A
PROTESTATION
OF
the
Kings
Supremacie
.
WE
hould
and
maintaine
,
the
same
Authoritie
&
Supremacie
in
all
causes
and
over
all
persons
Ciuill
and
Ecclesiasticall
,
graunted
by
Statute
to
Queene
Elizabeth
,
and
expressed
and
declared
in
the
book
of
Aduertisements
&
Iniunctions
,
and
in
M.
Bilson
against
the
Iesuits
,
to
bee
due
in
full
and
ample
manner
(
without
any
limitation
or
qualification
)
to
the
King
and
his
Heires
and
Successors
for
euer
.
Neither
is
their
(
to
our
knowledge
)
any
one
of
vs
,
but
is
and
euer
hath
been
most
willinge
to
subscrib
and
sweare
vnto
the
same
,
accordinge
to
form
of
statute
,
And
we
desire
that
those
that
shall
refuse
the
same
may
beare
their
owne
iniqutie
.
2
We
are
so
far
from
Iudgeing
the
saide
Supremacie
to
be
vnlawfull
:
that
we
are
perswaded
that
the
Kinge
should
sinne
highly
against
God
,
●s
hee
should
not
assume
the
same
vnto
himself
,
&
that
the
Churches
within
his
Dominions
shold
sine
dānablie
,
yf
they
should
deny
to
yeald
the
same
vnto
him
.
yea
though
the
statuts
of
the
kingdome
should
deny
it
vnto
him
.
3
wee
hould
it
plaine
Antichristianisme
for
any
Churche
or
Church
officers
whatsoeuer
,
either
to
arrogate
or
assume
vnto
themselues
any
part
or
parcel
therof
,
and
vtterly
vnlawful
for
the
king
to
giue
away
or
alienate
the
same
from
his
owne
Crowne
and
dignitie
to
any
spirituall
potentates
or
rulers
whatsoeuer
within
or
without
his
dominions
.
4
Wee
hould
that
though
the
Kings
of
this
Realme
weare
noe
members
of
the
Church
but
very
Infidels
,
ye
and
persecutors
of
the
truth
,
that
yet
those
Churches
that
shal
be
gathered
together
within
thes
dominions
ought
to
acknowledge
&
yeald
the
said
supremacie
vnto
them
And
that
the
same
is
not
tied
to
their
faith
and
Christianitie
but
to
their
very
Crowne
from
which
noe
subiect
or
subiects
haue
power
to
seperate
or
disioyne
it
.
5
We
hould
that
nether
King
nor
Ciuill
state
are
bound
in
matter
of
Religion
to
bee
subiect
and
obedient
to
any
Ecclesiasticall
Person
or
Persons
whatsoeuer
no
further
then
they
shal
be
able
to
Conuince
their
consciences
of
the
truth
thereof
out
of
the
word
of
God
.
Yea
wee
thinke
they
should
sinne
against
God
,
yf
they
should
ground
their
Religion
,
or
any
part
or
parcell
therof
vpon
the
bare
Testimonie
or
Iudgement
of
any
man
,
or
of
all
the
men
in
the
world
.
6
Wee
hould
that
noe
Churches
or
Church
officers
haue
power
for
any
crime
whatsoeuer
to
depriue
the
king
of
the
least
of
his
Royall
prerogatius
whatsoeuer
,
muche
lesse
to
depriue
him
of
his
supremacie
wherin
the
height
of
his
Royall
dignitie
Consists
.
7
Wee
hould
that
in
all
things
Concerning
this
life
whatsoeuer
,
the
Ciuill
Iurisdiction
of
Kings
and
Ciuill
States
excelleth
&
ought
to
haue
preheminence
ouer
the
Ecclesiasticall
,
and
that
the
Ecclesiasticall
nether
hath
nor
ought
to
haue
any
power
in
the
least
degree
ouer
the
bodies
,
liues
,
goods
,
or
libertie
of
any
person
whatsoeuer
,
much
lesse
of
the
Kings
and
Rulers
of
the
Earth
.
