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A31512 A vindication of the true Episcopal religion as it was planted and set forth by our Saviour Christ ... / by W.C., student in divinity. W. C., Student in divinity. 1681 (1681) Wing C173A; ESTC R15221 10,285 16

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Ireland This was an inhumane Persecution such as the very Heathen would abhor They rebelled agains their King ripped up their Women with Child and slew their Husdands at their own door The next Persecution was against the King and the Church of England by the Nonconformists especially the Presbyterians for they first broke the Unity of the Church of England and caused a Rebellion in Scotland by raising an Army against King Charles the First one of the best Kings that ever Reigned in the World about the year 1640. and after pursued the Rebellion and raised an Army in England and fought against the King himself and killed many of his Loyal Subjects and pursued their King until they had brought him to the Block This Persecution was against the Church as well as the King they murdered the Archishop of Canterbury and Dr. Huet and deposed the Bishops of all their Spiritual Employments and then they fell to Sacriledge to robbing of the Church abolished the Common Service Book and sold the Bishops Lands and most of the Church-lands and put down the Discipline of the Church as much as they could imitating the Papists in many things committing Rebellion Murder Treason Sacrilege and Perjury pretending as the Papists do now all was for the Glory of God and for the Reformation of the Church Episcopal Religion was ordained by Christ and his Apostles who ordained the first twelve Bishops and after the Apostles gave order for the placing of Bishops in many Churches for the well ordering of the Church Joseph of Arimathea Disciple of Christ one that buried him planted our Church of England according to the purest way which hath continued for above 1600 years a true Church for the most part as many Historians write notwithstanding much Persecution by the Heathen and the Antichristians and yet they have enjoyed and kept up this Church in some corners of this Land till a Change of Government hath hapned and the Governours have been converted by it and have defended it from evil Men. Now I beseech you all the good People of England from the King to the beggar to take especial notice of the Persecution of this innocent Church of England which is the truest mark of a true Church You see how Satan by the Heathen and by the Papists and by the Nonconformist hath persecuted it to the utmost of his power yet God of his Mercy and Providence hath defended it against all the fury of the Enemies Therefore all good People of England comfort your selves and. serve God in this Church with rejoycing and praising God for preserving and defending this Church against all his Enemies Wherefore you may be assured as Gamaliel told the Jews this work is of God and it cannot be overthrown for saith he if it be of themselves it will conic to nought but if it be of God you cannot overthrthrow it lest you be found Fighters against God Charles the First sealed it with his Royal Blood the twelve Bishops and Doctors sealed this Church by Fire and Blood in Queen Maries Reign The Blood of the Martyrs is the seed and seal of a true Church I shall now speak something of the Church of Rome which was planted by St. Paul as most Historians write because he commends it in I Rom. in these words I thank God thy Faith is spoken of throughout the whole World and so it continued a true Church for near 600 years having above Gixty Bishops whereof Linus was the first whom St. Paul speaks of in his Epistles All those Bishops were godly Men being subject to the Civil Magistrate Pelagius the Second in his days perceiving that Maurice the Emperour went about to make and establish an Universal Bishop very much opposed it and decreed That no Bishop no not the Bishop of Rome himself ought to be called the Vniversal Bishop and Bishop Gregory his Successor writeth That none of his Predecessors ever consented to use so prosane a Title And also the said Gregory writeth to the Bishop of Constantinople who was willing to take that Title upon him What wilt thou answer to Christ the Head of the Vniversal Church that thus goest about by the Name of Vniversal Bishop to make all his Members subject to thee Whom dost thou imitate in so perverse a Name but Lucifer that would have been singular alone above all his fellow Angels Sabinianus succeeded Gregory and after him Boniface the Third who obtained of Phocas the Emperor as afterwards is set down That the Bishop of Rome should be called the Head of the Church Since which time the Pope hath been called the Prince of Priests and Supreme Head of the Vniversal Church Titles due only to Christ himself the Great Bishop of our Souls Cedrenus setteth forth Phocas to be a Wine-bibber given to Women a bloody Man fierce without Mercy cruel of Manners an Heretick and Theophylact Simocatta describeth him after this manner A Caledonian Tyrant covered with Iron in a manner barbarous of the Generation of the Cyclops a Centaur in Purple most petulant whose chief strife was for the Kingdom of Drunkenness A fit Man to be Antichrist's Midwife to bring him into the World The Authority of the former Bishops extended no farther than unto Matters of Religion they were subject to the Emperours some of them created by him as Paget affirms in his History of the sundry sorts of Churches and denied the Popes Supremacy with their Superstitious Worship introduced by Boniface the Third by calling Councils of a few Italian Bishops and turning out many good Bishops which would not consent to their creating of Sin And some they murdered as Paget affirms because they withstood their wicked Decrees especially in the Council of Trent who enacted a Canon That the Traditions of the Church of Rome must be honoured and embraced with the like honour and reverence as the Holy Scriptures are honoured In this Council their first Sin they created and decreed was for Image-Worship contrary to the Second Commandment 2. Invocation of Saints contrary to the Practice of the Church the Examples of Holy Men and to the Doctrine of the Holy Scriptures 3. The Propitiatory Sacrifice in the Mass which derogateth from Christs Sacrifice once offered for us 4. Communion in One Kind directly against Christs Precept in the Institution St. Paul saith Col. 1.18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of Angels intruding into those things which they have not seen vainly puffed up by their fleshly mind In this Council they also decreed That all Bishops and Ministers must teach the People to worship Saints Images and Angels contrary to the Doctrine of the Apostles and of St. John the Divine in Rev. 19. who saith I fell at the Angels feet to worship him and he said unto me See thou do it not I am thy fellow-servant and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus Worship God Here good People take notice their Decrees are