IMPRIMIS, They hold and maintaine, that the Word of God contained in the writings of the Prophets and Apostles, is of absolute perfection, given by CHRIST the head of the Church, to be unto the same, the sole Canon and rule of all mat­ters of Religion, and the worship and service of God whatsoever. And that whatsoever done in the same service and worship, cannot be justified by the said Word, is unlawfull. And therefore that it is a sin, to force any Christian to doe any act of Religion, or Divine Service, that cannot evidently be warran­ted by the same.

2 They hold, that all Ecclesiasticall actions in­vented and devised by man, are utterly to be exclu­ded [Page 2] out of the exercises of Religion? Especially such actions as are famous and notorious Myste­ries of an Idolatrous Religion, and in doing where­of, the true Religion is conformed (whether in whole or in part) to Idolatry and Superstition.

3 They hold, that all outward meanes instituted and set apart to expresse and set forth the inward worship of God, are parts of Divine worship and that not onely all morall actions, but all typicall Rites and Figures, ordained to shadow forth in the solemne worship and service of God, any Spirituall or religious Act or habit in the minde of man, are speciall parts of the same, and therefore that every such Act ought evidently to be prescribed by the Word of God, or else ought not to be done? it be­ing a sinne to performe any other worship to God, whether Externall or Internall, Morall or Ceremo­niall, in whole or in part, then that which God him­selfe requires in his Word.

4 They hold it to be grosse Superstition for any mortall man to institute and ordaine as parts of Divine worship, any mysticall Rite and Ceremony of Religion whatsoever, and to mingle the same with the Divine Rites and Mysteries of Gods Ordi­nance. But they hold it to be high presumption to institute and bring into Divine worship such Rites and Ceremonies of Religion, as are acknowledged to be no part of Divine worship at all, but onely of civill worship and honour: For they that shall re­quire to have prformed unto themselves a ceremo­niall obedience, service and worship, consisting in Rites of Religion to be done at that very instant that God is solemnely served and worshipped? and even [Page 3] in the same worship make both themselves and God so an Idoll. So that they judge it a farre more fearefull sinne to adde unto, and to use in the wor­ship and service of God, or any part thereof, such mysticall Rites and Ceremonies as they esteeme to be no parts or parcels of Gods worship at all: then such as in a vaine and ignorant Superstition, they imagine and conceive to be parts thereof.

5 They hold, that every Act or action appropri­ated and set apart to Divine Service and Worship, whether Morall or Ceremoniall, reall or typicall? ought to bring speciall honour unto God, and ther­fore that every such Act ought to be apparently commanded in the Word of God, either expresly, or by necessary consepuent.

6 They hold, that all actions whether Morall or Ceremoniall appropriated to Religious or Spiri­tuall persons, Functions, or Actions, either are or ought to be Religious and Spirituall. And there­fore either are or ought to be instituted immediate­ly by God, who alone is the Author and Institutor of all Religious and Spirituall actions, and things: whether Internall or Externall, Morall or Cere­moniall.

1 THey hold and maintaine, that every Compa­ny, Congregation, or Assembly of true [Page 4] beleevers, joyning together according to the or­der of the Gospell, in the true Worship of God, is a true visible Church of Christ; and that the same Title is improperly attributed to any other Con­gregations, Synods, Societies, Combinations, or Assemblies whatsoever.

2 They hold, that all such Churches or Con­gregations, communicating after that manner toge­ther in Divine worship, are in all Ecclesiasticall matters equall, and of the same power and authori­ty, and that by the Word and Will of God they ought to have the same Spirituall Priviledges, Pre­rogatives, Officers, Administrations, Orders, and Formes of Divine worship.

3 They hold, that Christ Jesus hath not object­ed any Church or Congregation of his, to any other Superiour Ecclesiasticall Jurisdiction, then unto that which is within it selfe. So that if a whole Church or Congregation shall erre, in any matter of Faith or Religion, no other Churches or Spirituall Church-Officers have (by any warrant from the Word of God) power to censure, punish, or controule the same: but are onely to counsell or advise the same, and so to leave their Soules to the immediate judgement of Christ, and their bodies to the sword and power of the Civill Magistrate, who alone upon earth hath power to punish a whole Church or Congregation.

4 They hold, that every established Church or Congregation ought to have her owne Spirituall Officers and Ministers, resident with her, and these such as are joyned by Christ in the new Testament, and no other.

