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A91309	Truth triumphing over falshood, antiquity over novelty. Or, The first part of a just and seasonable vindication of the undoubted ecclesiasticall iurisdiction, right, legislative, coercive power of Christian emperors, kings, magistrates, parliaments, in all matters of religion, church-government, discipline, ceremonies, manners: summoning of, presiding, moderating in councells, synods; and ratifying their canons, determinations, decrees: as likewise of lay-mens right both to sit and vote in councells; ... In refutation of Mr. Iohn Goodwins Innocencies Triumph: my deare brother Burtons Vindication of churches, commonly called Independent: and of all anti-monarchicall, anti-Parliamentall, anti-synodicall, and anarchicall paradoxes of papists, prelates, Anabaptists, Arminians, Socinians, Brownists, or Independents: whose old and new objections to the contrary, are here fully answered. / By William Prynne, of Lincolnes Inne, Esquire.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1645 (1645)	Wing P4115; Thomason E259_1; ESTC R212479	202,789	171

and of absolute authority within it self subject to no other Jurisdiction then that of Christ his Word and Spirit and not to any other particular Congregation Synod or Nationall Church or humane power whatsoever Therefore the Parliament and Assembly can make no Canons nor Rules to binde it nor presc●ibe any Church-government or Discipline to it Brother this is the summe of your whole Book and it grieves me to see so many strange Parodoxes piled up together to support an Independent Fabrick by one of your yeares and Iudgement Give me leave therefore to discover your manifold over-sights in this particular by such demonstrations as you shall not be able to gain say First then I say that the whole Church of Christ is but one intire Mysticall Body whereof Christ is the supreame Spirituall Head and Governour and all particular Churches only members of this intire Body as the head hand feet are members of the Naturall Body not absolute bodies of themselves as every house or Parish in a City is a member of the whol City Every Company or Regiment in an Army a member of that Realme not absolute bodies Cities Armies Kingdomes of themselves That this is truth we have sundry expresse Resolutions of Scripture in positive tearms as the 1 Cor. 12. 12 13 14. 26. 27. and in truth the whole Chapter Ephes ● 22 23. c. 2. 14. 15. to the end c. 4. 11. to 17. c. 5. 23. to 33. Col. 1. 18. 24. c. 2. 17. 19. which you may peruse at leisure Ephes 4. 3. to 7. Endeavouring to keepe the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace For there is ONE BODY one Spirit one Lord one Faith one Baptisme One God and Father of all who is above all and through all and in all And John 17. 20. 21. 23. Neither pray I for these alone but for them also which shall believe on me through their word THAT THEY ALL MAY BE ONE as thou father art one and I am in thee that they also MAY BE ONE IN US and may be made perfect IN ONE Hence the Scripture usually expresseth the whol Catholike Church of Christ which allages hitherto have believed to be but one so far as to make it an Article of their Creed under singular titles as the Church A WOMAN MY LOVE MY DOVE my Sister my Spouse a Garden a Vineyard a City a Congregation an Assembly Sion Jerusalem an House a Flocke a Body and the like to note it unity that it is but ONE intire spirituall Corporation though distributed into severall particular Congregations scattered ●ver the face of the whole World This being an indubitable verity strikes off the head of your Galiah and subverts the very foundation of Independent Congregations which would be absolute and compleat spirituall Bodies within themselves and no members of a Catholike or Nationall Church Secondly If all the particular Churches in the World bee in reality but one intire Body and Church of Christ then by the self-same reason likewise all the particular Congregations within one Nation Kingdome Republike united in one civill Corporation under one Head and temporall government are but one and the selfe-same Church and members one of another not absolute Independent Congregations of themselves subordinate to no other even as all the particular persons in a House make up but one Family all the particular Houses Parishes in a City but one City all the severall Cities Counties in a Kingdome one Realme and all the Nations on the earth but one world of men These cleare principles of Divinity Policy Nature experience none can or may deny unlesse he hath lost his sences or means to subvert all humane Relations and Societies And my Brother acknowledging the whole Nation of the Jewes to be but one intire Nationall Church though divided into sundry Synagogues and particular Congregations as is evident by Acts 15. 