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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48411	The Life of Boetius recommended to the author of the life of Julian		1683 (1683)	Wing L2024; ESTC R20135	33,660	110

Patriarch of the West and this is the reason why the Priesthood and Ordination of that See remains good here and why the Church of England draws thence her Succession and Descent a thing zealously insisted upon by her learned Members and particularly by the smart and inquisitive Mr. Mason Now the Presbyterian Assembly and much more that of the other Dissenters is no Church at all having no Bishop and therefore no Ordination or Sacraments Nay the Church of England in her 19th Article defines the true Church to be A Congregation of Faithful Men that have the Sacraments duly administred So that the wilful loosing this Blessing is a Curse of the first Magnitude depriving them that incurre it of the very Candlestick at least of the inestimable benefit of our Lords Supper which was instituted for our Refreshment and Strength and for the remembrance of his Passion till he comes III. What good Protestant would not sooner be of a Religion which converted us from Paganism and left as Cambden says Many Monuments of Piety and Devotion to the Honour of God and the propagation of the Christian Faith And among these may be nam'd Churches Bishoprics Deaneries Canonries Colledges c. I say what good Protestant would not prefer such a Religion to One which instead of advancing the Christian Worship has not only put us in constant broils but profan'd and pull'd down the very Churches themselves and which de fa●to gobbled up and swallowed without the least stop or Kecking the Lands of the Prelates and the other Ecclesiastical Governours Nor would the Vniversities have stood two years longer had not God by a Miracle restor'd His Majesty IV. To come even to down right Popery and their most ●●ightful Opinions What good ●r●testant would not rather with a Lutheran and a Papist believe if Will and Choice can make a Man believe That Christ is corporally present after Consecration than as Sectaries do That the outward part or sign of the Sacrament is still meer Bread Wine a Tenet wholly opposit to our very first Rudiments in Religion for the public Catechism in the Common Prayer declares and tells us * That the Body and Bloud of Christ are verily and indeed taken and received by the ●aithful in the Lords Supper V. Who had not rather Communicate under one Kind than not at all for several of the true Protestants never do Nay in their very expressions they call the SACRAMENTS by the name of Beggerly Elements and Formalities beneath the Sain●s and Regenerate VI. Who would not rather say AMEN to Prayers in the China or Coptic Languages where he is sure that the Bishops and other pious and wise Governours of the Church fram'd them than to the extemporary Vociferations of every Enthusiast to whom as long experience has show'd us Tautologie and Nonsence are Essential And more especially when Sedition we know is their Aime and Blasphemy an usual Adjunct VII Who will not deeme it a less and a more pardonable error To desire the Prayers of a good fellow Creature who as it chances hears not our Requests and to wish also a happy Voyage and the speedy getting home of a friend who is already it seems at his Iourney 's End for thus in effect lyes the Insignificancy of Invocating Saints and of Suffrages for the Dead than in the first place omi●ting the many horrid Opinions of other Sects to deny with BEZA and his Desciples the PRESBYTERIANS Christ's descent into Hell one of the Triumphant Victories of his Death And secondly to affirm His not d●ing for all ● a Doctrine that besides the Blackness of it makes so many of their Hypocondriacal Followers commonly the quietest and best meaning People of the Rout to Hang themselves and so ensure their Damnation out of meer fear of being Damn'd ● And here again I must desire my Reader to remember what I have now said dos by no means prove any Popish opinion true but only that the Phanatical Doctrine is worse and certainly what follows will yet more evidently make it appear VIII 'T is better be under the lash of one spiritual Superiour than Ten thousand Popes Presbytery making every pragmatical Minister worse in some respects than a Hildebrand or any of his angry Successors For as to a private man unless he be like Wickliff Oldcastle and the like very eminent and remarkable he will hardly or never be taken notice of by the Court of Rome and its great Officers whereas under Calvin's Iron Rod no youthful Man shall ●e merry no body mus● so much as dance no Abigal or Handmaid shall cramp Sir Roger with the Book of Martyrs or play little tricks with his Reverend Cloak or wilfully fail perchance in well starching his mystical band but will be presently sent headlong to the Devil or forc'd to a Penance harder it may be in their opinion than going half way to him Then for great Monarchs and great Governours let any man judge whether it be not first more honourable for them to contend with a Foreign Bishop and Prince than with an Assembly of their meanest Subjects both in Quality and Estate But in the next place when we come to consider the peril of their sacred Persons there is no manner of equality in the matter for there are even Laws in every Popish Kingdom against the Popes Bulls Sentences and the like and the entrance of his Legats and Envoys may be legally hinder'd Nay the very Decrees of his Councils as we see by those of Trent are receiv'd and unreceiv'd as Princes order Besides this the stout ones have Imprison'd ruffling Popes as did the Emperour Charles V. and Philip the Fair of France Others have laugh'd at his Holiness's anger and beaten him with his own Weapons that is to say have oppos'd him with the Bishops and Clergy Thus dealt the Venetians with Paul V. and thus serv'd this French King the late Alexander VII and especially the present Innocent XI whom the Gallican Church has so notably baited Our Will. Rufus our Henry I● our Edw. I. and several other of our Kings and reckon'd also good Sons of the Church have disputed and got the point of the Pope and whosoever reads the story of Hen. II. and King Iohn will find ●hat they had done the like had they not been altogether inconstan● and irresolute Now under the Presbyterian Yoak what Prince ever contended with those Tyrants without the utmost shame and loss for these AEgyptian Taskmasters being at home and not only knowing their own strength but like skilful Knight ●rrants ● the defects of their Adversaries Armour they never strike but the Blow proves deadly their greatest mercy being to make their ●rince sit publicly in the Stool of Repentance nor must their Synodical Ordinances be disputed or disobey'd by any Governour whatsoever These and the like vexations made King Iames who understood the Party fully so often to repeat that true and witty Apothegm No Bishop no King