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B21152	The increase of popery in England, since the reformation made by King Henry VIII shewing the great encouragement that priests, Jesuits, and other promoter of that bloudy religion have had from persons of power and authority, the discouragements and notorious hardships, even to silencing, and banishment from cities and corporations, that have been the portion of many able and faithful Protestant ministers, that have eminently opposed it : with an essay towards what may possibly befall the Churches of Christ from the hellish contrivances and damnable plots of Romish emissaries : with a faithful extract out of the most authentick records of the most memorable things referring to the reformation, viz. Henry VIII, his reasons given in his proclamation for taking away the Popes usurped power, his protestation against the pope, his injunctions to his clergy, Bishop St[e]phen Gardener's oath or protestation, and his reasons against the Popessupremacy in England and the publick agreement of the whole clergy of England, as confirmed and ratified in the book called the Bishops book, published in the year 1534 / by .. William Dell ...	Darrell, William, 1651-1721.	1681 (1681)	Wing D923	53,277	58

second Psalm And now you Kings be wise Psal 2. and be learned ye that judge the earth c. Also the example of Salomon who being a King 2 Par. 28. according to his Fathers appointment ordained the Offices of the Priests in their Ministeries and Levites in their Order Exod. 32. that they might give thanks and minister before the Priests after the order of every day and Porters in their divisions gate by gate And speaking more of the said Salomon he saith 1 Reg. 22. For so commanded the Man of God neither did the Priests nor Levites omit any thing of all that he had commanded c. Besides this he alledgeth also the example of King Ezechias 2 Paralyp 28. He alledgeth moreover the example and fact of Justinian which made Laws touching the Faith Bishops Clerks Hereticks and such other Aaron saith he obeyed Moses Salomon gave sentence upon Abiathar the High Priest 1 Macch. 10. 1 Macch. 14. Alexander the King in the first of Macchabees writeth thus to Jonathas Now have we made thee this day the High Priest of thy people c. So did Demetrius to Simon Then coming to the words of Christ spoken to Peter Matthew 16. Matth. 16. upon which words the Pope pretendeth to build all his Authority to this he answereth That if Christ by those words had limited to Peter any such special state or preheminence above all Princes then were it not true that is written Coepit Jesus docere facere forasmuch as the words of Christ should then be contrary to his own facts and example who in all his life never usurped either in himself any such domination above Princes shewing himself rather subject unto Princes nor yet did ever permit to his Apostles any such example of ambition to be seen but rather rebuked them for seeking any manner of Majority amongst them The Kings Style and Title approved by Steph. Wint. And where he reasoneth of the Kings Style and Title being called the King of England and of France Defender of the Faith Lord of Ireland and Supreme Head in earth of the Church of England immediately under Christ c. thus he addeth his mind and censure saying That he seeth no cause in this Title why any man should be offended that the King is called the Head of the Church of England rather than of the Realm of England and addeth his reason thereunto saying If the Prince and King of England be the Head of his Kingdom that is of all Englishmen that be his Subjects is there any cause why the same English Subjects should not be subject to the same Head likewise in this respect because they are Christians that is to say for the title of Godliness as though that God which is the cause of all Obedience should now be the cause of Rebellion At length thus he concludeth with an Exclamation saying To say saith he that a King is the Head of a Kingdom and not of the Church what an absurd and a foolish saying is this The King is as well the Head of the Church as of his Kingdom And further adding for example the subjection of the Servant and Wife If the Servant saith he be subject to his Master or Wife to her Husband being Infidels doth their Conversion afterward or name of Christians make them less Subjects than they were before As Religion therefore doth not alter the Authority of the Master over the Servant nor of the Husband over the Wife no more saith he doth it between the Prince and Subjects Paul making no exception nor distinction of Subjection save onely of that which belongeth to God willeth all men to obey their Princes and what Princes Those Princes which bear the sword And although we are bound by the Scripture to obey our Bishops and Spiritual Pastors of the Church yet that obedience diminisheth nothing the chief and head Authority that ought to be given to the Prince no more than the obedience of the Servant to his Master or of the Wife to her Husband exempteth them from Subjection due to their Superiour Powers And herewithall he inferreth a principle of the Law A Rule of the Law Divers Iurisdictions saith he proceeding from one person do not marry nor hinder themselves but rather do confirm and fortifie one