8
Wee
hould
that
Kings
by
virtue
of
their
Supremacie
haue
power
:
yea
also
that
they
stand
bound
by
the
lawe
of
God
to
make
Lawes
Ecclesiasticall
such
as
shall
tend
to
the
good
ordering
of
the
Churches
in
their
Dominions
,
And
that
the
Churches
ought
not
to
bee
dissobedient
to
any
of
their
Lawes
,
so
far
as
in
obedience
vnto
them
,
they
doe
not
that
which
is
contrary
to
the
word
of
God
.
9
Wee
hould
that
though
the
King
shal
Command
any
thing
contrarie
to
the
Word
vnto
the
Churches
,
that
yet
they
ought
not
to
resist
him
therein
,
but
onely
peaceablie
to
forbeare
obedience
,
and
sue
vnto
him
for
grace
and
mercie
,
and
wher
that
cannot
be
obtained
,
meekely
to
submit
themselues
to
the
punishment
.
10
Wee
hould
that
the
King
hath
power
by
virtue
of
his
Supremacie
,
to
remoue
out
of
the
Churches
,
whatsoeuer
he
shall
discerne
to
be
practised
therin
,
not
a
greable
to
the
word
of
God
.
And
if
he
shal
see
any
defect
either
in
the
worship
of
God
or
in
the
Ecclesiasticall
Discipline
,
he
ought
by
his
royall
authoritie
&
power
to
procure
and
force
the
redresse
therof
,
yea
,
though
it
be
without
the
consent
and
a
gainst
the
will
of
the
Ecclesiasticall
Gouerners
themselues
.
11
Wee
hould
that
the
King
hath
as
much
authoritie
over
the
bodie
,
goods
,
&
affaires
,
of
Ecclesiastical
persons
,
as
of
any
other
of
his
Subiects
whosoeuer
.
And
that
by
his
authoritie
,
he
may
force
them
not
onely
to
all
ciuyll
dueties
belonging
vnto
them
,
but
also
vnto
all
Ecclesiasticall
:
afflictyng
as
great
punishment
vpon
them
for
the
neglect
thereof
,
as
vpon
any
other
of
his
Subiects
.
12
Wee
hould
that
he
hath
power
,
to
remoue
out
of
the
Churches
,
all
Scandolous
,
Scismaticall
&
Hereticall
Teachers
,
and
by
all
due
seueritie
of
Lawes
to
represse
them
.
13
Wee
hould
that
all
Ecclesiasticall
Lawes
made
by
the
King
(
not
repugnant
to
the
word
of
God
)
doe
in
some
sorte
bind
the
consciences
of
his
subiects
:
and
that
no
subiect
ought
to
refuse
obedience
to
any
such
law
.
14
We
hould
that
the
King
onely
hath
power
within
his
Dominions
,
to
Couvene
Synods
or
generall
Assemblies
of
Ministers
,
And
by
his
authoritie
Royall
,
to
ratisie
and
giue
life
and
strength
,
to
their
Canons
and
Conslitutions
,
without
whose
ratification
,
no
man
can
force
any
subiect
to
yeald
any
obedience
vnto
the
same
.
15
Wee
hould
that
though
the
King
may
force
the
Churches
to
be
subiect
and
obedient
vnto
him
:
and
to
be
Members
of
the
Common
wealth
,
ye●
that
the
Churches
seuerally
or
ioyntly
,
haue
no
power
to
force
him
:
or
any
subiect
,
against
their
will
to
any
service
vnto
them
,
or
to
any
religious
〈◊〉
whatsoeuer
.
No
,
nor
to
be
so
much
as
a
member
of
any
Church
.
16
Wee
hould
that
the
King
ought
not
to
be
subiect
to
the
Ecclesiasticall
Censures
of
any
Churches
,
Church
officers
or
Synods
whatsoeuer
,
but
onely
to
that
Church
and
those
Officers
of
his
owne
Court
and
Houshould
,
vnto
whom
(
in
reuerence
of
their
Religion
and
of
the
spirituall
Graces
of
God
he
sees
shinynge
in
them
)
he
shall
of
his
owne
freewill
,
subiect
and
commit
the
Regiment
of
his
soule
,
in
whom
their
can
be
,
no
suspition
nor
feare
of
any
partialitie
:
or
vniust
or
rigorous
dealing
against
him
.
