desired his Majesty to take them out a new Lesson as did the 71 Brethren of Suffolke are not to be liked Neither can we extoll the goodnesse of our God sufficiently toward our King and us all for inspiring his royall heart with holy wisedome to discerne these unstayed and troublesome spirits and inabling his Highnesse with power and graces from above to decree orders and directions for the generall benefit and peace of the whole Church neither suffered he his eyes to sleepe nor his eye-lids to slumber nor the temples of his head to take any rest till he had set them downe afore all other though never so important and weightie affaires of the Crowne and Kingdome King James patronizeth the Doctrine and Religion countenanced by Queene Elizabeth 26 My selfe have read and thousand thousands with an hundred thousand of his Subjects besides have either read or heard of Proclamations after Proclamations to the number of sixe or seven at the least of bookes and open speeches of his Majesty uttered in the Parliament House and all of them made vulgar within a yeare and little more after his happy ingresse into this kingdome and taking the administration of this most famous nourishing Empire upon himself whereby the doctrine in this Land allowed publikely graced and imbraced of all sorts at his entrance into the Realme hath bin not onely acknowledged to be agreeable to Gods Word sincere and the very same which both his Highnesse and the whole Church and kingdome of Scotland yea and the Primitiue Church professed but also by his authoritie Regall and paramont as one of the maine pillers supporting his Estate ratified to continue and all hope either of allowing or tolerating in this kingdome of any other doctrine religion or faction whatsoeuer opposite or any way thwarting the Faith and confession of the Church of England in most plaine pithy and peremptory words and speeches cut off The yeere 92. was not more famous for the Vniformity of doctrin in religion then concluded then the yeere 1604. Domii incarnati An. 1604. is memorable and will be for seconding the same neither got the Clergie in those dayes more credit in composing the Articles of our Vnitie in Faith then did the last Conuocation whereat your Grace then Bishop of London was present and President in ratifying the Acts and Articles of their Antecessors neither was Q Elizabeth more honoured in establishing them at the first then is our K. Iames renowned and more and more will be for approouing vnder the great Seale of England the late and last Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiasticall 27. Subscription the third time vrged Whereby no person shall hereafter bee receiued into the ministery nor neither by Institution or Collation admitted to any Ecclesiasticall liuing nor suffered to Preach to Catechize or to be Lecturer or Reader of Diuinitie in either Vniuersitie or any Cathedrall or Collegiat Church Citie or Market towne Parish Church Chappell or in any other place in this Realme except c. and except he shall first subscribe to these three Articles c. Whereof the third is that he alloweth the booke of Articles of Religion c. Nor any licenced to Preach Reade Lecture or Catechize comming to reside in any Diocesse shall be permitted there to Preach Reade Lecture Catechize or minister the Sacraments or to execute any other Ecclesiasticall function by what authoritie soeuer he be thereunto admitted vnlesse he first consent and subscribe to the three Articles Neither shall any man teach either in publike schoole or in private house except he shall first prescribe to the first and the third Articles simply c. Neither shall any man be admitted a Chancellor Commissary or Officiall to exercise any Ecclesiasticall jurisdiction except c. and shall subscribe to the Articles of Religion agreed upon in the Convocation in the yeare 1562. c. And likewise all Chancellours Commissaries Registers and all other that doe now possesse or execute any places of Ecclesiasticall jurisdiction or service shall before Christmas next in the presence of the Archbishop or Bishop or in open Court under whom or where they execute their offices take the same Oathes and subscribe as before he said or upon refusall so to doe shall be suspended from the execution of their Offices untill they shall take the said Oaths and subscribe as aforesaid 28. In which Constitutions the wisedome of his Highnesse sheweth it selfe to be excellent who indeed as exceeding necessary both for the retaine of peace in the Church and preventing of new doctrine curious speculations and offences which otherwise daily would spring up and intolerably encrease calleth for Subscription in testimony of mens cordiall consent unto the received doctrine of our Church but exacteth not their Oathes as some doe much lesse Oathes Vowes and Subscription too but onely in a particular respect and that of a very few in publike office as our neighbours have done Againe he requireth Subscription but not of civill Magistrates not of the Commons as else where some doe not of every man yea of women aswell as of men as did the persecuted Church at Franckeford in Queene Maries daies not of Noble Gentlemen and Courtiers as in Scotland was Enacted in our Kings minoritie but only of Ecclesiasticall Ministers Teachers and spirituall Officers or of those which would be such Of the Subscription called for and so doe the reformed Churches in France and Germany at this very day Last of all his Majestie calleth for Subscription unto Articles of Religion but they are not either Articles of his own lately deuised or the old newly turkened but the very Articles agreed vpon by the Archbishops and Bishops of both Prouinces and the whole Clergie in the Conuocation holden at London and that in the yeere of our Lord God 1562. a Cant. 2.127 and vnto none other euen the same Articles for number thirtie nine b Ibid. no moe no fewer and for words sillables and letters the very same vnaugmented vndiminished vnaltered 29. And being the same the whole world is to know that the Church of England is not in religion changed The Church of England settled and constant in her Religion or variable like the Moon nor affecteth noueltie or new lessons but holdeth stedfastly conscionably that truth which by the Martyrs and other Ministers in this last age of the world hath bin restored vnto this kingdome and is grounded vpon Gods written Word the onely foundation of our Faith And being the same all men again may see that we are still at Vnitie both among our selues at home and with the neighbour Churches abroad in all matters of chiefest importance and fundamentall points of religion though our aduersaries the Papists would faine beate the contrary into the common peoples heads And being the same there is now as also from the first restauration of the Gospell among vs there hath beene an Vniformitie likewise of doctrine by authoritie
