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THe second argument. Tooker asserteth the King of England to haue the primacie of the Church. There∣fore he confesseth that he may depose Bishops. The con∣sequence is not good with you; for some of you asserting the Primacy, dony the power of deposing Bishops. Yo•• take that ai granted, vvhich should be prooned. What is this, but to begge that vvhich is questioned?
HEere also the ignorance of this Iesuit sillily mistaketh the meaning of the English Concord in this point. Becan, out of Doctor Tooker, as∣serting the King to be a foster-child, and disciple of the Bishops, doth conclude, that therefore Doctor Tooker denied the Kings power to rule or depose Bishops.
The English Concord, to proue the weakenes of that consequence, shewed out of Doctor Tooker, that thogh Kings were not Bishops, but subiect vnto them, in re∣gand of their Episcopall duties, as in hearing the word preached by them, in receiuing of the Sacraments ad∣ministred by them; yet in respect of supreame Eccle∣siasticall government, they were rulers ouer Bishope, and might depose them. As King Edward the sine did, who though he disclaimed Episcopall function, yet he claimed and vsed the primacy. But let the argument runne from the primacie of Kings, to conclude their power to depose Bishops. I say it holdeth good; consi∣dering that all Papists make the power of deposing Bi∣shops, a part of the primacie. And that not one Eng∣lish Protestant Writer, ascribing the primacie to the King, denieth him the power to depose Bishops.
Heere is then no begging of that in question, but a solid putting that out of question which is contrauer∣sed; and soundly concluding the power of Kings to depose Bishops.
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