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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

commanding all Judah and Israel to keep a solemn Passeover at Jerusalem on the second Moneth whereupon a great multitude then and there assembling they took away the Idols altars and cast them into the book Kidron and killed the Passeover Whereupon the Priests and Levites being ashamed of their bacwardness in this service sanctifyed themselves brought the burnt offerings into the house of the Lord stood in their places after their manner according to the Law of Moses and sprinkled the bloud 4ly Hezekiah not the Priests publikely prayed to God to pardon those who prepared their hearts to seek God though they were not sanctifyed and prepared according to the purification of the Sanctuary and spake comfortably to the Levites that taught the good Law of the Lord. 5ly This King Appointed the Courses of the Priests Levites after their Courses every man according to his Service appointed the Kings portion for all morning and evening sacrifices for every day Sabbath Feast as it is written in the Law of the Lord and commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the Priests and Levites that they might be encouraged in the Law of the Lord whereupon all the people brought in the First-fruits and Tithes of all things abundantly which Hezekiah commanded to be put in store-houses built by his command over which he appointed Rulers to distribute to every Priest and Levite his portion All undoubted Badges of his Supream Ecclesiastical Authority 7ly King Iosiah by his Regal Jurisdiction 1. Purged Judah and Jerusalem from their high places groves carved Images and molten Images brake down the Altars of Baal and cut down the Images that were above them and brake in pieces the carved and molten Images and stamped them to powder and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed to them and burnt the bones of their Priests upon their Altars and so did he in the Cities of Manasseth Ephraim and Simeon even unto Napthali 2ly He assembled all the Elders of Judah inhabitants of Jerusalem Priests Levites and all the people great and small into the Temple and HE READ in their ears all the Book of the Covenant that was found in the House of the Lord Then the King stood in his place and made a Covenant before the Lord to walk after the Lord and to keep his Commandements Testimonies and Statutes with all his heart and with all his soul and caused all there present to stand to the Covenant and Oath 3ly He took away all the abominable things out of all the Countries that pertained to the children of Israel and made all that were found in Israel Priests and people to serve the Lord their God And all his dayes they departed not from serving the Lord God of their Fathers 4ly He assembled the Princes and he kept a most solemn Passeover to the Lord in Jerusalem the 14. day of the first moneth And He set the Priests in their Charges and encouraged them in the service of the house of the Lord and commanded the Levites that taught all Israel to prepare themselves by the Houses of their Fathers after their courses according to the writing of David King of Israel according to the writing of Solomon his Son said to them stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren the people and after the division of the families of the Levites So kill the Passeover and sanctifie your selves and prepare your Brethren that they may do according to the word of the Lord by the hand of Moses Whereupon they all prepared performed their respective offices and duties in celebrating the Passeover as this pious King prescribed Lo here no lesse then 7. most renowned pious Kings recorded in Sacred story by divine approbation exercising Supream Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction over High Priests Priests and Levites themselves ordering all sacred affairs offerings sacrifices Psalms prayers courses of Priests appertaining to Gods worship building consecrating repairing cleansing the Temple destroying Idolatry with other particulars 5ly From Moses Joshuahs and their presidents I shall observe 1. That they are all specially recorded in sacred Writ for their eternal honors reputations and the example of all other pious Kings under the Gospel 2ly That not one of them was ever taxed by God or the high Priests for invading or usurping their Jurisdictions or Offices for any of their forecited actions injunctions commands over them or exercising these high points of Monarchical and Regal Jurisdiction in and over all Ecclesiastical affairs or the essential ceremonial parts of Gods publike worship Which Popes and Popish Prelates would repute the highest most sacrilegious Encroachment upon their Ecclesiastical Rights and Jurisdictions if now acted by Christian Kings Magistrates Rulers and excommunicate them for it by Bell Book and Candle 3ly That we find no one part of Ecclesiastical power and Jurisdiction in these or any other particulars either exercised or claimed by the high Priest Priests Levites either joyntly or severally all their reigns 