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A48285	Erastus Senior scholastically demonstrating this conclusion that (admitting their Lambeth records for true) those called bishops here in England are no bishops, either in order or jurisdiction, or so much as legal : wherein is answered to all that hath been said in vindication of them by Mr. Mason in his Vindiciæ ecclesiæ Anglicanæ, Doctor Heylin in his Ecclesiæ restaurata, or Doctor Bramhall ... in his last book intituled, The consecration and succession of Protestant bishops justified : with an appendix containing extracts out of ancient rituals, Greek and Latine, for the form of ordaining bishops, and copies of the acts of Parliament quoted in the third part.	Lewgar, John, 1602-1665.	1662 (1662)	Wing L1832; ESTC R3064	39,391	122

more surety thereof as hereafter shall be expressed First it is very well known to all degrées of this Realm that the late King of most famous memory K. Henry 8. as well by all the Clergy then of this Realm in their several Convocations as also by all the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in divers of his Parliaments was justly and rightfully recognized and knowledged to have the supream Power Iurisdiction Order Rule and Authority over all the State Ecclesiastical of the same and the same power jurisdiction and authority did use accordingly And that also the said late King in the Five and twentieth year of his Reign did by authority of Parliament amongst other things set forth a certain Order of the manner and form how Archbishops and Bishops should be elected and made as by the same more plainly appears And that also the late King of worthy memory King Edward the Sixth did lawfully succeed his Father in the Imperial Crown of this Realm and did justly possess and enjoy all the same power jurisdiction and authority before mentioned as a thing to him descended with the said Imperial Crown and so used the same during his life And that also the said King Edw. 6. in his time by authority of Parliament caused a godly Book intituled The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies in the Church of England to be made and set forth not onely for one Vniform Order of Service Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments to be used within this Realm and other his Dominions but also did adde and put to the same Book a very good and godly Order of the manner and form how Archbishops Bishops Priests Deacons and Ministers should from time to time be Consecrated made and Ordered within this Realm and other his Dominions as by the same Book more plainly may and will appear And although in the time of the said late Queen Mary as well the said Act and Statute made in the five and twentieth year of the Reign of the said late King Hen. 8. as also the several Acts and Statutes made in the 2 3 4 5 and 6. years of the Reign of the said late King Edward for the authorizing and allowing the said Book of Common Prayer and other the premises amongst divers other Acts and Statutes touching the said supream authority were repealed yet nevertheless at the Parliament holden at Westminster in the first year of the Reigne of our Sovereign Lady the Queens Majesty that now is by one other Act and Statute there made all such Iurisdictions Priviledges Superiorities and Preeminences Spiritual and Ecclesiastical as by any Spiritual or Ecclesiastical power or authority hath heretofore been or may lawfully be used over the Ecclesiastical State of this Realme and the Order Reformaxion and Correction of the same is fully and absolutely by the authority of the same Parliament united and annexed to the Imperial Crown of this Realm and by the same Act and Statute there is also given to the Queens Highness her heirs and successors Kings and Queens of this Realm full power and authority by Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England from time to time to assigne name and authorize such person or persons as she or they shall think meet and convenient to exercise use occupy and execute under her Highness all manner of Iurisdictions Priviledges Preeminences and Authorities in any wise touching or concerning any Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Power or Iurisdiction within this Realm or any other her Dominions or Countries And also by the same Act and Statute the said Act made in the Five and twentieth year of the said late King Hen. 8. for the order and form of the electing and making of the said Archbishops and Bishops together with divers other Statutes touching the Iurisdiction over the State Ecclesiastical is revived and made in full force and effect as by the