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A00294	A booke intituled, The English Protestants recantation, in mattersof religion wherein is demonstratiuely proued, by the writings of the principall, and best learned English Protestant bishops, and doctors, and rules of their religion, published allowed, or subscribed vnto, bythem, since the comminge of our King Iames into England, that not onely all generall grownds of diuinitie, are against the[m], but in euery particular cheife question, betweene Catholicks & them, they are in errour, by their owne iudgments : diuided accordingly, into two parts, whereof the first entreateth of those generall grounds, the other of such particular controuersies, whereby will also manifestely appeare the vanitie of D. Morton Protest. Bishop of Chester his boke called Appeale, or, Ansuueare to the Catholicke authour of thebooke entituled, The Protestants apologie.	Broughton, Richard.	1617 (1617)	STC 10414; ESTC S2109	209,404	418

chosen him that Act. 15. 7. from his mouth they might heare the Ghospell as himself alledgeth and that hee here fownded Churches and ordayned preists and deacons which is reported by Simon Metaphrastes out of the Greeke Metaphrast Centur. 1. part 7. dist 8. Antiquities and Guilielmus Eisingrenius in the first of his Centurie whoe saith that Peter was here in Neroes time Therefore if the Antiquities of the gretians and Aduersaries to the Romaue See giue this testimone vnto it wee need not be scrupulous to receaue it especially when these Protestant Bishops with their Pantaleon giue creditt to this authoritie of S. Peter ouer this kingedome in these wordes Much about these times as Beatus Rhenanus Theat sup pag. 204. n. 9. cap. 9. in his Historie of Germanie Pantaleon and others doe reporte one Suetonius a noble mans sonne in Britaine conuerted to the faith by the first planters of the Ghospell in this Iland and after his baptisme called Beatus was sent by the brethren from hence vnto Rome to be better iustructed and further directed by Saint Peter himself Therefore a dependance of this kingedome from S. Peter and the Church of Rome in spirituall things from the begynninge of Christianitie is to be allowed Which they further confirme in their historie of Kinge Lu●ius sendeinge to Pope Eleutherius at Rome about the Conuersion of this Kingedome and his sendeing hither Faganus and Damianus two famous Thea of G. Br. pag. 206. n. 18. l. 6. cap. 9. Clerkes to that purpose of whome they write in this maner These together both preached and baptized amongst the Britaines whereby many dayly were drawne to the faith And as a worthie Dicetus Deane of London a manuscript in the Kings library ad An. 178. and auntient historian saith the Temples which had beene fownded to the honor of their many Gods were then dedicated to the one and onely true God for there were in Britaine eight and twentie Flamins and three Archflamins in stead of which so many Bishops and Archbishops were appointed vnder the Archbishop of London were the prouinces of Loegria and Cornubia vnder Yorke Deira and Saint Dauids in Wales Albania vnder vrbs begionum Cambria by which meanes this happie Kingedome vnder that godly Kinge was nobly beatified with so many cathedrall Churches and Christian Bishops Sees before any other Kingedome of the world Now because these Protestants haue tolde vs before that to ordaine Bishops and teachers and to fownde Churches is an Argument of supreamacie seing all Bishops of this Kingedome were ordayned Sutcliff ag K●ll pag 105. their Sees designed and Churches fownded by Eleutherius Pope of Rome and his authoritie in those which he sent hither with that power Faganus and Damianus all spirituall and ecclesiasticall I●risdiction of that primatiue Church in this Kingedome of necessitie was deriued from the Church of Rome For although Mr Francis Mason in his new defence of the English Ministery Mason of the consecration c. pag. 52. would attribute greate priuiledge to Eluanu● and Meduinus whome as hee with his Bishops say Kinge Lucius sent to Pope Eleutherius at Rome about the conuersion of this nation standeinge vppon a Reporte in these wordes Iohn Capgraue reporteth that Eleutherius made Eluanus Bishop of Britaine and Meduinus a Doctour to preach the faith of Christ throughe the whole Iland Yett hee must needs graunt that both Order and Iurisdiction Episcopall came into and was preserued in this Kingedome from the Pope of Rome For first hee writeth of Kinge Lucius in this maner The Kinge wrote to Eleutherius desireing that by his commaundement hee might be made a Mason sup cap. 3. §. 