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A91186	An exact chronological history and full display of popes intollerable usurpations upon the antient just rights, liberties, of the kings, kingdoms, clergy, nobility, commons of England and Ireland	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1666 (1666)	Wing P3962A; ESTC R232177	595,052	408

universal precept to all present and future Saints and Members of the Roman Church as well Popes Prelates Priests and other Ecclesiasticks as Lay-Christians or Pagans as the Fathers resolve Let every Soul be subiect to the higher Powers not to Paul or Peter who enjoyn obedience to them acknowledged by all to be the Roman Emperors Senate though then meer Pagans not abolished nor translated to Peter by Christ himself and that upon these unanswerable reasons 1. Because there is no power but of God 2ly The power that are then in being and so not abolished by Christ but ratified are ordained and ordered by God 3ly Whosoever therefore resisteth much more then who usurp abolish as Popes and their Parasites do the power resisteth the Ordinance of God 4ly Those that resist shall receive to themselves damnation not a Papal canonization 5ly For rulers are not a terrour to good works but to evill 6ly Those that do good need not fear the Power yea they shall have praise and rewards as well as protection from the same 7ly For he is the minister of God to thee for good 8ly But if thou do that which is evil He not the Pope beareth not the sword of Justice in vain for he is the Minister of God a Revenger in God stead to execute wrath upon him that doth evil 9ly From all these premises he drawes this peremptory conclusion Wherefore ye must needs be subiect not only for wrath but also for conscience sake 10ly For for this cause pay you tribute also for they not Bishops or Priests are Gods not Saint Peters or the Popes Ministers attending continually upon this very thing 11ly From all which he thus concludes Render therefore to All Higher powers that are their Dues by Divine Evangelical right Tribute to whom Tribute is due custom to whom custom fear to whom fear honor to whom honor in the affirmative Owe nothing to any man in power as well as out but to love one another obeying them out of love not fear What now is become of St. Peters or his pretended successors Monarchy Headship over the Church or Emperor of Rome himself which St. Pauls sword hath for ever decapitated Yet some Popes and their Janizaries are so impudent as to assert it cannot be argued or inforced from this Text that the Pope Church Clergy are subject to Emperors and Kings though they pay Tribute to them as a badge of their subjection even out of their Church-lands as St. Ambrose and others confesse they ought to pay by Christs and Peters examples and that Popes Clergymen are not within these universul words Let every Soul be subject to the higher Powers Surely St. Bernard was of another Judgement in his memorable Epistle to Henry Archbishop of Sienna Omnis anima inquit potestatibus sublimoribus subdita sit Si omnis et vestra Quis vos excipit a Vniverstate Si quis tentat excipere conatur decipere Nolite eorum acquiescere consiliis qui cum sint Christian Christi tamen vel sequi facta vel obsequi dictis opprobrio ducunt Ipsi sunt qui vobis dicere solent Servate vestrae sed is honorem Though they violate this expresse command of Christ and the Apostle Theodoret Bishop of Cyprus thus expounds this Text Let every Soul be subject to the higher powers whether he be any Priest or my Bishop then certainly any Pope or Popish Prelate or any Monk he must yeeld subiection to those to whom Magistracy is given Theodulus Bishop of Caelosyria concurs with him upon this reason For that the Gospel was not given for the subversion of the publike Civil Government and order St. Chrysostom Patriarch of Constantinople Romes and Popes Corrivals for precedency goes one step higher in his Exposition of this Text For All whether thou be a Priest or a Prophet or an Apostle therefore a Pope or a Monk which his next words certainly include or whosoever else thou be every one is commanded to obey these Higher Powers The like do Oecumenius Theophylact and sundry others conclude against these Papal Impostors and praevaricators of this unanswerable Text for Regal Supremacy 8ly To put this out of doubt the same St. Paul in his First Epistle to Timothy whom Popes and all Prelates assert to be the first and sole Bishop of Ephesus exhorts him that First of all supplications prayers intercessions and giving of thanks should be made For Kings and for all that are in Authority that We including himself and Timothy as well as other Christians may lead a quiet and peaceable life under them as all expound it in all Godlinesse relating to Gods Worship Religion and Spiritual affairs and Honesty extending to all temporal matters For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour And in his Epistle to Titus whom they repute Archbishop of Crete he gives him this express charge Put them in minde to be subiect to Principalities and Powers to obey Magistrates c. For we our selves also were sometimes foolish disobedient