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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61839	Episcopacy (as established by law in England) not prejudicial to regal power a treatise written in the time of the Long Parliament, by the special command of the late King / and now published by ... Robert Sanderson ...	Sanderson, Robert, 1587-1663.	1661 (1661)	Wing S599; ESTC R1745	38,560	153

the exercise thereof but even in the very substance of the Power it selfe as namely that of external jurisdiction coercive are by the Laws declared and by the Clergy acknowledged to be wholly and entirely derived from the King as the sole fountain of all authority of external Iurisdiction whether Spiritual or Temporal within the Realm and consequently not of divine right Other-some although the substance of the power it self be immediately from God and not from the King as those of Preaching Ordaining Absolving c. Yet are they so subject to be inhibited limited or otherwise regulated in the outward exercise of that power by the Laws and Customes of the Land as that the whole execution thereof still dependeth upon the Regal Authority And how can the gross of that Power be prejudicial to the King or his Supremacy whereof all the parts are confessed either to be derived from him or not to be executed without him XIII Fifthly that if Episcopacy must be therefore concluded to be repugnant to Monarchy because it claimeth to be of divine Right then must Monarchs either suffer within their dominions no form of Church-government at all and then will Church and with it Religion soon fall to the ground or else they must devise some new model of Government such as never was yet used or challenged in any part of the Christian world since no form of Government ever yet used or challenged but hath claimed to a Ius divinum as well as Episcopacy yea I may say truly every one of them with far more noise though with far less reason then Episcopacy hath done And therefore of what party soever the objectors are Papists Presbyterians or Independents they shew themselves extreamly Partial against the honest Regular Protestant in condemning him as an enemy to Regal Power for holding that in his way which if it be justly chargeable with such a crime themselves holding the very same in their several wayes are every whit as deeply guilty of as he XIIII Lastly that this their partiality is by so much the more inexcusable by how much the true English Protestant for his government not onely hath a better title to a Ius divinum then any of the other three have for theirs but also pleadeth the same with more caution and modesty then any of them do Which of the four Pretenders hath the best title is no part of the business we are now about The tryal of that will rest upon the strength of the arguments that are brought to maintain it wherein the Presbyterians perhaps will not find any very great advantage beyond the rest of those that contest for it But let the right be where it will be we will for the present suppose them all to have equal title and thus far indeed they are equal that every one taketh his own to be best and it shall suffice to shew that the Ius Divinum is pleaded by the Episcopal party with more calmeness and moderation and with less derogation from Regal Dignity then by any other of the three XV. For First the rest when they spake of Ius Divinum in reference to their several waves of Church-Government take it in the highest elevation in the first and strictest sense The Papist groundeth the Popes Oecumenical Supremacy upon Christs command to Peter to execute it and to all the Flock of Christ Princes also as well as others to submit to him as their universal Pastor The Presbyterian cryeth up his Model of Government and Discipline though minted in the last by-gon Century as the very scepter of Christs Kingdome whereunto all Kings are bound to submit theirs making it as unalterable and inevitably necessary to the being of a Church as the Word and Sacraments are The Independent Separatist also upon that grand principle of Puritanisme common to him with the Presbyterian the very root of almost all the Sects in the world viz That nothing is to be ordered in Church-matters other or otherwise then Christ hath appointed in his Word holdeth that any company of people gathered together by mutual consent in a Church-way is Iure Divino free and absolute within it self to govern it self by such rules as it shall judge agreeable to Gods Word without dependence upon any but Christ Iesus alone or subjection to any Prince Prelate or other humane person or Consistory whatsoever All these you see do not onely claim to a Ius Divinum and that of a very high nature but in setting down their opinions weave in some expresses tending to the diminution of the Ecclesiastical Supremacy of Princes Whereas the Episcopal Party neither meddle with the power of Princes nor are ordinarily very forward to press the Ius Divinum but rather purposely decline the mentioning of it as a term subject to misconstruction as hath been said or else so interpret it as not of necessity to import any more then an Apostolical institution Yet the Apostles authority in that institution being warranted by the example and as they doubt not the direction of their Master Iesus Christ they worthily esteem to be so reverend and obligatory as that they would not for a world have any hand in or willingly and deliberately contribute the least assistance towards much less bind themselves by solemn League and Covenant to endeavour the extirpation of that Government but rather on the contrary hold themselves in their consciences obliged to the uttermost of their powers to endeavour the preservation and continuance thereof in these Churches and do heartily wish the restitution and establishment of the same wheresoever it is not or wheresoever it hath been heretofore under any whatsoever pretence unhappily laid aside or abolished XVI Secondly the rest not by remote inferences but by immediate and natural deduction out of their own acknowledged principles do some way or other deny the Kings Supremacy in matters Ecclesiastical either claiming a power of Iurisdiction over him or pleading a priviledge of Exemption from under him The Papists do it both wayes in their several doctrines of the Popes Supremacy and of the Exemption of the Clergy The Puritances of both sorts who think they have sufficiently confuted every thing they have a mind to mislike if they have once pronounced it Popish and Antichristian do yet herein as in very many other things and some of them of the most dangerous consequence symbolize with the Papists and after a sort divide that branch of Antichristianisme wholly between them The Presbyterians claiming to their Consistories as full and absolute spiritual Iurisdiction over Princes with power even to excommunicate them if they shall see cause for it as the Papists challenge to belong to the Pope And the Independents exempting their Congregations from all spiritual subjection to them in as ample manner as the Papists do their Clergy Whereas the English Protestant Bishops and Regular Clergy as becometh good Christians and good Subjects do neither pretend to any Iurisdiction over the Kings of England nor withdraw