24. FOR MOSES OF OLD TIME hath IN EVERY CITY them that Preach him being read in THE SYNAGOGVES EVERY SABBATH DAY compared with Psa 74. 8. Matth. 6. 2. 5. c. 7. 1. 8. c. 9. 35. c. 23. 34. Mark 1. 21. 23. 29. 39 c. 3. 1. n. 5. 22. Luke 4. 15. to 44. c. 13. 10. c. 21. 12. John 6. 59. c. 9. 22. c. 18. 20. c. 10. 2 Acts 9. 2. 20. c. 13. 5. 14. 42. c. 14. 1. c. 17. 1. 10. c. 18. 4. 7. 13. 26. c. 19. 8. c. 22. 12. must of necessity subscribe to this conclusion issuing naturally from it that all particular Congregations in any one Christian Realm Nation Republike are but one intire Church though divided into severall squadrons for necessity and conveniency as one house is into many Roomes one City into many Streets Parishes companies wards one Kingdome into divers Counties Provinces One Parliament into severall Houses Sub-Committees as there is occasion one Armie into severall Regiments Brigades Companies Troopes Thirdly It is at clear as Noonday That in all Civill or Ecclesiasticall Corporations Congregations or Societies of men united into one common Politique Body the whol body or greater part hath by the Law of God Nature Nations a lawful inherent jurisdiction over every particular member or lesser part to make Laws and common Rules to obliege them for the safety peace benefit of the whol Body In all Parliaments Councels of State or War Cities Corporations Societies Courts of Iustice Chapters Committees yea in all elections of Magistrates Ministers Knights or Burgesses of Parliament Majors of Cities Masters Wardens of Companies heads or fellows of Colledges Church-wardens and the like the whol Body or major voyce bindes the lesser number all the whol body ever over-rules the parts And it must needs be so els there could be no Rule Order Government in any of them if one member only or the lesser part should over-rule and prescribe Lawes unto the whole or greater part not they to them The like rule holds firme and hath ever taken place 〈…〉 ●●mall generall Nation Provinciall Parochiall or Congregation 〈…〉 Synods Convocations Assemblies or meetings in all matters of 〈…〉 Discipline Government Lawes Rules Edicts Censure Descition 〈…〉 Yea in Independent Churches themselves the Votes Orders 〈◊〉 determinations of the whole or major part of the Congregation binde all the other dissenting as well as consenting members neither will any Independent Congregation admit of any into their new society but such who shall first submit to the Covenant Orders Government Rules and Discipline that Congregation or the major part thereof hath elected established Fourthly It is a principle of the Law of Nature and common Reason which all Republikes Churches Societies of men in every age till this present have admitted that the Lawes Ordinances Decrees of the greatest Civill or Ecclesiasticall Assemblies where the whole Realme Republike Church or Nation are personally or representatively present by their deputies or Proxies obliege all inferiour Corporations Societies Churches Congregations Persons within their

