• [ 42 ] - Obj. No Jurifdiction is here difclaimed ofFor.: reigners,but what beJongs to the King :But Spiri~ mal Jurifciict:ion, called the Power of the Keys, belongs not to the King : Ergo. · An[. For [ecuring the King's Jurifdicrion, _All Forreign Jurifdietion is renounced ; fignifying that rhere 'is no' fuch thing as a Jurifdietion over this Realm, but the King's and his Officers. . The Poyrer -of the Keys, or Spiritual Power, is not properly a Jurifdiction, as, that word includeth Le– gillation, but only a, Preachit:1g of Chrifi's Laws, and adminifiring his Sacraments, and judging of. mens capacity for Communion according to thofe Laws of Chrilt : And this under the Coercive Government of the King. Much like that of a Tutor in a Colledge, or a Phyfician in his Hofpi– tal. · What can be more exprelly [aid than this here, that [ ~' No Forreign Prince, Perfon, Pre– " late, State or Potentate, have, or ought to have "any Jurifdittion, .Power, Superiority, Prehemi– " nence or Authority Ecclefiafrical or ' Spiri– " tual within this Realm.] Is that of Pope or "Councils neither Ecclefiafrical nor Spiritual ? Is not the word [Prelate] purpofely put in to ex– clude that Power hence which Prelates claim ? Though the King claim not the Power of the Keys, he knew that by the claim of that Power the Pope and Councils of Forreigners had been the difi urbers of his Government : And therefore all theirs here is excluded as a neceifary means eo fecure his m.vn. · · r. Popes aqd Councils Wave claimed a Legifla– tiv e P9w'er over us and all. the Cht rch : But the Liws of this Land know no fuel but in Chrill: over all, and in King and Parliament under him over
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