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A80756	The royal prerogative vindicated in the converted recusant convinced by Scripture, reasons, fathers, and councils, that the oath of abjuration (compared with those of allegiance, and supremacy) containeth nothing, but what may be lawfully taken by every pious Christian, and loyal subject; and that the known doctrine, and discipline of the Church of England, in opposition to Popery on the one hand, and all sects, and schisms on the other, is the safest way to peace and loyalty here, and salvation hereafter. To which is annexed The King's supremacy in all causes, ecclesiastical, and civil, asserted in a sermon preached at the assises at Monmouth before Sir Robert Hide, one of his Majestie's judges, March 30. 1661. / By John Cragge, M.A.	Cragge, John, M.A.	1661 (1661)	Wing C6790; Wing C6786; Thomason E2261_1; Thomason E2261_2; ESTC R210148	173,676	266

are many more besides them that hold this negative to wit The Pope by virtue of his office hath not any power or authority to depose Princes or to dispose of their crowns or lives for any cause crime end or good whatsoever So that I think I may safely conclude That which is contrary to Scripture antient Fathers the Annals and Gests of our own Nation hath been attended with signal judgments (n) Qui Summi Pontificis omne de re qualibet judicium temerè ac sine delectu defendunt eos sedis Apostolicae authoritatem labefactare non sovere non firmare Cand. lib. 5. Quaest 5. and is disclaimed by moderate Papals themselves ought to be abjured But such is the Popish pretended power to depose the chief Magistrate c. Therefore it ought to be abjured But we shall have this more fully discussed in the next Article which is The Eighth Article I do sincerely testifie and declare That the Pope hath not any authority to discharge any of the people of these Nations from their obedience to the chief Magistrate or to give licence or leave to any of the said people to bear Arms raise Tumults or to offer any violence or hurt to the persons of the said chief Magistrates or to the state or government of these Nations or to any of the people thereof Minist BY reason of cruel Positions and practises of Jesuits in the year one thousand five hundred eighty two it was made high Treason (a) Si non vis esse obnoxius Caesari noli habere qu● sunt mundi si habes divitias obnoxius es Caesari Ambros in Lucam lib. 9. cap. 20. to disswade any Subject from (b) Dices Quid mihi Regi quid tibi ergo possessioni per jura Regum possessiones possidentur August in Johan Allegiance to their Prince and from the Religion that was established in England This Article intends the Abjuration of that which was then enacted as treasonable Gen. What difference is there betwixt this Article and the former it is not obvious to me easily to distinguish between them Minist They are principally differenced in this that the former Article excluded the Pope's authority to excite any forein power to annoy depose the chief Magistrate of these Nations or to dispose of his Territories This disclaims the Pope's power to arm Subjects against their Sovereign or being disobliged by him from their obedience to move commotions seditions or rebellions Gent. Doth the Pope arrogate by his pleni-potentiary power to stir up any forein Prince against another and collate their Dominions upon them Minist Yes (c) Papa Johannes nonus conspiratione facta cum Gallorum Regibus à Germanis Imperii Majestatem studebat transferre in Carolum Calvum deinde in Ludovicum Balbum ejus filium sed Imperium per vim retinuerunt Germani Carion Chronic. pag. 179. Pope John the Ninth atempted though in vain to translate the Romane Empire from the Germans to the French and first collated the Diadem upon Carolus Calvus and afterwards upon Ludovicus Balbus his Son Kings of France He encouraged at the last (d) Sicut Zacharias transtulit imperium á Graecis ad Teutonicos ita nos possumus illud transferre ab Alemannis ad Graecos Carion Chronic. pag. 179. Lewis Son to the French King to raise arms against John King of England In the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's Reign Paul the Fourth being Pope Sebastianus Martignius could hardly be perswaded from entring England with a thousand foot and some horse afterwards he stirred up the Duke D'Alva against her and promised if need were to go himself in person against England and engage the goods of the Apostolick See It were too tedious to relate the Stories of the Scottish Queen the Duke of Norfolk Stucklie James Boncompagno Bastard-son to Gregory the Thirteenth