaven of good weather in Church as well as State in such a Reign which therefore ought to be as it is order'd by the Church the daily Prayers of all good Christians throughout their lives The second point is how these Primacies or any of them ceased and discontinued and how Canterbury came to be erected and confirm'd in stead And first of the Imperial Primacy of York The See of York is conceived to have continued from Faganus or Wogan f being used for v by the Brittains the first Archbishop thereof in the time of King Lucius about 160 after Christ to the departure of Sampson about the year 500. from the Saxon fury into Armorica or little Brittain b Usher p. 74. 75. with Six or Seven of his suffragan Bishops with him whom after Ages called there the Seven Saints of Brittain whereof Maclovius was one who gave name to c Usher 533. S● Maloes who were there received and preferr'd and Sampson made Bishop of Dole and Primate of little Brittain and above Tours as before But the Imperial Pall in time came to be over-rul'd by the Papall King Arthur recovering that Territory shortly after from the Saxons settles Pyramus his Chaplain Archbishop there about 522. whose successors there continued till Thadioc the last Archbishop was driven into Wales together with Theonus the last Archbishop of London about the time or little before the Arrival of Augustine the Monk as before an Argument of Romish foul play About the year 601. Pope Gregory takes order with Augustine to make d Bede lib. 1. c. 29. lib 2. c. 4. York with London Archbishopricks a new with dependance upon Rome Ad Eboracum civitatem te volumus Episcopum Mittere c. We would have you send a Bishop for the City of York whom you shall think fit to ordain but with this proviso that if that City and its Neighbourhood shall receive the word of God He may ordain 12 Bishops under him and enjoy the honour of a Metropolitan for We intend if God lend life to send him a Pall likewise by the help of God Neither shall he be any way Subject to the jurisdiction of the See of London the Priority of the one to the other shall be according to the Seniority of their Consecration When Edwin King of Northumberland in the year 627 after the death of Gregory and Augustine made Paulinus who Converted and Baptized him Archbishop here he was Ordain'd by Justus Archbishop of Canterbury with this Memorandum e Antiquit Eccles p 14. as Canterbury is Subject to Rome whence it had its Faith so is York to be Subject to Canterbury which sent to it its Bishops and Teachers thus they agreed to divide the spoyls But Paulinus was soon routed out of all the North by Cadwalhan upon King Edwins overthrow in 633. And the See manag'd afterwards by Bishops of Brittish Ordination and Principles Aidan Finan c. for 30 years who were f Usher p. 78. ex S●eephan qui Aedd● Bedae ●quali ●im Dunelmenf Metropolitan Bishops of York yet had no Pall and chose to reside at Lindisfarne And Ceadda who was rightly Consecrated Archbishop there by Brittish Ordination was insolently and illegally laid aside by Theodorus as before whereby that Church recovering its Pall in Egbert became Subject to the Roman and so continued untill the time of our Protestant Restoration Conquests and Invasions of Countreys being common and tolerable amongst the Captains of the World and especially Heathen But the subduing and stealing of one another's Churches and Diocesses by Christians and Catholicks not so in the Church of God London continued a Metropolitan Church for 400 years and above from the time of King Lucius g Usher p. 69. ex Simonis Baldoc Episcopi Londinensis Chronico tabula pensili Ecclesiae St. Pet●i in Cornhill to the Arrival of Augustine who Translated that its dignity to Canterbury against Law reason and the Canons of the Church Thean or Theon●s being her first Archbishop who is said to have built the Church of St. Peters Cornhill g Usher p. 69. ex Simonis Baldoc Episcopi Londinensis Chronico tabula pensili Ecclesiae St. Pet●i in Cornhill in the time of King Lucius by the help of Cyranus the Kings chief Butler and Elwan her second before Embassadour with Dwywan and Medwin from the King to Pope Eleutherius who built a Library adjoyning to the said Church which continued for many Ages to the time of Leland who saw it And her last Brittish Bishop being Theonus likewise who was driven with Thadioc into Wales by a New Roman-Heathenish Persecution as afore Pope Gregory h Bede lib. 1. c. 29. c. 33. Antiq. Eccles p. 34. intended to settle his Romish Primacy at London where the Brittish was before as appears from his own Epistles to Monk Augustine and Mathew Westminster and Malmesbury and Polydor Virgil. But what induc'd Augustine to Translate it to Canterbury against the first Orders of his Pope or what