deceived In both which Texts he peremptorily enjoynes not only continual prayers for but also subjection and real obedience to all Civil Magistrates Principalities Powers Kings Governours as the Higher powers to which himself then submitted and obeyed since he was an Apostle of Christ though formerly disobedient to them while foolish and deceived and to which Timothy and Titus themselves submitted as well as their flocks it being a moral universal duty tending to the Churches and all Christians peace quietnesse advancement of all godlinesse honesty yea good and acceptable in the sight of God and Christ our Saviour by and for whom all Thrones Dominions principalities powers both in heaven and earth were created To evade these and other Texts Alvarus Pelagius Bartholmeus Buxiensis Johannis Thierry Panormitan Angelus de Clavasio and other Canonists blasphemously assert Quod Papa est major Paulo authoritate potest dispensare contra Apostolum Paulum in omni casu cum teneat locum Petri sit Vicarius Christi Quod potest dispensare contra Jus Divinum yea contra Novum Testamentum And if this be not sufficient Papa potest dispensare de omnibus praeceptis Veteris Novi Testamenti in some particular cases Aliter ut dicit Ricardus 4. Distinct 38 non videretur Deus fuisse bonus Pater familias nisi dimisisset Pastorem super Gregem suam qui possit consulere omnibus occurrentibus necessario expediendis Nic etiam posset dici quod Papa est generalis Commissarius Dei assumptus in plenitudine potestatis cujus contrarium determinatur 2 qu 6. c. Qui se scit 24. qu. 1. Quodcumque But these Transcendent Blasphemies and even Atheistical Delusions will satisfie no sober Christians conscience nor yet evade these and St. Peters own forecited Texts Precepts which the Pope cannot dispense with unlesse he will make the

men as to the execution of their offices as these next words as those who are sent by him to wit by the LORD for whose sake you ought thus to submit unto them as Rom 13. 1 2 4 6. and the sense resolve not by me or my Vicars and that to be Supream Governors over you 2ly Because sent by God only for the punishment of evil doers as well Christians as Pagans Popes Priests as Lay-christians if you do ill as the Gentiles accuse you to be Evil doers v 12. c. 3. 16. and so subject to their Jurisdiction only and not to mine or your own Pastors if proved such 3ly Because they are also thus sent for the praise of them that do well so that they by your honest conversation and good works which they shall behold and submission to their power and Government will not only praise you but glorify God in the day of their visitation and become Christians too 4ly For so is the will of God that you should thus submit to them as Supream and with well doing put to silence the ignorance of foolish men who falsly accuse you to pretend an exemption from all Secular power A● free yet not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousnesse but as the servabts of God 5ly He thence inferts Honor all Men that is all Supream Governours to whom Honor is due Rom 13. 7. Fear God Honor the King in a more signal manner as Supream and Gods Vice-Roy upon Earth the honoring of whom for the Lords sake will evidence to the world and your own consciences that you fear God when your disobedience to exempting your selves from and advancing your selves above them will discover that you fear him not Pope Innocent the 3d. with other Popes and their Parasites to evade Saint Peters text assert 1. That it extends only to those who receive temporal things from the Emperor who in temporal things is Supream which yet he and his Successors elsewhere contradict but not to spiritual things wherein Pontifex antecellit which excell temporal things as much as the soul doth the body 2ly That it is not said simpliciter Subjecti estote but with this addition propter Deum which extenuates and qualifies it 3ly Neither is it purely written Regi praecellenti sed interpositum Forsttan non sine causa 4ly Ad vindictam malefactorum extends only to those qui utentes gladio ejus sunt Jurisdictioni subjecti not to Priests whose Promotion of Priesthood advanceth them above Kings and kingdoms totally to root up and to destroy and to build and plant them To which evasions I answer 1. That St. Peter makes no such distinction of Temporalties and Spiritualties nor that the King or Emperor is supream in the one but himself Popes Prelates only in the other as this Pope doth 2ly He acknowledgeth the King Supream in both it being Heresy as they assert to hold two Supream heads and two Principles of power in and over one body 3ly Peter writes this Epistle to all the Elect Saints as Gods peculiar people heritage a Royal holy Priesthood and an holy Church Nation unto God enjoyning them upon this consideration only not as meer worldlings to submit to Kings and Governors as Supream without one word of his own his Successots or others supremacy over them therefore it extends to spiritual as well as to temporal Supremacy 4ly This Pope acknowledgeth the Emperor to be Supream in Temporal things which he bestowes on others who receive them But Popes as themselves and flatterers