17
Wee
hould
that
if
any
Ecclsiasticall
Gouerners
(
call
them
by
what
name
you
will
)
shall
abuse
their
Ecclesiasticall
authoritie
in
the
execution
of
their
Censures
,
vpon
any
man
whosoeuer
.
That
the
King
and
Ciuill
States
vnder
him
,
haue
power
to
punish
them
seuerely
for
it
,
much
more
if
they
shall
abuse
it
vpon
the
Supreame
Maiestie
himselfe
.
18
If
the
King
subiecting
himselfe
:
to
Spirituall
Guides
and
Governers
,
shall
afterwards
refuse
to
be
guided
and
gouerned
by
them
accordinge
to
the
word
of
God
,
and
lyuinge
in
notorious
sinne
without
repentannce
shall
wilfully
contemne
and
dispise
all
their
holy
&
religious
Censures
,
that
then
thes
Gouernors
are
to
refuse
to
administer
the
holy
things
of
God
vn
to
him
,
and
to
leaue
him
to
him self
and
to
the
secreat
Iudgment
of
God
,
and
wholly
to
resigne
and
giue
ouer
that
spirituall
charge
&
tuition
ouer
him
,
which
by
calling
from
God
and
the
King
they
did
vndertake
.
And
more
then
this
they
may
not
doe
.
And
after
all
this
,
Wee
hould
that
he
yet
still
retaineth
,
and
ought
to
retaine
,
in
tierly
&
solidly
,
all
that
aforesaide
supreāe
power
and
authoritie
ouer
the
Churches
of
this
Dominion
in
as
ample
a
manner
as
if
hee
were
the
most
Christian
prince
in
the
world
.
19
Wee
acknowledge
King
Iames
to
be
our
onely
lawfull
Soueraigne
and
vnto
him
to
be
due
all
the
aforesaid
Supremacie
&
wee
renounce
&
abiure
allopinions
doctrins
practicies
whatsoeuer
repugnant
or
contrarie
to
the
same
,
as
Anabaptisticall
&
Antichristian
.
And
wish
they
may
be
seuerely
punished
.
20
Wee
never
refused
obedience
to
any
Lawes
or
commaundements
of
the
King
:
or
State
whatsoeuer
,
but
onely
to
such
as
we
haue
proued
or
are
readie
to
proue
,
(
if
we
might
be
heard
with
indifferencie
)
to
be
contrarie
to
the
word
of
God
.
And
we
are
readie
to
take
our
Solemne
Oathes
,
before
the
Throne
of
Iustice
,
that
the
onely
cause
of
our
refusall
of
Obedience
to
those
Canons
of
the
Prelates
for
which
we
are
in
present
so
extreamly
afflicted
,
is
meere
conscience
,
and
a
feare
to
sinne
against
God
:
And
that
if
by
due
forme
of
reasonnyng
we
may
be
conuinced
in
our
consciences
of
the
contrarie
,
we
are
as
willinge
as
any
Subiects
in
the
Realme
to
Obey
and
Conforme
.
21
Wee
refuse
Obedience
onely
to
such
Canons
as
require
the
performaunce
of
such
Acts
,
&
Rites
of
Religion
,
as
are
reiected
and
abandoned
of
all
other
reformed
Churches
,
as
Superstitious
disorders
,
Such
,
as
are
speciall
mysteries
of
the
Romish
Antichristian
Idolatrie
,
Such
as
haue
been
controuerted
in
the
Church
euer
since
the
last
breakynge
forth
of
the
light
of
the
gospell
,
out
of
the
cloude
of
Popery
in
Luthers
time
.
Such
as
all
Protestant
writers
&
defendors
of
our
Faith
beyond
the
Seaes
,
and
most
of
our
owne
Countrimen
haue
either
in
generall
or
par
ticular
condemned
as
vaine
,
idle
,
and
vn
profitable
,
Such
as
all
the
faithfull
,
and
painfull
Pastors
of
this
Realme
:
and
in
a
manner
all
States
&
degrees
of
the
same
,
woulde
be
content
were
remoued
:
and
sweept
out
of
the
Church
,
and
for
which
few
or
none
are
zealous
but
the
Prelates
,
and
their
adherents
.
