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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91248	Jus regum. Or, a vindication of the regall povver: against all spirituall authority exercised under any form of ecclesiasticall government. In a brief discourse occasioned by the observation of some passages in the Archbishop of Canterburies last speech. Published by authority.	Parker, Henry, 1604-1652.; Hunton, Philip, 1604?-1682,	1645 (1645)	Wing P404; Thomason E284_24; ESTC R200064	30,326	40

for all that can onely be introduced by force and compulsion in the Service of God wherefore the severall ends of Magistracy and of the Ministry are different but not contrary but the severall meanes by which they attaine their ends are not onely different but contrary and those meanes which are effectuall to the one are not only ineffectuall but uselesse to the other for the Magistrate can never attaine that end to which his Authority conduceth by no perswation nor information onely nor can the Minister subdue the will nor informe the understanding by any Authority from or in himselfe and both of them have their Commission immediately from God and each of them are subject to the other without any subordination of offices from the one to the other for the Magistrate is no lesse subject to the operation of the word from the mouth of the Minister then any other man whatsoever and the Minister againe is as much subject to the Authority of the Magistrate as any other Subject whatsoever and therefore though there be no subordination of offices yet is there of Persons the Person of the Minister remaining a Subject but not the function of the Ministry but there needes not two Tribunalls nor Independent Courts be erected to provide for their severall ends and dutyes required of them for the Minister can never attaine the end of his labours by no Judiciall processe nor legall proceedings whatsoever and therefore all Judiciall courts are needelesse and uselesse to his ends yet are they not so to himselfe having other ends then what are required of him for the discharge of his duty and function but it is essentiall to the Magistrate to have a tribunall and judiciall Courts for the attaining of his ends and duties required of him without which he can never discharge his dutie as he ought but whensoever the like Tribunall is erected in the Church as is necessary in the State they must be Independent one of another in regard the severall offices governing Church and State are so but all that is to be got by Independant Tribunalls is either dissention and discord which is the usuall fruite that devision of Authority beareth or by compliance to provide for one anothers Interests or particular ends differing from their publick dutyes with the manifest losse of true religion on both sides which many times drawes downe the Judgment of God upon one or both as being a third person no lesse interressed in Justice and Honour then either and many times the Justice of God is most greeveous when least apprehended as suffering men to wallow in their sins to dye in security nor is it a small Judgment to leave men to the necessary effects which division of Authority produceth for the end of all government is the preservation of humane society the meanes of doing whereof is by union and unity and Authority is the effectuall meanes of producing and propagating unity and therefore whensoever Authority is divided Vnitie may alwaies and sometimes must admit of division which destroyes it for unity and division are destructive one of another and when two Tribunalls are erected for the determining of severall and different causes and crimes both armed with a forcible Authority weilding swords of a different nature agreable to their different constitutions and without any dependency and subordination the one to the other what lasting concord and agreement can there be beweene these two they that mannage them must be juster then men are knowne to be or advantages will be taken when given by the one as no sublunary substances which are subject to change can remaine long in an equall ballance for subjecting the other and therefore it was when the Christian world did by a generall consent beleeve that the Church having a sword though invisible for the cutting off of all schismaticall and refractory Members no lesse really and truly then the State hath a visible materiall sword which for the preservation of union and unity was esteemed necessary to be put into the hands of one and therefore willingly submitted their necks under the Imaginary stroake thereof from the sentence of Popes or Bishops of Rome How easie was it for them by reason therof to subject all Christian Princes and Magistrates unto a dependency and subordination unto them and their Authority and how did they trouble the Christian world by transferring of rights and stirring up of rebellion whensoever any of those Princes did oppose them or contradict their wills by a supposed Intrenching upon their pretended Prerogatives though usurped but when the Popes right began to be questioned by some whereby his reputation did decline even amongst those who adhearing still to the doctrine of the Church of Rome as to that in which they had beene educated and bred yet did not beleeve his censures to be so dreadfull as before they apprehended them to be but the edge of his sword being thereby blunted and the edge of the temporall sword being not onely visible but sharpe the advantage returned to Princes whereby those Princes who continued in union with the Church of Rome professing subjection and obedience to the spirituall Authority thereof doe notwithstanding now reduce that power and Authority to which they professe subjection unto a subordination of them and their Authority to be directed by them which will be of no longer permanency then that Church can insnare the world againe to an apprehension and beleife of the reality of their power to beget which they continually indeavour and aspire and have no small hopes from the differences and divisions amongst Protestants for the increasing and fomenting whereof it is not to be imagined that they are idle but whatsoever their hopes and practises are their greatest strength remaineth in this that it is generally beleeved that the Church hath a spirituall Authority for the cutting off of all schismaticall Members and that this Authority is to be preserved in some one forme or other without any derivation thereof from any humane power for then it cleerely and undoubtedly followeth that whosoever by such principles of reason taken from the end of government doth incline to Monarchy and that this spirituall Authority can best be preserved by the Supremacy of one man then the Bishops of Rome having had for a long time and for a long succession and still having the possession besides other advantages of greatnesse and power which begetteth strength and reputation must and will be acknowledged by all those to be the onely spirituall Monarch in the Church armed with spirituall Authority and whosoever out of prejudice against the Church of Rome taken against her by reason of either her errours or abuses or both doth seperate themselves from the Communion of that Church and by consequence onely free themselves from her subjection but doe notwithstand adheare to and retaine the grounds of those errours and abuses by acknowledging and beleeving that the same spirituall Authority which was presupposed to have beene