2. Christian Secondly hee proueth Kinge Lucius had but a part of this Kingedome but the Pagan Emperors Marcus Antonius Verus and Aurelius Commodus his brother were cheife vnto Beda l. 1. histor cap. 4. the wall of seperation and Lucius was tributary vnto them Thus hee writeth of Kinge Lucius Hee had seene Christians reproched by the Pagans as infamous parsons and dispitefully Mason l. 2. pag. 52. cap. 3. §. 1. handled by the Romans that were in authoritie Therfore the Pagan Romans then were in authoritie Thirdly his owne words before That Eleutherius made Eluanus Bishop of Britaine and Meduinus a Doctor to preach the faith of Christ through the whole Iland ar cleare for Eleutherius the Pope his authoritie vniuersally ouer all for Kinge Lucius was but a tributary Kinge for one parcell of this Iland and the Romans themselues had but part Yett the Iurisdiction was giuen as before through the whole Iland Mr. Masons words be these The Romans had spred their golden Eagle ouer a greate part of the Iland The Emperor Hadrian had made a wall fourescore miles longe Antonius Pius had made an other to diuide the Romans from the Brittans and all that liued within this wall were tributary to the Romans of which number Kinge Lucius is said to be Therefore Lucius being but one of that number of tributaryes for a part of the Romans part had neither spirituall nor temporall Iurisdiction any further much lesse ouer all His words of this whole Iland ar these Yorke London Caerlegion in these three noble citties Mason sup l. 2. cap. 3. pag. 54. were the seates of the Archflamynes so there were 28. Flamynes and three Archflamynes in steade of which so many Bishops and Archbishops were appointed Therefore seing the Romans themselues had but a part of Brittaine and Lucius but a tributary part of that part and these men assuer vs that so many were assigned Bishops and Archbishoppes with their seuerall Sees and Iurisdictions ouer all this Iland comprehendeing both England conteined in the names Loegria Stowe Annal 12. cap. 1. and others and Cornubia vnto Humber the North and Scotland in Deira and Albania and Wales in Cambria as our Historians tell vs it followeth by vndeniable consequence that all spirituall Iurisdiction and authoritie in all this land now termed greate Brittaine was deduced brought in and continued from and vnder the Pope of Rome And that neither Kinge Lucius or any his successor did or in iustice could clayme any supreamacie in such causes For none of them vntill our Kinge Iames was quietly possessed of them all and yett one and the same spirituall Iurisdiction ruled in all these Kingedomes of England Scotland and Ireland Ireland subiect to Canterbury and Scotland to Yorke and all to the Pope as these Protestants acknowledge vntill late yares Therefore ridiculous it is for the Theater Protestants to giue such supreamacie to Kings because as they say Pope Eleutherius in his epistle to Kinge Lucius calleth him the vicar of God in his Kingedome for by that Kinde of reasoninge euery vicar in his parish being so called might clayme such supreamacy And the Presbytery must needs be obeyed of all But if wee may beleeue these men that the lawes of S. Edward doe warrant S. Eleutherius

proceedings here in Britannye they will finde in those lawes sett out by themselues that they warrant his supreamacie further then I meane to S. Edwards lawes published by Mr. Lambert a Protestant pag. 2. fol. 1●0 vrdge it The wordes ar these The whole land and all the Ilands to Norway and Denmarke belonge to the Crowne of his Kingedome and ar of the Appendancies and dignities of the Kinge And it is one Monarchie and one Kingedome and was sometime called the Kingedome of Britannye and now called the Kingdome of English men For Lord Eleutherius Pope who first sent an hallowed crowne to Britannye and Christianitie by Gods inspiration to Lucius Kinge of the Britans appointed and allowed to