ever celebrate with high words and commendations and that God would gard Q. Elizabeth and safegard her person for the good of his people was his daily prayer yea saith the same Gualter orabant idem tecùm pii omnes it was not your prayer onely but all Gods people so prayed besides And their prayers were not made in vaine For both Queene Mary lived not long and Lady Elizabeth was placed in the Royall throne superstition was expulsed and true Religion againe to the singular comfort and multiplication of Gods people in this Kingdome very solemnely restored Notwithstanding an Vniformitie of doctrin to be taught embraced True doctrine restored anno 1558. and an uniformitie of the same established and published an 1562. and professed by authoritie of the Prince and State was not published till certain yeers after the Queenes attaining the kingly Diademe but then Articles of Religion to the number of thirtie nine drawne yet three yeeres afore were commended to the consideration and perusall of the whole Clergy of both Provinces in an orderly and lawfull assembly or Convocation of theirs at London and by a sweet and unanimous readinesse thereupon by them allowed This was effected in the yeer of our Lord 1562. Ann. 1562. the same yeer that the mercilesse massacre at Vassey in France was committed by the Duke of Guize and the same very time also that all the Protestants in that countrey of France for holding and professing the same doctrine were sentenced unto death and destruction by the Parliament at Paris after which their condemnation ensued those horrible and more then savage murders and slaughters of the Religious and onely for their Religion at Carrascone at Tholouse Amiens Towres Sens Agen Aurane and many other Cities Townes and Villages throughout France A principall contriver of this Vniformitie in Religion Arch. Parker and thereby Vnitie among us was another Predecessour of your Graces even D. Parker the first Archbishop of Canterbury in the said Queenes dayes Hereupon Beza from Geneva Doctrinae puritas viget in Anglia purè syncerè Religion flourisheth in England Zanchius from Straâ—borough Per hanc Reginam factam by her meaning Q Elizabeths comming to the Crowne God againe hath restored his doctrine and true worship and Daneus The whole compasse of the world hath never seen any thing more blessed nor more to be wished then is her government So now again flourished those Apostolicall times as I may say of unitie and Vniformitie of doctrine in our Church For then were there no contentions nor dissentions nor thorny and pricking disputations among us about questions of Religion tantum res nobis cum satellitibus quibusdam Pontificiis as Bishop Iewell said we then skirmished onely with the Papists As it was at the building of Salomons Temple so was it with us then We set upon the building of Gods House which is his Church without din without noyse and stirres The adversaries without heard us and heard of our doings abroad by the pens of the learned Iewell Nowell Calfehill and such other Architects of ours to our selves we were comely at Ierusalem to our enemies terrible as an Army of Banners 6. Also what afore viz. an 62. they had agreed upon Subscription required unto the Booke of Art an 1â—â—2 the same at another Assembly at London an 71. and the 13. of Q. Elizabeth according to an Act of Parliament then made the said Clergie of England the Archbishops and Bishops first beginning and giving the example by their several subscriptions with their owne hands most readily did approve An. 1572. Howbeit in the yeere next ensuing sciz an 72. a yeere many wayes memorable especially for the great and general Massacre of above an hundred thousand Protestants in France chiefely in Paris and the countrey thereabout adioyning begun on St. Bartholmewes Eve * Bartholomaeus flet quia Gallicus occubat Atlas for Pope Gregories excommunicating of Q Elizabeth for defending this doctrine and religion which here we speak of and thirdly for the erecting of private Presbyteries now first in England divers of the inferiour Ministers in and about London and else-where in this Kingdome not a little disturbed the quiet of our state and peace some of them by untimely and inconsiderate admonitions pamphlets and Libels others by obstinate refusing to subscribe as both Law did enjoyne and their Fathers in Christ and superiours afore them had done But these men speedily both by learning were answered and by authority censured suspended or deprived Vnitie of doctrine stil continued 7. And yet not one of these Recusants and so not one of Englands Clergie either now or afore did ever oppugne the received publike and Catholike doctrine of our Church but most willingly approved and applauded the same as the truth of God For even the admonitioners themselves which said that they did strive for true Religion and wished the Parliament even with perfect hatred to detest the Church of England whereof notwithstanding they were members even they do say how they meaning the Bishops and their partakers hold the substance of Religion with us and wee with them And againe We all of us confesse one Christ And their Champion doth acknowledge that her Maiestie hath delivered us from the spirituall Egypt of Popery So that for doctrine I means still for the maine points of doctrine there was now a sweet and blessed concord among us which Vnity continued all that holy and Reverend Fathers I meane Archbishop Parkers time which was till the 17. yeere of Queene Elizabeth 8. Archbish Grindall After him succeeded in the said Archiepiscopall chaire B. Grindall a right famous and worthy Prelate and for religion so sound as in K. Edwards dayes had the Prince liued a while longer he had beene promoted vnto the Bishopricke of London vpon the translation of B Ridly vnto Durham for these things had the State then in purpose But God otherwise had decreed for their aduancements as that the one of them should passe through the fire vnto the kingdome of heauen and the other escape the dangers of many stormes and waters before he came unto any preferment at all And so accordingly Ridly was burned and Grindall banished and both of them depriued either of life or liuing or both and that for one and the same cause and doctrine which they had preached and we professe But the tempest being ouerblowne and Q. Elizabeth her selfe hauing likewise escaped the bloody hands of her cruell enemies yea and Gunpowder traines and Treasons too in most barbarous manner laid to haue blown vp her Saint like and sanctified Body and Soule into the heauens and all for her constant fauouring and embracing this very doctrine her Maiestie not forgetfull what he had endured for the cause of Christ and his Church aduanced this zealous Confessour and tryed Souldier vnto the See first of London afore designed him next of Yorke and lastly of Canterbury The care of
this Archbishop was great to further the glory of God but through the enuy and malice of his ill-willers his power was but small his place high but himselfe made low through some disgraces by his potent aduersaries which he meekely and patiently endured till his dying day 6. During the time of this mans troubles among other The factious encrease and grow confident two things especially deserue obseruation One is the flocking of Iesuits into the Kingdom who afore then neuer came among vs the other is the insolency boldnes of our home faction The Iesuits indicted Councils summoned Synodes enacted and reuersed orders and exercised Papall iurisdiction among vs wee not witting nor so much as dreaming of any such matter The Brethren for so did they now stile themselues in their Churches and charges would neither pray nor say seruice nor Baptize nor celebrate the L. Supper nor Marry nor Bury nor doe any other Ecclesiasticall duty according to the Law but after their owne deuisings And abroad as if they had bin acquainted with the Iesuitical proceedings or the Iesuites with their practices they had their meetings both classicall and Synodicall they set downe decrees reuersed orders elected Ministers exacted Subscription and executed the censures of suspeâ—â—ision and excommunication where they thought good The Iâ—suâ—es had for their prouinciall first Robert Parsons alias Cowbuck then Weston and lastly Garnet which Garnet continued in that office till the yeere 1605. when he was apprehended and for most horrible and hellish treasons as an arrant Traitor put to death in Pauls Churchyard the fame yeer And the Brethren had their I know not what chiefe men All of these residing in and about London and in speciall fauour both with the Gentiles and vulgar people of their seuerall factions and so continued multiplying their number and growing strong euen head-strong in boldnesse and schisme till the dying day of this most graue and reuerend Archbishop which was in the moneth of Iuly 1583. 