another Again whereas the Bishop of Rome under the name of Peter doth appropriate to himself the highest place in the Church for that he is the Successor of Peter Thereunto he answereth in one word but in that one word he answereth enough and to the full I would saith he he were Wenchesters with that the Pope were Peters Successor for so in very deed he might well exceed and pass all Kings and Princes if not in preheminency of Dignity yet in admiration and excellency of Virtue in which kind of superiority the Lord Christ would his Apostles and Ministers to go before all Kings and Emperours in the whole world After this in prosecuting the Argument of Peters Confession he argueth thus and saith Argument The Prerogative was given to him which confessed Flesh and Bloud in Peter did not confess Christ Ergo the Prerogative was not given to the Flesh and Bloud of Pet●r that as flesh and bloud did not reveal to Peter that Confession so neither was that Prerogative given to the flesh and bloud of Peter but to the better part that is to the spirit of Peter which is to mean in respect of the spiritual Confession of Peter and not in respect of any carnal place or person c. Item If the Scholar ought not to be above the Master how then could either Peter take that upon him which Christ his Master so constantly did refuse Or how can the Bishop of Rome now claim that by Succession whereof no example is to be found either in the Head or his Predecessor before him For so we read in Eusebius both of Peter James and John that they did arrogate no such Primacy unto them but were content that James surnamed Justus should be the Bishop of the Apostles And as for the name and signification of the word Primatus i. Primacy Pr●matus or Primacy what it signifieth if it be taken for the first nomination or the first place given so he granteth that Peter had the preferment of the first name and place in the order of the Apostles but it followeth not that with this Primacy he had also a Kingdom given He saith Confirm thy Brethren but not thy Subjects And though he were bid of the Lord to confirm his Brethren yet was he not bid to exercise an Impery upon his Brethren for so were they not his Brethren but his Subjects Primus Primatus i. Primacy meaneth as much as the first standing in Vocation and is the name of Vertue and not of Power That Peter was Primus that is first or chief in the number of them which confessed Christ it is not

Agreement of the whole Clergy of England confirmed and ratified in their own publick Book called The Bishops Book Anno 1534. with the Names of the Witnesses WE think it convenient Te●timonies out o●●he Bishops Book against the Popes Supremacy that all Bishops and Preachers shall instruct and teach the People committed unto their spiritual charge that whereas certain men do imagine and affirm that Christ should give unto the Bishop of Rome power and authority not onely to be Head and Governour of all Priests and Bishops in Christs Church but also to have and occupy the whole Monarchy of the World in his hands and that he may thereby lawfully depose Kings and Princes from their Realms Dominions and Seigniories and so transfer and give the same to such persons as him liketh that is utterly false and untrue for Christ never gave unto S. Peter or unto any of the Apostles or their Successors any such Authority And the Apostles S. Peter and S. Paul do teach and command that all Christian People as well Priests and Bishops as others should be obedient and subject unto the Princes and Potentates of the World although they were Infidels And as for the Bishop of Rome it was many hundred years after Christ before he could acquire or get any Primacy or Governance above any other Bishops out of his Province in Italy since the which time he hath ever usurped more and more And though some part of his power was given to him by the consent of the Emperours Kings and Princes and by the consent also of the Clergy in General Councils assembled yet surely he attained the most part thereof by marvellous subtilty and craft How the Bishop of Rome rose by ambition and especially by colluding with great Kings and Princes sometime training them into his Devotion by pretence and colour of Holiness and Sanctimony and sometime constraining them by force and tyranny Whereby the said Bishops of Rome aspired and rose at length unto such greatness in Strength and Authority that they presumed and took upon them to be Heads Concilium tertium Cartha inense cap. 6. and to put Laws by their own Authority not onely unto all other Bishops within Christendom but also unto the Emperours Kings and other the Princes and Lords of the world and that under the pretence of the Authority c●●mitted unto them by the Gospel First the General Council of Nice decreed that the Patriarchs of Alexandria and Antiochia should have like power over the Countries about those Cities as the Bishops of Rome had over the Countries about Rome In the Council of Milevitan it was decreed that if a Clerk of Africk would appeal out of Africk un●o any Bishop beyond the Sea he should be taken as a person Excommunicate In the General Council of Constantinople the first it was likewise decreed that every Cause between any persons should be determined within the Provinces where the matters