That every particular Church now consisting of visible Saints is under Christ as the SOLE Head King Governour Law-giver of it and so is subject to no other jurisdiction then that of Christ his Spirit his Word We hold that every particular Church is under Christs Government as the SOLE Head King Lord Governour thereof That it is a spirituall House whose only builder and Governour is Christ and not man A spirituall Kingdome whose only King is Christ and not man A spirituall Republique whose only Law-giver is Christ and not man A spirituall Corporation whose only head is Christ and not man That no man nor power on earth hath a Kingly power over this Kingdome That no earthly Law-givers may give Lawes to this Kingdome or Republique That no man may claime or exercise a head-ship over this body That no man can or ought to take the Government of this Communion of Saints That men may not appoint limit constitute what Congregations of all sorts they please to be Churches of Christ as Nations and Parishes That Christ is King over every mans conscience so that no power on earth may sit with him in this his Thror c. yea so as no human power not Law may intermeddle to prescribe rules for the Government or formes of this Church of Christ That the Children of those Parents who will not thus acknowledge Christ to be their only King and Law-giver and are ashamed or afraid to be thus in Covenant with Christ in the Independents way as their King are not to be baptized such Parents not being within the Covenant A very hard and uncharitable censure of all Churches Persons who are not Independent That Christ is the ONLY Potentate Law-giver Lord King Governour over Churches and not men Not Councells or Senates That this is Christs Royall Prerogative which is incommunicable to ANY or All the powers on earth That Christ hath not delegated his Kingly Office to any Princes Magistrates PARLIAMENTS to set up any forme of Worship of Church-Government who have no authority to make Lawes to rule or binde any particular Churches and if they make any such they shall be apt to transgresse them but yet men must take heed how they punish them for that transgression with any enseresciderdum or Club-law This is the summe and oft repeted Argument of my deare Brothers Booke To give a satisfactory Answer to this Objection I shall first demand of my dear Brother what he meanes by this frequently incultated assertion That every particular Church is under Christ as the only Head King Lawgiver Lord and Governour thereof c. and that none ought to have any power rule or Jurisdiction in the Church but Christ alone If he intends that he is the only immediate HEAD KING Law-giver and Governour as he clearely doth I desire some solid scripture proofes for it since he produceth none to evince it the rather because it is quite contrary to sundry expres Texts which stile Kings Majestrates Ministers Heigher powers Rulers Overseers Fathers Nursing Fathers Pastors of over their Churches people flocks who are ever enjoyned to obey submit unto them yea Rulers of the Templ Congregation Church Rulers Chife Rulers of the Synagogu ●ay sometimes Gods sitting upon Gods throne to whom men must yeeld obedience for the Lords sake as to Gods Christs Vicegerents and Embassadours Yea Brother your selfe informe us out of Scripture pag. 51. That the members of Christs body are Superiour and inferiour as Pastors Teachers Teaching and RVLING Elders Helps GOVERNMENTS Bishops or OVERSEERS c. If Christ then be the onely Head King Ruler Shephard Governour of his Church and none else in that sense you object what will become of these Pastors Ruling-Elders Governours Overseers which you averre Christ hath fixed in his Churches What will become of those Independent Ministers who take upon them like absolute kings Popes Lawgivers to erect gather new Chruches of their own forming and prescribe both Lawes Rules Covenants to them which Christ never made Brother you must expunge the 1 Tim. 5. 17 Let the Elders that RULE well be counted worthy of double honour Rom. 13. 1. Let every soule BEE SVBIECT to the HIGHER POWERS c. even for CONSCIENCE SAKE Tit. 3. 1. Put them in minde to be subject to Principalities and Powers to obey Magistrates c. Heb. 12. 17. Obey them that have THE RULE OVER YOU and SVBMIT your selves for they watch for your soules as they that must give an account c. Remember Salute all them that have the RVLE OVER YOV Acts 20. 28. Take heed to the floke over which the Holy Ghost hath made you OVERSEERS or Bishops to feed the Church of God which he hath purchased with his bloud Rom. 12. 8. HE that RVLETH let him do it with diligence 2 Chron. 9. 