10. Some foure moneths afore whose death the said Brethren at a certaine Assembly of their own appointing among other things as I find decreed Vnitie of doctrine still holdeth among vs. An. 1583. that if Subscription unto the booke of Articles of Religion afore mentioned and still meant should againe be vrged the said Brethren might subscribe thereunto according to the Statute Which declareth that what diuersity and disagreement soeuer was about other matters yet abode there still a blessed Vnitie among vs touching the foundation of Christian Religion And this was in 25. yeere of Q. Elizabeth Archbish Whitegift 11. Next vnto him D. Whitegift then Bishop of Worcester a man deseruedly vnto that dignitie promoted and for his manifold paines in writing teaching defending the truth his wisedome in gouerning and his well demeaning of himselfe euery way worthy the double honour which hee did enioy or the State could aduance him vnto from thence was translated vnto the See of Canterbury No sooner was he confirmed in his office but obseruing both the open intolerable contempt in many places of all Church orders by authority prescribed and hearing both of many secret conuenticles and vnlawful assemblies in his Prouince and of the tumults and garboiles abroad and euen at his very admission vnto his charge raised in Scotland and that for the selfe-same cause which by the Brethren here in England was maintained and foreseeing the dangers and troubles likely to ensue for which he should giue an account if in time he sought not meanes to preuent them he thought it his bounden duty for the preseruation of vnity and purity in Religion the preuenting of further schisme and the discouery of mens inclinations either vnto peace or faction that all and euery Minister Ecclesiasticall hauing cure of soules within the Prouince of Canterbury vnder his owne hand and by subscription Subscription the secoÌ„d time called for should testifie his consent both vnto the points of Religion in the Conuocation Ann. 62. approoued and likewise vnto other Articles necessary for concord sake of all euery man Minister especially to be acknowledged and accordingly by due course of Law called then thereunto Which was done the very first yeere of his remoueall and of her Maiesty the 26. Anno 1584. This of the brethren was tearmed the wofull yeere of subscription but that they should so doe there was no cause vnlesse they are grieued that factious spirits and malecontented Ministers and Preachers were discouered and their erroneous and schismaticall opinions brought into light And surely neuer was their subscription hitherto by authority vrged in this land but diuers new fancies held yet for truthes not to bee doubted of among the brethren were thereby detected for Gods people to auoid as monsters neither hath our Church lost by imposing nor the aduersaries gained at the long runne by refusing Subscription 12. In the yeeres 71. and 72. when subscriptiom first was required the whole land will witnesse that many and sundry bookes aswell in Latine How basely the Brethren coÌ„ceiue of the doctrine by the Bishops agreed vpon and established by the Prince as English then and afterward flew abroad In which we read how then and in those dayes the truth of God did in a manner but peepe out as it were at the Screene that Cranmer Parker Grindall and all the other Martyrs Preachers and learned men which first in our age brought the light of the Gospell into this Realme did see a little and had a glimpse of the truth but ouersaw many things which in these dayes of the Sunshine of the Gospell men of meaner gifts doe see and yet may not vtter them without great danger of the Lawes through the iniquity of the times though the said things now seene be comprised in the Booke of God and also be a part of the Gospell yea the very Gospell it selfe so true are they and of such importance as if euery haire of our heads were a life say the Brethren we ought to afford them in defence of these matters the Articles of Religion penned and agreed vpon by the Bishops and Clergy and ratified by the Prince and Parliament in comparison of these things now reuealed and newly come to light are but Childish and toyes Thus write they as your grace best knoweth and I would haue quoted the places where they may be read had I either not written vnto your selfe or did write vnto a man vnacquainted with their bookes And had they here stayed their words had bin able without the more grace of God to haue moued the Parliament and all the people of this land as they have preuail'd but too much already with their too credulous Fauorites to thinke our Church for all the reformation wrought and Vniformity in doctrine established to be much awry and farre from the truth it should professe But setting downe as they haue done and publishing both what the truth is which now breaketh out and
and grosse contempt of the necessary and laudable orders of our Church By the latter they haue introduced a new and more then either Iewish or Popish superstition into the land to no small blemish of our Christian profession and scandall of the true seruants of God and therewith doctrine most erroneous dangerous and Antichristian The summe of the Sabbath doctrine broached by the Brethren 22. Their doctrine summarily may be reduced vnto these two heads whereof the one is that the Lords day euen as the old Sabbath was of the Iewes must necessarily be kept and solemnized of all and euery Christian vnder the paine of eternall condemnation both of body and soule The other that vnder the same penalty it must be kept from the highest to the lowest both of King and people in sort and manner as these Brethren among themselues haue deuised decreed and prescribed The former of these is like that of the false apostles which came from Iudea vnto Antioch and taught the Brethren that vnlesse they were circumcised after the manner of Moses they could not be saved Whom the Apostles Paul and Barnabas first and afterwards Peter Iames and the rest at Ierusalem both zealously did resist and in their Synod or Conuocation powerfully suppresse The latter as bad as that hath bin the mother of many hereticall assertions and horrible conclusions I haue read and many there be aliue which will iustifie it how it was preached in a Market towne in Oxfordshire that to doe any seruile worke or businesse on the Lords day is as great a sinne as to kill a man or to commit adultery It was preached in Somerset-shire that to throw a bowle on the Sabbath day is as great a sinne as to kill a man It was preached in Norfolke that to make a Feast or wedding dinner on the Lords day is as great a sin as for a Father to take a knife and cut his childs throate It was preached in Suffolke I can name the man and I was present when he was convented before his Ordinary for preaching the same that to ring more Bels then one upon the Lords day to call the people unto Church is as great a sinne as to commit murder When these things I read and heard mine heart was strucken with an horror and so is it still when I doe but think of them and calling into mind the Sabbath doctrine at London Printed for I. Porter and T. Man An. 95. which I had read before wherein very many things are to this effect I presently smelt both whose disciples all those preachers are and that the said doctrine had taken deep impression in mens hearts and was dispersed while our watchmen were otherwise busied if not asleepe over the whole Kingdome The Br. Doctrine of the Sa bath called in by authoritie and forbidden any more to be printed 23. It is a comfort unto my soule and will be till my dying houre that I have beene the man and the meanes that the Sabbatarian errors and impieties are brought into light and knowledge of the State whereby whatsoever else sure I am this good hath ensued namely that the said bookes of the Sabbath comprehending the above mentioned and many moe such fearefull and haereticall assertions hath been both called in and forbidden any more to be printed and made common Your Graces predecessor Archb. Whitgift by his letters and Officers at Synods and Visitations An. 99. did the one Ann. 1559. 