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A29194	The consecration and succession, of Protestant bishops justified, the Bishop of Duresme vindicated, and that infamous fable of the ordination at the Nagges head clearly confuted by John Bramhall ...	Bramhall, John, 1594-1663.	1658 (1658)	Wing B4216; ESTC R24144	93,004	246

seu a nobis ad id deputatos misericorditer recipiemus prout jam multae receptae fuerunt secumque super his opportune in domino dispensabimus And we vvill graciously receive or interteine by our selves or by others deputed by us to that purpose as many have already been received in their Orders and in their Benifices all Ecclesiasticall Persōs as well Secularas Regular of whatsoever Orders vvhich have obteined any suites dispensations grants graces and indulgences as vvell in their Ecclesiasticall Orders as Benefices and other spirituall matters by the pretended authority of the Supremacy of the Church of England though ineffectually and onely de facto so they be penitent and be returned to the unity of the Church And vve vvill in due season dispense vvith them in the Lord for these things Here we see evidently that upon the request of the Lo●ds Spirituall and Temporall and Commons being the representative body of the Church and Kingdome of England by the intercession of the King and Queene the Popes Legate did receive all persons which had been Ordeined or Beneficed either in the time of King Henry or King Edward in their respective Orders and Benefices which they were actually possessed of at the time of the making of this dispensation or Confirmation without any exception or Condition but onely this that they were returned to the unity of the Catholick Church Neither was there ever any one of them who were then returned either deprived of their Benefices or compelled to be reordeined From whence I argue thus Either King Henry the eighths Bishops and Priests and likewise the Bishops and Priests Ordeined in King Edward the sixths time had all the Essentialls of Episcopall and Priestly Ordination which were required by the institution of Christ and then they ought not to be reordeined Then in the judgement of these Fathers themselves it is grievous sacrilege to reordeine them Or they wanted some essentiall of their respective Ordinations which was required by the institution of Christ and then it was not in the power of all the Popes and Legates that ever were in the world to confirme their respective Orders or dispense with them to execute their functions in the Church But the Legate did Dispense with them to hold their Orders and exercise their severall functions in the Church and the Pope did confirme that dispensation This doth clearely destroy all the pretensions of the Romanists against the validity of our Orders It may perhaps be objected that the dispensative word is recipiemus we will receive not we do receive I answer the case is all one If it were unlawfull to receive them in the present it was as unlawfull to receive thē in the future All that was done after was to take a particular absolution or confirmation from the Pope or his Legate which many of the Principall Clergy did but not all No not all the Bishops Not the Bishop of Landaff as Sanders witnesseth Yet he injoied his Bishoprick So did all the rest if the Clergy who never had any particular confirmation It is not materiall at all whether they were confirmed by a generall or by a speciall dispensation so they were confirmed or dispensed with at all to hold all their Benefices and to exercise their respective Functions in the Church which no man can denie Secondly it may be objected that it is said in the Dispensation licet nulliter de facto obtenuerint Although they had obteined their Benefices and Promotions ineffectually and onely in fact without right which doth intimate that their Orders were voide and null before they had obteined this dispensation I answer that he stiled them voide and null not absolutely but respectively quoad exercitium because by the Roman law they might not be lawfully exercised without a Dispensation but not quoad Characterem as to the Character If they had wanted any thing necessary to the imprinting of the Character or any thing essentiall by the institution of Christ the Popes Dispensation and Confirmation had been but like a seale put to a blanke piece of paper And so the Cardinalls dispensation in generall and particularly for Benefices and Ecclesiasticall Promotions Dispensations and Graces given by such Order as the lawes of the Realme allowed and prescribed in King Henries time and King Edwards time was then and there ratified by act of Parliament Lastly that this Dispensation was afterwards confirmed by the Pope I prove by the confession of Sanders himself though a malicious enemy He that is Cardinall Pole in a publick Instrument set forth in the name and by the authority of the Pope Confirmed all Bishop which had bene made in the former Schisme so they were Catholick in their judgment of Religion and the six new Bishopricks which King Henry had erected in the time of the Schisme And this writing being affixed to the Statute was published with the rest of the Decrees of that Parliament and their minds were pacified All which things were established and confirmed afterwards by the Letters of Pope Paul the fourth We have seene that there were a competent number of Protestant Bishops beyond ' Exception to make a Consecration And so the necessity which is their onely Basis or Foundation of the Nagge 's head Consecration being quite taken away this prodigious fable having nothing els to support the incredibilities and inconsistencies of it doth melt away of it self like winter ice The fifth reason is drawen from that well known principle in Rethorick Cui bono or what advantage could such a consecration as the Nagge 's head Consecration is pretended to have been bring to the Consecraters or the persons consecrated God and Nature never made any thing in vaine The haire of the head the nailes upon the fingers ends do serve both for ornament and muniment The leafes defend the blossomes the blossomes produce the fruite which is Natures end In sensitives the Spider doth not weave her webbes nor the silly Bee make her celles in vaine But especially intellectuall creatures have alwaies some end of their Actions Now consider what good such a mock Consecratiō could doe the persons so consecrated Could it helpe them to the possession of their Bishopricks by the law of England Nothing lesse There is such a concatenation of our English Customes and Recordes that the counterfeiting of of any one can do no good except they could counterfeite them all which is impossible When any Bishops See becommeth voide there issueth a Writ out of the Exchequer to seise the Temporalties into the Kings hand as being the ancient and well knowne Patron of the English Church leaving the Spiritualties to the Arch Bishop or to the Deane and Chapiter according to the custome of the place Next the King granteth his Conge d'Eslire or his License to chuse a Bishop to the Deane and Chapiter upon the receite of this License the Deane and Chapiter within a certein number of daies chuse a Bishop

