A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

meets with your exception which in his days ⟨p. 406⟩began to be broached in the world, and tells you expressly that it is a delusion. In conformity unto this Rule of St. Paul, Peter exhorts all Christians, none excepted, to submit themselves unto the King as Supreme, 1 Epist. ch. 2. 13. And what ever we conclude from these words in reference unto the King, I fear that if instead of the King, he had said the Pope, you would have thought us very impudent, if we had persisted in the denial of your monstrous imaginary Headship. But in this Principle, on these and the like grounds do all Protestants concur. And indeed to fancy a sovereign Monarch with so great a number of men as your Clergy consists of in many Kingdom exempted from his regal Authority, is to lay such an axe unto the root of his Government, as whereby with one stroke you may hew it down at your pleasure.

meets with your exception which in his dayes ⟨p. 406⟩began to be broached in the world, and tells you expresly that it is a delusion. In conformity unto this Rule of St. Paul, Peter exhorts all Christians, none excepted, to submit themselves unto the King as Supreme, 1 Epist. ch. 2. 13. And what ever we conclude from these words in reference unto the King, I fear that if instead of the King, he had said the Pope, you would have thought us very impudent, if we had persisted in the denyal of your monstrous imaginary Headship. But in this Principle, on these and the like grounds do all Protestants concur. And indeed to fancy a ••veraign Monarch with so great a number of men as yonr Clergy consists of in many Kingdome exempted from his regal Authority, is to lay such an ax unto the root of his Government, as whereby with one stroke you may hew it down at your pleasure.

2. Protestants affirm, that Rex in regno suo, every King in his own Kingdom is the Supreme dispenser of Justice and Judgement unto all Persons, in all Causes that belong unto, or are determinable in foro exteriori in any Court of Judicature, whither the matter which they concern be Civil or Ecclesiastical. No Cause, no difference determinable by any Law of man, and to be determined by Coercive Umpirage or Authority, is exempted from his cognizance. Neither can any man, on any pretence, claim any Jurisdiction over any of his Subjects not directly and immediately derived from him. Neither can any King, who is a Sovereign Monarch, like the Kings of this Land, yield or grant a power in any other to judge of any Ecclesiastical Causes among his Subjects, as arising from any other Spring, or growing on any other root but that of his own Authority, without an impeachment and irreparable prejudice