same Act and Statute plainly appeareth And that also by another Act and Statute made in the said Parliament in the first year of the Reign of our said Sovereign Queen intituled An Act for the Uniformity of Common Prayer and Service in the Church the said Book of Common Prayer and the Administration of Sacraments and other the said Orders Rites and Ceremonies before mentioned and all things therein contained with certain Additions therein newly added and appointed by the said Statute is fully stablished and authorized to be used in all places within this Realm and all other the Quéens Majesties Dominions and Countries as by the same Act among other things more plainly appeareth Whereupon our said Sovereign Lady the Quéens most excellent Majesty being most justly and lawfully invested and having in her Majesties order and disposition all the said Iurisdictions Power and Authorities over the State Ecclesiastical and Temporal as well in cases Ecclesiastical as Temporal within this Realm and other her Majesties Dominions and Countreys hath by her Supream Authority at divers times sithence the beginning of her Majesties Reign caused divers grave and well learned men to be duly Elected Made and Consecrated Archbishops and Bishops of divers Archbishopricks and Bishopricks within this Realm and other her Majesties Dominions and Countreys according to such Order and Form and with such Ceremonies in and about their Consecration as were allowed and set forth by the said Acts Statutes and Orders annexed to the said Book of Common-Prayer before mentioned And further for the avoiding of all ambiguities and questions that might be objected against the lawful Confirmations Investing and Consecrating of the said Archbishops and Bishops her Highness in her Letters Patents under the great Seal of England directed to any Archbishop Bishop or others for the Confirming Investing and Consecrating of any person elected to the Office or Dignity of any Archbishop or Bishop hath not onely used such words and sentences as were accustomed to be used by the said late King Henry and K. Edw. her Majesties Father and Brother in their like Letters Patents made for such causes but also hath used and put in her Majesties said Letters Patents divers other general words and sentences whereby her Highness by her Supream Power and Authority hath dispensed with all causes or doubts of any imperfection or disability that can or may in any wise be obiected against the same as by her Majesties said Letters Patents remaining of Record more plainly will appear So that to all those that will well consider of the effect and true intent of the said Laws and Statutes and of the Supream and absolute authority of the Queens Highness and which she by her Majesties said Letters Patents hath used and put in ure in and about the making and Consecrating of the said Archbishops and Bishops it is and may be very evident that no cause of scruple ambiguity or doubt can or may justly be objected against the said Elections Confirmations or Consecrations or any other material thing meet to

treasonable to take Orders from the See of Rome establishing the Form of publick Divine Service and Sacraments c. and all other that have been made since in matters of Religion are no valid Acts in Law because made without consent of the Lords Spiritual the rightful Bishops at that time whilst there were any living being unjustly excluded from the Parliament and none of those that have been made since the beginning of Queen Eliz. Reign being Legal Bishops Epilogue ANd now the Reader may judge how little reason Doctor Heylin had to boast as he does of his Church as it was settled by Q Eliz. and to bestow so much pains in writing that Book to describe that settlement And now we may behold saith he the face of the Church of England as it was first settled and established under Q. Eliz. The Government of the Church by Archbishops and Bishops c. These Bishops nominated and elected according to the Statute of 20. Hen. 8. and Consecrated by the Ordinal confirmed by Parliament 5 and 6. Edw. 6 c. the Doctrine of the Church reduced into its ancient purity according to the Articles agreed upon in Convocation in the Year 1562. and ratified in due form of Law by the Queens authority The Liturgy confirmed in Parliament And a little after By this last Act of 8. Eliz. the Church of England is strongly settled on Her natural Pillars of Doctrine Government and Worship not otherwise to have been shaken but by the blinde zeal of such furious Sampsons as were resolved to pull it on their own heads rather then to suffer it to stand in so much glory Eccl. Restau p. 2. f. 