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A67904	The life of William now Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, examined. Wherein his principall actions, or deviations in matters of doctrine and discipline (since he came to that sea of Canturbury) are traced, and set downe, as they were taken from good hands, by Mr. Robert Bayley, a learned pastor of the Kirk of Scotland, and one of the late commissioners sent from that Nation. Very fitting for all judicious men to reade, and examine, that they may be the better able to censure him for those thing [sic] wherein he hath done amisse. Reade and judge.; Ladensium autokatakrisis, the Canterburians self-conviction	Baillie, Robert, 1599-1662.	1643 (1643)	Wing B462; ESTC R22260	178,718	164

his fingers cleane contrarie maximes Lastly they teach us in the matter of resistance first that doe the Prince what hee will he may never be resisted by any or all his Subjects that not onely a private man must give over all defence though most innocent of his owne life against the prince his unjust violence but the whole State can doe nought without rebellion against GOD but flee or suffer when the prince whether by himselfe or his Officers doth destroy the true religion established by all Lawes and the liberties of the Land deare bought of old and peaceably brooked in many ages also the lives of many thousands of the best Subjects without the pretence or colour of any just cause Againe that all this subjection must be used not onely to our native King but to any forraine usurper who can get footing among us and it were the Kings of Spaine as their predecessors the hereticall Gothish Kings got footing in the Roman Empire That even against them the States of a Land with a good conscience could use no defence though before their eyes they should see them execute the cruell tyrannies of Nebuchadnezzar put out the eyes of the King kill 〈◊〉 Children lead himselfe and his Nobles away to a far land in fetters Though with Nero for their mere pleasure they should set the royallcitie in a faire fire or execute the plot of 〈◊〉 by murthering all the seed of the Iewes all zealous protestants up and downe the land in one day Such maximes exceedingly opposite to the honour of God the safetie of the Kings person and Crowne the welfare of the people these men cause to bee printed and let them goe athort without any censure at these times when by royall decreets they have pulled into their hands the full commandement of all the presses and the absolute jurisdiction over all the Book-sellers shops in the Kingdome and 〈◊〉 frequently theirzeale against any bookes that give but the least touch to their mitres by inflicting no lesse censure than fire upon the books pilloring and nose-slitting on the Authors and whipping thorow the streets on the carriers All these extraordinarie prerogatives whereby the faction advanceth supreme Magistrates so neere unto God and their favourites so far above the skies seeme to flow not from any love they carrie either to their crowns or the royall heads that beare them but meerely out of their selfe-respect to their owne ambition and greed that Soveraignty being advanced to an unmeasurable height may be a statelier horse for them to ride upon in their glorious triumphings above all that is called God For otherwise yee may see how farre they depresse all Soveraignes when they are layed in the ballance with themselves they tell us that the King can bee no more the head of the Church than the boy that rubs their horse heeles 2. That the heart whence the native life and vigour of the Ecclesiastick Lawes doth flow is alone the Bishops and not the King 3. That Kings and Emperours ought to reverence yea to adore Bishops and to pay them tributes 4. That everie Bishop is a Prince and a Monarch as farre in dignitie above the greatest secular Prince as the soule above the body or God above man FINIS Revised according to the ordinance of the generall Assembly by me Mr. A. Jhonston Clerk thereto Edinb 1. of April 1640. Wee did expect nothing lesse then war Wee have committed no 〈◊〉 that 〈◊〉 be 〈◊〉 with any goodly colour 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 of the late 〈◊〉 Compassion hope and all reason call now for peace at home 〈◊〉 at last we may get some order of our 〈◊〉 a 〈◊〉 The Canterburian faction 〈◊〉 veth not so well of England that armes in their favour ought to be taken against Scotland Wee 〈◊〉 to instruct by the 〈◊〉 of our partie their unsupportable crimes Arme 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 taken in so evill a cause can not but end in an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In this 〈◊〉 of time very poore 〈◊〉 without presumption may venture to speake to Parliaments An offer de serving 〈◊〉 audience The silence of the 〈◊〉 Divines is 〈◊〉 Our adversaries de cline to answer ou greatest challenge The scope of the treatise All our 〈◊〉 but