to all men how far the progresse to Popery was advanced when it durst appear nothing at all disguised but under a thin vail of some few deceitfull words in a Pontificall robe of absolute Authority constituting and ordaining and to shew how absolute and Independent the Protestant Church of England was grown the words We straitly command all Parsons Vicars and Curates and we injoyn all Archbishops and Bishops and We decree and ordain are used all along in the severall Articles published which are all words of absolute Authority and command and the penalties inforcing obedience to all those absolute commands are either suspension and deprivation to the Clergy or the dreadfull censures of Excommunication and casting into hell to all others For no lesse punishment doth the sentence of Excommunication imply because the party excommunicate being cast out of all communion with the Church is thereby presupposed to be deprived of all the benefits that he may hope for by vertue of Christs death and mediation so long as he remains in the state of excommunication which is a great terror to all them that do not rightly understand the nature of Excommunication and what the authority of Church-men is which is ever the much greater part of those who are members of any Church besides the great number of others which be in all Churches that sleight the censure of Excommunication as being a censure from which they feel no present smart without which it hath no operation with them for the inforcing of whom especially it was by these Cannons injoyned that every Bishop shall once every yeer send into His Majesties high Court of Chancery a Significavit of all such who have stood excommunicated beyond the time limited by the Law and shall desire that the Writ De Excommunicato capiendo might be at once sent out against them all Ex Officio And for the better execution of their Decrees They did most humbly beseech his most sacred Majestie that the Officers of the high Court of Chancery whom it shall concern may be commanded to send out the aforesaid Writ from time to time as is desired and that the like command also may be laid upon the Sheriffes and their Deputies for the due and faithfull execution of the said Writs as often as they shall be brought unto them Which whensoever they should obtain would put the Supremacy of all Authority into the hands of some of the Clergy by necessitating the smarting stroke of the Magistrates Sword to follow of course upon notification of theirs whereby all Magistracie and Law should be but executioners of their sentence from which there was no appeal but by submission deserving absolution which was ordained by the authority of the foresaid Synod not to be given untill the party to be absolved should come as a penitent humbling himself upon his knees and first take an Oath De parendo Juri stando mandatis Ecclesiae And for a perpetuall subjecting of all men into a vassalage and subjection to the Authority of Bishops and others of the Clergy it was there decreed That all Clergy men and all others who should take any degree of learning in any of the Vniversities and all that should be licensed to practise Physick all Registers Actuaryes and Proctors all Schoolmasters and all others that should come to be incorporated in any of the Vniversities here having taken a degree in any forraigne Vniversitie should take an Oath in a prescribed and set form of words before they should be admitted to take their degrees Never to give their consent to alter the government of this Church by Archbishops Bishops Deans and Archdeacons By which means an equall allegiance should have been payed to them as to the King and his Successors for ever And all this was presented to the blinded world and abused King as a remedy to secure men against any suspicion of revolt to Popery which was nothing else but a publick setting up of Popery though not yet of the Popes supremacy which was to follow and imploying the help and assistance of the Magistrates Sword and the force and power of the Laws of the Land to that very use and end For Popery consisteth neither in this or that superstition nor Idolatry nor in this or that erroneous Doctrine nor in all-together principally and chiefly but in the absolutenesse of spirituall authority commanding Implicite obedience to whatsoever Doctrine or Superstition shall be invented by man as necessary and essentiall to the true worship of God under the threatned pain and penalty of Excommunication and Interdiction and promising the kingdome of heaven to whomsoever it pleaseth as a gift or reward within the power of man and the assumption of which so divine and incompetent a power to any man or mankind united together and the deriving thereof from one solely to others as inherent in the person or function of one onely doth necessarily inferre and presuppose the gift of Infallibility in him who doth so assume it that he may become an unappealable Judge which doth exalt him in the sight and esteeme of those men who do beleeve in him and willingly submit unto him to the nature and dignity of the incommunicable prerogative of God and makes him undeniably the revealed Antichrist to others by usurping and possessing the throne of Christ upon earth for whom onely such dominion and authority is reserved in heaven And the root of Popery or Antichristianity for so it may be termed as tending continually thither by the Doctrine which it teacheth and the Authority which it usurpeth lieth in this very principle that a power of excommunicating and absolving or sending into heaven or hell is assumed by some as depending upon the purpose and will of man according to the nature of Authority and consented to and beleeved by others and the danger to temporall Authority lieth in the universality and generality of the beleef and assent and the difference between the incontrolable supremacy of the Pope and the exalted Prelacy of Bishops pretending to the same Authority is but a difference of degrees but not of kinds For for the setling of this Authority into the supremacy of any one there is a necessity of ingrossing it into the hands of some few first and Popes had never mounted to their omnipotent throne of Supremacy if a superiority of some of the Clergy invested with spirituall authority over others had not been first assented unto For the same rule necessity and end requireth the supremacy of one Bishop over all other Bishops that requireth the superiority of any Clergy man into the dignity of a Bishop over many others of the Clergy and the same danger of spirituall error indangering the soul lyeth upon all that are subject to this spirituall authority whether it be derived from the supremacy of one or a superiority onely of others or from the Democracy of all the Clergy assembled together or from the Independencie of everyone within their severall