their pleasure 19. But now if this or that Ecclesiastical Court should claim to it self sovereign and independent Jurisdiction and should summon the King and Parliament to appear at its Tribunal under pain of Excommunication would they think themselves obliged to obey and make their Appearance and be uncovered and submit to the Sentence of the Ecclesiastical Judg as some of the Roman Emperors have done to the Pope even to the holding of his Stirrup and letting the Pope tread upon the Neck of the Emperor I trow not 20. By which it is plain that the Lordship and Jurisdiction of the Bishops and their Courts is not Spiritual but Civil and Temporal Humane Law ordains it and Humane Law may take it away lawful it may be but Divine it is not But the Evangelical Ministry consisting in Authority to preach the Gospel to dispense the Sacraments to labour in the Word and Doctrine to oversee the Flock of Christ and perpetuate the Church to the End of the World this Evangelical Ministry which is common to the Bishop and the Presbyter is not Humane but Divine it is not Civil and Temporal but Spiritual and Supernatural it doth not subsist by an Arm of Flesh but by the Word of God against which the Gates of Hell shall not prevail for Jesus Christ who is the Author of it is the Living God King of Kings and Lord of Lords 〈…〉 and the only Potentate who will have a Church upon 〈…〉 Number of faithful Ones with whom he hath promised to be unto the End of the World Hitherto he hath made good his Word and been too hard for all his Adversaries Psal 2 Blessed are all they that trust in him 21. If indeed the Church of God were not a Spiritual but a Political Society then all both Bishops and Presbyters must needs be Spiritual Lords and Ecclesiastical Monarchs But it is as certain that the Church of God is a Spiritual and not a Political Society as it is certain that it is the Church of God by Faith in Christ and not the Church of Man 22. 〈…〉 be Processus in infinitum infinite Proceeding For 〈…〉 we must needs come to some first in whom the Church 〈…〉 was penitent Adam and Eve the common Parents of us 〈…〉 it is not to be doubted but that God after their Fall gave them Repentance and Pardon through Faith in Christ the promised Seed and so made them a spiritual Society and the first Church of the Redeemed as Dr. Field in his first Book of the Church chap. 4. sheweth agreeably to God's Word and the Grounds of Religion Gen. 3.15 But Adam and Eve two Persons one Husband and one Wife could not be a Political Society because they were a Conjugal Society as they were Husband and Wife and a Spiritual Society as they were true Believers in Christ the promised Seed both which Societies differ in kind from Political Society as all agree 23. Upon the increase and multiplication of sincere Converts and Persons regenerate there was a continnal Addition to the Church of such as should be saved Acts 2.47 The Incarnation Life Death Resurrection and Ascension of Christ doth not alter the intrinsecal Nature of God's Church which is the same for substance in all Ages the Saints before Christ being saved through Faith in him as promised and the Saints after Christ being saved through Faith in him as exhibited he being the same yesterday and to day and for ever Heb. 13.8 The Apostles Commission was not to make a new Church differing in kind and substance from what had been before but to preserve that Church which was already in being and which Christ left on Earth at his Ascension and by their Apostolical Labours to inlarge and add to it and to make believing Jews and Gentiles one holy Society in Christ not a Political Society ruled by the Apostles as Ecclesiastical Monarchs and Spiritual Lords but a Heavenly Society ruled by the Apostles as spiritual Guides and Overseers through Faith in Christ the sole Lord and Head of the Church 24. Anciently God led his People like a Flock by the Hand◠〈◊〉 Moses and Aaron Psal 77.20 And so he leads his People now 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â—lock by the Hand of the Prince and the Pastor the Prince as Political Governour ruling by the Sword and the Pastor as Spiritual Governour ruling by the Word by holy Doctrine by dispensing Baptism and the Lord's Supper according to Christ's Institution by making himself an Ensample to the Flock So that tho the Pastor be a Ruler and Governour yet he is not a Political Governour he is not an Ecclesiastical Prince a Spiritual Lord an ambitious Prelate but a Minister of Christ And to make the Pastor by Divine Law a Political Governour of the Church is to make him a Pope an Antichristian Subverter of the lawful Supremacy of the Prince and a sacrilegious Invader of the Sovereignty of God by whom Princes rule Prov. 8.15 25. It is very evident that the Apostles themselves were but Presbyters