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A62874	A serious consideration of the oath of the Kings supremacy wherein these six propositions are asserted. 1. That some swearing is lawful. 2. That some promissory oaths are lawful. 3. That a promissory oath of allegiance and due obedience to a king is lawful. 4. That the King in his realm, is the onely supreme governour over all persons. 5. That the king is the governour of the realm, as well in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things, or causes, as temporal. 6. That the jurisdictions, priviledges, preeminences, and authorities in that oath, may be assisted and defended. By John Tombes B.D.	Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.	1660 (1660)	Wing T1818; ESTC R220153	19,748	28

upright therein so it may be in Ecclesiastical Causes if he choose and use the help of them that are skilful and faithful in Religion But in this thing there is need of the greatest circumspection vigilancy and wariness on the one side by reason of the cunning and diligence of seducers and the violence of spirit in profane persons against the most holy and harmless Christians and on the other side by reason of the weakness in the faith of many upright souls whose consciences are very tender and their wounds hardly cured of whom our Lord Christ was very tender Matth. 12. 20. and gentle toward them as the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the everlasting covenant Heb. 13. 20. as was foretold Isai. 40. 11. and the Apostle Paul requires much indulgence to be given them Rom. 14. 1 4. Object 8. The acknowledgement of this Supremacy of the King hath been opposed by sundry godly Protestants who have in their writings excepted against it as Calvin and the Century writers of Magdeburg Answ. T is true they excepted against the Title of head of the Church given to King Henry the eighth as Stephen Gardiner and such like persons misreported it as if it gave to the King an uncontrollable authentique power to determine of faith and worship of God but when those learned Protestants better understood what was meant by it they withdrew their exceptions as Doctor Rainold shews in his Conference with Hart in the Tower chap. 10. Object 9. Many godly persons are offended with the taking and defending the Lawfulness of the taking of this Oath as fearing it many tend to the taking away those Liberties of their consciences in Religion which are dearer to them then their lives and being jealous of those who take it least they betray those Liberties Ans. It is to be considered by those conscientious persons who make this objection that the takers and defenders of the taking of this Oath do apprehend that the imposing this Oath was for the excluding the Popes jurisdiction and other Forreign power as the admonition of Queen Elizabeth here prefixed shews and therefore there is nothing done by such takers or defenders in prejudice of their brethrens Liberties or imposition on the consciences of others But they that have taken it or conceive they may take it if imposed do it as being satisfied in their consciences by the foregoing arguments or such like that they do but what they may do lawfully without offence and hope that it will fall out as it did in the business of the Altar of Ed Josh. 22. that a right intelligence of their fact will prevent any breach between them and others and unite them more closely Object 10. This acknowledgement of the Kings Supremacy in Causes Ecclesiastical hath been but of late not before King Henry the eighth and Edward the sixth Answer The Title of head of the Church of England now altered into Supreme Governour over all persons though it were not assumed by the Kings of England before Henry the eighth yet the power of Supreme Government in Causes Ecclesiastical as saith Bishop Bramhal in his answer to Militiere pag. 111. The ancient Kings of England ever exercised not onely before the Reformation but before the Norman Conquest as appeared by the Acts of their great Councils by their Statutes and Articles of the Clergy by so many Laws of provision against the Bishop of Romes conferring Ecclesiastical dignities and benefices upon Foreigners by so many sharp oppositions against the exactions and usurpations of the Court of Rome by so many Laws concerning the Patronage of Bishopricks and investitures of Bishops by so many examples of Churchmen punished by the Civil Magistrate This power though not this name the Christian Emperors of old assumed to themselves to Convocate Synods to preside in Synods to confirm Synods to establish Ecclesiastical Laws to receive appeals to nominate Bishops to eject Bishops to suppress Heresies to Compose Ecclesiastical differences in Councils out of Councils by themselves by their Delegates All which is as clear in the History of the Church as if it were written with a beam of the Sun The sixth Proposition is The Jurisdictions Preeminences Priviledges and Authorities in that Oath may be assisted and defended The jurisdictions c. meant I conceive to be expressed a little before the form of the Oath in the Statute of 1 Eliz. cap. 1. Of which the Queens admonition saith No other Authority is challenged than that was challenged and lately used by King Henry the eighth and Edward the sixth that is under God to have the Soveraignty and Rule over all manner of persons born within her Realms Dominions and Countreys of what estate either Ecclesiastical or Temporal soever they be so as no other foreign power shall or ought to have any superiority over them What was used in the days of Henry the eighth and Edward the sixth appears by the book of Acts and Monumens and Statutes in their days to wit the rejecting the Popes jurisdiction appointing visitors judging and deposing some Bishops commands to take down Images causing Divine service to be in the English tongue the Bible in the English tongue to be in Churches with many other things of the like kinde the promise to defend them is to Our power whether by opposing the bringers in of a Forreign power especially the Popes or by aiding the King in the right use of this Authority neither is the power granted which may not be lawfully used or exercised nor is the abuse of it required to be defended With this explication the Proposition is thus proved That we may lawfully swear to assist and defend which may lawfully be exercised and may be of necessary use This Proposition needs not any further proof being of it self manifest But all the Jurisdictions Priviledges Preeminences and Authorities meant in the Oath according to the Queens explication in her Admonition ratified in the proviso of the Statute 5. Eliz. may be lawfully exercised and may be of necessary use as appears by the recital of them and their use before specified therefore we may lawfully swear to assist and defend them The Objection that is made against this is that these Jurisdictions Preeminences Priviledges and Authorities were the same that were taken from the Pope and given to the King and thereby Papal power was conferred on him To which I answer The power saith Hart Conference with Rainold chap. 1. division 2. which we mean to the Pope by this title of the Supreme Head is that the Government of the whole Church throughout the world doth depend of him in him doth lie the power of judging and determining all causes of faith of ruling Councils as President and ratifying their Decrees of ordering and confirming Bishops and Pastours of deciding Causes brought him by Appeals from all the Coasts of the earth of reconciling any that are excommunicate of excommunicating suspending or inflicting other censures and penalties on any that offend yea on Princes and Nations finally of all things of the like sort for Governing of the Church even whatsoever toucheth either preaching of Doctrine or practising of Discipline in the Church of Christ Now this immense power as too heavy for the shoulders of a mortal man and as not belonging to the Kingly Office at all in many parts of it is disclaimed by the Kings of England as is before shewed and not meant to be acknowledged in the Oath Therefore saith Dr. John Rainold Confer. with Hart chap. 10. that which we take from the Pope we give not to any mortal creature and having by the reading of Dr. Nowels reproof of Dormans proof of certain Articles convinced Hart the Jesuite that no more is meant by it then what August saith Epist. 50. that Kings do serve Gods as Kings if in their own Realm they command good things and forbid evil not onely concerning the civil state of men but the Religion of God also thus much he did subscribe to Out of all which I infer that it was very presumptuously and unjustly made by Mounsier de la Militiere the crime of the Kings of England which God chastised by the late Tragedy that the Authority which God gave the King in Temporal matters was used by him for Governing Spiritual in his tempting Epistle to his Majesty that now is whom the Lord preserve and direct in the mannaging of this power of so great concernment to so many millions of precious souls as are within his Dominions Amen FINIS