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A91309	Truth triumphing over falshood, antiquity over novelty. Or, The first part of a just and seasonable vindication of the undoubted ecclesiasticall iurisdiction, right, legislative, coercive power of Christian emperors, kings, magistrates, parliaments, in all matters of religion, church-government, discipline, ceremonies, manners: summoning of, presiding, moderating in councells, synods; and ratifying their canons, determinations, decrees: as likewise of lay-mens right both to sit and vote in councells; ... In refutation of Mr. Iohn Goodwins Innocencies Triumph: my deare brother Burtons Vindication of churches, commonly called Independent: and of all anti-monarchicall, anti-Parliamentall, anti-synodicall, and anarchicall paradoxes of papists, prelates, Anabaptists, Arminians, Socinians, Brownists, or Independents: whose old and new objections to the contrary, are here fully answered. / By William Prynne, of Lincolnes Inne, Esquire.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1645 (1645)	Wing P4115; Thomason E259_1; ESTC R212479	202,789	171

HERETIQVES limiting the maner of proceeding against them defining what shal be heresie how it shall be punished and abridging the Authority of the Bishops and Canon Law ch 16. concernes Pluralities ch 19. containes the submission of the Clergy Convocation to the King declares the Kings supremacy in causes Ecclesiasticall the impotency of the Clergy or Convocation to make or promulge any Canons or Ecclesiasticall constituti●ns or to debate any thing in Convocation without his Royall Lycence and approbation The Nullity and invalidity of the Canon Law abolisheth all appeales to Rome and Authorizeth 32. persons whereof halfe to be of the Clergy the other halfe of THE LAITY to survay the Canon Law and to compile a body of the Canon Law to be authorized by the King under his Great Seale by vertue of this Act for to be the only Canon Law to be used within this Realme Chap. 20. takes away the payment of any Annates o● first fruits to the Bishop of Rome nullifies his usurped power and Buls settles the forme of electing and consecrating Archbishops and Bishops within this Realme and plentifully manifests the Kings and Parliaments Jurisdictions in Ecclesiasticall affaires chap. 21. doth the like exonerating the Kings Subjects from all exactions and Impositions heretofore payed to the Sea of Rome and enabling the Archbishop of Canterbury and his Officers to grant all Licences and dispensations within the Realme which were formerly granted at Rome only The Statute is worthy perusall consideration fully demonstrating the power of the Parliament in Church affaires 26. H. 8. c. 1. declares the Kings Highnesse to be supreme head of the Church of England under Christ making it a part of his Royall Title and to have Ecclesiasticall authority to redresse and reforme all Errors Heresies and abuses in the Church punishable by any spirituall or ecclesiasticall Law Chap. 3. enacts The payment of the first fruits of all Dignities Benefices promotions spirituall and tenthes to the King and his Heires abolishing the Popes usurpations and authority herein ch 13. abolisheth sanctuarie in cases of High Treason ch 14. Authorizeth the nomination and consecration of suffragan Bishops in sundry places of this Realme and both creates and limits their authority chap. 15. takes away some exactions of spirituall men within the Archdeaconry of Richmond 27. H. 8. c. 8. limits that the Kings spirituall Subjects shall pay no Tithes whiles they are in their first fruits ch 15. authorizeth the King to nominate 32. persons halfe of the Clergy the other of the Laity for the perusall and making of Ecclesiasticall Lawes and manifests the Convocations invalidity to make such lawes or Canons ch 19. Limiteth and abolisheth Sanctuaries and sanctuary persons ch 20. containes an Order touching the paying of Tithes throughout the Realme ch 21. Limits the maner of payment of Tythes within the City of London ch 27. suppresseth divers Monasteries Priories and Religious Houses vesteth their revenues in the King and erects the Court of Augmentations 28. H. 8. ch 10. extinguisheth thes authority of the Bishop of Rome prescribes an Oath of abjuration of it and Popery together with the Popes usurpations and excellently sets forth the Kings supreamacy the Parliaments authority in matters ecclesiasticall as you may read in the Act worthy perusall ch 11. enacts Restitution of the first fruits in time of vacation to the next incumbent ch 13. compells spirituall persons to residence upon their livings ch 16. Releaseth such as have obtained pretended Licences and dispensations from the Sea of Rome 31. H 8. c. 6. enables such as were Religious persons to purchase lands to sue and be sued in al maner of Actions which they were disabled formerly to do by the Common Canon Law ch 9. Enables the King to make Bishops by his Letters Patents only and to erect new Bishopricks which he did ch 13. disolves all Monasteries and religious Houses and vests them in the King wherein you may behold much of the Kings and Parliaments power in Church businesses ch 14. For abolishing of diversity of opinions in matters of Religion most fully and exactly demonstrates the Kings and Parliaments jurisdictions in matters of Religion as the whole Act sufficiently manifests though the Articles therein defined were erronious and the Act too cruell and bloudy 32. H. 8. cap. 8. provides for the true payment of Tythes and offerings chap. 10. containes the punishment of incontinent Priests and of women offending with them ch 12. concernes Sanctuaries and the priviledges of Churches and Church-Yards ch 15. prescribes the manner of proceeding against Heretickes and impugners of the Act for abolishing of enormious opinions in Christian Religion chap. 23 24. concernes Accounts of Bishops and subsidies granted by the Clergie chap. 25. Dispences the Kings marriage with the Lady Iane chap. 24. Dissolves the Hospitalls of Saint Johns of Ierusalem in England and Ireland for supporting and maintaining the supremacy and jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome contrary to their duty and Allegiance chap. 26. Intitled An act concerning true opinions and Declaration of Christs Religion is most pregnant to our present purpose which you may peruse chap. 38. Concerning precontracts of marriages and degrees of consanguinity is likewise a most punctuall Act for the Kings and Parliaments Ecclesiasticall power and chap 44. 45 47. good evidences of it 33. H. 8. chap. 15. 27 28 29 30 31 32. Enabling Religious persons to sue and bee sued severing the Bishopricks of CHESTER and Isle of MAN from the jurisdiction of CANTERBURY to the See of Yorke making the Church of Whitgate a Popish Church by it selfe and severing it from the Parish of Over which I wish our Independents to observe and to learne from this and other Acts that no new Churches or Parishes can be erected legally but by act of Parliament which none of their Churches are 34. and 35. H. 8. c. 1. intituled An act for The advancement of true Religion and For the abolishing of the contrary is most pertinent to our purpose and c. 15. 17 19 35. H. 8. c. 9. for ratification of the Kings stile and Title of Defender of the Faith and supreame head of the Church of England and Ireland ch 6. Concerning the qualification of the Statute of the 6. Articles c. 16. concerning the examination of the Canon Lawes by 32. persons halfe of the Clergie and halfe of the temporalty to be named by the Kings Majesty during his life to compile a body of the Canon Law to bee used in the Realme 37. H. 8. c. 4. 12. but especially ch 17. That Doctors of civill Law may execute Ecclesiasticall jurisdiction though Laymen and married a Law worthy reading and chap. 21. For the union of Churches not exceeding the value of 5l which could not be done but by Act of Parliament are all most pregnant evidences of the Kings and Parliaments indubitable Ecclesiasticall jurisdictions in matters of Discipline Religion Church-government and all Church affaires whatsoever The Statutes made in King

Henry the first summoned another Councell about Easter ad Curiam suam apud Londoniam cunctis Majoribus Regni having assembled to his Court at London not only his Archbishops and Bishops but all the great men of his Kingdome to suppresse the Marriages of Priests contrary to the Canons of the Councell of London Anno 1102. For the extirpation of which evill the King Regali authoritate atque potentia fultos roboravit by his royall Authority and power ratified those Canons and thereupon Anselmo Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas elect Archbishop of Yorke and all the Bishops of England Decreed in the presence of the said Glorious King Henry Assensu omnium Baronum suorum with the assent of all his Barons that Priests and Deacons should live chastly and keepe no Women in their Houses but those who were of their neare kindred as the Councell of Nice had defined this Canon being ratified both by the King and Peeres in Parliament to make it obligatory In these three Councells under Archbishop Anselme a great stickler for the Popes and Clergies Ecclesiasticall Jurisdiction we see the King and great men of the Realme were present and ratified the Decrees and Canons therein concluded to make them valid and binding Anno 1114 King Henry the first commanded all the Bishops and Nobles of the Kingdome to meete together at his Court whereupon a rumour was spred over all the Land that the Archbishop of Canterbury was about to celebrate a generall Councell in presence of the Popes Legate and that he would promulge some new things worthy so