tho they were not ordinary and common Presbyters they were furnished with extraordinary Gifts and Graces for the Work of the Ministry and infallibly inspired in the execution of their Office that 〈◊〉 might be Master Builders in God's Church But still they were bâ—â— Presbyters though extraordinary and preeminent ones and therefore Peter the first and Foreman of all the Apostles writing to ordinary and common Presbyters stiles himself Com-Presbyter their Fellow-Presbyter 1 Pet. 5.1 And if those Bishops of our time who claim to be Successors of the Apostles and superiour in Office Power and Authority to common Presbyters would but join Apostolical Wisdom Meekness Goodness Piety Love to the Truth Labour in the Word and Doctrine and Constancy in Well-doing with Apostolical Power and Superiority we would all reverence them as Apostles of Christ as Divine Officers as most worthy Instruments of God's Glory and think all the Churches happy in their Ministry But while they contend for Apostolical Power Preeminence and Superiority by Divine Right as to the Government of the Church in ordinary and suffer common Presbyters and Curates to excel them in the most principal part of the Apostolical Office which is labouring in the Word and Doctrine and lay the Peace and Unity of God's Church upon weak and beggarly Elements Gal. 4.9 upon things no ways necessary to Holiness and Unity in Christian Faith Hope and Love and had rather be a Sect and Party by themselves than unite with their Christian Brethren upon Apostolical Divine and Scriptural Terms in truth they undo their own Cause grieve the Hearts of the Righteous encourage the Wicked and give great advantage to the Papists and bring our Nation low and greatly sin against God and their own Souls 26. It 〈…〉 Rule and Maxim consented to by all that in aequali jure melior 〈…〉 possidentis where two or more are Competitors for a thing and one only can have it it is to be adjudged to him that is in possession that so there may be an end of all Strife and the Course of the World may be in quiet Now I would know of those Protestant Brethren who condemn the Papacy and yet contend that the Universal Church on Earth is a Political Society consisting of two Parts a ruling and a ruled Part which was the sole supreme ruling Part of the Universal Church on Earth at the beginning of the Reformation by Luther 1. They cannot say and prove that Christ was for Christ is God and God cannot be a bare ruling Part because a Part as such is imperfect is not all In all But God cannot be imperfect he cannot but be infinitely perfect all all 1 Cor. 15.28 He worketh all in all 1 Cor. 12.6 Of him 〈◊〉 through him and to him are all things Rom. 11.36 To make him a meer Political Ruler and governing Part of the Church is to make him a meer Man a worldly Monarch an impotent base and precarious God 2. Of necessity the Bishop of Rome was the sole supream ruling Part of the Universal Church Episcopus primae Sedis as Peter among the Apostles chief Ecclesiastical Monarch for no other laid claim to the Ecclesiastical Supremacy no other was in possession of it and therefore upon the Principles of those Brethren against whom I now argue the Protestants universally and the Church of England particularly were guilty of damnable Schism and Rebellion in breaking of from and setting themselves against the Papal Supremacy and are bound to turn Papists as of necessity to Salvation and to the Being and Unity of the Universal Church which according to their Principles cannot consist without a ruling Part without a Political Governour that is in plain English without a Pope 27. But if this Principle of theirs that the Church of God is a Political and not a Spiritual Society fail and prove ruinous as it needs must or I am deceived in the Grounds of Religion and do not understand the Points of the Catechism then the Ordination of Presbyter by Presbyters without a Bishop can never be proâ—â—â—…â—alid And those of the Church of England who hold the 〈…〉 Ministers because ordained by Presbyters without a Bishop to be no Ministers of Christ and consequently the 〈…〉 to be Nullities do greatly err 〈…〉 one 〈…〉 holy Catholick Church the 〈…〉 all such other 〈…〉 ordination by a Bishop 〈…〉 FINIS
