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A47083	Of the heart and its right soveraign, and Rome no mother-church to England, or, An historical account of the title of our British Church, and by what ministry the Gospel was first planted in every country with a remembrance of the rights of Jerusalem above, in the great question, where is the true mother-church of Christians? / by T.J.	Jones, Thomas, 1622?-1682.	1678 (1678)	Wing J996_VARIANT; ESTC R39317	390,112	653

denied by our Adversaries themselves that the Christian Faith was first introduced to our Brittain by Joseph of Arimathea who buried our Saviour in his own new Tomb Math. 27.60 who landed here with other followers of our Saviour shortly after his Resurrection and Diu ante-long before Eleutherius his time saith (a) Baron T. 2. An. 183. p. 240. Polyd. Virgil lib 2. p. 37. Barronius fixing it to the 35 year of Christ where after he had preach'd the Gospel in this Country he ended here his days and quotes an English M.S. in the Vatican Library for one of his Authors and Sanders and Cressy and Pitseus and the rest of the Roman Catholick writers upon this Subject allow this story so that habemus confitentes reos we have such a testimony for the proof of our first point as in wordly Tribunals is counted fatall and conclusive the confession of the Adverse party And it is to be wondred of such men that they should be so ill advised as to yield such a Truth so easily to such a prejudice to their Cause but what then should become of the credit of so many holy Monks Relations and Revelations touching the Monastry of Glastenbury and not only the devout visits of Faganus and Dwywanus and Austine and Paulinus sent hither from the Pope to preach the Gospel which proves Christian Religion as well as that Old Church to have been here in their belief and perswation long before their Arrival hither but the many Divine Revelations from Angels and the Virgin Mary and Christ himself about the building and dedicating that Ancient Church It 's safer therefore with our Romish Authors and a less inconvenience of the two to confess this fact and yield the cause than question the credit of so many Miracles and Supernaturall Revelations enough to spoil and overthrow their Church whose errours are chiefly supported and confirmed by such devices and extol the wisdom of Protestants that rely on no Divine Visions but those recorded in Scripture But others are swayed much more by other Evidences so many Charters of Kings as well Brittish as Saxon and Norman several extant to this day given to this Monastery upon the account and acknowldgement of its undoubted Antiquity and priority to all other Churches in this Land or in this part of the world The Charter of King (e) Usher de Primordiis p 122. Henry the Second in the year 1185. where it is affirm'd of it Fons Origo totius Religionis Angliae pro certo habetur And recites the Charters of former Kings touching the place of William the 1. and 2. and Henry his Grandfather and those Ancienter of Edgar and Edmond and Edward and Alfred and Bringwalch Kentwin Baldred Ina Inclyti Arthuri the famous Arthur Cudred and many other Christian Kings all diligently perus'd and read before him and the Charter of Edward the third in the third year of his Reign to the like effect both perus'd by the Renowned Vsher The first Church in the Kingdom of Brittain saith King Ina counted the Principal in this Kingdom ab Antiquo from Ancient time saith Edgar built by the Disciples of Christ where in all agree And (g) Monasticon Anglican the Tombs of so many Abbots and Saints and Bishops and Kings counting it Honour to be there Interr'd and King (h) Usher p. 117. Arthur in particular whose Tomb and inscription after the burning of the Abby was there found about the year 1200. say the best Historians of (f) Idem p. 124. those times But the bringing of this Tradition to publick test and examination in several (i) Usher p. 23. 175. General Synods of Europe gives it much great reputation where the Embassadors of England in the Controversie about the Dignity and Precedency of England with France who derive their first conversion from Dionysius the Areopagite converted by St. Paul at Athens Act. 17.34 and with Spain or Castile who ascend higher for their founder to James the Brother of John kill'd by Herod Act. 12. yet claim'd Priority to England before either of them from Joseph of Arimathea's landing and preaching here statim post i Usher p. 23. 