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A10320 An ansvvere to a sermon preached the 17 of April anno D. 1608, by George Downame Doctour of Divinitie and intituled, A sermon defendinge the honorable function of bishops wherein; all his reasons, brought to prove the honorable function of our L. Bishops, to be of divine institution; are answered and refuted. 1609 (1609) STC 20605; ESTC S115514 39,711 60

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AN ANSVVERE TO A SERMON PREACHED THE 17 OF APRIL ANNO D. 1608 BY GEORGE DOWNAME DOCTOVR OF DIVINITIE AND INTITVLED A sermon defendinge the honorable function of Bishops wherein All his reasons brought to prove the honorable function of our L. Bishops to be of divine institution are answered and refuted Prov. 8.6.7 Giue eare for I vvill speake of excellent things the openinge of my lippes shall teach things that be right For my mouth shall speak the truthe my lippes abhorre wickednes Imprinted anno 1609. To the Christian reader CHRISTIAN reader when I had perused this sermon made by M. Downame in defence of the honorable function of Bbs as he saith sawe that it tended directly to prove that the Caling of our L. Bbs. as they now exercise it in the Church of England is not onely lavvfull good but also to be holden jure diuino not as an humane ordinance their ancient wonted tenure but by devine right as the verie ymediate ordinance of Christ I deemed it as needfull to be answered as any book our Opposites have at any time sett forth For how ever M. D. affirmeth the doctrine therein conteined to be not onely true but a profitable necessarie truth and that in the judgment of all men which are not partiall full of preiudice it is evident that it is a doctrine vtterlie false verie hurtfull obnoxius necessarie in deed to be confuted at no hand to be beleeued doctrine repugnant to the truth the word of the truth scripture of truth contrarie to the judgment and practyce of the prime Churches next after Christ his Apostles of all reformed Churches since the restablishinge of the gospell by the worthyes in these later (a) Wickliff Husse Luther Zuinglius c. times Against the doctrine of our ymediate forefathers some of whom were worthy Martyrs (b) Latimer Cramner c who in their submission to K. H. the 8. at the abolishing of the Popes authoritie out of England acknowledge with subscription (c) See the whole story in the acts monuments in the book called the Bbs. kook that the disparitie of Ministers and Lordly premacie of Bbs was but a politik device of the Fathers not any ordinance of Christ Iesus Reformat legum Ecclesiasticarum tit de divi nis officijs ca. 10. 11. and that the government of the Churche by the Minister and certeine Seniours or Eldes in everie parishe was the ancient discipline a doctrine I saie cleane contrary to the professed judgment of all our worthy writers (d) Whitakers Fulk c. who in their answeres to the papists that plead for their hierarchie with the same reasons that M. D. doth for his doe determine that the government our Bbs. exercise ouer other Ministers is iure humano by the positiue lawe of man onely the which if M. D. saith true is false and soe the Papists are lefte vnanswered yea a doctrine contrariant to the lawes of our land (e) S Edw. Cooke de jure Regis ecclesiastico fol. 8. which make it one parte of the Kinges jurisdiction to graunt to our Bbs. that ecclesiasticall povver they novv exercise ouer us also to tak it from them at his pleasure the which his Highnes taketh to himself giueth to all Kinges where he professeth (f) in his premonitiō before one of his last bookes that God hath lefte it to the libertie freewill of princes to alter the Church-gouerment at their pleasure Lastly it is a doctrine contrarying the doctrine of the Church of England professed even by the Bbs. themselues (g) Bb Iewell in his Apolog. defence Arch. Bb. whitegifte ag M. Cart. till of late daies when as men wearie to holde any longer in Capite of the Kinge they began to change their tenure into soccage and desyred to be free even from Knights service The newnes and strangnes of which doctrine notwithstandinge to use the words of Socrates (h) Plato in Apolog. Socratis against his accusers M. D. hath told his tale soe handsomely carried the matter so smothely likely confidently that every word he speaketh hath an appearance promis of truth though in truth he hath scarce uttered one word of truth By reason whereof I sawe much hurt was lik to come to the Church of God The papists would be much advantaged seing that Antichristian doctrine even after the renewing and revivinge of their ceremonies amongst us soe freely preached and published tending to the upholding of their hyerarchie from the Pope to the Apparitor aswell as ours his reasons being in deed the verie same with theirs as in the answere to them it shall appeare Others would be much scandalized those that were in love with their owne ease would easily crouch downe lik Isachars Asse and seeing that reste is good would readily without examination imbrace his doctrine soe pleasing to the fleshe as for others it would remoras obijcere ardentioribus cast blocks in their waie whose hearts were upright with God and ran well soe mak themst and at the gaze like the Corpses of Asael Amasa or retardare zelum make thē slack their pace at leste sanctorum spiritus in quietare disquiet the mindes of al the saincts to see a sermon of that consequence preached and published by a man of that nam note in the Church These things considered my hearts desyre and praier to God was that he would raise up some man like Moses to stand in the gapp by some short sound answere to make up the breach he had made and waytinge for the performance of it the newes was that work was vndertaken and in hand but answere and presse printer and concealer of the author were taken and imprissonned as dealers against the state Thus was my soule caste downe within me to see a truth soe profitable necessarie a truth suppressed I thought with my self but shall the cause lie there hath no man that courage for the truth as to sett upon that worke a freshe I sawe by experience that nothing but bands afflictions abode him especially who after this forewarninge should tak up the gant lett M. D. had throwne downe but knowing of none that was resolued of it I cast my counts and summed up my reckonings found that my life was not deare to me in this case nothing dismaied I sett downe my rest not to be bound onely but to die also for the name of the Lord the giving testimoney to this parte of the word of his grace With this resolution I sett upon this answere through the blessing of God who will mainteine his ovvne cause against all opposition of man vvhatsoeuer have here brought it to thy vievve in much weaknes with many wants I confesse my self being the leaste able of thousands in this land to manage this busynes yet with evidence sufficient to make it