[Page 5]5 They hold, that every established Church ought (as a speciall prerogative wherewith shee is endowed by Christ) to have power and liberty to elect and chuse their owne Spirituall and Ecclesi­asticall Officers, and that is a greater wrong to have any such forced upon them against their wils, then if they should force upon men wives, or upon wo­mens husbands, against their will and liking.

6 They hold, that the Ecclesiasticall Officers and Ministers of one Church, ought not to beare any Ecclesiasticall Office in another, neither as they are Officers in one Congregation, can they officially administer in another, but ought to be tyed unto that Congregation of which they are members, and by which they are elected into Office.

And they are not (without just cause, and such as may be approved by the Congregation, to forsake their Callings, wherein if the Congregation shall be perverse, and will not hearken to reason, They are then to crave the assistance and helpe of the Ci­vill Magistrate, who alone hath power, and who ought by his civill sword and authority, procure to all members of the Church, whether Governours or others, freedome from all manifest injuries and wrongs.

7 They hold, that the Congregation having once made choyse of their Spirituall Officers, unto whom they commit the Regiment of their soules, they ought not (without just cause, and that which is apparantly warrantable by the Word of God) to discharge, deprive, or depose them. But ought to live in all Canonicall obedience and subjection unto them agreeable to the Word of God.

[Page 6]8 They hold, that the Lawes, Orders, and Eccle­siasticall Jurisdiction of the visible Churches of Christ, if they be lawfull and warrantable by the Word of God, are no wyaes repugnant to any civill State whatsoever, whether Monarchicall, Aristocra­ticall, or Democraticall, but to tend to the further establishing and advancing of the right and prero­gatives of all and every of them. And they renounce and abhorre from their soules all such Ecclesiasti­call Jurisdiction or Policy, that is any wayes repug­nant to any civill State whatsoever, whether Monar­chicall, Aristocraticall, or Democraticall, but doe tend to the further establishing and advancing of the right and prerogatives of all and every of them. And they renounce and abhorre from their soules all such Ecclesiasticall Jurisdiction and Policy, that is any way repugnant and derogatory to any of them specially to the Monarchicall State, which they ac­knowledge to be the best kinde of Civill Govern­ment for this Kingdome.

9 They hold and beleeve, that the equality in Ecclesiasticall Jurisdiction and Authority, of Churches and Church-Ministers, is no more dero­gatory, and repugnant to the State and glory of a Monarch, then the parity of equality, of Schoole­masters, of severall Schooles, Captaines of severall Campes, Shepheards of severall flockes of sheep, or Masters of severall Families.

Yea, they hold the cleane contrary, that inequali­ty, of Churches and Church-Officers in Ecclesi­asticall Jurisdiction and Authority, was that prin­cipally that advanced Antichrist unto his throne, and brought the Kings and Princes of the earth, un­to [Page 7] such vassalage under him, and that the Civill Au­thority and glory of Secular Princes and States hath ever decayed, and withered, the more that the Eccle­siasticall Officers of the Church have bin advanced and lifted up in Authority, beyond the limites and confines that Christ in his Word hath prescribed unto them.

1 THey hold, that the Pastors, Teachers, and ru­ling Elders of particular Congregations, are, or ought to be highest Spirituall Officers in the Church, over whom (by any Divine Ordinance) there is no Superiour Pastor, but onely Jesus Christ; And that they are led by the Spirit of An­tichrist, that arrogate, or take upon themselves to be Pastors of Pastors.

2 They hold, that there are not by Divine Insti­tution in the Word, any ordinary Nationall, Pro­vinciall, or Diocesan, Pastors or Ministers under which the Pastors of particular Congregations are to be subject, as inferiour Officers. And that if there were any such, that then the Word of God would have set them downe distinctly, and more precisely then any of the rest: For the higher place that one occupieth in the Church, of the more necessity he is unto the Church: the more carefully would [Page 8] Christ (the Head of the Church) have beene in pointing him out, and distinguishing him from other.

Hence, in the Old Testament, the high Priest, his Title, Office, Function, and speciall Administration and Jurisdiction is more particularly and precisely set downe then the Office of any of the inferiour Priests and Levites.

