I I I I I I I : • [ 44 J Obedience fworn to him, his Excommunication~; Indulgenc~s, impofed Penances, Silencings, Abfo– ,lutions, Prohibitions here received : All which our Statutes, Articles, Canons,&c. lhew notori- - oufly to be falfe. It is eviaent therefore that this Oath renounceth all Forreign Ecdefiafiical Jurifdittion. 1 II. The fecond proof is from many Ads of Par.: liament: Thofe which prohibit all that receive -Orders beyond Sea from the Pope, or any Papifis, 'to come into England, on pain of death : Thofe that forbid the Doet:rine, Worlhip and Difcipline both of Popes and Councils : The words of 2~5 H. 8. c. 2 r. are thefe. " Whereas this Realm recognizing no Superiour " under God but the King, bath been, and is fre~ " from Subjettion to any man's Laws; but only '' fuch as have been devifed, made and ordained cc within this Realm for the wealth thereof, or to " fuch other as the People of this Realm, have ta– ~' ken at their free liberty by their own conftnt " to be ufed among them, and have bound them– " felves by long ufe and cufiom to the obfervance " of the fame ; not to the obfervance of the Laws '' of any Forreign Prince, Potentate or Prelate 5 "but as to the accufiomed and amient Laws of "this Realm, originally Ellablifhed as Laws of " the fame, by the faid fufferance, confent and cu· '' fiom, and none otherwife : .It fiandeth there~ " fore with natural equity and good reafon, &c. ''that they may abrogate them, &c. Moreover the Laws of England determine, that no Canons are here obligatory, or are Laws, un1efs made fuch by King and Parliament. And if it be true which Heylin, and (9meothers fay, that . the •
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