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A70686	The lawfulnes of the oath of supremacy, and power of the King in ecclesiastical affairs with Queen Elizabeth's admonition, declaring the sence and interpretation of it, confirmed by an act of Parliament, in the 5th year of her reign : together with a vindication of dissenters, proving, that their particular congregations are not inconsistent with the King's supremacy in ecclesiastical affairs : with some account of the nature, constitution, and power of the ecclesiastical courts / by P. Nye ... ; in the epistle to the reader is inserted King James's vindication and explication of the oath of allegiance.; Lawfulnes of the oath of supremacy and power of the King in ecclesiastical affairs	Nye, Philip, 1596?-1672.	1683 (1683)	Wing N1499; ESTC R22153	63,590	80

all or some of these Propositions following 1. That I King James am not the lawful King of this Kingdom and of all other my Dominions 2. That the Pope by his own Authority many depose me If not by his own Authority yet by some other Authority of the Church or of the See of Rome If not by some other Authority of the Church and See of Rome yet by other means with others help he may depose me 3. That the Pope may dispose of my Kingdoms and Dominions 4. That the Pope may give Authority to some Foreign Prince to invade my Dominions 5. That the Pope may discharge my Subjects of their Obedience and Allegiance to me 6. That the Pope may give Licence to one or more of my Subjects to bear Arms against me 7. That the Pope may give leave to my Subjects to offer Violence to my Person or to my Government or to some of my Subjects 8. That if the Pope shall by Sentence excommunicate or depose me my Subjects are not to bear Faith and Allegiance to me 9. If the Pope shall by Sentence excommunicate or depose me my Subjects are not bound to defend with all their power my Person and Crown 10. If the Pope shall give out any Sentence of Excommunication or Deprivation against me my Subjects by reason of that Sentence are not bound to reveal all Conspiracies and Treasons against me which shall come to their Hearing and Knowledg 11. That it is not heretical and detestable to hold that Princes being excommunicated by the Pope may be either deposed or killed by their Subjects or any other 12. That the Pope hath Power to absolve my Subjects from this Oath or from some par thereof 13. That this Oath is not administred to my Subjects by a full and lawful Authority 14. That this Oath is to be taken with Equivocation mental Evasion or secret Reservation and not with the Heart and good Will sincerely in the Faith of a Christian Man These are the true and natural Branches of the Body of this Oath The CONTENTS CHAP. I. THe Occasion of this Oath various Form and Alteration of it Interpretations of this Oath given in our Laws and Writers of note The nature of our Assent and Stipulation CHAP. II. What is ment by Things and Persons Spiritual or Ecclesiastical in the proper as also in the vulgar use of these Terms CHAP. III. Of Power its rise and original Two sorts of Power in Ecclesiastical or Spiritual Things their Agreement and Difference CHAP. IV. Of the necessity and usefulness of a Jurisdiction over Persons and in Causes Ecclesiastical besides what is in Churches and Church-men This Power is placed in Kings and such as are the supream Governours in a Common-wealth CHAP. V. The Government of particular Churches hath Affinity with Families Cities and the like lesser Bodies more than with the Government of Empires and Kingdoms confirmed in six Instances A Digression Of Independency Name and Thing its consistency with the King's Supreamacy CHAP. VI. Of the Jurisdiction over particular Churches placed in Ecclesiastical Persons as it is 1. Exercised with us in this Nation 2. As it is in other Reformed Churches herein Of Appeals that are properly such in Ecclesiastical Matters these are always to be to the Supream Civil Magistrate only or to such as are appointed by him A Post-script giving some account of the congregational way from such Principles of it as are laid down in this Treatis THE LAWFULNES OF THE Oath of Supremacy c. THE Supremacy of the Kings of England being eclipsed by the Bishop of Rome in both parts of it the State thought fit to enjoin a Provision of equal extension In relation to the Civil Rights of the Crown is the Oath of Allegiance and against the Encroachments upon the Ecclesiastical this of the Supremacy which being first enjoined containeth in a manner both This Oath hath given the Papists such a Blow as they could not but strike again and have poured out a Flood of Arguments and Absurdities against submitting to it which hath been a long time scattered and stick in the Minds of divers