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A58699	The religion established by law, asserted to conduce most to the true interest of prince and subject as it was delivered in a charge, at the general quarter sessions of the peace, held at the borough of Newark, for the county of Nottingham, by adjournment for taking the oaths of Supremacy, &c., according to the late act of Parliament July 21th 1673 / by Peniston Whalley Esq.	Whalley, Penistone.	1674 (1674)	Wing S1535; ESTC R183102	23,556	38

Ecclesiasticam jurisdictionem habuisse consequitur It is agreed of all hands that no man can appropriate any Church with cure of souls because it is wholly an Ecclesiastical affair and to be appropriated to an Ecclesiastical person except one that hath Ecclesiastical jurisdiction but William the first King of England did do it from whence it must follow that he had jurisdiction Ecclesiastical Now if the Kings of England had Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction as it appears they had by the exercising of it notwithstanding the decree of a little Council or Conventicle to the contrary which decreed that no spiritual person should enter into any Church by any secular person Con. Mant. where was the Popes Almighty Power almost that he pretended to about that time in every thing By the ancient Laws of the Church of Rome the issue born before marriage is as lawful inheritable marriage following as otherways yet that was never allowed in England for all the Popes power as may appear by the Statute of Merton 20 H. 3. when the Bishops instanted the Lords that they would assent that the Custome of England should conform to that of Rome in that particular received this for answer Nolumus Leges Angliae mutare Cooke 5. Rep. we will not change the Laws of England By this may be seen what a small influence the Popes had even at that time upon our Parliament notwithstanding the assistance of the Bishops and mitred Abbots Yet afterwards P. Inno. 4. occasionally with a great deal of Magisterial Indignation being very angry that Grosted Bishop of Lincoln refused a Nephew or nearer Kinsman Fox p. 407. for a Prebend of that Church said that the King of England was his Vassal Mancipium his Page his Slave reflecting I suppose upon that submission that King John as the Emperour Frederick said in his Letter to Henry the third his son more like a woman than a man made to Pandolphus the Legate yet Edward the first that Heroick Grandchild of that unfortunate Prince was of another sort of mettal for in his Reign a Subject brought a Bull of Excommunication against another Subject of this Realm and published it to the Lord Treasurer of England and this was adjudged Treason by the Ancient Common Law of England against the King his Crown and Dignity for which the offender should have been drawn and hang'd but at the great instance of the Chancellor and the Treasurer he was only abjur'd the Realm for ever Certain Messengers had from the Pope serv'd Process upon an Officer of Chancery then held at York Vid. le Regist f. 224. to command him by those Bulls to appear at Rome for this contempt the party that served the Process was committed to York Castle and at length the Kings Majesty by the entreaty of divers great men of the Realm was content upon taking bond that he should answer the said contempt ad proximum Parliamentum nostrum ubicunque illud summoneri contigerit at our next Parliament where ever it happens to be assembled or summoned to deliver him out of Prison Edward the first presented his Clerk to a Benefice within the Province of York who was refused by the Arch-Bishop for that the Pope by way of Provision had conferred it upon another the King thereupon brought a Quare non admisit the Bishop pleaded that the Bishop of Rome had long time before provided to the said Church as one having supream authority in the Case and that he durst not nor had power to put him out who by the Popes Bull was in possession For which high contempt against the King his Crown and Dignity in refusing to execute his Soveraigns command fearing to do it against the Provision by judgment of the Common Law the Lands of his whole Bishoprick were seized into the Kings hands and lost during life So all these Presidents considered it is no wonder if that bold Briton who publish't the Excommunication against Queen Elizabeth in Pius Quintus his time met with the sinister accident of a Halter For if it be treason in a Subject to do so against a Subject as it was adjudged in Edward the first his time a fortiori as my Lord Cooke says it is treason for a Subject to do so against his Soveraign It may very well be asked now considering these high Practices and some strict Laws to abate the power of the See of Rome how the Pope could possibly have so considerable an Interest as we know or at least believe he had in Henry the eighth's time The Statute of Provisors of Benefices of 27 Ed. 3. gives you a reason to that time in these words That though the Statute of Ed. 1.25 * Which Statute is not in the printed Statutes either by negligence or probably because it was made at Carlile the Roll was not transmitted to London stands good yet by sufferance and negligence it hath been attempted the contrary The Pope afterwards got ground by the remiss latter end of Edward the third's Reign and the whole one of Richard the second who though he made the strict Law of premunire yet it did much abate of the strictness of the Common Law before spoken of which unhappy Prince was deposed and murthered by his Cosen and Vassal Henry of Lancaster who though the murthered Prince left neither Children nor Friends yet by reason that the murtherer was not next Heir at Law he was a little uneasie all his Reign so that he was forced to comply by reason of the badness of his title contrary to the humor of his great Father with the ill designs of the Roman Clergy who of all are the best at soldering crackt titles and make bloody Laws against the Lollards under the notion of Heretiques H. 42. c. 15. yet Henry his son who had no fault but his title let them know other I will not say better things by suppressing the Priory Aliens which was all that was done to shew the Courage of the English Kings in that particular till H. 8. who was if you peruse the Chronicles the first that had leasure to question his Holinesses encroachments upon this Monarchy Neither was the Supremacy much more ancient abroad Ros Hist W. Chronolog for the first that had any thing like it was Boniface the third to whom Phocas about 606 granted that he should be the head of all Churches 't was that Phocas that murther'd his Lord and Master Mauritius and to say the truth the Popes have arrived to that height they now pretend to by the wickedness of Usurpers who having no title themselves made little regard what they gave to others to countenance their own Rapine yet this grant was not so authentique as to make the succeeding Popes stand upon their own legs for the first downright opposer of the Emperour was Constantine the first who opposed Phillipicus about Images and not only so but for the greater affront Stilling Fanat