1600. and Sir Iohn Popham L. chiefe Iustice of England at Bury S. Edmons in Suff. An. 1600. did the other And both these most reverend sage and honourable Personages by their censures have declared if men will take admonition that the Sabbath doctrine of the Brethren agreeth neither with the doctrine of our Church nor with the lawes and orders of this Kingdome disturbeth the peace both of the Common-weale and Church and tendeth unto Schisme in the one and Sedition in the other and therefore neither to be backt nor bolstred by any good Subiect whether he be Church or Common-weale man 24. Thus haue errors and noysome doctrines like byles Purity of doctrine all Qu. Elizabeths raigne maintained in England and Botches euer and anon risen vp to the ouerthrow of our Churches health and safety if it might be but yet such hath beene the Physicke of our discipline as what by launcing purging and other good means vsed the Body still hath heene vpholden and preserued from time to time And well may errors like grosse humors and tumors continue among vs as neuer Church was or will be quite without them while it is militant heere vpon earth yet are they not of the substance at all of our Religion or any part of our Churches Doctrine no more then ill humors which be in are of the Body or dregs in a Vessell of wine be any part either of the Vessell or Wine which remaineth as at the first most sound and vncorrupted and so continued euen vntill the dying day of that most illustrious and religious Princesse Queene Elizabeth The very Brethren themselves doe write that In regard of the common grounds of Religion and of the Ministery We are all one We are all of one Faith one Baptisme one Body one Spirit haue all one Father one Lord Ann. 1601. and be all of one Heart against al wickednes superstition idolatry heresie and we seeke with one Christian desire the aduancement of the pure Religion worship and Honor of God We are Ministers of the Word by one order we administer Prayers and Sacraments by one forme we Preach one Faith and substance of doctrine And we Praise God heartily that the true Faith by which we may be saued and the true doctrine of the Sacraments and the pure Worship of God is truely taught and that by publike authority and retained in the booke of Articles Hitherto the said Brethren And this was their verdict of our Churches doctrine in the last yeere saue one of Q. Elizabeths raigne then which nothing was euer more truely said or written And this Vnity and purity of doctrine she left with vs when she departed this world K. Iames. After Elizabeth raigned King Iames. VVHo found this our Church as all the world knoweth in respect of the grounds of true Religion at Vnitie Anno 1603. and that Vnitie in Veritie and that Veritie confirmed by publike and regall approbation These Ecclesiasticall Ministers therefore though a thousand for number who at his Majesties first comming into this Kingdome either complained unto his Highnesse of I know not what errors King James abused troubled with false informations and petitions of the Brethren and imperfections in our Church even in points of doctrine as if shee erred in matters of Faith or desired that an Vniformitie of doctrine might be prescribed as if the same had not already beene done to his hands or as weary belike of the old by Queene Elizabeth countenanced and continued
profitable many wayes of as tender consciences euery way as any of these Brethren combined according both to their bounden duties and as they are perswaded to the very purport and true intent of the said Statute have alwayes both with their mouthes acknowledged and with their pennes approued the 39. Articles of our religion for truthes not to be doubted of and godly Yea and the Brethren too themselues which now so scrupulously when they are orderly called thereunto doe hold backe their hands and will subscribe but choisely vnto some of them euen they with their mouthes which is equiualent and all one have that according to the Statute or else their liuings be void vpon the first entrance into all and singular their ecclesiasticall benefices openly both read and testified their consent vnto the said Articles for number euen nine and thirty acknowledging them I say all of them to be agreeable to Gods word whereof the people in their seuerall charges be ready witnesses to testifie so much before God and the world 34. Againe of these Brethren that will subscribe but vnto which they please of these Articles there be some who faine would beate into mens heads if they could tell how to make it credible that the Doctrine of our Church is altred from that it was in the raigne of Q. Eli. But this assertion being too grosse egregiously vntrue A late deuice of the Br. to shunne subscription no waies iustifiable they secondly give out and report so industrious be they to inuent new shifts to cloak their inueterate and rooted pertinacy how the purpose if not doctrine of our Church is of late altered from that it was And therefore though they can be well content to allow of the old doctrine and ancient intention yet vnto the old doctrine and new Intention of our Church they cannot subscribe might they either gaine much or lose whatsoeuer they have thereby Besides this new Intendement contrary to the old purpose if not doctrin of our Church is become now the maine and principall obstacle why they cannot subscribe vnto the booke of Common prayer and booke of Ordination as earst they some of them foure times have done when aswell Intention as Doctrine of our Church was pure holy Lastly they seeme not obscurely to intimate vnto the State that were they sure or might be assured that the purpose of our Church were the same which it was neither varied from the doctrine they would be prest and as ready euen foure if not forty times moe to subscribe vnto the forementioned bookes of Common prayer and of ordination as aforetimes they did when they were out of doubt the Intention of our Church was correspondent to her Doctrine that it was found and good I haue foure times subscribed saith a Brother to the booke of Common prayer with limitation and reference of all things therein contained not vnto the purpose onely or doctrine onely but unto the purpose and doctrine of the Church of England Yet cannot the same man with a good conscience so much as once more subscribe which formerly and that with a good conscience had subscribed foure times His reason is Because the purpose if not doctrine of our Church to which he referred his subscription appeareth to him by the late Canons booke of conference and some speeches of men in great place and others to be varied somewhat from that which he before not without reason took it to be The purpose and Doctrine of our Church continue the same 35. The purpose of our Church is best knowne by the doctrine which she doth professe the Doctrine by the 39. Articles established by Act of Parliament the Articles by the words