208 Mr.NE AL'S IId Vol. of the which is a Power equal, ifnot fuperior to the making a newLaw. * ' As for the Oath fo bitterly fpoken of, at the 6 Bar, and in the Articles ; either it was made ac- c cording to Law, or elfe we were wholly mìfled c by Precedent, and that fuch, as was never excep- t ted againíf. For in the Canons made in King 7atnes's Time, there was an Oath made against g Simony [Canon 40.] An Oath for Church-War- dens [Canon t i 8.] and anOathabout Licencesfor Marriages [Canon 103.] and an Oath for fudges and .Ecclefátical Courts [Canon 127.] and force of thefe Oaths as dangerous, as this is accounted ' to be, and all thefe effablifhed by no other Au- ti thority, than thefe Iate were, And yet, neither thole Canons, nor thofe Oaths, were declared illegal by any eníùing Parliament, nor the Ma- c hers of them accufed of any Crime, much lets c of Treafon ; fo that we had in this Synod un- blamed Precedent of what we did, as touching our Power of doing it.' Neal, p. 377 llrchbfhop Laud, in,his Anfwer to the Impeachment of the Commons againft himTelf, boldly undertakes to refute ail theft Objections, and to jr/tfy the whole, and every Branch cf the Canons. His Words are theft : c' I hope I am able to make it cc good in any learned /Iffembiy in Chriplendom, that ce this Oath, and all theft Canons, and every Branch c' of them are full and orthodox, and moderate, and " molt neceffaryfor the prefént Condition of the Church " of England, how unwelcome foever to the prefent " Diftempers." Where does the Archbiíhop lay this? Our Hu ta- rian quotes no Authority ; and as he is often faulty when he quotes Chapter and Verle, fo without ir, 1 am unwilling wholly to dependupon. his bare Ipfe Troubles and Trial, p. 283. dixit,
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