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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91186	An exact chronological history and full display of popes intollerable usurpations upon the antient just rights, liberties, of the kings, kingdoms, clergy, nobility, commons of England and Ireland	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1666 (1666)	Wing P3962A; ESTC R232177	595,052	408

Jurisdiction do most neglect this most essential prime part of their Commission and relinquish it to inferiour Priests Ministers Curates to whom they deny the power of Jurisdiction The third Commission whereon the Pope and his flatterers principally erect St. Peters and their absolute Ecclesiastical Soveraign Supremacy over all other Apostles Ministers Priests Kings Emperors Kingdoms and Catholick Church on Earth and upon which all Bishops Presbyters Priests do bottom their pretended divine Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction over Emperors Kings and all Secular persons as appropriate to their functions consistories and incommunicable to Princes or Laymen is that which was generally given by Christ to all the Apostles yea to private Christians and Lay-men and the whole Church before Christs passion Mat. 18. 18. Verily I say unto you whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven Thus renewed confirmed to all the Apostles by Christ in behalf of the whole Church after his resurrection in other words Jesus breathed on the Disciples and said Receive ye the holy Ghost whosoever sins ye remit they are remitted and whose soever sins ye retain they are retained Which Commission though thus twice joyntly given to all the Apostles alike by Christ yet because he first granted this commission to them directing his speech personally to Peter Mat 16. 18 19. I say unto thee thou art Peter c. And I WILL not now do give unto thee the keyes of the kingdom of heaven and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven Popes and Popish writers thence conclude St. Peters and others Universal Supremacy over the whole Church and all other Apostles and Bishops whatsoever as well as Kings and Emperors I answer That these Commissions if rightly examined do neither give St. Peter nor his pretended Successors nor any Prelates or Ecclesiastical persons such an inherent Supream Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction distinct from the Regal and Temporal and incommunicable to Lay persons as is pretended For 1. Every particular person though a Lay man or private Christian hath an absolute power yea special command from Christ himself to pardon forgive and remit sins and offences committed against himself as this clause in the Lords Prayer Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespasse against us These precepts When ye pray standing forgive for if ye forgive their Trespasses your heavenly Father will also forgive you but if ye forgive not men their trespasses neither will your heavenly Father forgive you your trespasses Forgive and you shall be forgiven Forgive one another as God for Christs sake hath forgiven you with other Scriptures demonstrate And as they may thus pardon loose and forgive so they may likewise binde or retain sinnes and trespasses against them when the parties are obstinate and impenitent This is evident by Luke 17. 3 4. If thy brother trespass against thee rebuke him and if he repent forgive him And if he trespasse against thee seven times a day and seven times in a day return unto thee saying I repent thou shalt forgive him but not without repentance Compared with 2 Thess 3. 14 15. Rom 16. 17 18. 1 Cor 5. 11 12 13 and Mat 18. 15 16 17. Moreover if thy brother trespasse against thee go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone if he shall hear thee thou hast gained thy brother But if he will not hear thee then take with thee one or two more that in the mouth of two or three Witnesses every word may be established And if he shall neglect to hear them tell it unto the Church and if he shall neglect to hear the Church let him be unto thee mark it not them as an heathen man and a publican Verily I say unto you whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatsoever ye shall loose in earth shall be loosed in heaven Therefore the self-same Commission Authority of binding and loosing upon earth is given to every private person in this Original Text by Christ as was given to Peter Mat 16. 18 19. and to all the Apostles John 20. 