great a Councell for the reformation of Christian Religion in every order On the sixteenth of October they all met together in the Kings Pallace at Westminster where the multitude which assembled together at last perceived that the tumour of celebrating a Councell and of the reformation of Christianity was nothing so There Anselme in the behalfe of the Pope brought a letter directed from him to the King and Bishops wherein hee taxeth the King for conferring Bishopricks claiming that right as belonging to Peters See for determining Ecclesiasticall matters and the affaires of Bishops without his or his Legats privity which belong only to the Apostolike Sea for stopping appeales to Rome as also for calling and keeping Synodall Councells without his privity when as it was unanimously ratified in the great councell of Nice consisting of 318 Bishops that no Councells ought to be summoned or kept without the privity of the Bishop of Rome and for translating Bishops without his consent Which letters much offending the Kings mind he sent his Nuntioes by common consent to Rome to give the Pope an answer and justifie his proceedings herein as warranted by his Royall Prerogative The same yeare upon the thirteenth of Aprill there was an Assembly held at Salisbury of the Bishops Abbots and great men of all England the Kings Writ compelling them to appeare there where the King appointed William his sonne lawfully begotten to be heire to the Crowne to which all the Nobles condescended and presently tooke an oath of Allegeance to him to be his men But the Bishops and Abbotts swore only and gave their faith that if he survived his Father they would forthwith conferre both the Kingdome and Crowne of the Kingdome on him without any controversie or exception In August following one Anselm the Archbish of Canterburyes kinsman came from Rome to King Henry being then in Normandie bringing the Popes Letters which authorized him to exercise the Office of the Popes Legate here in England which in a short time being knowne in the Kingdome of England the Bishops Abbots and Nobles admiring at it assembled together at London about it and certaine other things the Queen being present to discusse the matter Communi Concilio in a common Councell whereupon they all accorded to send the Archbishop of Canterbury whom it most concerned to the King to acquaint him with the ancient custome of the Kingdome and the liberty thereof and if he thought fit that he should goe likewise to Rome to annihilate This Novelty Who comming accordingly to the King found Anselme there expecting his passage into England to exercise his Legatine office there But King Henry the first not suffering any prejudice to happen to the ancient Customes of England kept him from entring into England that not without presidents For in the first yeare of this Kings Raigne Guido Archbishop of Vienna came into England having as he said the power Legatine of all England by the precept and authoritie of the Apostolicall See which being heard of throughout England was admired by all men all knowing that it was a thing unheard of in Britaine that any man except the Archbishop of Canterbury should take upon him to supply the Popes Apostolicall turnes Wherefore as he came so he returned being received as a Legate by no man nor exercising the Office of a Legate in any thing After this one Peter having obtained from the Pope a power Legatine over England Ireland France and the Iland of the Orcades at the same hereof all England was astonished the King sent the Bishop of Saint Davids and another Clergie man beyond Sea to conduct him to him enjoyning them that after his entrance into England they should not suffer him to enter into any Churches or Monasteries to lodge or eate Being brought to the King and honourably received by him having declared the cause of his comming the King answered him that hee had now no leasure to minde so great a businesse and that his Legatine power could not be established and ratified but by the connivance and assent of the Bishops Abbots Nobles and the Assembly of the whole Kingdome in Parliament moreover hee affirmed that he could not by any meanes willingly loose any of the Customes of his Country granted him by the Apostolicall See so long 〈…〉 lived whereof this was one of the chiefest and greatest that hee made the kingdome of England free from all Legatine power Whereunto Peter affented and promised to doe his endeavour to have this priviledge preserved and augmented And so being gratified with rich presents Ille qui Legati officio fungi in toto Britania venerat nimirum ab omni officio tali cum ingenti Pompa v●a qua venerat extra Angliam a Rege missus est writes Eadmerus of him by way of derision So little jurisdiction had the Popes Legates here in England in those dayes who became an intollerable vexation oppression to it in succeeding Ages in the Reignes of King John Henry the third and others In the Councell of Westminster under Iohn de Crema the Popes lecherous Legate Ann. 1125. there were 17. Canons made ab omnibus confirmata and confirmed by all there present to wit by 20. Bishops 40. Abbots Cuminumera Cleri Populi multitudine with an innumerable multitude of the Clergie and people who were present at it as the Continuer

all we desire two Prebends to be given us by all Cathedrall Churches and out of Abbies where the Monkes and Abbots have divers portions of each one Monkes intire allowance one from the Covent another from the Abbott which demand Otho urged the Bishops and Prelates to grant on the foresaid grounds Who consulting together hereupon returned this their common Answere by Iohn Archdeacon of Bedford That those things he had propounded to them did specially concerne the King of England and generally all the Patrons of Churches Archbishops Suffragans and Prelates of England since therefore the King was then absent by reason of his infirmitie and some Archbishops Bishops and other Prelates were absent likewise that in their absence they neither could nor ought to give any Answer And upon these words uttered came Iohn Lord Marshall of England and other Messengers from the King strictly commanding all what held Baronies of the King in Capite that that they should not obliege their lay Fee to the Church of Rome whereby he might be deprived of the services due unto him And so all returned to their owne home The same yeare there was another Councell assembled at Westminster under Stephen Langhton Archbishop of Canterbury about the same matter To which the King conferring a part with some of the Nobles and Bishops gave this Answer that these things concern all Christendom because we are placed in the remotest parts of the world when we shall see what other Kingdomes will say to these exactions and shall have an example from them the Pope shall finde us more ready to obey him And so this Councell brake up By both which presidents it is evident that Councells in those dayes were no other but Parliaments the King Nobles and Commons being present in them and that the Clergy alone could treat or conclude of nothing but by their concurring assents Anno 1231. There was a great Synod of Abbotts Priors Archdeacons with almost the whole Nobility Masters and Clerks of the Realme assembled at Saint Albans by the Popes Command to celebrate a divorse betweene the Countesse of Essex and her Husband if there were cause This divorse was but an Ecclesiasticall matte● as the Canonists deemed it yet both King Nobles and Commons as well as Abbots and Clergy-men were present at it and called to it by the Popes command In the yeare of our Lord 1236. there was a Councell of all the great men Prelates and Clergie of the Realme summoned to meet at London by King Henry the third under Othe the Popes Legate which being assembled together at Paules the second day thereof the King sent John Earle of Lincolne Iohn the son of Jeffery and William de Reele a Canon of Paules to inhibit the Legate in the behalfe of the King and Kingdome that he should not there Attempt or decree any thing against his Royall Crowne and dignity William Reele remained there to see this inhibition observed the others departed The next day folowing the Legate supported with divine assistance astantis concilij Suffragits et consensu and by the suffrages and consent of the Councel there present to conserve and reforme the State Ecclesiasticall in the parts of England besides other Canonicall institutions promulged certaine Canons digested into Chapters and Articles which Edmond Archbishop of Canterbury with divers others who departed from the Councell with little joy resolved to nullifie and revoke as not confirmed by the King the Lords and Commons for ought appeares which Otho understanding writ to the Pope to ratifie them who accordingly did it by his decretall Epistle Anno 1288. John Peckam Archbishop of Canterbury held a Provinciall Councell at Redding in which he made five Constitutions purposing to draw the conusance of Patronages of Churches anciently belonging to the Kings Court to the Ecclesiasticall to rescinde all Royall Prohibitions in suites depending in the Ecclesiasticall Court for goods and Chattels and to inhibitu that Ecclesiasticall Judges should be thenceforth prohibited to proceed in them But the King hearing of this designe sent certain selected messengers both to the Archbishop and the whole Councell commanding them with threats to resist whence it came to passe that the Archbishop wholy receeded from his presumption and the Councell being dissolved all the Prelates returned frustrate of their hope 31. An. 1296. Robert Winchelsee Archbishop of Canterbury held a Provinciall Councell at London where the Clergy to