be hard for a Rational unbyast man to judge which is the safest Religion that is which most advances a peaceable conversation amongst men The Quaker hath a plausible pretence by his Principles of the unlawfulness either of Swearing or Fighting and his practice accordingly which if so as he may very well be suspected to have none considering their being still acted by a light within them are absolutely inconsistent with Government and consequently with peace which will be easily granted when it is considered that the first moment a man turns Quaker the King loses a Subject as to the being useful to him and every man a Neighbour for he that will not fight in an honourable and just War of which no private person is judge is as dead to his Prince And likewise he that will not assert truth by oath thereto lawfully called in vindication of his Neighbours Interest there being no other way to do it by the Constitution of the Law is worse to him As for their pretensions to perfection contrary to Scripture and their own impure practice I shall leave to the Divines to consider of and conclude that Quakers are like salt that hath lost its savour Mar. 5.13 and thenceforth good for nothing but to be cast out and to be trodden under foot of men For it is not at all consistent with the prudence of Princes to connive at much less to tolerate an opinion that renders the abettors useless if not worse to all the ends of Government The Independent now pretends to a kind of Call or Election into the Pastoral Office as they tearm it by a Company of people who say they are Saints and that 's all the reason we have to believe it I should wonder how it can come into any mans head to accept of an Office according to their own opinion sacred too upon such a title but that we see ambitious men will accept of Power upon any terms it being a principle in Law Nemo potest plus juris in alium transferre quam ipse habet None can transfer or give a greater right then he hath And I think all sober men will grant that the people viz. Tom Dick and Cis originally have no such power as to confer Holy Orders Electo then may be a fitter name then Pastor for those Boanergeses I have heard of a Garrison that in a high mutiny turn'd out the Officers and chose out of the Commonalty others into their rooms by the name of Electoes to supply their places in martial conduct who acted their parts stubbornly enough against their General as fearing to return to a private condition if not worse So our pretended Saints have thrown off their Spiritual Governors and Directors and have done worse then the Idolatrous Israelites Exod. 32.23 for they so far observed the Decency of Order as to desire the High-Priest to make them Gods which should go before them But ours have of themselves chose their Gods or Electoes who are not likely to return in haste to the Communion of the Church and consequently to the condition of Private men being that they exercise as absolute an Episcopal and Despotical power over the Estates and Consciences of their respective Congregations or Troops of Bandetti as ever any Pope pretended to in the days of the greatest Ignorance and Bigotery it being their design I suppose to take the Kingdom from men and to give it to Jesus Christ and then the Saints and the secret ones shall work destruction J. Owen p. 22.165 T. Goodw. P. Nye Skid Symson W. Bridge Jer. Burrows Apol to the Parliament as the same Author elegantly hath it Now what may be the end of that is not hard to say when a Club of them have jointly declared This Principle we carried along with us not to make our present judgment and practice a binding Law for the future Now if these be not as slippery Chapmen by vertue of this as either the Papists with their Fides non est servanda cum Haereticis Faith is not to be kept with Heretiques or the Quaker with his Light within I am much mistaken Now that something has been said of their Principles 't is fit you should know likewise of their Practices which have been such as have not at all shamed their Principles For all our late Civil War and Bloodshed with the never to be too much deplored Fate of the best of Kings then or many ages before living was the result of their most holy Faith and all justified by following Divine Providence Caryll and not only so but they persisted in their Rebellion to the last too as is evident to all knowing men of that time nay they were so generally involved in it that Capua it self was comparatively loyal Sir W. R. Hist World Pun. War 2. For there were upon a strict scrutiny two found not guilty of Rebellion but to these Gentlemen the saying of the Psalmist may be applied There is none that doth good no not one And none that is loyal can take the application of that Scripture amiss that considers that in the year 1648 a Book was printed and licensed by the then Authority with this Title Several Speeches delivered at a Conference concerning power of Parliament to proceed against their King for mis-government which is word for word taken out of Parsons the Jesuites book as the learned Dr. Stillingfleet hath observed which Book was written under the name of Doleman as I take it to invalidate the Scotch succession and consequently our Kings Title to the Crown of England so harmoniously did the Independent and Jesuite agree against the common enemy Herode and Pilate were not so unanimous in crucifying the Lord of Glory as these were and probably will be again upon occasion in quenching the light of Israel And yet a modern Author Rehear Trans that takes himself for no small fool has the confidence to say that the Cause meaning the Rebellion 1642. was too good to be fought for But it may be presumed by what over acts we see of their Allegiance that had they the same opportunity again they would not have so Venerable an opinion of it It will not now be difficult from what has been said to conclude that Independent Principles and Practices notwithstanding the unintelligible Jargon that their Sermons and other printed discourses are full of are far from making any thing towards a peaceable conversation amongst men and so to be lookt on accordingly Now what severity soever is shewed them must come far short because the Laws are not strict enough for 't of what they have shewed to others For it passed for Orthodox amongst them Th. Case That God would have Judges to shew no mercy when the quarrel was against Religion The Presbyterians pretend to a constant succession of Holy Orders or Ordination by imposition of hands from the Apostles time as well as we but by the Medium of Presbyters as