175. Passionem Christi immediately after the Passion of our Saviour and the weakness of the exceptions of the Advocates of the adverse part may be seen in the great Vsher with answers to them where requisite which Controversie was first set on foot in the Council of Pisa in the year 1409. next in the Council of Constance in 1417. between the Embassadors of France and England in the Council of Sena 1424. before Pope Martyn the fift between us and French and Spaniards together 1434. between the Embassadors of England and Castile again which passages have so prevail'd with Cressy that he hath no scruple left but one and that not against the Fact and body of the story but against the time and earliness thereof k Cressy Eccles Histor he can not hastily believe that Joseph arrived here so soon wherein yet he is to be commended by that party for his watchfulness for the Honour and Prerogative of the Church of Rome in apparent danger of being overthrown by this Church if the date and time as well as the substance of the story be once granted and evinced For if Joseph arrived here in the 35 year of Christ as Baronius guesses or the 36. as others for where some differr it to 63. m Spelman Concil p. 12. Sir H. Spelman conceives the figures displaced 63 for 36 and our Saviour suffered in the 34 of his age it follows that Joseph repaired hither immediately after the Resurrection in the 21 or 22. that is to say the last or last year saving one of Tiberius his Reign Christ being Crucified in his 20 th n Helvic Chron. whom Caligula succeeded Regning three years and ten Months And ● Claudius after him thirteen years and eight months And n Helvic Chron. Nero after Claudius another thirteen years and eight months And St. Peter's arrival at Rome is not so much as pretended by them of Rome to be before the second year of Claudius which yet Protestants can never grant finding him in those years to be in Palestine and Papists can never prove but that he came to Rome about the 12 or 13 year of Nero they have tradition more favourable for them and more reconcilable to his other abodes and Martyrdom It is consequent here upon that the Christian Faith was in Brittain before St. Peter ever came to Rome for as many years as are between the latter end of Tiberius and the second of Claudius in their own account that is for about seven years and in the account of all others for as much time as Intervenes between the end of Tiberius and the 12 or 13 year of Nero that is that the Church of Brittain is manifestly Senior and Ancienter in the Faith than the Church of Rome by thirty years complete

Kerdick by k Idem p. 520. Stowes Annals p. 65. Mordred Arthurs Nephew and Vice-Roy in his absence to assist his Title to the Crown against Arthur who was not so near by strict and Legitimate descent as by his Election for his Valour and merit wherein then the Princes Rights in Brittain were chiefly founded and therefore l Usher p. 514. liber Triadum this Mordred or Medrod with Vortigerne who delivered this Land to the Saxons and Androgeus or Avarvy or Mandrubatius who betrayed it to Caesar are recorded as the three disgraces of Brittain yet all the people were not consumed when they were thus surrendred and betrayed How else could they serve them in their Armies and Legions And upon King Arthur's return after several wearisome and Bloudy Contests Kerdick was Re-invested and m Usher p. 468. confirmed by Arthur in several of those Southern Counties upon his swearing m Usher p. 468. Allegiance to him for them and m Usher p. 468. toleration of Christian Religion in them as Vsher proves out of Rudborn Polychronicon and others so Bath Cicester and Gloucester n Idem 569. were surrender'd after long and formal Sieges and many sharp fights preceding And where o Usher 515 516. M. West 537. M. Westm speaks of the East-Angels invading Norfolk Suffolk Cambridge c. Counties and destroying all the Christians that were in them the clause Omni crudelitatis genere Christianos affecerunt Is observ'd by Vsher to be wanting in the Manuscript and the slaughter which Gormund made in conjunction with the Saxons upon the Brittains in the time of King Careticus which was their greatest overthrow and destruction is word by word Gildas p Idem 568. dis description of Hengist's first Irruption and slaughter So that in every Heptarchy though all were reduc'd and conquered yet all the Brittish Inhabitants were not destroyed or expell'd but only such as were in Arms and had Estates And as for destruction by Plague the English and Irish as well as the Brittains equally felt the smart thereof as Bede q Bed lib 4. c. 14. 