Excerpt from The True Grounds of Ecclesiasticall Regiment, Set Forth in a Briefe Dissertation: Maintaining the Kings Spirituall Supremacie Against the Pretended Independencie of the Prelates, Together, With Some Passages Touching the Ecclesiasticall Power of Parliaments, the Use of Synods, and the Power of Excommunication And that alfo of Athemfiw I, neither Iowfiill for m to hold 4 Kingdomeapm earth: norhofl thou 0 Egypt mir power over fared thigh Wee fee they fpeake of their Minifiery and Ecclefiafiicall vocation as of a fovereigntie, and rule and that more facred, then that of Princes, of which Princes were not worthy, or capable. And to pafi'e by the blinde times of Popery wherein upon thefe grounds the Rm bilhops inthralled a great part of Chriften dome with temporall bondage, wee (hall finde allo that fiuce the abjuration of Rmifh fervitude, yet Protefiant Minifters themfelves have alfumed a fanctitie more then is due. The Kings Suprematie or Headlhip over the Ecclefiafiicall or Spirituali State, Hee being accounted but meetly temporall incomparifon of Priefis is asillwilhed by many Calvinills, asby Papilis their word is of Secular Princes, [flit non eomperit ifle Primam. And as Sir 7homae More fulfered death in tefiirnony of his dif like, fo Calvin himfelfe condemnes this Realme of Blafphem for entitl Henry the E'ohth Supreme Head of Church enoder C rift. And not C a onlyonly the Name but'the power it lelfe which wee give to Civill Magiftrates he protef'reth again it, as that which had'wounded him deeply Princes-bell ing made thereby h'e'e complainerh that this fa'ult'did taighe t'hror'rghout Germany oiand in fome'parts of Frame to' the taking awayof Spirituall Regiment whill't Princes were made chiefe J'udges as well in matters of doetrine as dif cipline. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.