made the Infallible Pope to change his mind and him and his Successors i Bed lib 2. c. 8.18 Boniface Honorius c. by one Pall after another to confirm its settlement there there are several conjectures amongst Antiquaries and Historians Who agree and confess it was a great injury and disgrace to London Math. Westminster imputes it to fate and cites the Prophecy of Merlin k Galfrid lib 12. c. 17.18 Dignitas Londoniae adornabit Doroberniam W. of Malmsbury to his l Guil. Malmesb. Initio lib de gestis Pontifi lib 1. c. 4. welcom with King and People at Canterbury where he abode 16 years Sedulitate Hospitis Regis Civium charitate captus which argues he had not so much welcom at London Kenulph King of Mercia's Epistle to Leo the third saith it was agreed by English Parliament Cunctis gentis nostrae sapientibus which is the best title we heard yet but that of his Father settling it at Lichfeild that the Primacy should be there where the Corps of St. Augustine their first English-Bishops lyes interred in St. Peters Church Consecrated by his Successor Laurence who belike knew his mind And therefore y Lambard Peramb p. 79. Mr. Lambard in his Perambulation of Kent delivers his judgment thus But I think verily that he meant thereby to leave a Glorious Monument of his swelling pride and vanity whereunto I am the rather led by the observation of his stately behaviour towards the Brittish Bishops and some other of his Acts that savour greatly of vainglory ambition and insolence But it may be well imagin'd it was to get Royal Protection though Heathenish for his Forreign unlawful Primacy For therefore Gregory design'd the Pall first for London because he conceived it to be the Royal City of the Nation Et ad id tempus alterius obscurae urbis notitia Romanos non Attigisset The fame of Canterbury was then so obscure that the Romans had not heard thereof saith z G. Malmesbury de Gestis Pontif l. 1. c. 1. Malmesbury when as London was better known unto them from Roman Authors and Western Councils But when Augustine satisfied them at Rome that Civitas Dorobernia was Caput gentis Anglorum a diebus Paganorum as the reason of the translation is assign'd in Pope Boniface his a Antiquit. Eccles p. 14. Letter to Justus the the fourth Archbishop of Canterbury that since the Pagans prevail'd over the Brittish Christians Canterbury became the chief City and the Royal Seat of Hengist's Successors among whom King Ethelbert was most powerful over all these parts where London stood as far as Humber they conceived fit thereupon to alter their Resolutions and that the Mitre should follow the Crown for support and the rather because the Londoners who were most of them reduc'd Brittains as before was shewed were averse to his Novel Superstitions and usurp'd Primacy and the Diminution of their Metropolitical dignity thereby contriv'd through his means and despite as appear'd by their expulsion of Mellitus whom he constituted his first Bishop there as he also Consecrated Laurentius in his life time against the Canons of the Church to succeed him at Canterbury least b Lamb. Peramb p. 79. upon his death the Primacy might return to London And though it very probably did a few years after his Cantuarian succession was extinct when Ced of Brittish Institution and Ordination was advanc'd to the See of London yet that Brittish Restoration was soon suppress'd and the Romish Usurpation re-erected at the coming in of Theodore and his Successors to be Archbishops of Canterbury as before whose power here prevail'd as well as over the rest of Europe by the secret Counsel and permission of Providence till the Reformation without much interruption saving that when the Controversy was hot between King Henry the second and Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury Gilbert Folioth Bishop of London c Usher p. 71. took his time before it was the fatal time to recover his Archiepiscopal right and Dignity from Canterbury but in vain although animated with Prophesies at that time that London should be a Metropolitan Church again at the return of the Brittains into the Island as Fitz-Stephen reports who writ about that time But those Prophesies had not their accomplishments in general esteem till the days of our Henryes 7th and 8th Wherein though the Primacy was not restor'd to London yet it was restor'd to Brittain and rescu'd from all Roman Servitude Jurisdiction Nomination Bulls and Palls and Tribute and Oaths of Obedience to the Pope and the mark and title of d Antiquit. Ecclesiasticae in Cranmero p. 329. Legate of the Apostolick See chang'd by decree of Synod into that of Primate and Metropolitan of all England as stands the state and dignity thereof at this day No more depending upon Rome's Schismatical usurpation but upon the consent and establishment of our Brittish Kings and Church and e 25 H. 8. c. 2. Laws and therefore enjoyed from that time forward by its several Prelates and obeyed by all Ecclesiastical Subjects under it with a better Conscience because according to the Laws of the Land and of the Church without any wrong or prejudice to Right Owners or forc'd obedience to Wrongful Vsurpers And the third Metropolitical Chaire of Brittain that of Caerleon whose beginning f Bede