disapoint the King of his Subsidies and Tenths decreed among other things Ne quid inconsulto Papa Regibus a Clero solveretur That nothing should be payed to Kings without the Popes privity and consent A right loyall Constitution worthy Prelates The King having then called a Parliament to re-inburse his monyes spent in the Scottish Wars had a large Subsidie granted him by the Commons and Burgesses But the Clergy neither offered nor granted him any thing by reason of this their Constitution for confirmation whereof the Archbishop had gotten the Popes Bull The King being moved therewith proroged the Parliament to London commanding the Clergy to be there on the first day of Saint Hilary to give him a better answer The King in the mean time commanded all the Clergy mens Barnes which were full of corne to be sealed up with publike Seales which whiles his Officers were executing the Archbishop commanded the Popes decree to be published in Cathedrall Churches inhibiting under pain of Excommunication that no Tribute or ayd should be payd to the King or to any secular Prince out of Ecclesiasticall livings or revenues an high straine of Papall usurpation and presumption and when he and his Suffragans met in Pauls they resolved to stand to their former Constitution and to grant the King nothing Such dutifull good Subjects were these lordly Prelates Whereupon the King sending messengers to them to demand a supply from them they all returne him this answer It is sufficiently known that under God the Lord of all we have two Lords a spirituall the Pope our Lord and a temporall the King our Soveraigne and though we are bound to obey both yet we ought to obey our spirituall Lord more than our temporall And therefore we intend to send a Legate to the Pope that his leave first obtained wee may give the King what he desires of us The King receiving this answer tooke it very disdainfully that he should be thus mocked in his own Kingdome by the Pope and his Clergie and thereupon thrust the Clergie out of the Parliament and held a Councell with his Barons and Commons alone and presently put all the Clergie out of his protection that none of them should have power to sue any man in any of his Courts but might be sued there by any of his subjects upon which all the Clergie but the Archbishop were content to offer the King the fith part of their Ecclesiasticall goods and the Archbishop persisting in his obstinacy had all

Articles of Religion and enjoyning subscription thereunto under penalties losse of Benefices and other Ecclesiasticall penalties Limiting likewise the age of such who are to be made Ministers ch 17. Concerning the Leases of Benefices and Ecclesiasticall livings with Cure 18. Eliz. c. 6. Concerning the taking away of Clergy c. 23 Eliz. c. 1. To retain the Queens Majesties subjects in their due obedience made against Jesuits Semenary Priests and others receiving Orders from Rome and the harbourers of them under capitall penalties 27. Eliz. c. 2. Against Jesuits Seminary Priests and such other disobedient persons 29. Eliz. c. 6. Concerning Recusants 31. Eliz. c. 1. Against Symony 35 Eliz. c. 1. Against Seperatists and Schismaticks refusing conformity to our Church Service and Liturgie who are lyable to imprisonment fines and other penalties for it by the Law ch 2. For restraining Popish Recusants to some certaine plate of abode 29 Eliz. c. 8. For confirmation of the Deprivation of divers Bishops and Deanes in the beginning of the Queens Raigne ch 22. Concerning the Bishop of Norwich are plentifull evidences of what I plead for In King James his Raigne I finde many Acts of Parliament asserting the Kings and Parliaments Ecclesiasticall jurisdictions as 1 Jacobi c. 1● Concerning the Kings Title to the Crowne ch 2. Concerning Archbishopricks and Bishopricks ch 5. For the due execution of the Statutes against Jesuites Seminary Priests Recusants ch 12. Against second marriages till former wives or husbands bee dead ch 31. For building a new Church in Melcombe Regis to be the Parish Church of Radepoll and for making the Church of Radepoll a Chappell to it 3 Jacobi c. 3. for a publick thanksgiving to Almighty God every yeare on the fift day of November for the deliverance from the hellish Gunpowder treason ch 4. For the better discovering and suppressing of Popish Recusants which prescribes a new oath of Allegiance ch 5. To prevent and avoyd danger which may grow by Popish Recusants which likewise prohibits the Importations of any Popish Books Agnus Dei Crucifixes c. ch 20. To restraine abuses of Players 21. Jacobi ch 17. Against Usury ch 20. To prevent and reforme prophane swearing and cursing The Statutes in King Charles his Raigne are punctuall evidences of the Soveraign Ecclesiasticall jurisdiction of our Kings Parliaments in all which we find not onely severall Committees appointed concerning Religion frequent in all Queene Elizabeths and King James their Parliaments but also sundry Statutes concerning Religion and Church-matters as namely 1 Carols c. 1. For punishing divers abuses committed on the Lords day 3 Caroli c. 1. For further reformation of divers abuses on the Lords day ch 2. To restraine the passing or sending of any to be Popishly bred beyond the Seas But the severall Acts Ordinances and Proceedings of this present Parliament concerning all matters of Religion Church government and Ecclesiasticall affaires are presidents beyond all exception The Acts already passed For suppressing the High-Commission disabling any Clergy-man to meddle with any temporall offices or to be Justices of Peace The taking away of Bishops Votes and their sitting in the House of Peers The severall Acts Votes Ordinances which have passed both House for abolishing all new Canons Plaralities Non-residence punishing of scandalous Ministers Sanctifying the Lords day Keeping of Monethly and other Fasts Celebrating speciall dayes of thanksgiving for sundry Discoveries Victories Prohibiting the printing of erroneous books Suppressing Antinomians Socinians Anabaptists and other Sectaries Abolishing all Innovations Superstitions Idolatreus pictures Images Altars Copes Tapers Royals c. Payment of Tythes Probate of Wills Ordination of Ministers and above all their nominating and convening an Assembly of conscientious pious reverend learned orthodox Divines to assist them in reforming all errors and corruptions in Doctrine Worship Government Discipline and establishing such a pure Worship and Church-government in our Realme as shal be most agreeable to Gods Word wherein they have made a large progresse already the Directory for Worship being now finished and we expect a full accomplishment of this much desired Worke ere long All these with infinite other particulars are a most satisfactory and unanswerable evidence of the Parliaments jurisdiction and Legislative power in all matters of Religion Worship Government Discipline and other Ecclesiasticall things or proceedings whatsoever none of which have ever been settled among us in any age in a legall and obligatory way but onely in and by Parliaments I shall close up these 〈◊〉 Domestick authorities with the Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament concerning the present Assembly of Divines wherein all may clearly discerne the jurisdiction of our Parliaments in all Church affaires matters of Religion and over the Assembly it selfe together with the Instructions or Ruled prescribed to the Assembly which they have punctually observed and submitted to not yet in print An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons in Parliament for the calling of an Assembly of learned and godly Divines and others to be consulted with by the Parliament for the setling of the Government and Liturgy of the Church of England and for vindicating and clearing of the Doctrine of the said Church from false uspertions and interpretations WHereas amongst the infinite blessings of Almighty God upon this Nation none is or can be more deate unto us then the purity of our Religion and for that as yet many things remaine in the Lyturgy Discipline and Government of the Church which doe necessarily require a further and more perfect reformation then as yet hath been attained And whereas it hath been declared and resolved by the Lords and Commons assmbled in Parliament that the present Church-Government by Archbishops Bishops their Chancellors Commissaries Deanes Deanes and Chapters Archdeacons and other Ecclesiasticall Officers depending upon the Hierarchy is evill and justly offensive and bu●thensome to the Kingdome a great impediment to reformation and growth of Religion and very prejudicial to the state and government of this Kingdome and that therefore they are resolved that the same shall be taken away and that such a Government shall be setled in the Church as may be most agreeable to Gods holy Word and most apt to procure and preserve the peace of the Church at home and neerer agreement with the Church of Scotland and other reformed Churches abroad and for the better effecting hereof and for the vindicating and clearing of the doctrine of the Church of England from all false calumnies and aspersions It is thought fit and necessary to call an Assembly of learned godly and judicious Divines who together with some members of both the Houses of Parliament are to consult and advise of such matters and things touching the premises as shall be proposed unto them by both or either of the Houses of Parliament and to give their advice and counsell therein to both or either of the said Houses when and as often as they shall be thereunto requited Be it therefore ordained by