Also in the New Testament, the Office of a Pa­stor is more distinctly, and more precisely set down, then of a Doctor, or any other inferiour Church-Of­ficer; So that a man may as well call into question the whole New Testament, as doubt whether there ought to be a Pastor in every Congreation, or doubt of his proper Office and Function. and if by Gods Ordinance there should be an Ordinary Ecclesia­sticall Officer above the Pastors of particular Con­gregations, then Christ out of all question would with that speciall care and cost hath set it forth: by Titles, Prerogatives, peculiar Offices, Functions and Gifts. That the Churches and people of God, should have reason rather to doubt of any Office or Jurisdiction, then of the peculiar Office or Jurisdi­ction of the Primates, Metrapolitanes, Archbishops and Prelates of the world.

4 They hold, that if there were a Supreame Na­tionall Ecclesiasticall Minister or Pastor, that should be the Prince of many thousand Pastors: that then also Christ (as he did in the Jewish Church) would have appointed a solemne Natio­nall or Provinciall Leiturgie or worship, unto which at some times of the yeare, the whole body of the People should ascend, and that unto the Metro­politan [Page 9] City as unto a Jerusalem, and that he would (as he did in the Jewish Church) more precisly and particularly have set downe the manner of solemni­zation thereof, then of his Prochical worship. For as much therefore as they cannot read in the New Testament of any higher or more solemne worship, then of that which is to be performed in a particu­lar Congregation they cannot be perswaded that God hath appointed any higher Ministers of his ser­vice and worship under the New Testament, then the elect Ministers of particular Congregations.

4 They hold, that the High Priest of the Jewes, was typicall and in a figure the supreame head of the whole Catholick Church, which though it were vi­sible only in the Province and Nation of Jury, Yet those of other Nations and Countries (as appeare, by the History of Acts, Even though they were E­thiopians) were under this high Priest. And acknow­ledged homage unto him. So that he was not a Pro­vinciall Metropolitane, but in very deed, an Occu­menicall and universall Bishop of the whole world. And therefore they hold, (this being the best ground in the word, for Metropolitane and Provinciall Pa­stors or Bishops,) that the Pope of Rome, who a­lone maketh claime unto, and is in possession of the like universall Supremacy: hath more warrant in the word of God, to the same, then any Metropoli­tane, or Diocesan (not dependant upon him) hath or can have. So that they hold, that by the word of God, either there must be no Metropolitans and Diocesans, or else there must be a Pope.

5. They hold, that no Ecclesiasticall Minister ought to exercise or accept of any Civill publique [Page 10] jurisdiction and authority, but ought to be wholly imployed in spirituall Offices and dueties to that Congregation over which he is set. And that those Civill Magistrats weaken their owne Supremacy that shall suffer any Ecclesiasticall Pastor to exer­cise any civill jurisdiction within their Realmes, Dominions, or Seignories.

6 They hold, that the highest and Supreame office and authority of the Pastor, is to preach the Gospel solemnely and publickly to the Congregation, by interpreting the written word of God, and apply­ing the same by exhortation and reproof unto them.

They hold that this was the greatest worke that Christ and his Apostles did, and that whosoever is thought worthy and fit to exercise this authority, cannot be thought unfit and unworthy to exercise any other Spirituall or Ecclesiasticall authority whatsoever.

7. They hold, that the Pastor or Minister of the word, is not to teach any Doctrine as to the Church, grounded upon his owne Judgement, or Opinion, or upon the judgement or opinion of any or all the men in the world. But only that truth, that he is able to demonstrate and prove evidently, and apparently, by the word of God soundly interpreted, and that the people are not bound to beleeve any Doctrine of Re­ligion or Divinity whatsoever, upon any ground whatsoever, except it be apparently justified by the word, or by necessary consequent deduced from the same.

8. They hold, that in interpreting the Scriptures, and opening the sense of them, he ought to follow those rules onely that are followed in finding out the [Page 11] meaning of other writing, to wit, by waying the pro­priety of the tongue wherein they are written, by waying the Circumstance of the place, by compa­ring one place with another, and by considering what is properly spoken, and what tropically or fi­guratively.

And they hold it unlawfull for the Pastor to ob­trude upon his people a sence of any part of the di­vine word, for which he hath no other ground but the bare testimonies of men, and that it is better for the people to be content to be ignorant of the mean­ing of such difficult places, then to hang their Faith in any matter in this case upon the bare Testimony of man.