4ly There are only Two Kings but no other Magistrate in sacred History reprehended by the high Priest and punished by God for invading the Priests Office and Function and that only in one particular Ministerial not Jurisdictional sacred action peculiar unto Priests by Gods own restriction The first is of King Saul who sending for Samuel to Gilgal to offer Sacrifices and enquire of the Lord for help against the Philistims and he staying seven dayes for him and the people scattering themselves from him thereupon he calling for a burnt offering and peace offering offered the burnt offering to the Lord himself Which he had no sooner done but Samuel came and Saul telling him how he had in this extremity forced himself and offered a burnt offering to the Lord. Samuel thereupon said to Saul Thou hast done very foolishly thou hast not kept the commandement of the Lord thy God which he commanded thee for the Lord had now established the kingdom of Israel upon thee for ever but now thy kingdom shall not continue The second is King Vzziah who being lifted up with pride and prosperity to his destruction transgressed against the Lord his God and went into the Temple of the Lord to burn incense upon the Altar of incense whereupon Azariah the Priest went in after him with fourscore more Priests of the Lord that were valiant man and withstood the King and said unto him It pertaineth not to thee Vzziah to burn incense unto the Lord but to the Priests the Sons of Aaron that are consecrated to burn incense Go out of the Sanctuary for thou hast trespassed neither shall it be for thy honour from the Lord God Then Vzziah was wroth with the Priests and took a censor in his hand to burn incense whereupon the Leprosie rose up in his Forehead before the Priests in the House of the Lord from beside the

High Priest during Moses his absence in the Mount had at the peoples request made erected a golden calf who committed idolatry with it Moses calls him to a strict account for it to whom he made an excuse with this memorable preface Let not the anger of MY LORD wax hot which stile he likewise gave him Nu. 12 11. Yea Moses not he Pronounced the Judgment and punishment upon the people for this Sin of Idolatry as likewise on him that gathered sticks on the Sabbath day the manner of whose punishment he inquired not Aaron and received from God 9ly When the Tables of stone formerly broken were renewed redelivered by God to the people it was alwayes done even after Aarons consecration by the hand mouth ministry of Moses who with his own mouth alwayes spake and delivered Gods Laws Messages to all the Congregation Elders people during all his Government and gave them a special charge of things future and a blessing at his death 10thly God made choice of Moses a Lay-man and Civil Magistrate to be the fir●● p●●man and Register of all his sacred Laws and first Five Books of holy Scripture not Aaron or any other Priest And to shew that Kings and Temporal Magistrates were the principal keepers of both Tables God particularly enjoyned when the Israelites came into the Land of Canaan and had set a King over them that the King when he sate upon the Throne of his Kingdom shall write him a Copy of this Law in a Book out of that which is before the Priests the Levites that it may be well with him and he shall read therein all the dayes of his life that he may learn to fear the Lord his God and to keep all the words of this Law and these Statutes to ●o them That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren and that he turn not aside from the Commandement to the right hand or to the left to the end that he may prolong his dayes in his kingdom he and his children in the midst of Israel All which particulars laid together relating to and acted by the very first Supream Civil Magistrat that God himself set up over his own peculiar people Church when he first instituted modelled both their Magistrates and Priests with their distinct Offices and powers will infallibly clear the Superiour Jurisdiction of the Supream Civil Magistrate in and over all Ecclesiastical persons and causes by Gods own institution and that the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction is united to the Temporal The reason why God reserved the Supream Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction to Moses the Chief Civil Magistrate and afterwards to Kings when he transferred the Priesthood to Aaron and his Sons and severed it from the Kingship was because it would be inconsistent with Monarchie and the Peace Unitie of the Republike Kingdom Church to erect two distinct Supream Powers independent on unsubordinate to each other in one and the same Body Politick Nation Kingdom united under one Supream Civil Head and a Cause of perpetual Wars Schismes Contentions between these different powers by reason of mens Natural ambition and desire to enlarge their Juriisdictions to the prejudice of each other This we find experimentally verified in the Israelites themselves immediatly upon their division into two independent kings kingdoms of equal power unsubordinate to each