did lie and that no Bishop should exercise any power out of his own Diocese or Province And this was also the mind of holy S. Cyprian and of other holy men of Africa To conclude therefore the Pope hath no su h Primacy g●ven him either by the words of Scripture or by any General Council or by common consent of the holy Ca●holick Church ●●●rein the said Bishops of Rome do no● nely abuse and pervert the true sense and meaning of Christs Word but they do also clean contrary to the use and custom of the Primitive Church and so do manifestly violate as well the holy Canons made in the Church immediately after the time of the Apostles as also the Decrees and Constitutions made in that behalf by the holy Fathers of the Catholick Church assembled in the first General Councils And finally they do transgress their own profession made in their Creation For all the Bishops of Rome always when they be consecrated and made Bishops of that See do make a solemn profession and vow that they shall inviolably observe and keep all the Ordinances made in the first eight General Councils among the which it is specially provided and enacted that all Causes shall be finished and determined within the Province where the same begun and that by the Bishops of the same Province and that no Bishop shall exercise any Iurisdiction out of his own Province Gregorius l. 4. Epistolarum indictione 13. Epist 13. and divers such other Canons were then made and confirmed by the said Councils to repress and take away out of the Church all such Primacy and Iurisdiction over Kings and Bishops as the Bishops of Rome pretend now to have over the same And we find that divers good Fathers Bishops of Rome did greatly reprove yea and abhor as a thing clean contrary to the Gospel and the Decrees of the Church that any Bishop of Rome or elsewhere should presume usurp or take upon him the Title and Name of Vniversal Bishop or of the Head of all Priests or of the Highest Priest or any such like Title For confirmation whereof it is out of all doubt that there is no mention made neither in Scripture nor in the Writings of any authentical Doctor or Author of the Church being within the time of the Apostles that Christ did ever make or institute any distinction or difference to be in the preheminence of Power Order or Iurisdiction between the Apostles themselves or between the Bishops themselves but that they were all equal in Power Order Authority and Iurisdiction And that there is now and since the time of the Apostles any such diversity or difference among the Bishops it was devised by the antient Fathers of the Primitive Church for the conservation of good order and unity of the Catholick Church and that either by the consent and authority or else at the least by the permission and sufferance of the Princes and Civil Powers for the time ruling c. And shortly after followeth And for the better confirmation of this part we think it also convenient that all Bishops and Preachers shall instruct and teach the people committed unto their spiritual charge that Christ did by express words prohibit that none of his Apostles nor any of their Successors should under the pretence of the Authority given unto them by Christ take upon them the Authority of the Sword that is to say the Authority of Kings or of any Civil Power in this world yea or any Authority to make Laws or Ordinances in causes appertaining unto Civil Powers Truth it is the Priests and Bishops may execute all such Temporal Power and Iurisdion as is committed unto them by the Ordinance and Authority of Kings or other Civil Powers and by the consent of the people as Officers and Ministers under the said Kings and Powers so long as it shall please the said Kings and People to permit and suffer them so to use and execute the same Notwithstanding if any Bishop of what estate or dignity soever

to be denied for first he confessed first he taught the Iews first he stood in defence of the Verity and was the first and chief Prolocutor among them but yet that maketh not that he should therefore vindicate a general Primacy and Rule over all other States and Potentates of the world no more than Apelles because he is noted the first and chief of all Painters therefore ought to bear rule over all Painters or because the Vniversity of Paris is nominate for the first and chief of other Vniversities shall therefore the French King and all other Princes in their publick Administration wherein they are set of God become Subjects and Vnderlings to that Vniversity Thus after many other reasons and persuasions contained in the said Book De obedientia for I do but superficially skim over the top onely of his Probations and Arguments finally in the end of his Peroration he concludeth the whole summ of his mind in this effect first denying that the Bishop of Rome had ever any such extern Iurisdiction assigned to him absolutely from God to reign over Kings and Princes for the probation whereof he hath alledged sufficiently as he saith the examples and doings of Christ himself which ought to be to us all a sufficient Document And as concerning the term of Primacy albeit it be used sometimes of the Fathers yet the matter being well considered and rightly expounded maketh nothing for the large Dominion of the Bishop of Rome which now he doth