9. They hold, that the people of God ought not to acknowledge any such for their Pastors as are not able by preaching, to interpret and apply the word of God unto them in manner and forme aforesaid. And therefore that no ignorant and sole reading Priests are to be reputed the ministers of Jesus Christ, who sendeth none into his ministery and ser­vice, but such as he adorneth in some measure with Spirituall gifts. And they cannot be perswaded that the faculty of reading in ones mother tongue the Scriptures, &c. which any ordinary Turke or Infi­dell hath, can be called in any congruity of Speech a ministeriall guift of Christ,

10. They hold, that in the assembly of the Church, the Pastor only is to be the mouth of the congrega­tion to God in prayer, and that the people are onely to testifie their assent by the word Amen. And that it is a Babilonian confusion, for the Pastor to say one peece of a prayer, and the people with mingled [Page 12] voices to say another except in singing, which by the very ordinance and instinct of nature, is more de­lightfull, and effectuall, the more voices there are joyned and mingled together in harmony and con­sent.

11. They hold, that the Church hath no authori­ty to impose upon her Pastors, or any other of her Officers, any other ministeriall dueties, Offices, Functions, Actions, or Ceremonies, either in Di­vine worship or out of the same then what Christ himself in the Scriptures hath imposed upon them, or what they might lawfully impose upon Christ himselfe, if he were in person upon the Earth, and did exercise a ministeriall office in some Church.

12. They hold, that it is as great an injury to force a congregation or Church to maintaine as their Pa­stor, with tithes and such like donations, that per­son that either is not able to instruct them, or that refuseth in his owne person ordinarily to doe it, as to force a man to maintaine one for his wife, that ei­ther is not a woman, or that refuseth in her owne person to doe the dueties of a wife unto him?

13. They hold, that by Gods Ordinance there should be also in every Church a Doctor, whose spe­ciall office should be to instruct by opening the sense of the Scripture to the Congregation (and that par­ticularly) in the maine grounds and principles of Religion.

1 FOr as much as through the malice of Sathan, there are and will be in the best Churches many disor­ders and Scandals committed, that redound to the re­proch of the Gospel & are a stumbling block to many, both without and within the Church, and sith they judg it repugnant to the word of God, that any Minister should be a Sole Ruler, and as it were a Pope so much as in one Parish, (much more that he should be one o­ver a whole Diocesse, Province or Nation) they hold that by Gods Ordinance the Congregation should make choise of other officers, as Assistants unto the Mini­sters in the spirituall regiment of the congregation, who are by office jointly with the ministers of the word to be as Monitors and Overseers of the manners and con­versation of all the Congregation, and one of another; that so every one may be more weary of their wayes, and that the Pastors and Doctors may better attend to prayer and Doctrine, and by their means may be made better acqainted with the estate of the people, when o­thers eyes besides their owne shall wake and watch over them.

2 They hold, that such onely are to be chosen to this Office, as are the gravest, honestest, discreetest, best grounded in Religion, and the Ancientest Professors thereof in the Congregation, such as the whole Con­gregation doe approve of & respect, for their wisdome, holinesse, and honesty, and such also (if it be possible) as are of civill note and respect in the world, and able (without any burden to the Church) to maintain them [Page 14] selves, either by their lands, or any other honest civill trade of life, neither doe they thinke it so much dis­grace to the policy of the Church, that tradesmen and artificers, (indowed with such qualities as are above specified) should be admitted to bee▪ Overseers of the Church, as it is that persons both ignorant of Religi­on and all good letters, and in all respects for person, quality, and state, as base and vile, as the basest in the Congregation, should be admitted to be Pastors and Teachers of a Congregation. And if it be apparent that God (who alwayes blessed his owne Ordinances) doth often even in the eyes of Kings and Nobles, make ho­nourable the Ministers and Pastors of his Churches upon which he hath bestowed Spirituall gifts and gra­ces though for birth, education, presence, outward, state and maintenance, they be most base and contemptible, so he will as well in the eyes of holy men, make this Of­fice, which is many degrees inferiour to the other, pre­cious and honourable, even for the Divine calling and Ordinance sake.