of his Majesty's Loyal Subjects who tho otherwise well affected yet by reason of some Doubts and Tenderness are at a stand to this day and scruple the taking of this Oath For whose satisfaction and clearing the Lawfulness of this Supremacy is the ensuing D. scourse CHAP. I. § 1. The Oath it self as now enjoined § 2. The Occasion of this Oath § 3. Various Forms of it and Alterations about it § 4. Interpretations given of it in our Laws and Writers of Note § 5. The Nature of our Assent and Stipulation The Oath of Supremacy I A. B. do utterly testify and declare in my Conscience that the King's Highness is the only Supreme Governor of this Realm and of all other his Highness's Dominions and Countries as well in all Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Things or Causes as Temporal And that no Foreign Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Iurisdiction Power Superiority Preeminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realm And therefore I do utterly renounce and forsake all Foreign Iurisdictions Powers Superiorities and Authorities and do promise that from henceforth I shall bear Faith and true Allegiance to the King's Highness his Heirs and lawful Successors and to my power shall assist and defend all Iurisdictions Privileges Preeminences and Authorities granted or belonging to the King's Highness his Heirs and Successors as united and annexed to the Imperial Crown of this Realm § 2. For many Years there hath been a Contest about Jurisdiction and Supremacy in Ecclesiastical Matters between the Bishop of Rome and the Kings of England who hath got ground herein according as our Princes were found more weak necessitous or devoted to his Holiness Rome was not built in a Day By William the Conqueror Legates from the Pope to hear and determine Ecclesiastical Causes were admitted Henry the First after much Contest yields to the Pope the Patronages and Donations of Bishopricks and all other Ecclesiastical Benefices it being decreed at Rome that no Lay-Person should give any Ecclesiastical Charge King Stephen grants that Appeals be made to the Court of Rome In Henry the Second's Days the Pope gets the Clergy and Spiritual Persons exempted from Secular Powers The Bishop of Rome is now over all Ecclesiastical Persons and Causes even in these Dominions Supreme Head And having upon the matter made Conquest over more than half the Kingdom in the Times of King John and Henry the Third sets on for the whole and obtains of King John an absolute Surrender of England and Ireland unto his Holiness which were granted back again by him to the King to hold of the Church of Rome in Fee-farm and Vassalage Being now absolute and immediate Lord over all he endeavours to convert the Profits of both Kingdoms to his own Use so that Prince and People were hereby reduced

immediately the Object of this Supreme Power and the Laws made by it upon another Consideration than as Bishops c. namely as being born within these her Majesty's Realms and Dominions and such Persons of what Estate either Ecclesiastical or Temporal soever they be She hath the Sovereignty and Rule over them Spiritual and Ecclesiastical Things are mentioned in the Oath upon a twofold Account 1. Because the Civil Magistrate's Power and Jurisdiction really extends it self to the Duties of both Tables and hath to do with Matters and Causes as well as Persons that are spiritual as hereafter we shall shew but 2. Principally that a Calling or Employment in Church-Affairs whatsoever hath been formerly judged and practised doth no more exempt a Person and his Actings that is a Subject to the Queen upon any other account from her Secular Power than doth a Temporal Calling or Employment in any worldly Affairs There is something of Explication further in the Articles of Religion concluded in the Year 1562. The 37th Article is this The 37th Article professed in the Church of England The Queen's Majesty hath the chief Power in her Realm of England and other her Dominions unto whom the chief Government of all Estates of this Realm whether they be Ecclesiastical or Civil in all Causes doth appertain and is not nor ought to be subject to any Foreign Jurisdiction Where we attribute to the Queen's Majesty the chief Government by which Titles we understand the Minds of some slanderous Folks to be offended we give not to our Prince the ministring either of God's Word or of the Sacraments The which thing the Injunctions also lately set forth by Elizabeth our Queen do most plainly testify But that only Prerogative which we see to have been given always to all Godly Princes in Holy Scriptures by God himself that is that they should rule all Estates and Degrees committed to their Charge by God whether they be Ecclesiastical or