the Assembly not by any particular man or men in a private way when either House shall require it All things agreed 〈◊〉 and prepared for the Parliament to be openly read and allowed in the Assembly if the major part assent Provided that the opinion of any persons dissenting and the reasons urged for it be annexed thereunto if the Dissenters require it Together with Solutions if any were given in the Assembly to these Reasons Jo Browne Cler. Parliamentorum Having thus sufficiently evidenced the authority and jurisdiction of Parliaments in matters of Religion and Church affaires by these numerous punctuall irrefragable Presidents in all Ages give me leave to add these two considerations to them to demonstrate this their undoubted right and priviledge beyond all contradiction and silence every adverse tongue Pen of all Papists Anabaptists Brownists Separatists or Independents whatsoever First that all our ancient and moderne Writs for summoning a Parliament have ever had this speciall clause in them Pro quibusdam ardnis ungentibus negotiis Nos statum defensionem Regni Angliae ECCLESIAE ANGLICANAE concernentibus qu●ddam Parliamentum c. teneri ordinavaimus From whence it is most apparent That the state and defence of the Church of England and well ordering of the same is one Principall end of summoning Parliaments and one maine part of the subject matters of our Parliaments as Sir Edward Cooke resolves 2ly That all every of the pre●ended opposites to Parliaments Ecclesiasticall jurisdiction hand formely and none especially in the present Parliament addressed severall Petitions to this High and Honorable Court for Reformation of the Church suppression of haeresies Errors Idolatry Popery Superstition Schismes Prela●y and establishing Gods true worship Religion Ordinances Discipline as to the most proper Iudicature Tribunall Lawgiver in our Church which they could resort unto and not to the Convocation or any other Assembly of Clergy-men alone or Independent Congregation To give you some few remarkable instances besides those formerly remembred instead of infinite others which I pretermit for brevity Our famous English Apostle Iohn Wickelesse as he professedly maintained in K. Richard the second his Raigne That any Clergy-man yea the Pope himselfe might lawfully be reprehended accused and corrected by Lay-men That the temporall Lords and Princes might lawfully and meritoriously take the possessions and Revenues from the Church and from Ecclesiasticall persons offending habitually c. to the end they might reforme them And that they were obliged to reforme the Church and Prelates under paine of being traitours to Iesus Christ So likewise in the fifth year of this King he Writ and sent to the Lords and great men assembled at London IN PARLIAMENT seven Propositions tending to the abolishing of the Popes usurped power and exactions to selfe the temporalities of Deli●●●ent Bishops to remove Bishops and Clergy-men from all secular imployments 〈◊〉 reforme the abuses of Excommunications and imprisonments upon them to 〈◊〉 Transubstantiation and reforme the Churches both to 〈…〉 the particulars whereof you may read at large in 〈◊〉 And 〈◊〉 long after his learned Disciple William 〈◊〉 a Marty● being unjustly condemned by the Bishop of Hereford for maintaining Wickliffes opinions appealed to the King and Parliament against it and withall writ a pious Letter to the Parliament recorded by Master Fox which concludes thus Deare worshipfull Sirs in this world Theseech you for Christs love as ye yet 〈◊〉 loven Gods Law and Truth that in these dayes is greatly borne abacke that they wollen vouchsafe these things that I send you written to Gods worship to let them be shewed IN THE PARLIAMENT as your wits can best conceive to most worship to our God and to shewing of the truth AND AMENDING OF HOLY CHVRCH My conc●usions and mine● appeale and other true matters of Gods Law if any can finde in them error falsenesse or default privet by the Law of Christ clearly to christian mens knowledge I shall revoke my wrong conceit by Gods law be amended more ready to hold with Gods law openly and privily with Gods grace and nothing to hold teach or maintain that is contrary to his Law By which he made that very Parliament Iudges of his Doctrine had reformers of the Church though for the most part Papists in those dayes On the contrary side the very Papists Prelates Clergy and Convocation in those times did likewise Petition the King and Parliament for suppression of haereticall opinions Preachers Bookes Schooles Conventi●les and the punishment and restraint of hereticks sectaries haereticall preachers and Schoolmasters as they deemed them and upon their prayer and importunity the Statutes of 5. R. 2 〈…〉 5. ●2 H. 4. c. 15. ● H. 5. c. 7. to which the Commons never consented were made and 〈◊〉 to that purpose as is evident by the very words of the Acts themselves Master Fox his Acts and Monuments vol. 1. Edi● 〈◊〉 p. 773. And it is as evident that the Popish Commons Petition was the cause of the Statute of 25 H. 8. c. 14. For the punishment of heresie and the Popish Clergyes importunity to King Henry the eight his motion to the Parliament the occasion of the bloudy Statue of 31 H. 8. c. 14. 34. H. c. 8. 1. as the words of the Acts and Master Fox demonstrate both King and Clergy Nobles and Commons even in these times of Popery deeming our parliaments the meetest Iudges and only lawgivers for ordering Church affaires and matters of Religion About the 37. yeare of King Henry the 〈◊〉 Roderick Morse once a Grey 〈◊〉 published a book in print 〈◊〉 A complaint to the Parliament house of England directed to the Parliament wherein he demonstrates many abuses and corruptions of the Church and Clergy of England in those dayes both in matter of Doctrine Worship Discipline manners which he earnestly presseth petitioneth the Parliament effectually to reforme by wholsome Lawes and Edicts as a thing most properly belonging to their place and Iurisdiction as the whole booke manifests which had been very absurd had the Parliament been no meer Iudge of Religion and Church affaires and no 〈◊〉 Reformers of these abuses by Lawes and punishments as some now repute them In King Edward the sixt Queene Maries and Queene Elizabeths severall Raignes the Clergie and 〈◊〉 made their Petitions and addresses to the Parliament for setling reforming establishing all matters of Religion Church-government and discipline as the forementioned Statutes with multitudes of Petitions and bookes printed and dedicated to the Parliaments in their severall Raigns demonstrate especially 1. and 2. Phili. and Mary c. 6. 8. 1 Eliz. c. 1. 2. 4. 8. Eliz. c. 1. Two admonitions to the Parliament Anno. 1572. Iohn Penry his supplication to the Parliament and others The Petitions to all the severall Parliaments in King Iames his Raigne and our present Soveraignes but more especially to this present Parliament from all sorts of people in every County of the Realme

TRVTH TRIVMPHING OVER FALSHOOD ANTIQVITY Over NOVELTY OR The First Part of A just and seasonable Vindication of the undoubted Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction Right Legislative Coercive Power of Christian Emperors Kings Magistrates Parliaments in all matters of Religion Church-Government Discipline Ceremonies Manners Summoning of Presiding Moderating in Councells Synods and ratifying their Canons Determinations Decrees As likewise of Lay-mens right both to sit and vote in Councells here proved to be anciently and in truth none other but Parliaments especially in England both by Scripture Texts Presidents of all sorts and the constant uninterrupted Practices Examples of the most eminent Emperors Princes Councells Parliaments Churches and Christian States especially of our owne in all ages since their embracing the Gospell In Refutation of M r. Iohn Goodwins Innocencies Triumph My deare brother Burtons Vindication of Churches commonly called Independent And of all Anti-Monarchicall Anti-Parliamentall Anti-Synodicall and Anarchicall Paradoxes of Papists Prelates Anabaptists Arminians Socinians Brownists or Independents Whose old and new Objections to the contrary are here fully answered By William Prynne of Lincolnes Inne Esquire Jer. 6. 16. Thus saith the Lord Stand yee in the wayes and see and aske for the OLD PATHES where is the GOOD WAY and walk therein and yee shall find rest for your soules But they said Wee will not walke therein Luk. 5. 39. No man also having drunk OLD WINE straightway desireth NEW for he saith THE OLD IS BETTER Tertul. de Praescrip adver Haeres Ex ipso ordine manifestatur id esse Dominicum Verum quod sit priùs traditum id autem Extraneum Falsum quod sit posterius immissum Decem. 3. 