22 23. Hence St. Augustin resolves Cum caepisti habere fratrem tuum tanquam Publicanum Ligis illum in terra cum autem corrigeris concordaveris cum fratre tuo solvisti illum in terra Cum solveris in terra solutus erit in coelo Theophylact is yet more punctual Si tu offensum eum habes eum qui te affecit injuria sicut Publicanum Gentilem erit ille et in coelo talis Si autem solveris eum hoc est si illi condonaveris erit illi et in coelo condonatum Non enim solum quae solvunt Sacerdotes sunt soluta sed quae cunque nos et iniuria assecti vel ligamus vel solvimus et ipsa erum ligata et soluta And if every private person may thus bind and loose as well as Priests as these two Fathers together with Bishop Jewel and others resolve then much more may Kings and Supream temporal Magistrates do it in their Courts and Consistories Our Venerable Beda Peter Lombard Scotus with other Popish School-men yea their Canon Law and Canonists resolve That in the absence or want of a Priest a man may confesse his sins to his coequal or neighbout yea open his daily and lesser sins to his neighbor where there is a Priest and receive absolution from him though a Layman as well as from a Priest And that they may do so even by divine Institution is most fully demonstrated by Jam 5. 16. written to the twelve Tribes scattered abroad who are thus admonished Confesse your faults one to another not to a Pope Bishop Priest and pray for one another that ye may be healed from which Text not only many Antients but most Orthodox Protestant Divines resolve That no privat christian in point of conscience is obliged to confess his sins to a Priest any more then to another private Christian and Laymen no more obliged to confesse their sins to Priests then Priests are to confesse their sins to Laymen and that this text makes the duty of confessing their sins faults one to another reciprocal being coupled with mutual praying for one another the Bishop Priest being bound to pray for the people as well as the people for the Bishop or Priest therefore to confesse unto them as far forth as they are to confesse to him 2ly I answer That the power of binding and loosing retaining and remitting publike or scandalous sinnes is not given to Peter the Apostles Popes Bishops Priests or Ecclesiastical persons as an inherent priviledge and jurisdiction peculiar to them alone but to the whole Church and congregation to whom the right and execution thereof principally appertains This is infallibly

vel solvere se noxios arbitrentur cum apud Deum non sententia Sacerdotum sed reorum vita ponderatur Alligat solvit Episcopus vel Presbyter eos qui insontes sunt vel noxii sed pro officio suo cum peccatorum audierit varietates scit qui ligandus sit qui solvendus c That is as Peter Lombard interprets it Dominus tribuit S●cerditibus potestatem Ligandi Solvendi id est ostendendi hominibus Ligatos Solvendos in and by the preaching of the Gospel to them according to Christs commission He that repenteth believeth and is baptized shall be saved here is the loosing and remitting He that repenteth not nor believeth shall be damned and the wrath of God abideth on him here is the binding and retaining by the keyes of the kingdom of heaven to wit the Gospel which shuts and opens heaven gates admits or excludes inherits or disinherits them of it and is the savor of life unto life to those who believe it but the savor of death unto death to those who believe it not as is evident by Mar 16. 16. Lu 13. 3. 5. John 3. 38. c 12. 48. Rom 2. 1 to 16. 1 Cor 6. 9 10 11. 2 Cor 2. 14 15 16. c 4. 3 4. Gal 5 19 20 21. Ephes 5. 5 6. Rev 21. 8 17. c. 22. 14 15. Acts 3. 26. c 16. 30 31. 2 Cor 10. 4 5 6. Which texts do open heaven gates to all repending and believing but shut them against all unrelenting unbelieving sinners This Origen Tertullian Hierom Chrysostome Augustine and other Fathers Bishop Jewel Dr. Reynolds Bishop Vsher and most Protestant Divines prove to be the Keyes of heaven and the proper pardoning binding loosing retaining of sins in the premised commission which though peculiar to Apostles Bishops Priests and Ministers of the Gospel in respect of their publike Ministry in preaching the word and pressing the promises and threatnings of the Gospel yet it belongs to every Christian Magistrate and private Christian too in their orb who may in their respective places apply the promises of the Gospel to the consolation and absolution of private penitent Christians their own families friends neighbors and denounce the wrath and judgement of God against impenitent persons and Malefactors as Judges usually do as there is ocasion 4ly This power of binding retaining loosing and remitting sinnes with the keys of the kingdom of heaven whereby this is done were equally given to all the Apostles as farre forth as to Peter Christs words I will give to thee the keyes of the Kingdom of heaven c. being in the future not present tense giving him no actual possession of the keys kingdom of heaven til after Christs ascension then but joyntly with the rest of the Apostles John 20. 