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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65573	The civil rights and conveniences of episcopacy with the inconvenience of presbytery asserted : as it was delivered in a charge to the grand jury at the general quarter sessions held at Nottingham Apr. 22, 1661 / by Pen. Whalley.	Whalley, Penistone.	1661 (1661)	Wing W1534; ESTC R27585	9,880	15

Presbyterians have been in restoring of us to our Peace It s granted that many of those who formerly were of that judgement have of late been very signally eminent for Loyaltie which is a convincing Argument of their repentance For men possibly may repent of Presbyterie but Presbyters never yet repented of any thing Now for satisfaction howere of those who as Presbyterians did Contribute to His Majefties Return I shall insert a Storie out of the Chronicles of Scotland Spotswood his history of Scot. which will be pertinent enough to the purpose During the Eighteen years Imprisonment of James the First here in England The government of that Kingdome fell to Murdake Earle of Fife by whose means it was not improbable the King was so long detained This Earle of Fife had in that while two sons that grew up to be so boysterous and wicked as neither the Father nor any body else could rule them who thereupon told them that since they would not be directed and governed by him he would send for one who should rule both him and them And immediately sends away for the King who upon his return summons a Parliament in which Murdake and his two sons were condemned for Treason and accordingly executed The Application is very obvious Independencie and Anabaptisme the two ungracious sons of Presbytery in the Kings absence occasioned by Presbytery grew to such an height of Stubbornnesse and Rebellion as insteed of being ruled they oft attempted to murder and destroy their common Parents who induced by the certaintie of being ruined by them sent for the King to come home and rule them all whose mercie is such as that he will not apply as to persons yet such is his Wisedome that he will if he Consult which I am sure he does his own Safetie and our Peace make a home Application as to things But now lest my Discourse should be too prolixe a thing to be avoided in Sermons themselves I shall direct you Gentlemen in discharge of the Dutie as to the business in hand and that shall be onely in putting you in minde of your Oath part of which is to enquire and present what 's given in charge You are to enquire after all Treasons Petti-Treafon c. It 's High Treason to compass or imagine the death of the King the Queen his Wife or of their eldest Son and Heir And though the Nation be not yet so happie as they will be when his Majestie rejoyces in those endearing Relations yet by this you may see that this Statute was made chiefly to preserve the Person of the King for it 's the Personall not the Politique Capacitie that never dies if a King can be said to have either Wife or Children It s High Treason likewise if Master Saint John the late Kings Solicitour be to be believed in his Argument at Law against the Earle of Strafford for to alter the Religion Establisht and this the Covenanters were sworn to when they Covenanted against the Hierarchie and Discipline of our Church For believe it Discipline and Ceremonies are as necessarie for the preserving of Religion in its Primitive Puritie as the skin or rinde of an Apple which of it self is insipid and of little worth it is to preserve the Fruit from putrefaction To impose Oaths likewise or perswade Forraigners to levell Warre within this Kingdome according to Master Saint John and Master Pym is High Treason and their Authothoritie may be sufficient as Argumentum ad Homines I insist the rather because the Covenanters may see how farre they are from being Obliged by the Covenant the imposing of which being High Treason by then Presbyterian Authorities that they are Obliged by the Lawes both of God and Man to the quite contrarie according to the Rule In malis promissis rescinde fidem in turpi voto muta decretum You are to present all Ministers as well Beneficed as others that do not constantly upon every Sunday or other Opportunitie of Religious Worship reade the Liturgie of the Church established by Law commonly called The Common Prayer In Vindication of which If I say something more then properly belongs to this place The Orthodox Divine and for the other I care not I hope will grant an Indulgence The main Objection then against Bishops is against our Liturgie in general Viz. That it is a Form and as the Information from Scotland sayes It is not lawfull for a man to tie himself up or be tied up by others to a perscript Forme either in Prayer or Exhortation To which may be thus Answered When people meet together to worship God in publique it is not to be expected that all should pray at once according to their particular Fancie which as it cannot please him who is stiled the God of Order so indeed is no where practised but that the Minister in behalf of himself and the people should put up his requests to Heaven Well then That Prayer in speaking of which the Minister is not tied up to a perscript Form doth not cease though from being a Forme to the Congregation For every man who joynes with the Minister or if he doe not what does he there is as much tied up from dilating himself by occasional Meditations as if all had been read out of a Booke and yet one of these is acceptable the other as the abominations of the Heathen is accounted The Case then is just thus One of yon purchases a piece of Land of his Neighbour and in Order to the making good of his Title gets the advice of the most judicious and ablest Lawyers of the Land in drawing the Conveyance which done he thinks himselfe in a prettie safe Condition as to that At last meets with a bad fellow One that uses to make motions in any Court that will hear him for ten groates or a dinner who tells him he hath taken a great deal of pains to no purpose for he can make a better Conveyance Extempore If now the Purchaser should in this Case be ore-ruled by that small man of the Law you would think as I suppose he deserved to be begged for a Fool and yet the Case is directly the same For that Form establislit by Law approved by all the best Reformed Churches abroad Compiled by the advice of all the pious sober and Learned men of that Age Sealed with the Blood of so many Reverend Prelates and by all agreed on to be that acceptablest way of Worshiping God must now be rejected for the Extempore Form of every saucy idle-headed Jack in a Pulpit You are likewise to enquire of all persons that have wittingly heard or been present at any other Form of Common Prayer Administration of Sacraments making of Ministers or other Rites then what are expressed in the said Book or which are contrary to the Statute of 2. and 3. E. 6.1 And truly if you would but doe your dutie in this particular the penaltie is so great that the Auditours of Unlicent Lecturers would not be so numerous as formerly neither would the unconforming Preachers These Disturbers of the Peace have any incouragement any longer to oppose for they would soon be weary of Preaching to stone walls To which improbabilitie they must be necessitated if this Statute was put in due Execution You are likewise to inquire c. FINIS