whereby they are expressed and other purpose then the publike Doctrine doth minister and other Doctrine then in the said Articles is contained our Church neither hath nor holdeth and other sense they cannot yeeld then their words doe impart The words be the same and none other then earst and first they were And therefore the sense the same the Articles the same the Doctrine the same and the purpose and Intention of our Church still one and the same If then the purpose be knowne by her Doctrine and Articles and the true sense by their very words needs must the purppose of our Church be the same because her Doctrine and Articles for number words syllables and letters and every way be the very same And so our Churches intention in her publike Doctrine and Articles reuealed being good at the first it is so still For her purpose continuing one and the same cannot be ill at the last which was good and so beleeued and acknowledged even by the Brothers subscription at the first or good in good Queene Elizabeth and ill in illustrious King Iames his dayes 36. If the premisses sufficiently explane not the constancy of our Churches purpose in professing religion sincerely Neither the Doctrine nor purpose of our Church altered then cast we our eyes vpon the Propositions which she publikely maintaineth and if we find them the same which euer they have beene then need we not doubt the Brethren themselves being Iudges but the Articles againe their sence the Doctrine purpose and Intention nf the Church of England the Proposition interpreting as it were the said Articles is the very same it ever was Now that Propositions pregnantly and rightly gathered and arising from the articles be the same for substance vnaltered though vpon good considerations some few bee added to the former and all of them approued for true and Christian by the lawful publike allowance of our Church the Booke here ensuing plainely will declare and so demonstrate withall not the Doctrine onely but intention also of our Church to be the same and not changed and being vnchanged the books then of common prayer and of ordination too considered in the purpose and intention of the Church of England and reduced to the Propositions as the Brethren would haue them be well allowed and authentically approued and the said brethren with as good conscience now againe and afresh may subscribe vnto all the Articles euen concerning the Booke of common prayer and of ordination aswell as of the kings supremacy and of Religion as afore often and alwayes they did 37. For my selfe most reuerend Father in God what my thoughts be of the religion in this Realme at this instant professed and of all these Articles if the premisses doe not that which here followeth will sufficiently demonstrate Twenty yea 22 yeeres agoe voluntarily of mine owne accord altogether vnconstrained I published my subscription vnto them my Faith is not either shaken or altred but what it then was it still is yeeres have made those haires of mine gray which were not and time much reading and experience in Theologicall conflicts and combates have bettred a great deale but not altered one whit my judgement I thanke God Nothing have I denied nothing
gaine-said which afore I deliuered The Propositions are and yet not many moe the method altered quotations added both for the satisfaction of some learned and iudicious friends of mine requesting it at mine hands and for the benefit both of the common and vnlearned and of the studious and learned Reader The whole worke expresseth aswell my detestation and renunciation of all aduersaries errors opposite crossing or contradicting the doctrine professed by vs and protected by our King or any Article or particle of truth of our Religion as my approbation of that truth which in our Church by wholesome Statutes and Ordinances is confirmed There is not an heretike or Schismatike to speake of of any speciall marke that from the Apostles time hitherto hath discouered himselfe his opinions vulgarly in writing or in print against our doctrine but this heresie fancy or phrensie may be here seene against one proposition or other The Sects and Sect-masters aduersaries vnto vs either in the matter or maine points of our doctrine or Discipline to one of our Articles or other wholly or in part which here be discouered to be taken heed of and auoided are many hundreds 38. This and whatsoeuer else here done either to the confirmation of the truth or detestation of heresies and errors I doe very meekely present unto your Grace as after God and our King best meriting the patronage thereof My selfe am much the whole Church of England much more bound vnto your Lordship yea not wee onely now liuing but our successors also and posteritie shall have cause in all ages while the world shal continue to magnifie Almightie God for the inestimable benefits which we have shall receiue from your selfe your late Predecessors D. Whitegift Grindall Parker Cranmer of famous honourable remembrance Bishops of our Church Archbishops of the See of Canterbury for this uniforme doctrine by some of your Lordships drawne and penned by all of you allowed defended and as agreeable to the Faith of the very Apostles of Christ and of the ancient Fathers correspondent to the Confessions of all reformed Churches in Christendome and contrariant in no point unto Gods holy and written Word commended unto us both by your Authoritie and Subscriptions Now the all-mercifull God and heavenly Father which so inspired them and your Lordship with wisedome from above and inabled you all to discerne truth from falshood and found religion from Atheisme idolatry and errors vouchsafe of his infinite goodnesse to encrease his grace more and more upon your Grace to his owne glory the Churches benefit and your owne everlasting comfort And the same God which both mercifully hath brought and miraculously against all hellish and divellish practices of his and our enemies continued the light of his truth among us give us all grace with one heart and consent not onely to embrace the same but also to walke and carry our selves as it beseemeth the Children of light in all peaceablenesse and holinesse of life for his Sonne our Lord and Saviour Christ his sake At Horninger neere S. Edm. Bury in Suff. the 11. of March Ann. 1607. Your Graces poore Chaplaine alwayes at Command THOMAS ROGERS Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiasticall Anno 1604. VVHosoever shall hereafter affirme that the Church of England by Law established under the Kings Majesty is not a true and an Apostolicall Church teaching and maintaining the Doctrine of the Apostles let him be excommunicated ipso facto and not restored but onely by the Archbishop after his repentance and publike revocation of this his wicked error Can. 3. VVhosoever shall hereafter affirme that any of the 39 Articles agreed upon by the Archbishops and Bishops of both Provinces and the whole Clergy in the Convocation holden at London in the yeare of our Lord God 1562. for the avoiding of diversities of opinions and for the establishing of consent touching true Religion are in any part superstitious or erroneous or such as he may not with a good conscience subscribe unto let him be excommunicated ipso facto and not restored but onely by the Archbishop after his repentance and publike revocation of such his wicked errors Can. 5. Whosoever shall hereafter separate themselves from the Communion of Saints as it is approved by the Apostles rules in the Church of England and combine themselves in a new Brother-hood accounting the Christians who are conformable to the Doctrine Government Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England to be prophane and unmeete for