1644. It is Ordered by the Committee of the House of Commons concerning Printing that this Book entituled Truth Triumphing over Falshood Antiquity over Novelty be printed by Mich. Sparke Senior John White London Printed by John Dawson and are to be sold by Michael Sparke Senior 1645. TO THE HIGH COVRT OF PARLIAMENT Right Honourable HAving had the Honour through Gods assistance to be a meane though cordiall Instrument of Vindicating The Soveraigne Power of Parliaments and Kingdomes in all Civill or Military affaires which concerne the State in Foure severall Volumes against all Opposites whatsoeever which they have for the most part satisfied or put to silence I expected a Quietus est from all other Controversies concerning the Iurisdiction of Parliaments especially in Ecclesiasticall matters which most imagined had been put to eternall silence when our Lordly Prelates lost their Votes and Session in Parliament by a publike Law But alas I know not by what evill Genius and Pythagorean Metempsychosis the Anti-Parliamentary Soules formerly dwelling in our defunct Prelates earthly Tabernacles are transmigrated into and revived in a New-Generation of men started up of late among us commonly known by the Name of INDEPENDENTS who though for the most part really cordiall in their Affections Actions to the Parliament and Church of England for which and for their piety they are to bee highly honoured yet some of them are of late become extremely derogatory and destructive unto both in their Anarchicall and Anti-Parliamentary Positions For which and for their late gathering of Independent Churches contrary to Your Parliamentary Injunctions they are to be justly blamed as great disturbers of our publike Peace and Vnity It is the observation of learned Voetius and Vedelius That the Arminians in the Netherlands for the advancing of their owne Faction and more facill accomplishment of their private ill Designes did before the Synod of Dort and in the beginning thereof exceedingly cry up the Power of the Civill Magistrate and States of Holland in Ecclesiasticall matters both by Writing and Preaching ascribing to them the highest Jurisdiction and Power of giving ultimate Judgement in all Controversies of Faith and Ecclesiasticall matters arising in the Church as a Prerogative belonging immediately under Christ to them alone And thereupon they appealed to the States from the Ecclesiasticall Classes as the proper Iudges of the Controversies they had raised in the Belgick Churches But at last after the Synod of Dort had determined against their Arminian Errors and the States established their Determinations prohibiting the Preaching or Printing of any Arminian Tenets with the private Independent Congregations and Conventicles of the Arminian Party they presently altered both their opinions and practice crying downe the Authority of the States and Civill Magistrate as fast as they had cryed it up both in their Apologies and Sermons contracting yea denying them that very power which before they had so liberally measured ●ut unto them affirming that the States had no power at all over their private Congregations that it was not any right or part of their Office to obliege men by their authorities to the Decrees of Synods however agreeable to the word of God and that they ought not to use any coactive Power or Authority in such cases to obliege them to conformity This Practice of the Arminians was by M r Thomas Edwards by way of prediction applied to the Independents in these very tearmes And it may be feared however these Apologists NOW to ingratiate themselves and being let alone in their Church-way say they give more to the Magistrates than the Presbyteriall and that they professe to submit and to be most willing to have recourse to the Magistrates Iudgement and Cognizance and Examination of Ecclesiasticall Causes yet when they shall come once to be crossed and the Parliament by the advice of the Assembly to settle the Government of the Church and by their Authority to bind them to things agreeable to the word wee shall see then what they will say of the Magistrates Power There are too many speeches already since the Assembly out of their feare how they may goe which have fallen from many Independents THAT PROGNOSTICATE THEY WILL DOE BY THE PARLIAMENT AS THE REMONSTRANTS DID AFTER THE SYNOD OF DORT BY THE STATES Which Prognostication hath fallen out accordingly For since that time our Independents having felt the Pulses of the Assembly and Parliament bearing but very gently by way of debate against their Anarchicall and Anomolous New-Way derived from their good friends the German Anabaptists and Separatists and supported only with their Arguments as I am fully able to demonstrate they have not only in Presse and Pulpit cryed up their Way as the Onely Way Kingdome and Scepter of Christ and denyed all opposition in word deed or thought against it as a direct FIGHTING AGAINST GOD and promoted it publikely and privately with all their Industry Policy Power setting up New Independent Congregations in every corner but even with open mouth pen hand contrary to their former Solemne Vowes Covenants Protestations which I feare they have over-much forgotten cryed downe and fought against the very Ecclesiasticall Power and Legislative Authority of the High Court of Parliament it self and Supreme Temporall Magistrates proclaiming

over them both in and out of Synods After this in the very height of Popery and the revivall of it in England in the first year of Queen Mary a Parliament and Convocation being summoned to re-establish Popery the Queen her selfe appointed and commanded a publike Disputation to be held at Pauls Church in London in the Convocation house about the matter of the Sacrament which was accordingly held and continued six whole dayes many Earles Lords knights Gentlemen and divers of the Parliament Court and City being present at it to the end that they might constitute Laws of the matters of Religion debated which the Queen and Parliament might ratifie The Disputation being ended The Queen sent a Writ to Bonner Bishop of London to dissolve the Convocation which was done accordingly So that this Convocation did nothing in matter of doctrine or discipline even in these times of Popery but what the Queen did first direct and limit them Queen Mary deceasing and Queen Elizabeth a Protestant Princesse succeeding her called a Parliament and Convocation to suppresse Popery and re-establish the Protestant true Religion To effect which with more facility this pious Queen having heard of the diversity of opinions in maters of Religion among sundry of her loving Subjects and being very desirous to have the same reduced to some godly and christian concord by the advice of the Lords and others of the Privy Councell as well for the satisfaction of persons doubtfull as also for the knowledge of the very truth in certain matters of difference commanded a convenient chosen number of the best learned of either part to conferre together their opinions and reasons concerning three particular points that should be prescribed to them thereby to come to some good and charitable agreement with all convenient speed Hereupon nine of the learnedst Papists were chosen on the one side and nine of the ablest Protestants on the other to debate these three Propositions prescribed to them in writing 1. It is against the word of God and the custome of the ancient Church to use a tongue unknown to the people in common Prayer and the administration of the Sacraments 2. Every Church hath authority to appoint take away and change Ceremonies and Ecclesiasticall Rites so the same be to edification 3. It cannot be proved by the word of God that there is in the Masse offered up a sacrifice propitiatory for the quick and the dead It was further resolved by the Queens Majesty that the conference on both parties should be in writing for avoiding much altercation of words that both sides should declare their minds opinions and reasons in writing and at the same day deliver them mutually one to the other to be considered and to return their answers thereto in writing by a certaine day Immediately herupon divers Nobles and States of the Realme understanding that such a meeting and conference should be in certain matters whereupon In the Court of Parliament consequently following some Lawes might be grounded they made earnest request to her Majesty that the parties of this conference might be ordered to put and read their Assertions in the English tongue and that in the presence of them of the Nobility and of The Parliament House for the better satisfaction and ordering of their owne judgements to treat and conclude of such Lawes as might depend hereupon This also being thought very reasonable was signified to both parties and so fully agreed upon and the day appointed for the first meeting to bee the Friday in the afternoone being the last of March at Westminster Church At which day and place both for good order and for honor of the Conference By the Queens Maiesties Commandement the Lords and others of the privie Councell were present and a great part of the Nobility also The Lord Keeper and the rest of the Lords bearing chiefe sway in ordering this conference as you may read at large in Master Fox in the second dayes discourse In this Conference I shall onely observe two passages of the Protestant party The first is the begining of their Prologue to their written Conference in these words For as much as it is thought good to the Queens most Excellent Majesty unto whom in the Lord all obedience is due that we should declare our Iudgement in writing upon certain Propositians We as becometh us to do herein most gladly obey The next is their third observation from the law of Justinian the Emperor commanding all Bishops and Priests to celebrate the holy oblation and prayers in Baptisme with an audible voyce c. And let them know this that if they neglect any of these things the dreadfull judgement of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ shall fall upon you neither will wee when wee know it rest and leave it unrevenged viz. That this Emperour being a christian did not only make Constitutions of Ecclesiasticall matters but also threatneth revenge and sharp punishment to the violaters of the same Therefore they held he had an obliging power over his Subjects and a coersiveauthority vested in him to enforce obedience to his Lawes of which more hereafter As this was the practise of this blessed pious Queen in the begining of her Raigne to prescribe to her Clergy in Convocation what they should treat off and how So it continued in use and was punctually submitted to by all Convocations during her Raigne and that