confesse have received all their temporalties and St. Peters Patrimony from the Gifts of Emperors as Constantine Charles the Great and others Therefore they ought to acknowledge him Supream in temporal things at least notwithstanding all their recited vaunts and passages denying it 5ly St. Peter and Bishops had then neither Silver gold nor temporal possessions at all nor yet those Strangers scattered by persecutions through Pontus Asia Phrygia and Pamphilia to whom he writes who all sold their possessions and were spoyled of their goods when he sent this Epistle to them Therefore Saint Peter rather intended Kings and Governours to be supream in ecclesiastical matters in rewarding praysing and encouraging them in good works and in a Christian honest pious conversation and punishing them for sins contrary to and scandalizing their Christian profession then for temporal matters 2ly His 2d evasion doth not deny nor diminish but fortifie Kings Supremacy For if he had commanded them to submit to Kings and Governors as supream by the bare Ordinance of men alone this had been no strong obligation in point of conscience to them but when he adds for the Lords sake this superadds divine authority to this humane Ordinance and binds them in point of conscience towards God and as they are Christians to this submission to them Josephus relates that in his time not long before this Epistle written there rose up a crafty arrogant sect of the Pharisees et interdum Regibus quoque infestum ut eos etiam aperte oppugnare non verentur necnon cum tota gens Judeorum fidem suam jurejurando obligasset Regi et Caesari hi solum non iuraverunt being above six thousand men in number hoc nomine à Rege mulctatis and pretending to know secrets by divine Revelations they openly proclaimed like some of our late Republicans and Fanaticks in relation to the King and his Royal family Decretum esse a Deo regnum ablatum ab Herode et eius progenie transferre ad Pheronem uxorem ejus communes liberos And they with others held That being Abrahams seed and Gods people they ought not to be in subjection or pay Tribute to the Roman Emperor and Pagan Kings Hereupon the Jewish and other Christians were then suspected accused to be enemies to Kings and Cesar yea to deny subjection tribute and an Oath of Allegiance to them as supream chief Governours as these Pharisees did To take off this slander Saint Peter and Paul too did in their Epistles as well as Sermons most earnestly and particularly presse Christians subjection obedience to Emperors Kings Princes and all Secular powers even for the Lords and conscience sake as ordained and sent by God himself and a duty enjoyned them by the very Will and Gospel of God as Chrysostom Haymo Soto Calvin Gualther Willet Pareus Perrerius most other Commentators on the place and Bellarmine himself acknowledge To which Doctrine practise nothing could have been more diametrically contrary then to set up such a Universal Temporal Monarchy and Ecclesiastical Supremacy in Peter and his pretended Successors in the See of Rome it self then the seat of the Roman Emperors as they now pretend to inconsistent with the Emperors Supremacy and all Kings Government Regal power here knocked down and crushed in the shell by St. Peters own hand keyes and sacred pen. This Pope his 3d evasion is most absurd For had it been

Servant above greater then his Lord and the Vicar then the Master 9ly Christ himself together with Paul and Peter do from the 5th Commandement most frequently presse and inculcate all due subjection and obedience by Wives unto their Husbands Children to their Parents and Servants to their Masters in all things and that with fear and trembling in singlenesse of heart as unto Christ not with eye-service as men-pleasers but as the servants of Christ doing the will of God from the heart and with good will doing them service as to the Lord and not to men knowing that of the LORD they shall receive the Inheritance for herein they serve the Lord Christ Therefore there is the self-same relation obedience due to Kings and Magistrates the politick Husbands Parents Masters of the Realm people by all Members of the body politick as there is by Wives children servants to their Husbands Parents Masters 10thly It is very observable that Christ himself with his Apostles Peter and Paul do in the New Testament more frequently punctually energetically inculcate this duty of subjection obedience honor paying Tribute to Emperors Kings and Civil Magistrates though then all Pagans unbelievers yea for all Wives Children Servants to obey fear and reverence their Husbands Parents Masters in the flesh on all sorts of Christians under the Gospel then ever they were urged or reiterated in the Old Testament before or under the Law and that for these ends and upon these accounts as I humbly apprehend First to evidence That all Kings Supream Civil Magistrates Parents under the Gospel enjoy the selfsame Soveraign Jurisdiction over all Civil Ecclesiastical persons things and their children under the Gospel as they did before or under the Law in the Old Testament and that the Kingship Kingdom of Christ under the Gospel