1 THey hold, that the spirituall keies of the Church are by Christ, committed to the aforesaid spi­rituall Officers and Governours, and unto none other: which keyes they hold that they are not to be put to this use, to locke up the crownes, swotds, or scepters of Princes and civill States, or the civill rights, preroga­tives, and immunities of civill subjects in the things of this life, or to use them as picklocks to open withall, [Page 15] mens treasuries & coffers, or as keys of prisons, to shut up the bodies of men; for they thinke that such a pow­er and authority Ecclesiasticall is fit onely for the An­techrist of Rome, and the consecrated governours of his Synagogues, who having no Word of God which is the sword of the Spirit, to defend his and their usur­ped jurisdiction over the Christian world, doth unlaw­fully usurpe the lawfull civill sword and power of the Monarches and Princes of the earth, thereby forcing men to subject themselves to his spirituall vassaladge and service, and abusing thereby the spiritull keyes and jurisdiction of the Church.

2 They hold, that by vertue of these keyes, they are not to make any curious Inquisitions into the secret or hidden vices or crimes of men, extorting from them a confession of those faults that are concealed from them­selves and others; or to proceed to molest any man up­on secret suggestions, private suspition, or uncertaine fame, or for such crimes as are in question whether they be crimes or no; But they are to proceed, onely against evident and apparent crimes, such as are either granted to be such of all civill honest men: or of all true Chri­stians, or at least such, as they are able, by evidence of the word of God, to convince to be sinnes, to the consci­ence of the offender; As also such as have beene either publickly committed, or having been committed in se­cret, are by some good means brought to light, & which the delinquent denying, they are able by honest and suf­ficient testimony to prove against him.

3 They hold, that when he that hath commited a scandalous crime commeth before them, and is convin­ced of the same, they ought not (after the manner of our Ecclesiasticall Courts) scorne, deride, and taunt, and revile him, with odious and contumelious speeches, eye [Page 16] him with big and sterne lookes, procure Proctors to to make personall invectives against him, make him dance attendance from Court day to Court day, and from terme to terme, frowning at him in presence, and laughting at him behind his back: but they are (though he be never so obstinate and perverse) to use him bro­therly, not giving the least personall reproaches, or threats) but laying open unto him the nature of his sinne by the light of Gods Word, are onely by denoun­cing the judgements of God against him, to terrifie him, and so to move him to repentance.

4 They hold, that if the party offending be their ci­vill superiour, that then they are to use ever throughut the whole carriage of their censure, all civill comple­ments, offices and reverence due unto him, that they are not to presume to convent him before the, but are them­selves to goe in all civill and humble manner unto him, to stand bare before him, to bowe unto him, to give him all civill titles belonging unto him; And if hee bee a King and supreame ruler, they are to kneele downe be­fore him, and in the humblest manner to censure his faults; so that he may see apparently that they are not carried with the least spice of malice against his Per­son, but onely with zeale of the health and salvation of his soule.

5 They hold, that the Ecclesiasticall Officers lay­ing to the charge of any man, any errour, heresie, or false opinion whatsoever do stand bound themselves, first to prove that he holdeth such an errour or heresie; and se­condly to prove directly unto him that it is an errour by the word of God, and that it deserveth such a censure before they doe proceed against him.

6 They hold, that the governours of the Church ought with all patience and quietnesse, heare what eve­ry [Page 17] offender can possibly say for himself, either for qua­lification, defence, apology, or justification of any sup­posed crime or errour whatsoever; and they ought not to proceed to censure the grossest offence that is, untill the offender have said as much for himselfe in his de­fence as he possible is able. And they hold it an evident character of a corrupt ecclesiasticall government, where the parties convented may not have ful liberty to speak for themselves, considering that the more liberty is granted to speak in a bad cause, (especially before those that are in authority and of judgement) the more the iniquity of it will appeare, and the more the Justice of their sentence will shine.

7 They hold, that the oath ex Officio, whereby Po­pish and English Ecclesiasticall Governours, either upon some secret informations, or suggestions, or pri­vate supitions goe about to binde mens consciences, to accuse themselves and their friends, of such crimes or imputations as cannot by any direct course of Law bee proved against them, and wherby they are drawne to bee instruments of many heavy crosses upon themselves and their friends, and that often for those actions that they are perswaded in their consciences are good and holy. I say, that they hold, that such an Oath (on the urgers part) is most damnable and Tyrannous, against the very law of Nature, devised by Antichrist, through the in­spiration of the Devill; That by meanes thereof the Professors and Practisers of the true Religion, might either in their weaknesse by perjury damne their owne soules, or bee drawne to reveale to the enemies of Christianity, those secret Religious Acts and Deeds, that being in the perswasion of their conscien­ces) for the advancement of the Gospell, will be a meanes of heavy sentences of condemnation against [Page 18] themselves and their dearest friends.

