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A70760	Bishop Overall's convocation-book, MDCVI concerning the government of God's catholick church, and the kingdoms of the whole world.; Bishop Overall's convocation book	Overall, John, 1560-1619.; Sancroft, William, 1617-1693.	1690 (1690)	Wing O607; ESTC R2082	200,463	346

it and as all the particular Kingdoms in the World are called but one Kingdom as he is the Only King and Monarch of it or that our Saviour Christ hath not appointed under him several Ecclesiastical Governours to rule and direct the said particular Churches as he hath appointed several Kings and Sovereign Princes to rule and govern their several Kingdoms or that by his Death he did not abolish the Ceremonial Law and the Levitical Priesthood so far forth as it was Typical and had the Execution of the said Ceremonial Law annexed unto it or that he did any more abrogate by his Death Passion Resurrection and Ascension the Power and Authority of Church-Government than either he did the other two Essential parts of the said Priesthood or Ministry or the Power and Authority of Kings and Sovereign Princes or that he did more appoint any one chief Bishop to rule all the particular Churches which should be planted throughout all Kingdoms than he did appoint any one King to rule and govern all the particular Kingdoms in the World or that it was more reasonable or necessary as hereafter it shall be further shewed to have one Bishop to govern all the Churches in the World than it was to have one King to govern all the Kingdoms in the World or that it was more necessary or convenient to have every Parish with their Presbyteries absolute Churches independent upon any but Christ himself than that every such Parish should be an absolute Temporal Kingdom independent of any Earthly King or Sovereign Magistrate or that the Government of every National Church under Christian Kings and Sovereign Princes by Archbishops and Bishops is not more suitable and correspondent to the Government of the National Church of the Jews under their Soveraign Princes and Kings than is either the Government of one over all the Churches of the World or the setling of the Form of that National Church-Government in every particular Church He doth greatly Erre CAP. VII The Sum of the Chapter following That the Form of Church-Government which was ordained by Christ in the New Testament did consist upon divers degrees of Ministers one above another Apostles in Preeminence and Authority superiour to the Evangelists and the Evangelists superiour to Pastors and Doctours And that the Apostles knowing themselves to be mortal did in their own Days by the Direction of the Holy Ghost as the numbers of Christians grew establish the said form of Government in other Persons appointing several Ministers in sundry Cities and over them Bishops as also over such Bishops certain worthy Persons such as Titus was who were afterward termed Arch-Bishops to whom they did commit so much of their Apostolical Authority as they held then necessary and was to be continued for the Government of the Church WE had in our former Book the Scriptures at large containing the Histories and Doctrine both of the Law and the Gospel after the manner that was then prescribed from the time of the Creation until the days of the Prophet Malachy that is for above 3500. years Whereupon we did ground the particular Points by us therein handled concerning the Government as well Ecclesiastical as Temporal And for the Supply of the other years following till the Incarnation of our Saviour Christ we observed some things to the same purpose out of the Apocryphal Books second to the Scriptures and to be preferr'd before all other Writers of those times But now forasmuch as the New Testament is but in effect a more ample Declaration the Old shewing withal how the same was most throughly fulfilled by our Saviour Christ without the impeachment of any kind of Government by himself ordain'd as before we have exprest and because the Books of the Evangelists and Apostles do only contain the Acts and Doctrine of our Saviour Christ and his Apostles with the Form and Use both of the Temporal and Ecclesiastical Government during the time whilst they lived here upon the Earth St. John who lived the longest of them all dying about sixty six Years after Christ's Passion although the Holy Ghost did judge the said Books and Writings sufficient for the Church and all that profess Christianity to teach and direct them in those things which should appertain either to their Temporal or Ecclesiastical Government or should be necessary unto their Salvation Yet for the said Reasons we were induced for the upholding of the Temporal and Ecclesiastical Government in the New Testament to insist so much as we have done upon the Precedents and Platforms of both those kinds of Governments established in the Old Testament albeit we want no sufficient Testimonies in the New to ratify and confirm as well the one as the other First therefore we do verily think That if our Saviour Christ or his Apostles had meant to have erected in the Churches amongst the Gentiles any other Form of Ecclesiastical Government than God himself had set up amongst the Jew they would have done it assuredly in very solemn manner that all the World might have taken publick notice of it considering with what Majesty and Authority the said Form was erected at God's Commandment by his Servant Moses But in that they well knew how the Form of the Old Ecclesiastical Government in substance was still to continue and to be in time establish'd in every National Kingdom and Soveraign Principality amongst Christians as soon as they should become for number sufficient Bodies and ample Churches to receive the same as before the like opportunity it was not established amongst the Israelites they did in the mean while and as the time did serve them attempt the erecting of it in such sort and by such fit and convenient Degrees as by the direction of the Holy Ghost they held it most expedient without intermission till such time as the work was in effect accomplished It hath been before touched how our Saviour Christ here upon Earth did not only chuse to himself for the business he had in hand twelve Apostles who were then design'd in time to come to be the Patriarchs and chief Fathers of all Christians with some Resemblance as it hath been ever held of the twelve Sons of Jacob who had been in their days the Patriarchs and chief Fathers of all the Israelites But likewise he took unto him over and besides his said Apostles 70 or as some read 72 Disciples to be in the same manner his Assistants in imitation of Moses when he chose 70. Elders to be helpers unto him for the better Government of the People committed to his charge None of these either Apostles or Disciples had then any other Duties committed to them but only of Preaching and Baptizing for the Power of Ecclesiastical Regiment they might not then intermeddle with because it did appertain to the Priests and Courts of the Jews But afterward that want and some other defects in them were throughly supplied when our Saviour Christ upon his Resurrection and a little