them to joyne with in Christian profession let them be excommunicated ipso facto and not restored but by the Archbishop after their repentance and publike revocation of such their wicked errors Can. 9 The Titles of the thirty nine Articles with the Pages where to finde every of them in this Booke Articles 1 OF faith in the holy Trinity Page 1 Articles 2 Of the Word of God which was made very man Page 7 Articles 3 Of the going downe of Christ into Hell Page 15 Articles 4 Of the Resurrection of Christ Page 17 Articles 5 Of the Holy Ghost Page 21 Articles 6 Of the sufficiency of the Scriptures for salvation Page 26 Articles 7 Of the Old Testament Page 33 Articles 8 Of the three Creeds Page 39 Articles 9 Of Originall or birth sinne Page 41 Articles 10 Of Free-will Page 47 Articles 11 Of the Iustification of man Page 50 Articles 12 Of good workes Page 56 Articles 13 Of workes before Iustification Page 56 Articles 14 Of workes of Supererogation Page 59 Articles 15 Of Christ alone without sinne Page 62 Articles 16 Of sinne without Baptisme Page 65 Articles 17 Of Predestination and Election Page 69 Articles 18 Of obtaining salvation onely by the Name of Christ Page 82 Articles 19 Of the Church Page 86 Articles 20 of the Authoritie of the Church Page 98 Articles 21 Of the Authoritie of generall Councels Page 112 Articles 22 Of Purgatorie Page 118 Articles 23 Of Ministring in the Congregation 131 Articles 24 Of speaking in the Congregation in such a tongue as the people understand not Page 141 Articles 25 Of the Sacraments Page 142 Articles 26 Of the unworthinesse of the Ministers which hinder not the effects of the Sacraments Page 160 Articles 27 Of Baptisme Page 165 Articles 28 Of the Lords Supper Page 170 Articles 29 Of the wicked which doe not eate the Body and bloud of Christ in the use of the Lords Supper Page 178 Articles 30 Of both kindes Page 179 Articles 31 Of the oblation of Christ finished upon the Crosse Page 181 Articles 32 Of mrariage of Priests Page 185 Articles 33 Of Excommunicate persons how they are to be avoided Page 189 Articles 34 Of the traditions of the Church Page 193 Articles 35 Of Homilies Page 194 Articles 36 Of Consecration of Bishops and Ministers Page 196 Articles 37 Of the civill Magistrate Page 201 Articles 38 Of Christian mens goods which are not common Page 215 Articles 39 Of a Christian mans Oath Page 217 FINIS
Scripture k Conf. Cath. de Eccles and Lindau The Scriptures would be of no validitie neither had continued till this day but for traditions l Lâ—nd l. 1. c. 4 5. 7. Proposition The Church may not enforce any thing to be beleeved as necessary unto salvation that is either contrary or besides the Word of God The proofe from Gods Word YEe shall put nothing unto the Word which I command you neither shall yee take ought there-from a Deut 4.2 Put nothing unto his words lest he reprove thee and thou be found a lyer b Prov. 30.6 Though it be but a mans covenant when it is confirmed yet no man doth abrogate it or addeth any thing thereto c Gal. 3.15 If any man shall adde unto these things God shall adde unto him the plagues that are written in this book And if any man shall diminish of the words of the booke of this prophecie God shall take away his part out of the booke of life and out of the holy Citie and from those things which are written in this booke d Rev. 22.18 19. And so witnesse with us the Churches reformed e Conf. Helv. 1. ar 4. 2. c. 2. Basil ar 10. Bohem. cap 1. Gal. ar 5 Belg. ar 7. Saxon. ar 1. Wittemb c. 30.33 Sucvica ar 1. Whatsoever also is grounded upon Gods written Word though not by our common and vulgar tearmes to be read therein we doe reverently embrace which maketh us for doctrine to embrace the Consubstantialitie of our Saviour with the Father and the holy Ghost which the Arrians would not a Trinitie of persons in the Godhead which the Sabellians would never doe the justification by faith onely which the Papists will not the Baptisme of Infants and young children which the Anabaptists dare not and for discipline not to refuse of Church officers the names Archbishops Patriarches Primates Metropolitanes Suffragans Parsons Vicars c. of Ecclesiasticall censures the tearmes Suspension Excommunication of Ceremonies none at all which tend either unto order comelinesse or edification But from the heart we abhorre in matters both of doctrine and discipline whatsoever either agreeth not with the Canon of the Scripture or is not grounded thereupon Errors and adversaries of this truth Hence detest we both all the old heretikes and their fancies with the new prophets of Basilides the manifestation of Marcion the mysteries of the Manichies the Iobelaea of the Scythians the Symbonia of the Achontikes the Cabasa of the Iewes the Alcaron of the Turkes and also all new heretikes and Schismatikes with all their cursed opinions as first the Anabaptists and namely the Libertines and Davigeorgians and Family of Love and all the codeified Elders thereof as Henry Nicholas Eliad Fidelitas Christopher Vitell Theophilus the Exile and the rest Next the Papists whereof Some have commanded that all the Popes Decrees should be taken as confirmed by the mouth of God himselfe so did Pope Agatho the first a Gra. d. â— 16. Sic. Some write as Busgradus that if the Pope beleeve there is no life to come as some Popes have done we must beleeve it as an Article of our faith Some say if the Pope carry innumerable soules with him unto Hell yet he may not be judged so did the Pope Boniface the eighth b Decr. lib 3. cit 2. Crantz lib. 8. c. 36. Some as Bellarmine conclude that it is a point of faith to hold that the Bishop of Rome hath succeeded Peter in the universall regiment of the Church c Bellarm. de Pontif Rom. l. 2. c. 12. Others as the Iesuites perswade their Catholikes that the King of Spain their Catholike faith are so linked together as it is become a point of necessitie in the Catholike faith to put all Europe into the hands of the said King otherwise the Catholike religion will be utterly extinguished and perish d Spaâ— dis of the Eng. Ies d. 7. Others of them have published a new Gospel called Evangelium aeternum Spiritus Sancti which they say doth so far excell the Gospel of Christ as the kernell surpasseth the shell the Sunne the Moone and light darknesse The author whereof was one Cyrillus a Carmelite And lastly the Puritanes and all the speculations of Brown Barrow Greene Penry Marprelate T.C.E.G.R.H.A.C.I.B. with the new Sabbatarians and their fancies 21. Article Of the authority of generall Councels Generall Councels 1 may not be gathered together without the commandement and will of Princes And 2 when they be gathered together forasmuch as they be an assembly of men whereof all be not governed with the Spirit and Word of God they may erre and 3 sometimes have erred even in things pertaining unto God whorefore 4 things ordained by them as necessary unto salvation have neither strength nor authority unlesse it may be declared that they be taken out of holy Scriptures The Propositions 1. Generall Councels may not be gathered together but by the commandement and will of Princes 2. Generall Councels may erre 3. Generall Councels have erred even in things pertaining unto God 4. The things ordained by generall Councels are so farre to be embraced and beleeved as they are consonant to Gods holy Word 1. Proposition Generall Councels may not be gathered together but by the commandement of Princes The proofe from Gods Word GReat is the power and authoritie of Kings and Princes by the Word of God For as the defence of Religion is committed unto them so must they see that all men doe their duties That these things the better may be performed they are as just occasion is offered