one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Major thereof a Neither shall We ever give way to the authorizing of any thing whereby any innovation may steale or 〈◊〉 into the Church 〈◊〉 shall preserve that unitie of doctrine and discipline established in Queen 〈◊〉 Reigne whereby the Church of England have stood and flourished since 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 of England 1628. and therefore once for all we have thought sit to declare and hereby to assure all our good people that we neither were are nor ever by the grace of God shall be stained with Popish superstition 〈◊〉 by the contrary are resolved to maintain the true Protestant Religion already professed within this our ancient Kingdome We neither intend innovation in Religion or Laws Proclam 〈◊〉 8. 1638. 〈◊〉 all our good Subjects of the least suspition of any intention in us to innovate any thing either in Religion or Laws and to satisfie not only their desires but even their doubts Wee have discharged c. Proclam Septemb. 22. 1638. and to give all his Majesties people full assurance that hee never intended to admit any alteration or change in the true Religion professed within this Kingdome and that they may be truly and fully satisfied of the reality of his intentions and integrity of the same his Majesty hath been pleased to require and command all his good Subjects to subscribe the Confession of Faith formerly signed by his deare Father in Anno 1580 and it is his Majesties will that this be insert and registred in the Books of Assembly as a testimony to posterity not only of the sincerity of his intertions to the said true Religion but also of his resolution to mayntain and defend the same and his Subjects in the profession thereof Proclam Decemb. 13. 1638. b If any prelate would labour to bring in the superstitions of the Church of Rome I doe not only leave him to Gods iudgment but if his irreligious 〈◊〉 can be discovered also to shame and severe panishment from the State and in any just way no mans hands should be sooner against him then mine The Minor The conclusion 〈◊〉 a great and dangerous innovation of 〈◊〉 King James judgment of 〈◊〉 a Declarat contra 〈…〉 p. 15. 〈…〉 b Ibid. p. 12. 〈…〉 c Ibid. pag. 18 〈…〉 d Ibid. pag. 12. 〈…〉 e Ibid. pag. 14. 〈…〉 f Ibid. pag. 15. 〈…〉 The great increase of Arminians in Scotland by Canterburies mean The Kings name stolne by 〈◊〉 to the defence of 〈◊〉 g Large Declar. pag. 74. According to their weake and 〈◊〉 power they did determine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Predestination Universall Grace irresistibility of Grace concurrance of Free Will with Grace totall and finall perseverance in Grace and other

family though the remainder of the Nobility and Gentry in the land should be sent over by him some to worke in fetters in his Mines of Peru Others in chaynes to row all their dayes in his gallayes in the Mediterrane for all these or any other imaginable acts of tyrannie that could escape the wicked head of any mad Nero of any monstrous Caligula these men doe openly take upon them to perswade that no kind of resistance for defence can be made by the whole States of a land though sitting in Parliament with a most harmonious consent no more nor the Jewes might have done against Nabuchadnezer or the Christians of old against the Pagane Emperours or the Greek Church this day against the grand Signieur in Constantinople that all our forbeares both English and Scots in their manifold bickerings against the misleaders of their Princes against the tyrannizing factions of Court were ever Traytors and Rebels and ought to have losed their heads and lands for their presumption to defend their liberties against the intolerable insolencies of a pack of runigat Villanes and for their boldnesse to fasten the tottering Crowne upon the head of their Kings all such Services of our Antecessours to King and Country were treacherous insurrections If for all these their crimes I make speak before you no other witnesses then their 〈◊〉 tongues J trust there shall not remain in your minds the least shadow of any scruple to believe my allegations nor in your wils the least inclination to joine with the counsels of so polluted and self 〈◊〉 persons And if to men whose open profession in their printed bookes let be secret practises leades to so wicked ends so far contrare to the glorie of God to the honour and safety of our King to the well of us all whether in Soule body 〈◊〉 children or any thing that is deare to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lead your armes against us we believe the Lord of 〈◊〉 the righteous Judge would be 〈◊〉 to you and make hundreds of your 〈◊〉 in so 〈◊〉 a cause 〈◊〉 before ten of ours Or if it were the profound and unsearchable pleasure of the God of Armi s to make you for a time a scourge to beat us for our manifold transgressions yet when yee had obtained all the Prelats 〈◊〉 when wee for our