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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29209	The serpent salve, or, A remedie for the biting of an aspe wherein the observators grounds are discussed and plainly discovered to be unsound, seditious, not warranted by the laws of God, of nature, or of nations, and most repugnant to the known laws and customs of this realm : for the reducing of such of His Majesties well-meaning subjects into the right way who have been mis-led by that ignis fatuus.	Bramhall, John, 1594-1663.	1643 (1643)	Wing B4236; ESTC R12620	148,697	268

deducing Bishops i●… Alexandria from Saint Marke and telling us plainl●… that which we find to be true that without Episcopall Authori●…y there will be as many Schismes as Pries●… in the Church The Hierarchists as he calls them will be contented ●…o wave all other Authors and 〈◊〉 ●…ed by either of these The seven Angells in th●… Revelation cap. 2. 3 cannot be the seven Chu●…ches for the Angells and the Churches are 〈◊〉 distinguished Rev. 1. 20 but it must be the seven Bishops of the Churches These were not Parochiall Churches each of them had many Pastors and many particular Flocks Beza confesseth that these Angell●… were Presidents over the other Presbiters but he believes not they had a priority of Power or that this Presidency was permanent but went by course If the Government went by turnes I would gladly know why one of them is called an Angell more then the other Surely he that shall reade the seven Epistles how some of them are comm●…ended for their constancy and perseverance in their Government and others reprehended for suffering Heretick●… to continue in their Churches will find sufficient ground in every one of these Epistles to believe that they were not changeable every weeke or Moneth or quarter of a Yeare but constant and permanent Governours having power of Jurisdiction to represse abuses otherwise why are they taxed for the abuses done in their Diocesses if it were not in their power to remedy them And if he will give credit to the Testimony of the Primitive Fathers he may find both who sundry of these Angells or Bishops were and also who were their Successors Fourthly though in such variety of new Forms of Church Regiment he hath not expressed himselfe to what Forme he inclines saving that in one place ●…e speakes of a Iancto of Divines I cannot think but himselfe would have the naming of them yet we will suppose that which we are farre from believing that a few green Heads see more then all the Fathers and Councells and Schoolemen and that the Observers busy working braine could molde a Church better then all the Apostles Notwithstanding all this Saint Austins rule to Ianuarius is very considerable if you will not erre doe that which I use to do to whatsoever Church I come I apply my selfe to the Ceremonies thereof He would have added the Discipline also if there had been sundry Formes but there was none but Episcop●…y then in the world God is a mercifull God and lookes upon his Creatures with all prejudices of Education Habitation c. Faction is more offensive to him and breach of Charity more dangerous to the Soule then any unknown errour in Disc●…pline much more where the errour is but supposed or feined and the Schisme apparent Now for the Discipline of the Church of England all Men know and grant that it hath ever been Episcopall In the publick Liturgy of our Church confirmed by Act of Parliament we pray for Bishops In our Booke of Ordination confirmed by the same Authority it is directly affirmed as evident by Scriptures and ancient Authours that from the time of the Apostles there have ever been these Orders of Ministers in Christs Church Bishops Priests and Deacons and that these Orders are appointed by the Holy Ghost In our Booke o●… Articles which conteins the received doctrin of our Church and therefore without doubt comes within the compasse of our late Protestation the same Book of Ordination is mainteined and it is plainely affirmed That there is nothing conteined in it which ●…s either superstitious or ungodly In the Apol●…gy of our Church published to the whole Christian World and by all Protestant Churches approved and applauded We declare that ●…e beleeve that there be diverse degrees of Ministers in the Church whereof some be Deacons some be Priests some Bishops Which being so it deserves some consideration which King Iames saith in the latter end of his Proclamation for Uniformity Such is the unquietnesse and unstedfastnesse of some dispositions affecting every yeare new forms of things as if they should be followed in their unconstancy would make all actions of States ridiculous and contemptible whereas the stedfast mainteining of things by good advise established is the weale of the Commonwealth I should not inlarge my selfe any further about this Consideration but for two reasons The one is I find it said by some that scarce any but Bishops have hitherto mainteined Bishops Take only three Testimonies of many they were all Members of the English Church yet all Strangers and all had lived in places opposite to Episcopall Government none of them either Bishops or their Chapleins or Expectants The first is King Iames the most learned of Kings I have alwayes thought that there ought to be Bishops in the Church according to the Apostolicall institution and by consequence Divine Ordination The second is Learned Bucer a Germane and imployed in the first Reformation of this Church to read Divinity in Cambridge one that was so opposite to Popery that after his Death his very bones were taken out of his Grave and burned by the Papists He is full in many places take one From the perpetuall observation of the Churches from the very Apostles themselves we see that it seemed good to the Holy Ghost that among the Ministers to whom the charge of the Church was especially committed one should undergoe a singular care of the Churches and the whole Ministery and in that care and sollicitude was before all the rest for which cause the name of a Bishop was peculiarly attributed to these highest Procurators of the Church The third is Peter Martyr at the same time imployed to reade Divinity at Oxford having expressed his consent concurrence with Saint ●…erome concerning Episcopacy he proceeds So far it is from us to bring confusion into the Church that rather we follow the same way for there is no Diocesse with us or Citty where of many Pastors there is not some one chosen excelling in Learning and Experience whom they call the Superintendent of the Church He convocates all the rest he admonisheth them he governs them according to the Word of God as the State of things requires The second reason is that I see it lately published to the World in Print that Doctor Whitakers Doctor Fulke and Doctor Reynolds were all Oppugners of Episcopacy Perhaps of Popish Episcopacy that is the abuse not the thing or of an absolute necessity by Divine Right of such and such an Episcopacy indowed with such or such degrees of Power or Preheminence or of such an Episcopacy as is held to differ from Presbiterate in the very power of Order but surely not of Episcopacy it selfe I wondred at the impudence of the Man It is a bad cause which stands in need to be underpropped with such pious impious frauds is onely fortified with hideous palpable Lyes if he fable in this let him have the just