lib. 2. c. 2. Bede intimates with others to be from the time of Lucius and Eleutherius continued after Austin to the time of the Normans whose suffragans gave Austin the meeting at his coming hither In parte Britonum adhuc vigebat Christianitas c. Amongst the Brittains saith he the Christian Religion flourished still which since the first time they received it from Eleutherius never fail'd afterwards amongst them And after Augustine arriv'd he found in their Province seven Bishopricks with an Archbishoprick furnish'd with most Religious Prelates and several Abbeys wherein the Lords flock kept the right course But though they had their Christianity from that time and long before as hath been prov'd yet clear it is they had not all g Usher p. 80 88. their Episcopal Sees in the parts of Wales beyond the Severn so long for several of the Bishopricks there were founded upon the Saxons troubles and the repair of the Brittains from Loegr thither for peace and shelter For so it is manifest g Usher p. 75 76 80 88. St. Kentigern St Davids Contemporary founded the Bishoprick of St. Asaph in a Corner of the Countrey and g Usher p. 75 76 80 88. Mailgwyn Gwynedh who was chosen Monarch sometime after Arthur erected Bangor in another Corner about 560. And g Usher p. 75 76 80 88. Landaff acknowledges Dubritius for its first Bishop or Archbishop as some will have it yet the Bishopricks of Hereford as the name in Brittish imports Antiquity † Hen vetus Fsordh via Henffordh and Worcester and Gloucester c. where K. Lucius

ordinary prudence exactly gratifying the Italian sagacity by such useful Hostilities And contriving on the other hand to cut down all fences and securities of this Church and repeal its penal Laws out of generous Charity and for more free commerce with Ingenuous Roman Catholicks Whereby their numerous and Industrious Emissaries may over-run the Land and disturb and seduce our people with greater safety Where a Protestant may be discern'd at the Elbow of the Jesuite and a Jesuite at the Elbow of the Protestant in every page both contriving to assist one another against a Sun-shine or a Rainy day by betraying this Church for clear it is that the Italian out-wits the Jew in his part and the lurch befalls the English side For though the Protestant Vulgar think their cause well defended yet the more discerning Conclave finds its designs more Effectually promoted by such Arts. How do such deserve to be admir'd and noted for their Wit that can serve two contrary Masters with success and bid fair to be uppermost let what party that will prevail and be rewarded by both as the open Champions of the one and the secret Factors of the other Neither do they yet less deserve to be scorn'd and detested by all wise and true hearted English-men and Protestants for such scandalous wiles and abominable doubling and betraying their Mother Church with a kiss Others of duller studies and Epicurean Inclinations judge no method better than that of Balaam at Baal Peor Numb 24.15 2 Pet. 2.15 Whose stratagem according to the Chaldee Paraphrast was thus laid with Balak That the people of Israel could not be curs'd or weakned but by dividing them from their God That this was to be best effected by bringing the fairest Daughters of Moab into the field instead of an Army to allure them to their Embraces which soon took effect For the People began to commit Whoredom with the Daughters of Moab And the Anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel Till the zeal of Phineas put a stay unto it Numb 25.1 2 8.11 To the like kind of Prophets and Romish suggestions and connivance we owe the present deluge of Debauchery amongst our Gentry and Superiours whereby men are fitted by Spiritual wounds and servitudes for Romish Plaisters and our Church and its guides disgraced and a greater deluge of judgment and destruction is hanging over us unless God grant us Grace timely to repent out of love and commiseration to our selves and Countrey as well as duty to God whom we have so unthankfully provoked And least Kings themselves who can have no ends but God and the publick should bring too great an happiness upon a Nation by taking the charge thereof themselves They suggest the management of the Reins of Government to be difficult and toilsom for Princes to tire their Arms or Brains with and that others may be better trusted with such fatigues and Princes to take their pleasure and if trusted than trusted for good and all by all means for to trust and suspect were disingenious and contradictory whereby the Prince shall be divested and depos'd from most of his Authority and a Juncto of petty Tyrants raised and multiplied to act under the shelter of the Government against its Interest and honour like unskilful Mountebanks that take liberty to kill under the colour of a License Whereas in truth nothing is more easie and plain especially in some Nations than the Rulers work and office For what more easie than to know good from evil which a Child will