Squire Babington Parry Lopez Tyrone the intended Invasion in Eighty eight by Pererius Guzmannus Duke of Medina the Gun-powder-Treason to invade or embroil this Nation as Bishop Carlton (e) Thankful Remembrance of God's Mercies by G. Carleton Bishop of Chichester hath faithfully discovered at large to whose Book I refer you Gent. I perceive by these Histories (f) Ecce in potestate nostra est ut demus illud cut volumus propterea constituti sumus à Deo super Gentes regna ut destruamus evellamus aedificemus plantemus Dictum Adriani Frederico Aventinus in Adriano iv 1154. Popes have been Incendiaries to stir up one Prince against another for advantage of their Romane Jurisdiction have they been as busy to unrivet the obediential tye of people to the chief Magistrate Minist Yes you cannot but have heard of their pragmaticalness also herein that Cornelius Agrippa one of your own saith (g) Cornelius Agrippa De vanitate Scientiarum cap 6. ex Camatensi Legati Romanorum Pontificum sic debacchantur in Provinciis ac si ad flagellandam Ecclesiam Satan egressus sit a facie Domini The Pope's Legates keep such Revels and Rackets in Kingdoms and Countries as if Satan were sent abroad from the face of the Lord to scourge the Church Witness that (h) Ipsam pratenso regni jure nec non omni quocunque dominio dignitate privilegióque privatam praecipimus interdicimus universis singulis Proceribus subditis populis nè illi ejusque monitis mandatis legibus audeant obedire qui secùs egerint eos simili Anathematis sententia innodamus Bulla Pii Quinti Bull of Pius Quintus fastened by that Ardelio Felton upon the Bishop of London's Palace-Gate wherein he makes it known that he had deprived Queen Elizabeth from the right she pretended to have in her Kingdoms and also from all and every her authority dignity and privilege charging and forbidding all and singular Nobles Subjects and people that they adventure not to obey her her Monitions Commands or Laws upon pain of his Grand Anathema or Curse Gent. They pretend great reason for this for (i) In Concilio Lateranen si sub Leone Decimo Sess 10. Stephanus Bishop of Patrica in our Laterane Council said In Papa est omnis potestas supra omnes potestates tam eoeli quam terrae All power is in the Pope above all powers as well of heaven as of earth and in the Ceremoniary it is written (k) Ceremoniat lib. 1. cap. 2. Moderatio Imperii Romani pertinet ad Papam Dei vices gerentem in terris tanquam ad eum per quem Reges regnant The Government of the Romane Empire belongeth unto the Pope being God's Vicar on earth as unto him by whom Kings rule Johannes Andreas compares the Pope to the Sun and the Emperour to the Moon and by Mathematical Proportion makes him seventy seven times greater then the greatest Prince Abbot Panormitan saith (l) Plenitudo potestatis sisperat omnem legem positivam Panormitan Extravag De constitut cap. 1. His. fulness of power passeth all positive

Prince of Orange In the year 1587. Sir Aribespinaeus the French Embassadour would have perswaded one Stafford a young Gentleman to take away the Queen's life Pope Sixtus Quintus sent Cardinal Allen into Flanders and renewed the Bull of Pius Quintus and Gregory the Thirteenth to encourage the Spanish Armado to invade England in Eighty eight Doctour Lopez the Queen's Physician was hired by the Romish Rabbies for fifteen thousand Crowns to poyson Her Whalpool a Jesuit in confession imposed upon Squire to poyson the Queen's Saddle which he attempted accordingly Tyrone by the instigation of the King of Spain and the Pope moved the Irish Subjects to Rebellion Watson and Clark two Romish Priests perswaded Lord Cobham Lord Grey Sir Walter Rawleigh and others by surprising of King James in the first year of His Reign to force him to a Toleration in Religion Father Creswell a Lieger Jesuit in Spain Don Pedro Frankesa Secretary of State and the Duke of Lerma did all negotiate with the Pope and his Cardinals for the advancement of the Powder-plot and all upon this ground (h) Solus Papa est Dominus Temporalium ita ut possit auferre ab alio quod alias suum est tenet factum ejus licèt peccet sed Praelati caeteri Principes non sunt Domini sed Tutores Procurator●● Dispensatores Johannes de Parisiis De potestate Regia Papali cap. 5. That Princes being Hereticks or excommunicated may be deposed their Subjects disobliged and all the sinews of Government disjointed if the Pope send out his Bull to bellow against them Gent. I utterly detest and abhor these and all such Machinations as pernicious and destructive to Church and State Minist You will not onely detest them but