8 They hold, that Ecclesiasticall Officers have no power to proceed in censure against any crime of any person, after that he shall freely acknowledge the same, and professe his hearty penitency for it; And that they may not, for any crime whatsoever lay any bodily or pecuniary mulct upon them, or impose upon them any ceremoniall marke or note of shame, such as is the white sheet, or any such like; or take fees for any cause whatsoever, but are to accept of as a sufficient satisfa­ction, a private submission, and acknowledgement if the crime be private, and a publicke, if the crime be pub­like and notorious.

9 They hold, that if a member of the Church be obstinate, and shew no signes and tokens of repentance of that Crime, that if they by evidence of Scripture have coevinced it to be a crime, that then by their Ecclesiasti­call authority, they are to denounce him to be as yet no member of the Kingdome of Heaven, nor of that Con­gregation, and so are to leave him to God and the King. And this is all the Ecclesiasticall Authority and juris­diction that any Spirituall Officers of the Church are to use against any man, for greatest crime that can be committed.

10 They hold, that the Officers of the Church are not to proceed unto excommunication against against any man, without the consent of the whole Congregation it selfe, first called for in publike Assembly.

11 They hold, that the Minister or any other parti­cular Officer offending, is as subject to the censures, as any other of the Congregation.

12 They hold, that if any member of the Congrega­tion having committed a srandalous sinne, shall of selfe forsake the worship of GOD, and the [Page 19] Spirituall Communion with the Church; that the Church shall then send for the said person, and if hee refuse to come, they shall (after much seeking and long patience) openly declare that he hath no part nor por­tion in the holy things of God among them; that then the Ecclesiasticall Officers hove no authority or juris­diction over him, but onely the Civill Magistrate, and those unto whom he oweth civill subjection, as Parents Masters, Landlords, &c.

1 THey hold, that the civill Magistrate, as he is a ci­vill Magistrate hath and ought to have su­preame power over all the Churches within his domi­nions, in all causes whatsoever. And yet they hold, that as he is a Christian, he is a member of some one parti­cular Congregation, and ought to be as subject to the spirituall regiment thereof prescribed by Christ in his word, as the meanest subject in the kingdome, and they hold that this subjection is no more derogatory to his supremacy, then the subjection of his body in his body in sicknesse to Physitians, can be said to be said to be de­rogatory thereunto.

2 They hold, that these civill Magistrates are the greatest enemies to their own supremacy, that in whole or in part, communicate the vertute and power therof, to any ecclesiasticall officers. And that there cannot be imagined by the wit of man, a more direct meanes to check-mate the same, then to make them Lords and Princes upon earth, to invist them with civill jurisdi­ction and authority, and to conforme the State and li­mits of their jurisdiction, to the state of Kings and bounds of Kingdomes.

[Page 20]3 They hold, that there should be no ecclesiasticall officer in the Church so high, but that he ought to be subject unto, and punishable by the meanest civill offi­cer in a kingdome, city or town, not onely for common crimes, but even for the abuse of the ecclesiasticall offi­ces, yea, they hold, that they ought to be more punisha­ble then any other subject whatsoever, if they shall of­fend against either civill or Ecclesiasticall Lawes.

4 They hold, that the Pope is that Antichrist, and there­fore that Antichrist because being but an Ecclesiasti­call officer he doth in the hight of the pride of his heart make claime unto, and usurp the Supremacy of the Kings and civill Rulers of the Earth. And they hold, that all defenders of the Popish Faith, all indeverours of re­concilement with that Church, all plotters for tolera­tion of the Popish Religion, all countenancers and maintainers of Seminary Priests, and professed Catho­licks, and all denyers that the Pope is that Antichrist, are secret enemies to the Kings Supremacy.

5 They hold, that all Arch-Bishops, Bishops, Deans, Officials, &c. have their Offices and Functions onely by will and pleasure of the king and civill States of this Realme; and they hould, that whosoever holdeth that the King may not without sin remove these Officers out of the Church, and dispose of their Temporalities and maintenance according to his owne pleasure, or that these Offices are jure divin [...], and not onely or meerely jure human [...]: That all such deny a principle part of the Kings Supremacy.

6 They hold, that not one of these opinions can be proved to be contrary to the word of God; and that if they might have leave, that they are able to answer all that hath been written against any one of them.