not onely as a matter of complement but of conscience religion and the established doctrine of the Church of England as you may read at large in Bishop Jewels Apology of the Church of England and in the Defence of his Apologie against Harding part 6. c. 9. to 16. p. 689. to 766. a learned full discourse to this purpose and in Bishop Bilsons true Difference between Christian Subjection unchristian Rebellion the second part to omit all others who have handled this subject in her Raigne It seemes therefore strange to me that this which was reputed the true doctrine of the emmine●test learnedest writers Reformers of this Church and of the Church of England it selfe from the begining to the end of her happy Raign and ever since should bee deemed meere Antichristian Diabolicall theomacall and meer Popish doctrine now when as the contrary opinion is really such Our late Soveraigne King James in his Letters Patents before the Ecclesiasticall Canons and Constitutions made in Convocation A● 1603. recites that he called that Convocation by his Writ and that ●e did By severall Letters Patents under his Great Seale of England the one dated the 11. of April the other the 25. of Iune in the first year of his Raigne Give and grant full free and lawfull liberty power and Authority unto the sayd Clergy in their Convocation who without such a Patent and License could debate and conclude nothing else it had been vaine and superfluours To conferre Treat Debate Consider Consult and agree of and upon

the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled That all and every the person● hereafter in this present Ordinance named that is to say Algernon Earl of Northumberland William Earle of Bedford Phillip Earle of Pembroke and Montgemery William Earle of Salisbury Henry Earle of Holland Edward Earle of Manchester William Lord Viscount Say and Seale Edward Lord Viscount Conway Phillip Lord Wharton Edward Lord Howard of Estr John Selden Esquite Francis Rows Esquire Edmund Prideaux Esqui●e Sir Henry Vane Knight Senior Iohn Glyn Esquire Recorder of London Iohn White Esquire Bouldstrode Whi●locke Esquire Humphrey Salloway Esquire Master Serjeant Wilde Oliver Saint Iohn Esquire his Majesties Sollicitor Sir Benjamin Rudyard Knight John Pym Esquier Sir Iohn Clotworthy Knight Iohn Maynard Esquire Sir Henry Vane Knight junior William Pierpoint Esquiet William Wheeler Esquier Sir Thomas Barrington Knight Walter-Young Esquier Sir Iohn Euelin Knight Herbert Palmer of Ashwell Batchellor in Divinity Oliver Boles of Sutton Batchellor in Divinity Henry Wilkinson of Waddesdon Batchellor in Divinity Thomas Valentine of Chalsont Giles Batchellor in Divinity D. William Twisse of Newbury with sundry other Divines mentioned in this Ordinance and such other person and persons as shall be nominated and appointed by both Houses of Parliament or so many of them as shall not be lefted by sicknesse or other necessary impediment shall meet and assemble and are hereby required and enjoyned upon summons signed by the Clerkes of both Houses of Parliament left at their severall respective dwellings to meete and assemble themselves at Westminster in the Chapell called King Henry the sevenths Chappell on the first day of July in the yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred fort●y three and after the first meeting being at least of the number of forty shal from time to time sit be removed from place to place and also that the said Assembly shall be dissolved in such manner as by both Houses of Parliament shall be directed And the said persons or so many of them as shall be so Assembled or sit shall have power and Authority and are hereby likewise enjoyned from time to time during this present Parliament or untill further Order be taken by both the said Houses to con●erre and treat amongst themselves of such matters and things touching and concerning the Liturgy discipline and Government of the Church of England or the vindicating and clearing of the doctrine of the same from all false aspertions and misconstructions AS SHALL BE PROPOSED VNTO THEM BY BOTH OR EITHER OF THE SAID HOVSES OF PARLIAMENT AND NO OTHER and to deliver their opinions and advices of or touching the matters aforesaid as shall be most agreeable to the Word of God TO BOTH OR EITHER OF THE SAID HOVSES FROM TIME TO TIME IN SVCH MANNER AND SORT AS BY BOTH OR EITHER OF THE SAID HOVSES OF PARLIAMENT SHALL BE REQVIRED and the same not to divulge by printing writing or otherwise without the consent of both or either House of Parliament And be it further ordained by the authority aforesaid that William Twisse Doctor in Divinity shall sit in the Chaire as Prolocutor of the said Assembly and if he happen to die or be letted by sickenesse or other necessary impediment then such other person to be appointed in his place as shall be agreed on by both the said Houses of Parliament And in case any difference of Opinion shall happen amongst the said persons so assembled touching any the matters that shall be proposed to them as aforesaid that then they shall represent the same together with the reasons thereof to both or either the said Houses respectively to the end such further direction may be given therein as shall be requisite in that behalfe And be it further Ordained by the authority aforesaid That for the Charges and expences of the said Divines and every of them in attending the said service there shall be allowed unto every of them that shall so attend during the time of their said attendance and for ten dayes before and ten dayes after the summe of foure shillings for every day at the charges of the Common-wealth at such time and in such manner as by both Houses of Parliament shall be appointed And be it further Ordained that all and every the sayd Divines so as aforesaid required and enjoyned to meet and assemble shall be freed and acquitted of and from every offence forfeiture penalty losse or damage which shall or may arise or grow by reason of any Non-residence or absence of them or any of them from his or their or any of their Church Churches or Cures for or in respect of their sayd attendance upon the sayd Service any Law or Stature enjoyning their attendance upon their respective Ministeries or Charges to the contrary thereof notwithstanding and if any of the persons before named shall happen to die before the sayd Assembly shall be dissolved by Order of both Houses of Parliament then such other person or persons shall be nominated and placed in the roome and stead of such person and persons so dying as by both the sayd Houses shall be thought fit and agreed upon And every such person or persons so to bee named shall have the like Power and Authority Freedome and acquittall to all intents and purposes and also all such wages and allowances for the said service during the time of his or their attendance as to any other of the sayd persons in this Ordinance is by this Ordinance limited and appointed Provided alwayes that this Ordinance or any thing therein contained shall not give unto the persons aforesaid or any of them nor shall they in this Assembly assume to exercise any Iurisdiction Power or Authority Ecclesiasticall whatsoever or any other Power then is herein particularly expressed Some generall Rules for the Assembly directed by the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled 1. THat two Assessors be joyned to the Prolocutor to supply his place in case of absence or infirmity 2. Two Scribes to be appointed to set down all proceedings and these to be Divenes who are not Members of the Assembly viz. Master Henry Rowberry and Master Adoniran Byfeild 3. Every Member at his first entrance into the Assembly shall make a serious and solemne Protestation not to maintain any thing but what he believes to be the truth and to embrace Truth in sincerity when discovered to him 4. No resolution to be given upon any question on the same day wherein it is first p●rpounded 5. What any man undertakes to prove as necessary he shall make good out of the Scriptures 6. No man to proceed in any dispute after the Prolocuter hath enjoyned him silence unlesse the Assembly desire he may go on 7. No man to bee denied to enter his dissent from the Assembl● and his 〈◊〉 for it in any point after it hath beene first Debated in the Assembly And thence if the dissenting party desire it to be sent to the Houses of Parliament by