other sins were tred under your 〈◊〉 we would for all that hope to die with great comfort 〈◊〉 courage as defenders of the truth of God of the liberties and lawes of our 〈◊〉 of the true good and honour of the 〈◊〉 and Royall Familie All which as wee take it one of the most wicked and unnaturall 〈◊〉 that ever this Isle did 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 manifestly 〈◊〉 yet certainly we could not but leave in our Testament to you our unjust oppressors the legacie of an untimous 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for when yee have killed thousands of us and banished the rest out of the Isle when on the back of our departure your sweet 〈◊〉 the Bishops have brought the Pope upon you and your children when a French or Spanish invasion doth threaten you with a slavish conquest will yee not then all and above all our gracious Prince regrate that he hath beene so evill advised as to have put so many of his brave Subjects to the cruell sword who were very able most willing to haue done him noble service against these forraine usurpers Would not at such a time that is too likely to be at hand if our Prelates advises now be followed both his Majestie and all of you who shall 〈◊〉 in life he most earnest recallers not onely of your owne Country-men many thousands whereof yee know have lately by Episcopall tyranny beene cast out from their 〈◊〉 as far as to the worlds end among the savadge Americans but also the reliques of our ruine from their banishment with as great diligence as in the time of Fergus the second the inhabitants of this land did recall our ancestors when by the fraud and force of a wicked faction they were the most part killed and the rest sent over Sea in banishment It were better by much before the remedilesse stroke be given to be well advised then out of time to sigh when the millions of lost lives when the happinesse of our true Religion when the liberties of both the nations once thrown away by our owne hands can not againe bee recovered To the end therefore that such lamentable inconveniences may be eshewed and your Honors the more animate to deny your power to those who now possibilie may crave to have it abused against us without cause beside numbers of pressing reasons wherewith I doubt not every wise man amongst you is come well enough 〈◊〉 from his owne considerations and which J trust shall be further presented in plenty by these of our Nation who have ever beene at the head of our affaires whom God hath still enabled to cleare the justice and necessitie of all our proceedings hitherto to the minds of all save our infatuat adversaries whom superstition and rage hath blinded If it might be your Honours pleasure when all the rest have ended I could wish that euen vnto me a little audience were given my zeale to the truth of God to the peace of this Isle to the honour of our deare and gratious Soveraigne imboldeneth me to offer even my little myte of information This is a period of time when the obstinate silence of those who are most obliged by their places and gifts to speake must open the mouths of sundrie who are not by much so able verie babes yea stones must finde a tongue when Pharisees deny their testimonie to CHRIST ` Dumbe men will get words when a father when a King let bee a whole kingdome by the wickednesse of a few is put in extreme perrill of ruine An Asse will finde 〈◊〉 when the devouring sword of an Angel if drawne against the Master Nothing more common in the Roman Annals then the speaches of very Oxen before any calamitie of the Common-wealth The claiking of Geese did at a time preserve the 〈◊〉 Amiclae was lost by too much silence The neglect of the voice of a Damosel the contempt of Cassandraes warning the casting of her in bands for her true but unpleasant speach did bring the Trojane horse within the wals and with it the quick ruine both of the city and Kingdome J hope then that the greatnesse of my undertaking may 〈◊〉 me a little audience for J offer to make you all see with your owne eyes and heare with your owne eares the Canterburians to declare by their owne tongues and write downe under their own hands their cleare mindes to bring in our Church Arminianisme and compleet Popery and in our State a slavery no lesse then Turkish If yee finde that I prove my offer I trust I may bee consident of your Wisedomes that though Cicero himselfe and with him Demosthenes as a second and Orpheus with the 〈◊〉

