Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Vol. 3 (Books VI–VIII)

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Table Of Contents Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. Book VI.: Containing Their Fifth Assertion, Which Is a , That Our Laws Are Corrupt and Repugnant to the Laws of God, In Matter Belonging to the Power of Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, In That We Have Not Throughout All Churches Certain Lay-elders Establish Appendix to Book VI. [ Notes By George Cranmer and Edwin Sandys, On B. VI. As Sent to Them In Ms. 1 ] Book VII.: Their Sixth Assertion, That There Ought Not to Be In the Church, Bishops Endued With Such Authority and Honour As Ours Are. Book VIII. *: a Their Seventh Assertion, That Unto B No Civil Prince Or Governor There May Be Given Such Power of Ecclesiastical Dominion As By the Laws of This Land Belongeth Unto the Supreme Regent Thereof. Appendix, No. I. [ Supposed Fragment of a Sermon On Civil Obedience, Hitherto Printed As Part of the Eighth Book. ] Appendix, No. II. a Discovery of the Causes of the Continuance of These Contentions Concerning Church Government, Out of the Fragments of Richard Hooker 2 . Appendix, No. IV.: The Election of Bishops.

Appendix, No. II. a Discovery of the Causes of the Continuance of These Contentions Concerning Church Government, Out of the Fragments of Richard Hooker 2 . Appendix, No. IV.: The Election of Bishops. A Learned and Comfortable Sermon of the Certainty and Perpetuity of Faith In the Elect. Especially of the Prophet Habakkuk’s Faith 1 . A Learned Discourse of Justification, Works, and How the Foundation of Faith Is Overthrown 1 . A Supplication Made to the Council Mr. Hooker’s Answer to the Supplication That Mr. Travers Made to the Council. A Learned Sermon of the Nature of Pride 1 . A Remedy Against Sorrow and Fear: Delivered In a Funeral Sermon. Dedication Prefixed to the First Edition of Two Sermons On Part of St. Jude. Sermon I. The Second Sermon. A Sermon, Found Among the Papers of Bishop Andrews. Glossary. Incorporating Mr. Furnivall’s Glossary. London HENRY FROWDE Oxford University Press Warehouse Amen Corner, E.C.

of Bishop Andrews. Glossary. Incorporating Mr. Furnivall’s Glossary. London HENRY FROWDE Oxford University Press Warehouse Amen Corner, E.C.

BOOK VI. Ch. i. 1. The question between us, whether all congregations or parishes ought to have lay-elders invested with power of jurisdiction in spiritual causes. BOOK VI. Ch. i. 2, 3.[Back to Table of Contents] OF THE LAWS OF ECCLESIASTICAL POLITY. BOOK VI. CONTAINING THEIR FIFTH ASSERTION, WHICH IS A, THAT OUR LAWS ARE CORRUPT AND REPUGNANT TO THE LAWS OF GOD, IN MATTER BELONGING TO THE POWER OF ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION, IN THAT WE HAVE NOT THROUGHOUT ALL CHURCHES CERTAIN LAY-ELDERS ESTABLISHED FOR THE EXERCISE OF THAT POWER 1. THE same men which in heat of contention do hardly either speak or give ear to reason, being after sharp and bitter conflict b retired to a calm remembrance of all their former proceedings; the causes that brought them into quarrel, the course which their stirring caffections have followed, and the issue whereunto they are come; may per-adventure, as troubled waters, in small time, of their own accord, by certain easy degrees settle themselves again, and s ring caffections have followed, and the issue whereunto they are come; may per-adventure, as troubled waters, in small time, of their own accord, by certain easy degrees settle themselves again, and so recover that clearness of well-advised judgment, whereby they shall stand at the length indifferent, both to yield and admit any reasonable satisfaction, where before they could not endure with patience to be gainsayed. Neither will I despair of the like success in these unpleasant controversies touching ecclesiastical policy; the time of silence which both parts have willingly taken to breathe 1, seeming now as it were a pledge of all men’s quiet contentment to hear with more indifferency the weightiest 2and last remains of that cause, Jurisdiction 3, Dignity 4, Dominion Ecclesiastical 5. For, let not dany man imagine, that the bare and naked difference of a few ceremonies could either have kindled so much fire, or have caused it to flame so long; but that the parties which herein labou or, let not dany man imagine, that the bare and naked difference of a few ceremonies could either have kindled so much fire, or have caused it to flame so long; but that the parties which herein laboured mightily for change, and (as they say) for Reformation, had somewhat more than this mark only ewhereat to aim 6. [2.]Having therefore drawn out a complete form, as they supposed f, of public service to be done to God, and set down their plot for the office of the ministry in that behalf; they very well knew how little their labours so far forth bestowed would avail them in the end, without a claim of jurisdiction to uphold the fabric which they had erected; and this neither likely to be obtained but by the strong hand of the people, nor the people unlikely to favour it; the more g, if overture were made of their own interest, right, and title thereunto.