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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26737	The ancient liberty of the Britannick church, and the legitimate exemption thereof from the Roman patriarchate discoursed on four positions, and asserted / by Isaac Basier ... ; three chapters concerning the priviledges of the Britannick church, &c., selected out of a Latin manuscript, entituled, Catholico-romanus pacificus, written by F.I. Barnes ... ; translated, and published for vulgar instruction, by Ri. Watson.; De antiqua ecclesiae Britannicae libertate. English	Basier, Isaac, 1607-1676.; Barnes, John, d. 1661. Catholico-romanus pacificus. English. Selections.; Watson, Richard, 1612-1685.	1661 (1661)	Wing B1029; ESTC R9065	27,797	82

all these add what in conclusion is principally necessary to wit that the Britannick Church after the very sacred Canon of the Scriptures such as is defined in the † Conc. Laodic Can. ult ancient Councils adheres closely unto tradition truly universal as well Ecclesiastick as Apostolical both which lean on the testimony or authority of the truly Catholick Church according to that in Vincentius of Lirinum his fam'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or essay of ancient Catholicism Quod ubique quod semper quod ab omnibus c. That which every where which alwaies which by all c. It appeareth that the Britannick Church bears upon these two Catholick principles to wit Holy Scripture before and above all and then Universal Tradition not onely because the general Council of Nice wherein 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ancient Customes are underset and established but also the Britannick Church in a * The first Synod after her Articles of Religion were fixed An. 13. Regin Elizab. Provincial Council of her own hath most expresly ordained by a special Canon Wee conclude therefore That the Britannick Church such as shee was lately under Episcopacy rightly constituted was no way Schismatical neither materially nor formally since that she neither erected unto her self Chair against Chair which is the foul brand of Schismaticks in St. Cyprian Nor did that Church cut her self off from Episcopacy or made a Congregation at any time unto her self against her Canonical Bishops which ever is the formal character of Schismaticks by the definition of the o Concil Constantinop 1. Can. 6. vel 8. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Woe call them Hereticks which rend themselves from and set up Synagogues or Conventicles against our Canonical Bishops c. Constantinopolitan Council much less did she shake off her Bishops and with the continued succession of Bishops by consequence the succession of her Priests not interrupted as I may say from the very cradle of her Christianism And as for lawful ordination as well in the material part the imposition of hands as in the formal wherein signally by a set form of words both praerogative of Ordination and also jurisdiction is conferred on the Bishops this her ordination I say rightly and canonically performed by the Catholick Bishops shee proves out of the very Records or Monuments of Consecrations So that no man can by deserved right charge upon the Britannick Churches that ancient reproach of Schismaticks in p Matthew Parler a godly and learned man c. who was Chaplain to Henry the eighth c. being duly elected to the Arch-Bishoprick of Canterbury after a Sermon preached the Holy Spirit invoked and the Eucharist celebrated by the imposition of hands of three Bishops in former times William Barloe of Bathe Iohn Scory of Chichester Miles Coverdale of Exceter and Iohn Suffragan of Bedford was consecrated at Lambeth Hee afterward consecrated Edmund Grindal an excellent Divine to bee Bishop of London c. See Camdens Annals of the Affairs of England part 1. ad an 1559. Tertullian Vos ex vobis nati est is You are new Upstarts born yesterday of your selves Nay so tenacious are the genuine Britains of the ancient Religion and by consequence of her Catholick Discipline that for the intire restitution of their Bishops their most Gracious King himself Charls Emperour of Great Britain chuseth rather to suffer so many and so most undeserved injuries even which is horrid to be spoken to death it self which in dishonour and contempt of all q In good earnest this hainous fact so strikes at all Monarchs through the side of one King of Great Britain that unless it incense all Kings and Princes whatsoever as to a most just indignation so to a serious revenge it may be feared that the contagion of such a damnable example will diffuse its infection into Neighbour-Kingdomes it so threatneth and menaceth the destruction and ruine of Monarchy it self since that in the most seditious Epilogue of the perfidious Covenant in most express words they exhort and animate other Christian Churches as they love to speak which either groan under the yoak of Antichristian Tyranny or that onely are in danger of it that they would joyn in the same or like Association and Covenant with them forsooth to the enlargement of the Kingdome of Iesus Christ c. You hear the words yee Christian Princes yea and you see their deeds It is the affair of you all that is acted but of such among you especially whom particularly they will seem to have marked out with that black character of Antichristianism which in the sense of these Traitours is not so common to every meridian but that it seems to threaten some Region before other with its malignity God avert all of that nature portended by it Christian Monarchs those most desperate Rebels threaten to their King and not long since potent Monarch then abolish Episcopacy as mindful of that r At the Coronation of the King of England the Arch-Bishop consecrating in the name of the whole Clergy twice adjures the King in these words ss 1. † This is translated out of the Latin Copy My Liege Will you grant conserve and by your oath confirm the Laws Customes and Liberties given unto your Clergy by the Glorious King St. Edward your Predecessor The King answers I do grant and take upon mee to keep them Also ss 5. The Arch-Bishop advertiseth the King in these words My Lord the King Wee beseech you that you will conserve to us and the Churches committed to our trust all Canonical Priviledges and that you will protect and defend us so as every good King ought to be a Protector and Defender of Bishops and Churches put under his Government The King almost in the same words promiseth That hee to the uttermost of his power God helping him will keep the Canonical priviledges of the Churches and that hee will defend the Bishops themselves Afterward the King being lead to the Altar there touching with his hand the Holy Bible solemnly swears That hee will perform all these things adding moreover this Imprecation to be trembled at So help mee God and the contents of this holy Book I thought fit to insert here this form of the Kings Oath taken out of the Royal Records themselves that it may bee made manifest to the whole Christian world That His Majesties magnanimity and constancy hitherto is to be imputed not to pertinacy but Religion whatsoever otherwise is said by such as blaspheme or reproach him with their 〈◊〉 language Oath to be trembled at whereby hee religiously bound himself to God and the Church at his Coronation The Clergy and likewise better part of the Nobility as also the Britannick people dispersed here and there Rivals with their King in this part of his Religion refuse not to undergo the loss of all their estates persecutions banishments yea are ready to indure all kindes of extremity to their very last