Temporal and restrain with the Civil Sword the Stubborn and Evil-doers The Bishop of Rome hath no Jurisdiction in this Realm of England It is mentioned in the Admonition that the Queen 's Ecclesiastical Power is the same that was challenged and used by Henry the Eighth c. Which is supposed by some to be the same that was in the Pope the Person only and not the Power changed so that our Princes are but Secular Popes This Objection was strengthned by the Subtilty of Gardiner abroad Whom Calvin terms Impostor ille in Am. 7.13 and at home by a Sermon preached at Paul's-Cross in the Year 1588 by Dr. Bancroft who calls Queen Elizabeth a petty Pope and tells us her Ecclesiastical Authority is the same which the Pope had formerly This 37th Article removes the Scruple sufficiently 1. In asserting the Authority given to her Majesty to be no other but what we see to have been given to all Godly Princes in holy Scriptures c. And for what Power Henry the Eighth challenged it was no new Jurisdiction wrested from the Pope but a Power or Prerogative justly and rightfully belonging to him 26 Henry 8. cap. 1. claimed and exercised by his Predecessors some hundreds of Years before his Time being anciently annexed to the Crown 2. In the latter part of the Article it is also evident For tho a Power in spiritual Causes be given to a Secular Prince yet it is not a spiritual Power and such a Jurisdiction as the Pope claims but such a Power only and in such a way as is put forth and exercised in ordinary Civil Affairs and the same in respect both to Ecclesiastical and Temporal Persons namely a restraining with the Civil Sword the Stubborn and Evil-doers So to restrain or coerce is an Authority or Jurisdiction peculiar to Civil Magistrates and by Christ himself denied to the highest Ecclesiastical Powers Mat. 20 25 26. Ye know saith Christ the Princes of the Gentiles exercise Dominion over them and they that are great exercise Authority upon them but it shall not be so among you you apostles and threatens the Use of the Sword in such Persons Mat. 26.52 King James speaking of the Oath of Supremacy In that Oath saith he is contained only the King 's absolute Power over all Persons as well Civil as Ecclesiastical excluding all Foreign Powers and Potentates to be Judges within his Dominions In his Apol. pag. 76. And more fully afterwards pag. 164. It implies saith he a Power to command Obedience to be given to the Word of God by reforming Religion according to his prescribed Will by assisting the spiritual Power by his temporal Sword by Reformation of Corruption by procuring due Obedience to the Church by judging and cutting off all frivolous Questions and Schisms as Constantine did and finally by making a Decorum to be observed in all indifferent Things for that purpose which is the only Intent of our Oath of Supremacy My Lord Coke out of 1º Eliz. and in the Words of the Statute gives this Interpretation There is saith he no Jurisdiction by this Act affixed to the Crown but was of Right or ought to be by the ancient Laws of this Realm parcel of his Jurisdiction and which lawfully had been or might be exercised within the Realm The End of which Jurisdiction and of all the Proceedings thereupon is that all Things might be in Causes Ecclesiastical to the pleasure of Almighty God Increase of Vertue and the Conservation of the Peace and Unity of the Realm as by divers places of the Act appears And therefore by that Act no pretended Jurisdiction exercised within this Realm being ungodly or repugnant to the ancient Law of the Crown was or could be restored to the Crown according to the ancient Right and Law of the same Coke de Jure Ecclesiastico fol. 8. Bishop Bilson a great Searcher into the Doctrine of the Supremacy of Kings gives this as the Sence of the Oath The Oath saith he expresseth not Kings Duty to God but ours to them As they must be obeyed when they join with Truth so must they be endured when they fall into Error Which Side soever they take either Obedience to their Wills or Submission to their Swords is their due by God's Law and that is all which our Oath exacteth And in a few Lines following he interprets what is meant by Supremacy We do not saith he give Princes Power to do what they list in the Matters appertaining to God and his Service Indeed we say the Pope may not depose them nor pull the Crown off their Heads In this only Sence we defend them to be Supreme that is not at liberty to do what they list without regard of Truth or Right but without Superior on Earth Dr. Morton against the Pope's Supremacy out of an Epistle of Leo to the Emperor speaking thus You must not be ignorant that your Princely Power is given unto you not only in worldly Regiment but also spiritual for the Preservation of