upon all the Princes and Potentates of the Earth and the Good he will adjudg unto everlasting Joy and the Wicked unto everlasting Fire 15. Dr. Parker afterward Bishop of Oxford in his Book of Religion and Loyalty par 1. p. 28. says It is but a crude Expression not to call it profane because it is so common by customary Mistake to affirm that Kings are Supreme Governours under Christ They are and ever were so under God but so as to be superiour to Christ as Christ is Head of his Church within their Dominions for as Head of his Church he ever owned himself subject to the Temporal Powers There are others * Mr. Buâ—rough's Irenicum p. 21. Mr Peâ—â—â—… Reformed Catholicâ— in the 〈◊〉 concerning Supremacâ— who hold the Kingdom of Christ to be twofold one as he is God and another as he is Mediator These are great Errors 16. As Christ is but one Person the Word made Flesh one Immanuel in whom dwelleth all the Fulness of the Godhead bodily so the Kingdom of Christ is but one ruling over the whole World in general for the Good of Militant Saints in special And tho Christ as Man in the Days of his Flesh and in his State of Humiliation owned himself subject to the Temporal Powers yet as now he is and since his Ascension hath been in his State of Exaltation at God's right Hand in Glory he is hath been and ever will be Superiour to all Temporal Powers It is Christ purposed to be Mediator who raised up Moses Joshua David Cyrus Alexander the Great and the rest of Kings and Princes under the Old Testament and was the Author of Magistracy then and it is the same Christ who being Mediator according to his eternal Purpose raised up Vespasian Titus Trajan Constantine Charles the Great Q. Elizabeth and the rest of Kings and Princes since his Ascension and who is the Author of Magistracy under the New Testament Tho the Mediator be Man yet not a mere and bare Man but that Man in whom dwelleth all the Fulness of the Godhead bodily Col. 2.9 And he only is Mediator 17. Bp Andrews holds but one Place wherein external Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction is founded and that is Mat. 18.17 Tell it unto the Church but if he neglect to hear the Church let him be unto thee as an Heathen Man By these Words he supposeth the major Excommunication appointed of Christ â—ortura â—orti p. 41 De exteriore foro ibi agitur exterioris fori jurisdictio illo nec alio loco fundata est there Christ treats of the exteriour Court the Jurisdiction of the exteriour Court is founded in that Place and no other 18. CertuÌ„ hoc â—uidem in â—heologia receptuÌ„ 〈◊〉 omniâ—â—s Non 〈◊〉 venisse â—hristum 〈◊〉 qui jam â—…te adâ—…ntum suâ—â—… crat â—â—…do vel â—â—…turae vel â—…olitiae euÌ„â—el inverâ—…et vel â—…erteret 〈…〉 â—ictuÌ„ maâ—â—… reddeâ—â—… Id. ib. p. 43. But herein Bp Andrews contradicts himself and the unanimous Judgment of all sound Divines who hold it for a sure Axiom that the Gospel doth not make void but establish Civil Order and Government founded in Nature and Natural Religion common to us and Heathens Christ came not to alter unhinge and overthrow the mutual Ties and Offices of Husband and Wife Parents and Children Master and Servant Prince and People but rather by his Example and the Effusion of his Grace upon his Disciples and Followers to render them more sacred and inviolable But how can this consist with his supposed Institution of a new exteriour Court and a new exteriour Jurisdiction in the Church superiour to and not dependent upon the State For such a new exteriour Court Supremacy and Jurisdiction is plainly Papal inconsistent with and repugnant to the supream Authority of Kings and Princes and Sovereign Civil Rulers in their several Territories and Dominions 19. And therefore it is evident that in these Words Tell it unto the Church but if he neglect to hear the Church let him be unto thee as an Heathen Man Christ instituted no exteriour Court no exteriour Jurisdiction in the Church But this is one of those Divine Rules which concern the inward Court of the Heart and the Jurisdiction of Christ there for this and the like holy Rules and Laws he doth by supernatural Grace write in the Hearts of God's Elect who are his Church the Mystical Body of Christ and thereby doth teach and enable them to shun the Society of obstinate and unreformable and incorrigible Sinners and to put a due difference between the Precious and the Vile Penitent and Impenitent ones to use their best endeavour privately and publickly to draw a scandalous Brother to Repentance and holy Amendment and if after all he will not be amended to leave him to God So that this whole Precept concerns the Conscience and inward Man and the sovereign Jurisdiction of Christ over the Heart inwardly and doth not at all concern external Jurisdiction nor give any colour for the founding of a new external Tribunal and external Jurisdiction in the Church superiour to Civil Supremacy and the Authority of sovereign Princes no such Thought could come into Christ's Heart 20. Finally all Jurisdiction is necessarily either spiritual and internal or temporal and external Spiritual and internal Jurisdiction is the absolute Prerogative of Christ and of God in and by him and is not communicable to any meer Creature Tho Christ make great use of Bishops Pastors and Ministers in his Church yet he himself is sole Head of it and sole Lord and King of the Conscience and inward Man He