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judgement_n	authority_n	church_n	whole_a	1,610	5	5.4292	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16618	A protestation of the Kings supremacie Made in the name of the afflicted ministers, and opposed to the shamefull calumniations of the prelates.	Bradshaw, William, 1571-1618.	1605 (1605)	STC 3525; ESTC S120445	7,812	26

be Members of the Commō wealth ye● that the Churches seuerally or ioyntly haue no power to force him or any subiect against their will to any service vnto them or to any religious 〈◊〉 whatsoeuer No nor to be so much as a member of any Church 16 Wee hould that the King ought not to be subiect to the Ecclesiasticall Censures of any Churches Church officers or Synods whatsoeuer but onely to that Church and those Officers of his owne Court and Houshould vnto whom in reuerence of their Religion and of the spirituall Graces of God he sees shinynge in them he shall of his owne freewill subiect and commit the Regiment of his soule in whom their can be no suspition nor feare of any partialitie or vniust or rigorous dealing against him 17 Wee hould that if any Ecclsiasticall Gouerners call them by what name you will shall abuse their Ecclesiasticall authoritie in the execution of their Censures vpon any man whosoeuer That the King and Ciuill States vnder him haue power to punish them seuerely for it much more if they shall abuse it vpon the Supreame Maiestie himselfe 18 If the King subiecting himselfe to Spirituall Guides and Governers shall afterwards refuse to be guided and gouerned by them accordinge to the word of God and lyuinge in notorious sinne without repentannce shall wilfully contemne and dispise all their holy religious Censures that thē thes Gouernors are to refuse to administer the holy things of God vn to him and to leaue him to him self and to the secreat Iudgment of God and wholly to resigne and giue ouer that spirituall charge tuition ouer him which by calling from God and the King they did vndertake And more then this they may not doe And after all this Wee hould that he yet still retaineth and ought to retaine in tierly solidly all that aforesaide supreāe power and authoritie ouer the Churches of this Dominion in as ample a manner as if hee were the most Christian prince in the world 19 Wee acknowledge King Iames to be our onely lawfull Soueraigne and vnto him to be due all the aforesaid Supremacie wee renounce abiure allopinions doctrins practicies whatsoeuer repugnant or contrarie to the same as Anabaptisticall Antichristian And wish they may be seuerely punished 20 Wee never refused obedience to any Lawes or commaundements of the King or State whatsoeuer but onely to such as we haue proued or are readie to proue if we might be heard with indifferencie to be contrarie to the word of God And we are readie to take our Solemne Oathes before the Throne of Iustice that the onely cause of our refusall of Obedience to those Canons of the Prelates for which we are in present so extreamly afflicted is meere conscience and a feare to sinne against God And that if by due forme of reasonnyng we may be conuinced in our consciences of the contrarie we are as willinge as any Subiects in the Realme to Obey and Conforme 21 Wee refuse Obedience onely to such Canons as require the performaunce of such Acts Rites of Religion as are reiected and abandoned of all other reformed Churches as Superstitious disorders Such as are speciall mysteries of the Romish Antichristian Idolatrie Such as haue been controuerted in the Church euer since the last breakynge forth of the light of the gospell out of the cloude of Popery in Luthers time Such as all Protestant writers defendors of our Faith beyond the Seaes and most of our owne Countrimē haue either in generall or par ticular condemned as vaine idle and vn profitable Such as all the faithfull and painfull Pastors of this Realme and in a manner all States degrees of the same woulde be content were remoued and sweept out of the Church and for which few or none are zealous but the Prelates and their adherents 22 We deny no authoritie to the King in matters Ecclesiasticall but onely that which Christ Iesus the onely Head of the Church hath directly and precisly appropriated vnto himselfe and hath denyed to communicate to any other creature or creatures in the world For we hould That Christ a lone is the Doctor of the Church in matters of Religion and that the word of Christ which he hath given vnto his Church is of absolute parfection containyng in it all parts of the true religion both for substance and ceremonie a perfect direction in all Ecclesiasticall matters whatsoeuer Vnto from which it is not lawefull for any Man or Angell to add or detract 23 We are so far from makyng claime of any supremacie vnto our selues and thos eccliasticall officers which we desire that we exclude from our selues them as that of which we are vtterly vncapable all Princely Lordlie state pomp power whatsoeuer houlding it a sinne for any whosoeuer to excercise no not by conmission from the magistrat any authoritie ouer the bodie Goods liues libertie of any man whosoeuer for any crime or offence whatsoeuer So that any one of the basest and most inferior Ciuill officers in a Kingdome hath and ought to haue in our iudgement more authoritie and power ouer men then any or all the Ecclesiasticall Officers in the same kingdom or in the whol world Yea we hold that the highest Ecclesiasticall Officer in the Church ought to be as subiect vnto the basest Ciuill officers in the Kingdome as the meanest Subiect in the Kingdome And that they ought not by virtue of their office to chalenge any freedome or immunity at all from any Ciuyll Subiection whatsoeuer belonging to any common Subiect 24 Wee consine and bound all Ecclesiasticall power within the limitts onely of one particular Congregation houldinge that the greatest Ecclesiasticall power ought not to strech beyond the same And that it is an arrogating of Princly Supremacie for any Ecclesiasticall Person or Persons whosoeuer to take vpon thēselues Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction over many Churches much more over whole Kingdomes and Provinces of Christians 25 We hould it vtterly vnlawfull for any one Minister to take vpon himselfe or accept of a sole Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction over so much as one Congregation And therfore we hould that some of the sufficientest and most honest and godlie men in the Congregation ought to be chosen by the Heades of Families to be adioynded in Comissiō as Asistants to the Minister in the Spirituall Regiment of the soules of that Congregation of which he is the Pastor 26 We hould that these Ecclesiasticall Officers being so chosen by the Church or Congregation are to exercise over the said Congregation only a Spirituall Iurisdiction and power consistyng in a careful oversight of the outward behavior of the Members of their Church That it be not scandalous offenciue and vnbeseemynge Christians And if any Member shal be delinquent they are brotherly to admonish him shewing him the nature of his crime by the word of God And if after two or three admonitions he sheew no tokens of sorrowe and