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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70866	The first-[third] tome of an exact chronological vindication and historical demonstration of our British, Roman, Saxon, Danish, Norman, English kings supreme ecclesiastical jurisdiction from the original planting, embracing of Christian religion therein, and reign of Lucius, our first Christian king, till the death of King Richard the First, Anno Domini 1199 ... / by William Prynne, Esq.; Exact chronological vindication and historical demonstration of our British, Roman, Saxon, Danish, Norman, English kings supreme ecclesiastical jurisdiction	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1665 (1665)	Wing P4076; ESTC R14735	1,530,072	1,129

Sed post resurrectionem dedit potestatem Petro eumque constituit Vicarium suum transferring all this his Soveraign Power both in heaven and earth to him and the Pope of Rome Ergo ex potestate Domini metimur potestatem Vicarii Et Pontifex Romanus similem habet potestatem divinorum jurisdictionem in temporalibus spiritualibus quam habuit Christus Dominus noster ut perfectus homo Et ex ordinatione divina constitutus est super gentibus regnis habet utramque potestatem de per se potest jurisdictionem temporalium temporaliter non autem directivè tantum exercere So as by their determinations St. Peter and Roman Popes had neither any Temporal Soveraign Regal or Pontifical Universal power over all Kingdoms Nations Churches Monarchs Bishops in the world before but only from and after Christs resurrection and ascension into heaven when he both received all Power in heaven and earth formerly promised and then given him by his Father and immediately transmitted the right and exercise thereof to St. Peter and Popes succeeding him at Rome not Antioch his first See as his sole Successors and Vicars to manage both his Kingly and Priestly offices on earth during his personal absence from his Church by reason of his corporal residence at his Fathers right hand in heaven untill his second coming to Judgement he having no need of a Vicar general or Successor to represent his person or supply his corporal absence from his Church and exercise his Kingly or Priestly offices whiles bodily present upon earth and therefore instituted none till he ascended into heaven So as Christs corporal absence from the earth upon his departure to heaven in his humane nature and bodily presence and the necessity and conveniency as they hold of one Vniversal Vicar and Viceroy to supply his bodily absence and succeed him in the execution of these his offices in the Church Militant throughout the world are the sole reason ground foundation of St. Peters and the Popes pretended Temporal and Ecclesiastical Monarchy And if this basis thereof be once subverted the whole superstructure must presently fall to the ground and come to ruine I shall therefore in the 4th place addresse my self to undermine this foundation with all convenient brevity 1. By expresse Scriptures 2ly By the Resolutions Canons Decretals Doctrines Practices of the Church Councils Popes Cardinals Schoolmen Casuists Canonists Civilians of the Church of Rome in opposition to those of the Protestant Religion relating to the Virgin Maries Monarchy and Christs corporal presence still on earth which utterly subvert St. Peters and Popes pretended Regal and Pontifical Supremacy depending on it The Scriptures I shall cite are these The first is Ephes 4. 8 11 12. When he to wit Christ ascended up on high to heaven he led captivity captive and gave gifts unto men And he gave some not Peter alone to be Apostles and some Prophets and some Evangelists and some Pastors and Teachers for the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the Ministry and for the edifying of the body of Christ Compared with 1 Cor. 12. 28 29. And God hath set some not one in the Church first Apostles not Peter to be first or sole Apostle secondly Prophets thirdly Teachers after that miracles then gifts of healing helps governments not Peter to be sole or supreme Governour diversity of tongues Are all Apostles are all Prophets are all Teachers are all workers of miracles have all the gifts of healing do all speak with tongues do all interpret Here St. Paul by the spirit of God enumerates what ever gifts Christ at his ascension into heaven bestowed on his Apostles Church or men in general In which Texts it is observable First That there is not one syllable of any peculiar gift much lesse of all his Regal and Sacerdotal power in heaven and earth then bestowed on Peter or any of his successors as his sole Universal Vicars or successors in both which being a matter of so grand moment to his Church as Popes and Pontificians deem it would certainly have been specified and not pretermitted by St. Paul yea by all the four Evangelists the Penmen of the Acts of the Apostles and by St. Peter himself in his large Oration to the Apostles in his first Sermon to the Jews and strangers at Jerusalem immediately after Christs ascension Act. ch 1. 2. 3. 4. in his Sermon to Cornelius Act. 10. and in both his own Epistles generall wherein there is not the least mention or intimation of any such gift or power bestowed on him by Christ but the contrary 2ly That the first gift he then bestowed on men was Apostles or Apostleships not worldly Empires Kingdoms Nations Crowns Scepters Principalities Dominions and that upon all the eleven Apostles not St. Peter alone in the self-same equality and degree at the very time of Christs ascension and immediately after on Matthias chosen in the place of Judas as is undeniable by Christs giving all the Apostles the self-same Apostolical mission and Commission when he declared to them that all power was given unto him both in heaven and in earth Mat. 28. 16 18 19 20. by St. Peters and the other Apostles own resolutions Acts 1. 15 to the end especially vers 22 23 25 26. Act. 5. 31 32. c. 10. 38 41 42. 1 Pet. 1. 1. c. 5. 1. 2 Pet. 1. 1 16. c. 3. 2 15. Gal. 2. 7 8 9 11. and by the Holy Ghosts descending equally on them all in cloven tongues and giving them all equally the gifts of tongues within few dayes after Christs ascention Acts 2. 1 to 10. 3ly That both the Commission and all gifts Christ gave to the Apostles joyntly or to others at his ascention were only Ministerial not Imperial Judicial or Magistratical to wit for the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the Ministry for the edifying of the body of Christ not to be Soveraign Vniversal Monarchs over all Empires Kingdoms Nations Churches of the world to root out pull or throw down destroy build plant them at their pleasure or to exercise Soveraign Dominion over the Lords Churches heritage or other Christians faith expresly prohibited them by Christ and disclaimed both by St. Paul and Peter Mat. 20. 25 26. Luke 22. 25 26. 1 Pet. 2. 13 14. c. 5. 1 2 3 5. 2 Cor. 1. 24. Rom. 13. 1 to 7. Tit. 3. 1. The second sort of Texts are Acts 2. 34 35 36. where St. Peter himself in his first Sermon to the Jews and Gentiles at the feast of Pentecost soon after Christs ascension into heaven asserts and proclaims with the highest confidence that can be both to all Jews and Gentiles that Christ did not transferre his Soveraign power which God conferred on him after his triumphant resurrection unto him or his successors at Rome but reserved it entirely in and to himself till the end of the world in these observable expressions For David