dwells in the Hearts of his People by Faith and all both Angels and Men owe absolute Subjection to him and to his supreme Jurisdiction for the everlasting Good of Militant Saints Temporal and external Jurisdiction is communicated by Christ to such in each Nation as bear the Sword and are supreme Governours under him and so what external Jurisdiction is regularly exercised by any in the Church is not from Christ but from the State and therefore the Jurisdiction of all the Ecclesiastical Courts in England is not by Divine but Humane Law dependent on the King and Parliament And all Protestant Divines agree that Jesus Christ the Mediator is Author of Magistracy but many of them I confess hold that he is not so as he is Mediator but as he is God Do but set aside this one very little word as and we are all agreed against Arians Socinians and all other Impugners of Christ's Deity and supreme Authority The Bishops are not Spiritual but Civil and Temporal Lords and their Courts accordingly Civil and Temporal Courts 1. THat they are Civil and Temporal Lords is evident for that they are made Lords by the King and State as truly as the Temporal Lords those I mean who really are so and are so called But no earthly King or State can make a Spiritual Lord none but God and the Lord Jesus
Christ can do that 2. The Office of a Bishop as the Office of an Apostle is common to a Peter and a Judas to godly and ungodly Men. But nothing common to godly and ungodly Men can be a ground of spiritual Lordship and Dominion because every ungodly Man while such is a spiritual Slave a Slave of Sin a Bondslave of Satan And as no Man can in the same instant be both alive and dead both godly and ungodly so can no Man in the same instant be both a spiritual Lord and a spiritual Slave because they are contradictorily opposite 3. Spiritual Lordship and Dominion is founded in heavenly Grace and in spiritual Worth and Merit And thus all godly Men and godly Women are spiritual Lords â—ev 1.5 6. â—al 3.28 in such sort as they are spiritual Kings and Priests unto God There is neither Jew nor Greek there is neither Bond nor Free there is neither Male nor Female for they are all one in Christ Jesus All things are theirs 〈◊〉 Cor. 3. â—1 22 23. whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the World or Life or Death or things present or things to come all are theirs and they Christ's and Christ is God's So that if Bishops be godly Men then they are spiritual Lords not because they are Bishops but because they are godly in common with all other godly Men But if they be ungodly Men then they cannot be spiritual Lords 4. Bishop Bonner and Bishop Gardiner in the Reign of Queen Mary were Civil and Temporal Lords made and upheld by the State and so now are the Popish Bishops in France and Civil Honour is due to them as to any other Temporal Lord made and upheld by the State But spiritual Lords they are not but spiritual Slaves lorded over by base and impotent Lusts because they do like the Idolatrous Worshippers in Israel in the time of the Prophet Elijah who did halt between God and Baal so do the Popish Bishops they join Idolatry with the Worship of the true God and adhere to and confederate with the Antichristian Bishop of Rome against God's true Church and People and those Words of the Apostle may be truly applied to them Their Feet are swift to shed Blood Destruction and Misery are in their Ways and the Way of Peace have they not known There is no Fear of God before their Eyes 〈…〉 1 And if such Men be spiritual Lords then I confess I know not what spiritual Lordship and Dominion is 5. Christ at his Ascension gave some Apostles and some Prophets Eph. 4.11 12. and some Evangelists and some Pastors and Teachers But none of these in respect of their Office and Calling were spiritual Lords but Ministers of the Gospel appointed and given by Christ for the Work of the Ministry which is a thing very different from lording over God's Heritage plainly forbidden by the Holy Ghost 1 Pet. 5.3 6. God hath set some in the Church first Apostles secondarily Prophets 1 Cor. 12 28 thirdly Teachers By which it is plain that the Apostles are the chiefest Ministers in the Church and so acknowledged by all Bishops cannot be superiour to them But the Apostles were not spiritual Lords in respect of their Office Let a Man so account of us as of the Ministers of Christ 1 Cor. 4 1 and Stewards of the Mysteries of God and not as of spiritual Lords And again Not for that we have Dominion over your Faith 2 Cor. 1.24 But if in respect of their Office and Function they were spiritual Lords then they must needs have Dominion over our Faith and be Lords and Masters of it no less than Christ One Lord one Faith one Baptism Eph. 4.5 To us Christians there is but one Lord Jesus Christ 1 Cor. 8.6 who is the