3 c. 27. is witness And the Streets of London after great a Plague have been seen as ful next year as before Withall this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or totall destruction of the Brittish communalty in England was against the mutual Practice of the combatants who gave Quarter to such on both sides and against the Interest and benefit of the Conquerour It was Ethelfreds method stil'd Ferus the bloudiest of the Saxon Kings to make all Countreys he conquer'd aut Tributarias aut Inhabitabiles r Idem l. 1. c. 34. saith Bede either Tributary or wast to hurt them further had been to hurt himself and deprive himself of his Rent and Contribution when Hengist and his Saxons were driven to quit the land by young Vortimer who was the first made Hengist ever turn his back in Battel said M. Westminster the English and Scottish History agree with the Brittish that their wives and children were left behind and ſ M. Westm An. 456. Hector Boethius l 8. spar'd from the Sword and Quarter given well doth prove Quarter to have been before received And when Aurelius Ambrosius totally defeated and reduc'd Hengist his numerous Army his Son † M Westm 489. Usher 446. 450. Octa forc'd to surrender York and himself and Ebyssa Dunbritton and Hengist cut off u Histor Brit. l. 8. c. 7. for example or kill'd by Ambrosius in pursuite x Hector Boethius l. 8. p. 150. saith the Scottish History and the most Warlike banished into their own Countrey yet the rest of their Commons were permitted to live together with the Brittains in the lower parts of Scotland upon terms of Allegiance y Histor Brit. l. 8. c. 8. Hector Boethius ut supra and their embracing Christianity as was observ'd before So that the destruction of all the Brittains out of England is like that story of the z Usher p. 718. Picts who are reported to be destroyed all in one day both meer fables though they lost their Kingdom in the Battle yet the communalty still remained being the Major part of the Scottish Kingdom and their after Kings using still the stile of Kings of Picts as well as Scots as the Learned Arch-Bishop z Usher p. 718. Vsher largely proves The Brittish Christians therefore remaining behind in Brittain under the Power of the Enemy were not the less a Church of Christ than was the Primitive Church by being under Persecution for the first 300 years or than now are the Greeks under Infidel or the Roman Church it self under Gothish Conquerours Lazarus belongs to Heaven as well yea more than Dives afflictions being assistant mortifications helping us to dye to this world in our affections and Values wherein consists the Heart and Inside of the Church and those Spiritual Leaders that stayed behind with their charge for about 150 years before Augustine arrived to expel them became the more Supreme over them under Christ upon the Remove all of their Christian Temporal Magistrates It s true not to appear and not to be are alike in some sence as to man not as to God And the invisibility of the Brittains in Lhoegr was more for want of History and evidence either concealed or destroyed by the envy and malice of Adversaries than for want of Existence and being yea mention shall be made of them in their obscurity and invisibility when it serves the turn of the adverse Part. Bede mentions a Bede lib 5. c. 19. multos Brittonas Occidentalibus Saxonibus subditos reduced by Aldhelmus to follow the Roman Easter which proves there were numbers of them remaining in the Country some reduced and some still unreduced And it is probable more Brittish Christians were in this West-Saxon Kingdom than any other part because of the Vicinity of Glastonbury and b H. Seplman Concil p. 442. Caer Went or Winchester and its Ancient Monastery and large possessions and the example of Amphibalus the Brittains receiving great encouragement from the Neighbourhood of their Martyrs to persevre in their Faith The Chronicle of Glastonbury mentions the residence of Brittish Bishops in their Sees in those parts as Bede their People for when King Ina about the year 700 Translated the See of c Usher p 65. Congersbury to Wells adjoyning in the time of Daniel the last Bishop of the Brittains there it affirms the same so to have continued a succession of Brittish Bishops for 600 years and above till that time which is about 500 years together before the arrival of Monk Augustine and about an 100 years after which proves either strict observations of Mordred and Arthur's Articles with Kerdick or great consanguinity and kindness amongst them that the zeal and Interest of Augustine could not prevail with the Pagan Saxons to hunt this Bishop out of Congersbury as well as Thadioc and