such Lords and Princes and so addeth his Dicendum est Where dallying and shifting with his Distinctions the Answer which he maketh to the Words of St. Ambrose is this at that time the Church being in Her minority had not the power to bridle Princes and that therefore she suffered the Faithful to obey Julian the Apostata in those things Quae nondum erant contra Fidem Which were not then against Faith Vt majus periculum Fidei vitaretur That the greater danger of Faith might be eschewed And the second Objection He more slightly passeth over saying That there is not the like Reason of Infidels and Apostata's And thus this great Schoolman relying upon the Authority of Gregory the Seventh had adventur'd to oppose himself against the Examples alledged out of the Old Testament against the Practice of the Primitive Church and against the Judgment of St. Ambrose not caring how many Thousands by this Rebellious Doctrine might come to Destruction so as the Bishops of Rome might have the World at their commandment We here omit how as Thomas and divers others writ many large Volumes upon Peter Lombard the Master of the Sentences his Distinctions so afterward and especially of later Times Books upon Books have been published upon his the said Thomas's Works all of them pursuing as they come unto it this seditious and trayterous Doctrine so Clerk-like handled by their Master Only we observe this great Schoolman's Conscience how in labouring to shift off the Truth maintain'd by St. Ambrose he could pass over a Lye in Gregory the Seventh where he saith That in absolving of Subjects from their Oath of Obedience and in prohibiting them from performing their Duties and Fidelity towards their Soveraigns He followed the Statutes of his holy Predecessors Being himself the first that ever durst be so desperate As also that he confesseth it was not in St. Ambrose his time contra fidem for Subjects to obey their Soveraigns though they were either Infidels or Excommunicate and likewise how thankfully the Bishops of Rome accepted and approved this Man's Travels so resolutely undertaken on their behalf Vrbanus the Fourth did so admire him as he reputed his Doctrine Veluti coelitus delapsam As to have fallen from Heaven Innocentius so admired both Him and his great Learning Vt ei primum post Canonicam Scripturam locum tribuere non dubitaverat As he doubteth not to give unto Him and to his Works the next place after the Canonical Scriptures And John 22th made him a Saint in the Year 1329 about forty nine years after his Death He was born during the Reign of Henry the Third King of England died about the second Year of King Edward the First and was Canonized a Saint in the time of King Edward the Second so ancient is this Chief Pillar of Popery Placet eis John Overall CAP. XI JVstinian the Emperour about the Year 533. did so contract the Civil Law as he brought it from almost 2000 Books into 50 besides some others which he added of his own Howbeit shortly after it grew out of Use in Italy by reason of the Incursions of sundry barbarous Nations who neglecting the Imperial Laws did practise their own till after almost 600 Years that Lotharius Saxo the Emperour about the Year 1136 did revive again in that Countrey and in other places also the ancient Use and Authority of it Which Course of the Emperour did not much content as it seemeth the Bishops of Rome because it revived the Memory of the ancient Honour and Dignity of the Empire Whereupon very shortly after Eugenius the Third set Gratian in hand to compile a Body of Canon-Law by contracting into one Book the ancient Constitutions Ecclesiastical and Canons of Councils that the State of the Papacy might not in that behalf be inferiour to the Empire Which Work the said Gratian performed and published in the days of Stephen King of England about the Year 1151. terming the same Concordia discordantium Canonum a Concord of disagreeing Canons Of whose great pains therein so by him taken a Learned Man saith thus Gratianus ille Jus Pontificale dilaniavit atque confudit that fellow Gratian did tear in pieces the Pontifical Law and confound it the same being in our Libraries sincere and perfect But this Testimony or any thing else to the contrary that might truly be objected against that Book notwithstanding the Author's chief Purpose being to magnifie and extol the Court of Rome his said Book got we know not how this glorious Title Decretum aureum Divi Gratiani The Golden Decree of S. Gratian and he himself as it appeareth became for the time a Saint for his Pains Indeed he brake the Ice to those that came after him by devising the Method which since hath been pursued for the enlarging and growth of the said Body by some of the Popes themselves Gregory the Ninth about the Year 1236. and in the time of King Henry the Third after sundry Draughts made by Innocentius the Third and others of a second Volume of the Canon-Law caused the same to be perused enlarged and by his Authority to be published and being divided into 5 Books it is Entituled The Decretals of Gregory the Ninth Boniface the Eighth the great Augustus as before we have shewed commanded likewise another Collection to be made of such Constitutions and Decrees as had either been omitted by Gregory or were made afterward by other succeeding Bishops and Councils and this Collection is called Sextus Liber Decretalium the Sixth Book of the Decretals and was set out to the World in the Year 1298. in the Reign of K. Edward the First Clement the Fifth in like manner having bestowed great Travel upon a Fourth Work comprehending 5 Books died before he could finish it but his Successour John the 22th did in the Year 1317. and in the time of King Edward the Second make perfect and publish the same Work of Clement and gave it the Name of The Clementines Afterward also came out another Volume termed The Extravagants because it did not only comprehend certain Decrees of the said John the 22th but likewise sundry other Constitutions made by other Popes both before and after him which flew abroad uncertainly in many Mens hands and were therefore swept up and put together after the Year 1478. into one Bundle called Extravagant Decretals which came to light post sextum after the sixth By which Title the Compiler of this Work would gladly as it seemeth have had it accounted the seventh Book of the Decretals but it never attaining that Credit the same by Sixtus Quintus's Assent is attributed to a Collection of certain other Constitutions made by Peter Matthew of divers Popes from the time of Sixtus the Fourth who died in the Year 1484. To all these Books mentioned there have been lately added Three great Volumes of Decretal Epistles from St. Clement