not as men under the power of others to summon but as supreme governours within their own territories and dominions to command all sorts of men to meete together and that either to the implanting of the truth where it is not or to the suppression of sin errors idolatry and superstition where or in whomsoever it doth arise or is rooted Such Councels were holden both in the time of the Mosaicall government by the commandement of the most godly Kings David a 1 Cor. 3.1 2. Salomon b 1 King 8.1 Asa c 2 Chr. 15.9 Ezechiah d 2 Chr. 29.4 and Iosiah e 1 Chr. 34.29 and since the Gospel hath bin received into Kingdomes and Common-weales by Christian Princes Kings and Emperors who gathered Councels both Generall as the Nicene was by Constantine the Great f Ruffi l. 10.1 1. Eus de vita Const l. 3. c 9. The Councell of Constantinople by Theodosius the elder g Theo. l 5 c. 6. the Councell of Ephesus by Theodosius the younger h Euang. l 1. c. 2 the Councell of Calcedon by Marcian i Leo ep 43.53 and Nationall and Provinciall so the Councell at Franckford Rhemes Turon Arelot and Moguntia by the will and commandement of Charles the Great k Aventin Carrâ—â—zâ— summa Conc. Carion lib. 3. at Marison by Gunthranus
or give voyce either deliberative or definitive in Councels and publike assemblies concerning matters of Religion nor make ecclesiasticall lawes concerning Religion nor give any man right to rule preach or execute any spirituall function as under them and by their authority b Test Rhem. an In matters of Religion and of their spirituall charge neither Heathen nor Christian Kings ought to direct Clergie-men but rather to take direction from them c 1 Cor. 14.33 The Emperour of the whole world if he take upon him to prescribe lawes of Religion to the Bishops and Priests c. he shall be damned assuredly except he repent d Ans to the execut of Iust d. 3. p. 56. Next the Anabaptists who being private men and no Princes will take upon them the ordering and reformation of the Church as did the Monetarians e Test Rhem. an Heb 13.17 and Muncer f Carranz sum Concâ—d 365. Bullin in con Anabap. in Germany And thirdly the Disciplinarian-Puritans whose doctrine is that 1. The making of Ecclesiasticall Constitutions and Ceremonies belongeth unto the Ministers of the Church and Ecclesiasticall Governors g T C. 1 rep p. 163. unto the Elders who are to consult and admonish correct and order all things pertaining to the congregation h 1. Admon to the Parliam 2. Civill Magistrates have no power to ordaine Ceremonies pertaining to the Church i T.C. 1. rep p. 153. but to ordaine civill Discipline onely k Idem 2. rep 2 par p 4. as being no Church officers at all 3. The Ecclesiasticall officers be Doctors Pastors Elders and Deacons the onely officers instituted of God l Lear. dis p. 10. or at the most Pastors Doctors Elders Deacons and widowes These are all no moe nor fewer and are onely sufficient and wee are to content our selves with these and rest in them saith the Preacher m Fruc sâ—r on Rom. 12 p. 33.71 In which number unlesse the King be included hee cannot possibly have any thing to doe in Church affaires in these mens opinions Without the Prince the people may reforme the Church and must not tarry for the Magistrate so thought Barrow Grâ—enewood n Bâ—râ—â—fut p. 169. and Wigginton o Conspir for pretend p. 34. Hence Hackets Coppingers and Arthingtons insurrection at London 1691. Without the Prince also the Lords and Burgesses of the Parliament have power of themselves to reforme the abuses and take away the corruptions of the Church Hence their manifold petitions supplications politike assertions exhibited unto the Parliament from time to time In one of which their supplications saith one speaking unto the Parliament You must enjoyne every one according to his place to have a hand in this work You must encourage and countenance the Gentlemen and people that shall be found forward c. And you of the Parliament must not suffer an uncircumcised mouth to bring a slander upon that Land c. sciz upon their discipline This hath Penry p Penry supp p. 60. 2. Proposition The King by his authority is to restraine with the materiall sword and to punish malefactors whosoever they be The proofe from Gods Word THE office of the Civill Magistrate is to restraine and if need be to punish according to the quality of their offences the disturbers of the quiet and peace of the Common-weale and that as occasion shall require sometime by force of armes if the enemies of his State be either forraigne or domesticall and they gathered together be many and mighty To this end Kings and Princes have both men munition Subsidies and Tributes So against the enemies of God and good men went of Israel and Iudah the valiant Iudges and the noble and puissant Princes And sometimes they execute their wholesome and Penall Statutes upon the goods cattell lands and bodies of their disorderly and rebellious subjects For the King is a Minister of God to take vengeance on him that doth evill Therefore Princes are to be feared not of them which doe well but of such as doe wickedly a Rom. 13.3 4. And this doe the people of God acknowledge to bee true b Conf. Helv. 1 ar 24.26 2. c. 30. Basi ar 7. Bohe. cap. 19. Gal. artic 33. Belg. artic 36. August ar 16. Saxon. ar 23. Adversaries unto this truth Contrarily hereunto The Cresconians were of opinion that Magistrates were to punish no malefactors a D. Aug. contra Crescon Gra. l. 3. c. 51. One Rabanus maintained that Magistrates were not of Gods Ordinance for the good but an humane institution for the hurt of men b Mag. eccles hist Cen. 6. c. 4. fol. 2 16. Many have a fancie that before the generall Resurrection there shall be no Magistrates at all because they dreame all the wicked shall be rooted out Of this minde are the Anabaptists c Confes Aug. ar 17. and the family of Love d H. N. 1. exh c. 12. sect 39.40 Ramseis confes 5. Proposition The Bishop of Rome hath not jurisdiction in this Realme of England nor other of the Kings Dominions The proofe from Gods Word THE Bishop of Rome did hee according to the Will of God Preach the Gospell labour in the Lords harvest divide the Word of God aright minister the Sacraments instituted by Christ and that sincerely and shew by his life and conversation the good fruits of a godly Bishop doubtlesse he were worthy of double a 1 Tim. 5.17 yea of triple honour Yet will not the Word of God were he never so holy and religious warrant him any jurisdiction out of his Diocesse especially not within this Realme much lesse when he doth performe no part of a Christian but every part of an Antichristian Bishop in corrupting the doctrine of the truth with errors and cursed opinions in polluting the Sacraments of Christ by superstitious ceremonies in persecuting the Church and Saints with fire and sword in making marchandise of the soules of men through covetousnesse b 2 Pet. 2.3 in playing the lord over Gods heritage c 1 Pet. 5.3 in sitting in the Temple of God as God shewing himselfe that he is god d 2 Th. s 2.4 and in exalting himselfe against all that is called God or that is worshipped e Ibid. In respect of which fruits of impieties the said Bishop of Rome in the holy Scripture is described to be very Antichrist that wicked man the man of sinne the sonne of perdition and the adversary of God f Ibid. Hee was openly proclaimed Antichrist by a Councell in France in the Raigne of Hugh Capet Hee is termed by the truly and godly learned The Basiliske of the Church g Luther praef epi. L. Huss neither the Head nor the tayle of the Church h Heming in 5. c. Iac. epist His jurisdiction hath beene and is justly renounced and banished out of England by many Kings and Parliaments as by King Edward the 1.