the Crowne of the Kingdome such metes and bowndes as ar said before Therefore English Protestants ar very ingratefull to that Holy Pope and Saint our so greate Benefactor And their owne Theater is a wittnes of that his loue and well deserueing of this land and their vngratitude their wordes be these Pope Eleutherius thus wrote to Lucius Kinge Theat pag. 222. n. 8. lib. 6. cap. 19. of Britannie for the reformation of the Kinge and the nobilitie of the Kingdome of Britannie you desired vs to send vnto you the Romane and Imperiall lawes which you would vse in your Kingedome of Britannie The Romane lawes and the Emperors wee may at all times mislike but the lawe of God by no meanes By the diuine clemencie you haue of late receiued in your Kingdome of Britannie the lawe and faithe of Christ you have with you in your Kingdome both the old and new testament out of them in Gods name by the ●ownsaile of your state take Corn. Tacit in annal in Hadr. Pi. Anton. M. Ant. Stowe hist Holinsh ib. Dauid in Bric Polyd. verg l. 2. h. angl pag. 42. 42 c. you alawe and therewith by Gods permission gouerne your Kingedome of Britannie About which times Lolius Calphurnius Agricola Pertinax Cl. Albinus Iunius Seuerus c. were Propretors Lieutenants and commaundinge Rulers here for the Romane Emperors as both their owne and our Historians wittnes And not onely this but after entreateinge of the saxons lawes in this Kingdome and the two much seueritie of triall in suspition of Incontinencie as they thinke they write in this maner This punishment begynning Theater pag. 287 l. 7. cap. 3. n. 6. in these Pagans and continueing vnto the yeare 750. Stephen the second and moste pontificall Pope of Rome did vtterly abolish as two seuere and ouer-rigorous for Christians to vndergoe They alledge authoritie alsoe that the Kingedome of Norway was giuen to Kinge Arthur by the Pope Pag. 317 l. 7. cap 12. Which is playnely testified in the lawes of S. Edward as they ar published by the Puritan Protestant Mr. Lambard and out of the Guliel Lambard in legib S. Edward fol. 137. 138. print at London Anno D. 1569. cum priuileg Reg. Maiest per decem library of Matthew Parker himself whome they name their Archbishop of Canterbury The words be these Impetrauit enim temporibus illis Arthurus Rex à Domino Papa curia Romana quod confirmata sit Norweia in perpetuum coronae Brytanniae in augmentum Regni huius vocauitque illam dictus Artherus Cameram Brytanniae In those times Kinge Arthur obtayned from our Lord the Pope and the Court of Rome that Norway might be confirmed for euer to the Crowne of Brytaine for encrease of this Kingdome and the said Arthur called it the chamber of Brytaine And for this cause the Norwegians say they may dwell in this Kingdome and be of the body of this Kingdome to witt of the crowne of Brytayne Of his clayme and practyse in later times in such affaires their examples ar two many to be cited But to insist in his absolute spirituall supreamacie of which I entreate as they told vs before how all spirituall Iurisdiction was deriued to the Brittannes from the Pope of Rome in prescribeing and limiteing their Episcopall Sees and priuiledges so they testifie the same in the Regiment of the Saxons for allthough England it self besides Scotland and Wales was deuided Theat pag. 278. lib. 6. cap. 54. n. 2. pag. 292 l. 7. cap. 4. n. 19. into an Heptarchie and conteyned seuen Kingedomes Kent Southsaxons Westsaxons Eastsaxons Northumberland Maria and East-Angels and none of those Kinges if they had beene Protestants could clayme to exercise any spirituall power by their doctrine further then their owne temporall commaunde yett they teach vs that the spirituall Iurisdiction in the supreame and highest degree was wholly in the Pope ouer all those Kingedomes And for proofe of this to vse their owne wordes Honorius Theat pag. 5. lib. 1. cap. 3. n. 4. appointed by the Pope the fift Archbishop of Canterbury first diuided England into parishes And then they sett downe all the Bishopricks in England vnder their twoe Metropolitanes Canterbury and Yorke which by noe possibilitie can be reconciled with an Heptarchicall Pag. 6. l. 1. or seuen fold gouernment besides that in Walles And yett not onely the welch diocesses of Landaffe S. Dauid