such a cause may be the more willing at this time to contribute for our assistance from God the helpe of their earnest Prayers and for ever hereafter to condole with the more hearty compassion any misery which possibly may befall us in such a quarrell Albeit truly our hopes are yet greater then our 〈◊〉 if we could become so happy as once to get our plea but entred before our Prince for wee can hardly conceive what in reason should hinder our full 〈◊〉 of a favourable decision from that Sacred mouth whose naturall equity the World knows in all causes whereof he is impartially informed since our whole action is nought but one formall argument whereof the Major is the verdict of our judge the Minor shall be the open and avowed Testimony of our party need wee feare that either our Judge or party will be so irrationall as to venture upon the deniall of a conclusion whereof both the premisses is their own open profession Our Major is this Who ever in the Kings Dominions spreads abroad Popery or any doctrine opposite to the Religion and Laws of the Land now established ought not to be countenanced but severely punished by the King This Major the King hath made certaine to us in his frequent most solemne asseverations not only at his Coronation both here and in England in his Proclamations both here and there but also in his late large Declaration oftimes giving out his resolution to live and die in the reformed Protestant Religion opposite to all Popery to maintaine his established Laws and in nothing to permit the enervating of them Yea this resolution of the King is so peremptory and publikely avowed that Canterbury himselfe dare not but applaud thereto in his Starre-chamber Speech who can see me more forward then hee for the great equity to punish condignely all who would but mint to bring in any popery in this Isle or assay to make any innovation in Religion or Lawes Wee believe indeed that the man doth but juggle with the World in his faire ambiguous generalities being content to inveigh as much against popery and innovation as we could wish upon hopes ever when it comes to any particular of the grossest popery wee can name by his subtile distinctions and disputations to slide out of our hands But wee are perswaded what ever may be the juggling of sophisticating Bishops yet the magnanimous ingenuity the Royall integrity of our gracious Soveraigne is not compatible with such fraudulent equivocations as to proclaime his detestation of popery in generals and not thereby to give us a full assurance of his abhorring every particular which all the orthodox Preachers of this Isle since the Reformation by Queene Elisabet and King James allowance have ever condemned as popish errours Our Major then wee trust may be past as unquestionable Wee subjoine our Minor But so it is that Canterbury and his dependars men raised and yet maintained by him have openly in their printed bookes without any recantation or punishment to this day spread abroad in all the Kings dominions doctrines opposite to our Religion and lawes especially the most points of the grossest poperie In reason all our bickering ought to be here alone This Minor I offer to instruct and that by no other middes then the testimony of their own pens If I doe so to the full satisfaction of all who know what are the particular heads of the reformed Religion and what the tenets of Popery opposite thereto what are the lawes standing in all the three dominions and what the contrary maximes of the Turkish empire where with Machiavelists this day every where are labouring to poyson the eares of all Christian Princes for enervating the laws and liberties of their Kinngdomes I hope that reason and justice which stand night and day attending on either side of King Charles throne will not fail to perswade the chearfull embracement of the conclusion which follows by a cleare and naturall necessity from the forenamed premisses to wit that Canterbury and his dependars in all the three dominions ought not to be countenanced by the King but severely punished Let be that for their pastime a bloody and hazardous war should be raised in so unseasonable a time for the undoing of that countrie and Church which God hath honoured with the birth and baptisme both of his Majesties owne person and of his renowmed father and to the which both of them as all their hundreth and six glorious Predecessors are endebted before God and the World all their Prerogatives both of nature 〈◊〉 and estate so much as any Princes were ever to their mother Church and native country CHAP. II. The Canterburians avowed Arminianisme ARminianisme how great and dangerous an innovation of the reformed Religion it is we may learne by the late experiences of our neighbours when that weed began to spread among them The States of Holland have declared in many passages of their Dordracen Synod that they found it a more ready meane to overthrow both their Church and State then all the engines policies armes which the Pope and Spaniard in any bygone time had used against them The Church of France the other yeare when Amirot and Testard and some few of their Divines were but surmised to incline a little towards some small twigs of one article of Arminius was so affrighted that they rested not till in a generall Assembly at Alenzon they did run together for the extinguishing of the first sparkes as it were of a common fire When P. Baro in Cambridge