22
We
deny
no
authoritie
to
the
King
,
in
matters
Ecclesiasticall
,
but
onely
that
which
Christ
Iesus
the
onely
Head
of
the
Church
hath
directly
,
and
precisly
appropriated
vnto
himselfe
,
and
hath
denyed
to
communicate
to
any
other
creature
or
creatures
in
the
world
.
For
we
hould
,
That
Christ
a
lone
is
the
Doctor
of
the
Church
in
matters
of
Religion
,
and
that
the
word
of
Christ
which
he
hath
given
vnto
his
Church
,
is
of
absolute
parfection
containyng
in
it
all
parts
of
the
true
religion
,
both
for
substance
and
ceremonie
,
&
a
perfect
direction
in
all
Ecclesiasticall
matters
whatsoeuer
.
Vnto
&
from
which
it
is
not
lawefull
for
any
Man
or
Angell
,
to
add
or
detract
.
23
We
are
so
far
from
makyng
claime
of
any
supremacie
vnto
our selues
(
and
thos
eccliasticall
officers
which
we
desire
)
that
we
exclude
from
our selues
&
them
(
as
that
of
which
we
are
vtterly
vncapable
)
all
Princely
&
Lordlie
state
pomp
&
power
whatsoeuer
,
houlding
it
a
sinne
for
any
whosoeuer
to
excercise
(
no
not
by
conmission
from
the
magistrat
)
any
authoritie
ouer
the
bodie
,
Goods
,
liues
,
libertie
of
any
man
whosoeuer
for
any
crime
or
offence
whatsoeuer
.
So
that
any
one
of
the
basest
and
most
inferior
Ciuill
officers
in
a
Kingdome
hath
and
ought
to
haue
(
in
our
iudgement
)
more
authoritie
and
power
ouer
men
then
any
or
all
the
Ecclesiasticall
Officers
in
the
same
kingdom
or
in
the
whol
world
.
Yea
we
hold
that
the
highest
Ecclesiasticall
Officer
in
the
Church
ought
to
be
as
subiect
vnto
the
basest
Ciuill
officers
in
the
Kingdome
,
as
the
meanest
Subiect
in
the
Kingdome
,
And
that
they
ought
not
by
virtue
of
their
office
,
to
chalenge
any
freedome
or
immunity
at
all
from
any
Ciuyll
Subiection
whatsoeuer
,
belonging
to
any
common
Subiect
,
.
24
Wee
consine
and
bound
all
Ecclesiasticall
power
within
the
limitts
onely
of
one
particular
Congregation
,
houldinge
that
the
greatest
Ecclesiasticall
power
:
ought
not
to
strech
beyond
the
same
,
And
that
it
is
an
arrogating
of
Princly
Supremacie
,
for
any
Ecclesiasticall
Person
,
or
Persons
whosoeuer
,
to
take
vpon
themselues
Ecclesiasticall
Iurisdiction
over
many
Churches
,
much
more
over
whole
Kingdomes
and
Provinces
of
Christians
.
25
We
hould
it
vtterly
vnlawfull
for
any
one
Minister
to
take
vpon
himselfe
,
or
accept
of
a
sole
Ecclesiasticall
Iurisdiction
over
so
much
as
one
Congregation
.
And
therfore
we
hould
that
some
of
the
sufficientest
and
most
honest
and
godlie
men
in
the
Congregation
,
ought
to
be
chosen
by
the
Heades
of
Families
,
to
be
adioynded
in
Comission
as
Asistants
to
the
Minister
,
in
the
Spirituall
Regiment
of
the
soules
of
that
Congregation
,
of
which
he
is
the
Pastor
.