the very Ground and Basis upon which they are founded if you considerately and conscientiously weigh the next Article which is The Ninth Article And I do further swear That I do from my heart abhor detest and abjure their damnable Doctrine and Position That Princes Rulers or Governours which be excommunicated or deprived by the Pope may by virtue of such Excommunication or Deprivation be killed murdered or deposed from their Rule or Government or any outrage or violence done unto them by the People that are under them or by any other whatsoever upon such pretense Gent. WHat differs this Article from the former what Acts or Objects in them are remarkably distinguished Minist The two former dismantled the Pope's power justly to arm either forein Princes or homebred Subjects against their Native Sovereign This abjures those Heretical Principles upon which this practical Doctrine is bottomed Gent. What are those Principles which sustain the Superstructure of all the Romish Hierarchy and Grandeur Minist Their name is Legion because they are many First That (a) Constituti sumus à Deo super gentes regna ut destruamus evellamus aedificemus plantemus Aventin lib. 6. pag. 636. The Pope is placed by God over Nations and Kingdoms that he may destroy and pluck up and build and plant Whence as Matthaeus Hieromonachus (b) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Matthaeus Hieromonachus hath it The Consistorial Conclave gave in Decree and Commandment to all Lords and the Senate of the Empire That the Bishop of Rome and the Successour of St. Peter chief of the Apostles have authority and power in all the world more then that of the Empire is and That he be honoured and worshipped more then the Emperour and That he be Head of the four Patriarchal Seats and That things appertaining to the right Faith be of him judged and determined Gent. Where do they lay the ground of the proof of this Doctrine whether upon Divine Oracles or Imperial Decrees and Constitutions Minist Some challenge it from Divine Revelation which you have heard refuted by Scripture Antients and Romists themselves The most father it upon the Donation of Constantine So expressly your own Champian Doctour Harding The first Christian Emperour Constantine the Great being fully instructed of the godly and learned Bishops of the time thought good by his Imperial Commandment and Decrees to confirm ratifie and for his own person to yield unto blessed Sylvester then Pope and to his Successours Bishops of Rome the same Authority and Superiority not onely over Bishops and Patriarchs but also Power and Honour higher and greater then that of Kings and Emperours Gent. What think you of this Donation or Charter of Constantine Johannes de Parisiis saith (c) Volunt aliqui quòd ratione hujus doni Papa est Imperator Dominus mundi quòd potest Reges instituere destituere sicut Imperator Johannes de Parisiis De potestate Papae Some are of opinion that by force and virtue thereof the Pope is the Emperour and Lord of the world and that hereby he hath power both to set up and also to put down Kings as an Emperour Minist Because my thoughts are not so authentick with you I will tell you what your own chief friends Schole-men Historians Canonists think Platina Cardinal Cusanus Marsilius Patavinus Laurentius Valla Antonius Florentinus Otho Frisingensis Hieronymus Paulus Catalinus Volaterranus Nauclerus Capnion Mallinaeus and others have discovered the forgery of it to the world as ashamed of such a fiction I will alledg one or two in place of many Cardinal Cusanus confesseth that (d) Donationem Constantini diligenter expendens reperi ex ipsamet scriptura manifesta argumenta confictionis faelsitatis Cusanus De concordantia Catholica lib. 3. cap. 2. while he advisedly weighed this Donation or Grant of Constantine whereby the Pope challengeth all his temporal power even in the penning thereof he found manifest tokens of false-hood and forgery And in Gratian the Pope's own Register it is found onely in the Palea and not in the Original allowed Text and in many old Books that have no Gloss it is not found and in the Gloss upon the same it is noted thus (e) Palea ista non legitur in Scholis in qua continetur Privilegiū quod Constantinus concessit Romanae Ecclesiae scilicet ut Primatum inter omnes Ecclesias obtineret Gratian Distinct 98. Glossa eodem loco This patch is not read in the Scholes wherein is contained the Priviledge that Constantine the Emperour granted to the Church of Rome that is that the said Church should have Sovereignty over all Churches Pope Pius the Second himself saith (f) Dicta Palea Constantinus falsa est Pius in Dialogo It is false which Felinus his Canonist further declares saying (g) Invehit contra miseros Legistas qui laborant in disputando an valuerit id quod nunquam fuit Felinus De Majorit Obedientia He inveighed earnestly against the poor Lawyers for that they take such pains to reason whether that thing may be good and available in Law which never was made And those Authours who own the truth of it