usurp Also as for the Prerogatives granted unto Peter by the which Prerogatives our Saviour would crown his own Gifts given unto him crowning not the flesh and bloud of Peter but the marvellous testimony of his Confession all this maketh nothing for the Popes purpose Likewise as concerning the Local Succession of Peter Succession of Peter the Pope hath nothing thereby to claim If he will be Successor of Peter he must succeed him in Faith Doctrine and Conditions and in so doing he neither will neither yet shall need to seek for Honour but shall be honoured of all good men according as a good man should be and that much more than he being a good man would require Steph. Wint. takes his Vale of the Pope but not his Vltimum Vale. And thus Stephen Winchester taking his leave and bidding the Pope farewell endeth with a friendly Exhortation willing him to be wise and circumspect and not to strive stubbornly against the truth The light of the Gospel saith he so spreadeth his beams in all mens eyes that the works of the Gospel be known the Mysteries of Christs Doctrine are opened both learned and unlearned Men and Women being English born do see and perceive that they have nothing to do with Rome nor with the Bishop of Rome but that every Prince in his own Dominion is to be taken and accepted as a Vicar of God and Vicegerent of Christ in his own bounds And therefore seeing this Order is taken of God and one in the Church should bear the Office of Teaching The Office of Teaching another should bear the Office of Ruling The Office of Ruling which Office is onely limited to Princes he exhorteth him to consider the truth and to follow the fame wherein consisteth our true and special Obedience c. A Letter of the University of Cambridge against the Usurped Power of the Bishop of Rome UNiversis Sanctae Matris Ecclesiae filiis ad quos praesentes Literae perventurae sunt coetus omnis regentium non regentium Academiae Cantabrigiensis salutem in omnium salvatore Jesu Christo Cum de Romani Pontificis potestate c. Translated into English thus TO all and singular Children of the holy Mother Church to whose hands these presents shall come A Letter of the University of Cambridge the whole Society of Regents and not Regents of the Vniversity of Cambridge sendeth greeting in our Saviour Iesus Christ Whereas now of late it hath risen up in question among us concerning the Power of the Bishop of Rome which he doth both claim to himself by the holy Scripture over all Provinces and Nations in Christendom and hath now of long time exercised in this Realm of England And forasmuch as our Censure concerning the cause is required to wit Whether the Bishop of Rome hath any Power or Authority in this Kingdom of England allotted to him by God in the Scripture more than any other forein Bishop or no We thought it therefore good reason and our duty for the searching out of the verity of the said Question that we should imploy therein our whole endeavour and study whereby we might tender and publish to the world what our reason and censure is touching the premisses For therefore we suppose that Vniversities were first provided and instituted of Princes to the end that doth the people of Christ might in the Law of God be instructed and also that false Errors if any did rise might through the vigilant care and industry of learned Divines be discussed extinguished and utterly rooted out For the which cause we in our Assemblies and Convocations after our accustomed manner resorting and conferring together upon the Question aforesaid and studiously debating and deliberating with our selves how and by what order we might best proceed for the finding out of the truth of the matter and at length choosing out certain of the best learned Doctors and Batchelors of Divinity and other Masters have committed to them in charge studiously to insearch and peruse the places of holy Scripture by the viewing and conferring of which places together they might certifie us what is to be said to the Question propounded The Censure of the University of Cambridge against the Popes Supremacy Forasmuch therefore as we having heard and well advised and throughly discussed in open Disputations what may be said on both parts of the foresaid Question those Reasons and Arguments do appear to us more probable stronger truer and more certain and sounding much more near to the pure and native sense of Scripture which do deny the Bishop of Rome to have any such power given him of God in the Scripture By reason and force of which Arguments we being persuaded and conjoyning together in one Opinion have with our selves thus decreed to answer unto the Question aforesaid and in these writings thus resolutely do answer in the name of the whole Vniversity and for a Conclusion undoubted do affirm approve and pronounce The Bishop of Rome hath no more State in England than hath any other Bishop That the Bishop of Rome hath no more State Authority and Iurisdiction given him of God in the Scriptures over this Realm of England than any other extern Bishop hath And in testimony and credence of this our Answer and Affirmation we have caused our common Seal to be put to these our foresaid Letters accordingly At Cambridge in our Regent House Anno Dom. 1534. 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