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An historical vindication of the Church of England in point of schism as it stands separated from the Roman, and was reformed I. Elizabeth.
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Twysden, Roger, Sir, 1597-1672.
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Wing T3553; ESTC R20898
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then the being excluded from such places of honour and profit as they held in the Common-wealth yet with this proviso that he who had an estate of inheritance in a temporall Office refused to take the said oath did after upon better perswasion conform himself should be restored unto the said estate and that such as should maintain or defend the auctority preeminence power or jurisdiction spirituall or ecclesiasticall of any forreign Prince Prelate Person State or Potentate whatsoever not naming the Pope as her father had done should be three times convict before he suffered the pains of death 3. This Bill which no doubt the Popes carriage drew on being expedited in the house of Commons received reformation by the Lords committed the 13. March to the Lord Marquess of Winchester Lord Treasurer the Duke of Norfolk the Earls of VVestmorland Shrewsbury Rutland Sussex Penbrook viscount Mountague Bishops Exeter Carlisle Barons Clynton Admirall Morley Rich Willoughby North no one of them then noted for Protestantisme the 18. March past the Lords none dissenting but 8. Bishops the Earl of Shrewsbury Viscount Mountague and the Abbot of VVestminster and the same day sent to the house of Commons who upon perusall found again what to amend it in so as it had not it's perfection in both Houses till Saturday the 6th of May when the Parliament ended the Monday following at which time onely Viscount Mountague the interessed Clergy opposed it By which it cannot be questioned but the generality of the Lords did interpret that law no other then as indeed it was a restoring the Crown to it 's ancient rights for if otherwise without doubt there would have been as great an opposition at least made against it as some other statutes which past that Parliament met with that the Marquess of VVinchester the Lords Morley Stafford Dudley VVharton Rich North joyned with the Earls of Shrewsbury Viscount Mountague and the Prelats to have stopt 4. But whereas some were induced to think by the generality of the words that affirm her Highness to be supreme governour as well in all spirituall or ecclesiasticall causes as temporall as if it had been an usurping upon the sacred function in the interior as I may say of the Church properly belonging to them in holy Orders her Maty the same year did declare She did not challenge any other auctority then was challenged and lately used by King Henry the 8th and Edw. 6. which is and was of ancient time due to th' imperiall crown of this Realme that is under God to have the Soveraignty and rule over all manner of persons born within these her realms c. And that to be the onely sense of the Oath she caused to be confirmed the next Parliament at which time a Synod being held for avoiding diversity of opinions and establishing of consent touching true religion c. it did expresly declare they did not give to our Princes the ministring either of Gods Word or the Sacraments But that onely prerogative is given in holy Scripture by God himself that is that they should rule all estates and degrees committed to their charge by God whether they be ecclesiasticall or temporall and restrain with the civill sword the stubborn and evil-doers c. And these articles were likewise confirmed by Parliament 13. Eliz. cap. 12. so that no man can doubt this to have been other then an acknowledgement what Princes had done formerly in all ages might be justly continued not an introductory of a new law but the assertion of the old right of our Kings 5. Another matter of great weight then likewise expedited was the settling the publick service of the Church in one uniform way King Edward the 6. intending such a reformation as might serve for edification caused certain pious and learned men to meet together who as it seems taking for their pattern the practise of the primitive times casting out of the Liturgies then used such particulars as were any way offensive shew'd their scope to be what they pretended to reform not make a new Church or Service and thereupon had by the aid of the holy Ghost as the Act of Parliament speaks concluded on and publisht the book of Common prayer with a form of administration of the holy Communion commonly called the Mass. But nothing humane is perfect at first this Book some few years after received in his time alteration and the word Mass I know not why more offensive in it then the Augustane Confession expunged with some other phrases in it 6. But for the better understanding how Queen Elizabeth found this Church it will not be amiss to look a little back Henry the 8. dying in Ianuary 154 6 7 leaving the Roman Service with some alterations not greatly considerable in it the wisdome of the State however intending a farther reformation was not immediately to abolish it so as the Lords meeting in Parl nt 1547. November the 4. though they had the Mass sung in English yet the Liturgy of the Church was not common in that language till after Easter 1548. This Session continuing till December 23. restored the Communion in both kinds upon which certain learned men by appointment met at VVindsor to consider of a decent Form for the administration of it which in March his Maty gave out backt with a Proclamation so as at Easter it began without compulsion of any to be put in practise and after Easter severall parochiall Churches to celebrate divine Service in English which at VVhitsuntide was by command introduced into Paul's but hitherto no book of Common prayer extant onely the manner of administring the holy Eucharist somewhat altered 7. During this while the Archbishop of Cant. 6. Bishops 3. Deans Doctors and 3. other onely Doctors were busied in reforming the publick Liturgy of the Church Iohn Calvin of Geneva a person then of high esteem advertised of it thereupon wrote to the Duke of Somerset the 22. October 1548 giving his judgement in these words quod ad formulam precum rituum ecclesiasticorum valde probo ut certa illa extet à qua pastoribus discedere in functione sua non liceat tam ut consulatur quorundam simplicitati imperitiae quam ut certius ita conslet omnium inter se ecclesiarum consensus postremo etiam ut obviam eatur desultoriae quorundam levitati qui novationes quasdam affectant and taking notice of the form already had for celebrating the Communion adds this Audio recitari isthic in Coenae celebratione orationem pro defunctis neque vero hoc ad purgatorii Papistici approbationem referri satis sâ—io neque etiam me latet proferri posse antiquum ritum mentionis defunctorum faciendae ut eo modo communio fidelium omnium in unum corpus conjunctorum declaretur sed obstat invictum illud argumentum nempe Coenam Domini adeo sacrosanctam esse ut ullis hominum additamentis