began to run a little on this rock how carefull was my Lord of Canterbury and the Bishops then in their meeting at Lambeth for the crushing of that Cockatrice in the 〈◊〉 when that serpent again in the same place began to set np the nose in the writtes of Thomson how carefull was the Bishops then by the hand of their brother of Salisbury Doctor Abbots to cut of the head of that monster But what speake wee of the Churches reformed The very Synagogue of Rome whose conscience is enlarged as the Hell to swallow downe the vilest morsels of the most lewd errours that Antichrist can present yet did they sticke much at this bone when the Jesuit Molina began to draw out these dregs of Pelagianisme from the long neglected pits of some obscure Schoolmen what clamours were raised there not only by Alvarez and his followers but also by numbers of Prelats and some great Princes till the credit of the Jesuits in the Court of Rome and the wisdome of the Consistory prognosticating a new rent in their Church did procure from the Pope a peremptory injunction of silence to both sides on all highest paines hoping if the Dominicans mouthes were once stopped that the Jesuits by their 〈◊〉 arts and silent policies would at last worke out their intended point which indeed since that time they have wel-neare fully gained But to King Charles eye no

now displayed in England by the hands of Montagu and White under the conduct of Doctor Lad Bishop of Saint Davids even then the President the chiefe in Ecclesiasticall affaires of the Duke of Buckinghams secret councell At the first sight of this black banner a number of brave Champions got to their armes pulpits over all England rang presses swate against the boldnesse of that but small handfull then of courtizing Divines Their crafty leader seeing the sloud of opposition and finding it meet for a little to hold in and fold up his displayed colours did by the Duke his patron perswade the expediencie of that policy which the Jesuites had immediately before for that same very designe moved the Roman consistory to practice Hee obtained a Proclamation commanding silence on both sides discharging all preaching all printing in these controversies astricting to the cleare plaine and very Grammaticall sense of the Articles of England in these points without all further deductions By this meanes his intentions were much promoved open avowers of Arminianisme were by publique authority so exempted from any censure a reall libertie was thus proclamed over all the land for any who pleased to embrace Arminianisme without oppotion Hereby in two or three years the infection spread so far and broad that the Parliament was forced in the 28. to make the encrease of Arminianisme their chiefe grievance to his Majestie But at that time Doctor Lad was growne greater He had mounted up from the Bath to London and to make a shew there in Parliament of his power in the eie of all the complainers he raised up Montagu to the Episcopall Chaire of his own Diocesan Doctor Carleton who had lately chastised him in print for his Arminian appeale D. White his other 〈◊〉 that all great spirits might be encouraged to run the wayes which Doct. Lad pointed out to them in despight of these Parliamentarie Remonstrants was advanced from Bishoprick to Bishoprick till death at the step of Elie did interrupt the course of his promotion that to Wren a third violent follower of his Arminian Tenets way might bee made for to clime up the remaining steps of the ladder of his Honours Now to the end 〈◊〉 the world may know that my Lord of Canterbury doth nothing blush at the advancement of such men heare what a publique testimony of huge worth and deserving hee causeth his Herauld Peter 〈◊〉 to proclame to that Triumvirat not onely at his own directions for that moderate answer of Heylens is the Iusto volumine which his G. did promise to the world in his Starre-chamber speech but also in name of authority if Heylen lie not who sayes He writes that book at the commandement of the State There after the cryasse of Canterburies owne extraordinary prayses the renowme of his three Underleaders is loudly sounded as of plain Non-suches All these his graces favours to his followers would have been the more tolerable if he would have permitted his Orthodox opposites to have had some share in their Princes affection or at least to have lived in peace in their own places But behold all that crosses his way must downe were they the greatest Bishops in the Dominions For who else wrought the 〈◊〉 Archbishop so farre out of the Kings Grace that he remained some yeers before his death well-neere confined to his house at Lambeth Who hath caused to cage up in the Tower that great and learned Bishop of Lincolne what ever else may be in the man What fray makes that worthy Primate Vsher to foretell oft to his friends his expectation to be sent over Sea to die a Pedant teaching boys for his bread by the