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A27408 A true tryall of the ministers and ministry of England as also a true discovery of their root and foundation, and of the called English Church ... / written forth by Gervase Benson ... Benson, Gervase, d. 1679. 1656 (1656) Wing B1904; ESTC R20721 10,090 15

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which was in the Apostles and Ministers of Christ as sundry of them have confessed and published in print whose Foundation and Root is now discovered and made manifest whom ye call your Ministers Parsons Vicars and Curats and the foundation of your Churches as you call them and your Parishes and your Fonts and your Basons and your Sacraments for which there is no Scripture and your Infants Baptisme and your Tythes Prediall and Parsonall and your Oblations Obventions and Easter Reckonings and Mortuaries and your Crysoms and your Churching of Women and your first-fruits and your Patrons and your Presentations and your Orders and your Approbations and Augmentations and all your worship as you call it which is not in Spirit and in truth to be of man and from man and was invented by fallen man and their Titles and Dignities they received of man and from man and one from another and their Original Head and Root and Foundation was the Archbishops and Bishops amongst which the Bishop of Rome called the Pope was Chief and Supream head untill the Raign of Henry the Eight late King of England as by the Lawes and Statutes of this Nation doth and may appear And these called Archbishops and Bishops and such as received Orders from them to be Priests Ministers and Deacons and Clerks as they called them were called the body Spiritual and were and are called the English Church as by the Statute of 24. Hen. 8. Cap. 12. doth and may appear And as that Statute declareth The Kings and Nobles of this Realm endowed the said Church both with honour and possessions to keep them from corruption and sinister affection And the Pope and the See of Rome had the Tryal amongst other things of the right of Tythes Oblations and Obventions And by that Statute it is ordained and declared That all spirituall Prelates Pastors Ministers and Curates within the Realm of England may use Minister execute and do all Sacraments and Sacramentalls and Divine Service unto the Subjects of the same And by the Statute of the 26. Hen. 8. Chap. 1. King Henry the Eight and his Successors is declared the only Supream Head in earth of the Church of England And by the Statute of the 25. Hen. 8. chap. 20. The Annals or first fruits which were payed by the Archbishops and Bishops of England to the Bishop of Rome are taken from the Bishop of Rome called the Pope And by the Statute of the 26. Hen. 8. chap 3. The first fruits and profits of every Archbishoprick and Bishoprick Parsonage Vicaridge c. are given to Henry the Eight and his Successours and over and besides a yearly tenth of all spiritual livings as they are called And by the Statute of the 25. of Hen. 8. chap. 20. It is ordained and established That the King and his Successours may grant to the Prior and Covent or the Dean and chapter of the Cathedral Churches or Monasteries a Licence under the great Seal as of old time hath been accustomed to proceed to the Election of an Archbishop or Bishop at every avoidance of any Archbishoprick or Bishoprick within the Realm of England with a Letter Missive containing the name of the person which they shall Elect and choose c. And by the Statute of the 25. Hen. 8. chap 21. The Archbishops of Canterbury have Power and Authority given at their discretions to grant Dispensations Licences c. unto the King his Heires and Successours for causes not being contrary to the holy Scriptures as before had been accustomed and used to be obtained by the Kings of England from the See of Rome And by a Statute made 13. Eliz. chap. 12. It is ordained that every person under the degree of a Bishop which doth or shall pretend to be a Priest or a Minister of Gods holy Word and Sacraments c. shall in the presence of the Bishop declare his assent and subscribe to all the Articles of Religion which concern the confession of the true Christian faith and the doctrine of the Sacraments comprized in a Book imprinted Entituled Articles whereupon it was agreed by the Archbishops and Bishops and the whole Clergie in the Convocation holden at London in the year 1562. And that none should be made Minister or admitted to preach or administer the Sacraments in England under the age of 24 years or unlesse he be approved by the Bishop of the Diocesse being a Deacon at the least c. And all admissions to Benefices c. and all Licences or Tolerations made to the contrary to be meerly void in Law as if they never were So that it is manifest That the foundation of the late Archbishops and Bishops here in England was Man viz. The Kings and Queens of England with the Priors and Covent of Monasteries and the Deanes and Chapiters of the Cathedrals And that the Ministers Parsons Preachers Vicars and Curats as they call them were members and branches arising from that Root and Body To wit The Archbishops and Bishops which Archbishops and Bishops by a late Ordinance of Parliament were and are abolished and taken away And by another Ordinance or Act of Parliament the Kingly Power and Government was and is taken away and rendred uselesse in this Nation and the same declared to be a free Common-Wealth And by another Ordinance of Parliament the late Deans and Chapiters c. are also abolished and taken away So that it is manifest by the Lawes Statutes and Ordinances aforesaid That the called Priests Ministers Rectors Parsons Preachers Vicars and Curats were Members and Branches of the late Archbishops and Bishops of this Nation and had their rising and sprung from that Root and Body and of that Root and Body were members and branches And that the Archbishops and Bishops themselves were made and had their rise from the late Kings and Queens of England with the Priors and Covents and Dean and Chapiters aforesaid which said Kings and Queens Priors Covents Monasteries Deans and Chapiters Archbishops and Bishops Root and Branch and their Power and Authorities being disannulled rendred and declared uselesse abolished and taken away as aforesaid It doth clearly appear and is manifest That all the Priests so called and Ministers in England with the ca●led Rectors Parsons Preachers Vicars Clerks and Curats being Branches and Members of that Root and Body viz. the late Archbishops and Bishops as branches and members of that Body and Root are taken away disannulled and abolished and the Root of their Root the Kings and Queens of England c. And thus having clearly proved and made manifest their foundation to be of man and from man and them and their foundation and the Root of their Root by man razed taken away made Null and rendred uselesse I leave them in the Pit without foundation either of God or man where they and their memory shall rot who have brought nothing to perfection and all that go about to set up write again and uphold that which God