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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91196	Independency examined, vnmasked, refuted, by twelve new particular interrogatories: detecting both the manifold absurdities, inconveniences that must necessarily attend it, to the great disturbance of church, state, the diminution, subversion of the lawfull undoubted power of all christian magistrates, parliaments, synods: and shaking the chiefe pillars, wherwith its patrons would support it. / By William Prynne of Lincolnes Inne, Esquier.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1644 (1644)	Wing P3985; Thomason E257_3; ESTC R210043	15,631	15

common Law as * Mr Selden with others more t●uely interp●t●t Since our Saviour speaks there 1. of a private trespasse done to a private person of which no church classes or ecclesiasticall consistorie hath proper conusance not of a publike scandal to the congregation or any scandalous crime or vice as is evident by the very first words and by Luk. 17. 3 4. compared with ●●n 50. 17. 1 King 8. 31. 2. Of a demand of private satisfaction first personally next in presence of witnesse before any complaint to the church or councell 3. Of no censure or judgment passed but barely of an admonition given by the church to the partie offending which if neglected and not heard then 4. Not the church councell and all other persons but onely the partie offended was to repute but not excommunicate out of the church or congregation him as an heathen and a publicane which were both odious to the Iewes who had no civill conversation with them and were no members of the Iewish church except Proselites as the expresse words let him be TO THEE not any others as an heathen and a pulican that is converse no more with him but avoid his company 2 Thes. 3. 14. resolve Which Reasons compared with Matth. 5. 22 25. c. 10. 17. c. 12. 14. c. 22. 15. c. 27. 1 7. Acts 18. 12 13 14 15 16. c. 16. 20 21. c. 17. 6. c. 23. 1. 14 15. c. 24. 1. to 7. c. 25. 26. infallibly evidence the Church or Assembly in this Text to be meant onely of the Temporall court Councell or Sanhedrin of the Iewes not of any Ecclesiasticall or Church-Iudicatory or excommunication as Papists anciently with some others now determine 11. Whether the Apostles and members of the first evangelicall Synode we read of Acts 15. sate and voted in it as Apostles onely indued with a spirit of infallibilitie which was a peculiar priviledge to them alone or else in their ordinary capacity as Elders and chief members of it If as Apostles only and in that extraordinary capacitie as * Independents assert then 1. Paul and Barnabas being Apostles as well as they might have decided that controversie at Antioch without sending to Jerusalem to determine it 2. The church at Antioch would have sent to none but the Apostles to resolve their doubts and not to the Elders at Jerusalem as well as to the Apostles as they did vers. 2. Thirdly Paul and Barnabas would have put the question to the Apostles onely not to the Elders and church as well as to them which they did vers. 4 5 6. Fourthly the Apostles would not have called a Synod of all the Apostles Elders and Brethren at Jerusalem to consider of or consult about this thing vers. 6. but have determined it presently by their infallible spirit without consultation or a Synods assistance Fifthly Peter and James would not have argued the case so largely and proved it by arguments and Scriptures as they did one after another vers. 17 to 23. but have peremptorily resolved it without dispute had they sate and determined it by their extraordinarie infallible power Sixtly the finall resolution letters and canons of this Synod had run onely in the Apostles names had they proceeded onely by their Apostolicall infallible authoritie and not in the names of the Elders and Brethren too coupled together with theirs both in the letters and canons vers. 21 22 23 24 27 28. c. 16. 4. c. 21. 18. 25. who were not all endued with the self-same infallibility and power as the Apostles were for ought can be proved Therfore their assembling in this councell not in their extraordinary capacity as Apostles only but as Elders Ministers and the Elders Brethrens sitting together in Councel with them upon this controversie and occasion is an undeniable Scripture-authority for the lawfulnesse use of Parliaments Councels Synods under the Gospel upon all like necessarie occasions and for their power to determine controversies of Religion to make Canons in things necessary for the churches peace and government there being no one place in Scripture against it but many Texts in the old Testament to backe it elsewhere quoted mauger all evasions exceptions to elude it 12. Whether the temporall Magistrate Parliament and civill State have not a lawfull coercive power though * not to restraine the preaching of the Gospel and truth of God yet to suppresse restraine imprison confine banish the broachers of any heresies schismes erronious seditious doctrines enthusiasmes or setters up of new formes of Ecclesiasticall government without lawfull authoritie to the endangering of the peoples soules or disturbance of the Churches Kingdomes peace as well as Ministers and particular Churches Christians power to * reprove refute avoid excommunicate or anathematize them notwithstanding † some Independents new-minted objections against it and that by virtue of Deut. 13. 1. to 12. Lev. 24. 11. to 17. Num. 26. throughout Josh. 7. 25. 26. c. 22. 11. to 34. Psal. 101. 4 5 8. 4 5 8. 1 King 18. 40. 2 King 10. 21 to 29. c. 23. 5. 20. 2 Chro. 34. 4. 5. Rom. 13. 1. to 6. 1 Pet. 2. 14. Gal. 5. 12. Rev. 2. 20. c. 19. 20. 21. cap. 17. 16. And the ten hornes interpreted to be ten Kings v. 12. shall hate the whore with all her Panders and shall make her desolate and naked and shall eat her flesh and shall burne her with fire for God hath put it into their hearts TO FVLFILL HIS WILL Ezra 7. 26. And whosoever will not doe the Law of thy God let judgment be executed speedily upon him whether it be unto death or unto banishment or to confiscation of goods or to imprisonment with sundry * other Texts Hence * Christian Princes Magistrates Parliaments in all ages and churches in the world have made severe temporall Lawes Edicts against and inflicted corporall punishment banishment confiscation of goods and in some cases death it selfe upon Hereticks Schismaticks disturbers of the churches peace with erronious or seditious doctrines which lawfull power of theirs hath ever bin asserted by the most † orthodox Churches Writers in all ages and never oppugned by any but Anabaptists who deny all civill Magistrates or such licencious Hereticks Schismaticks or false Teachers who would spread their pestilent errours and seditious novell positions without restraint or durst never suffer Martyrdome for or seale them with the losse of their Liberties Lives Estates which godly orthodox Martyrs and Christians have cheerfully undergone under Pagan Hereticall and Popish Kings Magistrates And if we either deny abolish eclipse diminish or suspend this necessary coercive power the principall meanes under God to suppresse extirpate all growing errours schismes which disturbe the churches trantranquilitie seduce unstable soules our church and realmes will be soone overgrowne with dangerous errours heresies schismes and brought to speedy desolation the contemptible sword of excommunication or non-communion and the bare preaching of Gods Word to obstinate Hereticks