26
We
hould
that
these
Ecclesiasticall
Officers
being
so
chosen
by
the
Church
or
Congregation
,
are
to
exercise
over
the
said
Congregation
only
a
Spirituall
Iurisdiction
and
power
,
consistyng
in
a
careful
oversight
of
the
outward
behavior
of
the
Members
of
their
Church
,
That
it
be
not
scandalous
,
offenciue
,
and
vnbeseemynge
Christians
.
And
if
any
Member
shal
be
delinquent
,
they
are
brotherly
to
admonish
him
,
shewing
him
the
nature
of
his
crime
by
the
word
of
God
,
And
if
after
two
or
three
admonitions
,
he
sheew
no
tokens
of
sorrowe
and
penitencie
,
then
are
they
to
deny
vnto
him
the
pledges
and
seales
of
of
the
Church
,
to
wit
the
Sacraments
.
If
this
cannot
humble
him
but
that
he
continue
obstinate
in
that
sinne
,
then
they
are
by
the
mouth
of
the
Minister
in
Congregation
(
the
whole
Church
consentinge
freely
therto
)
denounce
him
to
be
no
Member
of
the
Kingdom
of
Heauen
,
and
so
forbeare
to
haue
any
further
charge
ouer
him
,
vntill
God
shall
worke
the
grace
of
Repentannce
,
in
him
?
in
this
manner
they
are
to
proceed
against
all
apparent
and
Euident
crimes
only
,
as
Murder
Adultery
Theft
Blasphemie
,
Ribaldery
Lying
,
Slandering
,
Profanation
of
the
Sabothes
contempt
of
Diuine
Worship
.
Disobedience
to
the
Ciuil
Magistrate
&c.
Nether
ought
the
Extreamest
of
the
Ecclesiasticall
Censures
any
whit
hinder
the
course
of
iustice
that
the
Ciuill
Magistrate
is
to
excercise
against
the
same
crimes
for
if
a
Traytor
himselfe
should
bee
penitent
,
the
churche
ought
to
forgiue
him
and
lovingly
to
imbrace
him
as
a
Sonne
,
but
the
Magistrate
ought
to
execute
him
,
If
he
should
be
obstinate
in
that
crime
:
As
the
Magistrate
ought
to
cutt
him
off
from
the
Ciuill
communion
of
men
,
so
ought
the
Congregation
(
of
which
he
is
a
Member
)
cutt
him
of
from
all
spirituall
Communion
with
them
.
If
any
one
of
the
Ecclesiasticall
Officers
themselues
shall
sinne
,
he
is
as
subiect
to
the
Censures
of
the
rest
as
any
other
member
of
the
congregation
.
If
they
shall
all
sinne
scandolously
either
in
the
execution
of
their
Office
,
or
in
any
other
ordinarie
manner
:
Then
the
Congregation
that
chose
them
freely
,
hath
as
free
power
to
depose
them
,
and
to
place
others
in
their
roome
.
If
the
Congregation
shall
erre
,
either
in
choosinge
or
deposinge
of
her
spirituall
Officers
,
Then
hath
the
●uill
Magistrate
alone
power
and
authoritie
to
punish
them
for
their
fault
,
to
compell
them
to
make
better
choyse
,
or
to
defend
against
them
those
Officers
that
without
iust
causes
they
shall
depose
or
depriue
.
27
Wee
hould
that
those
Ecclesiasticall
Persons
that
make
claime
to
greater
power
and
authoritie
then
this
,
Especially
they
that
make
claime
Iure
Divino
of
power
and
Iurisdiction
to
medle
with
other
Churches
then
that
one
Congregation
of
which
they
are
or
ought
to
be
Members
.
Doe
vsurpe
vpon
the
Supremacie
of
the
Ciuill
Magistrate
,
Who
alone
hath
and
ought
to
haue
(
as
we
hould
and
mainetaine
)
a
power
over
the
seuerall
Congregations
in
his
Dominions
,
And
who
alone
ought
by
his
authoritie
not
onely
to
prescribe
common
Lawes
and
Canons
of
Vniformitie
and
consent
,
in
Religion
and
worship
of
God
vnto
them
all
,
But
also
to
punish
the
offences
of
the
seuerall
Congregations
,
that
they
shall
committ
against
the
lawes
of
God
,
the
policy
of
the
Realme
,
And
the
Ecclesiasticall
Constitutions
enacted
by
his
authoritie
.