Oath of his fidelity which he hath engaged for the State of his Country and Nation or preservation of the safety of his Prince or shall attempt the death of his Sovereign or devest him of his Regal Power or by Tyrannical power usurp the Supremacy let him be Anathematized in the Sight of God the Father and Angels and be excommunicated from the Catholick Church which he hath prophaned Gent. What gather you from hence Minist I gather four things First That there hath been such an Oath exacted in former times Secondly That Oath very much resembles this of Abjuration Thirdly That that Oath was approved off and confirmed by several Councils Fourthly That the Violaters of that Oath were anathematized by the Ecclesiastical and otherwise severely handled by the Secular Power as the Stories of those times relate more at large Gent. But the Contents of that Oath was legal this illegal which ought not to be taken and being taken obliges not Our Canonists teach us that (k) Isiodore Can. 74. Votum non debet esse iniquitatis vinculum Vnjust Vows are not binding Minist That is the second thing I engaged to prove that The matter of this Oath is just and lawful which I will make good in every Circumstance if you will be pleased to recite it Gent. I have not the Copy of the Oath by me neither can I repeat it verbatim though my memory as I have too signal an occasion is retentive of the whole Substance of it Minist I shall repeat it for you having for mine own and others Satisfaction digested it into twelve Articles which in order run thus Article I. I A. B. do abjure and renounce the Pope 's Supremacy and authority over the Catholick Church in general and over my self in particular II. And I do believe the Church of Rome is not the true Church III. And that there is not any Transubstantiation in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper or in the Elements of Bread and Wine after Consecration thereof by any Person whatsoever IV. And I do also believe that there is not any Purgatory V. And that the Consecrated Hoast Crucifixes or Images ought not to be worshipped neither that any Worship is due to any of them VI. And I also believe that Salvation cannot be merited by Works VII And I do sincerely testifie and declare that the Pope neither of himself nor by any Authority of the Church or See of Rome or by any other means with any other hath Power or Authority to depose the chief Magistrate of these Nations or to dispose of any the Countries or Territories thereunto belonging or to authorize any foreign Prince or State to invade or annoy him or them VIII I do sincerely testifie and declare that the Pope hath not any authority to discharge any of the people of these Nations from their obedience to the chief Magistrate or to give licence or leave to any of the said people to bear Arms raise tumults or to offer any violence or hurt to the Persons of the said chief Magistrates or to the State or government of these Nations or to any of the people thereof IX And I do further swear that I do from my hear abhorr detest and abjure their damnable Doctrine and Position that Princes Rulers or Governours which be excommunicated or deprived by the Pope may by virtue of such excommunion or deprivation be killed murdered or deposed from their Rule or Government or any outrage or violence done unto them by the people that are under them or by any other whatsoever upon such pretense X. And I do further swear that I do believe that the Pope or Bishop of Rome hath no authority power or Jurisdiction whatsoever within England Scotland and Ireland or any or either of them or the Dominion or Territories belonging to them or any or either of them XI And all Doctrines in affirmation of the said Points I do abjure and renounce without equivocation mental reservation or secret Evasion whatsoever taking the words by me spoken according to the common and usual meaning of them XII And I do believe no power derived from the Pope or Church of Rome or any other person can absolve me from this my Oath and I do renounce all Pardons and Dispensations to the contrary SO HELP ME GOD. (l) Duo sunt in unoquoque Juramento praecip●è