other which produced not only perpetual Warres between them all their dayes in their Realms as sacred Story oft records but a more sad division in their Religion Worship Church Jeroboam erecting two Calves and a new idolatrous worship with suitable Priests to promote it and a new place of worship contrary to that prescribed by God himself to keep his Subjects from Gods true worship at Jerusalem and returning to their allegiance and obedience to their rightfull Kings of the seed of David which all his Successors persevered in till their final captivity and utter desolation for their idolatry And it is infallibly evidenced by the manifold sad Divisions Schismes Wars Rebellions in most Christian Empires kingdoms ever since the ambitious Popes of Rome and other Prelates have claimed by a pretended divine independent right and usurped to themselves the Supream Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction over all Persons Causes inseparably united by God himself to the Crowns of Christian Emperonrs and Kings As God therefore out of his infinit Wisdom at the very Creation constituted but one natural head over every natural body of Men Beasts Fowls Fishes and creeping living creatures though they consisted of two different substances Soul and Body not two distinct heads the one corporal the other spiritual to govern each body because two Supream head● would have destroyed the unity harmony operations of these Creatures in their respective orbes and made a Schisme in their bodies So he at first united the Supream Spiritual and Temporal Jurisdiction over Men at the Creation in one person Adam the first sole Monarch of the World And afterwards when his Church and people multiplyed into such a vast dispersed multitude that one person could not possibly execute or discharge the Kingly and Priestly Offices as at first he conveniently might did whiles all united in one Tribe and Family so that there was an absolute necessity to divide them into several Hands Tribes God did even then reserve the Supream Ecclesiastical Government and Jurisdiction as absolutely necessary for inseparable from the Supream Civil Head and Governor of his people to prevent Schismes Confusions and preserve Unity Tranquillity both in Church and State not transferr it from Moses to Aaron the Church with all its Officers Members being included in branches of the Kingdom Republike not divided from it as a distinct independent spiritual corporation Therefore still to remain under the sole Government and protection of the Supream Politick Head This is most clearly and significantly expressed by Ezechiels uniting the two divided sticks into one rod in one hand typifying the uniting of the two divided Kingdomes of Israel and Iudah into one Kingdom Church PEOPLE under one King and Shepheard Jesus Christ and making them all but ONE in their Government and true Worship of God according to his Statutes Hence it is most apparent that the Civil and Ecclesiastical Powers Authorities or Jurisdictions are not thus denominated because they are vested in different persons hands or flow from various fountains or distinct in their natures as the Pontificians and others generally assert and mistake but meerly because they are exercised upon or about different things or objects the persons wherein they originally and supreamly reside and from whence they flow and the very Powers Authorities Jurisdictions themselves in their nature being but one and the same only the objects matters in upon or about which they are exercised various and distinct from whence they have these different Epithites To evidence this truth past all contradiction being the surest Oracle to resolve all future Controversies concerning these Jurisdictions yea keenest axe

over them 3ly Christ himself the good Great Chief Shepherd of his sheep informs us that as he himself so every other good shepherd that entreth in by the door doth not only guard but feed his sheep and the sheep hear his voyce and he calleth his own sheep by name and leadeth them out and he goeth before them and the sheep follow him for they know his voice Every Apostle Bishop Minister of the Gospel is as much a Shepherd of Christs sheep as Peter therefore bound to feed Christs sheep Lambs as much as he This St Ambrose long since asserted Dominus dixit Petro Pasce oves meas Quas oves quem gregem non solum tunc beatus Petrus caepit sed et nobiscum eas succepit et cum illo eas nos suscepinus omnes And St. Basil goes a little further to his Keyes as well as feeding Petre inquit amas me Pasce oves meas consequenter omnibus Pastoribus et Doctoribus eandem potestatem tribuit Cujus signum est Qoud omnes ex aequo obligant et absolvunt quemadmodum ille This Bishop Jewel Dr. Reynolds Dr. Ames Chamier and all Protestant Divines assert and prove at large Yea Pope Anacletus himself resolves Caeteri ve-Apostoli cum eodem Petro pari consortis Honorem et Potestatem acceperunt and that as well the power and honor of the keyes and of binding and loosing which he there relates to as of feeding Christs sheep And St. Cyprian resolved long before him Christus eandem dedit Apostolis omnibus potestatem Hoc utique erant caeteri Apostoli quod fuit Petrus pari consortio prediti et honoris et potestatis Pastores sunt omnes sed grex unius ostenditur qui ab Apostolis omnibus unanimi consensu pascatur Yea the whole Clergy of Rome writes thus to all the Clergy of Carthage Cum incumbat nobis qui videmur Praepositi esse Vice Pastores custodire Gregem si negligentes inveniamur dicetur nobis quod antecessoribus nostris dictum est qui tam negligentes praepositi erant Quoniam c. Ezech 34. 