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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
peace_n	justice_n	oath_n	session_n	2,554	5	10.8429	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67231	A discourse, prepared for the ears of some Romanists (at a general quarter sessions, in the north, when they were summon'd to take the oaths.) By Sr. Christopher Wyvill baronet, one of His Majesties justices of the peace in those parts: and now profered to the eyes of them all	Wyvill, Christopher, Sir, 1614-1672?.	1679 (1679)	Wing W3782B; ESTC R204134	6,208	16

A DISCOURSE Prepared for the Ears of some ROMANISTS At a general Quarter Sessions in the North When they were Summon'd to take the Oaths By Sr. Christopher Wyvill Baronet One of His Majesties Justices of the Peace in those Parts And now profered to the Eyes of them all YORK Printed by Stephen Bulkley and are to be sold by Richard Lambart Bookseller 1679. Imprimatur Robert Feild Aug. 29. 1679. A DISCOURSE Prepared for the Eears of some ROMANISTS c. I Am not onely sorry and troubled but afflicted to see so many Persons standing there who could they but quit themselves of one or two needless scruples pardon me Gentlemen if I use that term were fit to sit here and mannage the Affaires of the Country Realy I would not wish any of you upon the meer accompt either of your purses or Persons to turn your backs of one Fundamentall Doctrine that appears such upon a serious and impartial enquirie but even in consideration of those your temporal concerns you may have just occasion to review your Notions and after due search easily find 1. That that sort of Supremacie which the Laws require on the behalfe of our Kings doe's no way violate or invade the Priestly Function 2. That that sort of Supremacie which the Pope now clayms was vtterly unknown to the Primitive Church and is neither consistent with nor at all becoming the Priestly Function 3. That this sort of Supremacie has stragled in the world to the cost of many Crowned-heads and the destruction of numberless Christian People 4. That this sort of Supremacie was first founded in bloud and so fostered ever since having been formerly and formally in direct plain words declared against both by a Council and a Pope 5. That the chief and most celebrated Authors in the Romish Church have writ in defence of their exorbitant supremacie after such a manner as does rended it rational yea necessary especially it being compared with their former known actings and the posture of this day to keep on foot the old and perhaps to make new Laws in prejudice of Recusants 1. That we may discover the truth or falsehood of this Proposition it will be requisit to know distinctly What the challinges of the King are What he absolutely and freely disowns He expects then to be Custos uriusque Tabulae this was no more then all the Kings of Iuda exercised and those of them that were most zealously active in the purging the Temple in the preserving or restoring the true worship of God as Iosiah we find most commended most Celebrated in holy Writ we find too to Note that by the way they still called to the Law the written Law and to the Testimonies making them their Rule 2. Chorn. 17th Iehosophat 29 Hezekiah 34. Iosiah he expects further that all the Members of the Church within his Dominions should be subject to his Courts and Clergie-men as well others in case of notorious Crimes tryable there He expects to nominate appoint and call to any spiritual preferments what persons he please without the interposition of any Forraign power or Potentate this is no more then every Patron of a Parish-Church looks at as his own right The whole of this is no more then Elutherius Bishop of Rome declared to be in Lucius King of Brittain when he sent to him to desire not his leave but advice in the Resetling a Christian Church for the Gospel had been both Preached and owned here before and without any help from Rome tho at that time sadly over-run again with Paganisme But now negatively Let us see what the King pretends not to Not the conferring of Orders not Administration of Sacraments not to Preach the Word not of himself to define Articles of Faith and herein both the preamble of the Statute and the Injunctions which were afterwards purposely framed to satisfie such as seem'd to mistake the point are so plain that it 's a wonder how a considering man can have any religious fear or scruple about it These together are such an innocent kind of Supremacie so just and so frequently exercised by Christian Emperors and Kings of England even all that had any thing of Judgement spirit or good fortune as certainly none that has lookt at all into Historie only will deny his Prince 2. Doubtless if our Blessed Lord had meant That this prodigious sort of Supremacie joyned with a never failing Infallibilitie should ever have been the main Article of our Faith he would not have answered his inquisitive Disciples so unsatisfactorily as he he did Mark 9.34 35. ver nor would he have left the world without a clear direction in a matter of so vast concernment to all it 's future Generations Now that he did not so is evident since St. Paul when he sadly foretold the Church How after his departure grievous Wolves should enter in and amongst them many should arise speaking perverse things advises them not to make their addresses to any one that should then happen to be Bishop of Rome but commends them to the word of Gods grace to be built up thereby as we read Acts. 20.29 30 31 32. A shrewd signe that the Apostle did not understand Tu es Petrus in the Popish sence nor in that other place which has a minatorie exhortation to Rome as well as to other Gentile Churches least she also might be cut off Romans 11.18 19 20 21. ver What think you Would all the Eastern Bishops have stood out so vigorously and so long in that controversie about the celebration of Easter if it had ever been received as a standing rule That your Vniversal Monarch in the West was Gods Plenepotentiarie in all Causes Ecclesiastical Would the third Councill of Carthage wherein St. Augustine was present have past a Decree That none should be stiled Head or Prince of Priests Would the great Gregory even when he sat in the Pontifical Chaire have pronounced such a pretender the forerunner of Anti-Christ Even St. Peter from whom you seek to derive it demonstrates That he neither had nor desired any such Lordship or Superiority 1 Peter 5.2 3. Would Heirome have said Pari omnes inter se Authoritate fuisse Apostolos Would Ambrose have slipt so as to have writ Non habent haereditatem Petri qui fidem Petri non habent Would B●sil have assigned to Alexandria and Antioch a better title to the succession of Peter Would he and so many other old Fathers have blamed chid derided nay even contemned the Bishop of Romes pride if all the world had been obliged to be led by the Nose what way he should please 3.4 It is in vain then to seek after the sort of Supremacie now contended for during the first six hundred years But I shall presently lead you it's rise And that leaning upon the Authorities of such Authors as you will not refuse to call your own Know then That not halfe an Age after Gregory was gone off this stage A certain