Lipsiae 1584. together with the severall Confession of all the Protestant Churches in Germany and elsewhere recorded in the Harmony of Confessions which were made published established by the severall Protestant States to Diets or Parliaments by common consent of the Nobles Magistrates Senates Ministers of those Churches not by the Clergy alone are a sufficient demonstration of their Ecclesiasticall legislative power and jurisdiction in all matters of Faith Discipline and Government In few words I dare averre that there is never a forraigne Christian Empire Kingdome or Republike in the world whether Protestant or Popish but hath in their Parliaments Diers Senates made sundry Lawes concerning matters of Faith Government Discipline Clergiemen and all Ecclesiasticall affaires yea for the establishment of that Religion Church Government and Discipline in present use among them as their severall Laws and Constitutions will abundantly manifest to any who have vacancy to peruse them I shall close up this Section with some presidents of the Parliaments of Ireland and Scotland which have most affinity to the Parliaments of England Among the printed Statutes of Ireland collected by Master Belton I mèet with these ensuing Ecclesiasticall Lawes made in the Parliaments of Ireland 36. H. 6. c. 1. That Beneficed persons shall keep Residence 7. E. 4. c. 2. 3. That none shall purchase Benefices from Rome and that pardons made to such as purchase them thence shall be voyde 10. H. 7. c. 5. Against provisors from Rome 25. H. 8. c. 2. For uniting the Personage of Cantrim to the Priory of Saint Peters 28. H. 8. c. 5. That the King shall be supreame head of the Church of Ireland ch 8. and 26. For payment of first-fruits ch 13. Against the Authority of the Bishops of Rome and chap. 14. 17 18 23. For other Ecclesiasticall matters 33. H. 8. c. 6. Conconcerning Mariages cha 12. For Tithes chap. 14. For erecting of Vicaridges 33. H. 8. Parl. 2. chap. 5. For suppressing religious houses 2. Eliz chap. 1. For restoring to the Crowne the ancient Iurisdiction and the State Ecclesiasticall and abolishing all forraigne power repugnant to the same cha 2. For the uniformity of Common prayer and service in the Church chap. 3. Concerning first fruits and Personages impropriate c. 4. For the conferring and consecrating of Archbishops and Bishops 11. Eliz. c. 6. and 13. Eliz. c. 6. with diverse others since For Scotland I finde many Ecclesiasticall Lawes concerning the Church Church-men and all matters of Religion made in Parliament and intermixed with their temporall Acts. To omit the Ecclesiasticall Lawes of King Keneth mixed with his Temporal enacted about the Yeare of our Lord 844. In the Statutes of K. William of Scotland made about the Yeare of our Lord 1170 chap 32. Is For maintaining the true Religion and the Rights and liberties of haly Kirke chapter 34. Of the honesty of Clarkes King Robert the first in his Parliament holden at Scone with his Bishops Abbots Priors Ea●i●s Barons and other Noblemen of his Realme to the honour of God and haly Kirke with common advise and consent of all the Prelates and Freeholders foresaide and haile community in the 13. Yeare of his Raigne to wit Anno 1319 made a law chapter 〈◊〉 For the freedome of the Kirke and Kirkmen and maintenance of true Religion And the second Parliament of this King chapter 1. Is of Donation of Lands made to Religious persons and chapter 14. Concernes Nunnes Among the Statutes of King David the 2. the 12th chapter is of Pilgranners and chapter 42. For freedome of holy Kirke Not to mention all the statutes made in the Parliaments of Scotland in times of Popery for advancing the Popes Authority Masse Prelacy with sundry Doctrines and Ceremonies abolished by subsequent Acts in times of Reformation I shall only give you a briefe account of some of their Acts of Parliament since beginning of reformation in that Kingdome I finde in Master John Knox his History of the reformation of the Church of Scotland lib. 3 pag 56 57. in the London edition ●644 That in a Parliament held in Scotland Anno 1543. there began question of the abolishing of certaine tyrannicall Acts made before at the devotion of the Prelates for the maintaining of their Kingdome of darknesse to wit That under paine of Haeresy none should read any part of the Scripture in the vulgar Tongue neither yet any Tractate or exposition of any place of Scripture which Act after great debate in Parliament betweene the Nobility Commons and Clergie was wholly repealed and this Act of Parliament enacted That it should be lawfull to every man to use the benefit of the Translations which then they had of the Old and New Testament together with the benefis of other Treatises containing wholsome doctrine untill such time at the Prelates and other Church-men should give and set forth unto them a translation more correct And so by Act of Parliament it was made free to all men and women to reade the Scriptures in their vulgar tongue and all Acts to the contrary abolished This was no small victory of Christ Jesus against the conjured enemies of his Verity In the yeare 155● of the Protestants in Scotland petitioned both the Queene Regent and likewise the Lords Barons Burgesses assembled there in Parliament for repeale of severall Lawes formerly made against Heritickes for prayers in their vulgar Tongue frequent preaching or interpretation of the Scriptures due administration of the Sacraments of Baptisme and the Lords Supper Reformation of the Church Prelates and ecclesiasticall estate their lives Courts and proceedings And likewise entered a formall Protestation in the Parliament House After this in the yeare 1560. The Protestant Barrons Gentlemen Burgesses and others of the Realme presented a large supplication to the Nobility 〈◊〉 States of Parliament then assembled wherein they desired the abolition of Idolatry and such false Doctrin as w●e condemned by Gods word by Act of that Parliament and punishment to be appointed for the transgression that the abuses and prosanations of the Sacraments of Jesus Christ and of the true Discipline of the Church might be reformed That the Popes usurped ecclesiasticall Authority might be abolished and the Popish Clergy removed c. Which application being read in the Audience of the whole Assembly the Batons Ministers other Petitioners were thereupon commanded to draw into plaine and severall heads the summe of that Doctrine which they would maintaine and desire the present Parliament to establish as wholsome true and only necessary to be beleived and to be received within the Realme which they willingly accepted and within foure dayes presented a large Confession of the faith professed and beleived by the Protestants within the Realme of Scotland consisting of 25. Articles which were read in face of Parliament and after ratified by the three States of this Realme at Edinburgh the 17. of Iuly 1560. and by the whole body of the Parliament which

civill Magistrates as you have plentifully done even with some colour of reason as well as insanire cum ratione which is all I shall answer to your reasons Fourthly Hee writes Let Master Prynne Or any other evict mee of any wilfull or unwilfull violation of the priviledges of Parliament and I shall bee as willing as willingnesse it selfe can make me to further such a conviction and no man shall be more ready then I to crave their pardon or undergoe their Justice nay I shall repent my selfe and abhor my errour in dust and ashes Certainely this your promised late Repentance which is yet contingent and improbable after so many publike offronts and oppositions against the power and proceedings of Parliament will bee a very poore recompence and satisfaction for all your former misdemeanors and scandalls to the Parliament yet late repentance being better then none at all I shall now challenge you to make good this your promise since your owne Conscience and judgment cannot but informe you I have written enough in the former Sections to evict and convince you and all the world besides that you have not only violated but denyed oppugned those priviledges of Parliament in Ecclesiasticall affaires which our owne Parliaments in all ages and Parliamentary Assemblies in all other Kingdomes have unquestionably exercised enjoyed without any such publique opposition as you have made against them And if you now make not good your promise few or none will ever credit you hereafter 5ly For the Authors you cite to justifie yourselfe they are miserably wrested and mistaken for the most part The first you quote is Master Edwards who maintaines point blancke against you throughout his Treatise a Legislative and coerceive power in Parliaments and civil Majestrates even in Church-affaires and matters of Religion in the very pages you quote and else where Therefore you palpably abuse the Author and Reader in quoting him to the contrary who is so point-blancke against you For the passage you quote out of his Page 256. The Parliament interposeth no Authority to determine what government shall be whence you inferre p. 7. Therefore his opinion appeares to be either that the Parliament hath No authority or at least intends not to make use of it in determining a government It was written only with reference to that present time the Parliament having at that time when he writ during the Assemblies debate and consultation interposed no Authority to determine what government shall be yet before that it had declared the old prelaticall Lordly government to be abolished and called an Assembly to advise with about a New But to inferre from thence as you doe Therefore his opinion is either that the Parliament hath no Authority or at least intends not to make use of it in determining a Government Is an inference quite contrary to the next ensuing words and pages to the whole scope of the Authors Booke Humbly submitted to the Honourable houses of Parliament contrary to his expresse words p. 138. 