persecution of this faction whose ways he avows to many doth tend to manifest Arminianisme and Popery This their resolution to persecute with all extremity every one who shall mint to print or preach any thing against Arminianisme they avow it openly not only by deeds for why else was Master Butter the Stationer cast by Canterbury in the Fleet for printing Bishop Davenants letter to Bishop Hall against some passage of Arminianisme at the Authors direction as we see it set down by Huntley in his Breviat but even in open print for when Master Burton complains to the King that hee was silenced by Canterbury for expounding of his ordinary text Rom. 8 Whom God hath predestinate those he hath called and applying it to the present Pelagianisme and Popery of the Arminians Christopher Dow approved by Canterburies Chaplain and Peter Helyn directed to speak by Canterbury himselfe doth not stand to affirme that this was a cause well deserving all the sufferings hee complained of Could any here but expect of his Graces wisedome and loyalty when his solicitude appeareth to disgrace and punish without respect of persons all who in contempt as he saith of the Kings Proclamation will not desist from the publike oppugning of Arminianisme that on the other hand the Preachers and Printers for Arminianisme according to that same Proclamation should be put to some order yet this is so farre neglected that all who are so affected Cousins Colines Beal in CAMBRIDGE Potter and Jackson in OXFORD and many more prime Doctours in both Universities in the Citie in the Court and over all the Land boldly give out their mind to all they meet with for the advancement of the new way yea boldnesse in running those paths hath beene knowne to have beene the high way in all the three Dominions these yeeres bygone to certain promotion in many men who to the Worlds eyes had no other singular eminencie of any good parts But that his Graces tramping upon the Kings Proclamation may bee yet the more evident behold how hee doth daily dispense both with his owne pen and those also of his Friends to write and print for Arminianisme what they please White being taxed by Master Burton for his subscription to Montagues Appeale is so farre from the least retractation that the fift Article of Apostasie and uncertainty of salvation which Master Burton did single out of all Montagues errours as most opposite to Christian comfort hee maintaines it in his owne Answer to the Dialogue but as the custome now is under the covert of some Fathers name at great length with much bitternesse and casts out without provocation in his Treatise of the Sabbath the first and second Article Master Dow and Schelfoord use the same plainnesse Yea in the one and thirtieth yeare that Faction was so malepeart as to set out the Historicall Narration by one Aileward wherein all the Articles of Arminius at length with these false and bitter Calumniations of our Doctrine which are usually chanted and rechanted by the Remonstrants are not onely set downe as truths but also fathered upon the first reformers and Martyrs of England That Booke when it had beene out a while was called in not because the doctrines were false not because the

reerection of it where it s owne unsupportable weight hath caused it to fall As for the power of Princes the most of those this day who are Christians and especially our gracious Soveraigne are very well content to bee limited within the bounds of the lawes which themselves and their predecessors have setled in the Church and State of their dominions to make the preservation of those Lawes and of their subjects liberties Ecclesiastick and Civill according to them the greatest glory of their prerogative Royall To give assurance of their resolution never to abolish any old or bring in any new act either in church or state without the concurrence of Assemblies and Parliaments Neither to impose any taxation on their subjects goods without their free consent thereto given by their Commissioners in Parliament the extending of the prerogative to the making of new lawes or abolishing of old to the imposing of taxes by simple proclamation without Parliament our Prince doth so farre abhorre that he condemned a certaine writ for importing his Majesties entertainment of such motions yea his Majestie by his Attourney generall called the Earle of Bedford and other noble personages to censure for keeping such a writ wherein did lye so pernicious positions Where some Princes misled through passion and mis-information have deviat so far from the path of justice as to intend by violence and armes the overthrow of the true religion and ancient liberties of their subjects the opposition which the subjects are forced to make in this case against the oppression of their Prince our gracious Soveraigne hath been so farre ever from counting of it rebellion of which crime the greatest royalists in England wont alway to absolve it