Against the revolt to a foreign jurisdiction, which would be to England its perjury,…

XVII. The Church of England holdeth that no Foreigners (Pope or Prelates) have Judicial Power to pronounce the King of England a Heretic. Or Excommunicate, (though as Bishop Andrews saith in Tortura Torti even a Deacon may refuse to deliver him the Sacrament if uncapable, much more that Pastor whom he chooseth to deliver it him.) For it's known by sad experience how dismal the Consequences are; exposing the lives of the Excommunicate to danger among them that believe the Pope and his Councils, and rendering them dishonoured and contemned by their Subjects: We know how many Emperors have been deposed as Excommunicate, and what Queen Elizabeth's Excommunication tended to; And if our Laws make it Treason to publish such an Excommunication, sure the Law-makers believed not that either Pope or Prelates had a Judicial Power to do it. In Prin's Introduct. p. 121. the Papists that were unwilling to be the Executioners, had no better plea, than [That no Council had yet judged the King to be a Heretic.] But Protestants deny that any Council hath a Judicial Power so to judge him, though all Men have ⟨p. 55⟩a Discerning Power to judge with whom they should hold Communion.

XVII. The Church of England holdeth that no Forreigners (Pope or Prelates) have Judicial Power to pronounce the King of England a Heretick. Or Excommunicate, (though as Bishop Andrews saith in Tortura Torti even a Deacon may refuse to deliver him the Sacrament if uncapable, much more that Pastor whom he chuseth to deliver it him.) For it's known by sad experience how dismal the Consequences are; exposing the lives of the Excommunicate to danger among them that believe the Pope and his Councils, and rendering them dishonoured and contemned by their Subjects: We know how many Emperors have been deposed as Excommunicate, and what Queen Elizabeth's Excommunication tended to; And if our Laws make it Treason to publish such an Excommunication, sure the Law-makers believed not that either Pope or Prelates had a Judicial Power to do it. In Prin's Introduct. p. 121. the Papists that were unwilling to be the Executioners, had no better plea, than [That no Council had yet judged the King to be a Heretick.] But Protestants deny that any Council hath a Judicial Power so to judge him, though all Men have ⟨p. 55⟩a Discerning Power to judge with whom they should hold Communion.