281. to all his reasons against Toleration of your Way and to the Parliaments intent in calling the Assembly to assist them in determining and setling a Church-government agreable to Gods word Be ashamed therefore of this grosse perversion of your first Authors passages diametrally contrary to this meaning Your Passages out of Master Hayward Bishop Iewell Master Fox Mr. Calvin Iacobus Acontius Junius Peter Martyr and Gulielmus Appolonius make nothing at all against the Legislative Authority of Parliaments in matters of Religion and Church government and have no a●●inity with your Passages words most of them Bishop Iewel especially as I have already proved vindicating propugning the very ecclesiastical power of Parliaments which you oppugne Indeed some of their words seeme to diminish the Coercive power of Majestrat●s enforcing of mens consciences in matters of Religion which I shal answer in due place and manifest how you abuse the Authors herein as well as Mr. Edwards not hitherto answered by any of your party but how they militat against the jurisdiction of Parliaments in making Lawes touching Religion discipline and Church-government I am yet to seeke For the Passages he aleageth out of the Divines of Scotland That the Prince or Majestrate may not make or publish any Ecclesiasticall Law without the free assent of the Clergy c. That he may not by HIMSELFE define or direct such matters nor make any Lawes therein That the King hath not a Nomotheticke Legislative Power in matters ecclesiasticall in a constitute Church That the ordinary power of the King is not to make Ecclesiasticall Lawes c. I Answer 1. That their only meaning if I mistake not in these passages is that the Prince or chiefe civill Majestrate of HIMSELFE without a Parliament or without the assistance and consent of his Nobles Commons Clergy cannot legally make any ecclesiasticall Lawes to obliege his people upon which reason our Brethren of Scotl. rejected the late New service booke and Canons and our selves the late Canons c Oath which Canterbury wold have obtruded on us because they were made and prescribed only by the Kings Authority and the Prelates or Convocations not the Parliaments upon which very reason the Parliaments of both Kingdomes have respectively adjudged both one and other illegall But that the King or supreame temporall Majestrates assisted by a Parliament and Orthdox Divines may not make binding ecclesiasticall Lawes or that their or our Parliaments have not a reall Legislative power in any matters ecclesiastike the only point controversed is directly contrary both to the constant Doctrine and Practise of our Brethren and their Church used ever since the Reformation to the proceedings of their last Parliaments and generall Assemblies as I have formerly manifested You may therefore blush at this your perverting of their meaning as if they held that the Parliaments of England or Scotland had no power to make Ecclesiasticall Lawes for Religion or Church gouernment when as their Bookes Actions addresses to our present Parliament their presence assistance in our Assembly proclaimes the contrary And the very publique Confession of faith professed and subscribed in their Church Anno 1560 Chap. 14 since confirmed by severall Acts of Parliament doth the like But admit all those Authors really as not one of them is in verity opposite to the Ecclesiasticall Jurisdiction and Legislative power of Parliaments yet the unanimous practise and resolution of all Christian Realmes Synods Parliaments in all ages contrary to their private novell opinions is sufficient infinitly to overbalance them in the Judgements of all prudent men And thus much for Mr. Goodwins Innocencies tryumph as to the present point I shall next apply my selfe to Answer such Objections as my deare Brother Master Henry Burton hath lately made against the premises in his Vindication to my 12. Queeres touching Church-Government my Independency examined His first and principall Objection is this

and of absolute authority within it self subject to no other Jurisdiction then that of Christ his Word and Spirit and not to any other particular Congregation Synod or Nationall Church or humane power whatsoever Therefore the Parliament and Assembly can make no Canons nor Rules to binde it nor presc●ibe any Church-government or Discipline to it Brother this is the summe of your whole Book and it grieves me to see so many strange Parodoxes piled up together to support an Independent Fabrick by one of your yeares and Iudgement Give me leave therefore to discover your manifold over-sights in this particular by such demonstrations as you shall not be able to gain say First then I say that the whole Church of Christ is but one intire Mysticall Body whereof Christ is the supreame Spirituall Head and Governour and all particular Churches only members of this intire Body as the head hand feet are members of the Naturall Body not absolute bodies of themselves as every house or Parish in a City is a member of the whol City Every Company or Regiment in an Army a member of that Realme not absolute bodies Cities Armies Kingdomes of themselves That this is truth we have sundry expresse Resolutions of Scripture in positive tearms as the 1 Cor. 12. 12 13 14. 26. 27. and in truth the whole Chapter Ephes ● 22 23. c. 2. 14. 15. to the end c. 4. 11. to 17. c. 5. 23. to 33. Col. 1. 18. 24. c. 2. 17. 19. which you may peruse at leisure Ephes 4. 3. to 7. Endeavouring to keepe the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace For there is ONE BODY one Spirit one Lord one Faith one Baptisme One God and Father of all who is above all and through all and in all And John 17. 20. 21. 23. Neither pray I for these alone but for them also which shall believe on me through their word THAT THEY ALL MAY BE ONE as thou father art one and I am in thee that they also MAY BE ONE IN US and may be made perfect IN ONE Hence the Scripture usually expresseth the whol Catholike Church of Christ which allages hitherto have believed to be but one so far as to make it an Article of their Creed under singular titles as the Church A WOMAN MY LOVE MY DOVE my Sister my Spouse a Garden a Vineyard a City a Congregation an Assembly Sion Jerusalem an House a Flocke a Body and the like to note it unity that it is but ONE intire spirituall Corporation though distributed into severall particular Congregations scattered ●ver the face of the whole World This being an indubitable verity strikes off the head of your Galiah and subverts the very foundation of Independent Congregations which would be absolute and compleat spirituall Bodies within themselves and no members of a Catholike or Nationall Church Secondly If all the particular Churches in the World bee in reality but one intire Body and Church of Christ then by the self-same reason likewise all the particular Congregations within one Nation Kingdome Republike united in one civill Corporation under one Head and temporall government are but one and the selfe-same Church and members one of another not absolute Independent Congregations of themselves subordinate to no other even as all the particular persons in a House make up but one Family all the particular Houses Parishes in a City but one City all the severall Cities Counties in a Kingdome one Realme and all the Nations on the earth but one world of men These cleare principles of Divinity Policy Nature experience none can or may deny unlesse he hath lost his sences or means to subvert all humane Relations and Societies And my Brother acknowledging the whole Nation of the Jewes to be but one intire Nationall Church though divided into sundry Synagogues and particular Congregations as is evident by Acts 15. 24. FOR MOSES OF OLD TIME hath IN EVERY CITY them that Preach him being read in THE SYNAGOGVES EVERY SABBATH DAY compared with Psa 74. 8. Matth. 6. 2. 5. c. 7. 1. 8. c. 9. 35. c. 23. 34. Mark 1. 21. 23. 29. 39 c. 3. 1. n. 5. 22. Luke 4. 15. to 44. c. 13. 10. c. 21. 12. John 6. 59. c. 9. 22. c. 18. 20. c. 10. 2 Acts 9. 2. 20. c. 13. 5. 14. 42. c. 14. 1. c. 17. 1. 10. c. 18. 4. 7. 13. 26. c. 19. 8. c. 22. 12. must of necessity subscribe to this conclusion issuing naturally from it that all particular Congregations in any one Christian Realm Nation Republike are but one intire Church though divided into severall squadrons for necessity and conveniency as one house is into many Roomes one City into many Streets Parishes companies wards one Kingdome into divers Counties Provinces One Parliament into severall Houses Sub-Committees as there is occasion one Armie into severall Regiments Brigades Companies Troopes Thirdly It is at clear as Noonday That in all Civill or Ecclesiasticall Corporations Congregations or Societies of men united into one common Politique Body the whol body or greater part hath by the Law of God Nature Nations a lawful inherent jurisdiction over every particular member or lesser part to make Laws and common Rules to obliege them for the safety peace benefit of the whol Body In all Parliaments Councels of State or War Cities Corporations Societies Courts of Iustice Chapters Committees yea in all elections of Magistrates Ministers Knights or Burgesses of Parliament Majors of Cities Masters Wardens of Companies heads or fellows of Colledges Church-wardens and the like the whol Body or major voyce bindes the lesser number all the whol body ever over-rules the parts And it must needs be so els there could be no Rule Order Government in any of them if one member only or the lesser part should over-rule and prescribe Lawes unto the whole or greater part not they to them The like rule holds firme and hath ever taken place 〈…〉 ●●mall generall Nation Provinciall Parochiall or Congregation 〈…〉 Synods Convocations Assemblies or meetings in all matters of 〈…〉 Discipline Government Lawes Rules Edicts Censure Descition 〈…〉 Yea in Independent Churches themselves the Votes Orders 〈◊〉 determinations of the whole or major part of the Congregation binde all the other dissenting as well as consenting members neither will any Independent Congregation admit of any into their new society but such who shall first submit to the Covenant Orders Government Rules and Discipline that Congregation or the major part thereof hath elected established Fourthly It is a principle of the Law of Nature and common Reason which all Republikes Churches Societies of men in every age till this present have admitted that the Lawes Ordinances Decrees of the greatest Civill or Ecclesiasticall Assemblies where the whole Realme Republike Church or Nation are personally or representatively present by their deputies or Proxies obliege all inferiour Corporations Societies Churches Congregations Persons within their