8. Blessed be the Lord thy God who delighted in thee to set thee VPON HIS THRONE to BE KING FOR THE LORD THY GOD c. with infinite other Texts yea the very names of Kings Princes Governours Elders Rulers Magistrates Overseers Bishops Teachers Fathers Pastors Masters c. out of the Bible and all Christian States Churches if you will make Christ alone the only immediate King Ruler Governour Lawgiver of his Church in the sence you here object it and that no person nor humane power whatsoever hath or ought to have any rule power or jurisdiction in or over the Churches people of God But if you meane no more but that Christ is the onely supreame Head King Lord Governour Lawgiver Pastor and Ruler of his Church and that all other Kings Princes Magistrates Rulers Pastors Ministers Governours are subordinate unto him as to the King of Kings Lord of Lords and chiefe Shepheard of his flock● your proposition is true but your conclusion miserably false that therfore there are no subordinate Kings Magistrates Rulers Pastors Governours Lawgivers under him to rule governe order instruct direct his Churches and people which the forequoted Texts your owne experience reason and the whole world will contradict Secondly I shall demand of my Brother how he proves all his forementioned Paradoxes concerning Christ and the Church in the sense he propounds them Or that his own or other Independent Churches lately gathered erected by no other but by men and consederated by a new Covenant framed by men not Christ to be built governed ordered onely by Christ and not men to be the spirituall Kingdome of Christ c. whole onely King Governour Head is Christ and not man Or in what Text he can shew me any particular Independent Church stiled Christs spirituall Kingdom and Republike I find it prophesied Revl 11. 15. That when the seventh Angel foundeth The KINGDOMES of this World which must be meant of Nationall Churches which you deny not of Particular Congregations which are no such Kingdoms shall become the Kingdomes of the Lord and of his Christ That all the

his Les Edicts et Ordonnances dos Royes de France A Paris 1585. Tom. 4. throughout wherein you may see an whole Folio volume of Ecclesiasticall Lawes and Edicts made by the Kings and Parliaments of France to which for brevity I shall remit the Reader For Spain the forecited Councels of Toledo which were but Parliament and assemblies of the Estates The lawes of the Wisigothis especially lib. 1● De removendis OMNIVM HAERETICORVM SECTIS exterms DE OMNIVM HAERETICORVM ATQVE IVDAEORVM ERRORIBVS AMPVTANDIS which you may read at large in the third some of Hisp●● Illustrata p. 992. to 1014. and in Fredericus Lindebrogus his Codex Legum Antiquarum France-furtii 1613. p. 210 to 238. together with the Generall history of Spain Joannes de Laet. Hispaniae Descriptio Hieronimus Blanca Rerum Arragenensium Commentarius will furnish us with sufficient Presidents of their Parliaments Iurisdiction in matters of Religion and making Ecclesiasticall Lawes in all Church matters For Bohemia Georgius Bartholdus Pontanus his Bohaemia pia l. 7. De Rebus Gestis sub Ludovico Rege lib. 1. c. 8 9 10 12 24 25 21 29 30 31. lib. 2. c. 3 to 24. l. 3. c. 2 6. l. 4. c 1 711 18 33 34. Pauli Geschinii Majestas Carolina sine Constitutiones Caroli 4 Romani Imperatoris quibus illo Regni●● Bohemiae firmandum ornandumque censuit Handviae 1607 Rubr. 1. De fide Catholica Rub. 2 4 5. De hareticis c. Aeneas Sylvius his Historia 〈◊〉 Pauli Stranhii Respub Bohemiae Master Fox his Acts and Monuments 〈…〉 Grimstons Imperiall History will furnish us with sundry Presidents where their Kings and Parliaments have determined and settled matters of Religion and Church-government in that Kingdome not Synods of their Clergy For Denmarke Hungary Poland and Sueden the Lawes and Historians of these Kingdomes abundantly testifie that their Parliaments and generall Assemblies of State have alwayee settled matters of religion and Church-government See Guagninus Chromerus Saxogrammaticus Pontanus Chy●●● Rer um Ungarirarum Scriptores For Italy I find that Theodoricus King of Italy among his temporall Laws intiteled Edictum Theodorici Regis hath many Ecclesiasticall constitutions intermixed as cap. 26. 70. 