' • [ )4 J ' \ {:hurch of Engl4nd had not at firfr approved them. , There is alfo,aConfeffion of Faith found with them, cef~ribing the Catholick Church as we do• . · XVI. The Oath called Et 'C4ftera of 1640. faith that [" The Doctrine and Difcipline ofthe '~ Church of Englaml containetb all things neceffa~ ~,. ry to Salvation. ] Therefore Obedience to a– ny Forreign Jurifdietion is not neceffary to Salva– tion ; And therefore not necelfary to the avoid· ~ng ofSchifm, or any DamQing Sin. · · XVII. The Church ofEnf!.land ·holdeth that no forreigners ( Pope or Prelates) have Judicial Power to pronounce rhe King of England a H~re,.. ~ick. Or Excommunicate , ( though as Bi01op Andrews faith in Tortura Torti even a Deacon may refufe to deliv~r him rhe Sacrament if upcapabk, much more that Pallor whorn he chufeth to de– liver it him. ) For it's known by fad expt;rience · how difmal the Confequences are ; expofing the liv~s of the E~communicate · to danger among them that believe the Pope and his Coun<;:ils, (;nd rendering them difbonoured and contemned .by their Subjects: We know how many Emperors have been depofed las Excommunicate, and what (4Ieen Eliz..abeth's Excommunication tended to j An9 if(n~r· Laws make it Treafon ~o publifi1 fuch an Exq)mnmnication, fure the Law-makers be· lievedpot that either Pope or Prelat~s had a Judi"' ~i~l Power to do it. In Prir/s Introdua. p. 121 . t~e P?pifis ~bat were unwilling to be t~e Execu- . ttoners, haa no better plea, than [That ~o Coun.. ~il had yet judge~ · the King to be ~ Heretick. ] But Protefiants deny that any Council hath a Judi, _ fi~l Pow~r{o to jud~e him? thou~h all Menal~i~ . ' '
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