soon arrive to in difficult and knotty points they have Counsels and Tribunals to assist as Moses had his Exod. 18. And what more Divine than to be an encourager of the one and a Terrour to the other Or can be more their Interest and strength and blessing and Acclamation and praise from God and men Provided that they take a Text or two for their direction as my present Text to do all from the heart as to the Lord For none are able to Act Christ to the full both in the temper of his first and second coming as Princes may by Meekness in the first place towards such as are tractable by Resolution and severity in the next towards such as prove Incorrigible And that other Text Rom. 12.8 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He that ruleth let him do it with diligence not consuming his time and thoughts upon mean and and common Recreations much less on scandalous and sinful pleasures but to make his Government his entertainment and pastime For what can be more the sport and health of a Prince than the prosperity of his people And what Musick more delighting in a Generous Eare than the Te Deums of Orphans and Widows and the Oppressed for their rescue and Protection Any Squire or lusty Clown can equal a Prince in skill and content at Hunting of a Fox or Deer But to detect and hunt Wolves in Sheeps cloathing out of the Church or the wild Bore out of Christs Vinyard and Foxes from Publick Tribunals and Sees and noisom Vermin that prey upon their innocent Neighbours out of every corner of the Land This is Game for a Prince wherein no Subject can be his Rival or share or partake in his Delight and Glory And what a glorious happiness doth it ever prove to a Nation when Kings inspect their own Affairs and trust not too far to others and are led by the heart more than by the ear by God more than by Man by Conscience and Christ its rule which can never deceive them than by Man who is a lyar which can and often doth deceive and betray them into manifold unworthiness and inconvenience The Proverb saith the eye of the Master feeds the Horse But it is far more true that the eye of the King will beatifie a Nation According to that of Solomon The King sitting in his Throne of Judgment scattereth away all Iniquity with his eye Prov 20.8 The Sun it self cannot be more useful to the world by its Beams and Influence nor less be spared than a diligent and wakeful Prince to his People for he is more than a Sun being as God and Christ amongst them not in Title only but in Efficacy and Benefit when by Precept and Example he acts all in conjunction with him and subservience to him and Christ is ever where he is and He is ever where Christ is What an eye-sore would this prove but to none other but to Flatterers Hypocrites Pimps Oppressors Atheists Epicures but to Satan and his Pope who envy every Kingdom the Divine and Fatherly care and inspection of its respective Kings and is ever incroaching for a share in every Crown by the pretence of his Chair though he hath no more right or authority to meddle here than the Lord Mayor of DVBLIN to Govern the City of LONDON or our British Church to rule and controll the See of ROME and not so much because junior in the Faith to Us as

well as Apostatical from its right Guide and Rule as hath been shewed And the Elder and the Healthy hath some pretence to Govern the Younger but the Younger and Sickly no manner of colour to Govern his Sound and Elder Brother which brings me to the Third and Last Point to prove That the Church of Rome hath no Superiority or Mother-hood over our British Church in respect of its Extraction or first Plantation of the Gospel SECTION IV. Rome no mother Church to Brittain in respect of Extraction or Plantation of the Christian Faith but much Junior to it WHich it never had from Rome nor by its means but without it altogether and for a good space of time before it had any Chair to boast of Our Brittish Islands by remarkable Providence being exempt and distinct from all the world as to subjection though not to Communion (a) Ms. Bernesii Doctoris Pontificii apud Spelman Concil p. 28. not only in respect of its seperate scituation and the Supremacy of its Crown but the Antiquity and Independancy of its Sees But rather than to be dumb and confess and yield the cause the Romish Advocates will stand up and pretend some out of Simeon Metaphrastes that St. Peter himself made a long abode in Brittain and converted many and ordained Bishops Priests and Deacons amongst us and at the founding of Westminster his apparition and Ghost appeared to direct the Builders which Legend is not worth an answer not only for its suspected Author but for its ill conduct against its own Interest and forgetting its cause making Brittain no more Inferiour but equall and co-ordinate to Rome and Sisters from the same Spirituall Father St. Peter But others with more colour will object did not Augustine the Monk sent from Rome about the year 600 convert this land and especially the English to the