given to every King or Queene in their owne Dominion by the Word of God For They are for titles gracious Lords a Luke 22.25 Princes b Rom. 13.3 the Ministers of God c Ibid. 4. the Nurses of the Church d Isa 49.23 Gods e Psal 32.1 For authority the chiefe f 1 Pet. 2.13 Which moveth St. Paul to exhort that supplications be made for all men but first for Kings as the chiefe g 1 Tim 3.1 Againe Every soule is commanded to be subject to the higher power c h Rom. 13.1 Finally the examples are manifold and pregnant shewing the principality of Kings over all persons and causes For Aaron the high Priest called Moses the chiefe Prince his Lord i Exod. 32.21 so did Abimelech tearme Saul his Lord k 1 Sam. 22.12 K. Iehosaphat as chiefe in Iudah appointed Iudges Levites and Priests l 2 Chr. 19.5 c. 8. K. Ezechias also as chiefe sent unto all Israel and Iudah that they should come to the house of the Lord at Ierusalem to keepe the Passeover m 2 Chr. 30.1 also hee appointed the course of Priests and Levites by their turnes n 2 Chr. 31.2 and commanded all the Priests to offer sacrifice c. and they obeyed him o Ibid. c. 29.21.22 and enjoyned all the congregation to bring offerings and they brought them p 31. Confess Helv. 1. ar 16. c. 2 30. Basil ar 7. Bohem. c. 16. Bel. ar 36. Aug. ar 16. 17. Sax. ar 23. Suc. pecorer Which we doe unto ours the very same doe the Churches of God ascribe unto Christian Magistrates in their principalities Errors and adversaries unto this truth Which being true then false is it which the Papists deliver viz. that The Kings excellency of power is in respect of the Nobility and Lay-magistrates under him and not of Popes Bishops or Priests as they have cure of soules a Test Rhem. Annot. 1 Pet. 2.13 Kings and Princes be they never so great must be subject unto some Bishop Priest or Prelate b Ibid. an Heb. 13.7 The whole Clergie ought to bee free from paying Tribute c Ibid. an Mat. 17.26 Sacerdotes etiam Principibus jure divino subditi deleatur say the expurgators Priests are not by Gods Law subject unto Princes d Index expurg p. 26. No man is to be subject unto his temporall Prince and superiour in matters of Religion or regiment of his soule but in such things onely as concerne the publike peace and policie e Test Rhem. an Rom. 13.1 False also is it which the Puritanes doe hold namely that Princes must be servants unto the Church be subject unto the Church submit their scepters unto the Church and throw downe their Crownes before the Church f T. C. râ—p p. 144. Magistrates as well as other men must submit themselves and bee obedient to the just and lawfull authority of the Church g â—â— dis p. 185. that is of the Presbitery h That which our Saviour calleth Presbytâ—rian and to doth Luke â—â—a disc p. 89. Quis tandem reges principes who can exempt even Kings and Princes from this Non humana sed divina Dominatione not humane but divine Domination meaning of the Presbytery saith Beza i B za de pres p. 124. which Presbytery they would have to be in every Parish k There ought to be in every Church a Consistory of seigniory of elders or governours â—â—ar disc p. 84 Every Congregation ought to have Elders and an Eldership-Demon of dis c. 12. p. 55. cap. 14. pag. 69. In stead of Chancellors Aâ—chdeacons Officials Commissaries Proctors Summoners Churchwardens and such like you Parliament men have to plant in every Congregation a lawfull and godly Seigniory 1. Admor to the Parliam I would that every little Parish should have seven such Elders at the least and every meane Church 13. and every great Church 13. Hunt of the Foxe c. Ec. 2.2 Quotquot ecclesiae Christi as many as be members of Christ and of the Church they must subject themselves to the Consistorian discipline Non hic excipitur Episcopus aut Imperator Neither Bishop or Emperour is excepted here Nulla hic acceptio aut exceptio est personarum Here is no acception or exception of persons l Sâ—ecaâ— de dis p. eccles p. 456. 3. Proposition His highnesse may not execute the Ecclesiasticall duties of preaching and ministring the Sacraments and yet is to prescribe lawes and directions unto all estates both Ecclesiasticall and Temporall The proofe from Gods Word KIng Ezechiah said unto the Priests and Levites of his time My sonnes be not deceived For the Lord hath chosen you to stand before him and to serve him and to be his Ministers and to burne incense a 2 Chr. 29.11 So doe we say The Lord hath appointed a company and calling of men to teach the people to expound the Scriptures to celebrate the Sacraments to handle the Keyes of the celestiall Kingdome insomuch as hee whosoever that shall presume to doe these things not called thereunto and that lawfully b See afore ar though he be a King or Prince he may feare that punishment which fell upon Vzzah c 2 Chr. 26.19 Notwithstanding all Kings Queenes and Princes in their places may yea and must as occasion serveth with K. Salomon build an house for the Lord d 2 Chr. 2.1 and set the courses of Priests to their office e 2 Chr. 8.14 with K. Ezechiah breake the Images cut downe the Groves take away the high places f 2 Chr. 31.1 appoint the courses of the Priests and Levites and enjoyne all the people to minister sustenance unto the Priests g Thus did Ezechiah throughout all Iudah and did well and uprightly and truely before the Lord his God 2 Chr. 31.20 with K. Iosiah put downe and burne the horses of the Sunne h 2 Kin 23.11 breake downe the houses of the Sodomites i Ibid. 7. purge Iudah and Ierusalem from the high places Groves carved and molten Images k 2 Chr. 3.34 appoint the Priests to their charges l Ibid. 3.5.2 and compell all that are found in Israel to serve the Lord their God m Ib. c. 33.34 and with the King of Niniveh proclaime a fast and command every man to turn from his evill way c n Jonas 3.7 Of the same judgement be other Churches o Confe Helv. 1. ar 26. 2. c. 30. Basil ar 7. Boh. c 16. Gal. ar 39. Belg. ar 35. Sax. ar 23. Wittem c. 35. The errors and adversaries unto this truth Much therefore out of the way are and offend greatly doe first the Papists who publish that The care of Religion pertaineth not unto Kings Religionis curam semper pertinnisse adreges dole say the expurgators blot it out a Index expur p. 145. Queenes may not have