A dispute against the English-popish ceremonies, obtruded upon the Church of Scotland Wherein not…A dispute against the English-popish ceremonies, obtruded vpon the Church of Scotland Wherein not…

Now there was brought forth in Scotland, anno 1610. a certain Amphibian brood, sprung out of the stem of Neronian tyranny, and in manners like to his nearest Kinsman the Spanish Inquisition. It is armed with a transcendent power, and called by the dreadful name of the HIGH COMMISSION. Among other things, it arrogateth to it self, the power of Deposing Ministers. But how unjustly, thus it appeareth.

Now there was brought forth in Scotland, anno 1610. a certaine Amphibian brood, sprung out of the stem of Neronian tyranny, and in manners like to his nearest Kinsman the Spanish Inquisition. It is armed with a transcendent power, and called by the dreadfull name of the HIGH COMMISSION. Among other things, it arrogateth to it selfe, the power of Deposing Ministers. But how unjustly, thus it appeareth.

1. If those Commissioners have any power at all to depose Ministers, they have it from the King whose Commissioners they are. But from him they have it not. Therefore they have none at all. The proposition is most certain: for they sit not in that Commission to judge in their own name, nor by their own auctority quum nihil exerceat delegatus nomine proprio, as ^pPanormitan saith,) but by virtue only of the Commission and Delegation which they have of the King. Yea, Bishops themselves exercise not any Jurisdiction in the High Commission as Bishops, but only as the Kings Commissioners, as ^qD. Downame acknowledgeth. The Assumption is grounded upon this reason: The King hath not power to depose Ministers. Ergo he can not give this power to others. For ^rNemo potest plus juris transfer in alium quam sibi competere dignoscatur. The King may sometimes inflict such a civill punishment upon Ministers, ⟨image 160⟩