did no wayes diminish nor eclipse much lesse abolish or transfer to Apostles Bishops Presbyters or Chapters any part of their antient Temporal or Spiritual Authority before and under the Law 2ly To make the free passage for the preaching and reception of the Gospel among all Nations Kingdoms Republikes in the world as consistent with and no wayes opposing but advancing rarifying their respective Civil Governments by prescribing every soul to yeeld all chearfull obedience subjection to their Civil Governors Lawes for the peace and tranquility of their Kingdoms 3ly To stop the mouthes of Pagans and all Enemies of Christian Religion and Christians who traduced and accused them as opposites and Enemies to rebels against Emperors Kings Magistrates their Government and Lawes 4ly To take away all pretences from Libertins and yoaklesse Christians under pretext of Christian Liberty and the priviledges of Christianity to disobey contemn all Kings Magistrates Lawes and Civil Government as exempted from their power 5ly To lessen and controll the Antichristian Usurpations of the Popes Prelates Clergy of Rome it self and their Confederates elsewhere upon the Crownes prerogatives rights and kingdoms of Christian Kings and Emperors which should embrace the Gospel All which reasons are expressed or intimated in the Gospel it self Pauls Epistle to the Romans and St Peters 11ly St Paul in his second Epistle to Timothy a Bishop as all Popes Bishops assert in relation to his spiritual warfare layes down this universal Maxim which every good Souldier of Jesus Christ must observe No man that warreth intangleth himself with the Affairs of this Life that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a Soldier If then no Bishop or good Spiritual Souldier of Jesus Christ must so much as once entangle themselves with the affairs of this world and life that so they may discharge their duties as to please Christ who hath chosen them to be his souldiers then certainly neither Christ nor his Apostles ever gave or committed to any Apostle Pope Bishop or Minister of the Gospel any Supreme Temporal Jurisdiction over all or any Kings Kingdoms or Civil Corporations in the world which require continual attendance and would totally avocate them from their spiritual warfare 12ly The Apostles themselves though inspired from Heaven what to preach without much study when there was a complaint made to them that the widows and poor were neglected in the daily ministration calling all the multitude of Disciples to them sayd It is not Reason that we should leave the World of God and serve Tables wherefore Brethren look ye out among you seven men of honest report full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom whom we may appoint over this businesse But we will give our selves continually unto the Ministry of the World And the saying pleased the whole multitude who thereupon chose Stephen and 6. more Deacons to attend the poor whereupon the word of God increased the number of Disciples multiplyed in Jerusalem greatly If the Apostles then thought it against reason that they should once or twice a day serve Tables and the poor though an act of charity and piety as being inconsistent with their Apostolical Office Ministry and thereupon ordained Deacons to discharge the trust Then certainly it cannot but be against Reason and Scripture to assert That Christ gave or any of his Apostles by divine right and institution ever had claimed exercised or ought to enjoy any the least Temporal Jurisdiction or Dominion in the world much lesse such as Popes pretend to from St. Peter who was present at and assenting to this institution of Deacons it being wholly inconsistent with their Spiritual function 13ly Christ himself assured his Apostles That no man can serve two Masters for either he will hate the one and love the other or he will hold to the one and despise the other Ye cannot serve God and Mammon Therefore when Christ called his Disciples to follow him they forsook their worldly imployments and all they enjoyed that they might apply themselves wholly to their Apostolical and Ministerial functions And when He called Barnabas and Paul to be Apostles he said Separate me Barnabas and Paul to the work I have appointed them Which Paul thus expresseth Paul an Apostle of Jesus Christ called to be an Apostle Separate unto the Gospel of Jesus Christ being wholly taken off from all secular imployments as incompatible with their Apostolical Function Upon which Account he giveth this charge to all other Ministers He that hath the gift of the ministry let him wait on the ministry and he that teacheth in teaching and he that exhorteth on exhortation He that ruleth as a Magistrate let him do it with diligence Whence sundry Fathers Councils Popes Decretals Canonists Schoolmen have prohibited all Bishops Priests and Clergymen to intermeddle as Judges Advocates Proctors or Sollicitors in any secular affairs as inconsistent with their spiritual function under pain of deprivation Therefore it is most certain That Christ never gave to Peter or any other Apostle Bishop Minister any Temporal Jurisdiction over Kings kingdoms or in temporal