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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25697	An Apology for the English Presbyterians with a defence of the heads of agreement assented to by the united ministers in the year 91.		1699 (1699)	Wing A3548; ESTC R17890	29,933	88

Spiritual and Ecclesiastical be appropriated to particular Congregations then all that Power exercised in Classical Diocesane Provincial National Patriarchal and Oecumenical Synods or Assemblies falls to the ground together with their having Authority to determine Controversies of Faith for sublato fundamento tollitur opus as has been already observed §. 8 This being for many Years after the Reformation began in this Land generally received the English Presbyterians took Advantage against that Part of the Church of England which retaining too much of the Catholick Church Leven would fain have preserved somewhat of the old Papal Power Some feeble Efforts were put forth in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth and James the First but re infecta and in the Reign of Charles the First by the help of Archbishop Laud and his Followers great Advancements were made towards the Restoring this Power But §. 9 The general Vogue of the Episcopal as well as the Cry of the Nonconformists being against the Exercise of any such Power the Difficulties the Archbishop met with were next to insuperable especially upon the account of the Different Copies about the Twentieth Article of the Church of England for as some Copies begin thus The Church hath Power to decree Rites and Ceremonies and Authority in Controversies of Faith it is not Lawfull c. So others begin at It is not Lawfull c. Whereupon Laud's Party found it necessary to oppugn the old Doctrine about the Authority and Government of the Church and whereas the 20th Article in some Ancient Copies of the Queen's Reign began at It is not Lawfull for the Church to Ordain any thing that is contrary to God's Word c. 't was such an obstacle in the way of their Designs that they were hard put to it and found it necessary if possible to remove it And accordingly §. 10 Dr. Heylin a chief Instrument in this Design did on the 24th day of April Ann. 1627. answer in the Divinity-Schools at Oxon upon these two Questions viz. 1. An Ecclesia unquam fuit invisibilis And 2. An Ecclesia possit errare Both which he determined in the Negative And in stating of the first he fell upon a different way from that of Dr. Prideaux in his Lecture De Visibilitate Ecclesiae and other Tractates of and about that time in which the Visibility of the Church was no otherwise proved than as scattered amongst the Waldenses Wickliffists Hussists c. For Heylin not liking this manner of Proceeding because it utterly discontinued the Succession in the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy chose rather to look for a Continual Visible Church in Asia Ethiopia Greece Italy and Rome it self §. 11 In the Year 1633. Heylin was at Oxon to Answer for his Degree of Doctor and insisted on the Authority of the Church as formerly he did on the Infallibility and Visibility of it His Questions were 1. An Ecclesia habeat Authoritatem in Decernendis fidei Controversiis 2. Interpretandi Scripturas 3. Decernendi Ritus Ceremonias all which he held in the Affirmative declaring it to be the Plain and Positive Doctrine of the Church of England in the 20th Article which runs thus in terminis viz. Habet Ecclesia Ritus sive Ceremonias statuendi Jus in fidei Controversiis Authoritatem But §. 12 Dr. Prideaux then in the Chair expressed great Dissatisfaction with Heylin charging him with falsifying the Publick Doctrine of the Church as others accused Laud and other Bishops for making this Addition the better to support their Power and Tyranny But saith Heylin in his Examen Historicum Archbishop Laud in his Speech in the Star-Chamber June 15. 1637. made it appear that the said Clause was in a Printed Book of Articles published in the Year 1563. being but very few Months after they had passed in the Convocation which was on the 29th of January 1562. in the English Account and more than so he shewed unto the Lords a Copy of the 20th Article exemplified out of the Records and attested by the hands of a Publick Notary in which that very Clause was found which had been charged upon the Bishops for an Innovation And thus much I can say of my own Knowledge that having occasion to consult the Records of Convocation I found this controverted Clause verbatim in these following words Habet Ecclesia Ritus statuendi Jus in fidei Controversiis Authoritatem so far Dr. Heylin p. 144. who further adds That in the Year 1571 the Puritan Faction beginning to grow very strong the Articles were again Printed in Latin and English and this Clause left out Published according to those Copies in the Harmony of Confessions Printed at Geneva Ann. 1612. That the Archbishop in his Speech p. 71. was of this Opinion too §. 13 There was we see a great deal of stress laid on this Clause of the 20th Article because the Assertion that the Church hath Authority in Controversies of Faith is so necessary to National and larger Synods and Assemblies and the laying aside this Clause so accommodated to the Principles on which the Reformation was begun and carried on For which reason I will offer what I know of this matter and therein be very impartial §. 14 1. That this Clause is not either in the Latin or English Copies Printed Ann. 1571. is granted by Dr. Heylin and I have by me a Copy in Latin published by John Day Ann. 1575. in which 't is not 2. I have seen a Copy Ann. 1563. in which it is and so it may be in the Records of the Convocations as has been suggested for ought that I do know to the contrary However 3. I do affirm upon my own Knowledge and in most humble manner address my self to the present Archbishop of Canterbury who was of C. C. C. C. to Dr. Green Master and to the worthy Fellows of that Colledge for their concurrent Testimony that in the Manuscript Library given to that House by Archbishop Matthew Parker there are the Articles of the Church of England which I can't call thirty nine because they are more subscribed by the Bishops in the Year 1562. with the number of Pages and of every Line in each Page in which the Articles are and that the twentieth Article is exactly the same with the twenty first of Edward VI. without this Clause whence I conclude first That the leaving of it out being as is acknowledged by Archbishop Laud and Dr. Heylin most adjusted to the Principles of the Nonconformists the true and genuine Reason is because the first Reformers of the Church of England and the Nonconformists were of a mind in this Particular and opposed the Papal Tyranny upon the same Foundation Secondly That although in the beginning of the Queen there were some otherwise minded who added this Clause to the Copy of 1563. yet the Bishops unanimously adhered to the Copy which laid this Clause aside But to return It is manifest §. 15 That the Old Nonconformists whom I call