2 3 4 c. sed ipse Dominus Simoni sic dixit Diligis me respondit Diligo ait ei Pasce oves meas Hoc verbum factum ex actu ipso quo cessit cognoscimus caeteri Discipuli similiter fecerunt Nolumus ergo fratres devotissimi vos mercenarios inveniri sed bonos Pastores c. Resolving every Apostle Bishop Minister to be as much Pastors and as far bound to feed Christs sheep as Peter Therefore if this gave Peter a Soveraign Jurisdiction over all the Church and Kings themselves it must give the like to all other Bishops Priests Ministers and so we shall have as many Popes Vicars Generals and Supreme heads of the Church of Christ paramount all Kings and Emperors as there are Priests and Bishops 4ly The sheep thus fed are not St. Peters nor any Popes Bishops sheep that feeds them but only the sheep flock of Jesus Christ for whom he hath laid down his life yea purchased redeemed them with his own most precious bloud Therefore their bare feeding of can give them no dominion or Soveraign Jurisdiction over them no more then it doth to any Ordinary countrey Shepherd which feeds keeps folds his Lords or Masters sheep who can neither shear sell thrust them out of the fold pasture nor kill or dispose of them at his pleasure but only guard feed fold carefully watch over and lead them into such pastures as his Lord prescribes his shepherds office being only a painfull carefull Service Ministry not a Dominion or Dignity 5ly All the acts duties of St Peters or any other Apostles Bishops Ministers Pastoral office in relation to Christs flock are meerly servile ministerial towards their sheep for their preservation and welfare not Lordly or Jurisdictional as namely 1. To water and feed them in good green pastures with the wholesom food of Gods word 2ly To watch over them day and night and guard them from Wolves Theeves Robbers that would devour kill seduce destroy them 3ly To go in and out before them in an holy and exemplary conversation 4ly To gather them together when they are scattered by any persecutions Wolves casualties and to seek them out and bring them home to their fold and pasture when they are strayed thence 5ly To stand by them in their greatest dangers without flying and to lay down their lives for their safety and defence against Wolves and Robbers 6ly To gather the Lambs with their arms carry them in their bosoms to lead those gently that ar with young to bind them up which are broken and to heal and strengthen them that are sick 7ly To fold and make them lie down in safety 8ly Not to feed themselves instead of the flock by eating the fat or cloathing themselves with their wooll nor yet to kill starve or fly from them nor to rule them with fear force cruelty as Lords over them nor to use and call them out as sheep appointed for the slaughter as Popes use to do Wherefore none of all these Pastoral positive duties importing the least Dominion or Jurisdiction over Christs sheep but only a ministry and service towards for them accompanied with an heavy wo and account if neglected and the Negative part expresly prohibits all Lordly Dominion and Jurisdiction over them How Popes Prelates or Priests can hence conclude any Supreame Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction over Christs Church and flock to be vested in themselves alone not in Kings who are to feed rule them by way of Government and Jurisdiction as Kings but not as meer spiritual shepherds transcends my apprehension Yet hear what Martinus Becanus the Moguntine Jesuite concludes from hence in his Controversia Anglicana De Potestate Regis Pontificis contra Lancelotum Andreum Mogunt 1612. and let all Christian Kings and their Subjects consider it as well with detestation as admiration The Pope as Shepherd who is to feed Christs sheep hath his Doggs And who are they Hi canes intelliguntur partim Reges et Imperatores These Doggs of this proud shepherd are partly Kings and Emperors they must be no longer Sheep but Currs Then descanting upon these their honourable Royal Titles Igitur hi Canes These Doggs therefore if they be watchfull they must be ready at the Shepherds hand but if they be lazie madd or troublesom the Shepherd must presently remove them This He teacheth this the Council of Lateran decreeth He subjoynes Christian Kings are Sheep are Rammes are Wolves and are Doggs though Christ and St Peter never made such distinctions of them Whence it is that the Pope beareth himself in a divers manner towards them As they are Sheep if they be silly he may put them out of the fold As they are Rammes if they be troublesom and push with their horns