advertenda alterum materia sive res illa in quae juratur alterum forma sive modus jurandi Dr. Andrews There are two things especially considerable in this as in every Oath First The res or matter that is sworn or abjured Secondly The modus or manner of abjuration The former is comprised in the ten first Articles the latter in the close or two last I shall God willing give you Satisfaction in order beginning with the first which is this The First Article I A. B. do abjure and renounce the Pope 's Supremacy and Authority over the Catholick Church in general and over my self in particular Gent. How can I or any Catholick abjure the Pope's Supremacy over the Church in general or my self in particular Seing 't is an Article of our Creed (m) Symboli Tridentini Articulus primus and my Conscience tells me that which it did Sir Thomas More (n) Surius Commentar at his Tryal that having studied the point at least seven years I finde that the Truth thereof is sounded upon Fathers Councils Scriptures and Traditions with Prescription since the Apostles which demonstrates it to be of Divine Institution Minist You will fall short in all these and upon impartial Survey finde the Rise and Spring of it to be from novel Usurpation The Pythagoreans were so accustomed to Numbers that they fancyed the Ingredience of them in every Composure Your seven years study with Doway and Lovain's Education hath so moulded your imaginations that it hears no Melody but like that of Sappho's (o) Herodotus in the Woods (p) Clemens in Prooemio in Glossa Dominus Deus Papa your Pope's Supremacy Whence you make Scriptures and Fathers like Procrustes (q) Plutarch in vita Thesei his Bed what comes short you rack and stretch it to your meaning what is too large you curtail it by amputation Gent. I read Scriptures and Fathers with that Traveller's indifferency that Epictetus (r) Aulus Gellius Noct. Atti● requires in all that would finde the Truth and therein I discover First The Necessity of one Head to be constituted over the Catholick Church Secondly That St. Peter was that Visible Head and had Supremacy over the whole Flock of Christ and the rest of the Apostles Thirdly That he fixed his Seat at Rome and delegated his plenitudinem potestatis fullness of power to the Bishops his Successours there Fourthly That all Bishops of Rome have enjoyed it since Minist Not one of these Positions is true but comes from that spirit of lyes as shall appear in order First there is no necessitie of

is this That Doctrine which is contrary to Scriptures Primitive Fathers ancient Councils and is disclaimed by all moderate Papists themselves ought to be abjured But such is that Jesuitical Doctrine that Princes Rulers or Governours which be excommunicated or deprived by the Pope may by virtue of such Excommunication or Deprivation be killed murdered or deposed from their rule or government or any outrage or violence may be done unto them by the people that are under them or by any other whatsoever upon such pretense Therefore it ought to be abjured Which you will more chearfully do if you consider the next Article The tenth Article And I do further swear That I do believe that the Pope or Bishop of Rome hath no authority power or jurisdiction whatsoever within England Scotland and Ireland or any or either of them or the Dominions or Territories belonging to them or any or either of them Minist YOu are here enjoyned to abjure no more then what all Ecclesiasticks or Clergie were enforced formerly to subscribe unto for it is expressed in the thirty seventh Article of our English Confession that The Supreme Magistrate in this Kingdom of England and the rest of his Dominions hath the chiefest power to whom the supreme Government of all States of this Kingdom whether they be Ecclesiastical or Civil in all causes pertains and neither is nor ought to be subject to any foreign Jurisdiction (a) Romanus Pontifex nullam habet jurisdictionem in hoc regno Angliae Confessionis Anglicanae A●●●● 37. Anglia non est Feudatoria Papae Harpsfield The Pope or Bishop of Rome hath no jurisdiction in this Kingdom Gent. The Canonists or Pope's Pages of Honour say otherwise enfeoff●ng their Master with the (b) Extravagant De appellat Ut debitus in Glossa possession of all the World One saith thus (c) Extravagant De staetu Regularium periculos in Glossa Dominus Papa est Ordinarius omnium hominum Our Lord the Pope is the Ordinary or Bishop of all men Another saith (d) Extravagant De poena Felicis in Glossa Papa totius mundi obtinet principatum The Pope hath the Principality of all the World Another saith (e) Extravagant De concessione Praebendae Ecclesiae non vacantis Quia diversitatem ab Papa etiam cessante negligentia Praelatorum potest conferre Beneficia totius orbis quia ipse est Ordinarius totius mundi Though there be no default or negligence in any Bishop yet may the Pope bestow the Benefices of all the World for that he is the Bishop of all the World Therefore when the chief Deacon investeth and enrobeth the Pope at his Consecration he saith unto him Ego te investio Papatu ut praesis urbi orbi I invest thee with the Popedom that thou mayst rule both the City and the World if the World then England which presupposeth he hath jurisdiction in these Nations Minist It is true that Sycophants have given and modern Popes have taken such jurisdiction to themselves resembling Antiochus King of Syria who stiled himself a (f) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hieronymus in Daniel cap. iii. God and the Emperour Domitian who used to assign his Proclamations with this Elogie (g) Dominus Deus vester Domitianus Suetonius in Domitiano Your Lord God Domitian the Emperour Caligula who called himself the (h) Deum Optimum Maximum Jovem Latialem Pomponius Laetus best and most mighty God and the great God Jupiter of Italy Sapores the King of Persia who entitled himself the Brother of the Sun and Moon Manichaeus the Heretick who called himself the Holy Ghost as did that Arabian Impostour Mahomet Simon Magus who obtained that esteem with the antient Romanes that they erected him a Statue with this Inscription * Eusebius lib. 2. cap. 13. SIMONI SANCTO DEO In the honour of Simon the Holy God So (i) Potestas Papae est major omni alia potestate creata aliquo modo se extendens ad coelestia terrestria infernalia ut de ea verificari possit quod dictum est Omnia subjecisti sub pedibus ejus Antonin in Sum. part 3. tit 22. cap. 5. Antoninus Arch-Bishop of Florence gives the Pope greater power then any other power that ever God made which after a sort even stretcheth it self to things in heaven things in earth and things in Hell so that of him that saying of the Prophet David may be verified Thou hast made all things subject to his Feet But of this Luciferian Ambition and inordinate Vsurpation many Pontificians themselves have complained amongst whom Franciscus Zabarella Cardinal of Rome avers that (k) Ex hoc infiniti secuti sunt errores quia Papa occupavit omnia jura infertorum Ecclesiarum nisi Deus succurrat statui Ecclesiarum universa Ecclesia periclitabitur Franciscus Zabarella Thereupon have ensued infinite Errours for that the Pope hath invaded the Rights of all inferiour Churches and unless God help the state of the Churches the universal Church is injeopardy The learned Lady Anna Daughter to the Emperour Alexius and Irene in her Greek Story writeth thus (l) Anna in Historia Graeca The Pope is Lord of the whole world as the Latines think and speak of him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for this is a piece of their ambition Gent. What then was the Pope confined to a peculiar Diocess beyond which without Vsurpation he could not extend his Phylacteries Minist The antient learned Fathers evermore bounded and limited the Pope within his own particular Jurisdiction Ruffinus saith (m) Romanus Pontifex suburbicavarum Ecclesiarum solicitudinem great Ruffinus Historiae Ecclesiast lib. 1. cap. 9. The Fathers in the Council of Nice appointed the Pope to oversee the Churches of his own Suburbs these our Nations are not within his Suburbs Athanasius saith (n) Roma est Metropolis Romanae ditionis Athanasius Ad solitariam vitam agentes Rome is the Mother-Church not of England or the whole world but of her own particular Romish jurisdiction The Bishops in the Council of Rome writ thus to the Bishops of Illyricum (o) Sozomen lib. 6. cap 23. It is convenient 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that all the Bishops which be within the jurisdiction of Rome accord together Flavianus Patriarch of Constantinople writeth thus to Leo Bishop of Rome (p) Dignetur Sanctitas vestra indicare impietatem Eutychetis omnibus Episcopis sub Beatitudine vestra degentibus Inter Epistolas Leonis Epist 9. Let Your Holyness vouchsafe to make known the wickedness of Eutyches to all Bishops that live under you not to all the Bishops through the world Saint Hierom speaking of the use and order of the Church of Rome objected against him saith (q) Quid mihi profers unius urbis consuetadinem Hieronymus ad Euagrium What alledgest thou against me the Custom of one City So much he abridgeth the Pope's Jurisdiction that he extendeth it not to the