related of my Lord of Durham yet we are not guilty of such extravagant expressions CAP. IX The Fathers insist too much upon the Authority of their ovvn party VVhy Consecration is not mentioned at Restitution The exactnesse of our Records justified IT seemeth to me that the Fathers insist too much upon the honesty and virtue and learning of their own party In dispute with an Adversary virtue is like fire which preserveth it self by being covered with ashes but spread abroad by ostentation it is quickly extinguished especially Comparisons are odious and beget altercation We say there is not a Hill so high in Lincolnshire but there is another within a Mile as high as it take you the reputation of learning and prudence so you leave us the better cause and we shall be able to defēd it well enough against you But the maine defect in this part of your discourse is this the Bishop of Chalced●● confesseth of Mr. Oldcorn one of your Order that he acknowledged these Records to be Authentick and the rest of the imprisoned Priests who viewed the Records are charged publickly in print to have done the same by Bishop Goodwin by Mr. Mason every thing ought to be unloosed the same way it is bound They were all Schollars and could write if this charge were not true they ought to have published a Protestation to the world in print to the contrary whilest their Adversaries were living whilest the Witnesses were living but now after they and their Adversaries and the witnesses are all so long dead to talke of a verball protestation to some of their Friends upon hearsay signifieth nothing Now we must make another winding and return to Bishop Barlow but I hold to the clue in hope at length to get out of this fictitious Labyrinth Henry the 8. Letters Patents vvhereby Bishop Barlow vvas installed in they would say restored to the Temporalties of his Bishoprick make mention of his acceptation and Confirmation but none of his Consecration why should this last be omitted if he were really consecrated This objectiō sheweth nothing but the unskilfulnesse of the Fathers in our English Customes and Forms Let them compare all the restitutions of their friends to their Temporalties in England as Cardinall Poles Bishop Gardiners and the rest and they shall find the Form the very same with Bishop Barlowes I hope they will not conclude thence that none of them were consecrated The reason of the Forme is very prudent In a Restitution to Temporalties they take no notice of any Acts that are purely Spirituall as Consecration is but onely of such Acts as are Temporall as Acceptation and Confirmation But if he was restored to his Temporalties not being Consecrated he might also sit in Parliament without Consecration The Assumtion is understood but Bishop Barlow was restored to his Temporalties without Consecration which is most false From the Conversion of the Nation untill this Day they are not able to produce one instance of one Bishop who was duely Elected duely confirmed and duely restored to his Temporalties by the Kings Mandate without Consecration or did sit in Parliament without Consecration He must sit in Parliament in his Episcopall habit but that cannot be before Consecration It seemeth they think that Bishops sit in Parliament as Temporall Barons but it a great mistake Bishops sate in the Great Councells of the Kingdome before the names of Parliament or Barons were heard of in England They bring an Argument from the exactnesse of our Records and that connexion that is between Records of one Court and another The first thing necessary to obtein a Bishoprick in England is the Kings Conge d'eslire that appears in the Rolles Next the actuall Election that appeares in the Records of the Dean and Chapiter Thirdly the Kings Acceptation of the Election and his Commission to the Archbishop or four Bishops in the Vacancy to Confirm the Election and Consecrate the person Elected and Confirmed legally that appeares in the Letters Patents enrolled Fourthly the Confirmation of the Election before the Dean of the Arches but by the Archbishops appointment this is performed alwaies in Bow Church except extraordinarily it be performed elswhere by Commission this appeares in the Records of the Archbishop Fifthly the Consecration it self by the Archbishop and other Bishops or other Bishops without him by virtue of his Commission this appeares in the Records of the Protonothary of the See of Canterbury Lastly the Restitution of the Temporalties which appeares in the Rolles and his Enthronisation in the Records of the Dean and Chapiter Every one of these takes another by the hand and he who will enjoy a Bishoprick in England must have them all The Chapiter cannot elect without the Kings Conge d'Eslire The King never grants his Letters Patents for Confirmation and Consecration untill he have a Certificate of the Deā and Chapiters Electiō The Dean of the Arches never confirms untill he have the Kings Commission The Archbishop never Consecrates untill the Election be confirmed And lastly the King never receiveth Homage for the Bishoprick or giveth the Temporalties nor the Deā and Chapiter Enthrone untill after Consecration He that hath any one of these acts must of Necessity have all that goe before it in this Method and he that hath the last hath them all But this was more then Mr. Neale or whosoever was Inventer of that silly Fable did understād otherwise he would have framed a more possible relatiō Hence they argue The Records being so exact how is it possible that no Copies of Barlowes Consecration do appeare in any Court or Bishoprick of England They mistake the matter wholy the Consecration ought not to appeare in any Court but one that is that Registry where he was Consecrated which being not certainly known at so great a distance of time is not so easily found and I believe was neversought for yet further thē Lambeth But all the other Acts doe appeare in their proper Courts The Kings License the Dean and Chapiters Election the Kings Letters Patents the Confirmation of the Dean of the Arches which all goe before Consecration and his doing Homage and the Restitution of him to his Temporalties and his Enthronisation all which do follow the Consecration and are infallible proofes in Law of the Consecration as likewise his sitting in Parliament his Ordeining of Priests his Consecrating of Bishops his letting of Leases his receiving of Heriditamēts to him and his Successours his exchanging of Lands all which are as irrefragable proofes of his Consecration as any man hath to prove that such persons were his Parents either Father or Mother And whē the right Register is sought which must be by the help of the Court of Faculties I doubt not but his Consecration will be found in the proper place as all the rest are Mr. Mason alleged that Bishop Gardiners Consecration was not to be found in the Register of Lambeth any more then Bishop Barlowes yet no man