71 168 125 143. and 174. De die Dominico prohibiting arrests or citations thereon The like I finde among the Lawes of the b Burgundians made by Gundebald their K. by the advise and consent of his Nobles Coram positis Optimatibus nostris universa pensavimus iam nostra quam eorum sententia mansuris in aeuum legibus sumpsimus statuta praescribi cap. 28. 44 45. 51. ● Additamenti primi cap. 18. Additamentum 2. cap. 12. Among the Lawes of the Almains made in the time of King Chlotair una cum Principibus suis id sunt 33. Episcopis 33. Ducibus 72. Concitibus vel cetero populo consti●●ta est writes my Author I finde sundry Ecclesiasticall Lawes intermixed with temporall as cap. 1. 24. and cap. 38. De eo qui die DOMINICO opera servilia fecerit Which first enacts Die dominico nemo opera servilia prasumat facere quia hoc Lex prohibet sacra Scriptura in omnibus contradicit And then prescribes bast inadoing to a servant that shall worke on the Lords day and to a freeman after three admonitions the forfeiture of the third part of his inheritance and for the 4th offence perpetuall villainage Quia noluit Deo vacare in sempiernum servus perman●●● In the Lawes of the Bavarians first compiled by King Theodoricus by the advise of Wisemen skilfull in the Lawes afterwards proceeded in by King Childebert and Clothaire and renued by King Dagobert by advise of his Parliament as this Preface to them attests Hoc DECRETUM est apud Regem Principes ejus ● apud CUNCTUM POPULUM CHRITIANUM qui intra Regnu●● 〈◊〉 consistunt I finde the first Title to bee DE ECCLESIASTIC IS REBVS De libris legum justitutionum qua ad CLERVM pertinent Concerning whom there were many very good Lawes enacted I meet with sundry Lawes made by Tassilo Duke of Bavaria Anno Do. 772. Et per PRIMATES Imperij unmerso CONSENTENTE MVLTITVDINE c. Est ab universis uno ore confirmatum c. Many of which Lawes are meerely Ecclesiasticall As the first for the honour and sanctifying of the LORDS DAY Sicut in Lege Scriptum est in decretis Canonum and cap. 2 3 4 6. De Popularibus legibus cap. 10. 11 12 20. So also in the Aditions of Charles the Emperour to the Bavarian Lawes Addit 1. c. 1. 8. and Addit 2. cap. 7. 8 10. Among the Lawes of the Saxons cap 2. sect 8 9. There are some Lawes relating to the Church In the Prisons Laws chap. 18. There is this Law concerning the LORDS DAY Qui opus servile die Dominico fecerit ultra Laubachi sol 12. in caeteris locis Prisiae 4. Sol. culpabilis indictum Siseruus hoc fecerit vapuletur aut Dominus ejus 4. Solidos pro illo componet Additio Sapientum to these Laws Tit. 1. and 12. Concerne the Church Among the Lawes of the Lombards l. 1. tit 2. chap. 2. lib. 2. tit 8 38 39. lib. 3. tit 1. De Episcopis Clericis tit 3. De decimis tit 10. De Rect●●ibus Ecclesiarum tit 11. De Pontificibus tit 26. De excommunicatione and tit 30. 32 40 are wholly Ecclestasticall In the Lawes and Constitutions of those of Naple● and Sicily made in the yeare 1221. lib. r. tit 1. 2. D● Haereticis 〈◊〉 eorum Receptoribus Fauctoribus c. tit 3. De Apostatis tit 5. De Crimine sacrilegij tit 7. De Decimis and Tit. 29. 65 68. lib. 3. tit 1. 2 3. 20 25 26 28 43 51 58 59. are meerely Ecclesiasticall concerning Religion the Church and Clergie Not to mention the many Ecclesiasticall Lawers and edicts made by some of the Roman and Greeke Emperors with the consent of their Senators recorded in Iustinian in Codice Theodosij lib. 16. throughout and many of them inserted by Gratian himselfe into his Decrees and body of the Canon Law and reduced under severall heads by Paulus Windeck in his Theologia Iuriscon●●●torum Canonum Legum Consensus Not to rehearse the many Lawes and edicts of the German Emperors Princes Diets touching Religion and Church affaires of all sorts mentioned scatteringly in Abbas Us●eigensis Sabellicus Rerum Germanicarum Scriptures Ioannes Aventinus Au●alium Boyorum Master Fox Fasciculus Rerum expetendarum Hermaennus 〈◊〉 Grimstons Imperiall History Constitutiones Imperat Parisijs 1606. 〈◊〉 Comment Chytraus Chron Saxoniae and Augustana Confessto fidei Dictrina Electorum Principum Ordinum Imperij atque corundem Theologorum qui Augustanam Confessionem amplectuntu● subscribed by all the Protestant Princes Dukes Earles Barons Councels Senates Senators of Germany presented to the Emperor and printed yea reprinted by all their speciall Commands