on them not as to those had auctority over this Church 17. As for acts of Ecclesiastick auctority what proceeded not from the King did from th' Archbishop who was not at all commanded by any nullius unquam legati ditioni addictus but preceded them all None did were a Miter within his Province or had the Crosier carried nor layd any excommunication and when he did the Clergy of the place did teach both from the King and Archbishop not to value it on this ground that in Dioecesi Archiepiscopi Apostolicam non tenere sententiam 18. As for Councells it is certain none from Rome did till 1125. call any here if they did come to any as to Calcuith the King upon the Advise of th' Archbishop statuit diem concilii So when William the first held one at Winchester 1070. for deposing Stygand though there came to it three sent from Alexander the second yet it was held jubente presente Rege who was president of it The difference touching precedency between the Sees of Canterbury and York having been before the same Pope and by him sent back for a determination at home it is observable that in a Councell said therefore to be called â—x praecepto Alexandri Papae annuente Rege the Popes Legat subscribed the 16 th after all the English Bishops as is truly recorded in the Antiquitat Britannicae Ecclesiae p. 95 40. agreeing with a very ancient Ms. copy I have seen of the said Councell as Diceto and others do rank him after the King Canterbury and York If any shall ask whether I have met no copies in which he was placed otherwise I must confesse I have seen some books wherein he was above the English Bishops next after the Queen but they were onely late Transcripts not of any Antiquity as in a book of Crouland writ since the beginning of Henry the 7. 19. The Pope for many years now past for being a Spirituall Pastor and Patriarch of the West hath been treated with more reverence than any Bishop and for being a potent temporall Prince with more observance then meerly a Ghostly Father A grave writer notes Henry the first having gone through the troubles were on him with his brother and likewise Anselm subjugatis omnibus inimicis securus erat nec aliquem ut primìtus formidabat praeter Papam hoc non propter spiritualem sed temporalem potestatem Which as it is recorded of that Prince so no question is true of many others 20. By which we may see when Rome did in former times Apostolica authoritate praecipere it was to Bishops whom he styled his brothers no other then such fraternall commands the elder may and doth ordinarily lay upon the younger brother of whom he is sollicitous such as St. Pauls were to the Thessalonians Philemon c. No other then of late Calvins were to Knox who being chosen by certain of Franckford to be Preacher unto them their vocation he obâ—yed albeit unwillingly at the commandment of that notable servant of God Iohn Calvin c. And a little after the Lords of Scotland sending for him home did accompany their letters to him with others to Mr. Calvin craving of him that by his auctority he would command the said Iohn once again to visit them c. And truly whosoever will without partiality seriously consider the whole contexture of our Lawes and Histories weighing one circumstance with another must conclude the Popes commanding to have been volentibus not nolentibus as St. Hierom says those of a Bishop ought to be for if disliked his precepts were questioned opposed those he sent not permitted to meddle with that they came for their prohibitions that others should not neglected The English having ever esteemed the Church of Canterbury in Spiritualls that is quae sunt ordinis without any intervening superior omnium nostrum mater communis sub sponsi sui Iesu Christi dispositione in other things as points of Government the ordering that of right and custome ever to have belonged to the King assisted with his councell of Bishops and others of the Clergy who was therefore called Vicarius Christi c. as I shall shew hereafter more at large The Church of England holding that of S â— Augustine an undoubted truth In hoc Reges sicut eis divinitus praecipitur Deo serviunt in quantum Reges sunt si in suo reg no bona jubeant mala prohibeant non solum quae pertinent ad humanam societatem verum etiam quae ad divinam religionem and accordingly our Kings so far as any Laws or Records of their actions are extant from Ethelbert by the Saxons to the Conquest and from the Normans to these later times have upon occasion exercised a power shewing such titles were not in vain conferred on them Neither did any decision though never so punctually had in Rome unlesse the parties agreed stint the strife till the King concurred with it as the frequent determinations on the behalf of Canterbury in point of superiority above York found in Malmsbury and others may teach us which yet never received a finall end till Edward the 3. under the great seal set a period to that long controversy 21. But after the Pope began to think or rather to say himself had onely plenitudo Ecclesiasticae potestatis that no Councell could give Laws to him but all receive strength from him and the Canonists flattery extended to declare him supra jura in â—o sufficit pro ratione voluntas his missives ran in an higher tone then formerly and his commands which were at first according to th' example of St. Paul joyned with exhortations entreaties and the like to carry Apostolica auctoritate comprimere and to th' Archbishop demurring in th' execution of them tuum candelabrum concutiemus tantam praesumptionem cum gravibus usuris exigemus and si mandatum nostrum neglexeris vel distuleris adimplere quia justum est ut ei obedientia subtrahatur qui sedi Apostolicae neglexerit obedire venerabilibus fratribus suffraganeis tuis per scripta nostra mandavimus ut tibi reverentiam non impendant Quod si c. tibi feceris exhiberi sâ—ias te tunc ab Episcopali dignitate suspensum c. phrases and manners of writing denoting much more of auctority then was used by Popes in elder times By which is manifest the point in difference between the Archbishop and the Pope to have been not the sending a Legat hither but of one with a power above him to command the English Clergy that is to remove their dependency from him to Rome as a superior over him 22. To his gaining which these usages of th' Archbishops were great stops drawing so near an equality and so pregnant testimonies of his no-divine right to meddle here not easy