Christian Faith Had they not quiet possession of their plantation for about a thousand years till they were wrongfully justled out by King Henry the Eighth in a Rebellious manner Is not the Chair of Canterbury which derives its descent from Rome and Austine Superiour by publick allowance to all the Chairs of Brittain besides to ascend higher to stop the mouths of the Ancient Brittains that plead more Antiquity in this Island than the English or Saxon can or do whose first landing here was not till about the year 449 Did not the Pope Eleutherius through Faganus and Dwywanus he sent hither with others Christen their King Lucius about the year 170 and convert and Baptize the rest of the Nation and settle Bishops and Arch-Bishops amongst them where Flamins and Arch Flamins were before as appears by their own Histories And is not this a sufficient Title that is 1500 years standing to prove the Church of Rome the fountain and Mother Church to Brittain and if a Mother where is the honour and Obedience that is due unto her But if it shall more fairly and truly appear 1 That the Church of Brittain was planted by the Immediate followers of our Saviour either Apostles or Apostolical men shortly after his Resurrection and before St. Peters Arrival at Rome whether that tradition be true or false and the same seed though sometimes in some parts of the Nation mixt with tars in other parts more purified from them continued among us without failer especially in the Northern and Western Parts of this Island from that day to this 2 If the whole passage by consequence between Eleutherius and King Lucius cannot be allowed for true which Savours of the latter Arts of Rome to compass Sveraignty contrary to the express words and tenor of Eleutherius his Epistle and answer to the King and the subsequent Practice of the Bishops of Rome for some hundreds of years after him while they continued good 3 If Augustine the Monks arrival here was a manifest Intrusion upon anothers Province without Invitation or consent of the Christians of the place to Invade and subjugate and destroy the Brittish Church by the help and means of Pagan Enemies then making War upon them as Jackcals and Vulturs follow Camps for Prey whereby he and all his Clergy stood depos'd and degraded of their Orders and all his party of Christian communion by the concurrent suffrages and Canons of all the Generall Counsels of the whole Catholick Church that went before him 4 If the Controversie between the Church of Brittain and Rome in those Early times was the same that is now maintained against it by the Protestant Church of England at this day touching its Superstitions and Arrogated Supemacy with this difference that there was no roome nor place then for those Sophismes now us'd where was your Church before Luther or Henry the Eighth but both still agreeing in their manner and temper of Proceeding now as then and then as it is now on the one side great learning and Truth and piety on the other as great Ignorance and Arrogance with lying wonders and Massacres 5 If the Gospel was Providentially planted amongst the English or Saxons by Brittish Ministry and not by Romish and the Church of Rome by its bewitching Power and Grandeur in degenerare times over all this part of the world did but invade and disturb both the English and Brittish Church and ravish their Sees and disorder their Consecrations and successions and Vnchurch it self thereby and attempt to enslave our Crown as well as Mitre 6 if Henry the Eights relief of both Crown and Church was just and Providentiall and also Brittish and not the unsettling of a Right Possessor but the lawful ejection of an old Intruder And the peace and Interest and Glory of this Nation is fairly pointed out by Providence to consist in pursuing this design 7 If the Primacy of the See of Canterbury be from the Grace and pleasure of our Kings and Laws who can alter it as they think fit and not from any Ecclesiastical Right of the Pope according to the Laws and Canons of the Universal Church but rather in contrariety unto them And Christian Subjects ought to submit to the supreme Magistrates Right and pleasure in ordering such external matters about the Church as clash not with Salvation If these seven points shall appear as clear from proof and evidence as they are in the model and supposition will it not inevitably follow that no English much less Brittish Christian subject of what perswasion soever can with any conscience or thankfulness to God renounce his Mother of Brittain to own a Forraign Church for his Mother or desert his Colours to list himself under the Conduct and Supremacy of Rome to Act against his own Church and Country without being apparently convict before God and the world as well as his conscience of being a Renegade to his Church and false unnatural to his Country and as our wise Laws upon good grounds declare and define a Perfidious Traitor against his Soveraign First then it may be affirmed what cannot and is not