28
Wee
hould
that
the
Kinge
ought
not
to
giue
this
authoritie
away
or
to
committ
it
to
any
Ecclesiasticall
Person
or
Persons
whatsoeuer
,
But
ought
himselfe
to
be
as
it
were
,
Archbishop
and
generall
Overseer
of
all
the
Churches
within
his
Dominions
,
And
ought
to
imploye
vnder
him
,
his
Honorable
Counsell
,
his
Iudges
,
Leiftenaunts
,
Iustices
,
Cunstables
&
such
like
to
oversee
the
Churches
,
in
the
seuerall
diuisions
of
their
ciuill
Regiments
,
visiting
them
and
punishing
by
their
ciuill
power
whatsoeuer
they
shall
see
amisse
in
any
of
them
:
Especially
in
the
Rulers
and
Gouerners
.
29
For
as
much
as
no
people
are
more
hated
persecuted
and
wronged
of
the
wicked
world
then
the
true
Churches
of
Christ
,
Wee
hould
that
no
people
in
the
Earth
stand
in
more
neede
of
the
ciuill
magistrate
,
then
they
.
And
that
it
is
the
greatest
outward
blessing
they
can
inioye
in
this
life
,
to
liue
vnder
the
Protection
of
their
Swords
and
Scepters
,
and
the
greatest
cause
of
mourning
when
the
same
shal
be
bent
against
them
.
And
we
hould
those
churches
to
be
no
true
churches
of
Iesus
Christ
That
livinge
in
any
cuntry
,
shall
refuse
Subiection
to
the
ciuill
Regents
and
Gouerners
of
the
same
,
be
they
(
in
respect
of
Religion
)
never
such
Paganish
Infidells
.
30
Wee
hould
it
vtterly
vnlawfull
,
For
any
christian
Churches
whatsoeuer
,
by
any
armed
force
or
power
,
against
the
will
of
the
ciuill
magistracie
and
State
vnder
which
they
liue
,
To
erect
and
sett
vpp
in
publique
,
the
true
worship
and
service
of
God
,
Or
to
beate
downe
or
Suppresse
any
superstition
or
Idolatrie
that
shal
be
countenaunced
and
maintained
by
the
same
.
Onely
,
Every
man
is
to
looke
to
himselfe
,
that
he
communicate
not
with
the
Euills
of
the
times
,
induringe
what
it
shall
please
the
State
to
inflict
,
and
seekinge
by
all
honest
and
peaceable
meanes
all
reformation
of
publicke
abuses
,
Onely
at
the
hands
of
Ciuill
publicke
Persons
,
And
all
practises
contrarie
to
these
,
we
condemne
as
Seditious
and
sinfull
.
31
All
that
we
craue
of
his
Maiestie
&
the
State
,
is
,
that
by
his
and
their
permission
and
vnder
their
protection
,
and
approbation
,
It
may
be
lawefull
for
vs
,
To
serue
and
worship
God
in
all
things
according
to
his
revealed
will
,
and
the
manner
of
all
other
reformed
Protestant
Churches
,
that
haue
made
seperation
from
Rome
,
That
we
may
not
be
forced
against
our
consciences
to
staine
and
pollute
the
simple
and
synere
worship
of
God
prescribed
in
his
word
,
with
any
humaine
Traditions
and
Rites
whatsoeuer
,
but
that
in
Divine
worship
we
may
be
actors
onely
of
those
things
that
may
for
matter
or
manner
either
ingenerall
or
speciall
be
concluded
out
of
the
word
of
God
.