Bangor and S. Asaph but Ireland also in those times of diuisions in temporall Regiments and Kinges were subiect not onely to the Pope but to the Archbishop of Canterbury which was euer subiect to the Pope of Rome and by him instituted Their wordes Pag. 145. lib. 4. cap. 4. n. 8. be these matters memorable within this prouince ar these First that the Bishops of Ireland were wont to be consecrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury in regarde of the primacie which they had in this contry vntill such time as ●hou Papirio a Cardinall was sent thither from Pope Eugenius the fourth to reforme ecclesiasticall discipline in this Iland And that this Kingedome of greate Brittaine hath euen from the primatiue Church of the first conuerted Brittannes submitted themselues and their posterities to the Pope of Rome in the highest and moste commaundeinge power and Authoritie in this worlde in their Iudgment a generall Councell as hereafter Cap. generall Councels infr Theater l. 6. cap. 9. pag. 206. ● 19. I thus demonstrate from this their Theater wherein they write in this order After these times the Brittannes continued constant in Christianitie and the censures of their Bishops for the greate estimation of their constancie pietie and learninge required and approued in greate poynts of doctrine amonge the Assemblies of some generall Councells as that of Sardys and Nyce in the time of greate Constantine had wee our Bishops present Whose forwardnes against the Arrian Heresie afterwards Athanasius aduanceth in his Apologie vnto Iouinian the Emperour amongst three hundred Bishops assembled at the Councell of Sardys in Anno 350. Then seing as these men teach vs generall Infra cap. gen Councels Councells ar the highest Iudge and binde all men to their decrees and our bishops that were there to consent vnto and

embrace doctrine for this whole Kingdome were so renowned for constancie pietie and learninge and all this in their confessed puer time of Christianitie I will recite what doctrine in this poynt of Popes supreamacye they approued and receaued there for this and all nations to followe and obserue In the third Canon of this Concil Sardic can 3. their greate Councell it is thus decreed Bishop Osius said if any Bishop shall be iudged in an other cause and hee thinketh hee hath a Good cause that a Councell should be called againe if it please you lett vs honor the memorie of S. Peter the Apostle that they which haue examined the cause may write to Iulius Bishop of Rome and if hee shall adiudge that Iudgment is to be renewed lett it be renewed and lett him appoint Iudges but if hee shall allowe the cause to be such that the things that ar done shall not be examined againe such things as hee shall decree shall be confirmed Doth this please you all The Councell answeareth it pleaseth vs. Therefore all now in England ought to be pleased with the supreamacie of that highest See and appeales vnto it The 4. and next Canon Can. 4. sup immediatly beginneth thus Bishop Gandentius said lett it be added if you please to this sentence full of sanctitie that when any Bishop shall be deposed by the Iudgment of those Bishops that be in the places neare And hee shall demaunde to haue his busines handled in the citie of Rome that after his appeale no Bishop be ordeyned in his chaire that was thought to be deposed except his cause shall be determined in the Iudgment of the Bishop of Rome The 7. Canon declareth it to be in the Can. 7. sup Popes power to send a latere Iudges in such causes into any contry notwitstandeing any sentence of other Bishops And as these primatiue Bishops of this Kingedome with that learned and Holy assemble of that generall Councell receaued and approued that supreame power in the Pope of Rome so hee by these Ptotestants testimonie euer practized it in this nation For besides that which is written before they vse these words Celestine Pope of Rome sent his Archdeacon Palladius into Brittaine to withstand Theater lib. 4. cap. 1. pag. 138. n. 22. the Pelagian Heresie whoe at one time did driue out these enemyes of grace and ordayned a Bishop amonge the Scots whereby that Barbarous nation ●mbr●ced Christianitic This they cite and approue from Prosper Aquitan And againe in this maner Pelagius