sole Lord and Master of our Faith as being the Author and Finisher thereof Heb. 12.2 7. Elijah being a Man of God an eminent Prophet and a Person of extraordinary Note and Renown with all God's People in Israel because of his extraordinary Worth therefore good Obadiah did well in performing to him extraordinary civil Reverence and Honour 1 King 18.7 for he fell on his Face and said to Elijah Art thou that my Lord Elijah This was more than ordinary Worship and Reverence and yet it was but Civil For if it had been more than Civil no doubt but Elijah would have refused it and checked him for it like as Peter did Cornelius and the Angel John 8. When Cornelius met the Apostle Peter and fell down at his Feet Acts 10.25 26. and worshipped him as though he had been a spiritual Lord and more than a Man Peter tacitely reproved him for it and refused such kind of Worship saying Stand up I my self also am a Man So when the Apostle John fell down to worship before the Feet of the Angel Rev. 22.8 9 he forbad him saying See thou do it not for I am thy fellow-Servant worship God Thereby plainly intimating that Religious and Spiritual Worship is due to none but God and that more than Civil Worship and Reverence may not be given to the highest Angel to the most noble Creature as being but our Fellow-Servant and not God But if Bishops were in respect of their Office Spiritual Lords then we should be bound to adore them as God and as the Lord Jesus Christ who is true God equal with the Father which would be Idolatry 9. Our Saviour perceiving this Sin of Papal Lording over God's Heritage to be creeping in among the Apostles presently called them unto him Mat. 20.25 26 27 28. and said Ye know that 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 but whosoever will be great among you let him be your Minister and whosoever will be chief among you let him be your Servant Even as the Son of Man came not to be ministred unto but to minister and to give his Life a Ransom for many 10. Dr. Gr. Williams in his Book of the True Church p. 899. holds that these Words of Christ do most plainly prove a Superiority and Inferiority among these Ecclesiastical Governours Indeed these Words do not hinder but that the Apostles were bound to strive with holy Emulation to excel one another in inward Heavenly Grace and Vertues in Faith in Hope in Love in Humility in Meekness and Lowliness of Mind and labouring in the Word and Doctrine for the Conversion of Souls and the Inlargement of God's Church by the Increase of Believers like as the Apostle Paul did exceed and go beyond all the other Apostles in Ministerial Labour and Diligence himself truly says I laboured more abundantly than they all 1 Cor. 15.10 But nothing can be more plain than that Christ in the forementioned Words doth absolutely forbid the Apostles all Lording and Domination over one another all Striving and Competition
for Ecclesiastical Rule Authority and Jurisdiction over one another all Affectation Claim and Exercise of Imperial Power over one another for they were all equal in Office Brethren in the Ministry Fellow-Apostles no one was Pope and Monarch over the rest neither might be 11. If Bishops were Spiritual Lords in respect of inward spiritual Worth and Goodness then they would be Spiritual Lords while they are but Presbyters and before they are made Bishops For first they are Presbyters which the Advocates for Prelacy suppose to be an Order or Degree in the Ministry inferiour to a Bishop Now it is plain that what inward spiritual Worth and Goodness is in the new-made Bishop it was in him before he was Bishop even whilst he was a Presbyter But no one did repute him a Spiritual Lord while he was but a Presbyter though he was a good and worthy Man His assuming of the Episcopal Office adds no inward spiritual Worth and Goodness to his Soul it being but a thing common to worthy and unworthy Men. Mr. Prideaux in his Introduction for reading all sorts of Histories pag. 67. divides the Bishops of Rome into seven Ranks 32 good Bishops 33 tolerable Archbishops or Patriarchs 38 usurping Nimrods 40 luxurious Sodomites 40 Egyptian Magicians 41 devouring Abaddons and 20 incurable Babylonians 12. It is then plain that Lord-Bishops are so by Humane Law and not by Divine Law they are made by Man and not by God their Office Power and Authority as they are Lord-Bishops is Humane and not Divine I say not that it is unlawful but that it is not Divine many things are lawful which yet are not Divine as the Offices of Constables Head-Constables Sheriffs Mayors Lord-Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal are all lawful and yet they are not Divine and Evangelical but Humane and Civil 13. Lord-Bishops being but Civil and Temporal Lords of Man's making their Courts cannot be Spiritual Courts but only Civil