Also
to
this
end
that
it
may
be
lawefall
for
vs
to
exhibite
vnto
them
and
vnto
their
Censure
a
true
and
Syncere
Confession
of
our
faith
,
containyng
the
maine
Grounds
of
our
Religion
,
vnto
which
all
other
doctrines
are
to
be
consonant
:
as
also
a
Forme
of
Divīe
worship
and
Ecclesiasticall
Gouerment
,
in
like
manner
warranted
by
the
word
,
and
to
be
obserued
of
vs
all
vnder
any
Ciuill
punishment
that
it
shall
please
the
saide
Maiestie
,
&
State
to
inflict
,
vnder
whose
authoritie
alone
,
we
desire
to
exercise
the
same
:
and
vnto
whose
punishment
alone
we
desire
to
be
subiect
if
we
shall
offend
against
any
of
those
Lawes
and
Canons
that
themselues
shall
approue
in
manner
aforesaide
,
And
our
desire
is
,
Not
to
worship
God
in
darke
corners
,
but
in
such
publicke
places
and
at
such
convenient
times
as
it
shall
please
them
to
assigne
,
to
the
intent
,
that
they
&
their
officers
may
the
better
take
notice
of
Our
offences
(
if
any
such
shal
be
committed
in
our
Congregations
,
and
assemblies
)
that
they
may
punish
the
same
accordingly
.
And
we
desire
wee
may
be
subiect
to
no
other
Spirituall
Lords
but
vnto
Christ
,
nor
vnto
any
other
Temporall
Lords
but
vnto
themselues
,
whom
alone
in
this
Earth
we
desier
to
makeour
Iudges
&
Supreame
Gouerners
&
Overseers
in
all
causes
Ecclesiastical
whatsoeuer
renouncyng
as
Antichristian
,
all
such
Ecclesiasticall
powers
as
arrogate
and
assume
vnto
themselues
vnder
any
pretence
of
the
Law
of
God
or
man
,
the
saide
power
which
we
acknowledge
to
be
due
onely
to
the
Ciuill
Magistrate
.
32
So
long
as
it
shall
please
the
King
and
Ciuill
State
(
though
to
the
great
derogation
of
their
owne
authoritie
as
wee
may
haue
occasion
hereafter
to
proue
)
to
maintaine
in
this
Kingdome
,
the
State
of
the
Hierachie
or
Prelacie
:
We
can
(
in
Honour
to
his
Maiestie
and
the
State
,
and
in
desire
of
peace
)
be
content
without
envie
to
suffer
them
to
inioye
their
State
&
dignitie
,
&
to
liue
as
brethren
,
amongst
thos
ministers
that
shall
acknowledg
spiritual
homage
vnto
their
spirituall
Lordships
,
paying
vnto
them
all
temporall
dueties
,
of
Tenthes
&
such
like
:
yea
and
ioyning
with
them
in
the
service
and
worship
of
God
so
far
as
we
may
doe
it
without
our
owne
perticular
communicating
with
them
in
those
humaine
Traditions
and
Rites
,
that
in
our
consciences
we
iudge
to
be
vnlawfull
.
Onely
we
craue
in
all
duetifull
manner
that
which
the
very
Law
of
Nature
yeldeth
vnto
vs
,
that
for
as
much
as
they
are
most
malicious
Enimies
vnto
vs
and
doe
apparantly
thirst
either
after
our
blood
,
or
the
Shipwracke
of
our
faith
and
consciences
,
that
they
may
not
henceforth
be
our
iudges
in
these
causes
,
but
that
wee
may
both
of
vs
stand
as
parties
at
the
barre
of
the
ciuill
Magistrate
to
bee
tried
in
those
differences
that
are
betweene
vs
,
and
that
when
they
shall
publickly
maligne
or
flander
vs
or
our
cause
,
it
may
be
lauful
for
vs
in
a
dutiful
,
sober
,
peaceable
&
modest
manner
without
personall
reproche
or
disgrace
:
in
as
publicke
manner
iustifie
our
selus
,
&
then
insteed
of
that
sillie
mockseruice
to
the
King
of
wearing
a
linnen
rag
vpon
our
backs
or
making
a
Christes
Cross
vpon
a
babies
face
wee
shal
be
readie
to
performe
and
yeald
triple
homage
service
,
&
tribute
vnto
him
,
&
shall
think
our
liues
&
all
that
we
haue
to
vile
to
spend
in
the
service
of
him
and
the
Ciuill
state
vnder
him
.
FINIS