by birth a brittane by profession a Mouke by leude doctrine an Hereticke brought vp in the fame us Lib. 6. cap. 53. pag. 277. n. 10. monasterie of Bangor in Wales his Hereticall assertions were afterwards condemned by Innocentius the first Bishop of Rome Whose doctrines were 1. that man without the grace of God was able to fullfill all the commaundements 2 that man in himself had free will That the grace of God was giuen vnto vs according to out merits 4. That the Iust haue no synne 5. That children ar free from originall synne 6. That Adam should haue died though hee had not synned Concerninge the Towne of Stanford Lib. 1. cap. 31. pag. 59. n. 8. they make this relation from Ihon Hardinge it continued an vniuersitie vnto the comeing of Augustine at which time the Bishops of Rome interdicted it for certayne Heresies sprange vp amonge the Brittaines and Saxons They write futher thus Yorke hath challenged to haue beene sometime Pag. 6. n. 7. Metropolitane ouer all the Bishops in Scotland It was made equall in honor and power with Canterbury by Pope Gregory as Beda relateth and had twelue suffragan Bishopricks that owed obedience And againe Yorke was made a Metropolitane Pag. 78. n. 9. cittie by a pall sent vnto it from Honorius And to shew that the disposeing of these things was in the power of that highest See thus they testifie againe That Lichfeild was made an Lib. 1. cap. 3. pag. 6. n. 8. Archiepiscopall See by Pope Hadrian the first at the suite of Offa the greate Kinge of Mercia is manifested by Mathew of Westminister vnto whose Iurisdictiō were assigned the Bishopricks of Winchester Hereford Leicester Siduacester Helinham and Dunwich Like were the condition of S. Dauids n. 6. 8. Dorchester by Oxford and others And to shew that these primatiue bishops were onely subiect to the Pope and no Prince in their spirituall proceedeings when the wicked Kinge Vortigern had put away his first lawfull Christian wife and maryed Rowena the daughter of Hengist a Pagan Theat l. 7. cap. 12. pag. 313. about the yeare of Christ 470 for declareing the remedie thereof they write in these wordes Which Pagan mariadge proued not onely the bane of the land but so ruinated the Church of Christianitie that a prouinciall Councell of the Brittaines was assembled in Ann. 470. to repaire those things that this mariadge had decayed Then Popes and not Princes by these Parker lib. antiq Britan nic pag. 329 Protestants euer had spirituall supreamacie in this Kingedome For their first Archbishop Parker An. 1536. writeth thus Potentia populis nongentis amplius Annu in Anglia durauit The power of the Pope continued in England aboue nyne hundred yeares And there ought to continue still as I haue made demonstration by these Protestants before to which I add this sentence of Isaac Casanbon ex o●e Isaac Casanb respons ad ep Cardinal p●r pag. 8. ipso ser Regis taken from the mouth it self of our moste syncere Kinge commaundeing him to committ it te writeinge and is as followeth Rebus ipsis probet Romanus pontifex lett the Pope of Rome proue by things themselues that hee doth not seeke his owne Pag. 67. supr but the glory of God immortall and the peace of people concord and saluation to be a care vnto him then our moste se●ene Kinge as hee hath longe since protested in his Admonitory epistle without delay primas illi deferet ipsumque 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cum Gregorio Nazianzen● dicet non inuitus will giue primacie vnto him and not vnwillingely say with Gregorie Nazienzen that hee hath charge ouer the whole Church To which I answeare that I wish and I trust with more deuotion and Religion then hee That not onely Popes but other Princes spirituall and temporall Bishops Preists and all men in authoritie and others did more seeke the glorie of God then their owne and were more carefull of the peoples peace concord and saluation then they now ar or many were euen from the time of Christ Then so many disorders and Impieties should not haue so full dominion where Protestancie Ruleth and the scripture had neuer saide omnes quae sua sunt quaerunt non qu● Iesu Christi all men or all sortes of men seeke the things that be their owne and not of Iesus Christ And it chargeth vs againe to obey Magistrats and men in