21 22 23. Yea every ordinary Minister Presbyter Priest hath as large a divine power in the Keyes as the Pope himself or the greatest Patriarch Archbishop Bishop in the world and may as absolutely fully bind loose absolve retain mens sinnes as they their Commissions being all one and the same and their power herein not judicial but meerly ministerial declaratory not definitive the absolute judicial power of shutting and opening heaven pardoning remitting retaining sins and absolving condemning sinners being peculiar to God and Christ alone as Isay 22. 22. Rev. 3. 7. Mat. 9. 5 6. Luc. 7. 48 49. John 2. 13. Rom 2. 17. resolve Origen St. Ambrose Chrysostom Augustine with others before cited Beda yea Peter Lombard Richardus De Sancto Victore confesse and Bishop Jewel Dr. Rainolds Dr. Field Bishop Usher Dr. Ames and all other Protestant Divines prove at large in their Treatises of Confession Absolution Power of the Keyes and against the Popes Supremacy Whence Alphonso de Castro concludes though a great champion for the Pope Quando absolvit simplex Sacerdos tantum adsolvit de Culpa sicut Papa Therefore if these Texts give any Supream Ecclesiastical Authority over Kings and the whole Church to St. Peter or the Pope they give the very same to every Priest Curate whatsoever and so we shall have as many Popes yea Vicars generals and Viceroyes of Christ over the Church all Christian Kings Emperors and their kingdoms as there are Priests 5ly I have long admired how any Pope or Prelate from this borrowed Metaphor of the Keyes of the Kingdom of heaven given to Peter or others can pretend to such a transcendent Soveraign Ecclesiastical Temporal Jurisdiction too as some of them claim from thence Since I never read in any Text Story That Keyes were an Emblem of Supream Iurisdiction but the Sword or Scepter only which belongs not unto Apostles Popes Prelates Priests but Kings alone And experience informs us that Porters who keep the keyes and open shut the gates of Kings Popes Bishops Noblemens Pallaces Cities Colledges Castles Courts and other publike or private Baylifs Stewards Butlers Grooms who keep the keyes of their Lords Masters Barns Butteries Sellers Stables are persons of inferiour quality void of any Supream Temporal or Ecclesiastical Authority in or over their fellow Servants much lesse over their Lords Masters to shut them out or let them in at their pleasures Therefore every of these Porters Key-keepers yea every parish Clerk who keeps the keyes of the Church Cathedral or of the Popes own pallace at Rome may as justly challenge a Supream Temporal and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction over their Kings Lords Popes Bishops Parish-Priests Parishioners Churches themselves as the Pope Priests and Prelates do from St. Peters keyes because they keep the keyes and open the doors to let them in and out of their Pallaces Churches Houses yea the Door-keepers and Turn-keyes of both Houses of Parliament may as well argue they are above the Houses Members themselves in power and jurisdiction upon the same Account as Popes above the Church Kings 6ly Popes and their flatterers to appropriate those Keyes to St. Peter and the Romish Hierarchy which Christ himself never knew nor gave them have made up a New Bundle of Keyes in their own forge which will never shut nor open the gates of heaven As first the Key of Power 2ly Of Iurisdiction 3ly Of Order 4ly Of Discretion 5ly The Keyes most principall 6ly The Keyes lesse principall 7ly The Keys of Knowledge Which though chief Bonaventura confesseth most of their Ordinary Masse Priests want being so ignorant that they are utterly voyd of all true saving knowledge of the sacred Scriptures Most of these Keyes they appropriate to the Pope originally and from him derivatively to Bishops But since they have not in all their New Bunch of Keyes The Key of Faith and knowledge of the word of God which only opens heavens gate and since the gate of heaven is very strait and but one and so needs not such a multiplicity of Keyes or pick-locks to open it