122. and 173. For what was this glorious Church of his but a natural Fabrick rear'd upon as he calls them natural Pillars and the foundations of those Pillars natural foundations the Queen and Parliament and that Parliament without any Bishops or so much as one Clergy-man in it Whence this glorious Church as it hath been once already overturned to the ground and as he acknowledges and complains the very foundations of it digged up by those furious Sampsons so it may be at any time again when a Presbyterian or Fanatick Parliament or Army shall get which God avert the Sword again into their hands FINIS Appendix For the better understanding of the former Discourse I have here set down some Extracts out of the ancient forms of Ordaining Bishops in the Greek and Latine Church and out of the Acts of Parliament quoted in the third Part and the Act of 8. Eliz. at large Forms of the Greek Church UNus ex primis Episcopis S. Clem. Const una cum duobus aliis stans prope Altare reliquis Episcopis Presbyteris tacitè precationem facientibus Diaconis aperta Evangelia super caput ejus qui Ordinatur tenentibus in hunc modum precetur Here Domine Deus omnipotens c. Da huic famulo tuo quem ad Episcopatum elegisti ut pascat sanctum gregem tuum atque ut Pontificatu tibi sanctè fungatur c. Da ei participationem Sancti Spiritûs ut habeat potestatem remittendi peccata secundum mandatum tuum item dandi cleros ut tu jussisti ac solvendi omne vinculum secundum potestatem quam Apostolis dedisti offerendi tibi sacrificium mundum incruentum quod per Christum instituisti c. S. Dionys Areop de Eccl. Hier. c. 5. Pontifex qui ad Consecrationem in Pontificem adducitur utroque genu flexo ante Altare supra caput habet Evangelia manumque Pontificis atque hoc modo ab eo Pontifice qui eum Consecrat sanctissimis precationibus Consecratur MS. antitiquus in Bibl. Card. Barberini Aperiens Episcopus Evangelium imponit illud super caput collum ipsius Ordinandi astantibus aliis Episcopis tangentibus ipsum S. Evangelium Archiepiscopus autem imponens illi manum sic precatur Here Domine Deus noster confirma hunc electum ut per manum mei peccatoris assistentium Ministrorum Coepiscoporum Sanctique Spiritûs adventu virtute gratia subeat Evangelicum jugum dignitatem Episcopalem c. Eucholog Constantinopolit Ecclesiae Evangelium accipit Praesul imponit illud super dorsum illius qui Ordinatur omnes Episcopi qui illic sunt imponunt manus super illum ex utroque latere donec omnes preces absolutae fuerint Repetit Praesul Domine Deus elige in Ecclesia tua N. hunc N. Presbyterum in opus magnum Episcopatus Precemur omnes pro eo ut veniat donum tuum Domine eum virtute perficiat consummet in ministerio Episcopali Indue eum Domine virtute ex alto ut liget solvat in coelis in terra creet in virtute doni tui Presbyteros Diaconos c. Forms of the Latine Church Episcopus cum Ordinatur MS. Paris scriptus ante annum 560. duo Episcopi manus eorum super caput ejus ponant teneant Evangeliorum codicem supra cervicem ejus Et unum super eum fundentem benedictionem reliqui omnes Episcopi qui adsunt manibus suis supra caput ejus teneant Oratio precis de Episcopis Ordinandis Oremus dilectissimi nobis ut his viris ad utilitatem Ecclesiae providendis benignitas omnipotentis Dei gratiae suae tribuat largitatem Per c. Exaudi Domine supplicum preces ut quod nostrum gerendum est ministerium tua potius virtute firmetur Per c. Propitiare Domine supplicationibus nostris inclinatus super hos famulos tuos cornu gratiae Sacerdotalis benedictionis tuae in eos effunde virtutem Per c. Consecratio Deus honorum omnium c. qui Moysen famulum tuum inter caetera coelestis documenta culturae de habitu quoque indumenti Sacerdotalis instituens electum Aaron mystico amictu vestire inter sacra jussisti ut intelligentiae sensum de exemplis priorum caperet secutura posteritas c. Et id circo famulis tuis quaesumus quos ad Summi Sacerdotii Sacerdotium elegisti hanc quaesumus Domine gratiam largiaris ut quicquid illa velamina in fulgore auri in nitore gemmarum multimodi operis varietate signabant hoc in horum moribus clarescat Comple Domine in Sacerdotibus tuis mysterii tui summam ornamentis totius glorificationis instructum coelestis unguenti rore sanctifica Hoc Domine copiosè in eorum caput influat hoc in oris subjecta decurrat hoc in totius corporis extrema descendat c. Da eis Domine claves regni coelorum quodcunque ligaverint super terram sit ligatum in coelis ..... Tribuas eis Domine Cathedram Episcopalem ad regendam Ecclesiam tuam plebem universam Sis eis authoritas sis eis potestas c. Benedictiones super eos qui sacris Ordinationibus benedicendi sunt Sacramentarium Gelasianum MS.