that his Majestie hath thought meet before all Europe after the example of his glorious Father and renowned predecesrix Elizabeth to give his countenance aid and powerfull assistance to them all when their just grievances and feares were laid out before his Throne If so be King Charles had esteemed the late wars in France of the protestants against their king the present wars of Holland and of the high Dutches against the Spaniard and Emperour an unlawfull defence let be a trayterous insurrection of Subjects against their Soveraignes Weepresuppone his Majesties justice would have beene loath ever to have defiled his Scepter by supporting them all with men and moneyes as oft he hath done and yet doth avow the deed While our gracious prince is so farre inflamed with hatred against all tyranny yet behold this wicked fiction how carefully they goe about by all the meanes they can to draw his royall mind to that which naturally it doth so much abhorre For they tell us first that the power of all true Kings is so simply absolute and illimitate that for any man to reason what they may not is a crime no lesse than treason that they are far above all Law 2. That the Oath which a Prince makes to keepe the Lawes is but a personall deed which cannot oblige his successor that his Oath and promise at his Coronation to keepe the Lawes is to be exponed of his resolution to make his lawes to be keeped by others That all the oathes and promises he makes at his coronation are but of his meere free-will and arbitrement that by them all no true covenant or paction can bee inferred betwixt the King and his subjects 3. That the prince alone is the Law-giver both in Church and State 4. That in matters Ecclesiasticall they themselves alone without the advice of any of the Clergie may lawfully make what Canons they please and compell their Clergie to embrace them 5. That it is a part of the Kings prerogative to have power to impose upon all his Subjects such Confessions of Faith such Liturgies such Canons as he thinks meetest without the advice of any Church Assembly 6. When it is his pleasure to call an Assembly the members of that Ecclesiastick Court are onely such as hee is pleased to call whether of the Clergie or of the Laity 7. That when they are called onely the Princes voyce is decisive the voyce of all the rest at most but consultive or if any of them become decisive it is by the Princes favour or at least permission 8. That Church Assemblies are onely politick Conventions not grounded upon any Divine right and so to bee used or disused as the prince shall thinke expedient 9. That it is in the power of all Soveraignes whether Monarchick Aristocratick or Democratick to appoynt for the government of the Church in their dominions such Officers and Spirituall Courts as they finde most meet and agreeable to their temporall estates to erect Bishops and put downe Presbyteries to erect Presbyteries and put downe Bishops 10. That all this power to conclude every ecclesiastick affaire which can bee subject to the jurisdiction of any ecclesiasticall Synod doth belong alike to all Soveraignes whether Turkish Iewish Pagan Hereticall or Christian and Orthodox Concerning the Kings power in matter of State they teach first that a Parliament is but his arbitrarie Councell which in making or annulling of his Lawes hee may use or not use as hee pleaseth 2. When hee is pleased to call a Parliament it is his due right by his letter to ordaine such Barons to be Commissioners for the Shires and such Citizens to bee Commissioners for Burrowes as hee shall bee pleased to name 3. That hee may lawsully exact when he hath to doe what portion of his subjects goods hee thinks meet and by himselfe alone may make such Lawes for exactions in times to come as seemes to him best 4. That no subject of his Kingdome can have any hereditarie jurisdiction but any jurisdiction that either any of the Nobilitie or any other Magistrate or Officer possesseth they have it alone during his pleasure that at his presence the power of all others must cease and at his death evanish and be quite extinguished till by his successors by new gift it bee renewed 5. That Scotland is a subdued Nation that Fergus our first King did conquer us by the sword and establish an absolute Monarchie for himselfe and his heires giving to us what Lawes he thought meetest 6. That all the Lands in Scotland were once the Kings propertie and what thereof hath beene given out for service yet remaines his owne by a manifold right 7. That to denie any of the named parts of this power to the King is to destroy his Monarchike government to dethrone him and make him no King to subject him to his people and make them his Masters or at least Collegues in the Empire But thankes be to God that our gracious prince hath so oft declared himselfe to bee farre from all such thoughts yea that my Lord of Canterburie himselfe is forced whiles to let drop from