and Temporal By Permission of the King and Parliament they hold their Courts not expresly in the King's Name but in their own Name Yet are they nevertheless but Civil and Temporal Courts deriving their Authority from and dependent on the King and Parliament which under God are the highest Judicature in this Nation from whom there lies no Appeal save to God But there lies an Appeal from the highest Ecclesiastical Court in the Nation to the King and Parliament The contrary Doctrine brings in foreign Jurisdiction and sets up the Papacy and is destructive both of Church and State 14. Many of the Nobility and Gentry of England and others of the Laity hold Courts not expresly in the King's Name but in their own Name And yet no one doubts but that they are Civil and Temporal Courts derived from and dependent on the Crown and there lies an Appeal from them to a superiour Civil Court 15. True it is that in the first Ages of the Church after Christ's Ascension the Holy Ghost by Paul reproves the Christians at Corinth for going to Law with one another before the Heathen Judges about worldly and secular Matters there being then no Christian Magistracy I speak to your Shame Is it so that there is not a wise Man amongst you 1 Cor. 6 5â— no not one that shall be able to judg between his Brethren Upon which it is like the Christians from thenceforth did desist from going to Law with one another before the Heathen Judges about small Matters pertaining to this Life and chose some judicious and understanding Christian as an Umpire or Arbitrator for the ending and deciding of their litigious Causes about worldly Matters which continuing for some hundreds of Years unto the Reign of Constantine the first Christian Emperor it is very likely that he by his Imperial Sanction confirmed the aforesaid Apostolical Decree and the Way of the Primitive Churches ending and deciding their Suits about secular Matters pursuant to and grounded on the same and did enlarge and add to it and so made it an Ecclesiastical Court and called it the Bishops Court and the Judg thereof the Bishops Chancellor or the Chancellor of the Ecclesiastical Court But before this Sanction by the Emperor it was no Ecclesiastical Court neither had it any Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction it was only a prudential Institution without all external Jurisdiction 16. The King of England is by God's Grace a Christian King Being so he must needs be a Christian and as such he is a Member of God's Church in England in common with all other Christian People therein and he is no more he is not Head thereof for only Christ is Head of God's Church in England like as he is sole Head of the whole Church on Earth it being a Contradiction to be sole Head of the whole and not of every Part. Considered as a King so he hath no more Power and Jurisdiction over the Church and its Causes than he would have if he were a Heathen King his being a Christian doth not inlarge and add to his Regal Power but only qualify him supposing him truly godly with Grace and spiritual Wisdom to use his Regal Power aright for God which a Heathen King cannot 17. The King is sole Supream under God and Christ the Mediator over all the Souls in the Nation as to coercive Rule by the Sword yet is he limited by fundamental Laws whereby the Rights of Prince and People mutually consist and which he is bound inviolably to observe But all his Power is only Civil and Temporal and not Spiritual and therefore he can grant no Spiritual Jurisdiction he can create no Spiritual Office For no Effect can exced its Cause neither can the Streams differ in kind from the Water in the Fountain 18. The King and Parliament will meekly and reverently hear a common Presbyter or Minister preach the Gospel and be awed by the Word in his Mouth as the Word of God and not the Word of Man though Man be the Preacher and they will reverently own and submit to Baptism and the Lord's Supper dispensed by him as Divine and not Humane Institutions Convincing Evidence will go along with the Preacher's Word being scriptural sound good and faithful whereby it will evidence it self to be Divine and from above to all such as believe it will to them be the Savour of Life unto Life and the rest who do not believe yet will stand condemned by it and it may be with Felix tremble under it as being through their own Sin the Savour of Death unto Death to them Here it is plain Jesus Christ as sole Lord of the Conscience doth by the Ministry of a weak Man a coâ—â—â—â— Presbyter exercise Spiritual Lordship and Jurisdiction over the King and all the Lords and Commons inwardly in each one's Bosom over such as are good willingly and in Love over such as are wicked against their Will for if wicked ones might have their Will they would all be above God and lord over him at